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as long as the head; their body is long, narrow, and almost linear. 
The palpi also are more salient. The eyes are entire *. 
Sometimes the head is abruptly narrowed immediately behind the 
eyes. The antenna, inserted near the anterior extremity of their 
internal emargination, are remote at base. The two eminences from 
which they rise are almost confounded in one plane. The thorax is 
almost always smooth or without lateral tubercles, They are the 
Leprura, De). Dahl., 
Or Leptura properly so called. 
In some the thorax is almost plane above, and trapezoidal or coni- 
cal. Of this number are 
L. armata, Gyll.; LZ. calcarata, Fab., the male; L. subspinosa, 
Ejusd., the female; which is very common in summer in the 
woods, on the flowers of the Bramble. The body is elongated 
and black, the elytra are yellow with four transverse black lines, 
the anterior of which is formed by points. The antenne are 
picked in with black and yellow. The posterior tibiee of the 
male are armed with two teeth. 
L. nigra, L.; Oliv., Col., 73, III, 36. Black and glossy, with 
a red abdomen. 
In others, the thorax is much more elevated and rounded, or 
almost globular. Such is 
L. tomentosa, Fab.; Oliv., Ib., II, 13. Black, with a yellowish 
pubescence on the thorax; elytra of the same colour, and the 
extremity black and truncated. Very common in the environs 
of Paris +. 
FAMILY V. 
EUPODA. 
Our fifth family of the tetramerous Coleoptera is composed of In- 
sects, the first of which so closely approach the last Longicornes that 
they were confounded both by Linnzus and Geoffroy, and the last 
are so closely allied to the Chrysomele, the type of the following 
family, that the first of those naturalists places them in that genus. 
The organs of manducation present the same affinities; thus in the 
first, the ligula is membraneous, bifid, or bilobate, as in the Longi- 
cornes; their maxille also greatly resemble those of these latter; but 
* Leptura ceramboides, Kirby, Lin. Trans., XII, xxiii, 11, and some other species 
from Brazil. ; 
+ See the species called rubra, virens, hastata, 2-punctata, scrutellata, &c., and as 
regards the genus, the Catalogues already quoted, the last volume of Gyllenhall’s 
Insect. Suec,, and Olivier, Fabricius, &c. 
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