INSECTA. 



501 



Mylabris FABE. Antennae short or scarcely of the length of 

 thorax, towards the extremity incrassated gradually into an elon- 

 gate club, arcuate. 



Compare G. J. BILLBERG Monograpliia Mylabridum, Holmise, 1813, 8vo; 

 SCHOENHERR Syn. Ins. i. 3, pp. 3043 ; F. GEBLER Des Mylabrides de 

 la Siberie &c. Nouveaux Mem. de la Soc. impr. de Moscou, i. 1829, pp. 147 

 171. 



Sp. Mylabris cichorii FABR., Meloe Cichorii L., BRANDT u. EATZEB. 

 Mediz, Zool. n. Tab. xvm. fig. 17, from China, East Indies. Other 

 species are often confounded with this, as Mylabris Fuesslini PANZER 

 Deutschl. Ins. Heft 31, Tab. 18, Mylabris variabilis BILLB. &c. 



Lydus MEGERLE (with external claws of tarsi pectinate). Sp. Myldb. 

 trimaculata BILLB., BRANDT u. EATZEB. Med. Zool. n. pp. 126, 127, Tab. 

 xvin. fig. 1 6. 



b) Antennas mith eight or nine joints, clavate at apex, last joint 

 large, oval. 



Hycleus LATE. 



Arithmema CHEVROL. 



Sp. Arithmema decemguttata CHEVR., GUERIN Iconogr., Ins. PI. 35, fig. 2, 

 pp. 131, 132. 



Cerocoma GrEOFFE., SCHJEFF. 



Sp. Cerocoma Schcefferi FABR., Meloe Schcefferi L.,% GEOFFR. Ins., i. PI. 6, 

 fig. 9, SCH^FFER Elem. Entom. Tab. 37, DUMERIL Cons. gen. s. 1. Ins. PI. 

 10, fig. 7, &c. 



Phalanx II. Mordellona (Mordellidce LEACH). Antennae short, 

 often serrated. Elytra hardish. Thorax gibbous. Body com- 

 |>ressed. All the tarsi or those of posterior feet with joints entire, 

 plaws of tarsi mostly bifid, with the superior divisions pectinate. 



inus Mordella L.) 



Ehipiphorus Bosc,, FABE., LATE. Thorax produced posteriorly 

 reen elytra ; scutellum concealed. Elytra abbreviate, or angus- 

 ito-acuminate, dehiscent. Antennae pectinate-serrate, in males 

 labelliform. Palps subfiliform. MaxillaB with external lacinia 

 )ng, linear. 



Sp. Rhipiphorus paradoxus FABR., Mordella paradoxa L., PANZER D. Ins. 

 26, Tab. 14; Rhipiphorus bimaculatus FABR., DUMER. Cons. gen. s. I. 

 Ins. PI. 1 1, fig. 4, &c. Comp. on some new species FISCHER in Bullet, de 

 la Soc. imper. des Natural, de Moscou, iv. 1832, p. 426, Tab. v. 



