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hinder pairs, — and of AmphicylUs, four joints to all the 
tarsi. The club of the antennae, also, varies from five 
to three joints. 
Anisotoma cinnamomea (Plate VI., Fig. 3, male), the 
largest of the family, is found in truffles, and by 
sweeping under trees among dead leaves; the species 
of Liodes are not uncommon in the black dust of old 
fungoid growth on trunks of trees, &c., in the north 
of England; and the Agatliidia are conspicuous from 
their habit of rolling themselves up into black shining 
balls. 
The Cholevina are rather small, dull, and finely 
pubescent insects, occurring gregariously in decaying 
animal and vegetable matter ; they differ from the 
Silphina in having the anterior coxal cavities closed 
behind ; their tibiae are not armed with spines on the 
outer side, and their head is short and sunk in the 
thorax. Our species of Choleva (having the antennae 
but little clubbed, and with the eighth joint very small) 
are described in Murray’s monograph of the genus 
Catops (Annals and Magazine of Nat. Hist., July, 1856), 
and the members of the rarer, smaller, and closely 
allied genus Colon (in which the antennae have the 
eighth joint nearly as large as the ninth, and the hinder 
femora of tho males are often very strongly and sharply 
toothed on the lower side) are described by Dr. Kraatz, 
in the Stettin Ent. Zeit., 1850, and also by M. Tournier 
in the French Annales, 1863 : in this genus the front 
tarsi are not always widened in the male. The little 
Adelops is conspicuous from its want of eyes; it has 
but four joints to the anterior tarsi ; it lives in rotten 
vegetable matter, and has been found abundantly in 
