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from the general description it appears that it may 

 belong to it. There is no specimen of it remaining 

 at present in the Linnean cabinet. 



Sp. 87. Ceratonice. — The reference in the Sys- 

 tema Naturae of Linneus is to Hasselquist's Iter 

 Palaestinum, 409, n. 99, where it is called a Scara- 

 baeus, and compared to a small Coccinella. Longi- 

 tudo, lin. 1^. On turning to the work entitled 

 Museum Ludovicae Ulrica? Reginae, published in 

 1764 by Linne, the following remarks are made on 

 this species : " Corporis habitus, magnitudo et 

 structura Dermestidis typographi." It would there- 

 fore be rashness to decide to which genus this 

 insect belongs at present. 



In concluding my observations upon the Linnean 

 Lamellicorns, it may here be noted that whenever 

 the collection of Queen Ulrica is mentioned and 

 referred to in the Systema Naturae, there is seldom 

 any specimen of those species preserved in the 

 Linnean cabinet. At different times various insects 

 have been presented to the Linnean cabinet by 

 various individuals, yet, as a collection, it is not 

 extensive and not arranged as it ought to be ; and 

 it is solely with a view to the increase of the Lin_ 

 nean Society's collection tb?t I now state that it 

 will, in all probability, receive considerable additions 



