Enemies of Bees — Blister Beetles. 



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liar anterior legs, like the same in Phymaia erosa, are used to 

 grasp its victims. 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, Califor- 

 nia, the larvae (Fig. 192, a) of some blister beetles, probably 

 Mdoe barbarus, Lee. , as that is a common species in CaHfor- 



Fig. 192. 



nia. Mr Rainbo w took as many as seven from one worker 

 bee. Fig. 192, 6, represents the female of MeVoe angusticottis, 

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



