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PLATE CCCXXVI. 



PTINUS PECTINICORNIS. 



COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas filiform, the lad articulation longeft. Thorax roundifh, 

 with a margin into which the head is drawn back. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Brown. Anteneae yellowifh and pc£linated. 



Ptinus Pectinicornis : fufcus antennis luteis pedlinatis. Linn. 

 Syf. Nat. p. I. 



This fpecies differs very much from the other In feds of the 

 Ptinus genus in having feathered antennce. Geoffroy, who dcfcribed 

 it before Linnasus, called it Ptilinus. Linnasus placed it in his Syftem 

 in the Ptinus genus, and to diltinguifh it named it fpecifically 

 pe£linicornis. The two fexes of this Infect may be dilf inguifhed 

 by the form of the antennas ; thofe of the female are but (lightly 

 pe£tinated, that which we have figured is the male having large 

 featheri d antennas. 



This creature lives in decayed wood. 



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