F.C. Hiti—Antenne of Melve. 137 
Art. XV.—On the Antenna of Melve; by FRANKLIN C. Hit. 
THE antenna of Melée, male, is so peculiar in form that it has 
been described by every coleopterist who has seen it, and ap- 
parently by some who have not. 
This peculiarity consists in a geniculation or hinge involving 
the fifth, sixth and seventh joints. 
The descriptions of this hinge given by European writers vary 
greatly, even to the extent of locating it in different joints and 
different numbers of joints, in the same species, M/. proscarabeus 
eing the one most commonly described, and their drawings 
are equally varied, very few giving any true idea of the struc- 
ture. 
Top view. 
Side view. 
Melée angusticollis ¢. 
Right antenna x 8. 
The American drawings of M. angusticollis which I have 
met with only differ from each other in badness, and the de- 
scriptions are worse than the cuts. In Harris's “ Injurious In- 
sects” the binge is located rightly though badly drawn, and in 
Packard’s “Guide” it is worse drawn and wrongly located, 
while Le Baron in his “ Fourth Report,” in making a copy of 
Packard’s cut, preserves the errors in the antenna, and adds a 
variety of others in the tarsi and abdomen. Both European 
Am. Jour. Sc1.—Tuirp Series, Vou. XXV, No. 146.—Fesrvuary, 1883. 
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