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INSECTS AT HOME. 



brown witli yellow thorax and shoulders. The peculiar three- 

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

 genus Trlplax contains five English species. 



TiFK next family, the Coccinelllda;, is composed of insects 

 which are very familiar to us under the poj^ular name of Lady- 



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1 . Coccinella ocellata. 2. Lycoperdina bovistne. 3. Trichopteryx atomaria. 4. rselaphUB 

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



c. Coccinella, labium. d. Coccinella, antenna. e. Coccinella, log. 



birds or Lady-cows — the fornier 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. Tlie structure of the various i^arts of this genus is 

 shown on Woodcut XXIV., the antenna being represented at 

 f/, 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 



