. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. The following have the three basal joints of the tarsi, at least in the males, short, broad, and bilobed, the fourth being very small and scarcely apparent, with the maxillary palpi filiform. Ips, Fab., having the body oval-oblong, depressed, with the posterior extremity of the body exposed, and with one of the mandibles (the left) truncated and tridentate at the tip, and the other broadly notched. [The species are mostly small, of a black colour, with red spots on the elytra.] Nitidula, Fab. (Strongylits, Herbst.), h
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. The following have the three basal joints of the tarsi, at least in the males, short, broad, and bilobed, the fourth being very small and scarcely apparent, with the maxillary palpi filiform. Ips, Fab., having the body oval-oblong, depressed, with the posterior extremity of the body exposed, and with one of the mandibles (the left) truncated and tridentate at the tip, and the other broadly notched. [The species are mostly small, of a black colour, with red spots on the elytra.] Nitidula, Fab. (Strongylits, Herbst.), have both the mandibles narrowed at the tip and terminated in a bifid point. Some are flattened, oblong, or ovoid, others orbicular and gibbose, or proportionately more convex than the pre- ceding. N. œnea, Fabr., is found very abundantly in flowers : it is very small, of a shining bronzed green colour, with the antennae black, and the feet brownish black or fulvous. [N. grisea is one of the commonest British species, larger than the preceding, and generally found under the bark of willow-trees, where its larva also resides.] I ^ ' -^ Cercus, Latr. (Catheretes, Herbst.), differs from the two preceding in having the second and I >/finfflilH K third joints of the antennae nearly of equal size, the club elongated and pear-shaped, (and not suddenly formed and orbicular or oval) ; the body is depressed, and the elytra are truncate. [Very small species, found in flowers.] Byturus, Latr., differs from all the preceding by having the tibiae long, narrow, and nearly Fig. 64.—Nit. grisea- linear, the elytra covering the body, and not truncated at the tip, the body oval, and the club of the antennas oblong. [B. tomentosus, a small species of very common occurrence, the larva of which feeds in the interior of ripe raspberries.] The sixth tribe, Engidites, agrees with the last in having the mandibles notched at the tip, hut diifers in these organs scarcely extending beyond the sides of
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