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Title: The natural history of beetles : illustrated by thirty-two plates, numerous wood-cuts, with memoir and portrait of Ray
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Duncan, James, 1804-1861 Jardine, William, Sir, 1800-1874 Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859, engraver
Subjects: Ray, John, 1627-1705 Beetles
Publisher: Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars London : Henry G. Bohn
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culio populi, Linn. Degeer.—Attelabus populi, Fair. In this well-known species the body is smoothand shining, of a golden-green or bluish tint on theupper side, and dark violet colour beneath ; the an-tennae and tarsi black. The elytra are rather irre-gularly punctured. In one of the sexes there is anacute spine on each side of the thorax, projectingforwards. The ordinary length of the insect is nearlythree lines. It is found on poplar and birch trees,in England and on the Continent of Europe. HHYNCHITES PUBESCENS. PLATE XX. Fig. 5. Attelabus pubescens, Fdbr. The body is rather more elongate in proportionto its breadth than in the preceding species. Thewhole body is of a deep violet colour, and clothedwith rather long hairs. The snout is shorter thanthe thorax, and, together with the antennae, black.The elytra are marked with regular punctured lines.The legs are the same colour as the body, but thetarsi are black. Length three lines. It inhabitsFrance. Germany, and England. PLATE 2)
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1 Brerdusam^£T^affo. 2 PJimn barbwostris. 3. Cutculio CuvieruA.mrrulio Geoffroyu. b.Cutcidiovittatus. 6. Curculio sv?tacelaJi Curculzo sphjicelatus. COLEOPTEROUS INSECTS. 235 RHYNCHITES COLLAIUS.PLATE XX. Fie. 6. Antribus collaris, Fair. Sytt. Eleuth. The body of this small insect is covered withshort pubescence: the snout is rather long, de-pressed at the apex, and of a black colour, as wellas the antennae. The thorax is very smooth, andreddish : the elytra deep blue, pretty regularly stri-ated: the under side and legs black. Found inCarolina. The very remarkable genus Brentus has filiformantennae, occasionally with the last joint thickened—the rostrum very long and advanced—the wholebody unusually narrow, and the penultimate jointof the tarsi bilobed. BRENTUS ANCHOKAGO. PLATE XXI. Fig. 1. Curculio Anchorago, Linn.—Degeer, Mem. Insect, v. 273. Body very narrow and elongate, shining black;the markings differing a little in the two sexes. Inthe male the head has a groove in fron

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