COLROPTERA. 485 



Anaspis, Geoff. Mordella, Lin. Fab. 



Distinguished from the preceding by the antennae, which are sim- 

 ple, and gradually enlarge by the emargination of the eyes, and by 

 the four anterior tarsi, of which the penultimate joint is bilobate. 

 The hooks of the last are entire and without sensible indenta- 

 tions^). 



In the fourth tribe, that of the Anthicides, we find the 

 antennae simple or slightly serrate, filiform, or a little thicker 

 towards the extremity, most of the joints being nearly obco- 

 nical and almost similar, with the exception of the last, (and 

 sometimes also of the two preceding ones), which is somewhat 

 larger and oval. The maxillary palpi are terminated by a 

 securiform club ; the penultimate joint of the tarsi is bilobate ; 

 the body is narrower before, and the eyes are entire or but 

 slightly emarginated. The thorax is sometimes obovoid, nar- 

 rowed and truncated posteriorly, sometimes divided into two 

 knots, and at others semicircular. Some of these Insects are 

 found on various plants, but the greater number live on the 

 ground. They run with great quickness. Their larvse are 

 perhaps parasitical. 



They will compose the genus 



Notoxus, Geoff. 



Scraptia, Lat. Serropalpus, Illig. 



Which, by the almost semicircular, transversal thorax, the filiform 

 antennae with almost cylindrical joints inserted in a little emargi- 

 nation of the eyes, are easily distinguished from all other Insects 

 of this tribe. Their port is very analogous to that of the Mordellse, 

 Cistelae, &c.(2) 



lata, abdominalis. See also Fisch., Entomog. Imp. Russ., II, xxxviii, fig-. 3, 4. 

 His genus Ctenopus Ibid, tab. ead., fig. 1 appears to form the transition from 

 the Pelocotoma: to the Mordella:. The antennae are simple; the labrum is bifid; 

 the mandibles are strong and arcuated; the maxillary palpi are very long and 

 almost filiform; all the joints of the tarsi are entire, and the hooks of the last are 

 pectinated. 



(1) Fischer, lb.; Anaspis frontalis, tab. ead., f. 5; lateralis,?. 6; thoracica, f. 

 7; flava, f. 8. 



(2) Lat., Gener. Crust, et Insect, II, p. 195. 



