72 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA 



Genus CXLII. — Antherophagus, Megerle. 



Antennas scarcely the length of the thorax, rather stout, the basal joint large, 

 subglobose ; the second to the eighth short, transverse, coarctate, of nearly 

 equal length and size, considerably more slender than the basal one or the 

 club, which latter is composed of three large joints, the two first of which are 

 cup-shaped, the apical ovate, acute. Palpi filiform, with the terminal joint 

 obtusely subulated : head suborbicular ; eyes small, globose: thorax with the 

 lateral margins entire ; body oblong-ovate, slightly convex : elytra ovate, en- 

 tire : legs moderate ; tibiae slender at the base ; tarsi simple, five-jointed ; the 

 posterior in one sex quadriarticulate. 



The short transverse coarctate articulations of the antennae, the 

 second to the eighth being of nearly equal length, form, and bulk, 

 at once point out the distinction of this genus from the preceding, 

 as the entire lateral margins to the thorax do from Cryptophagus : 

 — the species are most commonly found upon flowers, whence the 

 name of the genus, * 



Sp. 1. pallens. Ferrugineus subpubescens, thorace transversa rectangulo con- 

 vexiore, capiteque prqfundius punctatis. (Long. corp. 2 — 2^ lin.) 



Te. pallens. Linrie. Martyn C. pi. 39. f. 3.— An. pallens. Steph. Catal. 86. 

 No. 936. 



Ferruginous, somewhat pubescent : head rather coarsely punctate : thorax trans- 

 verse rectangular, rather convex and deeply punctate : elytra rather paler than 

 the thorax : body beneath deep ferruginous : legs rather pale testaceous, with 

 the base of the tibiae fuscous. The opposite sex has the antennae shorter and 

 black, with the base and apex pale, the tibiae black, and the base and the 

 posterior tarsi quadriarticulate. 



This species differs from the following in having the head and thorax more 

 deeply punctured, and the disc of the latter more convex: — the insect is also 

 somewhat less. 



Not common: found occasionally on umbelliferous flowers through- 

 out the metropolitan district : — in a lane at the back of Caen-wood, 

 Hampstead, and at Ripley, I have frequently taken it. " On the 



* Silpha castanea Marsham, erroneously placed in this genus by Mr. Curtis, 

 by copying Gyllenhai's synonyms, is a true Triplax, according to the original 

 specimen contained in the Marshamian collection :— Vide Triplax castanea, 

 subtus. 



