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INSECTS. 
Strangalia armata and larva 
(nat. size). 
insects, others like Rhagium are found on the trunks of pine-trees. In the 
Molorchicles the elytra are usually short or very narrow, and the abdomen slender 
and constricted at the 
base, so that many of 
the species have a re¬ 
semblance to Hymen - 
optera. The European 
Necydalis major looks 
like a hornet, but in 
many of the tropical 
forms these resem¬ 
blances are more pro¬ 
nounced. The Clytides 
are found on flowers, 
chiefly of the umbell¬ 
iferous kind, and two or 
three species are among 
the prettiest of British beetles. Some of the 
Clytides and species of Hylotrupes and Callidium 
are occasionally met with in houses, being intro¬ 
duced in the wood in which the larvae feed. The 
Lamiince are more numerous than the other 
Longicorns, and distinguished by having an 
oblique groove on the lower side of the front 
tibiae, the last joint of the palpi usually pointed 
at the end, and the front of the head in most 
cases turned down vertically, or sometimes even inclined backwards, bringing the 
mouth close to the prosternum. The species of the genus Lamia are few in 
number and by no means typical of the subfamily; they are clumsy-looking, dull 
black insects, one of which (Lamia, 
textor ) is found on willow-trees and in 
osier-beds in some parts of Britain. In 
the genus Acanthocinus the antennae 
attain their greatest length, being four 
times as long as the body in the male. 
A. cedilis is found in pine-woods in 
Scotland, and is met with occasionally 
in other parts of Great Britain and 
even in London, where it is sometimes 
introduced in timber. Amongst the 
exotic species of this subfamily, the 
harlequin - beetle (Acrocinus longi- 
manus ) is one of the most remarkable, 
being distinguished, not only by its curiously variegated colours, but also by the 
extraordinary length of the front legs in the male. 
The Bruchidce are a small but widely spread family of little beetles which are 
1, musk-beetle ; '2, Spondylis buprestoides 
(nat. size). 
Toxotus meridianus, male and female (nat. size). 
