. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. CERAPTER1N/E. 449 testaceous, and the tibiae longitudinally striated ; the apex of thelatter and the tarsi are clothed with yellow silky hairs; undersidebrownish testaceous. Length 5|-6 milliin. Burma {Feci). Subfamily CERAPTERINiE. This subfamily contains five genera: Homopterus, which con-tains two species from South America; Cerapterus, which isrepresented by thirteen African and two Asiatic species; Artho-pterus, which comprises four African species, but is distinctivelyan Australian genus, no fewer than fifty species havi
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. CERAPTER1N/E. 449 testaceous, and the tibiae longitudinally striated ; the apex of thelatter and the tarsi are clothed with yellow silky hairs; undersidebrownish testaceous. Length 5|-6 milliin. Burma {Feci). Subfamily CERAPTERINiE. This subfamily contains five genera: Homopterus, which con-tains two species from South America; Cerapterus, which isrepresented by thirteen African and two Asiatic species; Artho-pterus, which comprises four African species, but is distinctivelyan Australian genus, no fewer than fifty species having beendescribed from that region ; Pleuropterus, containing eight Africanand three Asiatic species, two of which occur in Ceylon and India;. Fig. 202.—Mouth-parts of Pleiwopterus westermanni, Westwood(Malay Region), viewed from the underside (after RaffVay). and Pentaplatarthras, all of which are African. The species arecharacterized by having the labial and maxillary palpi long andfree and never concealing the buccal cavity beneath them, whichis always open (fig. 202); the antennae are made up of from sixto ten joints, which are always more or less strongly enlarged andcompressed, but very variable. Table of Genera. I. Antennae composed of ten joints,all free ; labial palpi very robust,with the last joint very much en-larged, strongly truncate and ex-cavate at the apex II. Antennae composed of ten joints,joints 2-10 soldered together ; la-bial palpi comparatively slender,with the last joint not markedlyenlarged or truncate at the apex. Cerapterus, Swed., p. 450. Pleuropterus, Westw., p. 450 ;. Genus CERAPTERUS. Cerapterus} Swederus, Kongl. Vet. Akad. Handl. ix, 1788, p. 203; Westwood, Arcan. Ent. ii, 184
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