XHE NISBLER. 4QI 
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Genus XXVIII- — Mordella. 'The Nibhler. 
'X'his genus has the 'antennae filiform, and ferrated ; the 
head bent under the neck ; the palpi clubbed, and oblique- 
ly truncated. The elytra are curvated, or doping down 
towards the tad , and a broad lamina is feated at the bafe 
of the abdomen before the thighs * . There are only fix 
fpecies of the mordella known to naturalifts ; of thefe 
the mordella aculeata is quite black and fmootli. The 
abdomen terminates in a fharp point, and extends a con- 
fiderable length beyond the tips of the elytra. 
The yellow mordella is ofa fmallfixe, and of adavkfhade 
of that colour. The elytra bend downwards at the ex- 
tremity, where they aflame a ferruginous colour : The 
point of the abdomen, which extends beyond them, is of 
an obfctire black. 
Vot. III. 3 E 
* Syftema Nattfra, p. <S8*. 
