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only the locust, who had devoured the whole of his companions, with the excep¬ 
tion of a few tarsi and remnants of limbs and antennae. This is not the first in¬ 
stance I have known of the voracious appetite and extraordinary ventral capac’ 
o fthese insects, which are usually supposed to live only on vegetable food. 
Lygceus apterus .—One of the wingless bug family, a pretty attractive 
with its party-coloured elytra, black and red. On the gravelly esplana 
alluded to at Carlsruhe they actually swarmed; hundreds and thousa 
rapid motion, particularly on those parts which were fresh turn' .e 
rakes or scufflers. 
In addition to the above, to which, I believe, I have affixed c stives, 
some others were taken which I can only refer to general!’ jrests of 
Germany, one species of the genus Scciritidce —formerlv .er days of 
entomological science, known and classed with the Cc /eetle tribe— 
was not uncommon. A stout, well-conditioned Beet 1 mch long, with 
globular, projecting eyes, broad thorax, on which t T .ed to be indented 
or inlaid without any intermediary cervicular prc ay jaws fitted for all 
purposes of laceration of food or personal defer met with one of these 
stout little fellows fearlessly preparing xor resi .itm under the restraint of 
an entomological finger and thumb, without Cc paring them with those squab, 
short-bodied, square-built, broad-shouldered, hard-featured, immoveable-eyed sort 
of people, of the genus humanus , so common in the world. I feel confident that 
your readers will recall, in a moment, a dozen such to their recollection ; men 
full of health and vigour, of iron muscle and nerve, ready and willing to fight 
their way through the world unaffected by times or circumstances under which 
more pliant characters would quail; men who, if they shook you by the hand, 
would make every joint crackle under their hearty grasp, and who, if invited to 
dinner, would swallow an entire first course, without fear of indigestion or incon¬ 
venience. 
It may not be irrelevant to insert, in an article on entomological notices, some 
information respecting the destructive powers of those minute insects, the Bostri- 
cidce , on the forests of Germany, received from M. Warnkynck, a very intelligent 
Inspecteur des Chasses, resident at Klorter, near Rippoldsau, in the middle of the 
Black Forest. On looking over his collection, he pointed out the following as 
most injurious :— 
Bostrichus lineatus. 
B. typographies. 
B. villosus. 
B. calcographicus 
or lands. 
B. curiaderis. 
B. pinastri. 
Stephens’ Catalogue , 
p. 148, linearis $ 
ditto 
145 
ditto 
144 
ditto 
145 
Most destructive of all. 
Very bad. 
Found near Carlsruhe. 
On the White Pines. 
On the Pinus sylvestris. 
