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 PLATE XXVII. 



LEPTURA ARIETIS. 

 Common Wasp Beetle* 



CoLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae fetaceous : feelers four, and filiform : wing-cafes tapering 

 towards the tip : thorax flender and rounded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Thorax black : wing-cafes black, with yellow bands : the fecond 

 curved upwards : legs ferruginous. 



Leptura Arietis : Linn. Syji. xii. 2. p. 640. n. 23. 



Leptura nigra, &c. Linn. Fn. Suec. l.n. SOV—Geoffr. Inf. par. I. 



p. 214. n. U« 

 Cerambyx quadrifafciatus. Degeer. Inf. 5. p. 81. n. 18. 

 Callidium Arietis. Fabr. Sp. Inf. 1. p. 242. n. SS.—Mant. Inf. 1. 



p. 155. n. 51. 

 Stenocorus Arietis. Scop. Ann. Hift. Nat.S. p. 96. n. 57. 



This 



