. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS BANKS. 21 considerable number can make noises when disturbed. Most of their larvae have short legs, but some of the wood-boring kinds are apodous, or legless. In nearly all the last segment is not corneous or toothed, but in one group of leaf-beetles (Cassidae) the last seg- ment, as well as other segments, shows a marvelous development of spines and pro- jections. The long-horned beetles (Ceram- bycidse) (fig. 120), the leaf-beetles (Chrys- omelidae) (figs. 121, 124), of which the potato "bug" (fi
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS BANKS. 21 considerable number can make noises when disturbed. Most of their larvae have short legs, but some of the wood-boring kinds are apodous, or legless. In nearly all the last segment is not corneous or toothed, but in one group of leaf-beetles (Cassidae) the last seg- ment, as well as other segments, shows a marvelous development of spines and pro- jections. The long-horned beetles (Ceram- bycidse) (fig. 120), the leaf-beetles (Chrys- omelidae) (figs. 121, 124), of which the potato "bug" (fig. 41) is an example, and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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