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stumps of trees cast ashore by the sea. When they are deprived 
of their place of shelter, they run away with such rapidity that it 
is very difficult to catch them. In Senegal is found the genus 
Lefflus (Fig. 513), great black Carabici, with fluted elytra. 
Other kindred genera are—Damaster (Fig. 514), remarkable 
for its elongated pointed elytra; Anthia (Fig. 515), which is met 
with in sand in Africa and in India, and whose head is armed in 
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Fig. 513.—Tefflus Megerlei. Fig. 514.—Damaster blaptoides. 
a formidable manner; and Campylocnemis, of which Schreteri 
(Fig. 516), an Australian insect, of a bright black, attains to more 
than an inch and three-quarters in length, and whose short, serrated 
legs enable it to hollow out the ground. There is found on the 
coasts of the south of France a representative of this group in the 
Scarites levigatus (Fig. 517), which conceals itself in a hollow like 
the cricket, and devours everything which comes within its reach. 

