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cuticle. This shortening of the legs is still more 

 marked in the larvae of the Longhorn Beetles (Ceram- 

 lyvcidae) burrowing in the wood of trees or felled 

 trunks; here the legs are reduced to small vestiges. 



Fig. 16. a, Grain Weevil (Calandra (jrunaritt) ; b, 

 larva ; c, pupa. Magnified 7 times. After Chitten- 

 den, Yearbook U.S. Dept. Agric. 1894. 



Finally in the large family of the Weevils (Curculioni- 

 dae, fig. 1(3) and the Bark-beetles (Scolytidae), the grubs, 

 eating underground root or stem structures, mining 



