Meloe

• * [As Meloe, and some flower-feeding lamellicorns. —  Himalayan Journals — Complete
• These three lodgings adopted by _Meloe cicatricosus_ may be of some slight interest, as leading us to suspect that each species of Meloe is apparently the parasite of diverse Bees, a suspicion which will be confirmed when we examine the manner in which the larvæ reach the cell full of honey. —  The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
• Though the green carpet was continued for a considerable distance along the side of the road, I could not detect a single Meloe-larva elsewhere than in the few square yards lying in front of the bank inhabited by the Mason-bee. —  The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
• At the time of my observations, a comparatively tiny proportion of the starving legion was waiting on the flowers; the others were still wandering on the ground, where the Anthophoræ very rarely alight; and yet I detected the presence of several Meloe-larvæ in the thoracic down of nearly all the Anthophoræ which I caught and examined. —  The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
• And who shall say whether the Meloe, in its turn, will not be dispossessed by a fresh thief; or even whether it will not, in the state of a drowsy, fat and flabby larva, fall a prey to some marauder who will munch its live entrails? —  The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

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