oe Ww A THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY Die Lome D7?In wate IATO Return this book on or before the Latest Date stamped below. A charge is made on all overdue books. U. of I. Library Pe : rg i S A Digitized by the Internet Archive _ in 2010 with funding from Jniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign a ven - ‘ u ; =f , 3 y om nd 4 i f ' bey rial i ‘ \ st Futno — 5 , _— Oat aie a \e FE eat i eli) 2. ee —— . THE NATURAL HISTORY or BRITISH INSECTS. eee ee Law and Gilbert, Printers, St. John’s-Square, London, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH INSECTS; EXPLAINING THEM IN THEIR SEVERAL STATES, WITH THE PERIODS OF THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS, THEIR FOOD, @©CONOMY, &c. HISTORY OF SUCH MINUTE INSECTS AS REQUIRE INVESTIGATION BY THE MICROSCOPE. Pao. O Uk Ek DF IG U' Rae DESIGNED AND EXECUTED FROM LIVING SPECIMENS. By E, DONOVAN, F.L.S.; W.S., &c. VOL. XV. LONDON: PRINTED FoR THE AUTHOR, And for F, C. and J. Rivineton, N° 62. Pauu’s Cuourcu-Yarp. MDCCCXI.a a ad be eS CM ae ; PaaS RNY ee ee fey NAN ee Pere ) : \ Wy SA donna my een BN VAS Nee 8 a Ts aX 4 ae fs at nae ae br ee . ; é : G aie A | re TAIUTAY aed jae ni Heures pig e ani sez a ‘ee. , : : es wae igaavac ve ies Saks | eco Amnon ‘BIZHT 20. aqoimad . oa TM OLORD 90t A aur i PS d ae “rate ar unr Hote. 10. : | .axdjgg oun 4uT Bia Wovvaprrectvas an 3 4 i a A 4 et ae anal wow ane we ae 7. ee ee “2a aU Of ey: * ‘amamargase oni ‘Mat GITEGaeT TAA ¢ P = j a eon : a ~ ; | feat | ‘ vl oe a ‘ 4. ipl Ds eV I POMQT a ; ; ee 10" ‘ . * ce y n = 5 ay, “ y . ® ? * * + . oa . f lave Peery ite y \ ? b, ¥ a A 4 7 eps P - re? fi ray | AN abe s whe : 2 ' ; t PSA LS Ao 16. go lon . 1 ss -_ » > " a, at i Pi avs: Uh y 4 rl ad . ; i ‘ » vray * . . ‘ . =, \ Taey t ry * , + 4, ’ ‘ vt ha ~ : ¢ ; ; ss _' yi huryt *?) . ‘ pte RAG 7 9 - a ap, . sey 4 am «4 Ss 1) THE NATURAL HISTORY oF BRITISH INSECTS. PIA Th) gpy, PHALZENA TYPICOIDES. SCARCE GOTHIC MOTH. LEPIDOPTERA. GENERIC CHARACTER, Antenne taper from the bafe: tongue fpiral: wings mn general defleGted when at reft. Fly by night. VOL. Xv. B SPECIFIC 73099 r co) ’ > tn rE DY. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. PHALZEZNA TYPICOIDES. Wings incumbent, varied fufcous and reddifh, with white ftreaks: pofterior pair whitith with fufcous border. . : This is an infect of large fize, and elegant appearance, and is generally efteemed among collectors in Britain on account of its rarity. It neverthelefs occurs fometimes in abundance in particular fituations, as for example in fome parts of Yorkfhire, and alfo in Devonfhire. In the latter County at Knowle near Kingsbridge Mr. Montagu takes it in confiderable-pleaty, in bis-own garden throughout the fummer. The fanie fpecies inhabits Germany. The transformations of this curious Moth are altogether unknown, 506 oe Go uy PLA 'EE . Dy. CARABUS GLABRATUS. SMOOTH CARABUS. COLEOPTERA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antenne filiform: feelers generally fix, the laft jot obtufe and truncated ; thorax flat and margined: wing-cafes margined. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Apterous, black: wing-cafes very fmooth, and uniformly black. CaraBus GLABRATUS. Apterus, ater elytris laviffimis unicoloribus. Fabr. Ent. Syji. T. 2. 125. 4.—Carabus gla- bratus Panz. A rare fpecies defcribed by Fabricius as a native of Germany. It was firft difcovered in this country by Mr. W. G. Hooker of Norwich, who found it in great plenty on a mountain in Yorkthire ; and fince that period it has been met with in the rocks near Killarney in Ireland. Be PLATE be | Wee: ed's ay 7 St Re ; ; 1*~ 2 \ 7 Z s - i 5 ae . a Seer t u we . 