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INSECTS AT HOME. 



brown with yellow thorax and shoulders. The peculiar three- 

 jointed club of tlie family will at once distinguish them. The 

 genus Triplax contains five English species. 



The next family, the CoccinelUdce, is composed of insects 

 which are very familiar to us under the popular name of Lady- 



1. Coccinella ocellata. 2. Lycoperdina bovistre. 3. Trichopteryx atomaria. 4. Psplaphus 

 Heisei. 5. Claviger foveolatus. a. Coccinella, larva. 6. Coccinella, maxillary palpus. 



c. Coccinella, hibium. d. Coccinella, antenna. e. Coccinella, leg. 



birds or Lady-cows — the former being the more common as well 

 as the more poetical name. Tliese insects are* all flat below 

 and convex above, the body is rounded and the antennae are 

 short. The structure of the various parts of this genus is 

 shown on Woodcut XXIV., the antenna being represented at 

 d, Ihe maxilla and its palpus at 6, the labium at c, and the leg, 

 with the tiny third joint of the tarsus, at e. The typical 



