. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. engraving represents the larva of Lariims viacnlosusin the centre of the receptacle of EcJiinops Iitro. The adults areon the ground and on a leaf Very large species of the genus Calandra are found in thetropical parts of the globe ; and in Guiana the palm
. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. engraving represents the larva of Lariims viacnlosusin the centre of the receptacle of EcJiinops Iitro. The adults areon the ground and on a leaf Very large species of the genus Calandra are found in thetropical parts of the globe ; and in Guiana the palm trees aremore or less riddled by one. The adult Calandrapalnianini is alarge velvety black beetle, and is nearly two inches in length ; itslarva is a great worm-shaped creature, and lives in the pith ofthe trunk of the trees, boring large cavities in the wood itselfWhen full-grown it forms a cocoon with the woody fibres whichsurround the pith, and undergoes its transformations species and another, Calandra sacc/iari, are equally de-structive to the sugar-cane in the West Indies. The natives ofGuiana and Surinam consider these larvae as great dainties, andeat them boiled. Calandra granaria, or the Corn Weevil, is notorious for theravages it commits upon the corn in granaries. It is a slender THE CALAXDNA PA/.AfARrAr. S2I. THE METAMORPHOSES OK Calatidm pali) beetle is seen on the wood of the palm, and its i^ is a very prominent part of itsstructure ; the larva is gnawing the wood, and there is a large cocoon in a cavity beetle, about one-eighth of an inch in Icnoth, and is of a pitchyred colour. The female dei)().sits her eggs upon tlic corn after 322 TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. it is stored, and the young grubs burrow into the wheat as soonas they are hatched, each individual occupying a single grain: theyeat the whole of it, and only leave the husks. They then undergotheir metamorphosis, and at the appointed time come out perfectbeetles, to lay the
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