ORGANS OF DIGESTION. 



The organs of digestion in two different beetles. Fig. l, a 

 garden beetle (Carabus). Fig. 2, a churchyard beetle (Blaps). 

 a, the jaws and feelers; b, the head; c, c, the saliva vessels ; 

 d, the gullet, very short in Fig. 1 ; e, the crop, wanting in Fig. 

 1 ; /, the gizzard, wanting in Fig. 1 ; g, the stomach, large and 

 convoluted in Fig. 1 ; h, h, h, the bile vessels long, and nume- 

 rous ; i, the small intestine ; k, the blind gut ; /, the vent ; m, m, 

 the excrementary vessels. 



