funy 
BLATT E.. OXXXVIL 
DP AGr a 
SILPHA HUMATOR. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne clavated, the club perfoliated: wing-cafes margined : 
head prominent; thorax fomewhat flattened and margined. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Oblong, entirely black, except the rufous tip of the antenne. 
SILPHA HUMATOR; oblonga tota atra, antennis apice rufis exceptis. 
Marfh. Ent. Brit. T. I, 114. 2. 
Nicropuorvus uumator. Olivier. Inf. 2. 10. 8. 4. tab. I. fig. 2. 
—Fabr. Ent. Syft. T. I. p. QT. n. 2. 
DermesteEs. Geoff. Inf. I. 99, 2. 
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Rare in Britain. This. infeé is fimilar to the fpecies Germanica, 
but differs in being fmaller, and im having the whole of the clavated 
part 
