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stumps of trees cast ashore by the sea. When they are deprived 

 of their place of shelter, they run away with such rapidity that it 

 is very difficult to catch them. In Senegal is found the genus 

 Tefflus (Fig. 513), great black Cambici, with fluted elytra. 



Other kindred genera are Damaster (Fig. 514), remarkable 

 for its elongated pointed elytra ; Anthia (Fig. 515), which is met 

 with in sand in Africa and in India, and whose head is armed in 



Fig. 513. Tefflus Megerlei. 



Fig. 514. Damaster blaptoides. 



a formidable manner ; and Campy locnemis, of which Schrceteri 

 (Fig. 516), an Australian insect, of a bright black, attains to more 

 than an inch and three-quarters in length, and whose short, serrated 

 legs enable it to hollow out the ground. There is found on the 

 coasts of the south of France a representative of this group in the 

 Scarites Icemgatus (Fig. 517), which conceals itself in a hollow like 

 the cricket, and devours everything which comes within its reach. 



