

INSECTA. 497 



Crypticus LATR. Body oval, convex, smooth. Clypeus not 

 emarginate. Antennae of the length of thorax. Tarsi with first 

 joint elongate. 



. Crypticus glaber LATR., Slaps glabra FABB. ; Cuv. R. Ani. 3d. ill. 

 PI. 49, fig. i ; the larva, which is met with in decayed willow- wood, is 

 filiform, cylindrical, and resembles that of Helops BOUCHE, Naturgesch. d. 

 Ins. s. 191. 



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'halanx II. Bla/psida (Bla/psidce STEPHENS, WESTWOOD). 

 Body apterous, with elytra united together. Maxillary palps with 

 last joint larger, securiform or obtrigonal. (Genus Slaps FABR.) 



A. Body oval, short. Thorax, transverse, posteriorly broader, trapezoidal. 

 Elytra with sides little or not at all inflected under abdomen. Tarsi of ante- 

 rior feet in males dilated, often hirsute beneath. 



Pedinus LATR. 



t With clypeus entire : Sub-genus Platyscelis LATREILLE. 



ft With clypeus emarginate: Sub-genera Pedinus DEJ., Isocerus 

 MEGERLE, Pedonocus WATERHOUSE, Eurynotus KIRBY, Heliophilus DEJ., 

 Dendarus MEGERLE, DEJ. Compare LATREILLE in Cuv. R. Ani. sec. ed. 

 v. pp. 19, 20, WATERHOUSE Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. xvi. pp. 

 3 2 36. 



Note. Coleoptera allied to genus Opatrum, but apterous. 



B. Body oblong. Elytra at the sides inflected downwards, posteriorly 

 often produced into an it 



Blaps FABR. (in part). 



Sub-genera : Asida LATH., Scotinus KIRBY, Machla HERBST, 

 Heteroscelis LATR. 



Gonopus LATR. 



Blaps (Blaps and Dila FISCH.), Prosodes ESCHSCH. 



Comp. FISCHER Bullet, de la Soc. des natural, de Moscou, Tom. xvn. 

 1844, PP- IXI IJ 8> Tab. n, Sp. Blaps Icevicollis GEBL. 



Misolampus LATR., Heliofugus GUERIN, Acanthomera LATR,, 

 Oxura KIRBY. 



Sp. Blaps mortisaga FABR., Tenebrio mortisagus L., HOUTTUTN Nat. Hist. 

 i. 10, Tab. 78, fig. 3, PANZER Deutschl. Ins. Heft 3, Tab. 3 ; 10'" or u'" 

 long, dull black ; lives in cellars and other dark places. Some anatomical 

 notices on this species and on Blaps gages FABR. (PANZER Deutschl. Ins. 

 Heft 96, Tab. i, DUMERIL Cons. gtn. s. I. Ins. PI. 14, fig. i) were given 

 by J. F. MECKEL Beitrage z. vergl. Anat. i. i. s. 123 126. 

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