ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



THANASIMUS FORMICARIUS. Latr. 



Attelabus fornicarius. Linnv. 



Red and very hairy : head black and the breadth oi 

 tlie thorax, the eyes prominent, shining, and with 

 largo hexagons : the antenna; black, the basal joint 

 nearly cylindrical and to the seventh gradually in- 

 i Teasing, the eighth and ninth cup-shaped, the tenth 

 or terminal ovate, large, obliquely acuminated, and 

 forming with the two preceding a three-jointed club 

 thorax nearly heart-shaped, black at the anterior 

 margin, with a transverse line and deep impression in 

 the centre, the posterior part red : elytra with the 

 base red, the remainder black, with two white hairy 

 transverse bands, the first narrow and waved, the 

 second broad and angulated : legs black, the tarsi 

 {'itchy red, with long white hairs : body and breast 

 bright red. 



Length from 3 to 5 lines. 



We have never met with this rare insect in a living 

 state ; our first specimen was obtained many years 

 since from Dr. Leach ; but we have lately received 

 speeimens from Mr. Wright, of Oxford, with the fol- 

 lowing observations. " The perfect insects were 

 found by the Rev. J. D. Preston and my brother in 

 the months of March and April, under the bark ot 

 decayed fir trees, on Stockton Common, near York 

 They were very abundant, and when put into a bottle 

 together bit and fought with one another most fiercely 

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