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PLA TE  CLXXXII. 
MELOE MONOCEROS. 
Hornepv MELOE. 
CoLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz globular, laft globule oval. Thorax roundifh. Elytra 
foft. Head gibbous. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Thorax pointed like a horn over the head. Shells brown, with a 
longitudinal ftreak and {pot on each. 
Meroe Monoceros: Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 681. 14. 
Notoxus Monoceros: thorace in cornu fupra caput protenfo, 
elytris punto fafciaque nigris, Fab. Sy/?. Ent. Tom. 
; Hy2ut,,\ 6: tare : 
Notoxus. Geoff. Inf. 1. 356. tab. 6. fig. 8. 
Attelabus Monoceros. Lin. Fn. Sv. 638. 
| Scheff. Icon. tab. 188. fiz. 3, 
OE REREEee oe 
Linnzus feems to have found much difficulty in determining the 
genus of this infeét; once placing it amongft the Attelabi of his 
fyftem, and thence removing it to the Meloe tribe. Geoffroy has an- 
other generical name, notoxus, and this Fabricius has adopted in his 
laft work. 
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