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canaliculo punctato ; elytris profunde striatis, strlis punctatis, 



apice subproducto. 

 Long. Corp. (raandib. incl.) lin. 3h- 

 Hab. Malacca. Coll. Parry. 



The present briefly-described insect appears to be allied to 

 F. Manillaru}n, Hope (^angustatus, MS., Eschscholtz), and like that 

 species varies considerably in sculpture according to development, 

 rendering it difficult in a single description to characterize the 

 different stages of its growth. 



F. scaritijormis appears, however, to differ in having the elytra 

 somewhat shorter and more depressed, the sides of the prothorax 

 more coarsely punctate, and the central longitudinal channel 

 longer and deeper, its punctuation also being more defined. 

 Since my first notice of this species, several specimens of it, in the 

 various stages of development, have been received from the same 

 locality. 



SiNODENDRON Americanum ^,2, Palisot de Beauvois, Tns. Afric. 

 et Amer. 192, tab. i. fig. 1, 2, 3; Melsheim. Cat. Coleop. 

 U. S. p. 57. 



S. piceum ; thorace marginato, glabro, antice truncato, 7-dentato, 

 intermedio duobusque lateralibus prominulis ; capitis cornu 

 recurvo ; elytris valde et subirregulariter punctato-striatis. 



Whether the description above quoted of an insect, stated to be 

 from North America, can be considered as applying to a distinct 

 species, admits perhaps of some doubt, no other specimen having 

 been recorded from that country. Allusion is certainly made to 

 it in Melsheimer's Catalogue of the United States Coleoptera, but 

 on Palisot's authority alone. 



Dr. Leconte also, in his Classification of the United States 

 Coleoptera, mentions further that he is totally unacquainted with 

 it. I feel, therefore, inclined to believe, from the description as 

 well as from the great similarity of the figures given in Palisot's 

 work to our own European species, that Sinodendron cylindr'icum 

 has been erroneously described as a distinct species under the 

 name of »S'. Americanum; but not being acquainted with the type 

 specimen, the present remarks can only be taken therefore as 

 conjecture. 



Dendroblax Earlianus, White, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Zool. 

 p. ix. pi. ii. fig. 9 ^,10 $. 



The marked affinity shown in several respects by this species 



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