Lod 
PLATE  CCCXKXVIL. 
PTINUS PECTINLEC OR N15, 
CoLEOPTERA, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne filiform, the laft articulation longeft. Thorax roundifh, 
with a margin into which the head is drawn back. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Brown: antenne yellowifh and pectinated. 
Prinus PecTINIcorNts: fufcus antennis luteis peétinatis. Linn. 
Sy/t. Nat. p. 1. 
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This fpecies differs very much from the other Infe€ts of the 
Ptinus genus in having feathered antenne. Geoffroy, who defcribed 
it before Linnzeus, called it Pulinus. Linnzus placed it in his Sy {tem 
in the Ptinus genus, and to diftinguifh it named it {pecifically 
peftinicornis. The two fexes of this Infect may be diftinguifhed 
by the form of the antenne; thofe of the female are but flightly 
peftinated, that which we have figured is the male having large 
feathered antenne. 
This creature lives in decayed wood. 
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