The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . n bythe short sutures separating the epimera from the medial pieceof the prosternum. I have represented these modifications of form in the adjoin-ing woodcuts. Fig. 1, under surface of prothorax of a Carabide[Pasimachus); the coxal cavities are closed, and the epimera andepisterna well defined. Fig. 2, ditto of a Scarabseide [Lackno-sterna) ; the coxse are transverse, the cavities closed, the sidepieces not distinct. Fig. 3, ditto of Cucujus; coxal cavities openbehind, side pieces not distinct. Fig. 4, ditto of Telephor
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . n bythe short sutures separating the epimera from the medial pieceof the prosternum. I have represented these modifications of form in the adjoin-ing woodcuts. Fig. 1, under surface of prothorax of a Carabide[Pasimachus); the coxal cavities are closed, and the epimera andepisterna well defined. Fig. 2, ditto of a Scarabseide [Lackno-sterna) ; the coxse are transverse, the cavities closed, the sidepieces not distinct. Fig. 3, ditto of Cucujus; coxal cavities openbehind, side pieces not distinct. Fig. 4, ditto of Telephorus;coxal cavities confluent, and open behind. of Rhynchophorous Coleoptera. 293 In Rhynchophora the prothoracic sutures are obliterated;there is no separation between the prosternum and episterna,and very rarely between the latter and the pronotum; the coxalcavities^ frequently confluent, are always closed behind, by theepimera, which become connate on the median line, enclosingthe hind part of the prosternum, thus cutting it off completelyfrom the mesothoracic
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