398 kANDIBULATA. — GOLEOPTERA. 



Sp. 2. scutellata. Oblonga, rufa, elytris suhstriatis singula macula communi 

 scutellari, punctis duohus pecioreque nigris. (Long. corp. If lin.) 



Ch. scutellata. Fabricius. — Ca. scutellata. Curtis, iii. pi. 144. — Steph. Catal. 

 240. Nv. 2407. 



Oblong, rufous : eyes black : head and thorax immaculate : elytra slightly 

 punctate-striate ; each with a spot adjoining the scutellum at the base, 

 and two other spots, one about the middle of the lateral margin and one 

 behind the middle of the suture, black : breast also black, and base of the 

 abdomen the same ; apex pale : legs pale rufous. 



Not common ; found in Norfolk, and also in " Plaistow-marshes." 

 — A. Cooper, Esq. 



Family LIV.— ENDOMYCHID^, Leach. 



Palpi maxillary filiform, or capitate, with the terminal joint not reniform nor 

 very large : labru?n not longer than broad. Antennae longer than the thorax, 

 slightly incrassate towards the apex : thorax subquadrate, margined : body 

 ovate, glabrous : legs simple : tarsi obscurely tetramerous. 



The insects of this family subsist apparently upon vegetable mat- 

 ter ; those of the genus Endomychus preferring the sap of decaying 

 trees, while the Lycoperdinae attackt, and reside in, fungi. The 

 larvas of the former genus are broad ovate depressed, with six short 

 legs ; and at first sight bear considerable resemblance to that of a 

 glow-worm in its earlier state : those of Lycoperdinae are more elon- 

 gate, but somewhat similar. 



Two genera alone are indigenous ; they may be known from each 

 other by the following simple characters, and from the insects of the 

 foregoing family also by having the antennae elongate and scarcely 

 clavate. 



Palpi maxillares capitati : 420. Endomychus. 



filiformes: 421. Lycoperdina. 



Genus CCCCXX. — Endomychus, Paykul. 



Antcnnce rather short, the first eight joints, excepting the third, which is elon- 

 gate, short subcylindric, the three terminal ones forming an elongate club, 

 of which the first joint, or the nuith from the base, is considerably longer 

 than the eighth, and the terminal joint itself is ovate, with the apex obtuse. 

 Palpi maxillary capitate ; the terminal joint subobtrigonal : mandibles with 

 the apex bifid: head subtrigonate : eyes prominent; thorax short, deeply 



