. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 536 INSECTA. Rhinosimus, Latr. (Salpingiis, lUig.), has the antennae terminated by an elongated mass, formed 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 require in a natural order to be arranged near to Anthribus of Fabricius, by whom indeed they were united therewith. The body is depressed and the palpi thicker at the tips. [S. roboris, a pretty minute British species.] Our second general division,— THE FOURTH FAMILY OF
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 536 INSECTA. Rhinosimus, Latr. (Salpingiis, lUig.), has the antennae terminated by an elongated mass, formed 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 require in a natural order to be arranged near to Anthribus of Fabricius, by whom indeed they were united therewith. The body is depressed and the palpi thicker at the tips. [S. roboris, a pretty minute British species.] Our second general division,— THE FOURTH FAMILY OF THE COLEOPTERA HETEROMERA,— The Trachelides,— Have the head triangular or heart-shaped, carried on a kind of neck, which, being as wide as the front of the thorax, 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 other ; the maxillae are never hooked ; the tarsal joints are entire, and the ungues bifid. The majority live in the perfect state upon diiferent vegetables, devouring the leaves or sucking the honey of the flowers : many, when seized, depress the head, and contract the feet, as if they were dead ; others are very active. We divide this family into six tribes, forming the same number of genera. The first tribe, Lagriariee, has the body elongated, narrower in front than behind, with the thorax either subcylindric or square, or ovoid and truncated ; the antennae 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 tibiœ Jong and narrow ; the two anterior curved ; the penultimate joint of the tarsi bilobed, and the ungues neither bifid nor toothed. The indigenous species inhabit woods, and are found upon different vegetable
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