HANDBOOK Of BEETLES. 61 



HETEROMERA. 



Beetles with hard or soft elytra, sometimes wingless ; antennae 

 bead-like ; four front tarsi five-jointed ; hind tarsi four-jointed ; 

 feed on vegetable substances. 



RHYNCHOPHORA. Weevils. 



Snout very long, antennae placed on each side, and elbowed ; 

 integuments hard ; all the tarsi four- jointed ; plant-feeders. 



LONGICORNIA. Long-horned Beetles. 



Long and rather narrow beetles ; antennae very long ; tarsi 

 four-jointed ; feed on plants, their larvae often burrowing in the 

 wood of trees. 



EUPODA. 



Round or oval beetles ; antennas of moderate length ; tarsi 

 four-jointed ; feed on plants. 



DonadidcE. 

 Semi-aquatic ; feed on water-plants. 



Chrysomelidce. 

 Bright-coloured roundish beetles, found among grass, etc. 



Halticida. Turnip Beetles. 



Small beetles with thickened femora, which leap like fleas ; 

 very destructive to turnips, etc. 



Cassididce. Tortoise Beetles. 



Flattened beetles, with the thorax overlapping the head. 



TRIMERA. 

 Small beetles, with only three visible joints to the tarsi. 



Cdccinellida. Lady- Birds. 



Small spotted beetles, which feed on plant-lice. 



Trichopterygidtf. 



The smallest known beetles ; antennae clubbed ; found among 

 vegetable refuse, in fungi, or in ants' nests* 



