COLEOPTERA. CI,ERID7E. 261 



The family comprises several distinct type^, of which the G. Mala- 

 chius most nearly approaches the Telephorida; in liabits and general 

 appearances, whilst Dasytes is evidently closely allied to the Cleridae 

 in the structure of its larva. 



The exotic genera are few, and exhibit no remarkable features, with 

 the exception of that which I have proposed for the reception of the 

 Paussus flavicornis Fab. (Megadeuterus Westw.), which has the second 

 joint of the antennae immensely swollen {Jig. 28. 13.), and a singular 

 species of Dasytes from Colombia of large size, for which I am in- 

 debted to M. Gory, in which the elytra of the male are distended into 

 a spherical balloon. In some of the large Brasilian exotic species, 

 which Dejean still retains under the generic name of Dasytes, the 

 tarsal ungues are deeply notched at the tips {fig. 28. 25.), but as 

 the genus was originally proposed for the small European species it 

 will be necessary to form these exotic species into a new genus. 



The sixth family, Clerid^ * Westio., is of small extent, and composed 

 of various insects placed by Linnaeus in his genera Attelabus, Chryso- 



* BiBLioGR. Refer, to the Clerid^. 



Kirhij. Trans. Soc. Linn. Lond. vol. xii. — Ditto, in Zool. Journ. vol. ii. 



Guerin. Iconograph. Regne Animal. Ins. pi. 15. 



Klu(j, in Descr. Ins. Madagascar. 



Griffith. Animal K. Insects, pi. 48. 



Fischer aiid Steven, in Bull. Mosc. 1829. 



Sturm. Catalog. Meiner Ins. Samml. — Ditto, Deutchslands Fauna, vol. xi. 



Germar. Ins. Spec. Nov. 



Perty. Delect. An. Art. Brasilia;. 



Dalman. Anal. Ent. 



BruU6. Exped. Scientif. de Moree. ' '^" 



Say. Amer. Entomol. 



Nov. Act. Soc. Roy. Upsal. — Mem. of the Nat. Hist. Soc. Berlin, vol. v. — Act. 



Holm. 1825. 

 Charpentier. Horaa Ent. t. vi. 

 Hope, in Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol. i. — Ditto in Trans. Ent. London, vol. ii. 



— Ditto in Pettigrcw's Work on Mummies. 



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