Tenebrio. COLEOPTERA. 85 



According to Scopoli, the antennae in this 

 genus are always longer than the thorax : he 

 alfo obferves, that many of the Tenebriones 

 very much refemble the Carabi, but are diftin- 

 guifhed by the antennae, and by the lamina at 

 the bafe of the thighs, in the Carabi, which is 

 never found in the Tenebrio ; to which add, 

 that the abdomen of this lad is more oblong, 

 and not fo flat as that of the Carabus ; and 

 that the tarfi of its hind feet have only four arti- 

 culations. 



Geoffroy obferves^that the antennae in fome of 

 the Tenebriones are compofed of long articula- 

 tions, which are throughout of equal fize, in 

 others, of globular, or oblong ones, growing 

 larger towards their extremity, and from this 

 circumftance he has divided them into two fa* 

 milies, in which he is followed by Schaeffer, 



Scopoli has preferred the method of Linnaeus. 



The larvae of the Tenebriones are frequently 

 met with under heaps of weeds, branches of 

 trees and other refufe of gardens ; fome of them 

 Jive under ground, others in meal, neglected 

 and dry bread, &c. The compleat infects are 



F 3 found 



