Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . is a native of Penang,and others are found in the East Indiesand part of America. In all these insectsthe club of the antennae is flat and three-jointed, and there is a bold notch inthe front of the tibia of the body is rounded, and the elytra aremuch expanded, and flattened at thesides so as to form a sort of rim. The Ficise-Bumorphnsmarginalis. species which is HOW before US affords(Purple, with yellowspots.) r an excellent example oi this remarkable form, which we now se
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . is a native of Penang,and others are found in the East Indiesand part of America. In all these insectsthe club of the antennae is flat and three-jointed, and there is a bold notch inthe front of the tibia of the body is rounded, and the elytra aremuch expanded, and flattened at thesides so as to form a sort of rim. The Ficise-Bumorphnsmarginalis. species which is HOW before US affords(Purple, with yellowspots.) r an excellent example oi this remarkable form, which we now see repeated for the third time, namely, inMormolyce, described on page 39 ; Heheus, described on page187; and in the present genus. We shall again see a similarstructure when we come to the Orthoptera. The thorax of this insect is much raised in the middle, whereit rises to a blunt angle. It is curiously shaped, having a verydee], scoop in front, through which the head is seen. It isrounded in front, but each of the hinder angles as lengthenedinto a slender spine, which projects backwards well over the. A SPIKE-AHMED BEETLE. 273 shoulders of the elytra. The colour of the thorax is black, andthat of the elytra is a lovely rich purple, with a silky or satinylustre. They are thickly covered with punctures, and on exa-mination with the microscope the purple is seen to be producedby means of the punctures, which are nearly equally crimsonand blue, so that the blending of the two hues in the eye hasexactly the same effect as if the colours had been mixed andlaid on the insect with a brush. The silky gloss is given by thepunctures, which are small and set very closely together. Oneach of the elytra are two large round yellow spots, one near theshoulder and the other near the tip. There are several species of this genus, among which may benoticed Eumorphus dilatatus, which is yellow, with the raisedportion of the elytra dark brown; and Eumorphus bijnonctatus,which has, as its name impli
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