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MAXIHUUI.ATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Ne. luiida. Mar.sham. — (Ed. Itirida. Steph. Catul. 251. A'b. 2494. 



Dull liluish-grctn, or greenish-blue, the latter colour predominating on tho 

 head : eyes brownish : thorax short, rather broadest in front, with an 

 impression on each side behind the middle, the disc slightly depressed, with 

 three fovea?, thickly rugose-punctate, and slightly pubescent : elytra also 

 thickly rugose-punctate, with two somewhat elevated lines on the disc o{ each, 

 the inner one shortest; body more glossy beneath: head and antenniB 

 greenish-blue. 



Large females have been considered distinct under the nameCEd. Leontodontis. 

 — Si/st. Catal. 251. Ah. 2495. 



Abundant during June and July in grassy places in the south of 

 England, especially near Hertford and Ripley ; found also in Devon 

 and Cornwall. " Wood Ditton."— i?eu. L. Jenyns. " Weston.'' — 

 Rev. A. H. Matthews. " Swansea."— L. W. Dilkvyn, Esq. 



Genus CCCCLX. — GEdemeila, Olivier. 



Antennae setaceous, nearly as long as the body, pubescent ; basal joint stout, 

 subclavate, second minute, ovate, seated obliquely on the apex of the first, 

 the remainder long and slender, gradually decreasing in length to the apex, 

 the terminal one acute. Palpi long, the terminal joint ovate-truncate, the 

 maxillary longest : lahrum transverse-ovate ; mandiblec subtrigonate, bifid 

 at the apex: inentum subquadrate: head nutant, produced in front: eyes 

 prominent: thorax subquadi-ate, narrowed towards the base; the back 

 unequal : elytra elongate, subulate, divaricating : wings exposed : hody 

 sublinear : legs all slender and simple in the females, the posterior in the 

 males pilose, with the femora very much thickened and curved, and the 

 tibiae also incrassated, compressed, bent, angulated above at the base, and 

 terminating at a point within at the apex: tarsi with the penultimate joint 

 bilobed. 



I would restrict the genus CEdemera to such insects as have the 

 antenna pilose, setaceous, nearly as long as the body, composed of 

 cyhndric joints, decreasing in length to the apex ; united to subulated. 

 elytra and a bifid apex to the mandibles ; and in the males to a highly 

 incrassated posterior femur, curved posterior tibiae, with an acute 

 apex, and the tarsi united laterally thereto. The species (which 

 are numerous on the Continent) are generally found upon flowers. 



Sp. 1. cferulea. Viridis aut caerulea,Jlavescenti-sericea, nitida, elytris subulatis, 

 singula lined longitudinali elevata parvaque ahhreviata, interiori, ad basin .• 

 — mas. femo7-ibus posticis clavatis. (Long. corp. 4 — 6.) 



Ne. cserulea. Linne. — Donovan, xvi. pi. 558 ^^N. G. cserult-a. Steph. Caia!. 



250. No. 219i. 



