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BRITISH INSECTS.

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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.

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By E, DONOVAN, F.L.S.; W.S., &c.

VOL. XV.

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And for F, C. and J. Rivineton, N° 62. Pauu’s Cuourcu-Yarp.

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BRITISH INSECTS.

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PHALZENA TYPICOIDES.
SCARCE GOTHIC MOTH.

LEPIDOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER,

Antenne taper from the bafe: tongue fpiral: wings mn general
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SYNONYMS.

PHALZEZNA TYPICOIDES. Wings incumbent, varied fufcous
and reddifh, with white ftreaks: pofterior pair
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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,

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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
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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
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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.
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A native of Sweden, and other parts of Europe; it is to be
efteemed alfo a britifh fpecies, a fpecimen having been lately taken

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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-

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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
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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.
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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.

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ELATER CUPREUS.
COPPERY ELATER, or SKIPPER BEETLE,

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
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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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COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne clavated, and feated on the fnout which is horny and
prominent: feelers four and filiform.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Oblong, cinereous, clouded with black: fnout with three furrows.

CuRcuULIO suLeIROSTRIs: oblongus cmereus fubnebulofus roftro
trifuleato. Fabr. Inf. 1. p. 187. n. 143.— Mant.
Inf. 1. p. 114.0. 185.

Curcvutio sutcinostris. Gmel. Linn. Syfi. Nat. 1787. 85.—
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PHALZNA OMICRONATA.

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LEPIDOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne gradually tapering from the bafe: tongue fpiral: wings
- in general defleéted when at reft: Fly by night.

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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

PHALENA Omicronata. Firft wings fulvous at the bafe and
tip, with fufcous ftreaks and dots: in the middle
a broad indented cinereous band with a double O
nearer the anterior margin,

An elegant and not very frequent fpecies found in the vicinity of
woods in the month of June, July and Augutt.

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PHALEZNA CONTRISTATA.
COMMON CARPET MOTH.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

PHALENA CONTRIsTATA. White with a common fufcous bordet :
anterior wmgs brownifh at the bafe, the middle
with a fufcous band: difk of the pofterior pair
with dufky ftreaks.

PHALENA contTRistTaTA. JZarfh. M.S.

Common in the months of May and June in moft woody
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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

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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
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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
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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-
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PHALHENA CONVERSARIA.

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
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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

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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
with fcalloped lines.

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The two moths reprefented in this plate, are beyond difpute, varie-
ties of the fame fpecies, that delineated in the upper part of the plate
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
kametz (*) and a little behind thefe is a pale or whitifh greek A

VOL. XY, E (lambda.)

26 PLATE DXvf.

(lambda.) The whole of thefe marks are difpofed near the center —
of the broad pale band that paffes acrofs the middle of the anterior |
wings, and thefe conftitute the principal charaéter of the fpecies. In -
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-
metra tribe.

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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
defcribes it as a native of Sweden. .

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FIG. I. It.
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.

* Nemotelus

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
AND

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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PLAT EH @xXxt.
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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PLATE, DXXII,
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.

PLATE

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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.

G2 A rare

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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PLATE DXXVII.

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

Several

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
trivial appellation of the great oak beauty.

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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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50 PLATE DXXVMIl.

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.

Frequent among grafs: the larva rapacious, feeding on fmaller
infects, and even the grubs of its own tribe and {pecies.

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CURCULIO PINI.
PINE CURCULIO.
COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER,

Antenne clavated and feated on the fnout, which is hofny and
prominent.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND e@

SYNONYMS.
Black, wing-cafes fufcous, with dots and clouded bands of yel-
lowith.

Curcvuuio PIN: niger, elytris fufcis: fafciis nebulofis. Linn. Syft.
Nat. 608. n. 19.— F'n. Suec. 589.—Gmel. 1746,
19.—Marfh. Ent. Brit. I’. I. p. 289. 152.