4° er > “TAC ‘ Pie Pee ING Sh.) CGR SRrEtES / $y : s ty : st é st ; ia | z ’ *% « 4 . - . ~ y oes P bb SHE Tabetane a ent gl LOB d badeagp aly aa ‘ 2 PP a nies ai a bilihe Aw eg whe ae Neen ee Pe ie , . 2g 4 | * é APR i ee ie ee oP POaE WO - . ; i ‘ j fia ¥ ‘A . ae iy 4 oF 3 ' Yin ee } A i By ie 507 [5] PLATE DVI. MUSCA MORTUORUM. DIPTERA. GENERIC CHARACTER, Mouth with a foft exferted flefhy probofcis and two equal lips : ‘fucker furnifhed with briftles: feelers two, very fhort (or none) antennz fhort, BPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Antenne feathered: thorax black: abdomen brafly green: legs black. Musca mMorTvoRUM: antennis plumatis, thorace nigro, abdomine viridi zneo, pedibus nigris. Linn. Syf. Nat. 2. 986, 66.—EFn. Sv. 1830.—Fabr. Ent. Sy. LT. 40 $18, 2; 23. ’ Pere ener erence A native of Sweden, and other parts of Europe; it is to be efteemed alfo a britifh fpecies, a fpecimen having been lately taken by 6 PILATE DVI. by Mr. W. E. Leach, in Scotland: this was met with on the bog in which the battle of Bannockbourn was fought, a wafte in the vicinity of Stirling, and is the fole authority within our recolleétion upon which we could venture to confider it a native of thefe kingdoms. It is a moft interefting acquifition, and is reprefented in its natural fize with all poflible fidelity, in two different pofitions. In addition to the charaéter affigned to this {pecies by Linneus, we ought to obferve that the thorax is lmeated with black, and greyifh, a circumftance to which Fabricius refers in the exprefiion “ thorax fub- lineatus ;’ in the fpecimen above defcribed, thefe lmes are prett Pp pretly diftinét, PLATE @ ng ee ) ; | ar a 6a w 5g > 0 =) he tad POAT EB VIL Fol Aa Es aL ELATER SANGUINEUS. SANGUINEOUS ELATER, OR SKIPPER BEETLE. COLEOPTERA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antenne filiform, lodged in a groove under the head and thorax : under-fide of the thorax terminating in an elaftic fpime, placed in a cavity of the abdomen, by which means when placed on the back if fprings up, and recovers its natural pofition, SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS, Deep black: wing-cafes fanguineous, and without fpots. ELATER SANGUINEUS: ater elytris ftriatis fanguineis immaculatis. Linn. Syjt. Nat. 2. 654. 21.—/n. So. 731.— Gmel. 1906. 21. Elater nigris elytris rubris,—Le taupia 4 étuis i. 24 Geoff. Inf. £, 131.2 : Elater > ) PLATE DvIiiil. Elater melanocephalus ruber Panz.Voet. ii.117.21. t. 44. f. Ze ELATER sANGUINEUS. Mar/h. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 383. n. 20. Very rare in Britain. The fpecies is found in Sweden, Germany and France. FIGSIF If: ELATER CUPREUS. COPPERY ELATER, or SKIPPER BEETLE, SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Coppery : wing-cafes half yellow: antenne of the male pe€tinated. ELarer CUPREUS: cupreus, elytris dimidiato-flavis : antennis maris pectinatis. Marjh. Ent. Syfi. T. I. p. 384. 23. Evarer cupreus. Fubr. Sy/t. Ent. 15.—Spec. Inf. 1. 268. 90. —Ent. Syjt. 1. b. 225.87. ELATER CASTANEUS. Scop. 286. A very beautiful and rare f{pecies: its fize equal to that of Elater peCtinicornis: dull coppery or brafly rufous; antenne black. 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MUSCA FESTIVA.
DIPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Mouth with a foft exferted flefhy probofcis, and two equal lips:
fucker furnifhed with briftles: feelers two, very fhort (or none)
antenne fhort.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Green and golden, gloffed with red, and
cinereous: thorax lineated with yellow: abdomen
banded with black.
