60 THE YOUNG COLLECTORS 



LAMELLICORNIA. Chafers. 



Antennae short, terminating in a club formed of a number of 

 movable layers ; feed on plants or dung. 



Lucanidce. Stag Beetles. 



Mandibles of the male very large; larvae feed on wood; beetles 

 on sap. 



Scarabaidce. 



Head very wide and flattened, with a horn in the middle in 

 the male ; black ; feed on dung ; fly in the evening. 



GeotrupidcB. 

 Head not of unusual size ; black ; feed on dung. 



AphodiidcB, 

 Small oval dung-beetles, of various colours ; fly by day. 



Melolonthida. Chafers. 



Large beetles ; larvae feed on grass ; beetles on the leaves of 

 trees, round which they fly in the evening. 



Cetoniidce. Rose- Chafers. 



Brightly coloured or black beetles (sometimes downy) found 

 feeding on roses, thistles, etc., by day. 



STERNOXI. 



Long and narrow beetles, with serrated or pectinated antennae j 

 elytra hard ; feed on plants. 



Buprestidce. 

 Hinder angles of the thorax not pointed. 



Elateridcz. Click Beetles and Wire- Worms. 



Hinder angles of the thorax pointed ; able to leap ; larvse 

 feed on roots of plants. 



MALACODERMATA. 



Long and narrow beetles, generally with slender antennse and 

 soft elytra ; frequent flowers, but attack other insects ; female 

 sometimes luminous and apterous (as in the glow-worm). (The 

 Ptinida, however, are small oval, wood-feeding beetles with hard 

 integuments.) 



