OBS. There is a specimen of this Insect preserved in the Entomological Cabinet, which was taken alive by a London Collector, in the vicinity of the City; agreeing precisely with the above cited figure of Panzer. NECROPHORUS. Fab. Syst. Eleut. bimaculatus, niger, fronte, antennarum clavâ, coleoptrorum marginibus, maculisque duabus subterminalibus ferrugineis. TAB. NosT. 2. fig. sup. Habitat rarissime prope Londinum. Musæo Entomologico communicavit J. Howard. Long. Corp. 14 lin. DESCRIPTIO. Facies Necrophori, Humatoris sed magis piceo-niger, pilis ferrugineis nec nigris, in corpore, tarsis tibiisque subtus; paucisque ad elytrorum margines ferrugineas. Ceteris elytri singuli maculâ exceptâ convenit N. Humatori. OBS. Silpha rufifrons of an anonymous work, entitled" Elements of Natural History," comes near this species, but should seem to differ in being smooth and black, and in having ferruginous feet. In N. bimaculata, the margins of the impressedly punctated, and elevatedly striated elytra, are not black but ferruginous, and the legs are not ferruginous but black, with some ferruginous hairs on the under sides of the tibia and tarsi. SILPHA. Lin. bicolor, niger, elytris punctatis ferrugineis lineis tribus elevatis. Habitat in Com. Ebor. Nova species. |