Goat- or Capricorn-Beetles 



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and make a creaking noise. Fig. 238 is the pretty 

 blue-and-yellow elder beetle. 



The goat-beetles seem to be often afflicted with 

 what the doctors call arrested development. That 

 is, their babies stay babies for a long time. Away 

 back in 1889 it was reported that the State Ento- 



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mologist of New York had sent to him a beetle 

 which had bored holes through a kitchen painted 

 floor at a place called Howe's Cave. The holes in 

 the floor were about a quarter of an inch in diam- 

 eter. The beetle itself is the long gray fellow with 

 black dashes on its wing covers known as the Long- 

 horn pine borer. The baby larva or grub of this 



