ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



ORYSSUS CORONATUS. Fabricius. 



Black shagreened : head orbicular, with a crown 

 of tubercle on the top: eyes fuscous, with a white 

 line on each side the face, more remote before than 

 behind : ocelli three placed in a triangle : antenna 1 

 filiform : abdomen smooth and rufous, except the 

 two basal joints, sessile, nearly cylindric and slightly 

 clavate, conical at the apex : ovipositor concealed in 

 a groove beneath : wings rather short, the upper 

 with one long marginal and three imperfect submar- 

 ginal cells, with a fuscous band towards the apex : 

 legs rather small, the anterior stout, outside the 

 tibae white ; tarsi and inside of the posterior tiba? 

 subferuginous. 



Expansion of the wings 10 lines ; length of the 

 body 7 lines. 



Inhabits sandy places. 



Two specimens of this very rare and interesting 

 insect are preserved in the indigenous collection in 

 the British Museum : the male is smaller than the 

 female, and was taken in Devonshire by Dr. Leach ; 

 he was also so fortunate, as to take the female in 

 Darent Wood, in the month of July. 



Latrcille says, these insects are lively and restless : 

 they repose in preference upon old trees, exposed to 

 flic sun. They run over a portion of their height 

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