Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower [microform] : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . economicentomolo00insmit Year: 1896 196 AJV ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. The next large series is the Lamellicoruia, where the antennae terminate in a lamellate or leaf-shaped club. All the species are feeders upon vegetation, living or dead, green or in a stage of decay, and in all cases the larvae are ' white grubs,' large or small, smooth or hairy, but always '' white grubs.'' These can be generally described as having a large, yellow, or brown head, with prominent ma
Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower [microform] : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . economicentomolo00insmit Year: 1896 196 AJV ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. The next large series is the Lamellicoruia, where the antennae terminate in a lamellate or leaf-shaped club. All the species are feeders upon vegetation, living or dead, green or in a stage of decay, and in all cases the larvae are ' white grubs,' large or small, smooth or hairy, but always '' white grubs.'' These can be generally described as having a large, yellow, or brown head, with prominent mandibles and long palpi, legs that are quite long, moderately stout, with distinct claws at the tip, usually also Fig. 184. Stag-beetles.—i, Lucanus elaphiis, male; 2, L. dama, male. clothed with hair, a body that is cylindrical, stout, wrinkled, somewhat curved or even crescent-shaped, ending rather abruptly in a more or less enlarged, obtuse, terminal bulb. As a rule, the color is dirty yellowish white, but it may become pink, greenish, or even blackish, the hinder portion always showing darker because of the excrementitious mass which shows through the transparent tissue. Two families belong to this series, of which the LiicanidcB, or stag-beetles, are of no economic importance though of much
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