ORDER COLEOPTERA. 



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a scar; beak variable, never long and slender; antennae geniculate, 



11-jointed. Otiorhynchus sulcntus Fabr. ; En- 

 timus imperialis Forster, the diamond beetle. 



Family Byrsopidae. Tarsi setose; proster- 

 num excavated. Thecesternus humeralis Say; 

 Byrsopages carinatus Mots. 



Family Attelabidae. Beak short and stout, 

 thickened at the end; mandibles stout, pincer- 

 shaped. Attelabus rhois Boh. rolls up an alder- 

 leaf to form a cell for its eggs and larva. 



Family RhyncMtidae. Beak slender; man- 

 dibles flat; toothed on the inner and outer 

 sides. RhyncMtes Ucolor Fabr. , a red weevil 

 living on cultivated and wild roses. 



Family Rhinomaceridae. Labrum distinct; 

 beak as long as the prothorax. Rhinomacer elongatus Lee. 



FIG. 95. Otiorhynchus 

 sulcatus. 



Sub-order 2. Coleoptera genuina. 



Section Heteromera. 



Family Stylopidae. By some authors referred to a distinct "order" 

 (Strepsiptera). In the males, which fly about, the mouth-parts 

 are, except the mandibles and one pair of palpi, atrophied ; the 



Fig. 96. Fig. 97. 



FIG. 9&.Stylops childreni, male, dorsal and side view. 

 FIG. 97. Female, a, iu the abdomen of a bee (Andreiia); b, the same removed. 



pro- and mesothorax are very short, and the elytra reduced to slender 

 club-shaped appendages, while the hind wings are well developed, 

 the metathorax being remarkably large and long, the abdomen being 

 small. The females are wingless, worm-like, with a flattened tri- 



