The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . nsects, supposed to have been raised and transportedthither by violent gales of wind, whence the origin of insect rain, pluie dinsecfes. Silts, Meg., has the thorax notched at the sides behind. .S. spinicollis, Charp. Malthinus, Latr., has the palpi terminated by an ovoid joint, and the elytra are shorter than the abdomen. Thespecies are very small, and are found upon plants. The third tribe of the Malacodermi, or the Melyrides, has the palpi generally filifo
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . nsects, supposed to have been raised and transportedthither by violent gales of wind, whence the origin of insect rain, pluie dinsecfes. Silts, Meg., has the thorax notched at the sides behind. .S. spinicollis, Charp. Malthinus, Latr., has the palpi terminated by an ovoid joint, and the elytra are shorter than the abdomen. Thespecies are very small, and are found upon plants. The third tribe of the Malacodermi, or the Melyrides, has the palpi generally filiform and short; themandibles notched at the point; the body generally long and narrow; the head only covered at thebase by a flat or shghtly convex thorax, which is generally square or oblong; the joints of the tarsiare entire; the ungues unidentate, or furnished with a membranous appendage. The antennse aremostly serrated or pectinated in some males. The majority are very agile, and are found upon leavesof flowers. This tribe, which is only a dismemberment of the genera Cantharis and Dermestcs, Linn.,composes that of Melyris, COLEOPTERA. 513 Malachius, Fabr., has beneath each of the anterior angples of the thorax and eacli side of the base of the abdowena retractile vesicle capable of dilatation, and which the animal protrudes when it is alarmed, but of the use of « hic!iwe are iafuorant. The body is shorter than in the following g^enus, with the thorax broader than long. One of thesexes has in some species a hook at the tip of the elytra; the basal joint of the antennae is often dilated and irrs-g^Iar-shaped in the males; their colours are agreeable. [These are active, pretty little insects, found in the springand summer months, especially frequenting umbelliferous plants to prey upon the weaker insects which inhabitthose flowers.] Tj^pes, Cantharis tenea, Linn., and Cantharis hipusUdata, Linn, [two very common British species]. Dasytes, Fabr., has filiform palpi; the t
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