40 ORDER 1. sil P ha * 



Genus VIII. Silpha. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 569. 

 The antenna of the Silphae are fmail at 

 their bafe, and grow infallibly thicker to- 

 wards the end. 



The elytra have a margin^ 

 The head is prominent. 



The thorax is rather flattened^ with a 

 margin. 



Schaeffer has "compofed two genera from the 

 Silphae of our author. The one named Silpha 9 

 containing fuch Linnaean Silphae as have the 

 margins of the head and thorax mod apparent, 

 and the thorax more convex : The other, called 

 Peltis y compofed of thofe in which the margin 

 of the elytra is Ids apparent, and the thorax flat- 

 ter than in the others. 



Geoffrey has arranged feveral pf thofe in feels 

 among his Dermeftides, and of the others has 

 formed the genus Peltis, containing fuch as 

 have the thorax and elytra more flrongly mar- 

 gined, and whofe antennas appear to be be per- 

 foliated. 



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