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MANDIBULATA. — COLKOl'TERA. 



These insects frequent flowers, and are very active, running about 

 with extreme agiUty, and those of the typical genus jump nimbly : 

 their larvcC subsist upon Avood or upon fungi, sometimes upon honey, 

 as in the llipiphori. The perfect insects of the family may be recog- 

 nized by the arched, compressed, attenuated body, which is furnished 

 with narrow acute elytra ; large cordiform head ; entire penultimate 

 joints of the tarsi, externally incrassated, more or less serrated or 

 pectinated, antennae, &c., and the indigenous species may be thus 

 divided into genera : 



Scutcllum plus minusve distinctum. 



Taisi omnes simplices : . . . . 45G. Mordella. 



anteriores articulo penultimo bilobo : 455. Anaspis. 



nullum aut absconditum :..... 457. Uipiphorus. 



Genus CCCCLV. — Anaspis, Geqffroy. 



Antennce subfiliform, a little thickening towards the tips, the four basal joints 

 svibcylindricj the fourth and following to the tenth turbinate compressed, 

 the apical one ovate. Palpi unequal; maxillary with the terminal joint 

 large, securiform : the labial with the same joint subobtrigonal ; head 

 rounded: eyes sublunate: thorax with the posterior margin nearly- 

 straight : scutellum more or less distinct : elytra sublinear, slightly atte- 

 nuated at the apex : breast produced behind into a broad plate, in 

 which the hinder legs are placed ; the latter larger than the anterior, fur- 

 nished at the apex of the tibia; with long spurs, and with simple tarsi, the 

 four anterior tarsi, with the penultimate joint, bilobed. 



The absence of the process, or style, at the apex of the abdomen, 

 distinguishes this genus from Mordella, exclusively of the diversity 

 in the structure of the antennae, &c. ; these last are a little thickened 

 towards the apex, and are composed of short conic-cylindric joints, 

 and the tarsi of the four anterior legs have the penultimate joint 

 bifid at the apex ; and the posterior tibiae furnished at the extremity 

 with long spurs. 



Sp. 1. frontalis. Nigra, fusco-jmbescens, ore, labro, antennarum hasi pedibusque 

 anticis Jlavescentibus,Jrontis margine aiitico aut Jlavo-testaceo, mas. ; aut rufo- 

 piceo, faem. (Long. corp. 1 J — 2 lin.) 



Mo. frontalis. Linne. — Wood, i. pi. 28. — An. frontalis. Steph. Catal. 248. 

 No. 2464. 



Black, with a very, delicate fuscous pile : mouth, labrum, and in the male the 

 anterior margin of the forehead, more or less broadly, but determinately 

 testaceous-yoWoyi : thorax immaculate : elytra also immaculate, and a little 