A rare fpecies in England, but commen in Scotland upon the
Pinus fylvefiris, According to Linnzus, it is found in Sweden ; and
Panzer includes it among the infects of Germany.

The fmalleft figure denotes the natural fize of this curious infect.

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CARABES LUNATUS. |
LUNATED CARABUS.
COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne filiform: feelers generally fix, the laft jot obtufe and
truncated; thorax flat and margimed: wing-cafes margined.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.

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Thorax orbicular and rufous: wing-cafes yellow, with three black
| fpots.

-CarRAgsus LUNATUS. Thorace orbiculato rufo, elytris flavis: ma-
culistribus nigris. Fabr. Ent. Syft. I. 163.172.
—Sy/t. Ent. 247. 60.—Panz. Ent. Germ. 63.
98.—Marfh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 466. 1.
Carabus eques. Schranck. Beytr.

(cemrcmscae

This very elegant little fpecies is defcribed by Fabricius as an
inhabitant of Britain, on the authority of a fpecimen in the collection

of

56 PLATE DXXX.

of Mr. Lee: the fpecies occurs likewife in Germany, and Italy.
Whether it is common in thefe latter mentioned countries is uncer-
tain, we fufpeét not: in Britain it is rare.

The appearance of this infect when magnified is interefting; the
natural fize is denoted by the fmalleft figure.

PLATE

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PLATE): DXXAL
SPHEX SPIRIFEX.

HYMENOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Mouth with an entire jaw: mandibles horny, incurved, and den-
ticulated : lip horny and membranaceous at the tip: feelers four:
antenne with ten articulations: wings in each fex incumbent and
flat: fting pungent and concealed within the abdomen.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS,

Black: thorax hairy, immaculate: petiole of one joimt, yellow,
and as long as the abdomen.

SpHEX sPIRIFEX: atra thorace hirto immaculato, petiolo uniarticu-
lato flavo longitudine abdominis. abr. Lut.
Sy ft. T. 2. 204. 24.—Scheff. Icon. tab. 38. fig. I.

We poffefs an example of this curious infest in the Britith cabi-
net of the late Mr. Drury. The fpecimen does not exaétly feem to

_ accord with the Linnzan Spbex Spirifex, but rather with the ac-

q

VOL. XY. I knowledged

58 PLATE DXKXI.

knowledged variety of that fpecies defcribed by Linnzus under the

name of AZgyptia; and is clearly the variety found by Scheffer in _

the environs of Ratifbon (Ichneumon decimus feptimus) to which
Fabricius refers for his fpecies {pirifex.

This infeét is chiefly an inhabitant of the fouth of Europe, where
it lives in focieties: the nefts are conftruéted in the fides of the
mud-walls of cottages and other convenient fituations; their form
cylindrical, and the interior in fome degree refembling a honey-comb.
It preys on infeéts of every kind, and is in particular a great enemy
to the fpider, which it eafily overcomes, and feems to prefer to moft
other food.—-The fize of this fpecies is confiderable.

PLATE

532

(xae. 3

PLATE DXXXII.

Bre. ‘TT.
STAPHYLINUS LUNULATUS.
LUNULATED ROVE-BEERILE.
COLEOPTERA,

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne moniliform: feelers four: wing-cafes half as long as the
body : wings folded up under the wing-cafes : tail armed with a forceps,
-and furnifhed with two exfertile veficles.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.

Thorax and abdomen orange: wing-cafes black with two orange
fublunate fpots at the bafe: extremity of the abdomen black, with
a pale band.

STAPHYLINUS LUNULATUS: rufus, capite abdominis elytrorumque
potticis nigris, femoribus totis rufis. Linn. Fn.
Sv. 845.—Gmel. 2037. 7.—Paykull. Monogr.
41.

12 OxyPorvs

60 PLATE DXX™MI.

Oxyrorus LuNuLAtus: flavus elytris nigris bafi apiceque pallidiz.
Fabr. Syji. Ent. 268. 2.—Sp. Inf: i. 338. 2.—
Mant. 7. 219. °.—Ent. Syjt. L. b. 532. 3.

