COLEOPTERA. *8t 



as in several others, approximate to the Pentamerous Brachelytra, 

 and some other Coleoptera of the same section, such as the Mastigi 

 and Scydmacni; their liabits are also very different from those of the 

 other Trimera. 



FAMILY I. 



FUNGICOL^. 



In our first family of this section we observe antennae longer than 

 the head and thorax united, an oval body, and a trapezoidal thorax. 

 The maxillary palpi are filiform or a little thicker at the end, but are 

 terminated by a very large and securiform joint. The penultimate 

 joint of the tarsi is always deeply bilobate. 



This family may be reduced to one great genus. 



EUMORPHUS. 



In some the third joint of the antennae is much longer than the 

 preceding and following ones. Such are 



EuMORPHUs, Web. Fab., 

 Or the Eumorphi proper, where the club of the antennae is abrupt, 

 compact, strongly compressed, and in the form of a reversed triangle. 

 The maxillary palpi are filiform, and the two last joints of the labials 

 united form a triangular club. 



They are all peculiar to America and the East Indies *. 



Da PSA, Zieg. 

 Where the club of the antennae is narrow, elongated, and composed 

 of joints, laterally remote, the last of which is almost ovoid f. 



in tlie others the third joint is but little longer than that of the pre- 

 ceding and following ones. 



Several species are indigenous to Europe, and live in the Ly- 

 coperdons, or under the bark of the Birch and some other trees. 



Endomychus, Web. Fab. 

 Where the four palpi are thickest at the extremity ; the three last 

 joints of the antennae are separated laterally, are larger than the pre- 

 ceding ones, and compose a club in the form of a reversed triangle J. 



Lycoperdina, Lat. — Endomychus, Fab. 

 Where tlie maxillary palpi are also filiform ; the last joints of the 

 labials is larger than the preceding ones, and almost ovoid; the 



* See Fab., Oliv.— Col. VI, 99— SchcEah., and Lat. — Gener. Crust, et Insect. 

 Ill, p. 171— but, with the exception of the E. Kirhyanus, which, it appears to me, 

 should be referred to Dapsa. 



t See Catalogue, &c., Dahl. Add the Eumorpus Kirhyanus, Lat., Gener. Crust, et 

 Insect., I, xi, 12. 



: See Lat., Gener. Crust, et Insect., Ill, p. 72 ; Gylleuh., Insect. Suec. ; and 

 the Catalogues of Dahl and Dejean. 



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