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pectinated antennae, particularly the males ; head 

 somewhat heart-shaped, and united vertically to 

 the prothorax ; fore wings flexible, wide at the 

 base, narrow at the apex ; hind wings mostly 

 without the longitudinal fold. Inhabits flowers ; 

 diumal, flies and runs with rapidity and ease. 

 Orchesia, Anaspis, Mordella, Ripiphorus. 



741. Soldier -beetles {Pyrochroites). Larva 

 more depressed ; head as wide as the prothorax ; 

 paratelum the largest segment ; telum corneous, 

 and produced into two spines. Inhabits and 

 feeds on decaying wood. Pupa changes in the 

 same situations, or in the ground. Imago, with 

 long pectinated antennx ; head exserted, trian- 

 gular, and porrected horizontally, narrower than 

 the prothorax ; fore wings soft, flexible, brilliant 

 red ; diumal, flying readily in the sunshine. 

 Pyrochroa, 



742. Blister-beetles, &c. (Cant/iantes). Larva 

 and pupa unknown, supposed in some instances 

 to be parasitical. Imago with moniliforra an- 

 tennae incrassated about the middle ; head larger 

 than the prothorax, to which it is attached ver- 

 tically ; fore wings short, their margins crossing 

 each other, flexible ; hind wings often wanting ; 

 tarsi with the terminal claws double. Meloe, 

 Cantharis, 



743. Flower-beetles {Anthkites). Larva and 

 pupa in decayed wood. Imago with filiform 

 antennae sometimes slightly serrated ; elongate 



