[By Tlifo. Carreras. 

 lllK LlFt-HlSruRY Ui-- XHli iiLiSlEU-Bi:.t,iLE. 

 In Us earliest stage the grub of the bUster-bcetlc contrives to get on thf, back of a certain solitary bee, as shown. On arrival at the 

 Dee s nest, excavated m the stem of a bramble, the grub gets into a cell where a bee's egg is floating on honev. Whilst the egg-shell is 

 employed as a ratt its contents are eaten ; then the grub changes its form to enable it to float on the honev. which it gradually consumes, 

 utner cnanges ot skui bnng changes of form, until the grub is full-grown, when it leaves the cell and walks down the stem to the earth, 

 wnere it constructs a cell of its own and becomes a chrysalis. Two fully developed blister-beetles are seen at the top of the picture. 

 twice the natural size. ' ' 



