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COLEOPTERA. 
Anthicid^:. 
Head with a neck. Antennae filiform. Pro thorax narrower at the 
hose than the elytra. Claws simple. 
This family includes four sub-families recognised by many authors 
as families. The Pedilince include less than ten species of Macrataria. 
Anthicince. —These are small slender beetles with a distinct resem¬ 
blance to ants , common in grass, and sometimes very abundant. 
They are to be found running actively on grass and plants just 
as ants do, and they appear to be predaceous on small insects and 
Aphides. Nothing is known of their life-history. 
Mons. Maindron obtained 19 species during his tour in India (Ann. 
Soc. Ent., France, 1903, p. 348). Laferte monographed the Anthicince 
in 1848, listing 31 species of Anthicus. Garden’s collections are des¬ 
cribed by Fairmaire and Pic. (Ann. Soc. Ent., Beige, 1894). Formi- 
comus (19 species) and Anthicus (62 species) include the species found 
in the plains (Plate XXI, fig. 6). 
Hylophilince. —Small beetles, less than one-eighth of an inch long 
with the basal two abdominal segments united and four segments 
beyond free. Basal tarsal segment long, penultimate bilobed. These 
small beetles are but little known and their life-histories scarcely at all. 
They are stated to live in dead wood. None have been reared in India 
and only a few collected. 
The most recent monograph (M. Pic. Ann. Soc. Ent., France, 1906, 
p. 190) records Hylobcenus indicus, Pic., and eight species of 
Hylophilus as Indian. 
Scraptiince.—Scraptia pulicaria, Fairm., is the sole recorded species. 
(Edemerid^. 
Head narrowed behind , produced in front into a short rostrum. Antennae 
usually filiform, eleven or twelve jointed. Prothorax narrower than 
the elytra. Penultimate tarsal joint bilobed. 
These are somewhat elongate beetles, of thin integument, found 
on flowers or decaying wood, some diurnal, some nocturnal. So far 
as known, the larvse are feeders in or on wood or decaying timber and 
are occasionally injurious. The beetles resemble Longicorns on the 
one hand, or Malacodermids on the other. Five species are described 
