INSECTS. COLEQPTERA. 41. Serropalpus 375 



Abbrtviata Black; thorax with a yellow dorfal line : fhells very fhort, 



vaulted, 

 Inhabits Sierra Leona. 

 Antenna fhort, thicker in the middle : *witigs whitifh with brown 



veins and fhorter than the body : abdo?nen long fiat, the lail 



fegment ferruginous at the edge : legs black, teftaccous at 



the ends. 



Probofddea. Black ; fhells teftaceous tipt withhjack. 



Inhabits Germany. Oli<v. Ins. 25. tab, l.fg. 5. 



Head and thorax depreifed : abdomen black tipt with teftaceous. 



Barbatai g rown . antennae and fhanks piceous. 



Inhabits Germany. Oli<v. Ins. 25. tab. I fg. 3. 

 Body brown covered with gloffy down of a changeable golden 

 hue : antenna and legs paler. 



* Na-valls. Pale yellow ; head and margin and tip of the fhells black. 

 Inhabits Europe. Oli<v. Ins. 25. tab. i.fg* 4. 

 Found in the oak plant, to which it is very deitructive. 

 Varies in having ihcfnells rarely entirely black- 



Uybtieri. Black ; bafe of the fhells tip of the abdomen and legs 

 yellow. 

 Inhabits Saxony. Lymexylon flavipes. Fabricins. 

 Shells black, the future yellow at the bafe: female much longer 

 than the male. 



Maura. Black ; 4-fore-legs yellow. 



Inhabits Germany. Lymexylon morio. Fabricius. 

 The female is 3 times as large as the male. 



41. SERROPALPUS. Antenna: fetaceous : 

 feelers 4, unequal: the anterior ones 

 longer deeply ferrate, compofedof4 

 joints, thelaft joint very large truncate 

 compreffed patelliform ; the pofterier 

 ones fubclavate: thorax margined, con- 

 cealing the head, with a prominent 

 angle each fide : head defle£ied : jeet 

 formed for digging. 



Striata*. 



