$8 ORDER I. Meloe. 



derer from its middle towards each each ex- 

 tremity. 



Linnaeus has united with this genus the No- 

 toxus of Geoffroy, remarkable from the horn 

 upon its thorax; V id : Linn. Mel. No. 14. 

 Geoffroy aflerts that its antennas are filiform, 

 which tircumftance mould feem to feparate it 

 from the Meloe, to which, however, our author, 

 who appears very unwilling to multiply the ge- 

 nera of infefts from trivial circumftances, thinks 

 k refembles more than to any other, 



Geoffroy has feparated the Meloe Schtefferi 

 Linn. No. 12, from the other fpecies of our au- 

 thor, on account of its antennae, and has given 

 to it the generkal name of Cerocoma : according 

 to him the antennae of the female are compofed of 

 eleven articulations, the ten firft of which are very 

 ihort, and the eleventh, or exterior one, at 

 lead as long as a third part of the whole an- 

 tenne ? thofe of the male infedt are pe&iniformed 

 and bent fo as to refemble the letter S in fh^pe. 



The fame author has arranged fuch of the 

 Linnsean Meloes as have the thorax fcabrous, 

 or rough, along with his Cantbarides, and has 

 pieferved the generical name of our author to 

 the Mel profcarabuius, No. 1. This infeft he 



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