Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . rsii, an insect which looks as if itwere made especially to show what wonderful contrasts can begot out of the deepest black. The insect is wholly black, andyet it looks quite lively, contrasting favourably with manyinsects that even possess positive colouring. The head andthorax are shining as if made of polished jet. The elytra arealso black, traversed by bold parallel ridges of shining blacklike that of the thorax. The spaces between the ridges or ribs, 60 INSECTS ABROAD. if we may so
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . rsii, an insect which looks as if itwere made especially to show what wonderful contrasts can begot out of the deepest black. The insect is wholly black, andyet it looks quite lively, contrasting favourably with manyinsects that even possess positive colouring. The head andthorax are shining as if made of polished jet. The elytra arealso black, traversed by bold parallel ridges of shining blacklike that of the thorax. The spaces between the ridges or ribs, 60 INSECTS ABROAD. if we may so call them, is soft, dull, dead black, very much likethat of our common Hat Silpha Beetles. The outer edges of the elytra are flattened,highly polished, and fur-nished with large and deeppunctures. The name Homalosomasignifies similar bodied,and is given to the insectbecause its whole body isentirely black, without anyadmixture of colour, suchas a green or coppery edgeto the elytra. The specific name Vigorsii is of course givenin honour of the well-known zoologist. The insect is a nativeof New Fig. 24.—Homalosoma Vigorsii.(Black.) Our last example of the great family of the Carabidnebelongs to the tribe of Bembidiides. The insects belongingto this group are small, and many of them aie brilliantlycoloured. They can at once be distinguished from the otherCarabidae by the structure of the palpi, both pairs of which havethe last joint pointed, and so small that a magnifier of somepower is required to show it,even in the largest tibiae of the front legs are
Size: 1886px × 1325px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectinsects, bookyear1883
