49** THE STUDY OF INSECTS. 



The Dascyllids. p. 544 Family Dasc yllid^e. 



The Rhipicerids. p. 544 Family Rhipicerid^e. 



The Click-beetles, p. 544 Family Elaterid^e. 



The Throscids. p. 548 Family Throscid^e. 



The Buprestids. p. 548 Family Buprestid^e. 



The Fire-fly Family, p. 550 Family Lampyrid^e. 



The Malachiids. p. 552 Family Malachiid^e. 



The Checkered-beetles, p. 552 Family Clerid^e. 



The Ptinids. p. 553 Family Ptinid^e. 



The Cupesids. p. 553 Family Cupesid^e. 



The Ship-timber Beetle Family, p. 553. 



Family Lymexylid^e. 



The Ciids. p. 554 Family Ciid^e. 



The Sphindids. p. 554 Family Sphindid^e. 



DDDD. The Lamellicornia (La-mel-li-cor'ni-a) or Lamelli- 

 corn Beetles. — Isomera in which the first ventral abdominal 

 segment is visible for its entire breadth and in which the 

 antennae have a lamellate club. 



The Stag-beetles, p. 554 Family Lucanida.. 



The Scarabaeids. p. 556 Family Scarab^eid^e. 



CC. The Phytophaga (Phy-toph'a-ga). — Isomera in which the 

 fourth and fifth tarsal segments are grown together ; the fourth 

 tarsal segment is. usually very small, and concealed in a notch 

 in the third segment. 

 The Aberrant Long-horned Beetles, p. 566. 



Family Spondylida. 



The Long-horned Beetles, p. 567 Family Cerambycida:. 



The Leaf -beetles, p. 574 Family Chrysomelida. 



The Pea-weevil Family, p. 581 Family BRUCHID.E. 



BB. The Heteromera (Het-e-rom'e-ra) or Heteromerous Beetles. 

 — Typical Coleoptera in which the fore and middle tarsi are five- 

 jointed, and the hind tarsi four-jointed. 



The Darkling Beetles, p. 582 Family Tenebrionida:. 



The iEgialitids. p. 584 Family ^Egi alitida:. 



The Cistelids. p. 584 Family CiSTELlD^E. 



The Othniids. p. 584 Family Othniid^e. 



The Lagriids. p. 584 Family Lagriid^e. 



The Monommids. p. 584 Family Monommid/E. 



• The Melandryids. p. 585 Family Melandryid^e. 



The Pythids. p. 585 Family PyThid^e. 



The CEdemerids. p. 585 Family CEdemerida:. 



The Cephaloids. p. 585 Family Cephaloid^e. 



