TPRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



VOIvUlME XIII. 



DINAPATE WRIOHTII and its larva. 



BY GEORGE H. HORN, M. D. 



DINAPATE n. g. (Bostrychiufe) 



Form cylindrical, rather massive ; head rather large, inferior ; e3'es 

 round, prominent ; clypeus truncate, labrum transverse ciliate in 

 front ; mandibles stout, pyramidal, acute at tip ; maxillae ciliate at 

 tip, the palpi moderate in length, slightly ciliate, the last joint elon- 

 gate-oval ; nientum transverse, emarginate (ligula and palpi absent 

 in my specimens) ; antenniie inserted between the eye and base of 

 mandibles, ten-jointed, first joint as long as the next four, second 

 as wide as long, joints three to seven broader than long, obconical, 

 slightly flattened, last three joints forming a loose club which is as 

 long as joints two to seven together and more than twice as wide, 

 the joints of the club wider than long ; thorax very convex, oboval, 

 broader than long with asperities antero-laterally ; scutellum oval at 

 tip ; elytra not flattened, the extreme tip sinuately truncate ; pro- 

 sternum very short in front of the coxoe, these ovate, contiguous, the 

 cavities confluent and very narrowly enclosed behind ; middle coxae 

 moderately separated, the mesosternum oblique ; metasternum mod- 

 erately long, the episterna wide, parallel, the posterior coxpe very 

 narrowly separated ; abdomen with five equal segments ; legs mod- 

 erate, the tibiae dilated and strongly dentate externally ; tarsi rather 

 slender, nearly as long as the tibite, the first joint short, second as 

 long as the fifth, second and third short and equal, last joint with a 

 rather long onychium, the claws strong and arcuate ; body winged. 



TRANS. AMEE. ENT. SOC. (1) JANUARY, 1886. 



