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come under the aberrant division of the order, composed 

 of those tribes whose tarsi have almost always less than 

 five joints, all of which, excepting the last, are gene- 

 rally flattened and lobed. Among these, again, we find 

 three natural subdivisions or tribes. The first are the 

 Capricornes, or lignivorous beetles; the most striking 

 character of the perfect insect being the great length of 

 their antennas, which are unusually robust, and gene- 

 rally curved, like those of goat or sheep. The second 

 tribe are the Malacodermes, or soft-winged beetles; 

 whose elytrae are soft, flexible, and often very short. 

 The third and last we shall name the Monilicornes: 

 they are to be known by a short, thick, oval, or hemi- 

 spherical body, with the antennae moniliform. Such 

 are the most prominent or typical distinctions of the 

 five great tribes of coleopterous insects, under which 

 we shall arrange the whole order. Before, however, we 

 proceed to enter more fully into details, it may be as 

 well to throw these characters into a tabular form, and 

 designate the groups in a more scientific manner. 



Primary Divisions and Analogies of the Order 



COLEOPTERA. 



Tribes of the t, ■ , ^.i. . Orders of the 



Coteoptera. typical Characters. Ttilola 



1. Typical. 



Lamellicornes. f Tarsi five-jointed; antennae claOLEPiDOPTERA.' 

 t vate ; herbivorous. J Papitio. 



2. Sub-typical. 

 Fredatores. f Tarsi five-jointed; antennae fili- 7 Hemiptera. 



I form; carnivorous. j Pentatoma'Latr. 



3. Aberrant, 

 Malacodermes. Body particularly soft. f ^^LtbeUiUa'^' 



AIoNiLlcoRNES f Body short, ovate, frequently hid. 7 Coleoptera. 



I den beneath the shell. J Cassida. 



Capricornes C Antennae very long; larva apod, 7 Hymenopteha. 



t enclosed in other substances. J Apis Ichneumon. 



(1770 The Monilicornes, which include the tor- 

 toise and ladybird beetles (or the genera Cassida and 



