. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 5. COLEOPTERA. 553 Chri/somela tangitinoienta [a common British species], four lines long, black or blue-black, with the sides of the thorax thickened, and the elytra with a broad margin of red. It is found on the earth in fields, at the sides of oot-paths. Chrysimela popidi, Linn., is blue, with red elytra, havinff a small black mark at the tip. U is found in the willow and poplar, on which its larva lives, often in society. [It is very abund
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 5. COLEOPTERA. 553 Chri/somela tangitinoienta [a common British species], four lines long, black or blue-black, with the sides of the thorax thickened, and the elytra with a broad margin of red. It is found on the earth in fields, at the sides of oot-paths. Chrysimela popidi, Linn., is blue, with red elytra, havinff a small black mark at the tip. U is found in the willow and poplar, on which its larva lives, often in society. [It is very abundant in Eu-fland], and forms, with some others, the gimus Lina of iMe>rerle. We liivish this tribe with those Chrysomelinae which have the maxillary palpi slender at the tips, and terminated in a point. Fig. 85. — pnpuU. fi(f. 1, Larva; 2, Pnpa ; P/nedoit, iMei^. (and Colophus, -Meg.), have tlie body ovoid or ?>• '""'?'"• orbicular. Prosontiis. Latr. (llelodes. Fabr.), has the body narrow, more elongated, and the terminal joints at the antennae form a stiai^lit mass. [P. phellaiidiii, a common species. Several other subgenera have been separated li> r fiiit aiiihiirs, and of which the British species aie described by Mr. Stephens, in his (i<io;(« o/i<r(7/»A Butomology.'\ Tbe third and last tribe of the Cyclica, Galenicif/v, lias the anteniije always at least as long as half the body, of equal thickness throughout, or gradually thickened to the tips, inserted between the eyes at a little distance from the mouth, and generally close together at the base, and near to a small longi- tudinal elevated line; the maxillary palpi, thickened in the Hiiddle, are terminated by two joints in form of a cone, but united together at the base, the last being short, and either truncated, obtuse, or pointed ; the body is either ovoid or oval, and sometimes nearly hemispherical. Many, especially amongst the smaller species, have t
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