ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



LEOIDES HUMERALIS. Sam. Curtis. Stephens. 



Black, oval and convex : liead inflected, black, the 

 front with a broad irregular streak of red, reaching 

 to the clypaeus which is of the same colour : palpi 

 nnd basal joints of the antennae red, the club fuscus 

 or of a light sooty black : eyes large and white : 

 thorax nearly globular, black shining and finely 

 punctured : elytra convex with a red humeral spot, 

 punctured and shining : body beneath and legs red. 



Length of the body 1| lines. 



Inhabits boleti or fungi attached to trees. 



Our specimens of this interesting insect we cap- 

 tured in June, in a sand-pit, at Bexley in Kent. 



Mr. Curtis has observed, when describing Leoides 

 cennamomea, that " In 1807, M. Sturm published in 

 the 2nd vol. of his Deutchland's Fauna the following 

 series of genera which he considered allied to each 

 other : namely, Sphaeridiuin, including Cercyon ; 

 Anisotoma, comprising Leoides, followed by Agathi- 

 dium and Phalacrus ; if therefore any credit be due 

 for the discovery of this arrangement, which has 

 lately been adopted in another work, it is due to the 

 entomologist of Neuremburg. No good system „ 

 however, ought to be disturbed without solid rea- 

 sons ; and I am convinced that nothing can be 

 proved without accurate figures of the trophi, an- 

 tenna? and other organs." 



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