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the family Longicornes) and among the characters given of this family 
we find, “le dessous des trois premiérs articles des tarses garni de 
“* brosses, les second et troisitme en cceur, le quatriéme profondement 
** bilobé,* et un petit renflement ou nodule, simulant un article, 4 l’ori- 
“© gine du dernier ;”’ with the following note upon this last character, 
‘* Les parandres ressemblent parfaitement, sous ce rapport, aux longi- 
“* cornes, et si l’on considérait ce petit nceud comme un veritable article, 
* non seulement cette famille, mais la suivante, appartiendraient a la sec- 
*< tion des pentaméres. II peut bien représenter le quatriéme article de 
*€ ceux-ci; mais, attendu qu’il n’a point demouvement propre, il est censé 
** faire partie du suivant.’”” The characters of the family also include 
** La languette (labium), portée par un menton court et transversal, est 
© ordinairement membraneuse en forme de cceur, échancrée ou bifide, 
* cornée et en segment de cercle trés court et transversal dans d’autres 
«* (Parandrie)’’. 
In the characters which he has given of the genus, after pointing out 
the resemblances between it and the Prionii, we notice the following 
distinguishing characters, “‘ Languette cornée, en forme de segment de 
** cercle trés court, transversal, sans échancrure ni lobes,’’ and “ Tarses, 
«< dont le pénultiéme article légérement bilobé, et dont le dernier, nota- 
** blement plus long que les précédents pris ensemble, offre, entre ses 
** crochets, un petit appendice, avec deux soies au bout.’’+ 
This last character is an interesting one, since it is also found consi- 
derably developed in the Lucanide. It may also be observed in a very 
minute state in Cucujus depressus, and in Spondylis buprestoides (which 
Latreille has overlooked, Régne Animal, Vol. V. p. 106, &c.) but not in 
Prionus coriarius, although there is a very minute rudimentary lobe 
between its claws. But there are other characters than those noticed as 
above by Latreille, either separating this genus from the Prionide, or 
shewing its approach to the Lucanide. The body is smooth and polished, 
the first three joints of the tarsi are cylindric, and not clothed beneath 
with ‘* brosses,” having only a few hairs scattered over them (Tab. Supp. 
* Latreille has here evidently fallen into an error, the first and second joiits 
being “en cceur,” and the third “ profondement bilobé.” 
+ Sec Note E, 
