CLASS INSECTA: OKDEK COLEOPTERA. 



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bark at the roots of trees, and their metamorphosis goes on 

 within the trunk. 

 Silphidse. The Burying-beetles dig underneath small 



Fig. 871. 



Necrophonis vestigator burying a Mouse. 



dead animals mice, birds, etc. and soon bury them as pro- 

 vision for their young. 



Cerambycidae. The Long-horns have filiform, recurved 

 antennae, often much longer than the body. Their eggs are 

 laid in crevices of bark, and the larvae bore into the hardest 

 wood, oftentimes destroying whole forests. To this family 

 belongs the destructive " apple-tree borer." * 



Scolytidae. The Baric-borers cause great devastation 

 among trees by digging, just beneath the bark, radiating 



* To tbe family Chrysomelidae belongs the Striped Squash Beetle (ZHabrofica 

 vittata), a yellow bug which attacks the vines as soon as they are up. 



