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Title: 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
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891 Blanchard, Emile, 1819-1900. Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects Conger, Paul S., former owner. DSI Abbott, Charles C., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Insects Insects Myriapoda Arachnida Crustacea
Publisher: Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE DRAGON FLY ANT LION. (PalpJCi llbdlllloidcs.) mented with little black marks. In the tropical regions of theglobe there are large ant lions, whose great wings are spottedwith brown and black, belonging to the genus Palparcs. One ofthese is also found in Provence, and is called the Dragon Fly Ant THE NEMOPTERA CO A. 361 Lion (Palparcs lihcHuIoidcs), and it is represented in the engravingon the opposite page. One perfect insect is about to come to theground, a second is on the ground and is looking at a larva which
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Neiiioptcra coa anu Ascala(>hHs longuornis. is nearly completely hidden in the sand, whilst another larva isupon the sand. It is very remarkable that the larva of this kind should not,like the others, make a funnel-shaped trap in the sand, and thatit .should simply bury itself an)-how, leaving, however, its mandiblesin the open air. There is a little grou() of Nciiroptcra belonging to the tribe 362 TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. of which the ant Hons are characteristic forms ; they constitutethe genus AscalapJius, aad they are very pretty insects, whichare not unHke some of the Lepidoptcra. They have long antennae,which terminate in a large club-shaped end, like those of thegenus Argynnis; their wings are very prettily tinted, and areusually of a bright yellow colour, with black markings. Manyof them are to be found in Southern Europe, and their larvae,whose habits are unknown, resemble those of the ant lions. Inthe engraving on page 361 one of these perfect insects is repre-sented on

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