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The trophi are porrect ; mandibles large, broad at base or 

 triangular, apparently simple and obtuse at tips ; palpi with 

 obconic joints, terminal ones largest, 

 rounded at tips ; antenna? eleven-jointed ; 

 first joint obconic, second globular, third 

 obconic, succeeding ones sub-moniliforrn 

 or very short obconic, terminal one ovate. 

 Very dark castaneous above, badious be- 

 neath ; densely punctured, holosericeous, ^ g - 32- 

 with short, decumbent, yellowish hairs. Head nutant; eyes 

 large, globose, almost meeting beneath, emarginate in front 

 above the insertion of the antenna3 ; the latter, with the palpi, 

 ferruginous ; posterior part of the thorax deeply indented or 

 depressed on each side ; feet slender, tarsi elongated, joints 

 undivided, nails simple. Is it a Boscia? and described? 



Fig. 4. Belonging to the Cleridw. Black, thorax red with 

 a black spot on the disk ; last joint of antenna very long, 

 linear, flattened. Inhabits North Carolina. What is it ? 



Fig. 5. Boletobius montanus nob. MSS. Heteromerous. 

 Brown, inclining to a pale snuff-color ; scabrous with black 

 tubercules ; joints of 'antennae short, obconic, first largest, last 

 three transverse, forming a club, terminal one small, truncate at 

 tip ; palpi with obconic joints, terminal ones 

 ovate, acuminate ; mandibles grooved or bifid 

 at points. Head retracted to eyes, which are 

 reniform (not bisected as . in Eledona) ; thorax 

 with two large tubercules in front, one on each 

 side, and two elevated sinuate lines extending 

 from middle to base ; wings none ; scutel mi- 

 nute, transverse, oval, tuberculiform. Coleoptra with irreg- 

 ular series of deep foveoli ; on each elytron a short, elevated 

 line from middle of base, a larger one on disk, a submarginal 

 one, two tubercules before the tip, the inner one very much 

 elevated, and a smaller one on the tip ; epipleura embracing 

 body ; tarsal joints undivided, equal, except the last, which is 



