268 INSECTS. COLEOPTEKA. 



L. Italica, Lin. Thorax not covering the whole of the head, trans- 

 verse, reddish ; breast, head, elytra, and abdomen black ; last seg- 

 ments of the body yellowish Both sexes have wings. Inhabits 

 France and Italy Lai. Gen. i. 259. 



Gen. DRILUS, Lat. Ptilinus, Fab. 



Body elongated ; elytra flexible ; head short, almost as broad 

 as the thorax ; antennae separated at the base, pectinated, 

 longer than the thorax, of eleven joints, of which the second 

 is small and rounded ; jaws simple, with four unequal palpi. 



D.flavescens, Lat. Black, slightly hairy; elytra yellowish and flexi- 

 ble. Common in France, on plants Lat. Gen. i. 255. 



Gen. TELEPHORUS, Schaeff. Cantharis, Lin. 

 Body elongated ; palpi terminated by a dolabriform joint ; an- 

 tennae filiform, separated at their base, and inserted near the 

 eyes ; jaws with two lobes and the penult joint of the tarsi 

 bilobed. 



T. fuscus, Lat. Antennae black, with the base light brown ; head 

 black, with the mouth pale brown ; thorax flattened, margined, 

 brownish, with a black spot in the middle; body below slate gray 

 or black. 5 or 6 lines long. Inhabits Europe, in gardens and 

 hedges Shaw, vi. pi. 29. 



The larva of this species is cylindrical, elongated, and of a velvety black, with the 

 palpi and feet reddish-yellow, and has been found during winter in Sweden and the 

 mountainous parts of France in great quantities, supposed to have been carried to 

 these situations by violent storms of wind, which had raised them from their winter 

 burrows. 



Gen. MALTHINTJS, Lat. Necydalis, Geoff. 

 Palpi terminated by an ovoid joint ; head slender behind ; ely- 

 tra shorter than the abdomen in most species. 



M. ruficollis, Lat. Body blackish ; head black ; antennae with the 

 two joints at the base, and the thorax red ; elytra striated ; two 

 yellow spots on the breast; legs fuscous. France Lat. Gen. i. 261. 



TRIBE V. MELYRIDES. 



Body oblong, with the back flat or depressed; mandibles notch- 

 ed or bidentated at their point, narrow and elongated ; palpi 

 filiform and short ; head covered at the base ; joints of the 

 tarsi entire ; thorax almost square, flat, or slightly convex 

 above ; elytra flexible. 



I. Palpi filiform. 



1. Interior but exsertile vesicles at the sides of the thorax and base of the belly. 



Gen. MALACHIUS. 



2. No exsertile vesicles on the sides of the thorax and base of the belly. 



Gen. ZYGIA, MELYRIS, DASYTES. 



II. Maxillary palpi terminated by a larger joint, securiform; antennae perceptibly 

 thicke&t towards their extremity ; first joint of the tarsi very short 

 Gen. PELECOPHORUS, Dejean, (Notoxus Chinensis, Schoenheim.) 



