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forms to it a sort of opercle. While the insect is in the 

 larva state, if it retires to the bottom of its habitation, it 

 places itself there in such a manner that the posterior ex- 

 tremity of its body faces the aperture of the shell, but having 

 passed into the nymph state it is turned about in the opposite 

 direction. This observation is owing to M. Desmarest (See 

 " Annales des Sciences Naturelles," January, July and Au- 

 gust, 1824, and the " Bulletin de la Soc. Philm.," April of 

 the same year). M. Leon Dufour has also published some 

 anatomical observations made upon the male of this species. 



There is found in Germany another of them {Ater, Dej.), 

 altogether black, and with antennae less pectinated. It has 

 been figured, as well as a third {rrijicollis), discovered by 

 M. le Comte Dejean, in Dalmatia, in a memoir of M. Au- 

 douin (Annal. des Sciences Nat., August, 1824), which, under 

 the title of Anatomical Researches, on the female of the yel- 

 lowish drilus, and on the male of this species, forms a com- 

 plete monograph of this genus, enriched with excellent 

 figures. 



All the individuals of the other lampyrides of this second 

 division are winged, and their maxillary palpi are not much 

 longer than the labial. They embrace a great portion of the 

 genus Cantharis of Linnaeus, or that of Cicindela of Geof- 

 froy. 



Telephorus, SchoefT. Cantharis, Linnaeus, 



In which the palpi are terminated by an articulation in the 

 form of an axe, and the corslet presents no lateral emargina- 

 tions. They are carnivorous, and run over plants. Their 

 stomach is long, and wrinkled crosswise. Their intestines 

 very short. 



Cantharis fusca, Lin. Oliv. Col. TI. 26, 1, 1. Five or six 

 lines in length. The hinder part of the head, wing-cases, 

 breast, and a great portion of the feet, of a slate black, the 



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