STAPHYLINUS LUNULATUS. Maz/h. Ent. Brit: T. I. 523.72.

A minute and very beautiful fpecies, found in the dung of cattle.—
The natural fize of this, and the other two interefting little fpecies
reprelented in the annexed plate, is denoted by the fmaller figures.
Staphylinus lunulatus is a native of the northern parts of Europe,
being found in Sweden and Denmark, as well as Britain, and extends
likewafe as far fouthwaid as Germany and France.

ote. Ii, Ty,

STAPHYLINUS MARGINATUS,

MARGINATED ROVE-BEETLE.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS,

Black: fides of the thorax, two dots on the anterior part of the
wing-cafes, wih the pofterior margin, and the legs rufous.

STAPHYLINUS

PLATE DXXXI. 61

STAPHYLINUS MARGINATUS: ater thoracis lateribus pedibufque
flavis. Fubr. Sy. Ent. 266. 8.—Sp. Inf. i.
336. 9.—Mant. 2. 22. 15.—Ent. Sy/i. i. 6. 526.
30.
Paykull. Monogr. 32.— Fn. Suec. iti. 392. 32.
Gmel. Syft. Nat. 2028. 36.

OxyYPoRUS MARGINELLUS. Panz. Ent. Germ. 355. 21.

STAPHYLINUS MARGINATUS: ater, thoracis lateribus pedibufque
rufis. MMJarfh. Ent. Brit. 512. 40.

Fabricius defcribes this fpecies as a native of England and Norway.

FIG. LE:: LER

STAPHYLINUS BIPUSTULATUS.

BIPUSTULATED ROVE-BEETLE.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS,

Black :; wing-cafes with two ferruginous dots,

STAPHYLINUS BIPUSTULATUs: niger, elytris punéto ferrugineo.
Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. 527.

STAPHYLINUS

62 © PLATE DXXXIL

STAPHYLINUS BIPUsTULATUS. JFabr. Syjft. Ent. 266. 1L-—Sp.
Inf. i. 336. 12.—Mant. 2. 221. 18.—Ent, Syfh
2. 6. 526. 34.

Oxyporus BIpusTULATUS. Panz. Faun. Germ. 27.t. 10.

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PLATE DXXXIII.
CURCULIO MARITIMUS.
MARITIME CURCULIO.
COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne clevated, and feated on the fnout which is horny and
prominent: feelers four and filiform.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

CuRCULIO MARITIMUS. Body fomewhat ovate, black, rather
glofly and minutely punctured, with obfolete ftriz

on the wing-cales,

An interefiing infect very nearly allied to Curculio niger of Ento-
mologia Britannica, but is ftill fufficiently diftinét, and fhould moft
probably be confidered as a new fpecies. It was found by W. E.
Leach, Efq. on Arenaria maritima and peploides, and might hence
have borne the fignificant appellative of arenarius, had not that name
been previoufly given by Herbft to a very different infect difcovered in
Pruffia, and which is alfo retained by Gmelin under the fame name in
Syjflema Nature.

A matcrial

64 PLATE DXXXIII.

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A material difference is perceptible in the two infe&ts at prefent
under confideration, notwith{tanding which, they are, however, pre-
fumed to conftitute the two fexes of the fame fpecies. One 1s fmaller
and more ovate than the other, the ftrie of punctures on the wing-
cafes lefs obvioufly defined, and the thighs blackifh, while in the
other the thighs incline to ferrugimous red. ‘The fmaller delineations
at fig. I. and II. exemplify the natural fize a little enlarged, the other
reprefentations exhibit the fame infects confiderably magnified.

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PLATE DXXXIV.
LYTTA VESICATORIA.
BLISTER-BEETLE.
COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne filiform: head gibbous, infleéted, and broader than the
thorax: thorax in general cylindrical: wing-cafes foft, flexile, and .
linear: body elongated.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.

