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the maxillae (^fig^ 22. 12. maxilla of Amphicoma Lasserii), are termi- 

 nated by a membranaceous or coriaceous lobe, which is very pilose, 

 forming a small brush, and occasionally furnished with minute 

 teeth, the inner lobe is corneous and dentated, the lower lip is pro- 

 duced into two long membranous brushes {^fig. 22. 13.) ; the body is 

 ovate, depressed, squamose, or pilose ; the elytra do not conceal the 

 extremity of the abdomen, and in many species they do not meet in a 

 straight suture along their whole length. The scutellum is distinct, 

 the legs long, with the posterior femora sometimes incrassated. The 

 tarsi are elongate and spinulose, the anterior ungues equal and simple, 

 the posterior sometimes single, the hind legs are often remarkably 

 dilated and toothed. 



This interesting group of insects is well distinguished from the 

 three preceding families by the more or less membranous structure of 

 the maxilla^, the terminal lobe of which in some genera, as Lichnia 

 and Cratoscelis Erichson, is very much elongated, being in the former 

 of these nearly as long as the body. From the Cetoniida3 the Gla- 

 phyridae are distinguished by their horny mandibles. 



The species of this family are almost exclusively confined to the 

 Old World, those of the typical genera Glaphyrus and Amphicoma 

 appearing to be confined to the Northern Coast of Africa, and other 

 countries bordering upon the Mediterranean and the south western 

 parts of Asia, whilst Anisonyx and the allied genera abound at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, the species being very rarely found within the 

 tropics or in higher latitudes than 45°. They are said by Pallas to 

 frequent flowers, of which they must be enabled to lap up the honey 

 from the structure of the maxillae, whilst the hairiness of their bodies 

 must render them serviceable in effecting the impregnation of plants. 



According to Pallas, as qtioted by Mr. MacLeay, they are chiefly 

 vernal insects, and are found in liliaceous flowers, adding, that it is 

 probable that the larva of one of the species lives on the bulbs of the 

 tulip, giving however no reason for this opinion. 



The tenth, and last family of the Lamellicornes, or the Cetoniid.^i: 

 MacL. (Melitophili Za^r.) is an extensive and brilliant group of insects, 

 having the body oblong-ovate, and depressed {^fig. 22. 14. the common 

 Rose Chafer, Cetonia aurata) ; the antennae 10-jointed (^Jig. 22,19.), 

 the labruni {^Jig. 22. 15. menibanaceous and concealed beneath the 



