70 COLEOPTERA. 



Several other European genera may now be noticed. 



Agapanthia, Serv., includes black species, thickly clothed with 

 yellowish or greyish hair on the antennae, legs, and body. They 

 measure from half an inch to three-quarters of an inch in length, 

 and are numerous in South Europe, where they may be met with 

 on thistles and other flowers. 



Saperda Carcharias, Linn., is a very common insect on the Conti- 

 nent, but much less so in England. It is black, densely clothed 

 with yellowish hair, and the elytra are narrowed towards the tip, 

 and terminate in a short spine. It is more than an inch in length, 

 and frequents willows and poplars. 



Phytcecia, Muls., includes many long, narrow, pubescent species> 

 with comparatively short antennse. Most of them inhabit the Medi- 

 terranean Eegion, but several are found in Northern Europe. They 

 are generally black, with yellowish or reddish down; but some- 

 times more or less of the insect is reddish. They vary in size 

 from a quarter of an inch uj) wards. F. Detrita, Fabr., is a common 

 North African species about an inch long ; it is black, with a 

 broad suffused white line on each of the elytra. 



Tetrojps Prceusta, Oliv., is a black beetle Avith yellowish-brown 

 elytra and legs, the former tipped with black ; it measures nearly 

 a quarter of an inch in length, and is found on the flowers of the 

 plum, etc. It is chiefly remarkable for being the only British 

 Longicorn in which the eyes are divided into two unequal halves 

 by the antennse, so that the insect has really four eyes. 



SECTION XIII.— EupoDA. 



Tarsi generally four-jointed; antennse filiform, generally shorter 

 than the body ; body convex, rounded, or oval ; elytra covering the 

 abdomen ; hind femora often thickened ; habits herbivorous in all 

 stages. 



Family I. — Crioceridce. 



Shape oval; antennse filiform, gradually thickening towards the 

 tip, and inserted near the eyes, at least as long as the head and 

 thorax together; thorax cylindrical, narrower than the elytra; 

 hind legs generally long, with thickened femora. 



Includes four sub-families, Sagrince, Donaciince, Criocerince, and 

 Megalojpodiim. 



