KNTOUOLOGICAL CABINET. 



ATOPA CERVINA. Pay kid. 

 Dascillus Cervina. Latr. 

 Crioceris Cinerea. Marsh. 



Antenna inserted on each side the nasus before 

 the eyes, longer than the thorax, filiform, pubescent, 

 composed of cylindric articulations : head rather 

 small : eyes small and globular : thorax consider- 

 ably broader than the head, dark fuscous ; narrowed 

 before, the hinder angles acute, the posterior margin 

 slightly sinuated and covered with a soft down : 

 elytra varying from a pale black to yellow, faintly 

 striated, punctured, and covered also with down : 

 body black and downy, the last two segments and 

 all the legs of a reddish brown. 



Length of the body 5 lines. 



Inhabits hedges and is found in June. 



This interesting species is occasionally met with 

 in Kent, and in some seasons appears rather plenti- 

 ful, it is the only species yet found in this country 

 and subject to vary from nearly a black to a bright 

 yellow. Mr. Curtis says, " Mr. A. Mathews, A. L.S. 

 has informed me, that while he was collecting 

 Orchideae in Kent, on the 29th of May, 1825, he 

 found three specimens of this insect at the roots of 

 the Orchis ustulata, about four inches beneath the 

 surface of the ground, which induced him to suspect 

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