62 Mr. Westwood's Characters of Amydetes. 



Art. XV. Characters of the genus of Coleopierovs Insects, 

 Amydetes of Hoffmansegg^ belonging to the Family Lampf/- 

 ridce, and Descriptions of two Species. By J. O. Wkstwood, 

 Esq., F.L.S., ^c. 



Order. Coleoptera. 



Fam. LAMPYRIDiE. 



(Pentamera, Div. Serricornes, Fam. Sternoxi, Latr.) 

 Genus. Amydetes, Hoff. 



Cliar. Gen. Corpus elongatum, depressum. 



Caput parvum, sub thorace omnino absconditum, oculis 



magnis lateralibus. 

 AntenncB longiores articulis 37, ardculo lino, majori, 2do 

 brevi, 3tio. et reliquisbrevibus,singulo (in niariljustantujn?) 

 ramulura elongatum apice compressum intus emittente. 

 Falpi breves articulo ultimo subsecuriformi. 

 Thorax semiorbicularis marginibus reflexis, angulis posticis 



acutis. 

 ScuteUum mediocre posticfe rotundatum. 

 Elytra lineari-elongata depressa mollia, (lineis 4 aut 5 



elevatis fere obsoletis,) abdomine longiora. 

 Pedes breves inermes. 

 Tarsi articulo 4to minuto bilobato. 

 The establishment of genera which appear more closely to connect 

 families already nearly allied, (although not of so great interest as the 

 establishment of such as JVycteribia, Stylops, &c. connecting groups 

 apparently more distant) cannot but be regarded with attention by 

 the entomologist, as, tending to confirm the remark of Linnaeus, that 

 " Natura non facit saltus.'^ 



The two insects, which I am about to describe, would, were the an- 

 tennae broken off, be placed with the elongated Lampyrides, such as 

 Lamp, noctiluca, &c., to the general habit of which they very nearly 

 approach. The antennae, however, of such exotic Lampyrides as I have 

 examined, are not above eleven jointed, and in each joint there is only one 

 point from which the flabella arise; for, in those species. Lamp. LatreilUi 



