. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . FIG. 90. Click-beetles (Elatrids)and larva (wireworm).J ^3 FIG 91. Firefly (Photinus pyralis). a,larva; 6, pupai in underground cell; c, adult; d-f, enlarged de-tails of larva. backward projecting angles of the prothorax, readily distinguish themfrom that family. On account of their power of springing up in theair when laid down backwards, they are called click-beetles. The larva?are the wireworms, and are long, slender, slightly flattened, and 134 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . FIG. 90. Click-beetles (Elatrids)and larva (wireworm).J ^3 FIG 91. Firefly (Photinus pyralis). a,larva; 6, pupai in underground cell; c, adult; d-f, enlarged de-tails of larva. backward projecting angles of the prothorax, readily distinguish themfrom that family. On account of their power of springing up in theair when laid down backwards, they are called click-beetles. The larva?are the wireworms, and are long, slender, slightly flattened, and 134 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF HORTICULTURE. leathery in texture. The larva? live underground, and require two orthree years to complete their growth. They are very destructive tosowed grain, root crops, meadow land and strawberries. The insects commonly called fireflies are not flies at all, but beetlesbelonging to the family Lampypidse. Only a few species are luminous,however, and these belong mainly to the genus Photinus. (See Fig. 91.) The soldier-bugs are diurnal members of this family, of the generaChauliognathus and Telephorus. T. bil
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