444 COLEOPTERA. 



eleven-jointed antenna 1 . wliich are verticillate, with long hairs, 



are inserted at the margin of the front, and the club is long 

 and loosely articulated. The beetles live under the bark 

 of trees and in ants' nests. The larvae are carnivorous, 

 being very active, without ocelli, and with cylindrical 

 bodies, with four-jointed antenna; and long four-jointed 

 legs. Trickopteryx is known by its pubescent body. 

 and laminate posterior coxae. One species is one-third 

 of a line long ; others are still smaller. The larva 



Fi f . u of the E ur0 p ean p. intermedia Gillmeister (Fig. 391, 



enlarged) feeds on Podune. 



Erichson. "A small number of oval or 

 rounded oval, convex, shining insects, constitute this family. 

 They are found on flowers, and sometimes under bark. The 

 elytra have sometimes approximate rows of small punctures, 

 but more usually only a sutural stria. The scutellum is larger 

 than usual, triangular. One of the four genera (Tolyphus) 

 of this family is wanting in our fauna. The other three are 

 separated by the form of the posterior tarsi." (Leconte.) In 

 Phalacrus the anterior and posterior tarsi are of the same 

 length. The larva 1 are vegetable feeders, living in the flowers 

 of composite plants. 



AKI.I; Latreille. This family includes small oval or 

 elliptical, flattened beetles, which are sometimes almost globu- 

 lar. The he;id is suddenly narrowed before the insertion of 

 the antenna?, thus forming a short beak, and the antenna. 1 may 

 be partially retracted into a groove under 

 s-jwifl the eyes. The larva? are both carnivorous 

 *]T V 1 and A-egetable-feeders ; the}' are elongated, 

 -, with two to four-jointed antennae, three ocelli 

 K, on each side, with a flattened hairy body, 

 ending in four small, horny, recurved tuber- 

 cles. The pupa? may be found under the 



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surface of the ground in earth and sawdust. 

 Carpopllllus has the second and third abdominal segments 

 short, while the first, fourth and fifth are longer, and the claws 

 are simple. Ccvrpophilus antiguus .Mels. is a well known spe- 



