7(5 PLATE DXXXVIII. 



FIG. II. II. 

 BOLETAPJA ATOMARIA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Black, with dots and band behind fulvous. 



Boletaria atomaria: nigra, elytris punciis fafciaque poftica 



fulvis. Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 141. n. 7. 

 Ips atomaria. Fair. Mant. I. 46. 9* 

 Mycetophagus atomarius., Fabr. Ent. Sj/Ji. i. b. 498. 4. 



This is about the fize of the former : the general colour black 

 gloffed with blue : the head and thorax immaculate : wing-cafes varied 

 with dots, and an irregular waved pofterior line : antennae and leg9 

 dufky. 



It is found like the laft, and fucceeding fpecies on fungi of the 

 Boletus kind. 



FIG. 



