174 SERRICORNIA. [ Corynetes 
CORYNETES, Herbst. 
This genus is easily distinguished from the preceding by the loose 
club of the antennz, of which the penultimate joints are not, or scarcely, 
transverse, and also by the broader apex of the last joint of the palpi ; 
it contains about twenty species, which occur in South America, South 
Africa, the Canary Islands, &c.; four are found in Europe, of which one 
only is indigenous to Britain. 
C. coeruleus; De G. This species bears a very close superficial 
resemblance to Necrobia violacea, but may easily be distinguished by 
the shape of the club of the antennz, longer thorax, and less distinctly 
and regularly punctured elytra; it is entirely cyaneous, clothed with 
black villose pubescence, with the antenne and legs black; head and 
thorax sparingly punetured, the latter longer than broad, with the sides 
rounded and the posterior angles right angles, projecting ; elytra very 
shining, with somewhat irregular and more or less obsolete rows of 
larger punctures towards base, almost smooth at apex, and with two 
raised prominences near seutellum, behind which is a depression ; legs 
moderately long. L. 3-4 mm. 
About old bones; in carcases, &c.; local, but occasionally common ; London dis- 
trict, generally distributed; Hastings; Glanvilles Wootton; Bewdley; Church 
Stretton; Hertfordshire; Repton; Manchester (in drysalters’ warehouses); the 
species appears to be sometimes parasitic on Anobiwm. 
The species varies considerably in size and punctuation. I have 
before me a male and female from Dr. Power’s collection, the former of 
which is much smaller than the latter, and has the elytra much more 
strongly and distinctly punctured, and the thorax plainly eneous. 
DRILIDA. 
This family is small in numbers, and but little understood ; the 
difference in the sexes is more striking even than in Lampyris, the 
female being enormously large in proportion to the male ; as far as is 
known the former sex is always apterous, but this may not be the case 
universally ; the antenne are usually very strongly pectinate in the 
males; the palpi are often very extraordinary in their structure, and for 
this reason Mr. Gorham would place the family provisionally near the 
Limexylonide ; as a rule they have been placed in close proximity to 
the Lycide and Lampyride. 
DRILUS, Olivier. 
This genus contains rather more than a dozen species, of which the 
majority are found in the European region and North Africa ; one, how- 
ever, has been described from Natal; the females are apterous and very 
