ao6 INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 27. Apatus. 28. Brentus. 



Mutlca. Thorax unarmed: body black: thorax and fhells teftaceous. 

 Inhabits Hungary. Hybn Natwf. 24. tab. 2. fig. II. 

 Shells flexile, fmooth : body black. 



Fufoipennis Thorax unarmed: body black: (hells tcftaceous. 

 Inhabits ■ fize of the proceeding ones. 



Chryfime- Yellow; fhells with a black dot in the middle. 

 Una. Inhabits the Eafi. 



Head yellow : mouth, antennae and eyes black : future of the 

 faells black: tail reddifh. 



Flai-a. Pale rufous: fhells yellow tipt with black. 

 Inhabits the Laji: lefs than the laft. 



Antenna black, the firft joint rufous : fliells fmooth with dark 

 brown tips : abdomen blackifh at the bafe : legs yellow. 



Rofiraia. Teftaceous ; bread and 3 dots on the fliells black. 

 Inhabits Barbary: fize of the preceeding ones. 

 Janxj exferted, longer than the head : body teftaceous : breajl and 

 bafe of the abdomen black. 



27. APALUS. Antennae filiform: feelers 

 equal, filiform: jaw horny l-toothed: 

 lip membranaceous, truncate, entire. 



Birnaculatu Black ; fhells teftaceous with a black dot. 



Meloe bimaculatus. Degeer, Inf. 5. tab. I. fig. 18. 

 Inhabits fandy plains of Northern Europe. 



\-maculatiis Rufous ; head and 2 fpots on the fhells black. 

 Inhabits North America. 



Shells fmooth, flexile : antennae black : tail obtufe, black : legs 

 black : thighs rufous. 



28. BRENTUS. Antenna; moniliform, in- 



ferted beyond the middle of the fnout; 

 head projecting into a very long, 

 ftraight, cylindrical fnout. 



A. Thighs ftmplc. 



Barbicornis, 



