Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . sed together, and the last joint of the labial and maxillarypalpi large, flat, triangular, and hollowed underneath. The jaws,or mandibles, are strong, project boldly in front of the head, andare toothed on their interior edges. The most curious of these insects i^ Damaster blaptoidcs, arare Japanese Beetle, which is here represented of its naturalsize. In this genus the mandibles have only one tooth, and thata large one, situated near the base. Each of die < lytra is drawnmi! i a poin
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . sed together, and the last joint of the labial and maxillarypalpi large, flat, triangular, and hollowed underneath. The jaws,or mandibles, are strong, project boldly in front of the head, andare toothed on their interior edges. The most curious of these insects i^ Damaster blaptoidcs, arare Japanese Beetle, which is here represented of its naturalsize. In this genus the mandibles have only one tooth, and thata large one, situated near the base. Each of die < lytra is drawnmi! i a point at the end, and as they gape a little at their tips,the pointed ends are very conspicuous. Altogether, the Beetlegives an idea I having been once a stout insect, bul drawn outwhen soft, so that it is feeble in comparison with its bulk. A VALUABLE CAPTURE. 33 Its limbs, together with its mode of walking, strengthen theidea; for instead of being, as most of the Ground Beetles are,quick, brisk, and active, it is slow and sluggish, crawling ratherthan running, even when it finds itself in Fig. 10.—Damaster blaptoides. (Dull black.) The following lively description of the capture of a Damasteris taken from Mr. Fortunes Visits to Japan and China. It ispart of a letter addressed from Dr. Adams to Mr. Fortune:— I was walking solitarily—for all hands had gone on boardto dinner—along the shell-strewn strand of Taleu-Sima, a jollylittle island, not far from the shores of Niphon—walking alongin a brown study, smoking a little clay cutty-pipe, and thinkingchiefly of the contempt in which I should be held if some of my very particular friends saw me in this very disreputable rig,for my neck was bare, and. my coat was an old blue serge; for my hat, it was brown felt, and I must say a shocking badone. However, the sun was bright, the clear blue rippling seawas calm, the little island was clear and verdurous, and Ismoked, serenely. On a sudden my abstract downward ga
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