COLEOPTERA. 



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Fig. 453.— Chlasognathus Grantii. 



mO^ractca, climb trees and attack caterpillars It appears to be 



,1 certain hat the larva of the Silpha .te«r<. does a great deal of 



'■I damage to beet-root, whose leaves it devours. The f^'-^f ^.^"'T/f,^ 



( near to the SilJ>ha:. They are distinguished from them by having the 



