Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . egs packed up in a most wonderful manner, so ast«j take up. a space which is very small in proportion to thesize of the insect and the length of its limbs. BORER BEETLES. 245 There is a group of Longicornes whose exact place in thesystem is very doubtful. They form a well-marked group, andcan be at once distinguished by the peculiarity from which theyderive their name. The term Phrissomides is formed from twoGreek words signifying spiked body, and is applied to theseinsects because not o
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . egs packed up in a most wonderful manner, so ast«j take up. a space which is very small in proportion to thesize of the insect and the length of its limbs. BORER BEETLES. 245 There is a group of Longicornes whose exact place in thesystem is very doubtful. They form a well-marked group, andcan be at once distinguished by the peculiarity from which theyderive their name. The term Phrissomides is formed from twoGreek words signifying spiked body, and is applied to theseinsects because not only the thorax but the whole of the uppersurface is thickly covered with sharp spikes. The Phrissomidesare natives of Southern Africa. The present species, Phrissorna horridum, is the most con-spicuous of the group. Beside the usual spikes on the sidesof the thorax, there are two others on the upper surface, so thattheir points radiate much like those of a dogs spiked each of the elytra there are three parallel rows of similarbut shorter spikes, their bases set closely together; so that when. Fig. 115.—Phrissoina horridum.(Blackish brown.) the insect is viewed sideways, the spikes look just like the teethof three saws. Between them the surface is studded with a vastnumber of smaller spikes, or rather tubercles, their tips beingblunt instead of pointed. In fact, the insect appears to be allspikes, and to be a very unpleasant one to handle. The colourof these projections is shining black at the tip, becoming dull,however, at the base. All of my readers who have paid any attention to Britishentomology must be familiar with the Wasp Beetle (Glytusarietis), our best-known example of the Clytides, which is socommon in the hedgerows, its black body with its yellow basegiving it a very wasp-like air as it slips in and out of the this Beetle nor any of its relatives does much harm in 246 [NSRCTS ABROAD. this country, the larva merely boring into old posts, r
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