492 CLASS vin. 



rostrum. Antennas at the base not obtect by the margin of head. 

 Claws of tarsi denticulate. Penultimate joint of tarsi mostly 

 entire, in few bilobed. 



The larvee live for the most part in hollow trunks of trees. The perfect 

 insects are mostly seen on flowers and hedges. Many of them have soft, 

 thin elytra. 



Comp. on this group of beetles SOLIEB Prodrome de la Famille des 

 Xyslropides, Ann. de la Soc. JEntom. iv. 1835, pp. 229 248. 



a) Maxillary palps with last joint large, securiform. (Mandibles 

 often bifid or tridentate at the apex.') 



Mycetochares LATR. (Mycetophila GYLLENH., DEJEAN, species 

 of Cistela FABR.). 



Sp. Mycetochares larbata, Melandrya barbata FABR., STURM Deutschl. 

 Fauna, Ins. n. Tab. 52, PANZER Deutschl. Ins. Heft 105, Tab. 5. 



Allecula FABR. 



b) Maxillary palps filiform, incrassated towards the apex. 

 (Mandibles entire.} 



Cistela FABR. (in part), Cteniopus SOLIER (and Megischia 

 ejusd.). Penultimate joint of tarsi entire. Head protracted before 

 the eyes. 



Sp. Cistela sulphurea FABR., Chrysomela Sulphurea L., PANZER Deutschl. 

 Ins. Heft 106, Tab. 8, Cuv. E. Ani. ed. ill., Ins. PI. 52, fig. 5 ; 4'" long ; 

 the whole body, the elytra and feet sulphur-yellow ; black eyes ; in the 

 middle of summer common on umbellate and other flowers. 



Phalanx V. Helopii LATR. (Helopidce STEPHENS, WEST WOOD). 

 Head not produced into a rostrum. Antennae inserted before the 

 eyes under the exsert margin of head, covered at the base. Claws 

 of tarsi entire. Palps with last joint large, truncated. Penultimate 

 joint of tarsi mostly entire or not deeply bilobed. 



a) Prosternum not produced posteriorly to form a, pointed 

 projection. 



* Body elongate, narrow. 



Strongylium KIRBY (with addition of genus Stenochia ejusd.) 

 Stenotrachelus LATR. 



