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the trophi as described by Gyllenhal, Ins. Suec. 2, p. xiv., this genus 

 most nearly approximates to 



Uleiota, Latr. {Brontes, Fabr.) 

 the type of which is the Br. flavipes of Fabricius. This genus is cha- 

 racterized by the length of its antennae, (the second joint of which is 

 inserted upon the side rather than the apex of the preceding joint, 

 Tab. Supp. XLVi, fig. 4, A), the acuteness of the last joint of its palpi 

 (Ibid. D. & E.), and its labium, which is merely emarginate in front, E. 

 The male of the typical species presents a remarkable character in having 

 the outer side of the mandibles armed with a strong bent hornlike process 

 considerably advanced in front of those organs, (Ibid. C.) . I do not find, 

 from the description of this species, that the antennse of the female are 

 shorter than those of the male ; had they been so, Latreille would 

 doubtless have mentioned the circumstance. 



To this genus evidently belongs an insect, considerably larger than the 

 Ul. Jlavipes, brought by Dr. Horsfield from Java, and now contained in 

 the Museum of the East India Company. Mr. Hope also possesses the 

 same species from New South Wales. The British Museum Cabinet 

 contains another species allied to Ul. flavipes. 



It will not be considered necessary for me further to mention the obvi- 

 ous aflSnity between the last genus and 



Cucujus, Fab., 

 which, as a genus, is characterized by Latreille by the comparative short- 

 ness of its moniliform antennce (Tab. Supp. XLVi, fig. 5, A.), depressed 

 body, truncate palpi (Ibid. D. and E.), and bifid labium (Ibid. E.) Such, 

 indeed, are the characters presented by the large typical species, Cue. de- 

 pressus {sanguinolentns, Linn.,) and clavipes; but the genus, as at present 

 constituted, comprises several distinct forms, to some of which I propose 

 to advert. 



There is, however, another character connected with the typical 

 species, namely, the real formation of the tarsi, which has escaped the 

 notice of Latreille, notwithstanding he has, in the first edition of the 

 R^gne Animal, expressly characterized the tarsi as having all the joints 

 entire, whilst, as belonging to insects placed by him in his division Tetra- 

 mera, it is evident that he must have regarded them as only four-jointed* 



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