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COLEOPTERA. 



Fig. 374. 



weeks, a,nd the pupa lives half that time ; the beetles often 

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

 The species of Harpalus are large, 

 with a very square prothorax. H. 

 caliginosus Say (Fig. 374) is bene- 

 ficial in eating cut-worms and other 

 injurious larvae. Fig. 375 represents 

 a larva supposed to belong to this or j^ 

 an allied genus. The blind AnojyJi- 

 thalmus Tellkamjlfti Erichs. from the 

 Mammoth Cave, has no eyes, while 

 the legs are ver^^ long, especially 

 the narrow fore tibise ; but in Tre- 

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

 the eyes are as large as usual, and the legs stouter, rig. 375. 



Bembidium com- 

 prises species of 

 very small size 

 a n d variable in 

 form, in Avhich the 

 anterior tibiiie are 

 not dilated at the 

 base. They are found abundantly' under the refuse of /<rQ] 

 freshets and tides, preying upon dead animal matter 

 and other insects, and a species of CiUemmi, 

 closely allied to Bembidium, is known to seize 

 the beach-flea, Gammarus, and devour it. 

 Fig. 376 (A, a little enlarged ; B, head ; c, 

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

 jointed palpi ; g, maxillie ; h, i, j, under side 

 of ditferent abdominal rings) represents the 

 larva of a Ground beetle, which, according to 

 Fig. 377. "VYalsh, 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 CJdcenius, and Fig. 

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



Ampiiizoidje Leconte. The genus Amphizoa (Fig. 379, A. 

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



