. Australian insects. Insects. COI-EOPTERA. I!):) tirens is .a much smaller beetle, with the head, thorax, and base of the elytra clothed with dull yellow hairs; the rest cf the wing covers is deep green striped with white on the sides. It feeds upon a number of small shrubs, but its com- monest food plant is the stunted prickly wattle (Acacia juniperina). S. solandri, a larger beetle clothed with a dense coat of fine buff hairs, breeds in the flower stalk of the grass tree, often cutting it right through and causing the upper half, beneath which it pupates, to fall off. S. vestigiaUs measures
. Australian insects. Insects. COI-EOPTERA. I!):) tirens is .a much smaller beetle, with the head, thorax, and base of the elytra clothed with dull yellow hairs; the rest cf the wing covers is deep green striped with white on the sides. It feeds upon a number of small shrubs, but its com- monest food plant is the stunted prickly wattle (Acacia juniperina). S. solandri, a larger beetle clothed with a dense coat of fine buff hairs, breeds in the flower stalk of the grass tree, often cutting it right through and causing the upper half, beneath which it pupates, to fall off. S. vestigiaUs measures % of an inch; it is brown, richly mottled Pig. 95.âHebecerux iii' ginicolKs (Boisd.)- The White-cheeked Lon^ <"Agricultural ). with buff and grey. It feeds upon wattles; it has a wide range over Southern Australia. The Genus Penthea comprises a number of more thickset beetles with similar habits, and which have the upper â surface of the thorax and wing covers granulated or ribbed and these are either covered with a dense pubes- cence or mottled all over in a very characteristic manner. Penthea vermlculanu, one of the commonest and with a very wide range, is black with the antennae banded, and the elytra covered with irregulai' wavy white markings. It is very variable in size, II/4 inches to under % of an inch in length. P. saundersi, found in W. Australia, is much larger, of a more shining dark chocolate brown tint, and more deeply impressed with well defined spots, blotches and irregular buff coloured markings. P. sannio, .smaller than the last and with a more constricted thorax, has the whole of the upper surface clothed with a creamy grey pubescence overlaid with deep orange red, and irregular dark lines crossing the wing covers; this beautiful beetle is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly rese
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