. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 38.—A Buprestid, Chrysobothris femo- rata: a, Larva; b, beetle; c, head of male; d, PUPA. to all. Many species are dull colored, but the Buprestes are among the most brilliant and gorgeous of the insect tribe. The larvae of this section are variable. Those of the Buprestes (figs. 38, 126) bore in wood, have enlarged heads, and are without legs. The larvae of other families, however, have short legs, and in many cases the last segment is corneous and toothed. Some of them are predaceous; others live in decaying or in living wood. Heterom
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 38.—A Buprestid, Chrysobothris femo- rata: a, Larva; b, beetle; c, head of male; d, PUPA. to all. Many species are dull colored, but the Buprestes are among the most brilliant and gorgeous of the insect tribe. The larvae of this section are variable. Those of the Buprestes (figs. 38, 126) bore in wood, have enlarged heads, and are without legs. The larvae of other families, however, have short legs, and in many cases the last segment is corneous and toothed. Some of them are predaceous; others live in decaying or in living wood. Heteromera. — This section in- cludes those beetles whose antennae are simple (not clavate or serrate), and which have but four joints in the hind tarsi, the tarsi of the an- terior legs having five joints. The ventral side of the abdomen shows but five segments. The beetles of this section are of various shapes. Many of them are dull colored. The head is usually prominent, and the legs quite slender. Some of them have no hind wings. Most of them feed on vegetation, others in stored foods, and some (Meloidae) are parasitic in the nests of wasps, bees, or on the eggs of grasshoppers. The latter pass through a complicated life history, the first larva looking much like that of the Ade- phaga, while later the larva is a fat grub like that of the June bugs. Other larvae are hard-bodied and rather slender. To this section be- long the blister-beetles (Meloidae) (fig. 118) and the mealworm (Tene- brionidae, fig. 39) and the small flower-beetles (Mordellida?), with compressed tapering bodies, which slip through the fingers when one catches them. Phytophaga.—This section includes a large series of beetles (fig. 40) in which the tarsi are apparently four- jointed, the basal three usually pro- vided with dense, short hairs forming a sort of cushion. The head is usu- ally bent downward, and the mouth is below. The antennae are simple, and often very long. The legs are short and stout. In s
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