Bright glofly golden green: antennz black.

LYTTA VESICATORIA: viridiflima nitens, antennis nigris. Maz/h.
Ent. Brit. T, I. 484. n. I.—Fabr. Sp. Inf: I. p.
$28. n.—I. Mant. Inf. I. p. 215. n. IL—Syfi.
Ent. 260. [,—Ent. Syjt. I. b. 83.1.

MELoE vesicaTorivs. Linn. Sy, Nat. 679. 3. Fu. Suec. 827.

Cantharis veficatoria De Geer, 5. 12. ¢. I. f. 9.

La cautharide des boutiques. Geoff. I. $41.1.t.6,f. 5.

VOL. xv. ik The

66 PLATE DXXXIV.

The Lytta veficatoria is a very uncommon infeét in this country
though abundant in many other parts of Europe, the fouthern
efpecially ; and is in particular found in fuch plenty in Spain as to
have obtained from that circumftance the popular appellation of
Spanifh Cantharis, or blifter-fly.

Mr. Marfham deferibes it as a Britifh fpecies, and we poffefs a
fpecimen in the cabinet of the late Mr, Drury, which is admitted to
have been taken alive in this country. We have befides another
fpecimen which differs only from the former in being entirely of a
blue inftead of green colour, and this we are induced to reprefent
likewife from the perfuafion of its being a Britifh infeét. In a natural
ftate the Lytta veficatoria is found on the privet and the elder, and
alfo on the afh; its ufes in the pharmacy are fufficiently underftood,
and thefe alone, independently of its beauty, muft doubtlefs entitle
this elegant little infect to our immediate confideration.

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FIG. 1.
ELATER CYANEUS.
CYANEOUS SKIPPER-BEETLE.

COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne filiform, lodged in a groove beneath the head and thorax :
under-fide of the thorax terminating in an elaftic fpine, lodged in a
cavity of the abdomen, by which means when placed on the back it
{prings up, and recovers its natural pofition.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.
Entirely purplifh blue and dotted: wing-cafes firiated.

ELATER CYANEUS: totus purpureo-caeruleus punétulatus, elytris
ftriatis. Marsh. Ent. Brit. T. I. 388. 32.

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A rare infe&t, and which appears hitherto to have been defcribed
only as a Britith fpecies. Some collectors have conceived it to be
a fexual difference of the following kind.

K2 FIG.

68 PLATE DXXXvV.

FIG. II.
ELATER IMPRESSUS.

TMPRESSED SKIPPER-BEETLE.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYUMS.
Blue-black, and glofly: wing-cafes with an impreffed dorfal line,
and two dots: legs pitchy.

ELATER IMPRESSUs: atro-ceruleus niditus, thorace linea dorfali
punétifque duobus impreflis, pedibus piceis.
Marfh. Ent. Brit. T. I. 387.29.

Rather larger than the preceding.

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PLATE DXXXVI.

BOMBYLIUS MINOR.
SMALL HUMBLE BEE FLY.
DIPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Mouth with a very long ftraight fetaceous fucker, formed of two
unequal horizontal valves, and containing fetaceous ftings.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.
Wings immaculate: body yellowifh, hairy: legs teftaceous-
*

BomByYLivs MtINor: alis immaculatis, corpore flavefcente hirto,
pedibus teftaceis. Linn. Sy/t. Nat. 1009. 4.—
Fn. Sv. 1920.—Fabr. Ent. Syft. ‘1. 4. 409.
n.Q.

This is the laft of the Bombylius tribe we have to defcribe in the
prefent work ; three fpecies only being found in Britain and of thefe
two are already included.

The

70 PLATE DXXHXVI.

The three fpecies of Britifh Bombylii bear the names of major,
medius, and minor; and thefe are fufficiently expreffive of the com-
parative fize of each, major being the largeft, minor lefs by one half ;
and medius of an intermediate fize between the other two. The
latter appears to be more rare than either: it is found im fpring, hover-
ing over flowers the ne&tareous juices of which, afford its favourite
food. ‘The figure reprefents this little fpecies in its natural fize.

