Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . prolonged; the smallest beetles known. TricJwpteryx asperaHaldenian. Family Staphylinidae.—Elytra very short; abdomen entirely cor-neous, with 7 or 8 visible segments. Therove-beetles, recognized by their narrow,long bodies and upturned abdomens, areoften minute, living under stones, in ma-nure-heaps, fungi, moss, and in mdpinus Nordm. Family Pselaphidae.—Very small; headand prothorax narrower than the elytraand abdomen, the latter obtuse at ericJtsonii Lee. Family
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . prolonged; the smallest beetles known. TricJwpteryx asperaHaldenian. Family Staphylinidae.—Elytra very short; abdomen entirely cor-neous, with 7 or 8 visible segments. Therove-beetles, recognized by their narrow,long bodies and upturned abdomens, areoften minute, living under stones, in ma-nure-heaps, fungi, moss, and in mdpinus Nordm. Family Pselaphidae.—Very small; headand prothorax narrower than the elytraand abdomen, the latter obtuse at ericJtsonii Lee. Family Scydmaenidae. — Differing fromPselaphids by the long elytra. Scydmcmus ittdi t/CK JjGC* - Family Silphidas.—The burying beetleshave the antenna? clubbed, sometimes near-ly filiform; larvae broad, sides of bodyserrated. NecropJuirus americamis Oliv.,Silpha lapponica Herbst, 8. surinamensisFabr. AdelopshirlusTelik. is a blind cave- Family Leptinidas.—Eyes absent or imperfect. Leptinus testaceusMull, is parasitic on mice, etc.; Leptinillus validits Horn on the 125.— Platypsyllus ofbeaver. — After Le ORDER COLEOPTERA. 113 Family Platypsyllidse.—Body flat, like a cockroach; eyes andmandibles wanting. Platypsyllm castoris Ritsema is, both in its larvaland adult stages, a parasite of the beaver. Family Hydropbilidse.—Body oblong, oval, convex, or hemispheri-
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