INSECTA. 501 
Mylabris Fase. Antenne short or scarcely of the length of 
thorax, towards the extremity incrassated gradually into an elon- 
gate club, arcuate. 
Compare G. J. Brrupera Monographia Mylabridum, Holmiz, 1813, 8vo ; 
ScHOENHERR Syn. Ins. I. 3, pp. 30—433; F. GEBLER Des Mylabrides de 
la Sibérie &e. Nouveaua Mém. de la Soc. impér. de Moscou, I. 1829, pp. 147 
—I7l. 
Sp. Mylabris cichorii Fanr., Meloé Cichori L., BRANDT u. RaAtzEB. 
Mediz, Zool. 1. Tab. xvut, fig. 17, from China, East Indies. Other 
species are often confounded with this, as Mylabris Fuesslini PANZER 
Deutschl. Ins. Heft 31, Tab. 18, Mylabris variabilis Bini. &e. 
Iydus M&GERLE (with external claws of tarsi pectinate). Sp. Mylab. 
trimaculata BituB., BRANDT u. RatzesB. Med. Zool. 1. pp. 126, 127, Tab. 
Xvi. fig. 16. 
b) Antenne mith eight or nine joints, clavate at apex, last joint 
large, oval. 
Hycleus LATR. 
Arithmema CHEVROL. 
Sp. Arithmema decemguttata CHEVR., Guérin Iconogr., Ins. Pl. 35, fig. 2, 
pp. 131, 132. 
Cerocoma GEOFFR., SCH AFF. 
Sp. Cerocoma Schefferi Fasr., Meloé Scheffert L., Grorrr. Ins., 1. Pl. 6, 
fig. 9, ScHZFFER Elem. Entom. Tab. 37, DUMERIL Cons. gén. s. 1. Ins. Pl. 
10, fig. 7, &e. 
Phalanx II. Mordellona (Mordellide Leacn). Antenne short, 
very often serrated. Elytra hardish. Thorax gibbous. Body com- 
pressed. All the tarsi or those of posterior feet with joints entire. 
Claws of tarsi mostly bifid, with the superior divisions pectinate. 
(Genus Mordella L.) 
Rhipiphorus Bosc., Fasr., Latr. Thorax produced posteriorly 
between elytra; scutellum concealed. Elytra abbreviate, or angus- 
tato-acuminate, dehiscent. Antenne pectinato-serrate, in males 
flabelliform. Palps subfiliform. Maxille with external lacinia 
long, linear. 
Sp. Rhipiphorus paradoxus Fasr., Mordella paradoxa L., PANZER D. Ins. 
26, Tab. 14;—Rhipiphorus bimaculatus Fasr., Dumér. Cons. gén. s. l. 
Ins. Pl. 11, fig. 4, &c. Comp. on some new species FiscHer in Bullet. de 
la Soc. impér. des Natural. de Moscou, tv. 1832, p. 426, Tab. v. 
