ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



CLIVINA FOSSOR. Leach. 



Tenebrio fossor. Linne. 

 Carabus distans. Marsham. 



Black : head moderately large and nearly trian- 

 gular, with a deep puncture in the centre ; from the 

 eyes to the clypaeus is a broad expanded margin, the 

 latter is transverse and with a slight curve : the jaws 

 are large prominent and curved : palpi reddish 

 brown : antennae of the same colour, the first three 

 joints are nearly cylindrical, the remainder thicker, 

 round, and forming almost a moniliform club : tho- 

 rax much longer than broad, marginated, and with 

 an impressed line down the centre : elytra twice the 

 length of the thorax and covering the' body, mar- 

 ginede striated and the striae punctured ; the margin 

 is of a reddish brown ; under part of the body black ; 

 legs pitchy red, the fore ones dilated and adapted for 

 digging. 



Length 3 lines. 



Inhabits the roots of grass during the spring 

 months. 



This pretty insect is by no means scarce, but at 

 the same time is far from common, from the circum- 

 stance that but few specimens are to be found at 

 one place : this observation, so far as we can remem- 

 ber, will hold good with respect to the Scaratidce in 

 general, for we have had many boxes of insects from 

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