Produced by Ron Swanson 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 TRANSLATOR'S NOTE This is the second volume on Beetles in the complete English edition of Henri Fabre's entomological works. The first is entitled _The Sacred Beetle and Others_; the second and the third will be known as _The Life of the Weevil_ and _More Beetles_ respectively. _The Glow-worm_, which gives its name to the present book, did not form part of the _Souvenirs entomologiques_ as originally published. It is one of two essays written specially, at my request, for translation into English, towards the close of Henri Fabre's life; in fact, this and _The Ant-lion_, a short essay for children, were the last works that came from the veteran author's pen. _The Glow-worm_ appeared first in the _Century Magazine_. Of the remaining chapters, several have appeared in various periodicals, notably the _English Review_ and in _Land and Water_, the editor and proprietors of which admirable weekly have shown the most enlightened interest in Fabre's work.