ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



HELOPS STRIATUS. Olivier. 



Blaps spartii. Marsham. 



Brown, head projecting finely and deeply punc- 

 tured : antenna? filiform and longer than the thorax : 

 eyes nearly kidney-shaped, and rather a lighter brown 

 than the head, the hexagons large : thorax large, 

 nearly quadrate with the sides, rounded, deeply and 

 thickly punctured. Elytra striated punctured, with 

 numerous fine punctures between the interstices, 

 nearly elliptical at the base, of the same breadth as 

 the thorax, the apex acuminated : the whole of the 

 upper part brown, with a somewhat brassy appear- 

 ance : beneath brown and shining, the legs also 

 brown ; in the male the four anterior tarsi are dilated. 



Length of the body 5J lines. 



Inhabits beneath the bark of trees during the win- 

 ter months : hedges and oak trees in spring and 

 summer. 



The late Mr. Marsham appears to have been the 

 first British Entomologist who described this species, 

 and it appears rather singular that his then friend Mr. 

 Olivier, who was in correspondence with Mr. M. 

 and had seen his collection, should not have pointed 

 out to him this insect as having been described under 

 the name we have adopted above. 



This pretty but very common insect is frequently 

 met with congregating together in great numbers 

 beneath the loose bark of trees, and under moss 

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