148 MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 



cylindric and scaly ; with six short legs, and two strong short points at 

 the extremity of the body, which is sparingly clothed with scattered 

 hairs. In this genus we do not find the subcortical habits of the sub- 

 family ; and the lobe of the maxillae, which in the true subcortical spe- 

 cies is elongated and ciliated, for lapping up sap, is here shorter, broader, 

 and the internal lobe developed {fig. 11.8.). This is also the case in 

 Cryptophagus {fig. 12. 7. C. cellaris, 12. 8. its maxillae), which feed in 

 puff balls, in one of which I found a great number of the larvae 

 {fig. 1 2. 6.) in the month of September. They are long, narrow, 

 subconvex, somewhat fleshy, with the sides of the segments with small 

 fleshy tubercles, six short legs, and two distant short points on the 

 last segment of the body. The majority died without undergoing 

 transformation ; but T afterwards found the perfect insect in the 

 crevices of the puff ball in the box in which the larvae had been placed. 

 The larva also agrees with Douche's description of the larva of Cryp- 

 tophagus lycopcrdi {Naturg. p. 91.). The posterior tarsi vary in 

 the sexes {fig. 12. 9. lo.) ; the individuals with 'i-jointed tarsi have 

 been supposed to be females, but from analogy with Cucujus {fig. 12. 

 17. 18.) I apprehend they are tlie males. M. Macquart {Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. vol. xxiii. p. 91.) has described a new species of Cryptophagus 

 (C. bettas), which does much damage in fields of beet-root by de- 

 vouring the plants as soon as they appear above ground. A minute 

 insect evidently belonging to this group, I'emarkable for its apparent 

 blindness and for its terrestrial habits, has recently been described by 

 M. Wesmael under the name of Anommatus terricola (vide Ent. 

 Trans, vol. ii. p. xii.). It is, I believe, a British insect. 



The genus Antherophagus, from its decided affinity with Crypto- 

 phagus, will also most naturally enter the same group. 



The second subfamily Cucujides * (Cucujipes Latr.') is of small 

 extent, evidently very closely allied to Trogosita, which genus, indeed. 



* BiiiLioGR. Refer, to the Cucujides. 



Kirhy, in Zool. Journ. vol. v. (Cliiiidium. ) 

 Westwood, in Zool. Journ. 18. 

 Gutrin and Percheron. Genera des Ins. 

 Perty. Del. Anim., art. Brasilia?. 



Gutrin. Mag. de Zoologie and Iconogr. 11. An. — Ditto, Mag. de Zool. pi. 34. 

 (Calodromus), pi. 24. (Hypoccphalus). 



