COLEOPTERA. ao 
Wiedemann. These sections however can only be considered as 
established, when the numerous species of the genus Cefonia of 
Fabricius have been particularly studied. 
Those of Europe are provided with a scutellum of an ordinary 
size. Such are the 
C. auraia; Scarabeus auratus, L.; Oliv., Col., I, 6, i. i. 
Nine lines in length; a brilliant golden. green above, cupreous- 
red beneath; white spots on the elytra. Common on flowers 
and frequently on those of the Rose and Elder. 
C. fastuosa, Fab.; Panz., Faun. Insect. Germ., XLI, 16. 
Larger than the aurata; immaculate, uniform, golden-green; 
tarsi bluish. South of France. 
C. stictica; Scarab. sticticus, L.; Panz., lb., 1,4. Five lines 
in length; black, somewhat pilose, with white points; those on 
the venter arranged in two or three lines, according to the sex. 
Very common on thistles *. 
In the second tribe of the Lamellicornes or the LucanipEs, so 
called from the genus Lucanus of Linnzeus, the antennal club is 
composed of leaflets or teeth arranged perpendicularly to its axis 
in the manner of acomb. These organs always consist of ten joints, 
the first of which is usually much the longest. The mandibles are 
always corneous, most commonly salient and larger, and even very 
different inthe males. The maxille, in most of them, are terminated 
by a narrow, elongated and silky lobe; those of others are entirely 
corneous and dentated. The ligula in the greater number is formed 
of two small silky pencils projecting mere or less beyond an almost 
semi-circular or square mentum, The anterior legs are most fre- 
quently elongated, and their tibize dentated along the whole of the 
outer side. The tarsi terminate by two equal and simple hooks with 
a little appendage terminated by two sete between them. The 
elytra cover the whole of the abdomen above. 
We will divide it into two sections, corresponding to the genera 
Lucanus and Passalus of Olivier. 
In the first we find the antenne strongly geniculate, glabrous or 
but slightly pilose; the labrum very small or confounded with the 
epistoma; maxille terminated by a membranous or coriaceous, very 
silky, penicilliform lobe without teeth, or at most with but one; and 
a ligula either entirely concealed or incorporated with the mentum, 
or divided into two narrow, elongated, silky lobes, extending more or 
* See the first division of the Cetonie of Olivier; Latr., Gener. Crust. et In- 
sect., I, iii, p. 126; Schcoenh. Synon,, I, iii, p.112, and Lin. Trans., XIV, with 
respect to the genera, Genuchus, Schizorhina, and Gnathocera, established at the ex- 
pence of that of Cetonia. 
