American journal of pharmacy . Cautharis I isicato?ia. 547 air the canthariclin is decomposed and the beetles become are also much injured by the attacks of other smaller insects,particularly by a small mite, which entirely consumes the soft insideportions, leaving the hard external shell intact. They may be pre-served from these attacks to some extent by the addition of smallpieces of camphor, or, better, by exposing the beetles to the vaporof pyroligneous acid. The commonly-called Chinese blistering beetle {Mylabns cichorii){Iig. 2) found in some portions of Southern Kurope and
American journal of pharmacy . Cautharis I isicato?ia. 547 air the canthariclin is decomposed and the beetles become are also much injured by the attacks of other smaller insects,particularly by a small mite, which entirely consumes the soft insideportions, leaving the hard external shell intact. They may be pre-served from these attacks to some extent by the addition of smallpieces of camphor, or, better, by exposing the beetles to the vaporof pyroligneous acid. The commonly-called Chinese blistering beetle {Mylabns cichorii){Iig. 2) found in some portions of Southern Kurope and in China,has acquired some note. The body is of an elongated oval or cyl-indrical form, from .)^ to i inch in length, and from ^V ^^ fV ^^^in breadth. Head of a jet-black color, somewhat triangular; maxil-lary palpi three-jointed; mandibles stout and large, almost concealed. Fig. 2.—Mylabris Cichorii. beneath the labrum ; clypens rather large ; antennae clavate eleven-jointed and articulated to the front of the head, below and betweenthe eyes; eyes large and compound; the facets or corneae are dis-cernible with a pocket lense; they are situated on the side of thehead and rather far apart; ocelli absent; prothorax decidedly wedge-shaped, of a black color with faint prominences and depressions onits dorsal surface; praescutum very small; scutellum of an ovalshape; the femora of the first and second pair of legs are clothedwith yellowish hairs; third pair jet black; elytra black with twobroad-waved transverse bands of brownish yellow, in some speciesexamined of a golden-yellow color; on the anterior portion of eachelytom there is a circular spot of the same color; abdomen rather 548 Can titans I esicatoria. {^ 111. Juur. Iliiii ;«i. IMM. large and conical, entirely concealed by tlie elytra, which not onlyproject beyond the posterior portion,
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