Enemies df Bees — Blister Beetlei> 



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liat anterior legs, like the same in Phymala erosa, ares used to" 

 grasp its victimsi It is reported to move with Surprising rapid- 

 ity, as it grasps it prey. 



Its eggs (Fig. 191) are glued to some twig, in a scale-like 

 mass, and covered with a sort of varnish. Some of these 



Fig. 191. 



hatched out in one of my boxes, and the depravity of these 

 insects was manifest in the fact that those first hatched fell to 

 and ate the others. 



BLISTER BEETLES. 



I have received from Mr. Rainbow, of Fall Brook, CaUfor-| 

 nia, the larvse (Fig. 192, a) of some blister beetles, proTJably 

 Mdoe harharus, Lee, as that is a common species in CaJifor- 



FiG.. 192. 



nia. Mr. Rainbow took as many as seven from cnc worker 

 bee. Fig; 192, h, represents the female of Mdoe anguSticolMs, 

 a common species in Michigan and the East. As will be seen, 



