. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. genus Drilus is chiefly remarkable for thevery peculiar female. The male, of .Drilus flavescens is a smallCantharis-l\ke insect, with long pectinate antennae, only 5-6 length, whereas the female is large (18 mm.), larviform,apterous, and hairy, composed of twelve seg-ments, of which the last is terminated by twoshort processes and a short cylindrical appen-dage ; the body is widened behind, andgradually narrowed in front. The larva ofthe female is very like the perfect insect ingeneral appearance; it is very voracious an
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. genus Drilus is chiefly remarkable for thevery peculiar female. The male, of .Drilus flavescens is a smallCantharis-l\ke insect, with long pectinate antennae, only 5-6 length, whereas the female is large (18 mm.), larviform,apterous, and hairy, composed of twelve seg-ments, of which the last is terminated by twoshort processes and a short cylindrical appen-dage ; the body is widened behind, andgradually narrowed in front. The larva ofthe female is very like the perfect insect ingeneral appearance; it is very voracious anddevours snails, within the shells of which itundergoes its transformations, closing theentrance (according to Westwood) with itsexuviae, and apparently having the power ofspinning a sort of web of filaments. It is probable that the Camtharid^e ofIndia will be found to be much morenumerous than would appeal- from the list of species at presentknown. Lycus is well represented and widely distributed, andamong other genera which occur sparingly the following may be. Fig. 60. Lamprophorusfeucbrosus. * lhengodes is placed by L<icoi\laire among the , but this is•evidently an error. 13S INTEODUCTIOX. mentioned:—Dictyoptera, Omnia, Lampyris, Lamprophorus, Luciola,Gantharis, Silis, Icthyurus, Malthinus, and Malthodes. Eugeusis,Doclecatoma, and Pachy tarsus, which have been referred to theDetlim, are peculiar to Ceylon and the Deccan. Family 60. MELYRIM. Closely allied to the Caxtharid^, under which it is included bysome authors, but distinguished by having only six visible ventralsegments of the abdomen ; antennae inserted laterally {except inMalachius, in which they are inserted on the front), filiform orserrate ; clypeus separated from the front by a distinct suture ;intermediate coxce contiguous; tarsi five-jointed {anterior pair inthe male occasionally four-jointed), claws often furnished, with amembranous appendage beneath. This family contains, as at present kno
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