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PLATE DXII, 
ATTELABUS MELANUROS. 
£OLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne moniliform, thicker towards the tip, and feated on the 
#hout: head pointed behind and inclined. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Black: wing-cafes tefiaceous, the tip black. 
ATTELABUS MELANUROS: niger, elytris teftaceis apicé nigris. Gmel, 
Linn. Syft. Nat. 1810. 6. 
OpacaANTHA MELANURA. Paykull. Fn. Sv. I. 169.—F abr. Sy, 
Eleut. 1. 228,—Latr. Gen. Inf. I. 194,—Tgd. 
meth. 164. 
Carabe retréce. Olipy. Entom. 3, 35. 
This is a fpecies rather exceeding, in point of fize, fuch infe&s 
as may with propriety be termed diminutive ; its length, as fhewn by 
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