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includes the trophal characters also. Males and females are much 
alike with no marked sexual characters. Apparently no Indian spe¬ 
cies has been reared and but few larvae 
are known at all. The greater number 
of the species are found in the New 
World; Fowler and Kuhnt have listed 
the family in Genera Insectorum (1909). 
Languriince are represented in India, 
by elongate slender beetles, the elytra 
with metallic blue or green colouring, 
the prothorax dull red or metallic green ; 
they are found on the leaves of plants 
but not apparently in the plains. One 
species (Tetralanguria elongata F.) is very 
Fig. 182.— Tetralanguria 
ELONGATA. 
common in the hills and can be caught in numbers. This genus in 
America contains the “Clover Stem Borer” (T. mozardi, Lac.) a 
minor pest and the Indian species will probably be found to be borers 
in plant stems also. A total of 35 species are described from India, 
wholly hill forest insects. 
Erotylince —A total of 31 species are known, from hill and forest 
localities almost wholly. Amblyopus, Triplax, Aulacochilus, Episcapha 
are the commoner genera. Gorham’s papers on the collections of 
Andrewes should be consulted. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige., 1895, p. 328, 
1903, p. 323.) 
Mycetophagidje. 
Antennce with a two or three-jointed club. Tarsi four-pointed, 
the anterior tarsi three-jointed in males. 
Small beetles of dull colour found in 4 ‘ Mushrooms ’ ’ and under 
the bark of trees. No Indian species are recorded, though several are 
known from Ceylon. 
CocciNELLiDiE. —Ladybird Beetles. 
Tarsi apparently three-jointed, the second joint expanded and 
pubescent. Antennce short, not clubbed. 
These small beetles are most readily recognised by their oval or 
rounded form, and their warning colours which include black, red, 
