Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . ^ pile grows ? t j p , _ „„™™,^+c. Fig. 249—Tachytes Sinensis on the edges of the segments (Dark brown.) of the abdomen. The wings are pale yellow. It is a very large genus, and, like Larrada, extends over all parts of the world. All the species of whose life-history anything is known have very similar habits. They make burrows in the ground, lay their eggs in them, and. 470 INSECTS ABROAD. stock them with insects as food for the future young. Theyseem to prefer grasshoppers, or at al
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . ^ pile grows ? t j p , _ „„™™,^+c. Fig. 249—Tachytes Sinensis on the edges of the segments (Dark brown.) of the abdomen. The wings are pale yellow. It is a very large genus, and, like Larrada, extends over all parts of the world. All the species of whose life-history anything is known have very similar habits. They make burrows in the ground, lay their eggs in them, and. 470 INSECTS ABROAD. stock them with insects as food for the future young. Theyseem to prefer grasshoppers, or at all events Orthoptera, to anyother insects, though they sometimes take caterpillars, if theycan get nothing better. The British species, Tachytes pompili-formis, almost invariably stocks its nest with grasshoppers,having previously deprived them of life, or at all events ofmotion, by the sting. Yet, Mr. Shuckard has seen the insectengaged in the capture of green caterpillars, possibly because itcould find no grasshoppers. On Plate VIII., Fig. 2 is shown an insect that is ratherinsignificant in appearance, though it is very interesting in itshabits. Its name is Parapison rufipes, and it is one of a numberof insects that were brought from India by Mr. C. Home, anddescribed by Mr. F. Smith. Its colour is very simple; beingnearly brown, with a sprinkling of silvery down. Attached tothe flower-stem in the lower corner of the plate is seen a groupof its curious cells, the constru
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