62 Mr. Westwood’s Characters of Amyietes. 
Arr. XV. Characters of the genus of Coleopterous Insects, 
Amydetes of Hoffmansegg, belonging to the Family Lampy- 
ride, and Descriptions of two Species. By J.O.Wustwoon, 
Esq., F.E.S., &c. 
Order. COLEOPTERA. 
Fam. LAMPYRID®. 
(Pentamera, Div. Serricornes, Fam. Sternoxi, Latr.) 
Genus. AMYDETES, Hoff. 
Char. Gen. Corpus elongatum, depressum. 
Caput parvum, sub thorace omnino absconditum, oculis 
magnis lateralibus. ' 
Antenne \ongiores articulis 37, articulo Imo. majori, 2do 
brevi, 3tio. et reliquis brevibus, singulo (in maribustantum?) 
ramulum elongatum apice compressum intus emittente. 
Palpi breves articulo ultimo subsecuriformi. , 
Thorax semiorbicularis marginibus reflexis, angulis posticis 
acutis. 
Scutellum mediocre postic? rotundatum. 
Elytra lineari-elongata depressa mollia, (lineis 4 aut 5 
elevatis fere obsoletis,) abdomine longiora. 
Pedes breves inermes. 
Tarsi articulo 4to minuto bilobato. 
The establishment of genera which appear more closely to connect 
families already nearly allied, (although not of so great interest as the 
establishment of such as Wycteribia, Stylops, &c. connecting groups 
apparently more distant) cannot but be regarded with attention by 
the entomologist, as, tending to confirm the remark of Linneus, that 
** Natura non facit saltus.”’ 
The two insects, which] am about to describe, would, were the an- 
tenne broken off, be placed with the elongated Lampyrides, such as 
Lamp. noctiluca, &c., to the general habit of which they very nearly 
approach. The antenne, however, of such exotic Lampyrides as I have 
examined, are not above eleven jointed, and in each joint there is only one 
point from which the flabella arise; for, in those species, Lamp. Latreillii 
