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FUNGUS-BEETLES. 



FAMILY ANTHRIBIDAE. 



(Fungus beetles). 



There is still another family of beetles closely related to the- 

 snout-beetles and bark-beetles. Some of them are found in large 

 numbers upon dead toad-stools ; others occur among- the fungi 

 causing certain diseases of the cereals and other plants ; and still 

 others are known to be elsewhere decidedly injurious to cultivated- 

 plants. To show how such beetles look the illustration of Anthri- 



Fig. 2 t9. — Anthribus cornutus, Say. After Marlatt. 



bus cornutus Say (Fig. 249), has been reproduced from the First 

 Annual Report of the Kansas Experiment Station. This insect 

 was found in large numbers and in all stages associated in dead 

 tamarix stems with the injurious apple-twig borer {Amphicerus 

 bicaudatus Say) described before. 



It will be seen from the pages of this report that the ORDER 

 of COLEOPTERA contains a large number of injurious insects, 

 and that it is worth while to inspect our fruit-producing plants 

 with great care from time to time to detect them, to apply reme- 

 dies as soon as possible, and not to wait until our enemies have 

 multiplied to such an extent as to make it questionable whether 

 we or the intruders are the masters of the situation. 



