ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



CEDEMERA PODAGRARLE. ( $ ) 



Necydalis Podagraria?. Linne. 

 Necydalis simplex. Marsham. ( $ ) 



Head yellow brown : eyes large, black and reni- 

 form, or kidney-sbaped : palpi filiform : the jaws 

 prominent : antenna? long and setaceous, or gradu- 

 ally decreasing in thickness : thorax a little longer 

 than the head, nearly flat, rounded on the anterior 

 part, and truncate behind, of the same colour with 

 the head, with a large dark brown oval spot on 

 the side and nearly meeting in the centre : elytra 

 soft, nearly transparent and of a pale brown, with 

 two elevated lines, one extending to within one-third 

 of the length of the elytra, the other near the suture, 

 reaching about half way and gradually disappearing ; 

 these longitudinal lines are connected by an elevated 

 transverse line at a short distance from the base of 

 the elytra : breast yellow brown, the sides of a dirty 

 brown : the first three joints of the body of the same 

 colour, the last two of a yellowish brown : legs pale 

 brown, the base of the thighs yellow brown, much 

 thickened in the male and arcuate, in the female sim- 

 ple : the anterior tarsi of the male are dilated. 



Inhabits umbelliferous plants in the month of 

 June. 



Length from 8 to 9 lines. 



Mr. Marsham in his Entomohghc Britannica, rfes 

 9-3 21 