Musca FESTIVA.
An infeé& of peculiar beauty, extremely rare, and which does not
appear to be defcribed by any author.
The natural fize of this very curious fpecies is denoted by the
fmaller figure in the upper part of the plate: when magnitied, as is
fhewn beneath, its appearance is remarkable for its fingularity. ‘The
head is rather fmall and green, with eyes of a deep fufcous colour : the
thorax green gloffed with blue, with a double golden yellow line in
the
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the middle, and a fingle one on each fide: the abdomen greenith,
and partaking more of the rich metallic hues of gold, yellow, and
tints of red, than the other parts. ‘The whole of the body is of a
fomewhat flender form; the wings large, and the legs long and
flender in proportion
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CURCULIO CARDUI.
THISTLE CURCULIO, OR WEEVIL BEETLE.
COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antenne clavated, and feated on the fnout which is horny and
prominent: feelers four and filiform.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
CurRevLio CARDUI. Oblong: green, black with numerous dots
and broken linear bands of yellowifh down:
wing-cafes ftriated with impreffed dots.
A new infeé lately difcovered by Mr. W. E. Leach, from whom
it received the fpecific appellation of Cardui: it occurs on the
thiftle, but is rare.
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ATTELABUS MELANUROS.
COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antenne moniliform, thicker towards the tip, and feated on the
gnout: head pointed behind and inclined.
- SPECIFIC CHARACTER
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SYNONYMS.
Black : wing-cafes teftaceous, the tip black.
ATTELABUS MELANUROS: niger, elytris teftaceis apice nigris. Gmel.
Linn. Syji. Nat. 1810. 6.
OpacANTHA MELANURA, Paykull. Fn. Sv. I. 169.—Fabr. Syft,
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the fmalleft figure, exceeding one third of an inch, and including the
antenne confiderably more: its form is peculiar, and the colours
which are gay, in fome degree remarkable for their brilliancy. Its
singularity confifts in the very curious form of the thorax, a kind of
elongated cylinder, conneéting the head with the body, as if the
former were placed on a flender pedicle; the thorax being narrower
by one half than the head, and not above one third the breadth of
the wing-cafes. Notwithftanding this difproportion of its parts, the
appearance is not devoid of elegance, and to this the beauty of its
colours contribute materially.
The head and thorax of this infeét are green and biue, changeable
into each other, and highly glofly: the contraft between the colours
of thefe and the wing-cafes is ftriking, the latter being fine orange,
with the exception of a large common fpot of the fame fhming blue
and green, as on the head and thorax, or rather inclining more to
azure, that is, difpofed at the pofterior extremity. It is no lefs
worthy of remark, that the lower furface is in like manner varied with
blueifh fhining green, and orange, the head, thorax and pofterior part
of the abdomen, being of the former colour, and the intervening
fpace of the abdomen, orange. The antenne are orange from the
bafe to the middle, beyond which they are dufky: the legs alfo are
of two colours, the thigh and firft joint being orange, the remainder
dufky ; and befides this the thighs are black at the tips. .
Gmelin defcribes this fpecies as a native of Upfal. In Britain
it is a very local fpecies, but does not appear uncommon in the
places it inhabits: it occurs abundantly in Cromllyn bog, in Gla-
morganfbire, near Swanfea, and alfo in a bog near Norwich.
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LARGE BANDED CARPET MOTH,
LEPIDOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER. ~
Antenne taper from the bafe: tongue fpiral: wings in general
defleGted when at reft. Fly by night.
Geometra.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Wings pale brown, with dark fufcous middle band, and greyifh
indented common band behind : pofterior legs deeply ciliated.
GEOMETRA CONVERSARIA. JHiuibn. Schmet. 62. 321?
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This interefting acquifition to the Britifh Entomologift was dif-
covered by Mr. W. E. Leach, the latter end of Auguft, about the
year 1807, in Warley-wood, at Tamerton, near Plymouth, Devon-
fhire.
The fize of this infeét is confiderable, the colour above pale brown;
with a rich dark fufcous band acrofs the middle, and immediately
behind it, a broad and very pale common band, circumfcribed aboye
by an angulated, and beneath by an indented palith line. ‘The whole
furface is fprinkled with fpecks of brown. ‘The under furface is
paler, with more obfolete fpeckling, and fome blotches of fafcous,
forming an interrupted common band in the middle. The four
anterior legs are naked as ulual, the two pofterior deeply fringed with
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DERMESTES MURINUS.
COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antenne clavated, the club perfoliated, and three of the joints
thicker: thorax convex and {lightly margined : head infleéted, and
concealed under the thorax.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Oblong, black, clouded with whitifh down: abdomen and breaft
white.
DERMESTES MURINUS: oblongus tomentofus nigro alboque, abdo~
mine niveo Linn. Syfi. Nat. 2.156. 3. 18.—
In. Sv. 426.
Dermestes murinus. Fabr. Ent. Sy. T. I. p. I. 280. 14.
DERMESTES MURINUS: tomentoius fulco cinereoque nebulofus,
feutello fulvo. Marsh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 61. 2.
Dermestres NEBuLosus. De Geer. Inf. 4. 197. 2.
Feeds on putrid carcafes.
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CARABUS BIPUSTULATUS.
BIPUSTULATED CARABUS.
COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennz filiform: feelers generally fix, the laft joint obtufe and
truncated ; thorax flat and margined: wing-cafes margined.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Winged : thorax orbicular, and with the anterior part of the wing-
cafes rufous, pofterior part black, with a common rufous fpot.
CaraBus BIPUSTULATUS: alatus, thorace orbiculato rufo, coleop-
tris apice nigris: macula rufa. Fabr. Ent. Sy.
T. 7.161. n. 164.—Paykull. Fn. Sv. I. 138.
54.—Marh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 454. 88.
A fmall, but elegant fpecies, and which appears to peculiar ad-
vantage when magnified; the ground colour varies from rufous to
paler,
24 PLATE DXVI.
paler, yellowifh, and teftaceous in different fpecimens ; and fome little
variation is perceptible alfo in the form of the common fpot at the
pofterior part of the wing-cafes. The antenne are fufcous at the
bafe, the extremity pale or yellowifh, aud the legs of the latter colour,
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PHALZENA INSCRIPTATA.
LETTERED MOTH.
LEPIDOPTERA,
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antenne taper from the bafe: tongue fpiral: wings in general
deflected when at reft. Fly by night.
* * ® Geometra.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PHALENA INSCRIPTATA. Pale, anterior wings banded and
lineated : with two dufky charaéters, and a whitifh
A in the difk of the middle band : pofterior wings
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The two moths reprefented in this plate, are beyond difpute, varie-
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differing only in having the anterior wings and bands darker than
the other: the charaéters on both are the fame, being two fmall
dufky letter-like marks, one of which remotely refembles the hebrew
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the darkett coloured fpecimen of this infeét, there is a fmall and —
pretty diftinét dot in the middle of the pofterior wings.
This is a very rare and apparently undefcribed fpecies of the Geo-
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ELATER RUFICOLLIS.
‘RUFOUS-NECKED ELATER, or SPRINGER BEETLE.
COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennz filiform and lodged in a groove under the head and thorax :
fides of the thorax terminated in an elattic fpine placed in a cavity
of the abdomen, by means of which the infeét, when on its back,
recovers its natural pofition.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Black and polifhed, anterior part of the thorax red
ELATER RUFICOLLIS: niger, thorace pofterius rubro nitido. Linn.
En, Suec. 724.—Fabr. Sp. Inf: I. p. 270. n- 33
—Mant. inf. I. p. 173. n. 37.—Ent. Syfi. I. 6.
227. 52.
ELATER RUFICOLLIS: thorace rubro nitido antice nigro, elytris
corporeque nigris. Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I.
876. n. 2.
_ Ayvare and very pretty fpecies. Its habits are unknown. Linneus
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MUSCA ULIGINOSA. =
DIPTERA,
GENERIC CHARACTER,
Mouth with a foft exferted flefhy probofcis, and two equal lips:
fuckers furnifhed with briftles: feelers two, very fhort, or none:
antenne generally fhort.
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Sucker with a fingle recurved briftle without fheath : feelers none:
antennz moniliform, the tip fetaceous, and inferted at the bafe of the
probotcis.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
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SYNONYMS.
Male black: abdomen whitith, with black bands at the fip.
Female dark with a dorfal line of pale fpots on the abdomen.
