486 CLASS INSECTA. 



MOXOCHELES, Illig. 



Do not differ from Hoplia but in their hood, which is in the 

 form of a truncated triangle at its anterior extremity, and in 

 the two hinder feet, the thighs of which are very bulky, and 

 the legs are short, with a strong hooked tooth at their ex- 

 tremity. 



Some Scaraboeidae, very near the last of the preceding 

 section, and which had been at first united with them, in the 

 genus Melolontha, but whose paraglossas, or the two divisions 

 of the tongue, form a projection beyond the superior ex- 

 tremity of the chin, and whose elytra are a little removed 

 from the side of the suture, at their posterior extremity — this 

 end being narrowed into a point, or rounded — compose a fifth 

 section, that of Anthobii. 



The antennae have from nine to ten articulations, of which 

 the last three alone form the knob in the two sexes. The 

 lobe terminating the jaws is often almost membranaceous, 

 silky, in the form of a pencil, coriaceous, and denticulated at 

 the internal edge in the others. The labrum and mandibles 

 are more or less solid, according as these parts are naked, or 

 concealed. These insects live on flowers, or leaves. 



Some have the mandibles and the labrum projecting, and 

 two entire and eqvial hooks on all the tarsi. 



The antennae have ten articulations ; the maxillary palpi 

 are a little thicker towards the end, with the last articulation 

 but little elongated, and truncated. The mandibles ai'e 

 corneous. 



Some of these insects inhabit the North of Africa, and 

 other countries situated on the Mediterranean ; the majority 

 of the others frequent the elevated countries of Western 

 India. 



In some, the first articulation of the knob of the antennae 

 is concave, and emboxcs the others. 



