ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



SPHiERIESTES QUADRIPUSTULATUS. Kirby. 



Stephens. 



Dark pitcliy brown, sometimes of a chesnut In-own : 

 head and thorax ferruginous, the latter thickly punc- 

 tured ; with the lateral margins finely crenulated 

 in the middle ; elytra black, striated with two ferru- 

 ginous spots, one placed at the base, the other to- 

 wards the apex, a little behind the middle : abdomen 

 black : antenna? dusky at the apex : legs ferruginous. 



Length If line. 



Inhabits old palings. 



Our specimens of this pretty insect we obtained 

 many years since from wood palings in Camberwell 

 Grove, and it was then considered a rare insect. We 

 have never found it since. 



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