i 4 6 INSECTS. 
and “ sailors,” —and few of our readers can fail to recognise the species figured. 
This species {Telephones fuscus), and a few others of the same genus,—some of 
which are of an almost entirely yellowish red colour,—are very plentiful on 
flowers at certain times of the year. 
The Cleridce are generally brightly coloured, of cylindrical form, with 
the prothorax narrower than the elytra, the eyes notched in front, the antennae 
either serrate, pec¬ 
tinate, or clavate, 
and the tarsi fur¬ 
nished underneath 
with membranous 
lobes. Clerus for- 
Trichodes apiarius Til t CO.Ti lls is very 
(enlarged). abundant in pine- 
forests, where it 
plays a useful part in hunting for and 
devouring wood - boring beetles; while 
the larva is still more active in following- 
under the bark the larvae of various kinds which are there 
to be met with. The second species figured (Trichodes 
apiarius ) hunts for its prey on flowers, especially those of the 
Umbelliferce, and the larvae are found in beehives, where they 
devour many of the young brood. 
The Ptinidce are all small insects, usually of a somewhat 
cylindrical form, rounded at each end, and with the head 
retracted under a hood-like covering, formed by the prothorax. 
They are obscurely coloured and chiefly interesting on account THE death-watch beetle, 
of their mischievous propensities. In the larval state Ptinus 
fur is very destructive in herbaria, and natural history 
collections generally. The best known of the Ptinidce are the death-watch 
beetles of the genus Anobium, to which we have already referred at the 
beginning of this chapter. These beetles seldom show themselves openly, so 
Clerus formicarius, with larva and pupa 
(all enlarged). 
A nobium 
(enlarged). 
tessellatum 
THE WEST INDIAN FIRE-FLY, 
Pyrophorus noctilucus 
(nat. size). 
Telephorus fuscus (slightly enlarged). 
