Attelabus. CQLEOPTERA. 57 



Genus XV. Attelabus. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 619. 



The Attelabus is diftinguiflied by the 

 ffoape of its head, which is broader in the 

 forepart (occafioned by the prominency of 

 the eyes) than behind, or which tapers 

 gradually from the eyes towards the thorax. 



The antennse are thicker towards their 

 extremity than at their hafe. 



This genus Linnaeus obferves is very obfeure, 

 the infects arranged under it differing much from 

 one anothei in their external appearance. This 

 obfeurity I imagine however rather to proceed 

 from his not having known a fufficient number 

 of infects proper to be arranged under it, and 

 his placing with thofe that are, fome others, 

 fas the Clerus of Geoffroy) in which the ge* 

 nerical characters he affigns to it are not found, 

 rather than from any defect in the characters 

 themfelves, having lately obferved in different 

 collections many exotic infects which anfwer 

 moil exactly his definition of the Attelabus. If 

 fome infects which he has referred to it, were 

 rejected, the genus, I think, would be very 

 diftinguifhable, and fufficiently numerous. 



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