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Teibe CANTHAKINI. 
Maxillary lobes normal in shape ; antennae always 11-jointed, more or 
less compressed, of variable shape, but never with the last joint knobby ; 
prothorax mostly campanulate, but occasionally sub-transverse ; elytra 
broad, sub-depressed (Eletica), or more or less cylindrical; legs long, 
somewhat compressed laterally, tarsi always long, variable in shape ; 
claws usually cleft from apex to base, but there are exceptions in the 
South African species in which moreover the upper part of the said 
claw is always simple. 
Key to the Genera. 
Head not acuminate in front. 
B^. Elytra broad, depressed. 
«3. Antennse short, the joints serrate or strongly serrate inwardly ; 
tarsal joints short, very broadly triangularly incised . . . . Eletica. 
B^ Elytra cylindrical or sub-cylindrical. 
Antennae longer, the joints flabellate inwardly. 
Tarsal joints not triangularly incised Prionotolytta. 
a\ Antennas neither serrate nor flabellate inwardly. 
Antennae very long and greatly compressed ; body dark blue 
or blue-black, pectus with a conspicuous red patch . . . . Cyaneolytta. 
Antennae very long, filiform, mandibles strongly developed, 
vaulted and curving backwards Psalydolytta. 
Antennae long or short, mandibles normal, pubescent or glab- 
rous, pectus without a red patch Cantharis. 
Gen. ELETICA, Lacord., 
Plate XXII., fig. 5a. 
Gen. d. Coleopt., v., 1859, p. 672. 
Mentum transverse, ampliate laterally, with the upper angles rounded, 
and the basal ones sharp, concave, ligula as long as the mentum, membran- 
aceous, so broadly and deeply scooped as to be bi-lobate, labial palps short; 
apical joint cylindrical, implanted on the penultimate which is elongate 
conical ; maxillaB robust, inner lobe broad, densely ciliate pubescent, upper 
lobe sub-spatuliform, also densely ciliate pubescent; maxillary palps short, 
first and second joints of nearly equal length, third shorter, conical, last 
one sub-pyriform ; antennae short, not reaching the shoulders strongly 
compressed, intermediate joints thickly serrate outwardly, more closely 
set in the male than in the female, apical joint slightly coarctate, and 
