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PLATE LXIH. 



FIG. I. 

 SILPHA THORACIC A, 



COLEOPTERA. 



GEJSTERIC CHARACTER, 

 Antennae clavated, foliated. Head prominent. Thorax margined, 9l 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Blacjc, Three longitudinal lines on each (hell. Thorax red-brown. 

 Syji. Ent. 73. 6. — Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 571. 13.— 

 Fn. Sv. ^%2.—Stroem. ASf. Nidrof, 3, Tab, 6. 

 Fig. I. 

 Silpha. Degeer Inf. 4. 174, 3. Tab. 6. Fig* 7. 

 Peltis nigra, ^c. — Geoff. Inf. i. 221. 6. 

 Scarabaus. — Raj. Inf. 90. 10. 

 Cafida nigra, ^c. — Gadd. Satag. 25, 

 Silpha Thoracea. Scop. cam. 54. 



Bergjir. Nomencl. i. 23. 5. Tab. 3. Fig. 5, 

 Schaeff". Icon. Tab. 75, Fig. 4. 

 Sulz. Inf. Tab. 2. Fig, 12. 



Taken at Charlton in June. It is a very rare fpecies in every 

 part of this country, though not unfrequent in Germany. 



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