Note 2061 — LETTER XXXV. (continued 3)
Reading edition
The Cleridæ, which M. Latreille has placed in the pentamerous section, vary considerably in the number of their tarsal joints. Thus in general in Thanasimus the tarsi are pentamerous; but in T. formicarius they appear to be heteromerous; and in Enoplium, Opilo, Clerus and Necrobia they are tetramerous. M. Latreille's expression, (N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. vii. 172.) "le premier article etant fort court et caché sous le second," seems to indicate that there is a fifth joint in some of these, the first being concealed under the second; but I have never been able to discover it. Perhaps he reckoned the pulvillus as a joint?