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382. 

 LYMEXYLON NAVALE. 



Order Coleoptera. F^^m. Cantharidas. 



Type of the Genus, Cantliaris navalis Linn. 



Lymexylon Fab., Oliv., Panz., Lat., Curt. — Pterophorus Herb. — 

 Cantharis Linn. 



Antenna inserted before the eyes, rather short very pilose and 

 11-jointed : male with the basal joint curved, 2nd globose, 3rd 

 shorter and slenderer than the 4th which is as long as the 1 st, the 

 remainder subovate-truncate, slightly decreasing in length to the 

 last, which is a little the longest and sub-conic (6) : rather 

 stouter in the female, especially towards the middle, the 3 basal 

 joints being slenderer than the following, the apical one suddenly 

 narrowed from the middle to the apex (6 9). 

 Lahrum transverse-oval, slightly produced in the centre, pilose 

 and ciliated with bristles (1). 



Mandibles trigonate, acute, externally pilose, with a small mem- 

 branous and pubescent margin on the inside (2) : sinuated on 

 the inside in the female, with a membranous pubescent lobe at 

 the middle (2?). 



MaxillcB very minute (3 a, the base) terminated by a rounded 

 and pilose lobe, with a narrower one on the inside (b). Palpi 

 very large, 4-jointed, basal joint minute, 2nd large funnel- 

 shaped, receiving and concealing the basal portion of the 3rd, 

 which produces several large branched appendages, cylindric 

 and wrinkled, clothed with short hairs externally, with very long 

 internally, 4th joint rather small and conical (c) : robust and 

 pilose in the female, 4-jointed, basal joint small, 2nd large, sub- 

 obtrigonate, 3rd cup-shaped, 4th larger than the 2nd ovate- 

 truncate (3 9). 



Mentum very small oblong. Lip short. Palpi pilose, apparently 



attached to scapes, triarticulate, basal joint minute, 3rd the 



largest, globose-ovate (4). Palpi remote in the female, basal 



joint small, 2nd not quite so stout as the apical one which is 



ovate. Lip subtrigonate, the angles rounded and pubescent (4 9 )• 



Male much smaller than the female. Head vertical, suborbicular : neck 



short. Eyes rather small, prominent and pubescent. Thorax small 



oblong, semicylindric. Scutellum rounded. Elytra narrow, subulate, 



divaricating at the apex and shorter than the body. Wings rather 



ample. Abdomen vei-y long, linear, depjressed and ovate at the apex, 



the female having the ovipositor sometimes exserted. Legs slender. 



Thighs compressed, rather short and broad. Tibiae simple. Tarsi 



^-jointed, anterior the shortest, basal joint longer than the 2nd and 



following, which are very pubescent beneath, 5 th the longest and 



slender; in the other feet, the basal joint is the longest. Claws 



small and acute (5). 



Navale Linn. Faun. Suec. 204,718. — Panz. 22.5. fem,. — flavipes 

 Fab. mas.— Panz. 22. 6. Curtis's Guide, Gen. 276*, 1. 

 In the Cabinet of Mr. .J. H. Griesbach. 



