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BOST RYC HOIDEA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 672 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOST RYC HOIDEA . —This tribe is distinguished from the Malacoderma and allied See also:

groups by the mesothoracic epimera not bounding the coxal cavities of the intermediate legs. The downwardly directed See also:head is covered by the pronotum, and the three terminal antennal segments See also:form a distinct See also:club. To this See also:group belong the Bostrychidae and Ptinidae, well known (especially the latter See also:family) for their ravages in old See also:timber. The larvae are stout and soft-skinned, with See also:short legs in correlation with their burrowing See also:habit. The noises made by some Ptinidae (Anobium) tapping on the walls of their burrows with their mandibles give rise to the See also:death tick " that has for See also:long alarmed the superstitious.

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