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PLATE . UXT 
FIG. 
SILPHA THORACICA, 
CoLEoPTERA, 
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GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne clavated, foliated. Head prominent. ‘Thorax margined, 
SPECIFIG CHARACTER. 
Black. Three longitudinal lines on each fhell, Thorax red-brown, 
Syft. Ent. 73. 6.—Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 571-13.—. 
Fa. Su, 452.—Siroem, AA. Nidrof. 3. Tab. 6. 
Fig. 1. * 
Silpha. Degeer Inf. 44 1744 3. Tab. 6. Fig. 7. 
Peltis nigra, c.— Geoff. Inf. 1.12.1. 6. 
Scarabeus.—Raj. Inf. go. 10. 
Cafida nigra, c,—Gadd. Satag. 25. 
Silpha Thoracea. Scop. carn. 54. 
Berg fir, Nomencl. 1. 23. 5. Tab, 3. Fig. 5. 
“Schaef: Icon. Tab. 75» Fig. 4, 
Sulz. Inf. Tab. 2. Fig, 12, 
Taken at Charlton in June. It is a very rare {pecies in eve 
Part of this country, though not unfrequent in Germany. re 
FIG. 
