INSECTS. COLEOPTERA 53 . Meloe. 5 c: 



PeSinata. Antennas pe&inatet body black: front red. 



Inhabits Siberia. Lepech. It. 2. /. 200. tab. ll. fig. 26. 



Chmabari- Black ; thorax above, fhells and head each fide red, 

 na. Inhabits Carniola. Scopol. Ent. Carn. n. 186. 



Rufa. Black ; head rufous. 



Inhabits Carniola. Scopol. Ann. Hifl.p. 103. n. 8z: 



Subvillofa. Yellowifh, fubvillous: antennas tapering. 



Inhabits France. Geoff. Inf. p. i.p. 343. n. 5. 



Bicolor. Teftaceous ; fhells tipt with black. 



Inhabits France. Geojfr. Ins. par. i.p. 344. n. 7. 



Formkaria. Brown ; fore-part of the fhells and elongated thorax red. 

 Inhabits France, Geojfr. bis. par. 1 . p. 344, n. 8. 



Pubefccns. Black; head and thorax pubefcent: fhells yellow with a 

 ferruginous fpot each fide behind. 

 Inhabits Muf. Lejk. p. 43. n. 949. 



Ferruginea. Ferruginous ; head and thorax rufous : fhells brown tefta- 

 ceous at the bafe. 

 Inhabits Europe. MuJ. Lesk. p 43. n. 949. b. 



53. MELOE. Antennas moniliform: thorax 

 roundifh: head inflected, gibbous: jliells 

 foft, flexile. 



A« Wings o : /hells abbreviated. 



* Pro/car a- Entirely blue-black or dark violet. 

 bceus. Inhabits Europe. Dono<vaiis Englijh. Ins. ii. plate 43. 



When touched exfudes a yellowifh moifture from the pores : head 

 broad: thorax narrower than the head : jliells very fhort and 

 oval : abdomen long : the female is thrice as large as the male. 



*Varie^aius DulL green ; thorax edged with red: fhells punctured. 

 Inhabits Europe . Donovans Engl Inf. i i . plate b 7 . 

 Antennae purple: head and thorax dull green, edged with 

 purplifh-red : jliells fhort, very minutely punctured: body 

 large, above variegated with red green and copper, beneath 

 and legs purple. 



Ma j alls. 



