Most Coleopterousor other larvae found under bark or in solid wood can be reared only if large sections of the wood are obtained and the larvae are full grown or nearly so.
This is especially true of the Coleopterous families Curculionidae, Trogositidae, and Tenebrionidae.
Coleopterous larvae are, with few exceptions (notably Coccinellidae and some Chrysomelidae), much more difficult to find and rear, and their distinguishing characters are more difficult to study.
The few comprehensive works on Coleopterous larvae that have been published are based on rather scant material and none of them deal with the North American fauna.
The greatest difficulty is experienced with carnivorous Coleopterous larvae, and care should be taken with such not to inclose two or more specimens in one box.
The Boleti in particular have a genus of coleopterous insects appropriated to them[465], and the Lycoperdons another.
No coleopterous insects are more singular than those that belong to the genus Pausus, L.
Amongst theColeopterous parasites none is more authentic than Blaps mortisaga.
Hope’s list records no less than nine instances of parasitism in man from the larvæ of Tenebrio molitor, and he gives a score of other Coleopterous insects which he regarded as human “intestinal worms.
The closely allied Tenebrionidæ and other coleopterous families also supply various maggots possessed of parasitic habits.
The thorax of many coleopterous males, especially of the Dynastidae and Copridae amongst the petalocerous tribes, exhibits very striking differences from that of the female.
Notches in the posterior margin of the neck, usually two in number, observable in Coleopterous insects, to which the levator muscles are attached[994].
This is particularly observable in those of Coleopterous insects, but it is very commonly in other tribes of the same hue.
My insect, which nearly resembles the Coleopterousgenus Cerylon Latr.
Two moveable bosses surmounted by a spine, with which the Prothorax of the Coleopterous genus Macropus is armed.
In several other coleopterous genera there are also very minute species, as in Cryptophagus, Anisotoma, Agathidium, &c.
In anothercoleopterous species, the wings and elytra are placed under the hind-legs.
A remarkable variation in this respect is observable in the coleopterousgenus Oedemera (Necydalis L.
Coleopterous genera, have these organs of this forcipate construction, without being perforated[252].
But I think he has learned something else of his coleopterous friends.
A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms.
Having antennæ terminating in a group of flat lamellæ; -- said of certain coleopterous insects.
Defn: A genus ofcoleopterous insects, including the glowworms.
Defn: A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp.
Defn: An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L.
Two important characteristics of the Coleopterous fauna are, the small size of the species, and the great scarcity of individuals.
Blackburn we have now a fair knowledge of the Coleopterous fauna of these islands.
Phoraspis, the veins are nearly obliterated in the thickness and opacity of the membrane, so as to resemble many Coleopterous elytra.
The female of a coleopterous insect deposits its eggs in the nut, and in proportion as this grows, the young larva devours the kernel.
The Spiroptera obtusa of the mouse lays eggs which are evacuated with the feces; and these become, with the eggs which they enclose, the prey of meal worms, the larvae of the Tenebrio molitor, a coleopterous insect.
In the class of animal messmates we find also a coleopterous insect that lodges in a manner similar to the paguri, of which we shall presently speak.
It is the same with a small coleopterous insect that is found abundantly wherever there is any decomposing matter.
But which of theColeopterous tribes are entitled to the precedency?
Coleopterous insects are said to move slowly and with difficulty when the thermometer sinks to 36 deg.
I have often traversed the whole distance from Barra to the waterfall, about two miles by the forest road, without seeing or hearing a bird, or meeting with so many as a score of Lepidopterous and Coleopterous insects.
A genus of coleopterous insects, the larv\'91 of which feed animal substances.
Many coleopterous insects and Spiders simulate death to perfection, although it has been ascertained that they do not always adopt the attitude which members of their species fall into when really dead.
In all these draughts, it is most probable, she swallowed the eggs of the enormous progenies of apterous, dipterous, and coleopterous insects, which she for several years continued to throw up alive and moving.
A lawsuit between the inhabitants of the Commune of St. Julien and a coleopterous insect, now known to naturalists as the Eynchitus aureus, lasted for more than forty-two years.
Under Copris molossus, in Donovan's Insects of China, it is mentioned that the larvae of the larger kinds of coleopterous insects, abounding in unctuous moisture, are much esteemed as food by the Chinese.
Description of Notoclea, a new genus of Coleopterous Insects from New Holland by Thomas Marsham, Esquire.
Descriptions of some Singular Coleopterous Insects by Charles Schreibers, M.
I know at present of only one coleopterous insect that has them (Dytiscus marginalis).
He asserts also, that no coleopterous insect can fly against the wind[553].
Two other coleopterous genera, Cychrus and Clytus, make their cry of Noli me tangere by rubbing their thorax against the base of the elytra.
In somecoleopterous genera the tarsus seems absent or obsolete.
Catalogue" (Probably the "Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the British Museum," 1864.
The other contained 3 lampyrids (near Podabrus), 8 percent; a small coleopterous (?
Enumeration of theColeopterous Insects of the Madeiras, Salvages and Canaries.
An enumeration of the Coleopterous Insects of the Cape Verde Archipelago.
It may be also applied in catching Coleopterous Insects, which are never on the wing, as well as Caterpillars.
It may also be successfully used in sweeping amongst grass and low herbage, for Coleopterous Insects, and others which are generally to be found in such situations.
This may either be made of tin or crystal, and used for collecting Coleopterous and other Creeping Insects.
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