Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Ste^r**-- Fig. 504.—Asilus curiarius.(Brown, black, and white.) The wings are grey-white hair occupies the front of the head,pale brown. Of the family Leptidaetwo examples will are also predaciousinsects, and in one species,Leptis vermileo, the larvabehaves very much likethat of the Ant Lion, dig-ging conical holes in the -%loose sand, remaining at thebottom of them, and thenpouncing on the insects thatfall into them. Yet, vora-cious as the creature is, it has been known to
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Ste^r**-- Fig. 504.—Asilus curiarius.(Brown, black, and white.) The wings are grey-white hair occupies the front of the head,pale brown. Of the family Leptidaetwo examples will are also predaciousinsects, and in one species,Leptis vermileo, the larvabehaves very much likethat of the Ant Lion, dig-ging conical holes in the -%loose sand, remaining at thebottom of them, and thenpouncing on the insects thatfall into them. Yet, vora-cious as the creature is, it has been known to survive afast of six Fig. 505.—Anthrax seniculus.(Chocolate and yellow.) total 762 [NSECTS ABROAD. The species which is given in the illustration is chocolate-brown on the thorax, and blackish brown on the is a very narrow collar of yellow between the head andthe thorax. The wings are singularly handsome, being therichest brown by way of ground colour, and having severallarge translucent spots of yellow. It is a native of SouthernAfrica. This is a very large genus, spread about over the whole world,and extending even to England, where we have several species. The form of Bombylius analis must be familiar to everyEnglish entomologist, on account of the Humble-bee Flies, as they are popularly called,which are so well known inthis country. These insectsare spread all over theworld, wherever flowers cangrow, and they feed, likemany of the Hawk Moths,by poising themselves onthe wing before a flower,and extracting its juiceswith the long and straightproboscis. The present species is anative of S
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