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part of the antenne except the firft joint rufous. The prevailing 
colour is black inclining to chocolate ; the head, thorax, wing-cafes, 
extremity of the abdomen and legs, and alfo the whole of the 
under furface bemg of this colour. That part of the abdomen 
above which is covered by the wings and wing-cafes when the infeét 
is at reft is teftaceous, and the tip of the abdomen, or tail, the fame 
but rather darker, 
EPG 
SILPHA MORTUORUM, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Oblong, black ; wing-cafes with a band and {pot of ferruginous : 
club of the antenne black. 
SILPHA MORTUORUM: oblonga atra, elytris fafcia maculaque fer- 
rugineis. Murfh. Ent. Brit. T. I. 115. 4. 
Nicropuorus mortuokum. Fabr. Ent. Syft. I. a. 248. 5, 
NicROPHORUS VESPILLOIDEs. Fuefl. Archiv. 89. I, — 
Pollinétor vulgaris minor. Vet. Coleopt. t. 30. 3. 
Similar to Silpha vefpillo, from which it differs in the following 
material particulars: it is fmaller than vefpillo : the clavated part of 
the antennz is black inftead of ferrugmous: the rufous orange fpaces 
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