. Elementary entomology . Fig. 199. Water-scavenger beetles [Ilydrophihis 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 SilpJia are of a . broad, oval shape, much - flattened, with small heads, and feed beneath the car- rion. The burying-beetles I^NecropJionis) are much larger, from an inch to an inch and a half long, with thick, stout, rectangular bodies, and with large .,.,,, ,^ , , heads. The common

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. Elementary entomology . Fig. 199. Water-scavenger beetles [Ilydrophihis 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 SilpJia are of a . broad, oval shape, much - flattened, with small heads, and feed beneath the car- rion. The burying-beetles I^NecropJionis) 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- A burying-beetle {Aecrophomx sp.). ^ (Slightly enlarged) cies are blackish, marked (After Linviiie and Kelly) with dull red. Their name

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