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of Pimelia, the tenebrio muricatus of Linnaeus, an insect of 

 a different kind. 



Fabricius and Olivier have confounded with the Erodii, 

 insects whose body has the same form, but the first two legs 

 of which are not palmated, and whose antennae thickening 

 insensibly, have their eleventh, or last articulation, very dis- 

 tinct. These species compose the genus Zophosis. The 

 Erodii are found in the sands of the hottest countries of 

 Europe, of Africa, and the western parts of Asia. 



The insects of the sub-genus Tentyria were at first 

 placed by Forskael and Pallas with Tenebrio. They after- 

 wards passed into the genus Pimelia, and then into that of 

 Akis. But they differ from these heteromera by some dis- 

 tinguishing characters. 



The Tentyriae inhabit the sandy countries of the south of 

 Europe, Africa, and Asia, but a small number of their 

 species is known. The pimelia glabra of Olivier, very com- 

 mon in the environs of Marseilles, on the shores of the sea, 

 is of this genus, as well as those which he names Scabrius- 

 cula and Striatula. These are Ahis with Fabricius. 



The domain of the insects of the sub-genus Scaurus is but 

 of small extent, and appears to be confined to the southern 

 countries of Europe, to those of Africa Avhich are situated 

 between the ocean and the Mediterranean, to Egypt and 

 Syria ; so their country appears to be circumscribed by the 

 basin of this internal sea. They live exclusively on the 

 ground, in the sand, among rubbish, or under stones. They 

 sometimes climb along walls. Their walk is heavy, like that 

 of Maps, akis, and tenebrio, and other analogous coleoptera. 

 But a small number of species are known, and some of them 

 differ sexually in their anterior feet. Fabricius in his system 

 of Eleiithe>'ata mentions four, but the third {Sulcatus) should 

 be placed in the genus Aristus, in the family of the carni- 

 vorous coleoptera. The colours can hardly serve to distin- 



