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strong tooth at the base. The front coxae are ovate 
and not exserted, and the posterior approximated. 
The abdomen is composed of five equal free segments ; 
the mandibles have a stout tooth at the base, and 
are slightly toothed before the apex ; the eyes are 
large, round, and prominent ; the antennae eleven- 
jointed with a graduated three -jointed club; and the 
body is rather convex and pubescent. 
The perfect insects are found in the flowers of the 
white-thorn, strawberry, &c. ; and are entirely unlike 
any Dermestes (to which genus they have been con- 
sidered closely allied by many authors) in their habits. 
The larvte, also, do not present the hairs so charac- 
teristic of the larvae of the latter. 
The Cryptophagid.-e have the antenme eleven-jointed 
and clubbed ; the legs far apart, with the anterior coxai 
globose, and the posterior cylindric ; the tarsi either 
five-jointed in both sexes, or with those of the hinder 
legs four-joiuted in the male ; the elytra entire ; and 
the abdomen composed of five segments, all of which 
are free, the first being rather longer than the others. 
The species are all small, mostly oblong or elliptic, 
and generally pubescent. 
Diphyllus, placed usually among the Mycetophagidae, 
differs from the members of that family in its tarsi, 
which have five joints, the fourth being extremely 
small, and in the club of its antennae, which is com- 
posed of two joints. Our single species, lunaius, 
found in fungi on bark in Norfolk, Somersetshire, 
Isle of Wight, &c., is small and dull black, with 
striated elytra, bearing a white crescent-shaped spot 
in the middle. 
The Tehnatophil i have been alternately placed in the 
