SHORE-BUGS. 2. 
surface of this cannibal is muddy brown, but varies according to 
the color of the soil upon which it is found. The whole upper 
surface is closely set with granules, which produce, in clean 
specimens, the appearance of velvet, and which are also very 
useful to gather a coat of protecting mud, even of green slime. 
Fic. 16.—Galgulus oculatus Fab. Greatly enlarged. Original. 
FAMILY SALDIDAE, 
(Shore-bugs). 
These bugs are quite different from those already mentioned, 
for they possess prominent feelers not concealed beneath the head. 
They are very numerous in our state, and there are few sandy 
beaches along lakes and rivers which are not frequented by these 
exceedingly active beings, who run and fly with equal facility, and 
do not hesitate at all to enter the water. Prof. Uhler, who loves 
these bugs beyond all others, has written a good deal about them. 
He says: “In the present family we have types which like 
Galgulus, make holes for themselves, and live for a part of the 
time beneath the ground. Like the members of that genus too, 
