396 CLASS INSECTA. 



finishes in a point at the suture. This species particularly 

 inhabits the woods. 



Another species proper to the forests, but which commonly 

 sojourns on the young oaks to live on the caterpillars there, 

 is S. quadripunctatay Lin. Fab. Oliv. ibid. I. 7? a, b. Its 

 body is black, with the border of the corslet and the elytra 

 yellowish. Each of them have two black points, one at the 

 base, and the other in the middle.* 



The silphae, whose antennas are equally perfoliate at their 

 extremity, but whose nob is gradually formed, alone pre- 

 serve, in the method of the same naturalist, the generic 

 denomination of silpha. These species remain habitually in 

 the fields, on the sides of paths, &c. 



S. laevigata, Fab. Oliv. ihid. I. 1, a, b, which is of a 

 shining black, very much punctuated, with the corslet much 

 more narrow in front, and the elytra without raised lines. 



S. ohscura, Lin. Fab. Oliv. ibid. II. 18, of an obscure 

 black, with the corslet truncated in front, the elytra more 

 deeply punctuated, and three raised lines, but not very pro- 

 minent, short, and the intermediate one longer on each 

 clytrum. 



S. reticulata, Lin. Panz. Faun. Insect, Germ. V. 9, of an 

 opaque black, with the corslet truncated in front, three 

 raised lines on each elytrum, the exterior of Avhich is stronger, 

 forming a keel, terminated by a tubercle, and there are 

 transverse wrinkles in the intervals. -f* 



In some, the antennae are not exactly perfoliate at their 

 extremity, the last articulations being almost globular. These 

 are the Phosphuga of the same. {S. atrata, Fab. ejusd. 

 Pedemontana, var. ; Oliv. ihid. I. 6.) 



A species of silpha belonging to Germany, and which 



* Add, S. rugosa, Fab. Oliv. II. ibid- 11 \—S. lajmnica. Fab. 



f Add, S. opaca, Fab. Merbst. Col. LI. 16;— S. (ristis, Illig., &c. 



