ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



AC1LIUS SCOTICUS. Curtis. (<?) 



Blackish brown; mouth, antennae and palpi och- 

 raceus : head with a triangular mark in the front 

 and four smaller lineated markings behind, of the 

 same colour : thorax with a broad margin at the 

 sides, narrower on the fore margin and very slight 

 in the hinder, a central transverse band terminated 

 by a lozenge-shaped mark directing its also ochraceus 

 point to the posterior or hinder angle of the thorax : 

 elytra very deep in colour, and under the microscope 

 having the appearance of very dark tortoiseshell, the 

 margins of the same colour with the thorax but with 

 numerous fine black spots : body beneath black with 

 the sides of the abdomen with nearly triangular och- 

 raceous spots, the last four segments with the hinder 

 margin of a reddish brown : the four anterior feet 

 ochraceous, the hinder black with the coxae, and 

 the terminal part of the thighs of the former colour : 

 cilia or fringe of the hinder feet fox colour. Length 

 of the body 7§ lines. 



In the males of this genus the first three joints of 

 the anterior tarsi are dilated, fringed with close and 

 strong curved hair or bristles, and form a concave 

 hemisphere, in which are situated one large and two 

 considerably smaller excavations, with a radiated 

 and raised summit, which is a most beautiful and 

 highly interesting opaque object for the microscope : 

 the claws are very long, curved and -simple. 



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