. Australian insects. Insects. COLi:OPTERA, 143". Family 14. Fruit Beetles. NITIDULIDAE. These are all small black or brownish beetles that breed and feed upon decaying- vegetable matter, and some are very- partial to ripe fruit. Some have well developed wing covers, but in others these are very short, reminding one of the smaller Eove Beetles, but the club of each antennae consists of three joints, and fewer abdominal segments exposed to Aaew. About eighty species have been described from Australia, chiefly bv Reitter (Verb. Ver. Brilnn, 1S74-75, and other Journals); Murray in his M
. Australian insects. Insects. COLi:OPTERA, 143". Family 14. Fruit Beetles. NITIDULIDAE. These are all small black or brownish beetles that breed and feed upon decaying- vegetable matter, and some are very- partial to ripe fruit. Some have well developed wing covers, but in others these are very short, reminding one of the smaller Eove Beetles, but the club of each antennae consists of three joints, and fewer abdominal segments exposed to Aaew. About eighty species have been described from Australia, chiefly bv Reitter (Verb. Ver. Brilnn, 1S74-75, and other Journals); Murray in his Monograph of the Family; Macleay (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1871); and Blackburn (Trans.* Royal Soc. S. Australia 1891). Brachypeplus binotatus is one of our commonest species, widely distributed over Australia; it is a typical form of the family, about t of an inch in length; of a general dark brown colour, with reddish brown antennae and legs; the Fig- 62-—Pochnd'ms pillstriaius (Macleay). Living' in the seed jjotis of the Kuirajoiig. ("Asricnltural Gazette," ). abbreviated wing covers leaving the abdominal segments exposed, the latter marked with deep orange yellow. Olliff (Agricultural (razette Wales 18i):i) describes and figures this beetle and its larva, which he describes as feeding upon the fungus on the damaged sugar cane. The Genus Carpophilus contains 11 described species, most of which have a wide range over Australia; two are well known about Sydney from their habit of crawling into damaged fruit and feeding round the stone, causing it tO' decay very rapidly; they are also said to cluster round the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Froggatt, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1858-; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS; Tippmann Collection (North Caro
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