and it was only a few months since, that he 

 received the second volume of Dejean's Species 

 General des Coleopteres, published last year, in 

 which the distinguished author has reformed 

 the genus Cychrus. But as the object of that 

 intention was, that the work might be " bound 

 up, w^hen completed, agreeably to systematic 

 order in the succession of genera," the author 

 conceives that no disadvantage can ever arise 

 from this circumstance, as these genera are so 

 closely allied, that it seems hardly possible, any 

 future discovery shall disturb their proximity. 



SCAPHINOTUS ELEVATUS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Blackish ; elytra violaceous-cupreous, polished ; 

 hardly narrower behind. 



PLATE 45. 



