47 6 



INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 48. Tenebrio. 



A. Feelers 6, filiform ijore-fhanks formed for digging. 

 a. Lip horny entire. Scaurus. 



Striatus', 



Sukat, 



us. 



Atratus. Black ; fhells ftriate punctured. 



Inhabits Egypt ; middle-fizecU 



Thorax roundilh punctured, and with the addition of the head 

 nearly as long as the fhells ; fells obtufe : fore-legs with a 

 ftrong fpine towards the tip of the thighs and another at the 

 bafe of the fhanks. 



Black ; fhells with 3 raifed lines. 

 Inhabits Southern Italy, fize of thelaft. 

 Thorax punclured : lines on ih.c fiiells meeting behind. 



Winged, black- fhells grooved. 



Inhabit3 the South of France ; fize of T. atratus. 



Head large, a little imprefted on the fore part : thorax lunate, 



remote from the fhells, punelured : fells ftriate : legs piceous: 



fianks fpinous before the tip. 



b. Lip horny, toothed. Scarites. 



Depreffus'. Thorax nearly fquare, black : fhells very fmcoth. 



Inhabits Cayenne j large. 



Mandibles projecting, with an oblong tooth within : head flat, 

 with 2 impre&'ed lines on the fore-part : thorax (lightly chan- 

 nelled: fells fubemarginate : fore'fanks palmate. 



fAarginatus Thorax nearly fquare; body black; fhells grooved with 

 an azure margin. 

 Inhabits Cayenne : fize of the lalt. 

 G/iv. Ins. 35; tab. 6. fg. 67. 



faf actus. Teftaceous, very fmooth : head darker. 



Inhabits Senegal. Fabricius. Append, p. 437. Large. 



Head blackifh ; mandibles (of the male) projecting, with a fmall 

 tooth' in the middle within : thorax fmooth, the hind-angles 

 rounded : aH the fianks 3 -toothed at the tip. 



Kg*f. Black ; mandibles grooved : fhells fmooth, 

 Inhabits Africa. Oliv. luf. 36. tab. \-fig. 1. 

 Thrice as large as T. fubterraneus ; head grooved before : fells 

 obfoletely ftriate : fore -legs palmate. 



*Suherra- Black ; head grooved on the fore-part : fhells with fmooth 

 neus. * Rriae. 



Inhabits Europe and America. Olvv. Ins. 36. tab. I. Jig* I?. 

 Fore-legs palrr.ate \ fianks 6- toothed. 



L&vigatuSi 