PLATE

537

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PLATE DXXXVII.
FIG. 1.
SILPHA HUMATOR.

COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne clavated, the club perfoliated: wing-cafes margined :
head prominent: thorax fomewhat flattened and margined.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS,

Oblong, entirely black, except the rufous tip of the antennz.

SILPHA HUMATOR:; oblonga tota atra, antennis apice rufis exceptis.
Marfh. Ent. Brit. T. I. 114. 2.
NicropHorus HuMATOR. Olivier. Inf. 2. 10. 8. 4. tab. I. fig. 2.
—Fabr. Ent. Syf. T. I. p. 247. n. 2.
DermesteEs. Geoff. Inf. I. 99. 2.

Rare in Britain. This mfeé& is fimilar to the fpecies Germanica,
but differs in being fmaller, and in having the whole of the clavated

part

79 PLATE DXXXVIL

part of the antenne except the firft joint rufous. The prevailing
colour is black inclining to chocolate ; the head, thorax, wing-cafes,
extremity of the abdomen and legs, and alfo the whole of the
under furface being of this colour. That part of the abdomen
above which is covered by the wings and wing-cafes when the infect
is at reft is teftaceous, and the tip of the abdomen, or tail, the fame
but rather darker.

FIG, IL

SILPHA MORTUORUM.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.

Oblong, black ; wing-cafes with a band and fpot of ferruginous :
club of the antennez black.

SILPHA MORTUORUM: oblonga atra, elytris fafcia maculaque fer-
rugineis. Marfh. Ent. Brit. T. I. 115. 4.

Nicropuorus Mortuokum. J abr. Ent. Sy/t. I. a. 248. 5.

Nicrkopuorus VESPILLOIDEs. J uefl. Archiv. 89. I.

PollinGtor vulgaris minor. Voet. Coleopt. t. 30. 3.

Similar to Silpha vefpillo, from which it differs in the following
material particulars: it is fmaller than vefpillo: the clavated part of
the antennz is black inftead of ferrugmous: the rufous orange fpaces
on

: BRATE DXXXVIE 78

on the wing-cafes inftead of being difpofed in two diftinét tranfverfe
bands form a fingle common band acrofs the middle, and a detached
fpot behind on each of the wing-cafes. Sometimes the anterior
band is in like manner divided by the furrounding {pace of black into
two diftinct reddith fpots, one on each wing-cafe as in the potterior
part before defcribed, and by that means exhibits altogether four
orange fpots, two on each fide.—It may be lafily added, that the legs
are naked in the fpecies mortuorum, while in S. Vefpillo thefe are

belet with fulvous down.

This infect feeds on carrion and dung, like the other fpecies to
which it is clofely allied: Panzer has alfo found it in Fungi,

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PLATE DXXXVIIL
BOLETARIA MULTIPUNCTATA.

COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne perfoliated, and thicker towards the end: thorax mar-
gined, with three hollows behind, the middle one obfolete: wing-
cafes margined : body ovate.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.

Black : wing-cafes finely firiated, varied with black and ferruginous.

BoLeTARIA MULTIPUNCTATA: nigra, elytris minuté ftriatis, ferru-
gineo nigroque variis. Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I.
p- 139. 3.

Mycetornacus muttipunctatus. abr. Ent. Syft. i. b. 498.
5. Panz. Ent. Germ. 337. 4.

DeRMESTES MULTIPUNCTATUs. Thunb. Inf. Suec. 79. 6.

Found on fungi, of the Boletus genus. Length two lines.

2 FIG.

"6 PLATE DXXXVII.

FIG. IL IL

BOLETARIA ATOMARIA.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.

Black, with dots and band behind fulvous.

BoLeTARIA ATOMARIA: nigra, clytris punétis fafciaque poftica
fulvis. Afarjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 141.0. 7.

