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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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x very rough, and spined or tubercled at the sides in the middle, with the third, fourth, and tifth joints of theantenna; evidently thicker than the following, thickened, and rounded at the tip. C. heios, Fab., is an abundantcontinental species, the larva of which forms deep burrows in oak wood, and which is probably the Cossus of theancients. Wo unite in the same subgenus different species of Callichroma of Dejean, having the thorax entire or scarcely unequal, and either oval or subcylindrical. These are exotic, and nearly all from America, being of small size. We further unite in the same genus the Gnonuc of Dejean, having the thorax very long and cylindrical. The Cerambycini with the antennae generally scarcely longer than the body, the thorax always unarmed, and scunetimes nearly globular or orbicular, and sometimes narrower and subcylindrical, the palpi always very short, terminated by a thicker joint than in the preceding, form the genus CalUdium^ which now constitutes three:—
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COLEOPTEIUV. 547 Certallum, Dcj., has the head at least as broaJ as the thorax, which is cylimlrical, or slishlly dilated in llicmiddle. Type, C. ruficolle, Fabr. [a French species]. Ctylm, Fab., has the head narrower than the thorax, nearly globular. Clylus arcualut, [a rare llritish speciis,and others]. Cullitlium, has the thorax in like manner broader than the head, llattened, and orbicular. [Callid. Bajuliim, avery common insect, very destructive to wooden posts and rails.] We terminate this tribe by insects wliicli, in respect to the palpi, tlie form of the head, ttiora.\, andelytra, as well as their respective proportions, otTer various exceptions or anomalies, commencing withthose in which tlie thorax has a form analogous to tliat of Certallum. It is of the breadth of the headand of tliat of the base of the elytra, or scarcely narrower, ami either subcylindrical, round, or orbicular,aud is broader towards the middle. All the thighs are clavate, and placed upon a suddenly formed
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