COLEOPTERA. 
~-TENEBRIO FEMORATUS, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne like a ftring of beads, extreme articulation roundifh. Thorax plano-convex, margined. Head 
porrected. LElytra rather ftiff. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Greenifh copper colour. Thighs and fhanks of the pofterior legs dentated. 
SAGRA FEMORATA: viridi zenea femoribus tibiifque pofticis dentatis. Fab. Ent. Sy. T.1. p. 51, 55. 1. 

This infe&t may be referred to the Linnean genus Tenebrio. It is defcribed by Fabricius in the Species 
Infectorum, in the new genus A/urnus; in the Entomologia Sy/tematica of the fame author, it is removed to 
another new genus, Sagra, and its former fpecific name, femoratus, neceffarily altered to femorata. As 
the characters of thefe Fabrician genera are taken from the palpi, maxilla, and labium, we prefer the 
more obvious characters of the Linnzan genus. 
The figures quoted by Fabricius differ, in fome refpects, from the Chinefe fpecimens. Sulzer repre- 
fents it of a green colour, without a tinge of red purple, or copper colour, fo predominant in every {pe- 
cimen we have feen. Our infects are of two kinds: one is of a glowing purple, refplendent as metal], and 
changeable to green or yellow; the other is purple alfo, but not quite fo vivid, being tinged with green. 

MELOE CICHORE 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz moniliform: Jaft joint oblong. Thorax roundifh. Elytra foft and flexible. Head inflected 
and gibbous. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Black. Wing-cafes yellow, with three tranfverfe black bands. 
MELOE CicHoRE!I: nigra elytris flavis: fafciis tribus nigris. Linn. Sy/?. Nat. 2. 680. 5. 
Mylabris Cichorei. Fab. Ent. Syf.T. 1. p. 2. 88. 2. 

This infeét is very common in China, and fome other parts of the Eaft Indies. The {mall fpecimen is 
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