!)0'2 CLASS INSECTA. 



Blaps. 



The Blapsides, whose body is in general oblong, with the 

 abdomen embraced laterally by the elytra, which in general 

 become narrow towards the end, and terminate in a point, or 

 like a tail, whose tarsi are nearly alike in both sexes, and are 

 without remarkable dilatation, will form a first division. 



Some have the mentum small, or not occupying in width 

 more than the third of that of the under part of the head, 

 nearly squared or orbicular. 



Here all the legs are slender, without crest or tooth, on the 

 outer side. The corslet is never dilated in front, nor is it 

 heart-shaped, broadly truncated. 



OxuRA, Kirb. 

 Have the body narrow and elongated, the corslet longer than 

 it is wide, ovoid, truncated at both ends, and with the inter- 

 mediate articulations of the antennae long and cylindrical, 

 {Owura setosa, Kirb. Lin. Trans. XII.) 



AcANTHOMERA, Lat. Pimella, Fab. 



Have the corslet nearly orbicular, transversal ; the abdomen 

 nearly globular ; the third articulation of the antennas larger 

 than the following, and cylindrical ; these nearly of that form, 

 and the last three at least granulated.* 



MisoLAMPus, Lat. Plmelia, Herbst. 



The corslet is almost globular, and the abdomen almost 

 ovoid ; the antennae have the third and fourth articulations 

 equal, cylindrical ; the eighth, and the two following a little 



* Pirn, dentipes, Fab , and some other species. The anterior thighs are 

 swollen and indented; the body is very unequal and ashy; the spurs oii 

 the legs are very small. 



