Crossword-Solution: STAPHYLINIDAE 13 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

Waterhouse informs me, that of the Harpalidae there are eight or nine species--the forms of the greater number being very peculiar; of Heteromera, four or five species; of Rhyncophora, six or seven; and of the following families one species in each: Staphylinidae, Elateridae, Cebrionidae, Melolonthidae.

Upper figure, male; lower figure, female.] The great mandibles of the male Lucanidae are extremely variable both in size and structure, and in this respect resemble the horns on the head and thorax of many male Lamellicorns and Staphylinidae.

Among these were 4 Longicorns, 2 Caribidae, 7 Staphylinidae, 7 Curculionidae, 2 Copridae, 4 Chrysomelidae, 3 Heteromera, 1 Elates, and 1 Buprestis.

But while some large families, such as the _Staphylinidae_ (rove-beetles) are especially abundant on the great northern continents, becoming scarcer in the tropics, others, the _Cicindelidae_ (tiger-beetles), for example, are most strongly represented in the warmer regions of the earth, and become scarce as the collector journeys far to south or north.

Europe.] The _Staphylinidae_, or rove-beetles--a large family of nearly 10,000 species--may be known by their very short elytra, which cover only two of the abdominal segments, leaving the elongate hind-body with seven or eight exposed, firm terga (figs.