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Stirps 1. — -Antenna of equal thickness, tapering towards their points, 
or subclavate, longer than the thorax, composed of globular or ob- 
conic joints : elytra covering only a part of the abdomen ; short, oval, 
diverging at the suture : wings none : tarsi with all their joints entire. 
Genus 192. MELOE of authors. 
Abdomen very large, generally soft : antenna: various. 
Obs. — Dr. Leach has written an excellent monograph on this genus, 
which will be found in the eleventh volume of the Transactions of 
the Linnean Society, and is illustrated by highly finished figures of 
the species by that celebrated artist and excellent naturalist Mr. 
Sowerby. An enumeration of the species and habitats will be found 
in the calendar. 
Stirps 2. — Antenna: composed of cjflindric or obconic joints, longer 
than the thorax- 
Genus 193. CANTIIARIS. Geoffroy, De Geer, Oliv., Lam., Latr., 
Leach. Meloe. Linn. Lytta. Ti'abr., Marsh. 
Elytra soft, elongate, linear, with the sides somewhat inflexed, the 
back convex, rounded : maxilla with two membranaceous lacinia?, 
the external one acute within, subuncinate : antenna with the first 
joint larger than the others ; the second very short, transverse ; the 
rest obconic, the last ovoid. 
Sp. 1. Canth. vesicatoria, (Spanish fly.) (PI. 4t.fig. 5.) 
Meloe vesicatorius. Linn. Cantharis vesicatoria. De Geer, Geoff., 
Oliv., Latr. Lytta vesicatoria. Marsh., Fabr. 
Inhabits Europe : is found on the ash, but is rare in England : it is 
the common blister-fly of the shops. 
Fain. XXXIV. CEdemiradje. Leach. 
CEdemerites. Latreille. 
Antenna filiform or setaceous : rostrum not very flat, and dilated at its 
extremity : head produced into a kind of rostrum. 
Genus 194. GsDEMERA. Latr., Oliv., Leach. Necydalis. Linn., 
Fabr. Cantharis. Marsh. 
Antenna inserted at the anterior internal margin of the eyes : rostrum 
not elongate : eyes prominent : elytra tubulate : palpi with the last 
joint broader than the penultimate joint. 
Sp. 1. (Edem. ccerulea. 
Necydalis ccerulea. Linn., Fabr. CEdemera ccerulea, Latr., Oliv-, 
Leach. , 
Inhabits Europe on the flowers of umbelliferous plants. 
Genus 195. MYCTERUS. Clairv., Oliv., Leach. RhinomaceR- 
Fabr., Latr. Mylabris. Schaffer. 
Antenna inserted before the eyes on the rostrum : rostrum elongate, 
