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only the locust, who had devoured the whole of his companions, with the excep- 

 tion of a few tarsi and remnants of limbs and antennae. This is not the first in- 

 stance I have known of the voracious appetite and extraordinary ventral capacity 

 of these insects, which are usually supposed to live only on vegetable food. 



Lygceus apterus. — One of the wingless bug family, a pretty attractive insect, 

 with its party-coloured elytra, black and red. On the gravelly esplanade before 

 alluded to at Carlsruhe they actually swarmed ; hundreds and thousands were in 

 rapid motion, particularly on those parts which were fresh turned up by the 

 rakes or scufflers. 



In addition to the above, to which, I believe, I have affixed correct appellatives, 

 some others were taken which I can only refer to generally. In the forests of 

 Germany, one species of the genus Scaritidce — formerly, in the simpler days of 

 entomological science, known and classed with the Carabidce, or Beetle tribe — 

 was not uncommon. A stout, well-conditioned Beetle, about an inch long, with 

 globular, projecting eyes, broad thorax, on which the head seemed to be indented 

 or inlaid without any intermediary cervicular process, with bony jaws fitted for all 

 purposes of laceration of food or personal defence. I never met with one of these 

 stout little fellows fearlessly preparing for resistance when under the restraint of 

 an entomological finger and thumb, without comparing them with those squab, 

 short-bodied, square-built, broad-shouldered, hard-featured, immoveable-eyed sort 

 of people, of the genus humanus, so common in the world. I feel confident that 

 your readers will recall, in a moment, a dozen such to their recollection ; men 

 full of health and vigour, of iron muscle and nerve, ready and willing to fight 

 their way through the world unaffected by times or circumstances under which 

 more pliant characters would quail ; men who, if they shook you by the hand, 

 would make every joint crackle under their hearty grasp, and who, if invited to 

 dinner, would swallow an entire first course, without fear of indigestion or incon- 

 venience. 



It may not be irrelevant to insert, in an article on entomological notices, some 

 information respecting the destructive powers of those minute insects, the Bostri- 

 cidce, on the forests of Germany, received from M. Warnkynck, a very intelligent 

 Inspecteur des Chasses, resident at Klorter, near Rippoldsau, in the middle of the 

 Black Forest. On looking over his collection, he pointed out the following as 

 most injurious : — 



Stephens' Catalogue, p. 148, linearis 9 Most destructive of all. 

 ditto 145 Very bad. 



ditto 144 



ditto 145 



On the White Pines. 

 Found near Carlsruhe. On the Finns sylvestris. 



