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PLATE CCCXCV. 



LEPTURA DORSALIS. 



YELLOW BROAD-BANDED LEPTURA. 

 COLEOPETRA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas fetaceous : bead exferted : eyes roundifh, or oval and not 

 embracing the bafe of the antenna? : thorax roundifh, attenuated in 

 front, and fometimes fpinous or toothed : body oblong. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Black : wing-cafes with a broad tranfverfe yellow band : tip and 

 two marginal fpots ferruginous. 



Leptura dorsalis : nigra, elytris flavo-fafciatis : apice macu- 

 lifque duabus marginalibus ferrugineis, Marjh. Ent. 

 Brit. T.l.p.S43.7. 



Leptura dorfalis was firft difcovered near Manchefter, by Mr. 

 Philips, of that place. It is a rare infect, and feldom to be 

 met with in Englifh cabinets. Mr. Marfliam defcribes the male as 

 being eight lines in length, and the female ten. 



This is a very elegant fpecies, and has not been figured by any 

 author. 



TOL. XI, ° V1G - 



