ILLUSTRATIONS 



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TYPICAL SPECIMENS 



COLEOPTERA. 



LYCID^. 



MACROLYCTJS. 



Water/)., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1878, p. 90. 



Antennae compressed, dentate. Eostrum none ; apical joint of the 

 maxillary palpi large, triangular. Claws with a sharp tooth at the 

 apex, scarcely visible in the male, very distinct in the female. 



This genus is at once separated from all the genera of this family 

 by the toothed claws. 



Macrolycus bowringii. 



(Plate I. fig. 1.) 



Waterh., Trans. EjiL Soc, 1878, p. 95. 



Niger, opacus ; thorace coccineo, lateribus reflexis, angulis pos- 

 ticis acutis ; scutello nigro ; elytris basi thorace baud latioribus, 

 postice gradatim ampHatia, coccineis, quadricostatis, costis parum 

 elevatis, interstitiis subtiliter punctulatis. Long. 10 lin. 



Hah. Allahabad (J. C. Bowring, Esq.). 



Antennse three quarters the length of the elytra, compressed, 

 rather broad, strongly dentate. Thorax a little broader than long, 

 in the middle in front rather angular, constricted a little behind the 

 middle, the posterior angles diverging; the anterior and lateral 

 margins broadly reflexed, with a short carina in front, and a carina 



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