ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



ASTATA ABDOMINALTS. Latr. 



Black and shining : head large and equal in width 

 to the thorax: eyes large, meeting behind in the 

 males, and in the dead specimen now before us, with 

 a play of a garnet colour : front of the head flattened 

 and covered with silver hair : the antennae of mode- 

 rate length, filiform and inserted at the base of the 

 clypeus, (i. e.) a little above the mouth : the stem- 

 mata three, placed between the eyes in the form of a 

 triangle, the lower one very large : thorax large, 

 black and shining, the hinder part punctured : body 

 red, with the last four joints black : legs black and 

 very spiny, the tarsi or feet pitchy brown : wings 

 slightly irridescent, with a transverse dark band to- 

 wards the apex. 



Length 6 lines, expansion of the wings 10 lines. 



We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Shuckard, 

 of Camden Town, for a pair of this rare insect, and 

 the following information, "Taken at the com- 

 mencement of July, on the sandy level above the vale 

 of heath on Hampstead Heath." 



Mr. Curtis in his beautiful work on "British En- 

 tomology," observes, * on a fine day, the end of last 

 July, whilst rambling about the undercliff at the back 

 of the Isle of Wight, 1 observed two males on a 

 pathway, leading through heath and rushes ; a lew- 

 days after, I found two more males, on sandy spots, 

 near the same place 5 and on the 12th of August, a 

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