Ies aromaria. Fubr. Mant. I. 46. 9.

Mycetophagus atomarius. adr. Lint. Sy/i. i. b. 498. 4.

‘This is about the fize of the former: the general colour black
gloffed with blue: the head and thorax immaculate: wing-cafes varied
with dots, and an irregular waved pofterior line: antennz and legs
dufky.

It is found like the laft, and fucceeding fpecies on fungi of the
Boletus kind. .

PLATE DXXXVIII. 77

PUG. TIT DEL

BOLETARIA PUNCTATUS.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.

Pitchy : wing-cafes fomewhat pun¢tated and black, band at the
bafe and two fpots at the end of the wing-cafes ferruginous.

MyYcrTOPHAGUS PUNCTATUS: piceus elytris fubpunftatis nigris
bafi ferrugineis. Fabr. Ent. Syft. T. I. 6. 499.
n. 10. Panz. Ent. Germ.

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PLATE DXXXIX.

FIG. I. TE
SILPHA SINUATA.
SINUATE SILPHA.
COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne clavated, the club perfoliated: wing-cafes margined :
head prominent: thorax fomewhat flattened and margined.

SPECIFI€ CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.

Thorax emarginate and very rough: wing-cafes with three raifed
Imes, and the tip finuate.

SILPHA SINUATA: thorace emarginate rugofiflimo: elytris lineis
elevatis tribus apice finuatis. Mar/h. Ent. Brit.
Lod. 1205 VA.
SinpHa sinuata. Fabr. Sy. Ent. 75. 13.—Sp. Inf: I. 88. 16.
—Lnt. Syji. I. a. 252. 18.—Gmel. 1622. 56.
Le Bouclier noir a corcelet raboteux. Geoff. I, 119. 2.

This

80 PLAT E DXXXIX.

This is a fpecies of moderate fize, allied in habit to Silpha obfeura.
The prevailing colour is blackith, inclining to grey, dull and without
glofs: the thorax is brownith and rugofe, with a filky hue and fome-
what filvery. The two fexes are diftinguifhed by the termination of
the wing-cafes, this in one being much finuated, and forming a diftinét
lobe, the other nearly entire. —This laft mentioned infect is the Silpha
opaca of fome writers.

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PLATE DXL.

DYSTISCUS PUNCTULATUS,
DOTTED BOAT-BEETLE.

COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenne fetaceous: feelers fix, filiform: hind-legs formed for
fwimming, fringed on the inner fide, and nearly unarmed witb
claws,

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS,

_ Black: wing-cafes with three rows of dots: fhield of the head,
fnargin of the thorax, and wing-cafes yellow.

DyTiscus PUNCTULATUS. niger clypeo thoracis elytrorumque
margine albis, elytris ftriis tribus punétatis.
Geoffr. Inf. I. 185. £—Le Ditique brun a
bordure. 20.
Dytiscus punctuatus, Fabr. Ent. Syf. I. a. 188. 4.
VoL. XV. M Dyxtiscus

64 PLATE BAL. 4

DytisctUs LATERALI-MARGINATUS. Degeer. T. 4. p. 396.
n. 3.

Dytiscus virens. Miuill. zool dan. prodr. p. 70. n. 664.

Dyriscus punctatus. Oliv. 8. 40. 22. 4.t. I. f.6. b. and f.

2.8
Dytiscus punctuntatus. Marfh. Ent. Brit. T. 1. p. 412.
n,Q.
— ewes

This in common with the. other fpecies of the Dytifcus genus is
found in marfhes, ponds, and other waters, particularly thofe of the
ftagnant kind, and which abound moft with the refufe of animal
fubftances, and aquatic plants.

