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216. 

 DASCILLUS CERVINUS. 



Order Coleoptera. Fam. Telephoridae Leach, 



Malacodermi Lat. 

 Type of the Genus Chrysomela cervina Linn. 

 Dascillus Lat. — Atopa Payk., Fab., Gyll. — Cistela Oliv. — Crioceris 

 Marsh. — Chrysomela Linn. — Ptinus DeGeer. 

 Antennas inserted on each side the nasus before the eyes, long, 

 filiform, pubescent, II -join ted; 1st and 2nd joints small, 3rd 

 longer than the 4th, the remainder slightly increasing in length 

 to the last which is as long as the 3rd and subemarginate at the 

 apex (6), 



Labrum tongue-shaped, thick and rigid at the base, membranous 

 and pubescent at the margin (1). 



Mandibles alike, long porrected, slightly bent and lanceolate to- 

 wards the apex, with a tooth on the internal side, veiy much dilated 

 at the base, with a thin submembranous margin at the angle (2). 

 Maxiilce terminated by 2 lobes, the inner and smaller one coria- 

 ceous and pilose, the outer one long, divided into 2 very pilose 

 and membranous lacinise, the internal the broadest and shortest. 

 — Pa/ptlong, filiform, pilose, 4-jointed, basal joint small, 2nd the 

 longest, 3rd about half as long, 4th rather longer and broader 

 wedge-shaped, somewhat obovate-elongate (3). 

 Mentum triangular, anterior margin rounded. Labium elongated, 

 forming two divaricating membranous and pubescent lobes, each 

 being divided into 2 lacinise, the external one the shortest. — Palpi 

 arising from the sides of the lip, shorter than the lobes, triarti- 

 culate, 2 first joints short producing a few long hairs, 3rd almost 

 as long as the other 2, obovate, but truncated a little obliquely 



(4). 

 Head rather small. Eyes small lateral. Thorax broader than the head 

 transverse, narrowed before, sides margined, posterior margin sinuated, 

 the angles acute. Scutellum semiorbicular. Elytra elongate-ovate, 

 convex margined. Wings ample. Tibiae somewhat clavate, with 2 

 spines at the apex. Tarsi a-joinfed, 3 Jirstsubcordate, each producing 

 2 Jleshy lobes beneath, 4th bilobed, membranous at the inner edges, 

 5th slender clavate. Claws bent. Pulvilli very minute (5, afore leg) . 



Cervinus Linn. Faun. Suec. 575. — Payk. Faun. Suec. 2. 116. 



Black, densely clothed with ochraceous depressed pubescence, 

 minutely and thickly punctured ; tips of mandibles, palpi and tarsi, 

 inclining to castaneous : elytra having several lines of irregular 

 and rather strong punctures. 



Cinerea Fab. Ent. Syst. 2. 42. 2. Black ; elytra, antennae and 

 legs dull ferruginous, the whole covered with ochreous pubescence. 

 Cinerea Marsh. Ent. Brit. 220. 3. — Ferruginous, beneath fus- 

 cous, covered with ochreous pubescence. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



