INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 50. Manticora. 51. Erodius. 497 



Rnficollis, Ferruginous ; (hells ftriate black. 

 Inhabits Saxony ; fize of the laft. 

 Head dufky : body and thorax ferruginous. 



Cyanea. Blue: thorax pun&ured : (hells (Iriate. 



Inhabits Germany; fmall. 



Body entirely blue immaculate : Jhells (Iriate punctured : legs 



moredulky. 



Violacea. 



Leucogra- 

 pha. 



Buparia. 



Cylindrical, varied with fine polifhedblue and violet: ab- 

 domen red behind ; (hells (Iriate punctured. 

 Inhabits Brafil. PalL Ins. Rojf. I. tab, C.Jig. 4. 



Ovate ; thorax very rough, uneven ; (hells caiinate rough, 

 with longitudinal whitifh fmooth itripes. 

 Inhahits Siberia. Pall. Ins. Rojf. 1, tab. C.Jig, 20 # 



Winged, black, glabrous: thorax lunate: jawsftrong, tooth- 

 ed, as long as the head. 

 Inhabits Spain. Ford. Nov. Ins. I .p. 61. n. 61. 

 About the lize of Lucanus interruptus 9 and refembles Tenebrio 

 fojjor. 



50. MANTICORA. ; Antenna filiform, 

 the joints cylindrical : feelers 4, fili- 

 form : thorax rounded before, emar- 

 ginate behind : head projecting : man- 

 dibles exferted ; jhells united : wings o # 



Maxilbi 



M. 



Inhabits the Cape of good hope. Oli<v.Ins. tf.tab. i: 

 r Body large black : head tubgiobular, impreiTed each fide: mau- 

 dibles toothed at the inner bafe : thorax impreiTed in t^e mid- 

 dle, elevated behind, the margin rounded and notched at the 

 tip : jhells above flat rough, deflected at the edge, with a very 

 fharp lateral ferrate line : legs fimple black. 



51. ERODIUS. Antennae moniliform : fee- 

 lers 4, filiform: body roundifh, gib- 

 bous, immarginate : thorax tranfverfe : 

 fiells clofely united, longer than the 

 abdomen : jaw horny, bifid : lip hor- 

 ny, emarginate. 



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