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subtus utrinque mucrone, /. dente brevij 

 postico, armatae. 

 Truncus. Squamul^ atrae. Al^e fascescentes, 

 ■ apice obscuriores, nervis nigris. Pedes pilo- 



suli, splnulis scopulisque fulvis. 

 Abdomen cylindricum, basi retusum, segmento 

 primo supra transverse carinato, /. linea ar- 

 cuata^ transversa, elevatiusculd notato. Seg^ 

 menta omnia margine pilis densis, brevlbus^ 

 niveis ciliata. Anus subincurvus, pilis decum-^ 

 bentibus, pallidis canescens. Venter lana, den^ 

 sa admodum, flavescenti vestitus. 

 Maris Corpus minus. Gence inermesi. MaxiUce 

 supra baud carinatae. Abdomen segmentia 

 anticis margine albicantibus. Anus inflexus, 

 segmento ultimo integro, subcompresso, utrin- 

 que foveola transversa excavato. Venter basi 

 niveo-villosus, convexus, apice cavitate satis 

 profunda insigniSi 

 Two or three distinct insects are placed togetber, 

 in the Linnean cabinet, as A. truncorum^ the one 

 I have just described is the same with the labelled 

 specimen. Linneus says, in his Fauna Suecica, 

 *' AntenncF longitudine thoracis. Abdominis seg- 

 menta vix margine alba, sed potiils versus latera.'* 

 But in the above specimen, and our English one^ 

 the antennae are only a little longer than the head, 

 and the whole margin of the abdominal segments 

 is fringed with white hairs; this description was 

 probably made from one, part of whose hairs had 

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