. Elementary entomology . Fig. 199. Water-scavenger beetles [Ilydrophilits sp.), larva, and peculiar egg mass on leaf (After Brehm) Carrion-beetles (Silphidae). Wherever a dead animal 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 {Xccropliorus) 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 b

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. Elementary entomology . Fig. 199. Water-scavenger beetles [Ilydrophilits sp.), larva, and peculiar egg mass on leaf (After Brehm) Carrion-beetles (Silphidae). Wherever a dead animal 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 {Xccropliorus) 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 [Aecrophonis sp.). , , , • , (Slightly enlarged) cies are blackish, marked (After Linviiie and Kelly) with dull red. Their name

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