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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A tribe of pentamerous Coleoptera, represented by the family Hydrophilidæ, having long slender palps usually exceeding in length the short, several-jointed, clavate antennæ. See cuts under Hydrobius and Hydrophilidæ. Also Palpicornes.

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