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Some remarJcaUe Forms in Entomology^ 



sented as three-jointed. Mr. Haliday calls them " palpi ?*' 

 and, from analogy, 1 should certainly be inclined to adopfi 

 this denomination. In his observations upon the genus, Mr. 

 Curtis speaks of th^ sexes, but in his description he is silent 

 as to any sexual variation in the antenna?, abdomen, &c. The 

 Stylops tenuicornis of Kirby is evidently, as the specific name 

 at once suggests, the type of this genus, if, indeed, it be not 

 tlie same species as the Elenchus Walker?. When it is re- 

 membered that Mr. Kirby's specimen w^as found in a cobv^^eb, 

 aTlow^ance must be made for his insufficient description, but 

 he expressly notices its small size, slender antennae, and sub- 

 sessile eyes. 



The next memoir to which I purpose directing the attention 

 ©ff the student, is Hagenbach's Description of the Marmolyce 

 phyllbdes [^marmolyce, a hideous spectre, phyllbdes, resembling 

 or abounding in leaves] {Jig, 70^, natural size), a Javanese 



species of Coleoptera belonging to, but totally unlike every 

 known form comprised in, the Linnaean genus Carabus ; and 

 remarkable for its flatness, and the great dilatation and poste- 

 rior production of the sides of the elytra. The insect, indeed, 

 at first sight looks more like a bit of thinly rolled ginger- 

 bread [Italian jumbles], such as we now see in the London 

 biscuit bakers' windows, than an animal. Upwards of thirty 