The larva, like the reft of its tribe, is a€tive, fierce, and vigorous ;
entirely aquatic and fubfifts on the other {mall inhabitants of the
regions in which it lives, fuch as the larva of the Ephemera, the Phry-
ganz and many other creatures of the infeét race that fpend the earlier
{tage of their exiftence in the watery element ; and alfo on the vermes
which in fuch fituations occur invariably, and in confiderable numbers.
In their turn the larve of the Dytifci become the food of fithes, and
aquatic birds, but rarely fall a prey to the infect race, as their
natural firength, and the powerful armament of their jaws, at leaft in
the larger fpecies, enables them to maintain a decided fuperiority
over thefe puny enemies.

Previous to its paffing into the pupa ftate, the larva of this fpecies
emerges from the bottom of the water, and forms a convenient
receptacle for the purpofe in fome adjacent bank, or fpot of ground
near the water’s edge; this accomplifhed, it changes to the pupa, and
after a while appears in the winged itate—Having aflumed this

form

PEA T EB DXL. 83

form it becomes in all refpeGts an amphibious creature, refiding
alternately in the water, or on the land. When in the water, however,
which appears to be its moft congenial element, it is frequently
obferved to rife upon the furface to take in air, and on the contrary
when on land, or in flight, it does not willingly remain a long
time before it again plunges into the aquatic element.

Dytifcus punétulatus is found in the ditches of Batterfea meadows.

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COLEOPTERA.
Plate
Dermeftes murinus - - - ~ - 515
Hifter bimaculatus - ~ = - - 528
Silpha humator - a - PRE 537
mortuorum - - - + - - 537
finuata ss = - - - - - 539
Boletaria multipunétatus - = - 6 es 538
atomarius - a - - - . 538
punétatus - r - > - 533
Chryfomela longipes Sie DN Oe) mee
Curculio biteniatus - - - - - 524
cardui = - ‘ - - - 512
——_ maritimus : - - - * 533
—— pini - = - - - - 529
fulciroftris s = B = “ 50a
Attelabus melanuros - ° - - - 513

Cantharis fafciata - - . . = - 528
bipuftulata - = = «» - 528
Elater fanguineus'- - = - - - - §08

cupreus - - - ° - = 508
cyaneus 2 - - - . - 535
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Fig.

Elater rufcollis

Dstifcus punétulatus

Carabus glabratus

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lunatus
Lytta veficatoria

Staphylinus lunulatus
marginatus

bipuftulatus

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Acrydium fubulatum

Phalena typicoides
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HEMIPTERA.

LEPIDOPTERA.

NEUROPTERA.

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- 540
- 506
- 516
- 526
- 530
- 534
- 532 1.
- 532 2.
. 532 3.
- 521
- 505
- 527
- 514
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- 310 2.
- 517
- 528

HYMENOPTERA,

INDEX.

HYMENOPTERA.

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- - 531

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Bombylius minor - - * - 536

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Atomarius, Boletaria
bimaculatus, Hifter
bipufiulata, Cantharis
bipufiulatus Carabus
bipuftulatus Staphylinus
biteniatus, Curculio
cardui, Curculio ~
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INDEX. .

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melanuros, Attelabus 3 - - - - 513 i
minor, Bombylius at fe ~ | eel *» 1 S86
mortuorum, Silpha - - - - - 537 2.
mortuorum, Mufca - - os - - 507
multipunctatus, Boletaria - - - - 538 :
murinus, Dermeftes - E E - - 515
omicronata, Phalena - - - - - 510
perfuasorius, Ichneumon - - - - 522

Pini, Curculio : e . Saas, - 529
punctulatus, Dytifcus - . - - 540

roboraria, Phalena “ t = - ~ 527
ruficollis Elater - = - s - = 518
fanguineus, Elater = « - - = 508
Scotica, Libellula - - . = - 523

finuata, Silpha = - - = - = 539
fpirifex, Sphex - ~ - - - 531
fubulatum, Acrydium = - - - 521

fulciroftris, Curculio by = : ee e 509
typicoides, Phalana . > - - - 505
veficatoria, Lytta - - “ . - 534

uhigilofus, Nemotelus - - “ - - 519 !.

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