70 ORDER L Cantharls. 



Genus XX. Cantharis. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 647. 



The antenna of the Cantharis are feta^ 

 ipeous. 



The thorax is margined, and Shorter than 

 the head. 



The elytra are flexible. 



The fides of the abdomen are edged with 

 papillae, or appendices, folded upwards, as 

 in the preceding genus. 



The Cantharides are divided into two 

 fedtions ; the firft distinguished by the flat- 

 nefs and breadth of the thorax, which 

 part in the other is rounded on the fides and 

 narrower. 



Scopoli, who defcribes under the fame gene- 

 ric title fuch of the Linnaean Cantharides as he 

 had found in his country, and which all belong 

 to the firft fedlion of our author, obfcrves, that 

 the thorax, under which a part of the head is 

 concealed, is pf a convex form, 



Geoffroy 



