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BRITISH BEETLES. 
moderatoly long anterior legs, two thin tubercles on 
each side of the fourth and following segments, gradu- 
ally getting longer, and clothed with stout brown 
bristles ; and two longer elevated protuberances, also 
set with long hairs on the upper side, with an anal 
elongation beneath, on the last segment. It was 
nearly the colour of raw sienna ; and had a widening 
row of black spots on each side, beginning on the 
thorax. The figure given in Westwood’s Introduction 
(vol. i., p. 247, f. 26, 18) is not correct ; being too 
broad and not hairy enough. 
The female preserves the appearance of the larva to 
a groat extent. 
The Telephorid* (commonly known as “ soldiers ” 
or “sailors”) have the head free and contracted 
behind ; the clypeus more or less covering the mandi- 
bles; the labrum obsolete, instead of distinct, as in 
the preceding families ; the antennae filiform ; the 
elytra not reflexed at the sides, flexible, liable to dis- 
tortion, and rarely entirely covering the abdomen ; 
the palpi slender; and the fourth joint of the tarsi 
bilobed. 
Although their integuments, compared with thoso 
of the families of the preceding section, are as different 
as the canvas of a sculler’s boat from the plates of an 
ironclad, these insects are “ Warriors ” a Voutrance ; 
and are living disproofs of Scott’s well-known lines 
(Rokeby) : — 
** Man only mars kind nature’s plan, 
And turns the fell pursuit on man : ” 
seeing that they not only prey on other beetles, but 
also ruthlessly attack those of their own species. Con- 
sequently the collector must remember to put them 
