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are furnished with hooks and long, slender hairs with inflated bases. The 

 sliealhs of the antennie are set externally with conical tubercles. 



Adults. The group to which these beetles belong is thus defined by 

 Leconte and Horn : 



" Botly long, convex, rarely rounded or oval, usually metallic, sometimes 

 testaceous or spotted. Plead motlerate, deflexed, front wide, eyes more or 

 less emarginate ; antenn.ie filiform, or slightly thicker externally, usually long; 

 widely separated at base. Prothorax with distinct lateral margin, which is, 

 however, rarely effaced. Pygidium covered by the elytra, which are rounded 

 at tip. Front coxa3 separated by the prosternum, globose, cavities closed 

 behind. Logs moderate, the front ones sometimes elongated ; tarsi broad, 

 the third joint deeply bilobed, claws appendiculate or bifid in our genera." 



Fig. 12. Larval aud pupal characters of Scelodonta ncbulosus, Lee: -1, tip of abdomen of pupa, 

 side view, with anal hook more highly magnified ; B, terminal segments of abdomen of larva. 

 viewed from beneath : C, mandible of larva. 





Ftg. l:j. Larval nntl pupal structures of ColaxpU brutitica, Fab.: .1, antenna^ of larva: B. 

 Inliliini ami inaxillii- <>{ larva; n, hibiuni; 6, labial jialpi: c, maxillary lobe; rf, maxillary iialpi; 

 '', iriiinilibh' of larva; /', labriini of larva; A', terminal abdominal segments of larva, viewed 

 from beneutlj; a, b, ventral tubercles; c, vent (10, II, 12, i:!, indicate the corrcsi)onding seg- 

 ments); F, spines upon the tiTminal alidomiual segments of pupa, viewed from beneath. 



