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weeks, and the pupa lives half that time ; the beetles often 

 hibernate. The larva has the general form of that of Poeciius. 

 The species of Harpalus are large, 

 with a very square prothorax. //. 

 caliginosus Say (Fig. 374) is bene- 

 ficial in eating cut-Avorms and other 

 injurious larvae. Fig. 375 represents 

 a larva supposed to belong to this or 

 an allied genus. The blind Annph- 

 thalmus Tellkampfii Erichs. from the 

 Mammoth Cave, has no e^es, while ^ 

 the legs are very long, especially' 

 the narrow fore tibiae ; but in Tre- 

 ckus, which is closely allied to the blind Cave Beetle, 

 the ej'cs are as large as usual, and the legs stouter. Fig. 375. 



Bemhidium com- 

 prises species of 

 very small size 

 a n d variable in 

 foi'm, in which the 

 anterior tibia? are 

 not dilated at the 

 They ai-e found abundantly' under the refuse of /rn> 

 freshets and tides, preying upon dead animal matter 

 and other insects, and a species of Cillenum, 

 closely allied to Bcmbidium, is known to seize 

 the beach-flea, Gammarus, and devour it. 

 Fig. 37G (A, a little enlarged ; B, head ; c, 

 mandible ; e, antenna ; /, labium and its two- 

 jointed palpi ; g, maxillae ; h, i, j. under side 

 of different abdominal rings) represents the 

 larva of a Ground beetle, which, according to 

 Fig. 377. Walsh, preys upon the larva of the Plum cur- 

 culio while under ground. Fig. 377 represents the Fig. 378. 

 supposed larva of a European species of CJilcenivs, and Fig. 

 378 what we suppose is the larva of a beetle allied to Cillenum. 



base. 



Amphizoid.e Leconte. The genus Amphizoa (Fig. 379, A. 

 insolens ; a, antenna ; 6, labrum ; c, mandibles ; d, maxillae ; e, 