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CHRYSOMELA LONGIPES.
LONG-LEGGED CHRYSOMELA.
COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER,
Antenne tnoniliform : feelers fix; larger towards the end: thorat
inarginate: wing-cafes immarginate: body generally oval.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
CHrysoMELA LoNGiPEs. Oblong: black: wing-cafes orange with
a black fpot at the bafe, and two near the middle:
anterior legs of the male very long.
"A very curious infect taken about the month of May, by W. E.
Leach, Efg. near Sidmouth, in Devonthire.
Fig. I. I. exemplifies the upper and lower furface of the male
infeét, which is diftinguifhed by the difproportionate length of the
anterior legs: fig. II. the female in which the anterior legs are about
the fame length as the others. Both are reprefented in their natural
fize.
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ACRYDIUM SUBULATUM.
SUBULATE ACRYDIUM, ¢
HEMIPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antenne filiform, and inferted under the eyes: feelers filiform and
equal: lip ovate, and cleft at the tip: head ovate and inferted :
thorax carinated; {cutel produced behind to the end of the abdomen,
and covering the wings : wing-cafes none, or only lamina: legs fhert :
pofterior pair long, and formed for leaping, the tarfi compofed of three
jomts.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Dark brown: {cutel longer than the abdomen.
AcRYDIUM sUBULATUM: thoracis feutello abdomine longiore
Fabr. Ent. Syjt. T. 2. 26.
GryLius susuLatus. Linn. Syjt. Nat. 2.693. 8.—IL'n. Succe
865.
An interefting, and very curious little fpecies, and which is alfo rare
in Britain, The fmaller figure denotes the natural fize.
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ICHNEUMON PERSUASORIUS,
HYMENOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER,
Mouth with a ftraight horny membranaceous bifid jaw, the tip
rounded, and ciliated: mandibles curved and fharp: lip cylindrical,
membranaceous at the tip, and emarginate; feelers four unequal and
filiform, and feated in the middle of the lip: antennz fetaceous, of
more than thirty joints: fting exferted, inclofed in a cylindrical fheath,
compofed of two valves, and not pungent.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Scute] white; thorax fpotted: all the fegments of the abdomen
with two white dots on each fide.
IcHNEUMON PERSUASORIUS: {cutello albo, thorace maculato, abs
dominis fegmentis omnidus utrinque punéctis duo-
bus albis Linn. Syfi. Nat. 2. 932. 16.—In. Sv.
1593.—Fabr, Ent. Syjt. T. 2. 145. 2. 49.
This
38 PLATE DXXII.
This curious fpecies is a native of the North of Europe, and
Germany. Linneus defcribes it as a Swedifh infeét; Panzer and
Schaeffer as an inhabitant of Germany; and Walckenzr as being
found in the environs of Paris. In Britain it is very rare: we have
only heard of three Britifh fpecimens, one of which was taken by
Mr. W. J. Hooker of Norwich.—lIts transformations are not defcribed
by any writer.
The figures in the annexed plate reprefent the fpecies in its natural
fize.
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PLATE DXXIIl
LIBELLULA SCOTICA.
SCOTCH LIBELLULA,
NEUROPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Mouth armed with more than two jaws: lip trifid: antenne
very thin, filiform, and fhorter than the thorax: wings expanded :
tail of the male furnifhed with a forked procefs.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
LreELtuLa scotica. Thorax with two oblique yellow bands.
Male. Wings tranfparent with deep black ftigma: abdomen blackith.
Female. Wings tranfparent with deep black ftigma, and yellow bafe :
abdomen yellow, with two black lines on each
fegment.
‘We have been recently favoured with fpecimens of this new fpecies
of Libellula by W. E. Leach, Efg. from whom it received the trivial
name of Scotica, in reference to the country in which it appears only
to have been hitherto difcovered. This gentleman informs us it is
common in the bogs of Scotland: he firft obferved it near Lock-awe,
real
40 PLATE DXXIII.
in Argylefhire, and afterwards in the bog of Bannock-bourn, in which
latter place it occurs in great abundance.
Libellula Scotica is an infeét of the middle fize, in general appear-
ance refembling the fpecies vu/gata. The male is uniformly dutky,
except the wings, which are tranfparent : the female is more remark-
able for its gaiety, the head, thorax, and abdomen being yellowith,
varied with brown, and little lines of biack; and the wings tranfparent,
with the bafe yellow.
