174 SERRICORNIA. [Cortjnetes- 



CORYNETES, Herbst. 



This genus is easily distinguished from the preceding by the loose 

 club of the antennce, of which the penultimate joints are not, or scarcely, 

 transverse, and also by the broader apex of the last joint of the palpi ; 

 it contains about twenty species, which occur in South America, South 

 Africa, the Canary Islands, &c.; four are found in Europe, of which one 

 only is indigenous to Britain. 



C. coeruleus, De G. This species bears n very close superficial 

 resemblance to Necrolria violacea, but may easily be distinguished by 

 the shape of the club of the antennae, longer thorax, and less distinctly 

 and regularly punctured elytra ; it is ^entirely cyaneous, clothed with 

 black villose. pubescence, with the antennae and legs black ; head and 

 thorax sparingly punctured, the latter longer than broad, with the sides 

 rounded and the posterior angles right angles, projecting ; elytra very 

 shining, with somewhat irregular and more or less obsolete rows of 

 larger punctures towards base, almost smooth at apex, and with two 

 raised prominences near scutellum, behind which is a depression ; legs 

 moderately long. L. 3-4 mm. 



About old bones; in carcases, &c. ; local, but occasionally common ; London dis- 

 trict, generally distributed ; Hastings ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Bewdley ; Church 

 Stretton; Hertfordshire; Repton ; Manchester (in drysalters' warehouses); the 

 species appears to be sometimes parasitic on Anobium. 



The species varies considerably in size and punctuation. I have 

 before me a male and female from Dr. Power's collection, the former of 

 which is much smaller than the latter, and has the elytra much more 

 strongly and distinctly punctured, and the thorax plainly aeneous. 



DRILIDJE. 



This family is small in numbers, and but little understood; the 

 difference in the sexes is more striking even than in Lampyris, the 

 female being enormously large in proportion to the male ; as far as is 

 known the former sex is always apterous, but this may not be the case 

 universally ; the antennae are usually very strongly pectinate in the 

 males ; the palpi are often very extraordinary in their structure, and for 

 this reason Mr. Gorham would place the family provisionally near the 

 Limexylonidae ; as a rule they have been placed in close proximity to 

 the Lycidae and Lampyridae. 



DRZX.US, Olivier. 



This genus contains rather more than a dozen species, of which the 

 majority are found in the European region and North Africa ; one, how- 

 ever, has been described from Natal ; the females are apterous and very 



