M OGICAL CABINET, 



WTHICUS ANTHERINUS. Fabr. 



Black : head as large as the thorax, inrlexed and 

 connected by a slender neck, black and punctured : 

 antennae filiform and inserted beneath the eyes and 

 near the mouth, slightly increasing towards their 

 extremities : eyes moderate in size but very pro- 

 minent and the hexagons large : thorax nearly oval, 

 black, punctured, covered with a fine pubescence 

 and with a margin on the posterior part : elytra 

 black, punctured, covered with a fine yellowish hair 

 like the thorax, with two oblique ferruginous fasciae 

 ' or bands, one from the shoulder to the suture, and 

 the second behind the middle, broadest at the su- 

 ture, but in this respect is subject to considerable 

 variation, as in some specimens the apex of the 

 elytra has only a minute black spot at the suture. 



Length of the body 1£ line. 



Inhabits banks and hedges. 



This species is only occasionally met with, in 

 the months of June and July, on grassy banks and 

 flowery hedges. Several of the species are also 

 found near stables, when the sun is in full power. 

 They are very active on the wing, and run with 

 great velocity : the singular attachment of the 

 head to the thorax by extended muscles give the 

 form of a neck to the singular circular head, as in 

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