The Larvae of the Coccinellidae

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Excerpt from The Larvae of the Coccinellidae: With Six PlatesThe adults of this family are known to most persons as lady-bugs or ladybirds. Their distinctive characteristics are the apparently three segmented tarsi and the broad hatchet-shaped distal segment of the maxillary palpi. Other characteristics are: the eleven segmented anten nae, ih which the distal segments are commonly modified to form a more or less distinct club-shaped enlargement, the insertion of the antennae near the mesal margin of the compound eyes, the ventral direction of the mouth, the retraction of the head into the small transverse prothorax, the transverse front coxae, the closed coxal cavities, except in Coccidula, the convex elytra, and the abdomen consisting of five to seven exposed ventral segments.Le Baron has said, in speaking of this family, that The Coccinellidae occupy a remarkably anomalous and isolated position. Whilst having the rounded form of the plant beetles, the clavate antennae of the scavan gers, and the dilated palpi of the fungus beetles, they agree in food and habits with none of these, but resemble in their predaceous habits the ground beetles and the soft-winged carnivora, all of which have their bodies more or less elongated, their tarsi five-jointed, their antennae fili form, and their palpi slender or moderately dilated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.