Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 675
ontains twenty-sixspecies widely distributed over the United States, vary-ing in size but almost alike in color, wing-covers blue,the rest reddish brown. The genus Galerita containsbeetles of the same shape and color, but much larger(three fourths of an inch or more in length,… … MiM^:l, ffi mm- < ,2* THE BOIUBAKDIEk-BEETLE. may thus be roughly distinguished, and there are noother beetles in the United States which closely resem-ble bombardier-beetles. It is almost impossible, evenfor an experienced entomologist, to tell the species ofbombardier-beetles, so minute are…
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