Cerocomae, Mylabres and Zonites 



dragging its belly, with its body straight from 

 end to end. On fine, loose sand, change of 

 position becomes difficult. The grub now 

 bends itself into a bow; it wriggles upon its 

 back, upon its side; it crawls a little way; it 

 digs and heaves with its mandibles. But let 

 a less crumbling support come to its assist- 

 ance; and pilgrimages of some length are 

 not beyond its powers. 



I reared my guests in a box divided into 

 compartments by means of paper partitions. 

 Each space, representing about the capacity 

 of a Tachytes-cell, received its layer of sand, 

 its pile of Mantes and its larva. And more 

 than one disturbance arose in this refectory, 

 where I had reckoned upon keeping the 

 banqueters isolated one from the other, each 

 at its special table. This larva, which had 

 finished its ration the day before, was dis- 

 covered next day in another chamber, where 

 it was sharing its neighbour's repast. It had 

 therefore climbed the partition, which for 

 that matter was of no great height, or else 

 had forced its way through some chink. 

 This is enough, I think, to prove that the grub 

 is not a strict stay-at-home, as are the larvae 

 of the Sitares and the Oil-beetles when de- 

 vouring the ration of the Anthophora. 



I imagine that, in the burrows of the 

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