Marvels of insect life; a popular account of structure and habit (1916) (14777541411)

Identifier: marvelsofinsectl00steps (find matches)

Title: Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit

Year: 1916 (1910s)

Authors: Step, Edward, 1855-1931

Subjects: Insects Animal behavior

Publisher: New York : R. M. McBride

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Pholos by) (W. ./. Lhci Early Stages of the Snake-Fly. The left-hand figure shows the grub of the common snake-flv, and on theright is the chrysalis of a smaller species, the spotted-necked snaki--lly ; thefirst enlarged three times, and the second four times. europtera. The Pasha with Two Tails. One of the most striking ofEuropean butterflies is a neairelation to our purple emperor,but the people of Southern Francecall it the pasha with two tails.-They might with more fltness callit the pasha with four tails, for thehind-wings have each two tails, andtwo and two make four. However,it is something to have a commonname of any sort, and one mustnot be too critical of such nameswhen they do exist. The pasha is the only European - Chara.xes jasius. F.E.S.

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(By Thco. Carrcras,The WAsi-XiiST J^kktle and its Like-Histokv. In the uppii- part of the j^icture. a wasp engaged in scraping wood is siHTOundod bv nowlv-hatched grubs of the beetle, which chng to it, andget carried to tlie wasps nest. In the first of the enlarged cells below one has got under the skin of the wasp-gi-iib. In the second cell it haschanged its form and feeds externally. In the third cell the beetle-grub has grown to a large size, and is sucking the dwindled wasp-grub;finally, it has become a chrysalis. The male (left) and female beetlesare shown above the cells. About four times the natural size. 125 126 Marvels of Insect Life. representative of a numerous ,^enus of large and liandsome butterfliesthat inhabit the African and Indian regions. It measures about threeinches (from two and a half to three and a quarter) across the expandedwings. All the wings are brown in colour, with a kind of marginal bandof orange ; a row of six orange spots on the fore-wing, parallel to

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