INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 16. Tetratoma. 117 



16. TETRATOMA. Antenna clavate, the 

 club perfoliate : lip rounded, entire ; 

 feelers thickifh, unequal \Jliells as long 

 as the abdomen. 



Rufous ; head and fhells black. 



Inhabits Germany ', on~ tree fungi. 



Antennas rufous, the club black : Jkells fmooth. 



Head and thorax teftaceous, fhells black with a common 

 lobed white fpot. 



Inhabits Germany ; a third part the fize of the laft. 

 Antennae teftaceous, the club black : Jkells fmooth : abdomen black ; 

 legs teftaceous. 



17. CASSIDA. Antennae moniliform : thorax 

 and jkells margined : head concealed 

 under the fhield : body above gibbous, 

 beneath flat, margined. 



The larvae of thefe infec~ts are generally found under the leaves of 

 plants which they feed upon : by means of their lateral fpines, 

 and the brittle at the end of the tail, they form a kind of 

 umbrella, with their own excrements, to fhelter themfelves 

 from the fun and rain. 



*Li?iphora Green ; body black ; thorax emarginate : future and 2 

 dots on the ihells black. 

 Linnean c Iranfa£l. <vol. iii,/>. 8. 

 Found on the ferratula arvenfis. 



Antennae pale tipt with black : thorax punclulate : legs pale: 

 thighs black. 



1 Viridls 



Green ; body black : thorax entire. 



Inhabits Lurope. Oliv. Inf. 97. tab, 2. fig. 29. 

 Larva 6-footed, deprefled, with lharp lateral ipine; 



*Crucntata Bright green ; fhells with a fanguineous dot. 

 Donovans Eng. Infefis, ii, plate 63, fg. 2, 3. 

 Found on thirties and verticillate plants. 

 Body beneath and thighs black : fnanks brown. 



Green \ Bafe of the fhells with a filvery flreak : abdomen 

 black with a pale border. 

 Inhabits Saxony, on water mint. Q//V, Inf. 9, 7, tab. r. fg 3. 



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