COLEOPTERA. Af 



MisoLAMPUs, Lat. — PiMELiA, Herbst. 



Where the thorax is ahnost globular and the abdomen nearly ovoid; 

 the third and fourth joints of the antenna3 are equal, and cylindrical, 

 the eighth and two following ones a little stouter, almost turbiniform, 

 and the eleventh or last larger and ovoid*. In 



Blaps, Fab., 



Or Blaps properly so called, the thorax is almost square and plane, 

 or but slightly convex. The abdomen is oval, truncated transversely 

 at base, and more or less elongated. The elytra of most of them are 

 narrowed and prolonged into a point, those of the males especially. 

 The third joint of the antennee is cylindrical and much longer than 

 the following ones; the latter, or at least the three antepenultimate 

 ones, are granose ; the last is ovoid and short. 



With those species in which the body and abdomen are propor- 

 tionally less elongated and wider, in which the elytra of the females 

 terminate in a very short point, and where the thorax is almost plane, 

 are arranged the 



B. morlisaga, Oliv., Col., Ill, 60, 1,2, 6; Tenebrio mortisaga, 

 L. Length, ten lines; black, but slightly lustrous; smooth; 

 simply punctured above; thorax almost square, offering on each 

 side of its posterior margin vestiges of a small flattened border; 

 extremity of the elytra forming a short and obtuse point. In 

 dark and filthy localities near privies, and frequently in houses. 



B. Icevigata, Fab. This species might constitute a particular 

 subgenus. Its body is much shorter than that of the others, and 

 extremely convex or gibbous. The antennae are granose from 

 the fourth joint. The anterior tibiae terminate in a stout point 

 or spine formed by a spur. 



It is stated by Fabric! us that the Turkish women inhabiting 

 Egypt, where the Insect is very common, eat the Blaps sulcata, 

 cooked with butter, in order to become fat. The same author 

 also says that it is used as a remedy for the head-ach, and the 

 sting of a Scorpion f . 



There, all the tibiae are angular with longitudinal ridges; the two 

 anterior are wider and strongly dentated exteriorly. 'I'he thorax is 

 dilated anteriorly, cordiform, and widely truncated. 



Goxopus, Lat. 



The third joint of the antennae is elongated and cylindrical as well 

 as the two or three following ones; those which succeed are granose; 

 the last is ovoid and somewhat longer than the penultimate. The 

 anterior margin of the head is concave, and the mentum forms a 



* Lat., Gener. Crust, ct Insect., 11, p. 160, and I, x, 8, PimeKa gihhula, Herbst., 

 Col., VIII, exx, 7. 



t The Blaps gages, sulcata of Fabricius. See the Catal. de la Coll., &c., of Count 

 Dejean. 



