. British insects : a familiar description of the form, structure, habits, and transformations of insects. Fig. Antennae of Gyrinus in different positions,highly maguified. ORDER I.—COLEOPTERA. 71 parts of the common little Gyrinus natator, serve toimpress it upon the recollection of the reader when onceseen, he will not easily forget it when once smelt. Thisremark, however, does not apply to the other species ofGyrinus.* The eggs are placed end to end in parallel lines uponthe leaves of water-plants. The second Subsection of Pentamera is Rypophaga(PuTToc, Hypos,filth), and consists of wh
. British insects : a familiar description of the form, structure, habits, and transformations of insects. Fig. Antennae of Gyrinus in different positions,highly maguified. ORDER I.—COLEOPTERA. 71 parts of the common little Gyrinus natator, serve toimpress it upon the recollection of the reader when onceseen, he will not easily forget it when once smelt. Thisremark, however, does not apply to the other species ofGyrinus.* The eggs are placed end to end in parallel lines uponthe leaves of water-plants. The second Subsection of Pentamera is Rypophaga(PuTToc, Hypos,filth), and consists of what may be calledscavengers of both land and water. They are distin-guished from the preceding (the ravenous beetles) by theform of the antennae, which are comparatively short andmore or less club-sliaped, and by the maxillae, which havebut a single palpus. The first Subdivision of these are the water-lovers,Philhydrida {(piXio), phileo, to love; wSwjo, hydor,ivater.) The best known of these is the very large HydrophilusPiceus or Hydrous Piceus, which greatly exceeds thelarge Dyticus in size, and is fiercely p
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