. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 536 Div. 3. ARTICULATA.—IKSECTA. Class 3. Rfitnosimus, Latr. (Salpingus, lUig;.), lias the antennae teiniinateJ by an eloiiiiated mass, loiined of three or five joints ; the muzzle very flat, with a produced angle on each side before the tip. They reside beneath the bark of trees, and recjuire in a natural order to be arrang^ed near to Anthribus of Fabricius, by whom indeed they were united therewith. The body is depressed and the palpi thicker at t
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 536 Div. 3. ARTICULATA.—IKSECTA. Class 3. Rfitnosimus, Latr. (Salpingus, lUig;.), lias the antennae teiniinateJ by an eloiiiiated mass, loiined of three or five joints ; the muzzle very flat, with a produced angle on each side before the tip. They reside beneath the bark of trees, and recjuire in a natural order to be arrang^ed near to Anthribus of Fabricius, by whom indeed they were united therewith. The body is depressed and the palpi thicker at the tips. [-S. robot-is, a pretty minute British species.] Our second general division,— THE FOURTH FAMILY OF THE COLEOPTERA HETEROMERA,— The Trachelides,— Have the head triangular or heart-shaj) d, carried on a kind of neck, which, heing as wide as the front of the tliorax, prevents it from being immersed therein up to the eyes; the body is often soft, ?with the elytra flexible, not striated, and often very short, one partially lapping over the otiier; the maxillae are never hooked ; the tarsal joints are entire, and the ungues bitid. The majority live in the perfect state upon different vegetables, devouring the leaves or sucking the iioney of the flowers: many, when seized, depress the head, and contract the feet, as if tliey were dead ; others are very active. We divide this family into six tribes, forming the same number of genera. The first tribe, Laffriarice, has the body elongated, narrower in front than behind, with the thorax either subcylindric or square, or ovoid and truncated ; the antennas inserted near a notch of the eyes, simple, filiform, or thickened gra- dually to the tips; generally moniliform, with the last joint longer than the preceding in the males; the palpi thickened at the tips, and the last joint of the maxillary palpi long and triangular ; the tibiae long and narrow; the two anterior curved ; the penultimate joint of the tarsi bilobed, and th
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