The Glow-Worm and' Other Beetles 



cylindrical. The legs are short, but fairly 

 strong, able to serve the creature for craw- 

 ling or digging; they end in a strong black 

 claw. The length of the larva when fully 

 developed is one inch. 



As far as I can judge from the dissection 

 of the specimen preserved in alcohol, whose 

 viscera were affected by being kept too long 

 in that liquid, the nervous system consists of 

 eleven^ ganglia, not counting the oesophageal 

 collar; and the digestive apparatus does not 

 differ perceptibly from that of an adult Oil- 

 beetle. 



The larger of the two larvze of the 25th 

 of June, placed in a test-tube with what re- 

 mained of its provisions, assumed a new form- 

 during the first week of the following month. 

 Its skin split along the front dorsal half and, 

 after being pushed half back, left partly un- 

 covered a pseudochrysalis bearing the closest 

 analogy with that 'of the Sitares. Newport 

 did not see the larva of the Oil-beetle in its 

 second form, that which it displays when it 

 is eating the mess of honey hoarded by the 

 Bees, but he did see its moulted skin half- 

 covering the pseudochrysalis which I have 

 just mentioned. From the sturdy mandibles 

 and the legs armed with a powerful claw 

 which he observed on this moulted skin, New- 

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