ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



IPS QUADRIPUSTULATA. Fair. 



Black : head and thorax taken together nearly two 

 thirds the whole length of the insect : head black, 

 large and projecting, with widely dispersed, rude and 

 coarse punctures, or excavated dots : the eyes flat- 

 tened, with large hexagons : antennae with the basal 

 joint stout and black, the others to the club rufus : 

 the club gradually increasing in the two first joints 

 and nearly cup-shaped, the third or terminal one 

 globose : thorax nearly square, the sides with a broad 

 margin, the anterior and posterior parts have the mar- 

 gins very narrow, the disk or middle raised and shin- 

 ing : scutellum broad, triangular and black : elytra 

 black, punctured, and shorter than the abdomen, 

 with two reddish spots on each elytron, one near the 

 middle of the base, the other towards the apex : the 

 body beneath is black, shining, and with a deep lens, 

 will be found to be punctured : the legs are short, 

 the thighs stout, the tibia or shank dilated and com- 

 pressed towards their extremity ; the tarsi with five 

 joints, the fourth joint small, the fifth nearly the 

 length of the first four. 



Length from 2 to 2f lines. 



Inhabits beneath the bark of decayed trees, parti- 

 cularly those of the pine and birch. 



We have only once met with this species of Ips, 

 which was taken from beneath the bark of a decayed 

 tree, at Bcxley, in Kent, about the month of Scptem- 

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