ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



TROX SABULOSUS. Fabr. 



Black and from its rugosity not shining : head 

 comparatively small and inflected : thorax large, with 

 several wide and deep indentations : elytra with three 

 elevated lines : the sulci between with two series of 

 rough excavated dots, giving the whole a very coarse 

 appearance : legs and the under part black : antennae 

 with a series of hairs on the basal joint and the la- 

 mellated club rufus. Length 5 lines. 



All the trogidae, as far as we are acquainted with 

 them, feed on disseminated animal remains, which 

 exist in dry sandy situations, and either secrete them- 

 selves by a covering of dirt or sand, or take shelter 

 beneath rags, leather, and the dried bones of animals. 

 Trox sabulosus is not a common insect, and being 

 the largest species of a genus, of which only three 

 species have been found in this country renders it an 

 acquisition to the collector. We have met with this 

 insect in dried rams horns in sandy places at Coombe 

 Wood, in Surrey ; it has also been taken on Hamp- 

 stead Heath, in the month of May and early in June. 



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