Elementary entomology ([c1912]) Elementary entomology elementaryentomo00sand Year: [c1912] 142 ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY entirely on insects, snails, tadpoles, etc. Both middle and hind legs are developed for swimming and are used alternately. FIG. 199. Water-scavenger beetles (Hydrophilns sp.), larva, and peculiar egg mass on leaf (After Brehm) Carrion-beetles (Silphidae). Wherever a dead animal has been left exposed, the carrion- or burying-beetles may be found feeding upon it. The more com- mon carrion-beetles of the genus Silpha are of a broad, oval shape, much flattened, with small heads,
Elementary entomology ([c1912]) Elementary entomology elementaryentomo00sand Year: [c1912] 142 ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY entirely on insects, snails, tadpoles, etc. Both middle and hind legs are developed for swimming and are used alternately. FIG. 199. Water-scavenger beetles (Hydrophilns sp.), larva, and peculiar egg mass on leaf (After Brehm) Carrion-beetles (Silphidae). Wherever a dead animal has been left exposed, the carrion- or burying-beetles may be found feeding upon it. The more com- mon carrion-beetles of the genus Silpha are of a broad, oval shape, much flattened, with small heads, and feed beneath the car- rion. The burying-beetles (Necrophorus] are much larger, from an inch to an inch and a half long, with thick, stout, rectangular bodies, and with large heads. The common spe- FIG. 200. A burymg-beetle (Necrophorus sp.). * (Slightly enlarged) cies are blackish, marked (After Linviiie and Kelly) with dull red. Their name
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