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in some individuals into a transverse line. The elytra are in 

 like manner shagreen, and have each, including therein the 

 lateral keel, four elevated lines, not at all sensibly toothed, 

 the two innermost of which are the shortest ; the suture is 

 elevated ; Ten. muricatus, of Linnaeus, is different. (Schoenh. 

 Synon. Insect. I. Fab. iii. 9.) 



Another very remarkable species, but peculiar to Upper 

 Egypt, and which is found in the tombs there, is (P. coro- 

 nata, Oliv. ibid. ii. 17) about fifteen lines long, blackish, 

 beset with hair of a reddish brown, with a range of recurved 

 bent spines on the lateral keel of each elytra. 



M. Payraudeau has discovered, in the Island of Corsica, a 

 new species (Payraudii) allied to the first, but with the ab- 

 domen more elongated, with the elytra more decidedly sha- 

 greened, and with the two internal elevated lines nearly 

 effaced. 



Other species (Tkachyderma, Latr.) have the abdomen 

 in proportion narrower, and more elongated, oftentimes very 

 compressed at the sides ; the tarsi long, with the legs, not 

 excepting the two anterior, slender, narrow, and terminating 

 by two small spurs ; these species are in general more from 

 the south than the preceding.* 



A last division of Pimelia (Cryptochyle, Lat.) is com- 

 posed of species whose body is, relatively to the other, shorter, 

 with the mentum covered by the presternum, and the antennae 

 terminating abruptly in a knob, divided into two portions, one 

 formed by the ninth articulation, and the other by the two 

 following confounded together. These species appear to be 

 concentrated in the southern extremity of Africa.-f- 



Under the generic denomination of Erodius, were at first 



* PinieHa longipes, hispida, morbilosa, &c. of Fab.; P. anoviola, of 

 Fischer. 



t Pirn, maculata, minuta, of Fab. For the other species, see Oliv. 

 Schoenherr, and Fischer. 



