CLAS. I. ELEUT. Meloe: 291 



Maxllla rornea , recta , bifida , truncata . 

 Labittm corneum , emarginatum . 

 yintennd moniliformes , 

 Metamorphosis et victus ignorantur . 

 Species omnes exoticie . 



8r. MELOE Linrt, Geoffr. Fahr. 

 Talpi quatuor , inicquales , filiformes , exirorsum 



sub crassiores . 



anteriores maxillje dorso : 

 posteriores labii medio inscrti ; 

 Mandibula exserta , cornea , arcnata. 

 Maxilla recta , membranacea , bifida . 

 Labium porrectum , corneum , apicc rotunda- 



tum , emarginarum . 

 Antenn& moniliformes : artlculo ultimo setaceo . 

 Larva hexapoda , filiformis , lateribus subpilosis . 

 Vnpa quiescens , mollis . 

 VictHs larv^ et imaginis e follis plantarum . 

 Antennarum arriculus intermedius inierdum dl- 



midiatus . An var. sexus ? 

 I. Meloe corpore violaceo . Fahr. Sp, Ins, i.p. proscaran 



^ij. Linn. Syst, Nat. z, p. 679. 1. Geoffr, bAus . 



Ins, I. p. 577. I. tab, 7. fig. 4. tab. j, 



Cantharis proscarabiZds aptera , violaceo-nlgra , fig. 6. 



Begeer. Ins. 5. p. 3. i. tab. i. fig. i. 

 Habitat in Europas campis aprlcis , arenosls . 

 Imermedius antennarum articulus in mare dimi' 



diatus . 

 Tacta oleum limpidissimum flavicans e poris , et 



prasertim g geniculis pedum exsudat , summe 



dtureticum , quod melle , vel oko mixtum in 



rabie fanina laudatur , Fabr, 



T 1 Ova 



