. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. 4-16 Southern Bee Killers. I have also a fly of the same family, with the same bee- destroying habits, a species of Erax (Fig. 197). In form it resembles the one referred to above. The wing (Fig. ipq), as seen, is quite different in its venation. I received this species from Louisiana. Fig. 198, a, shows the antennse magnified. The Nebraska bee killer, Pro- raachus bastardi, is the same in general appearance as the above. The second vein of the primary wing, not the third, as in case of Asilus, forks. In Erax as se
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. 4-16 Southern Bee Killers. I have also a fly of the same family, with the same bee- destroying habits, a species of Erax (Fig. 197). In form it resembles the one referred to above. The wing (Fig. ipq), as seen, is quite different in its venation. I received this species from Louisiana. Fig. 198, a, shows the antennse magnified. The Nebraska bee killer, Pro- raachus bastardi, is the same in general appearance as the above. The second vein of the primary wing, not the third, as in case of Asilus, forks. In Erax as seen in the figure, this branch is disconnected. There are two other insects of this family, Mallophora Fig. 200. Fig. orcina and Mallophora bomboides, which differ greatly in form from those mentioned above; they look more like bumble-bees, for which they have been mistaken. I have received these insects from several of our enter- prising bee-keepers of the South—Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida—vs^ith the information that they dart forth from some convenient perch, and with swift and sure aim grasp a bee, and bear it to some bush, when they leisureh' suck out all but the mere crust and cast awaj' the remains. The insects in question belong to Loew's third group Asilina, as the antennae end in a bristle (Fig. 200), while the second longitudinal vein of the wing (Fig. 202 b') runs into the first (Fig. 202, a). The genus is Mallophora. The venation of the wino-?. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. : George W. York & Co.
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