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INSECTS ABROAD. 



occupies an inch and three-quarters. If the Beetle be examined 

 in profile, the head is seen to form a slight but graceful curve 

 downwards, and, in order to enable it to make this curve with- 

 out bringing the extremity of the head against the ground, the 

 thorax takes a curve npM^ards. 



Along the whole of the under-surface of the head runs a 

 band of long yellow hairs, which towards the extremity 

 becomes longer and thicker, and takes a dark-red hue. It is 

 on account of tliis hair that the species has received the name 



Fig. 9S.— Tcrauiocorus hai 

 (Black and chestnut, ) 



of harbicornis, i.e. "bearded horn." The ridge of liair which has 

 just been mentioned is so narrow that it can only lie seen when 

 tlie insect is viewed in profile, being quite invisible when it is 

 seen from above. 



The colour of the head is black, and so is tliat of the thorax, 

 the latter having a deep central groove, and profusely wrinkled, 

 so that it looks something like a black kid-glove that has been 

 crumpled together when wet. 



The elytra are much lenglhencMl at the tijis, but not so much 

 as tliose of the preceding insect, and diverge so that their shape 

 somewhat resembles the pincers of a female earwig. The ground 



