508 INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 54. Mordelk. 



Flabellata, Teftaceous ; mouth bread and back of the abdomen 

 black. 

 Inhabits Italy. Cyril. Ent. Neap. i. tab.^.fg. j. 

 Antennae black, the firft joint ferruginous : head teftaceous : 

 mouth black : abdomen very obtufe, teftaceous, black on the 

 back. 



Punftata. Thorax teftaceous dotted with black : (hells black edged 

 with teftaceous. 



Inhabits Cayenne. 



Head teftaceous: antenna black: dots on the thorax 4, 1,2. 

 margin and future of the Jkells teftaceous with a black dot at 

 the tip : legs black : Jhanks teftaceous at thebafe. 



6-maculata EJ ac k . thorax ferruginous : (hells teftaceous with 3 black 

 fpots. 

 Inhabits America. 



Head black : front clavated, ferruginous : abdomen and legs 

 black : Jhanks piceous. 



%-maculata Ferruginous ; breaft black ; (hell teftaceous with a black 



fpot. 

 Inhabits Hungary ; large. 

 Head tranfverfe, ferruginous : mouth black : thorax gibbous : 



abdomen very fhort, ferruginous : tail nearly truncate : legs 



ferruginous, the joints black. 



Dimidiata. Black ; fliells yellow on the upper half. 



Inhabits Body glofTy-black, except the upper half of the 



(hells : abdomen very obtufe and almoft truncate. 



timbata. Ferruginous ; crown, di(k of the thorax and fliells black. 



Inhabits fize of M.fexmaculata. 



Antennae black, the iirft joint ferruginous: thorax black in the mid- 

 dle, with a broad ferruginous border; breajl with a lateral black 

 fpot : abdomen fhort obtufe with a large black fpot each fide : 

 legs black : thighs ferruginous. 



fopulnea. Black ; fheljs teftaceous with 3 black bands, the firft annu- 

 lar 



Inhabits Germany, on the Poplar. 



Head dufky : antennae ferruginous tipt with black. 



55 . STAPHYLINUS, 



