. 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. other obser-vations have been made upon them. The larvae are always hiddenup either in the ground, in the roots of plants, or in the middle ofvegetable or other rubbish. They never come to the light; theyare colourless and rather soft, and as they always
. 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. other obser-vations have been made upon them. The larvae are always hiddenup either in the ground, in the roots of plants, or in the middle ofvegetable or other rubbish. They never come to the light; theyare colourless and rather soft, and as they always live in darknessthey have no eyes. They are always eating and consuming alarge quantity of nourishment, and therefore their digestive organsare very voluminous. They walk with great difficulty, especiallyas the curvature of their body necessitates their resting on oneof their sides. When first born they are rather active, but theysoon get lazy and dull, and spend the greater part of their livesin destroying everything in their immediate neighbourhood, andeating it. After a longer or shorter life, according to their peculiar habits. THE 269 they form a rounded or egg-shaped cocoon, and undergo theirmetamorphosis into nymphs. In order to make the cocoon, theybring together either grains of the soil or pieces of wood and. THE . OF THE liEETLE (Ciioiliu dlcraUl). rubbish, and unite them together with their saHva. The principaltypes of the family of the Scarahceidce, when arranged in diftcrcnttribes, are the Cctoiiiidce, the GlapJiyridcv, the MclolontJiidir, the 270 TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. ScarabcEidcE proper, the Gcotrupidcc, the Coprmcu, and the Pas-salincE. The CctoniidcB are very beautiful insects, which Hke the honeythey obtain from flowers, and which are distinguished from theother tribes of the family by their membranous mouthpieces andthe ten joints which compose the antennae. There are two groupsof them ; and the first, which consis
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