abdomine tenuissime alutaceis, punctis majoribus remotioribus
impressis; pectore, lateribus, pedibusque rugoso-punctatis,
femoribus infra fortiter oblique costato-rugosis; tibiis intus,
anticis fortius crenulatis. Long. (rostr. excl.) 16-18, lat. elytr.
8-9 mill.

"Patria--Persia, prope Kirrind, ubi _Echinopsidis_ speciem
frequentat, cujus plantae caules ab hoc insecto puncti materiam
quamdam saccharinam sudant." _W. K. Loftus_, Mus. Brit.

[Illustration: Fig. 1.

_Larinus maculatus_, Falderm.]

[Illustration: Fig. 2.

The cocoons of _Larinus maculatus_, called in Turkish _Trehala_.]

[Illustration: Fig. 3.

_Larinus mellificus_, Jekel.]

Very similar to _L. Onopordinis_, but proportionably more elongate and
less convex; rostrum and thorax longer; pilosity of the body underneath
much thinner and shorter; thighs thicker, more clavate, the anterior
evidently costate-rugose underneath; without whitish marks on the
elytra, and without that layer of light-brown earth-like pollinose
transudation which is often wanting in rubbed specimens of _Larinus
Onopordinis_. The freshest specimens have the griseous margin of the
elytra, which parts from the base under the shoulder, obliquely and
angularly ampliate interiorly towards the middle, where it reaches the
second stria. This griseous pilosity fills all the tips of the elytra,
leaving bare only the sutures, an angular notch behind the middle (which
forms with that apical part of the suture a kind of hook on each
elytron), and two round spots, one submarginal fronting the tip of the
notch, the other larger, discoidal, behind the foot of the notch, much
above the tip.

FOOTNOTES:

[G] Comptes Rendus, 21 Juin, 1858, p. 1213.

[H] Pharmacopoea Persica ex idiomate Persico in Latinum conversa. Lutet.
Paris., 1681, p. 361.

[I] This saccharine substance is noticed by Avicenna as _Zuccarum
alhusar_ (Lib. ii. Tract. ii. cap. 756, ed. Valgr. Venet. 1564), and
also by Matthiolus (Comm. in Lib. ii. Diosc. cap. 75). It is likewise
referred to by Endlicher (Enchiridion Botanicum, p. 300), Royle
(Illustr. of the Bot. of the Himalayan Mountains, vol. i. p. 275), Merat
and De Lens (Dict. de Matiere Medicale, l. i. p. 467), &c.

[J] Revue Pharmaceutique de 1856, par Dorvault, p. 37.

[K] Comptes Rendus, 28 Juin 1858, p. 1276.

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