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MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 



The first division of the Phytophaga, comprising the single family 

 CaiocERiDiE * Leach, is named by Latreille Eupoda, from the 

 enlarged size of the hind legs in some of the species ; but which, in 

 contradistinction to the other division Cyclica, may more appropri- 

 ately be named Parameca. In these insects the body is more or less 

 oblong (^^. 45. 1. Donacia crassipes ; 45. 8. Crioceris merdigera), 



Fig. 45. 



with the head and thorax narrower than the abdomen ; the antennae 

 are filiform, or slightly thickened towards the tips, and inserted 

 before the eyes, which are prominent, rounded, or but slightly emar- 

 ginate ; the head is immersed, nearly as far as the eyes, in the thorax, 

 which is narrow, cylindrlc, or transversely square. The outer lobe of 

 the maxillee is broad, and not palpiform ; the abdomen is large, com- 

 pared with the other parts of the body, and of an oblong, square, or 



* BiBLioG. Refer, to the CRiocEHiDiE. 

 Kunze. Entomol. Fragmente, Halle, 1818. (Donacia and Zeugophora). 

 Ahrens, in Nova Act. Hall. 1 . 3. 

 Germar. Beitrage zu ein Monogr. Donacia, 8vo. Halle, 1817. Ditto. Nach- 



trag zu Ahrens Monogr. 8vo. Halle, 1817. 

 Hoppe. Enumer. Ins. Elytr. Erlang. Erl. 1795. (Donacia). 

 Kluff, in Entomolog. Monographien ; and in lahrbuclicr der Entomol. vol. i. (Me- 



galopus). 

 Manncrhthn. Observations sur le Megalope, in Mem. Acad. Imp. Scienc. St. 



Petersb. vol. x. 

 Gistl. Faunus No. 2. (Monogr. Megalopus.) 

 Guirin. Icon. R. An. Ins. pi. 47. 

 Ferty. Del. Animal, art. Braz. 



MacLeay, in King's Voyage to Australia. (Megamerus and Carpophagus. ) 

 Griffith. Animal Kingdom Insects. (^Ditto, and Goniopleura, Westwood.) 

 Germar, in Silberm. Rev. Ent. No. 10. (Bracbyscelis). 



