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out, and immediately burrowed into the earth, where 

 he lay till June ; then became a pupa, and emerged 

 just what you see him, a long-snouted beetle like his 

 mother, in the beginning of August. 



Such is his " short eventful history ; " and you now 

 see that the long beak is formed entirely with reference 

 to this economy ; it is an auger fitted to bore holes into 

 shell-fruits through their envelopes, for the reception of 

 eggs. 



There is a very extensive family of Beetles known 

 as LamelUcornes, because the antennal joints are sin- 

 gularly flattened and applied one over the other like 

 the leaves of a book {J,ainella, a leaf). Here is a very 

 common little Chafer found on the droppings in pas- 

 tures {Aphodius fimetarius), in which the last three 



ANTENlfA OF COCKCnAFEK. 



joints constituting the club of the antenna, are of an 

 ovate form, and flattened, so as to lie one on another 

 quite close, like three oval cakes ; and being connected 

 only at one end of the long axis, they open and shut at 



