Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . nes transverse;.while the legs areslender or com-pressed and of mod-erate length. Thelarvae are ratherlong, flattened,blackish, with palespots on the anglesof each segment. In Lycus the an-tennee are insertedin front of the eyes,at the base of thelong beak into ^s- 432. Fig. 430. rig. 428. which the head is prolonged, and the sides of the thorax aresomewhat foliaceous. The female of the Glow-worm, Lam-pyris, of Europe is wingless. She lays her egg
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . nes transverse;.while the legs areslender or com-pressed and of mod-erate length. Thelarvae are ratherlong, flattened,blackish, with palespots on the anglesof each segment. In Lycus the an-tennee are insertedin front of the eyes,at the base of thelong beak into ^s- 432. Fig. 430. rig. 428. which the head is prolonged, and the sides of the thorax aresomewhat foliaceous. The female of the Glow-worm, Lam-pyris, of Europe is wingless. She lays her eggs, which are oflarge size, in the earth or upon moss and plants ; the larva(Fig. 428, female of a species of this genus from Zanzibar),which feeds on snails, is said to become fully grown in April,and in fifteen days assumes the imago state. An anonymousFrench author states, according to Westwood, that when thelarva is ready to assume the pupa state, instead of slittingthe skin in a line down the back, a slit on each side of thethree thoracic segments is made, separating the upper fromthe lower surfaces. While the female is large and larva-30. 466 COLEOPTERA.
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