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After the fly, anatomists come hastening, who take up the dry relic, nibble skin, tendons and ligaments and scrape the bones clean. The greatest expert in this work is the Dermestes beetle, an enthusiastic gnawer of animal remains. Sooner or later, he will come to the joint already exploited by the fly. Now what would happen if the pupae were there? The answer is obvious.
I passed it to him, wondering what in the world he wanted of Paradise Lost. Dermestes lardarius, he said, pointing to a place where the edge of one side of the outer cover had been slightly tasted by some insect. Very fond of leather while they 're in the larva state. Damage the goods as bad as mice, said the Salesman. Eat half the binding off Folio 67, said the Register of Deeds.
He is no anatomical dissector, cutting his subject open, carving its flesh with the scalpel of his mandibles; he is literally a grave-digger, a sexton. While the others Silphæ, Dermestes, Cellar-beetles gorge themselves with the exploited flesh, without, of course, forgetting the interests of the family, he, a frugal eater, hardly touches his find on his own account.
I passed it to him, wondering what in the world he wanted of Paradise Lost. Dermestes lardarius, he said, pointing to a place where the edge of one side of the outer cover had been slightly tasted by some insect. Very fond of leather while they 're in the larva state. Damage the goods as bad as mice, said the Salesman. Eat half the binding off Folio 67, said the Register of Deeds.
At the same time, the flattened Silpha, the glistening, slow-trotting Cellar-beetle, the Dermestes, powdered with snow upon the abdomen, and the slender Staphylinus, all, whence coming no one knows, hurry hither in squads, with never-wearied zeal, investigating, probing and draining the infection. What a spectacle, in the spring, beneath a dead Mole!
The Silphae, with wing-cases wide and dark, as though in mourning, fly distraught, hiding in the cracks in the soil; the Saprini, of polished ebony which mirrors the sunlight, jog hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes, of whom one wears a fawn-coloured tippet, spotted with white, seek to fly away, but, tipsy with their putrid nectar, tumble over and reveal the immaculate whiteness of their bellies, which forms a violent contrast with the gloom of the rest of their attire.
The Silphæ, with wing-cases wide and dark, as though in mourning, flee distraught, hiding in the cracks in the soil; the Saprini, of polished ebony which mirrors the sunlight, jog hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes, of whom one wears a fawn-coloured tippet flecked with white, seek to fly away, but, tipsy with the putrid nectar, tumble over and reveal the immaculate whiteness of their bellies, which forms a violent contrast with the gloom of the rest of their attire.
Something did, anyhow, and it was n't mice. Found the shelf covered with little hairy cases belonging to something or other that had no business there. Skins of the Dermestes lardaraus, said the Scarabee, you can always tell them by those brown hairy coats. That 's the name to give them.
Dancing, universality of. Danger-signals of animals. Daniell, Dr., his experience of residence in West Africa. Darfur, protuberances artificially produced by natives of. Darwin, F., on the stridulation of Dermestes murinus. Dasychira pudibunda, sexual difference of colour in. Davis, A.H., on the pugnacity of the male stag-beetle.
He believes that the power of stridulation in the Clythra has not been previously observed. I am also much indebted to Mr. E.W. Janson, for information and specimens. I may add that my son, Mr. F. Darwin, finds that Dermestes murinus stridulates, but he searched in vain for the apparatus. Scolytus has lately been described by Dr.
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