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considered it as a Caral'w;, to which genus it is certainly 

 more nearly related both by habit and habitat than to Ci- 

 cbidela : still, however, it has considerable affinity with 

 the latter genus, and may be regarded as one of the links 

 which connect it with the former. In the Systeina Eleu- 

 theratorum, Fabricius has placed this insect in the genus 

 Drypla, which he adopted from that most accurate ento- 

 mologist M. Latreilie, who in his late work [Hist, not. 

 gcnirale et particuliere des Cn/s faces et Insectes, torn. iii. 

 p. 87) has placed it in the third family {Carahici) of his 

 first Section [Feelers six, all the Tarsi 5-articulale) of his 

 first Order (Coleoptera). Under this it belongs to his 

 Division A, (Celeripedes) , and subdivision Iv (Longipalpati) . 



The most striking circumstances in which this insect 

 diflers from Caralms are its feelers, which instead of being 

 filiform, with the intermediate ones not remarkably more 

 slender than the others, are elongate and subcapitate; the 

 last joint being much larger than the rest, and securiform or 

 Iwtchet-shaped ; and the intermediate ones, which are fili- 

 form, and longer than in Caralms, are much slenderer 

 than the others. The antennas are strikingly distinguished 

 from tliose of every other Caruhiis, by the remarkable 

 length of the first joint. The thorax, though it is rather 

 obcordate, has no margin, and is subcylindrical. The maxillae 

 also are protended, and the eyes very prominent. We shall 

 now give a very particular description of this singular in- 

 sect, that our readers may be better able to judge of its claim 

 to be considered as belonging to a distinct genus. 



Body depressed, blue-green, rather hairy, hairs diverging. 

 Head elongate, very narrow-, covered with iinpressed 

 points. Mouth rufous. Jaws protended, toothless, acu- 

 minate, forcipate at the end. Apex of the valvulce hooked, 

 on the inner side setoso-pectinate. Feelers elongate, ru- 

 fous.. The exteiior, or valvular, consisting of three joints; 

 the first elongate, subelavate; the intermediate snbclavate ; 

 the last large, compressed, nearly triangular : the two last 



