The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ts, supposed to have been raised and transportedthither by violent gales of wind, whence the origin of insect rain, phiie , Meg., has the thorax notched at the sides behind. .S. spinicollix, Charp. Malthinus, Latr., has the palpi terminated by an ovoid joint, and the elytra are shorter than the abdomen. Tliespecies are vei7 small, and are found upon plants. The tliird tribe of the Malacodermi, or the MeljTides, has the palpi generally filiforib
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ts, supposed to have been raised and transportedthither by violent gales of wind, whence the origin of insect rain, phiie , Meg., has the thorax notched at the sides behind. .S. spinicollix, Charp. Malthinus, Latr., has the palpi terminated by an ovoid joint, and the elytra are shorter than the abdomen. Tliespecies are vei7 small, and are found upon plants. The tliird tribe of the Malacodermi, or the MeljTides, has the palpi generally filiforib and short; themandibles notched at the point; the body generally long and narrow; the head only covered at thebase by a flat or slightly convex thorax, which is generally square or oblong; the joints of the tarsiare entire; the ungues unidentate, or furnished with a menihranous appendage. The antenna; aremostly serrated or pectinated in some males. The majority are very agile, and are found upon leavesof flowers. This tribe, which is only a dismemberment of the genera Cantharis and Dermestes, Linn.,composes that of Melyris, COLEOPTERA. al3 Malachiut, Fabr., has beneath each of the anterior antics of the thorax and each side of the base of the abdonieua retractile vesicle capable of dilatation, and which the anin)at protrudes when it is alamicd, but of the use of w hicliwe are itrnorant. The body is shorter than in the followinp: penus, with the thorax broader than long. One of thesexes has in some species a hook at the tip of the elytra; the basal joint of the antenns is often dilated and irro-inilar-shaped in the males; their colours are agreeable. [These arc active, pretty little insects, found in the spring;and summer months, especially frequenting umbelliferous plants to prey upon the weaker insects which inhabitthose flowers.] Tj-pes, VantharU tema, Linn., and iJantharii bipusttilata, Linn, [two very common British species]. /3«u(c», Fabr., has filiform palpi; th
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