. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 524 Div. 3. —INSECTA, Class 3. Ill the Gcoiriipides the antennre are generally 11-jointed, the mandibles are generally exposed ann curved, and tlie upper lip more or less exposed ; the species arc generally of black or red colours, with the elytra smooth or simply striated; the males are often cornuted. They chiefly feed upon excrcmentitious matter. jEgialia, Latr. (liaving' tlie body short, thorax transverse and abdomen gibbous, and co
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 524 Div. 3. —INSECTA, Class 3. Ill the Gcoiriipides the antennre are generally 11-jointed, the mandibles are generally exposed ann curved, and tlie upper lip more or less exposed ; the species arc generally of black or red colours, with the elytra smooth or simply striated; the males are often cornuted. They chiefly feed upon excrcmentitious matter. jEgialia, Latr. (liaving' tlie body short, thorax transverse and abdomen gibbous, and composed of [a single small British species, found upon our sandy coasts.] Ps. arcnarius, Gyll., &c.) and Chiron, JIac Leay, (Dlasomus, Dalui.), having the body narrow, \ons, and subcylindric, [and consisting of several exotic species, and i)laced by Mac Leay amongst tlie Lucanida'], are botli distinguished by having only nine joints in the antennas; the others have eleven joints, wliich are, however, sometimes difficult in computation, the joint preceding the club being sometimes apparently confounded with the basal joint of the club. Lethriis differs from the rest in having the club obconical and the mandibles exposed, very large, serrated inter- nally, and with a large tooth in the males. Let/mis ccphalotes, Fabr., according to Fischer, is destructive to young buds anil leaves, which it bites off, whence, in Hungary, it is called " the Schneider," and where it does much injury to the vines, crawling backwards, with its food in its jaws, into its hole, each of which is occupied by a male and female ; but in the pairing time a strange male sometimes intrudes, when a battle ensues which only ends in the death or flight of tlie stranger. The others liave the joints of the club of the antenna; of the ordinary form, and leaf-like. Gcotrupes, Latr., has the labrum advanced and transversely square, the jaws are curved and very compressed, and with the club of the anten
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