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is another Beetle of the same family. It is about one inch 
long, and of a changeable blue color, Bieare 14 
except the upper part of the wing- 
covers, which is of a pale orange 
color, and gives the animal the ap- 
pearance of one carrying a cloak 
across his shoulders. Hence its 
name. Its antenne are a little lon- 
ger than half the length of its body. 
This insect may be found upon the 
common elder, and its grubs in the 
stems of the same shrub. 
The largest Capricorn of the 
southern parts of North America is the Stag Beetle Capri- 
corn (Prionus cervicornis), which is three inches and a half 
long, of a brown color, and has jaws like a Stag Beetle, one 

Cloak-bearing Capricorn. 
inch long. 
But the handsomest of all is the Long-armed Capricorn 
(Lamia longimana) of South America. It measures two and 
a half inches in length, and one inch in breadth. Its fore 
legs are five inches long. Its head, thorax, and wing-covers 
are dark olive-green, striped with red, yellow, and white in 
a very singular manner, and resembling hieroglyphics. 
Snout Beetles (Curculiones). 
The Snout Beetles occupy the lowest rank among Cole- 
opterous Insects, partly on account of their head, which is 
prolongated into a bill-like pointed snout, with avery small 
mouth at the end, and two triangular antenne, and partly 
on account of their larvae, which are maggots, like those 
of flies, having no legs. The female of these insects bores 
holes with her pointed mouth in the vegetable body in 
which she deposits her eggs, and the maggots issuing from 
them enter the stems of annual and perennial plants, de- 
vouring all their internal substance, and destroying whole 
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