ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



ONTHOPHILUS SULCATUS. Leach. 

 Hister sulcatus. Fabr. 



Dull black : head punctured, considerably nar- 

 rower than the thorax, in which it is partly re- 

 tractile : mouth of a ferruginous colour, the mandi- 

 bles or jaws strong and excerted : the antennae of 

 the same colour, with the basal joint black : thorax 

 punctured, as broad as the elytra, with five longi- 

 tudinal elevated lines, the three intermediate not 

 reaching the whole length -. elytra with the suture 

 and three elevated lines on each, the interstices with 

 fine striated lines and a series of minute punctures 

 on each side of the elevated lines : the body beneath 

 black and finely punctured : legs pitchy black, the 

 femurs or thighs somewhat compressed and grooved 

 beneath for the reception of the tibia or shank which 

 is very broad, flat, slightly curved and toothed ex- 

 ternally ; internally furnished with very fine spines ; 

 the tarsi or toes short and very slender. 



Length of the body 1J to 1J lines. 



Inhabits beneath the dung of cattle and horses 

 during the spring mouths. 



Dr. Leach was the first who established the genus 

 Dendrophilus from the Histeridce or Hister of Linne, 

 the characters of which were published in the third 

 volume of the Zoological Miscellany, and was fol- 

 lowed by us in the Entomologists' Useful Compen- 

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