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 larvae 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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