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near an emargination of the eyes, are simple, filiform, or in- 

 sensibly enlarged towards the end, most frequently and at 

 least partially granose, the last joint being longer than the 

 preceding ones in the males ; the palpi are thicker at the ex- 

 tremity, and the last joint of those of the maxillae is larger, 

 and in the form of a reversed triangle; the thighs border on 

 an oval and are clavate ; the tibiae are elongated and narrow, 

 the two anterior, at least, arcuated ; the penultimate joint of 

 the tarsi is bilobate, and the hooks of the last are neither in- 

 cised nor dentated. 



The species indigenous to France are found in woods, on 

 various plants ; their body is soft, their elytra are flexible, and 

 like the Meloes, the Cantharides, when taken, counterfeit 

 death. 



This tribe is formed of the genus 



Lagria, Fab. Chrysomela y Lin. Cantharis, Geoff. 



Those species, in which the antennae gradually enlarge, and are 

 either wholly or partly almost granose, with the last joint ovoid or 

 oval; in which the head projects but little before, and is prolonged 

 and insensibly rounded behind; and where the thorax is almost cy- 

 lindrical or square, compose our genus Lagria properly so called(l). 



That, which I have named Statyra, consists of species, similar at 

 a first glance to the Agrae, of the family of the carnivorous Penta- 

 merous Coleoptera. Here the antennae are filiform and composed 

 of almost cylindrical joints, the last of which is very long and tapers 

 to a point. The head projects anteriorly, and is strongly and ab- 

 ruptly narrowed behind the eyes. The thorax is longitudinal, oval 

 and truncated at both ends. The sutural extremity of the elytra ter- 

 minates in a tooth or spine(2). 



We refer, with some hesitation, to the same tribe our genus He- 

 MirEPLUS Fam. Nat. du Regne Anim,, p. 398 where the antennae 

 are filiform, almost granose, short and geniculate, with the second 

 and third joints shorter than the following ones; where the body is 

 linear and depressed; the head cordiform, somewhat wider poste- 

 riorly than the thorax; the eyes are entire and oval; the thorax forms 

 a long square, slightly narrowed posteriorly; the elytra are trun- 



(1) See Fabricius, Olivier, Latreille and Schoenherr. 



(2) See Encyc. Method., article Statyre. 



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