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.The Coleoptera are the beetles, including hardbacks, 

 weevils and lady-birds Many insects of this order are in- 

 jurious to growing crops, stored grain and household sup- 



Fig. 25. Coleoptera. Root borer of sugar-cane. 

 Adult beetle, about natural size. (Original.} 



Fig. 26. Coleoptera. Lime tree bark borer. 

 About \\ times natural size. (Original.) 



pliea. The root borer of the sugar-cane (Fig. 25), the 

 long-horned borers (Fig. 26), the grain weevils, and the 



