INSECTA. 497 
Crypticus Latr. Body oval, convex, smooth. Clypeus not 
emarginate. Antennz of the length of thorax. Tarsi with first 
joint elongate. 
Sp. Crypticus glaber Latr., Blaps glabra Fasr.; Cuv. R. Ani. éd. ill. 
Pl. 49, fig. 1; the larva, which is met with in decayed willow-wood, is 
filiform, cylindrical, and resembles that of Helops Boucut, Naturgesch. d. 
Ins. 8. 191. 
Phalanx IH. Blapsida (Blapside Stepnens, Werstwoop). 
Body apterous, with elytra united together. Maxillary palps with 
last joint larger, securiform or obtrigonal. (Genus Blaps F asp.) 
A. Body oval, short. Thorax transverse, posteriorly broader, trapezoidal. 
Elytra with sides little or not at all inflected under abdomen. Tarsi of ante- 
rior feet in males dilated, often hirsute beneath. 
Pedinus LATR. 
+ With clypeus entire: Sub-genus Platyscelis LATREILLE. 
tt With elypeus emarginate: Sub-genera Pedinus Dis., Isocerus 
MEGERLE, Pedonocus WATERHOUSE, Eurynotus Kirpy, Heliophilus Dis., 
Dendarus MEGERLE, Dés. Compare LATREILLE in Ouv. R. Ani. sec. éd. 
V. pp-.19, 20, WaTERHOUSE Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. xvi. pp. 
32—36. 
Note.—Coleoptera allied to genus Opatrum, but apterous. 
B. Body oblong. Elytra at the sides inflected downwards, posteriorly 
often produced into an inflected pointed process. 
Blaps Fawr. (in part). 
Sub-genera: Asida Latr., Scotinus Kirsy, Machla Hersst, 
Heteroscelis LATR. 
Gonopus Latr. 
Blaps (Blaps and Dila Fiscu.), Prosodes Escuscu. 
Comp. Fiscurr Bullet. de la Soc. des natural. de Moscou, Tom. xvu. 
1844, pp. 111—118, Tab. 1, Sp. Blaps levicollis Gust. 
Misolampus Latr., Heliofugus Gu¥rin, Acanthomera Latr., 
Oxwra Kirpy. 
Sp. Blaps mortisaga Fasr., Tenebrio mortisagus L., Hourruyn Nat. Hist. 
I, 10, Tab. 78, fig. 3, Panzer Deutschl. Ins. Heft 3, Tab. 3; 10’ or 11” 
long, dull black ; lives in cellars and other dark places. Some anatomical 
notices on this species and on Blaps gages Far. (PANZER Deutschl. Ins. 
Heft 96, Tab. 1, Dumérin Cons, gén. s. 1. Ins. Pl. 14, fig. 1) were given 
by J. F. Mecxen Bettrige z. vergl. Anat. 1. 2. 8. 123—126, 
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