Enemies of Bees — Blister Beetles. 



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

 grasp its victims. It is reported to move with surprising rapid- 

 ity, as it grasps it prey. 



I \ 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. 



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

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

 and atejthe others. 



BLISTER BEETLES. 



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

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

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



FiG. 192. 



nia. - Mr. Rainbow took as many as seven from one worker 

 bee. Fig. 192, 5, represents the female of Meloe angusUcoUig, 

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



