. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. n 1828 Leon Dufour found an insect which probablybelonged to a parasite of the same kind as those just considered it to be a new species, and he called it by thename of Triongulinus. Many observers managed to hatch theeggs of Miioc, Spanish fli
. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. n 1828 Leon Dufour found an insect which probablybelonged to a parasite of the same kind as those just considered it to be a new species, and he called it by thename of Triongulinus. Many observers managed to hatch theeggs of Miioc, Spanish flies, and of species of the genus Sitaris,which belongs to the same family, but does not possess blisteringproperties, but they did not get further than the point obtainedby Goedart in the year 1700. After a time, however, it becameevident that the young larvae hooked themselves on, wheneverthey had the opportunity, to other insects provided with wings,and especially to the nest-making Hymcnoptcra; and VictorAudouin found some full grown and adult individuals of speciesof Sitaris in the nests of the solitary bees. There appeared. THE MELOJi CICATRfCOSUS. 307 then, some evidence that these beetles hved during their earlyage at the expense of the bees. In 1845 George Newport threwa vast amount of light upon the question, which he had exa-. Meloo cicalricosiis A \ n Si tar is hiimcralis. mined assiduously for many years. He studied two kinds ofMeloe, Mcloc proscarabmis and Mdoc cicatricosns, and he satis-fied himself that the young larvc^e of these beetles attached U 2 308 T/ONS OF INSECTS. themselves to the hairs of the bees, which carried them to theirnests. There the larvae underwent their transformations. Theynourished themselves with the honey cake of the bee, and whenthey were full grown they formed for themselves a kind of cellor covering, in which they remained perfectly inactive for sometime. They did not become transformed into nymphs at once,but remained as
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