INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 5Z . Meloe. 



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Hermannics Villous, black : fhells with a yellow fpot at the bafe and 2 

 indented yellow bands 

 Inhabits Guinea, on the Hermannia. 

 Refembles M. dehor ei, but is not half as large. 

 Antennae black, ferruginous at the tip : had and thorax black 

 with a few cinereous hairs. 



Punfium* Villous, black : fhells with 2 bands, the firfl yellow with a 

 black dot, the hinder one rufous. 



Inhabits Tranquebar ; lefs than M, cichorei. 



10-funftata Black ; fhells teflaceous with 5 black dots. 

 Inhabits Italy. Okv. Inf. 47. tab, I, fig. 4. 

 About a third part the fize of M. dehorn. Antennnes black : 

 dots on the Jhells 2,2,1. 



^-punfiata. Black ; fhells teflaceous with 2 black dots. 

 Inhabits Rujjia : refembles the lail. 



%-maculata. Black ; fhells yellow with a brown band and common dot. 

 Inhabits the Eaji. Cyril. Ent. Neap. 1. tab. 3*fig. 7. 

 Shells with a common brown fpot in the middle, and a brown 

 band behind which hardly reaches the outer margin. 



Argentata. Covered with filvery down: fhells with yellowifh fpots 3 

 mod of them connected at the margin. 



Inhabits Senegal', fmall. 



Antennae ferruginous : Jhells with a fmall yellowifh fpot at the 

 bafe, 3 marginal ones and 1 near the tip, all furrounded with 

 a black ring; the tip yellowifh, and a fmall black dot in the 

 middle : legs ferruginous. 



Americana^ Black ; thorax femicircular: fhells with 3 yellow bands^ 

 the firfl curved, the refl confluent. 

 Inhabits America, Herbjl. Arch. Inf. 6. tab. $o.fig. 6* 

 Tip of the antennae clavate aud ochraceous. 



Indica. 



Ekngata. 



Black; fhells yellowifh > fulvous behind, with a black do? 

 and 3'lobed fpqt at the bafe indented band in the mid- 

 dle and femilunar margin at the tip. 

 Inhabits India. Herbfi. Arch. Inf. 6. tab\ 30. Jg. 7, b. 



GlofTy-black : fhells yellow varied with blue. 

 Inhabits Herbft. Arch. Inf. 8, tab, tf.fig. 3, 



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