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has also observed the larvae and pupae of Scolytus destructor to be 

 infested to a great extent with minute worm-like Oxyurides. 



Amongst the exotic species are to be noticed, the Phloiotribus 

 Oleae, found upon the olives in the south of Europe^ and in which each 

 joint of the funiculus of the antennae is furnished, in the males, with a 

 long bristle ; as well as a remarkable Brazilian Platypus, described by 

 S.S. Saunders, Esq., in the Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. i., in which the 

 basal joint of the antennae is furnished with a long corneous process, 

 pilose at the extremity, which gives the insect the appearance of 

 having four antennae. 



The second subsection, Longicornes or Capricornes Latreille 

 (or EucERATA Wcsliv.), comprises a very numerous assemblage of the 

 largest and most splendid Coleopterous insects, and which are readily 

 distinguished, as their name implies, by the great length of their 

 antennae, which are seldom much shorter, and occasionally several 

 times longer, than the entire body. These organs are generally 

 filiform or setaceous, and simple in both sexes. In a ^cw exotic 

 species they are, however, flabellate or pectinate in the males, or 

 ornamented with brushes of hair. The eyes are often emarginate 

 or reniform {Jig. 43. 14. ]G.), and sometimes completely divided into 



Fig. 43. 



two portions, as in Tetraopes {fig. 43.14.) ; the body elongate, and 

 more or less depressed, with the elytra broader than the thorax, 

 which is trapezKbrm, or narrowed in front ; the head is short {fig. 

 43. 14. 16.), not rostrated, and armed with large and ])owerfLd jaws ; 

 the legs are long, with the thighs often clavate ; the tarsi {fig. \3. 



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