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Title: Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Fowler, W. W. (William Weekes), 1849-1923
Subjects: Tiger beetles Ground beetles Beetles
Publisher: London : Taylor and Francis
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fig. 87.—Neocerambyx paris (natural size). Stridulatingorgan enlarged. 188 INTRODUCTION. Family 93. LAMIIML Head in front vertical or bent inwards well below the thorax;last joint of the palpi pointed at the end ; anterior tibial generallywith a groove beneath. This family, so far as the Indian fauna is concerned, contains aconsiderably larger number of species than the Cerambycid^e, andthere are, roughly speaking, about 600 at present known. Theyare more highly specialised than the latter family and contain
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Fig. 88.—Batoccra rubus (natural size). Stridulating organ enlarged. (apart from size) the most striking forms ; the greater number ofthe cryptic or protected Longicorns belong to the Lamiidae. Twogroups may be characterised as follows :— A. Episterna of metasternuni narrow Lamiin-33. B. Episterna of metasternum broad in front and narrow behind Saperdinjb. Dr. Sharp (Camb. Nat. Hist, vi, p. 288) points out how thepeculiar extension of the eyes round the antennas, which ischaracteristic of the group, is accompanied by very curiousshapes of those organs, and not infrequently each eye is dividedinto two more or less widely separated parts, so that the insecthas, on the external surface, four eyes. RHYNCHOPHORA. 189 Division 6. RHYNCHOPHORA. The chief characters of the Rhy^chophora are as follows :—Head usually prolonged into a rostrum or snout of varying lengthand thickness; antennae straight, or geniculate, with a longer orshorter scape, and with a more or less distinct club; gula

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