Cantharis. COLEOPTERA. y X 



Geoffroy has given the generlcal name of G- 

 cindela to fuch of the Linnaean Cantharides as he 

 has defcribed. He differs from Linnaeus in his 

 opinion of the form of the antennae \ which, ac- 

 cording to him, are filiform rather than feta- 

 ceous. 



His Pyrochroa is a Linnaean Cantharis, with 

 peclinated antennae. The generical name of 

 Cantharis he has given to the winged Meloes of 

 Linnaeus, or thofe of his fecond fed ion. 



Schaeffer has given the generical name of Tele- 

 phorus to fome Linnaean Cantharides, which dif- 

 fer from the others in the number of the articula- 

 tions of which their tarfi are compofed. He has 

 placed others of them* in which the antennae are 

 feated in the eyes, and the thorax flat, with a lefs 

 perceptible margin than in the others, among 

 his Lepturae, 



The larva of the Cantharis was almoft un-v 

 known to Linnaeus, and wholly fo to Geoffroy, 

 My ingenious friend Mr. Curtis has lately difco- 

 vered it, andobferved the metamorphofis of fome 

 of them ; they refemble thofe of the Cerambyx, 

 and were found in the decayed trunk of a willow* 



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