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SYNOPSIS OF THE TRIBES. 



NAMES OF THE TRIBES IN THE FOREGOING TABLE. 



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Tril)e 1. Predaceous ground-beetles. . 37 

 Tribe II. Predaceous water-beetles. . 50 

 Tribe III. Water scavenger-beetles . . 52 

 Tribe IV. Land scavenger-beetles... 54 

 Tribe V. Short-winged scavengers . . 66 



T^ribe VI. Stag-beetles 76 



Tribe VII. Lanicllicorn dung-beetles 80 



Tribe VIII. Leaf-chafers 83 



Tribe IX. Saw-horned wood-beetles. 93 



Tribe X. Aberrant wood-beetles 101 



Tribe XI. Soft -winged predaceous- 



beetles 104 



Tribe XII. Parasitic beetles Ill 



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Tribe XIII. Heteromerous bark-bee- 

 tles 118 



Tribe XIV. Heteromerous ground- 

 beetles 130 



Tribe XV. Heteromerous fungus-bee- 

 tles 124 



Tribe XVI. Snout-beetles 127 



Tribe XVII. Short-horned wood-bor- 

 ers 145 



Tribe XVIII. Long-horned wood-bor- 

 ers 148 



Tribe XIX. Tetramerous plant-beetlesl60 

 Tribe XX. Trimerous fungus-beetlesl78 

 Tribe XXI. Plant-louse beetles 183 



