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Title: The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

Author: Jean Henri Fabre

Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Release Date: January 22, 2009 [EBook #27868]

Language: English

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THE GLOW-WORM AND OTHER BEETLES

BOOKS BY J. HENRI FABRE

THE LIFE OF THE SPIDER
THE LIFE OF THE FLY
THE MASON-BEES
BRAMBLE-BEES AND OTHERS
THE HUNTING WASPS
THE LIFE OF THE CATERPILLAR
THE LIFE OF THE GRASSHOPPER
THE SACRED BEETLE AND OTHERS
THE MASON-WASPS
THE GLOW-WORM AND OTHER BEETLES

THE GLOW-WORM AND OTHER BEETLES

BY

J. HENRI FABRE

TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS
FELLOW OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1924

COPYRIGHT, 1919
BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.

CONTENTS

PAGE
I THE GLOW-WORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

II THE SITARES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

III THE PRIMARY LARVA OF THE SITARES . . . . . . . 46

IV THE PRIMARY LARVA OF THE OIL-BEETLES . . . . . 84

V HYPERMETAMORPHOSIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

VI CEROCOMAE, MYLABRES AND ZONITES . . . . . . . . 144

VII THE CAPRICORN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

VIII THE PROBLEM OF THE SIREX . . . . . . . . . . . 207

IX THE DUNG-BEETLES OF THE PAMPAS . . . . . . . . 235

X INSECT COLOURING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

XI THE BURYING-BEETLES: THE BURIAL . . . . . . . . 294

XII THE BURYING-BEETLES: EXPERIMENTS . . . . . . . 319

XIII THE GIANT SCARITES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

XIV THE SIMULATION OF DEATH . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

XV SUICIDE OR HYPNOSIS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

XVI THE CRIOCERES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

XVII THE CRIOCERES (_continued_) . . . . . . . . . . 428

XVIII THE CLYTHRAE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

XIX THE CLYTHRAE: THE EGG . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

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