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ZOOLOGY. 



The most aberrant of beetles is Stylops (Figs. 343 and 344, 

 ^S*. cMldreni Westwood), the male of which has minute fore 



Fig. 344. — Slylaps ehildreid, female, 

 rt, parasitic in tlie abdomen of a bee ; 

 6, top view of tine same. Mucli en- 

 larged. 



Fig. 345 — Astraptm' illuininatO)\ larva. 



Fig. 346.— The early stages of the common Hoiiee-fiy. A, dorsal and side view of 

 the larva ; a, air-tubes ; sp, spiracle. C, the spiracle enlarged. F, head of the same 

 larva, enlarged; W, labriim (?); md, niandililes ; ma;, maxilla; ; n<, antennse. B, n 

 terminal spiracle much enlarged. i>, puparium ; sp, spiracle. All the fignrea much 

 enlarged. 



wings. The female is wingless, grub-like, imperfectly de- 

 veloped, aud is viviparous, the young issuing from her body 



