328 CLASS INSFCTA. 



These insects inhabit plants and aquatic situations. 



These have the penultimate articulation of the tarsi bilo- 

 bate. The second and third of the antennae are shorter than 

 the following. 



Elodes, Latreille. Cyphon, Fab. Dej., 



In which the hinder thighs differ little in thickness from 

 the preceding. They constitute the first division of the 

 Cypho7is of Fabricius. 



ScYRTEs, Lat. Cyplion^ Fab. 



The hinder feet of which have the thighs very bulky, and 

 the legs terminated by two strong spurs, one of which being 

 very long, gives to these insects the faculty of leaping. 



The labial palpi are forked. The first articulation of the 

 posterior tarsi is as long as the others taken together. This 

 is his second division. See the catalogue of the collection of 

 M. Dejean. 



Those have the articulations of the tarsi entire. 



Nycteus, Lat. Hamaooohium, Ziegl. Encynetus^ 

 Schiipel. 



In which the third articulation of the antennae is very small, 

 and much shorter than the second and the following, and in 

 which the last are almost grained. The four feet have the 

 legs terminated by two very distinct spurs, with the tarsi 

 long, and more slender towards the end. {Encynetiis 

 hcemorrhoidalis , Germ. Faun. Insect. Europ. V. ii.) 



EuBRiA, Zieg. Dej., 



Which have the antennae a little denticulated, like a saw, 

 with the second articulation very small, the following two the 

 largest of all, and the last a little emarginated at the end, 

 and going in a point. The spurs of the legs are very small, 



