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shaped pieces, a sort of plate which extends forward 

 over the face like the visor of a boy's cap, and 

 their legs toothed on the outer sides, thus fitted 

 for digging. Some live on the ground and arc 

 called Ground Beetles ; others live upon trees, whose 

 leaves they eat, and are called Tree Beetles ; others 

 feed upon the sweets of flowers, and are called 

 Flower Beetles. Some kinds are very large, as the 

 Hercules Beetles of South America, which are five 



Fig. 300. — Goldsmith Beetle. Fig. 301. — Phanaeus. 



inches long. Many are brilliantly colored, and the 

 PhanjEus has a horn-like projection on the head. The 

 May Beetles are brown-colored Scarabseida;, which, at- 

 tracted by the light, fly into our rooms in the early 

 part of summer ; in the grub state they live in the 

 ground, and are white, with a brownish head. The 

 Goldsmith Beetle is of a beautiful golden color above, 

 and copper color, with whitish wool, below. It feeds 

 upon leaves, among which it hides by day, flj'ing in the 

 morning and evening twilight. The Spotted Pelidnota 

 is found on the grapevine in July and August. It is 

 about an inch long, brownish-yellow above, with three 

 black dots on each wing-cover, and one on each side of 

 the thorax. 



Many of these Beetles not only injure the foliage of 



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