go ORDER I, Mordelfe. 



Genus XXVIII. Mordella. 

 Linn. Syft. Nat. Pag. 682. 



The antennas of the Meloe are filiform, 

 and fer rated. 



The head is deftedted, or bent under the 

 neck. 



The elytra are curve, or inclined down- 

 wards towards their point. 



The palpi are compreffed, clubbed, and 

 obliquely truncated. 



A broad lamina is ftated at the bafe of 

 the abdomen, before the thighs. 



Sehseffer, defcribing the Mordel. Aculeata, 

 Linn. No. 2, fays, that the thorax of that in- 

 fed, and of the other Mordellas, is convex, and 

 narrower in the fore part than behind, and that 

 the elytra are convex and margined •, which ob- 

 fervations hold good in all the infe&s belonging 

 to this genus, which I have feen. According ta 

 the fame Author, their feet are faltatorii, or 

 made for leaping, 



According 



