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Anaspis, Geoff. — Mordella, Lin. Fab. 



Distinguished from the preceding by the antennre, Avhich are sim- 

 ple, and "gradually enlarge by the "cmargination of the eyes, and by 

 the four anterior tarsi, of which the penultimate joint is bilobate. 

 The hooks of the last arc entire and without sensible indentations *. 



In the fourth tribe, that of the Anthicides, we find the antennae 

 simple or sliglitly serrate, filiform, or a little thicker towards the ex- 

 tremity, most of the joints being nearly obconical and almost similar, 

 with the exception of the last (and sometimes also of the two preceding 

 ones), which is somewhat larger and oval. The maxillary palpi are 

 terminated by a securiform club ; the penultimate joint of the tarsi is 

 bilobate ; the body is narrower before, and the eyes are entire or but 

 slightly emarginated. The thorax is sometimes obovoid, narrowed 

 and truncated posteriorly, sometimes divided into two knots, and at 

 others semicircular. Some of these Insects are found on various 

 plants, but the greater number live on the ground. They run with 

 great quickness. Their larvse are perhaps parasitical. 



They will compose the genus 



NoTOxus, Geoff. 

 ScRAPTiA, Lat. — Serropalpus, Illig.^ 



Which, by the almost semicircular, transversal thorax, the filiform 

 antennae with almost cylindrical joints inserted in a little emargi- 

 nation of the eyes, are easily distinguished from all other Insects 

 of this tribe. Their port is very analogous to that of the Mordellae, 

 Cistelae, &cf. 



Steropes, Stev. — Blastanus, Hoffm. 

 Where the antennae are terminated by three cylindrical joints much 

 longer than the preceding ones %. In 



NoToxus, Geoff. Oliv. — Anthicus, Payk. Fab., 

 Or Notoxus properly so called, where the antennae enlarge insen- 

 sibly, and are almost entirely composed of obconical joints, and 

 where the thorax is obovoid, narrowed, and truncated posteriorly, or 

 divided into two globular points. 



Some species, such as the N. monoceros ; Meloe monoceros, L. ; 

 Oliv., Col., Ill, 51, 1, 2, have a projecting horn on the thorax. 

 The body is two lines in length, of a light fulvous colour, with 

 two points at the base of each elytron, and a transverse band 

 curved towards the suture, black; the horn is dentated. Of 



* Fischer, lb. ; Aiiaspis frontalis, tab. ead., f. 5 ; — lateralis, f. 6 ; — thoracica. f. 

 7 •,—flava, f. 8. 



f Lat., Gener. Crust, et Insect., II, p. 195. 



X Steropes caspius, Stev. Mem. Nat. Mosc, I, 166, x. 9, 10; Fisch., Entomog. 

 Imp. Russ., II, xii, 6 ; Schoeub., Syuou. Insect.; I; ii, 54. 



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