ANIMALS OF THE DUNES 



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It is difficult to pick out from such a miscellaneous assemblage 

 any particular form by which to name the association. Perhaps 

 it may be called the predatory ground beetle association quite 

 justly. Such beetles, 

 including the white 

 and copper tigers, the 

 searcher, a good-sized, 

 bright, bronze-green 

 beetle; the fiery 

 hunter, a black beetle 

 with coppery pits on 

 the elytra (Fig. 148); 

 the yellow-legs, Galer- 

 ites j anus J a black 



beetle with legs and Fig. 148. — The searcher, Calosoma scrutator, and 



thorax reddish brown, ^^'^ ^^'^ ^^^^^^' ^' '''^^^''"'^ 



and others are always present, though, in many cases, they are 



likely blown here from their native haunts farther inland. At 



Fig. 149. — Holes of digger wasp, Microbembex monodonta, at left; wasp at 

 entrance to hole at right. 



any rate they are representative of the whole group of insect- 

 eating animals so characteristic of the zone. 



The fore-dune zone is intensely hot in summer. The sand 

 burns your bare feet so that it is quite unendurable. Here 



