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Série, t. 7, 1857, p. 299; also "Nouvelles observations sur l'hypermetamorphose et les Moeurs des Meloïdes," ibid., t. 9, 1858, p. 265. Carcasses of animals stored up. These insects lay up for their offspring stores manufactured by themselves or by others.
In such cases the mother balances the chances of destruction by an exaggerated flux of eggs. Such is the case with the Meloides, which, stealing the goods of others under conditions of the greatest peril, are accordingly endowed with a prodigious fertility.
I will call it simply the primary larva, as I have done in the case of the Meloides, the Leucospis, and the Anthrax. The form of the primary larva of the Cigale is eminently adapted to its conditions and facilitates its escape. The tunnel in which the egg is hatched is very narrow, leaving only just room for passage.
In such cases the mother balances the chances of destruction by an exaggerated flux of eggs. Such is the case with the Meloides, which, stealing the goods of others under conditions of the greatest peril, are accordingly endowed with a prodigious fertility.
These two examples show very well how a slight difference may favour a species, and how a happy quality is capable of being perpetuated by heredity, since by its very nature it is destined to be extended to more numerous beings. "Hypermetamorphoses et Moeurs des Meloïdes," Ann. Sc. Nat., iv.
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