. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 524 INSECTA. In the Geotrupides the antennae are generally 11-jointed, the mandibles are generally exposed and curved, and the upper lip more or less exposed; the species are generally of black or red colours, with the elytra smooth or simply striated; the males are often cornuted. They chiefly feed upon excrementitious matter. AZgialia, Latr. (having the body short, thorax transverse and abdomen gibbous, and composed of [a single small British speci
. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 524 INSECTA. In the Geotrupides the antennae are generally 11-jointed, the mandibles are generally exposed and curved, and the upper lip more or less exposed; the species are generally of black or red colours, with the elytra smooth or simply striated; the males are often cornuted. They chiefly feed upon excrementitious matter. AZgialia, Latr. (having the body short, thorax transverse and abdomen gibbous, and composed of [a single small British species, found upon our sandy coasts.] Ps. arenarius, Gyll., &c.) and Chiron, Mac Leay, (Diasomiu, Dalm.), having the body narrow, long, and subcylindric, [and consisting of several exotic species, and placed by Mac Leay amongst the Lucanidae], are both distinguished by having only nine joints in the antennae; the others have eleven joints, which are, however, sometimes difficult in computation, the joint preceding the club being sometimes apparently confounded with the basal joint of the club. Lethrits 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. Lethrus cephalotes, Fabr., according to Fischer, is destructive to young buds and 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 the stranger. The others have the joints of the club of the antennae of the ordinary form, and leaf-like. Geotrupes, Latr., has the labium advanced and transversely square, the jaws are curved and very compressed, and with the club of the antennae oval or ovoid, the anterior tibia; long and mu
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