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Sp. Pimelia lipunctata FABR., DUMERIL Cons. g6n. 8. I. Ins. PL 14, fig. 2, 

 Cuv. R. Ani. ed. ill., Ins. PI. 46, fig. i, &c. ; Tenebrio muricatus L., a 

 congeneric species, is often confounded with the preceding. See ScHOEN- 

 HERR Synon. Ins. I. p. 132. 



Note. There is an affinity between this family and the carabici : 

 some genera agree in habitus; thus genus Damaster KOLLAR 

 amongst the Carabici almost presents the form of the Blaptides, 

 but Manticora resembles Pimelia, coronata. The anatomy also 

 proves this affinity, as BLANCHAUD has lately shewn by the investi- 

 gation of the nervous system. Ann. des Sc. Nat. 3ieme Serie v. 

 Zoologie, p. 350. The larvae, however, are altogether different. 



Trachelia. 



Head cordate, abruptly narrowed posteriorly and separated 

 from thorax by a stricture or neck. 



Family LY. Cantharidia (Trachelides LATE., Cantharidii, 

 except Cistelides, BLANCH.). 



Phalanx I. Meloeida (Cantharidice LATR.). Antennae monili- 

 ibrm. Head nutant. Maxillary palps filiform, with last joint 

 scarcely thicker, oval or obovate ; labial palps with last joint 

 Droader, truncated. Elytra soft. Joints of tarsi mostly entire. 

 Jlaws of tarsi bifid. (Genus Meloe L.) 



t Wings none; elytra (at least in females, mostly also in males) 

 abbreviate. 



Meloe FABR. Antennae with eleven joints, filiform, sometimes 

 hicker in the middle, in few subincrassated at the apex. 



Sp. Meloe proscarabceus L., GEOFFROY Hist, des Ins. des env. de Paris, I. 

 Tab. vu. fig. iv., BRANDT u. BATZEBURG Med. Zool. n. Tab. xvi. figs. 

 4, 5 (Meloe tecta HELLW., PANZER Deutsckl. Ins. Heft 10, Tab. 14, male, 

 Meloe punctulata PANZER, ibid. Tab. 16, male); black, commonly glancing 

 into steel-coloured violet, with deeply impressed points on the head and 

 thorax ; this species differs much in size. Comp. on this genus LEACH 

 British species of the genus Meloe, Trans, of the Linn. Soc. Vol. xi. 1815, 

 PP- 35 48, Tab. v. vi., and his Further Observed, with the descr. of 

 six exotic species, ibid. pp. 242 251, Tab. xvm. ; J. F. BRANDT et W. 

 F. ERICHSON Monographia gener. Mel., Nov. Act. Acad. Cces. Leop. Car. 

 xvi. P. i. pp. 101 142, Tab. vin. NEWPORT Nat. Hist. Anat. and 

 Developm. of the Oil-beetle, Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. xx. p. 297, Vol. xxi. P. 2, 

 p. 167. 



ft Body winged. Elytra not shorter than abdomen. 



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