BRITISH INSECTS 



The Tortoise-Beetle (Cassia viriJis), belongs to the 

 CassididfS, and is an interesting insect because the elytra, 

 or wing-cases, remind one of the carapace, or shield, 

 of the four-legged creature after which it has been 

 popularly named. The egg is deposited in a cell of 

 remarkable honeycomb pattern, and is manufactured 

 by the female from a sticky substance obtained from 

 her own body. The larva has a pair of long tails which 

 are carried over the back, and it is rayed all round with 

 curious feathery appendages, and has dots on the sides. 

 The pupa has feathery appendages on the head, and 

 others protrude from the sides. 



ORDER VI . NEUROPTERA, OR NERVE- WINGED 



INSECTS 



So-called because their wings are covered with a 

 network of nerves — thus Nerve-Winged — the insects 

 belonging to this Order may be divided into six Sub- 

 Orders thus : — I. Corrodentia (Book Lice), 2. Plecoptera 

 (Stone Flies), 3. Sinlida (Alder Flies), 4. Planipennia 

 (Scorpion Flies and Lacewing), 5. Ephemeroptera (May- 

 Flies), and 6. Odonata (Dragon Flies). Outside Britain 

 there are the wonderful White-Ants, or Termites, which 

 come under the Sub-Order Isoptera., but with these 

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