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INSECTS ABROAD. 



occupies an inch and three-quarters. If the Beetle be examined 

 in profile, the head is seen to form a slight but graceful curve 

 downwards, and, in order to enable it to make this curve with- 

 out bringing the extremity of the head against the ground, the 

 thorax takes a curve upwards. 



Along the whole of the under-surfaoe of the head runs a 

 band of long yellow hairs, which towards the extremity 

 becomes longer and thicker, and I a Ices a dark-red hue. It is 

 on account of this hair that the species has received the name 



Fiu. 08 Turauiocerus burbicornis. 

 (Black oud i-kestuut. ) 



of barbicomis, i.e. "bearded horn." The ridge of hair which has 

 just been mentioned is so narrow that it can only be seen when 

 the insect is viewed in profile, being quite invisible when it is 

 seen from above. 



The colour of the head is black, and so is that of the thorax, 

 the latter having a deep central groove, and profusely wrinkled, 

 so that it looks something like a black kid-glove that has been 

 crumpled together when wet. 



The elytra are much lengthened at the tips, but not so much 

 as those of the preceding insect, and diverge so that their shape 

 somewhai resembles the pincers of a female earwig. The ground 