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COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antenne clavated, and feated on the fnout which is horny and
prominent: feelers four and filiform.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Thorax brown, with a pale ftreak each fide: wing-cafes cinereous
fprinkled with fufcous, ftriated with impreffed dots, and marked
between the {triz with numerous blackifh points.
CurcuLio sirmntaTus: thorace fufco: linea utrinque pallida,
elytris cinereis fufco-confperfis punétato-ftriatis.
Marh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 268.93 *.
* Roftrum nigricans, thorace brevius. Thorax fufcus, ex ovato rotundus, linea utrin.
que pallida, Elytra fufco cinerea, ftriata; ftrie punctis impreffis: inter ftrias punétula
plurima nigticantia. 10,
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42 P.LAT © DXB.
This remarkable fpecies of Curculio appears to be defcribed only
by Mr. Marfham, to whofe fpecific and general defcription nothing
material can be added. Its habitat was not apparently known till
after the publication of Entomologia Britannica, as that work is
filent in this particular: it is now afcertained that the fpecies is not
uncommon among grafs, in the winged ftate, and that the grafs affords
the larva its natural, and favorite food. 'The neft or reticulated open
work cone which it confiruéts previoufly to becoming a pupa, and
in which it remains while in that ftate, is extremely delicate and
curious in its fabric, though not in thefe refpeéts fingular, for many
of the Curculiones form fimilar cafes in which they remain enveloped
while in the fiate of pupa. The pupa cafe of Curculio biteniatus,
is reprefented in the annexed plate.
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PLATE DXXV.
HISTER QUADRIMACULATUS.
FOUR-SPOTTED HISTER.
COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antenne clavated, the club folid: the laft joint compreffed, and
curved: head retraétile within the body: mouth forcipated: wing
cafes fhorter than the body, and truncated: anterior fhanks denticu-.
lated, the hind fhanks fpinous.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Black: wing-cafes fub-ftriated, with two red fpots.
HIsTER QUADRIMACULATUs: ater, elytris fubftriatis, maculis dua=
bus rubris. Linn. Syft. Nat. 567. 6.—Fn. Su,
443.—Paykull. F'n. Suec, 36. 2.—_Marh. T. I.
D. 94. fig. 6.
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44 PLATE Dxxy.
A fearce Britifh fpecies, found in the dung of animals: it alfo in-
habits Germany and other parts of Europe.
Its fize furpaffes that of Hifter unicolor; the colour black, with
a large lunated fpot of red on each of the wing-cafes. Sometimes
thefe fpots are interrupted in the middle, and in fuch fpecimens the
wing-cafes exhibit the four diftmét red {pots which the {pecific name
implies. The lower furface is entirely black, and both the upper
and lower furfaces are remarkably gloffly.
The appearance of this infect, when the wing-cafes and wings are
expanded, is very fingular: this is reprefented in the annexed plate,
together with its afpect in a quiefcent ftate.
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CARABUS INTRICATUS.
INTRICATE-DOTTED CARABUS.
COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antenne filiform: feelers generally fix, the laft joint obtufe and
truncated ; thorax flat and margined: wing-cafes margined.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Apterous, violet-black: wing-cafes with raifed intricate ftrie and
dots.
CaRABUS INTRICATUS. Apterus violaceo-niger, elytris intricatis
elevato-firiatis punétulatifque. Linn. Fn. Suec.
780. Xe.
CaraBus cyaNneEus. Apterus niger violaceo nitens, elytris punétis
intricatis rugofis Paykull. Monogr. 10. 2—
Fabr. Ent. Syfi. T. I. p. 126. n. 9.—Buprettis
nigroviolaceus. Geoffr. Inf. I, 144. 4.
It
46 _ PLATE DXXVk
It appears Fabricius was aware the carabus he defcribed under the
fpecific name of cyaneus, muft be in all refpeéts the fame as the
Linnean Carabus intricatus, fince he inferts the reference to that fpecies
in Fauna Suecica, among his fynonyms: Paykull called it cyaneus, and
this name Fabricius was induced to retain, though certainly lefs appli-
cable than that it had previoufly obtained from Linnzeus.—Fabricius
defcribes it as a native of woods in Europe. Panzer includes it
among the infeéts of Germany: in England it is very rare, and indeed
appears not to have been difcovered in the latter country till very lately.
