. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. love to be in it, !st to the hum of the never-still bees:And to hear the sweet voice of the old mother unto her \oung mong the leaves of the tree-! To see the red squirrel frisk hither and thither, And the water-rat plunging about in his the thousand small lives that the warm summer weather Cails forth to rejoice on the bountiful earth! Then the mountains, how fair! to the blue vault of heavenTowering up in the sunshine, and drinking the light. While adown their deep chasms, all splintered
. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. love to be in it, !st to the hum of the never-still bees:And to hear the sweet voice of the old mother unto her \oung mong the leaves of the tree-! To see the red squirrel frisk hither and thither, And the water-rat plunging about in his the thousand small lives that the warm summer weather Cails forth to rejoice on the bountiful earth! Then the mountains, how fair! to the blue vault of heavenTowering up in the sunshine, and drinking the light. While adown their deep chasms, all splintered and ill the far-gleaming cataracts silvery white ! Oh the beautiful flowers, all colours combining,The larkspur, the pink, and the sweet mignonette, And the blue fleur-de-lis, in the warm sunlight if grains of gold in its petals were - Yes. the summer,—the radiant summers the fairest, For greenwoods and mountains, for meadows and bowers. For waters, and fruits, and for flowers the for bright shining butterflies, lovely as flowers ! Mary H wttt. i o w - 4- a 37 PLATE LVIII. MONOGRAPH OF THE COLEOPTEROUS FAMILY PAUSSID^. PART II. The three following species, constituting the like number ofgenera, form a peculiar section in this singular family, possessing,in the number of joints in their antennse, an intermediate characterbetween the Cerapteri and more typical Paussi and Platyrhopali. Genus.—CERATODERUS, Westwood.(Proceedings Linn. Soc, June 1, 1841.)(Plate 58, fig. 1.) Corpus oblongum depressum punctaturn. Caput transverso-quadratum, angulis rotundatis,supra planiusculum, postice collo instructum, angulis pone oculos rotundatis, disco interoculos bi-impressum; antennae quasi 6-articulatae; articulo lmo subcylindrico, 2—5 (inter-mediis) transversis planis, ultimo semiorbiculari. Mandibulae (fig. 1 a) falcate, apiceacutce, margine externo et interno in medio angulatis, basique intus lobo semipellucidocoriaceo instructs. Maxilla? minuta? (fi
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