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GUIDE TO THE 
frequents the West Indian Islands. Remarkable for 
its size, when fall grown, is the Cocoanut-Crab 
{Birgus latrd), which inhabits the Indo-Pacific islands, 
and lives chiefly upon the cocoanuts which fall from 
the palms. 
Centipedes, Millipedes, Scorpions, and Spiders 
will be found on the farther side, among the first 
an enormous Venezuelan specimen and very large 
Scorpions. 
The 
Beetles (Coleoptera) 
follow next, beginning with the predaceous Tiger- 
Beetles, Cicindelidae, speedy on the wing as well as 
on foot, and the Carabidae, also more or less car- 
nivorous, and very numerous in temperate zones. 
The most aberrant form of Carabidae is the Mormolyce 
phyllodes of the Malayan countries, called by the 
natives in Java “ the violin ” on account of its curious 
shape. Zabrus gibbus is addicted to vegetable diet, 
an exception among the Carabidae. The Water- 
Beetles consist of several groups, the carnivorous 
and swift Dytiscidae, the pretty Whirligig-Beetles, 
Gyrinus, and the herbivorous crawling Hydrophilidae, 
rather distantly related to the other Water-Beetles. 
The series of Coleoptera exhibited ends with the 
Longicorns, a family of innumerable species within 