The figure reprefents this curious infe&t in its natural fize.
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PHALENA ROBORARIA.
GREAT OAK BEAUTY MOTH.
LEPIDOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antenne taper from the bafe: tongue fpiral: wings in general
deflected when at reft. Fly by night.
Geometra.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS,
Wings indented, grey with numerous brown ftreaks and fpecks :
beneath whitifh, lower wings, with a fufcous lunule in the middle.
' PHALENA RoBORARIA: peétinicornis alis dentatis grifeis: atomis
firigifque numerofis fufcis. Faubr. Ent. Sy. T.
3. p, 2.137. n. 2.—Ejfp. T. 5. fe 2
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48 ; PLATE DXXVIL.
Several very beautiful, and rather diftinét varieties of this fine fpecies
occur in Auftria: that which we have delineated is the only variety, ©
however, we believe found in England, where it appears to be extremely
uncommon. The fpecies we apprehend to be rare on the Continent,
as well as in England, Fabricius referring exprefly to the cabinet of
Mr. Scieffermyller, for the example he defcribes.
Phalena roboraria is nearly allied to the fpecies of geometra, deno-
minated by Englifh collectors the “ mottled beauty,” (Phalena repan-
daria) from which it is distinguifhed by the fuperiority of its fize, and
fome little variation in the form and difpofition of the fufcous lines
on the wings: the diffimilarity is evident on an accurate comparifon,
but is not fo obvious at the firft view.
Fabricius defcribes the larva as being of a grey brown colour, with
a darker dorfal line, and curves on the fegments, and according alfo
to this writer the larva feeds on the oak, whence it obtains the
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CANTHARIS FASCIATA.
FASCIATED CANTHABIS.
COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER,
Antenne filiform: thorax generally margined, and fhorter than the
head: wing-cafes flexile: fides of the abdomen edged with folded
papillz,
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Thorax greenifh: wing-cafes blackith, with two red bands,
CANTHARIs FAscIATA. Linn. Sy/t. Nat, 648. 10.—Fn. Sv.711.
—Gmel. 1899. 10,
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MALACHIUS FASCIATUS: elytris nigris: fafciis duabus rufis. Fab.
Sy. Ent. 208. 4.—Sp. Inf. I. 262. 5.—Mant.
IL, 169. 8.— Ent. Syft. I. a. 224. 13.
Malachius fafciatus. Oliv. Inf. 27.10. 12. tab. I. fig. 2.
CANTHARIS FASCIATA: thorace virefcente, elytris nigris: fafciis
duabus rubris. Marsh. Ent. Brit. T. 371. 11.
TrELEPHoRUs FASCIATUS, De Geer. 4. 76. 9.
La cicidele a bandes rouges. Geoff. I. 177. 12.
This is a very gay and pretty infet: the antenne and legs are
black: the head blackifh, gloffed with fhining green, as is likewife
the thorax: the wing-cafes are dufky purple with a broad band of ,
red acrofs the middle, and another behind formed by the junétion
of the tips of the wing-cafes, the latter being of the fame red colour
as the band in the middle. The abdomen at the fides are red.
The fmalleft figure denotes the natural fize. This fpecies is found
among mols.
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CANTHARIS BIPUSTULATA.
BIPUSTULATED CANTHARIS.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Braffy green: front yellowifh : wing-cafes red at the tip.
CANTHARIS BIPUSTULATA: aeneo-viridis, fronte flavicante elytris
apice rubris. ALaz/h. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 369. 9.
CaNTHARIS BIPUSTULATA. Aeneo-viridis, elytris apice rubris.
Linn. It. oel. 127.—En. Suec. 709.—Gmel.
Linn. Syft. Nat. 1898. 8.
Matacnivs sipustuLatus. Oliv. Inf. 27. 5. 3. t. Lf. [—
Fabr. Syft. Ent. 208. 2.—Sp. Inf: I. 262. 2.
Mant. I. 169. 2.—Ent. Syjt. 2. a. 222. 2.
TELEPHORUs BIPUsTULATUS. De Geer. 4. 75. 7.
Donacta Asparacorum. Panz. Voel. ii. th. 198. 6. t. 46.f. 6,
La cicindele verte 4 points rouges. Geoff. Inf. I. 175.8.
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infects, and even the grubs of its own tribe and {pecies.
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