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INSECTA. 
M. hipusiulatus ; Cantharis bipustulata, L. ; Panz. Ib., 3. 
Rather smaller, and of a glossy green ; extremity of the elytra 
red*. 
Among the following Melyrides with filiform palpi, and whose 
thorax and abdomen are destitute of retractile vesicles, we will first 
place those the length of whose antennae at least equals that of the 
head and thorax, in which the body is generally straight, elongated, 
and sometimes linear, and the hooks of the tarsi are usually, as in 
Malachius, bordered inferiorly by a membranous appendage. 
Dasytes, Payk. Fab , — Dermestes, Lin. 
D. cisruleus. Fab.; Panz., Faun. Insect. Germ., XCVI, 10. 
Three lines in length ; elongated ; green or bluish ; glossy and 
pilose. Very common near Paris on flowers in the fields. 
D. tres noir, Oliv., Col. II, 21, ii, 28; Dermestes hirtus,'L. 
Somewhat larger and less oblong ; all black and densely pilose ; 
a much stouter and strongly hooked spine at the base of the 
anterior tarsi in one of the two sexes. On the Grasses f. 
Others, the crotchets of whose tarsi are unidentated, like those of 
Dasytes, to which they are closely allied, and rvith which Olivier con- 
founds them, are removed from that subgenus by the antennae being 
shorter than the head and thorax, and having the third joint at least 
double the length of the second. Their body is less elongated, and is 
more solid ; the head is slightly prolonged and narrowed before, and 
the thorax semiorbicular and truncated anteriorly. They have a 
certain degree of resemblance to the Silphae of Linnaeus. Such are 
those which form the 
Zygia, Fab. 
In which the fourth and following joints of the antennae almost 
form an elongated, compressed, and serrated club ; most of the joints 
transversal ; thorax very convex. 
Z. ohlonga. Fab. Found in Spain and Egypt, in the interior 
of houses, and more particularly, according to Count Dejean, in 
granaries. It is also sometimes found in France in the depart- 
ments of the Pyrenees Orientales. A second species has been 
discovered in Nubia. 
Melyris, Fab. 
In Melyris, properly so called, the antennae insensibly enlarge, but 
without forming a cluh ; their joints are less dilated laterally and are 
almost isometrical. The thorax is less convex 
* See op. cit. and Schcenb., Synon. Insect., II, p. 67. 
t For the other species, see Fabricius ; the MMyres oi Olivier, 6 — 17; Panz., 
Ind. Entom. p. 143 ; Lat, Gener. Crust, et Insect. I, p. 264 ; Germ., Insect. Spec. 
Nov. Brazil produces tolerably large ones, some of which form a particular divi- 
sion. 
I M. viridis, Fab. ; Oliv., Col. II, 21, i, i il/. abdominalis, Fab. ; Oliv,, Ib., I, 
7 ; Opatrum granuMum, Fab, ; Coqueb,, Illust. Icon. Insect,, III, xxx, 7. 
