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when it has passed into that of a pupa its position is inverted. For 
this observation Ave are indebted to M. Desmarest *. M. Dufour 
has also published some anatomical observations on the male of this 
species. 
A second, the D. ater, Dej,, all black, with the antennae less 
pectinated, is found in Germany. It is figured, as well as a 
third, the rujicollis, discovered by Count Dejean in Dalmatia, 
in a Memoir of M. Audouin — Ann. des Sc. Nat., Aout 1824 — 
which, under the title of “ Recherches anatomiques sur la femelle 
du Drile Jaunatre et sur le male de cette espece,” forms a com- 
plete Monograph of the genus, enriched with excellent figures. 
Both sexes of the remaining Lampyrides of this second division 
are winged, and their maxillary palpi are not much longer than 
those of the labium. They embrace a great part of the genus Can- 
tharis, Lin., or that of Cicindela, Geolf. 
Telephorus, Schceff. — Cantharis, Lin. 
The palpi terminated by a securiform joint ; thorax destitute of 
lateral emarginations. They are carnivorous Insects and run over 
plants. Their stomach is long and transversely rugose ; the intestine 
very short. 
T.fuscus ; Cantharis fusca, L. ; Oliv., Col, 11,26, i, i. From 
five to six lines in length, posterior part of the head, elytra, 
pectus and the greater portion of the legs of a slate-black ; the 
other parts yellowish-red ; a black spot on the thorax. Is fre- 
quently met with in Europe during the spring. The larva is 
almost cylindrical, elongated, soft, of a dead velvet-black, the 
antennae, palpi, and feet yellowish-rufous. The head is squam- 
ous and furnished with stout mandibles. There is a mammilla 
under the twelfth and last annulus, which it uses in crawling. 
It is carnivorous and inhabits moist earth. 
During the winter of certain years in Sweden, and even in 
the mountainous parts of France, these larvae and various other 
species of living Insects have been observed among the snoAv in 
such abundance as to cover a considerable space. 
It has been very rationally supposed that they had been swept 
away and deposited there by those violent gusts of wind which 
uproot and destroy great numbers of trees, particularly Pines 
and Firs. Such is the origin of what is termed a shower of in- 
sects. The species then met with are probably such as appear 
early in the spring. 
T. lividus ; Cantharis livida, L. ; 01iA^, Ib., II, 28. Size and 
form of the preceding; thorax fuscous and immaculate ; elytra 
yellowish ; extremity of the posterior thighs black. On floAvers f . 
* See Ann. des Sc. Nat., Juillet et Aont 1824, and Bullet, de la Soc. Philom., 
Avril 1824. 
X + For the other species, see Schocnherr, Syncu. Insect., II, p. 60, and Panz., 
Ind. Entoin., p. 91. 
