INSECTS. COLEOPTERA, 48. Tenebrio. 



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dbbre-via- Ovate, black : fhells ftriate : head tuberculate. 

 i.us. Inhabits India. Body very fhort. 



Thorax fmooth, rounded at the angles: Jhield rounded, with a 

 fmall tubercle each fide : laft joint of the antenna globular : 

 JJiells with crenate ftrise. 



Planus. Oblong; thorax ferruginous, with 2 imprefled fpots : (hells 

 ftriate, ferruginous at the bafe and tipt with black. 

 Inhabits South Carolina. Body long, deprefled. 

 Head black : mouth ferruginous : thorax depreffed : legs rufous. 



Capenjis. Ovate, black; (hells ftriate: fore-fhanks toothed fpinous. 



Inhabits the Cape of good hope. Tenebrio fofibr. Fair. 1, i.p. nz. 

 Body above black, beneath piceous : Jhells with crenate ftrise : 

 fore -legs (hort. 



Cormitus. Thorax with crenate margins and prominent angles : head 

 2-horned. 

 Inhabits Smyrna ; twice as large as T. molitor. 

 Head with 2 recurved long horns and a fmall tooth each fide 

 before the eyes: fhells ftriate piceous; fore-thighs thick, the 

 fhanks with an orbicular appendage at the tip. 



Sanguinipes Black ; antenna? and legs fanguineous. 

 Inhabits New Holland ; fize of the laft. 



Head obtufe, glofl'y-hjack : Jhells ftriate : 4 fore-fhanks ferrate on 

 the outer fide. 



Mauritania Black, beneath piceous : angles of the thorax ending in a 

 ft. tooth: (hells ftriate. 



Inhabits South American I/lands; fmall. 



Antennae ferruginous : head and thorax glolTy : Jhells dufky. 



Zulinaris. Winged, ferruginous: (hells with crenate ftria?. 

 Inhabits tyain. Schaejf. Icon. tab. 6o.fg. 2. 



Pollens. ? a ^ e teftaceous : thorax tranfverfe : fhells fmooth. 



Inhabits the Cape cf good hope. Legs pale : jhanks black at the 

 bafe. 



■aaaveri- ^ e teftaceous : (hells ftriate: abdomen blackifh beneath. 

 vr(St Inhabits Germany t in rotten carcufies. 



Shells ftriate, paler than the thorax ; abdomen black : legs pale. 



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