Cerocomae, Mylabres and Zonites 



other a representative of the order, in the 

 shape of the Praying Mantis and her kin. 



Who will explain to me this predilection 

 for the Orthopteron in a tribe whose chief, 

 the Oil-beetle, accepts nothing but the mess 

 of honey? Why do insects which appear 

 close together in all our classifications possess 

 such opposite tastes? If they spring from 

 a common stock, how did the consumption of 

 flesh supplant the consumption of honey? 

 How did the Lamb become a Wolf? This 

 is the great problem which was once set us, 

 in an inverse form, by the Spotted Sapyga, 

 a honey-eating relative of the flesh-eating 

 Scolia. 1 I submit the question to whom it 

 may concern. 



The following year, at the beginning of 

 June, some of my pseudochrysalids split open 

 transversely behind the head and lengthwise 

 down the whole of the median line of the 

 back, except the last two or three segments. 

 From it emerges the tertiary larva, which, 

 from a simple examination with the pocket- 

 lens, appears to me, in its general features, 

 identical with the secondary larva, the one 

 which eats the Tachytes' provisions. It is 

 naked and pale-yellow, the 'colour of butter. 



1 The essays on these will appear in the volume, en- 

 titled The Hunting Wasps, aforementioned. — Translator's 

 Note. 



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