THE 
WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
“ENTOJtA QUIDQUID AGO NT NOSTllI EST FA It Ii AGO LIBELL1.” 
Vol. 2. No. 15.] SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1863, 
NOTES FROM LACORDAIRE. 
No. IV. 
now come to M. Lacordaire’s 
second family — the Curabiques 
— where, owing to the great extent 
of the g'enera, and consequently, the 
length of our author’s observations, 
we must endeavour to compress our 
notes even more than we have pre- 
viously done. 
The commencement of the re- 
marks on this family is a discussion 
of the distinctions which separate it 
from the preceding one, and as most 
of our readers, probably, will feel no 
great interest in this, we pass on to 
a consideration of the more detailed 
observations on the g'enera, merely 
extracting one short passage from 
the introduction to the family. 
“ The Gardbiques are distributed 
everywhere. They are, with some 
Curculwnidcs and Ghrysomelines, the 
last Coleoptera to be met with in the 
frozen region of the Pole, or upon 
the summits of high mountaius. 
* * * This great family now 
comprises scarcely less than five or 
six thousand species.” 
M. Lacordaire divides this family 
[Price 2 d. 
into two legions, the first of which 
he describes as having “ the anterior 
legs entire ; their spines, generally, 
both apical.” 
Of the second legion he says — - 
“ Anterior legs more or less notched 
on the inner side. * * * One spine 
of the anterior legs not apical.” * * 
The first legion he divides into 
five tribes, of which he gives the 
following tabulation : — 
I. Mesosternum indistinct, covered 
by the prosternum — Omoqdiron- 
ides. 
II. Mesosternum indistinct. 
A. Spines of the anterior legs, one 
apical, the other not — Elwphrides, 
AA. Both these spines apical. 
B. Prosternum more or less elon- 
gated behind. 
C. First joint of the antennce very 
lono- — Hiletides. 
O 
CC. Antenna) of normal form — - 
Gar abides. 
BB. Prosternum not prologned be- 
hind — Gy c hr ides. 
The first of the above tribes — 
Oinophronides — M. Lacordaire makes 
consistof only one genus — Omophron . 
This genus consists of insects a 
little below middle size, always 
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