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ARTICULATA. 
pean species is the Pyrochroa rubens, whicli is found about hedge-banks. A similar species, P. 
flabellata, is common in this country. In the Salpingidce, the front of the head is produced 
into a short snout. 
THE ATRACHELIA. 
These are generally black, or of dull colors, nocturnal in their habits, and slow in their motions, 
usually crawling upon the ground in obscure situations. 
A few are found upon trees and plants, and these, in their 
structure, CAudently approach the preceding tribe. A 
European example of this group is furnished by the com- 
mon Blaps mortisaga, which bears the English name of 
Chubohyard Beetle. These insects are generally found 
in dark and dirty places about houses, in cellars, and 
similar situations. In Europe the meeting of this insect 
in a house is considered a prestige of death. Another 
species is the Tenehrio 7nolitor, common in Europe and 
this country, of which the larva, found in flour, meal, etc.^ 
is well known as the Meal- Wor?n. It is common in mills, 
meal-tubs, granaries, and is destructive to sea-biscuit on 
shipboard. Multitudes are raised in Europe to feed night- 
ingales and other cage-birds. Other species of Tenehrio 
^ live under the bark of trees, and in decaying vegetable mat- 
THE TENEBKio MOLiTOR. tcr *, but Comparatively few are found in this country. 
THE CHDECHTARD BEETLE. 
THE TETEAMEEA. 
This term, derived from the Greek tet7'a, four, and tnera^ divisions, includes a great number 
of beetles, which have only four apparent joints in all the tarsi ; they rarely attain great size, and 
many are very minute ; the colors are often brilliant and beautiful. 
THE RnYNCHOPHORA. 
This term, from the Greek rhynchos, a snout, and pTiero^ to bear, are distinguished by having the 
front of the head produced into a snout or ros- 
trum, at the extremity of which the mouth is 
situated. The larvas are soft, footless grubs, 
which usually live in the interior of the stems, 
fruits, and seeds of plants, to which their ravages 
are often very injurious. Among these the 
Corn- Weevil, Calandra granariuj a European 
species, introduced into and spread over this coun- 
try, holds the most conspicuous place, as its larva 
frecjuently causes great damage in granaries. One 
of the commonest European species is the Nut- 
Weevil, Balaninus nucmji, the parent of the 
little v/hite grubs so frequently met with in 
filberts and other nuts. This insect has a very 
long rostrum, and by means of this, the female is 
said to eat a small hole in the young nut while 
its integuments are still soft. Here she deposits 
an egg, and the larva when hatched eats its way into the interior of the kernel, where it con- 
tinues to reside until it has arrived st maturity. It then eats its way out of the nut, and falls to 
the gTOund, into which it burrows, and there undergoes its transformation to the pupa state, 
which, however, does not take place until the commencement of the second summer. The his- 
tory of»the other species of the tribe appears to be very similar, although many pass to the pupa 
THE PALM-WKEVIL. 
