ILLUSTRATIONS 



OF 



TYPICAL SPECIMENS 



OF 



COLEOPTERA. 



LYCIDiE. 



MACROLYCUS. 



Waterh., Trans. Eat. Soc, 1878, p. 96. 



Antennae compressed, dentate. Rostrum none ; apical joint of the 

 maxillary palpi largo, triangular. Claws with a sharp tooth at the 

 apex, scarcely visible in the male, very distinct in the female. 



This genus is at once separated from all the genera of this family 

 by the toothed claws. 



Macrolycus bowringii. 



(Plate I. fig. 1.) 



Waterh., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1878, p. 95. 



Niger, opacus ; thorace coccineo, lateribus reflexis, angulis pos- 

 ticis acutis ; scutello nigro ; elytris basi thorace baud latioribus, 

 postice gradatim ampliatis, coccineis, quadricostatis, costis parum 

 elevatis, interstitiis subtiliter punctulatis. Long. 10 lin. 



Hah. Allahabad (J. C. Bowrinr/, Esq.). 



Antennae three quarters the length of the elytra, compressed, 

 rather broad, strongly dentate. Thorax a little broader than long, 

 in the middle in front rather angular, constricted b little behind the 

 middle, the posterior angles diverging; the anterior and la'' 

 margins broadly reflexed, with a short carina in front, and a carina 



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