COLEOPTERA. 73 
Anaspis, Geoffi—Morpetta, Lin. Fab. 
Distinguished from the preceding by the antenne, which are sim- 
ple, and gradually enlarge by the emargination of the eyes, and by 
the four anterior tarsi, of which the penultimate joint is bilobate. 
The hooks of the last are entire and without sensible indentations *. 
In the fourth tribe, that of the AwruicipEs, we find the antennee 
simple or slightly serrate, filiform, or a little thicker towards the ex- 
tremity, most of the joints being nearly obconical and almost similar, 
with the exception of the last (and sometimes also of the two preceding 
ones), which is somewhat larger and oval. The maxillary palpi are 
terminated by a securiform club; the penultimate joint of the tarsi is 
bilobate; the body is narrower before, and the eyes are entire or but 
slightly emarginated. The thorax is sometimes obovoid, narrowed 
and truncated posteriorly, sometimes divided into two knots, and at 
others semicircular. Some of these Insects are found cn various 
plants, but the greater number live on the ground. They run with 
great quickness. ‘Their larvee are perhaps parasitical. 
They will compose the genus 
Nortoxvs, Geoff. 
Scrapria, Lat..-—SERROPALPUS, Tlliq., 
Which, by the almost semicircular, transversal thorax, the filiform 
antenne with almost cylindrical joints inserted in a little emargi- 
nation of the eyes, are easily distinguished from all other Insects 
of this tribe. Their port is very analogous to that of the Mordelle, 
Cistele, &cyt. 
SreRopEs, Stev.—Buasranus, Hoffm. 
Where the antenne are terminated by three cylindrical joints much 
longer than the preceding ones ¢. In 
Norekus, Geoff. Oliv—Antruicus, Payk. Fab., 
Or Notoxus properly so called, where the antenne enlarge insen- 
sibly, and are almost entirely composed of obconical joints, and 
where the thorax is obovoid, narrowed, and truncated posteriorly, or 
divided into two globular points. 
Some species, suchas the V. monoceros ; Meloe monoceros, L.; 
Oliv., Col., III, 51, 1, 2, have a projecting horn on the thorax. 
The body is two lines in length, of a light fulvous colour, with 
two points at the base of each elytron, and a transverse band 
curved towards the suture, black; the horn is dentated. Of 
* Fischer, Ib.; Anaspis frontalis, tab. ead., f. 5 ;—lateralis, f. 6 ;—thoracica. f. 
7 ;—flava, f. 8. 
‘+ Lat., Gener. Crust. et Insect., IT, p. 195. 
t Steropes caspiusy. Stev. Mem. Nat. Mose., I, 166, x. 9, 10; Fisch., Entomog. 
Imp. Russ., II, xii, 6; Schoenh., Synon. Insect., I, ii, 54. 
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