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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of Coleoptera or beetles whose metasternum has an antecoxal piece separated by a well-marked suture, reaching from one side to the other, and extending in a triangular process between the hind coxæ, with the antennæ 11-jointed, and the hind coxæ movable and small.

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