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CHARACTERS of INSECTS. 



I. COLEOPTERA. Upper wings crujlaceous. 



A. Antenna clavate y thicker t awards the tip. 

 a. Club lamellate. 

 SCARAB^US. Fore-Oianks toothed. 

 Lucanus. Two palpigerous tufts under the lip. 



Synodendron. Jaw i -toothed; lip filiform, palpigerous. 



3. Dermejles, 



6. 

 10. 

 12. 



15- 

 45- 



16. 



8. 

 4- 



11. 



29. 

 24. 



Melyris. 



Byrrhus. 



Silpha. 



Tritoma. 



Hydrophilus. 



Tetratoma, 



■Hifter. 

 Bojlrkhus. 



Anthrenus. 



Nitidula. 



Coccinella. 



Curculio. 



Paufus. 



b. Club perfoliate. 



Head inflecled under the thorax which is flight- 



\y margined. 

 Lip clavate, emarginate. 

 Lip extended, bifid. 

 Thorax and fhells margined. 

 Anterior feelers hatchet-fhaped. 

 Feelers filiform : jaw bifid, horny. 

 Feelers unequal : jaw bifid, membranaceous. 



c. Club /olid or inflated. 

 Head retraclile within the thorax. 

 Head infle&ed under the thorax which is (light- 

 ly margined. 

 Jaw bifid. 



Thorax and fhells margined. 

 Anterior feelers hatchet-fhaped. 

 Snout elongated, horny. 



Antenna? 2-jointed, the club hooked and in- 

 flated. 



28. Brentus, 

 31. Attelabus, 

 <I. Eredius. 



B. Antenna moniliform. 

 Snout elongated, horny, ftraight. 

 Snout elongated, incurved. 

 Lip horny, emarginate. 



55. Staphylinus. 



