. The comparative anatomy of the male genital tube in Coleoptera. Beetles. 624 Mr. D. Sharp and Mr. F. Muir on the Comparative elongate (to a remarkable extent), and the lateral lobes diminished. The Telephoridae { limbata) exhibit a remarkable specialisation in the very bulbous form of the median lobe, but the New Guinea Chmdiognathusi () is much less remarkable, and departs to a comparatively slight extent from Lampyris. Malthinus and Malthodes appear to be modifications of the Telephorid plan. MALTHININI TELEPHORIDAE LAMPYRIDAE LYCIDAE MELYRIDAE MALACHUNI 'DRILUS AFFINITIES OF
. The comparative anatomy of the male genital tube in Coleoptera. Beetles. 624 Mr. D. Sharp and Mr. F. Muir on the Comparative elongate (to a remarkable extent), and the lateral lobes diminished. The Telephoridae { limbata) exhibit a remarkable specialisation in the very bulbous form of the median lobe, but the New Guinea Chmdiognathusi () is much less remarkable, and departs to a comparatively slight extent from Lampyris. Malthinus and Malthodes appear to be modifications of the Telephorid plan. MALTHININI TELEPHORIDAE LAMPYRIDAE LYCIDAE MELYRIDAE MALACHUNI 'DRILUS AFFINITIES OF SOME OF THE MALACODERMID FAMILIES As regards " Melyridae " we fail to connect them satis- factorily with the MaJacoderms, but as we cannot assign them any other place in a system we treat them here. In addition to this we may remark that the family will very likely have to be sundered in two or more. Maladiim, however, may prove to be a form annectant to the highly specialised Astylus (Melyridae proper) and the aberrant Balanophorus. As regaids the sac, the lower forms of the Malacoderms have it but little specialised, but in higher forms (those allied to Tclephorus and the higher kinds of Lyci(lae) this structure becomes complex, as it is in all the Melyridae we have examined. Fhlocophilus cannot be admitted to either the Malacoderms or the Melyrids till annectant forms are brout-ht to lisfht. (6) Tenebrionoidea. Under this name we can associate at present only a few families, because we are of the opinion that several. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sharp, David, 1840-1922. College Park, Md. : Entomological Society of America
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