FAMILY tANTHAIUD.E, CISTELIDjE AND DIAPERID-E. •7 



Genus CANTHARIS (Geofk.). Lvtta ( Fab.). 

 Body narrow ; wings two j elytra elongate ; last joint of the maxillary palpi sulxivate. 



Cantharis cinerea. 

 Insect elongated, narrow, cinereous, and covered with short close-pressed hairs : antennae 

 dark brown. 

 The whole insect has a hoary appearance. 



Cantharis atrata. ( Plate xxv, tig. 6.) 



Insect jet black : legs, lx)dy and thorax shining : elytra rather dull. 



Sometimes I have found great numbers of this insect devouring the flowers of the china 

 aster, in the mouths of August and September. 



Genus MELOE ( Linn.). 

 Wings none : elytra short, lapping witliin ; antenna; various. 



Mkloe angusticollis. 

 Insect steel-blue : head and thorax punctiu'cd ; two ovoid spaces on each side of the 

 thorax, smooth. Elytra sculptured : the two last and part of the third ring of the 

 abdomen naked. 



Cistelidao. 



Genus CISTELA (Fab.). Curvso.mela (Linn.). 

 < Ovate : thorax semicircular; mandibles bifid ; maxillary paljji subsecmiform ' (West- 

 wood). 



CiSTELA BREvis(Say). 

 Brown, widest near the middle : thorax terminated behind and laterally by a sharp angle : 

 elytra i>uuctured and slightly ridged ; legs rather long, and paler than the body. 



Diaperitlac. 



Genus BOLETOPHAGUS (Fad.). Eledona (Lat.). 

 Obtuse, ovate, convex : thorax crenated ; antenna; curved, clubbed and serrated. 



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