91 oKtiRR coi-aorreKA. 



riiiii<hu>. 



Tilt f.illjil> I'tl .|i>,». I- ■ ' ' '-r <>t -lu-iii iiiMrf., " fi:rii uri ' iiii.i i< iiMj" 



•liiitxl till >t (iiiii"< to i-.i . <- : iht-y are r«<iiti<l In (lit- u<«i<iK<irk ofoid 



h.-n-. >; ill ruruiliin- mid lM«,k.-., iltKil j'lant ruin. itr. The (iciiiic 



Am'imi m \i ■•ncurilu-M>,nn(l hus aoiuind the ; :ii ilx- iioim- |t tiutktt. 



o»j<Lii riiMs. 



•Aii'.nmr loiiR, )*li-n<li>r iiml xiniplt*, In^vrtrd rloM- ti'i;i|}nr niinint : rlMr» 



^< porn ted ; Ixxly oblong' ( Wiarrwooo). 



Ptixi'b »i k ( Liiin). 

 This li n Miiall ovnl in<i<Tt of a rt-ddlsh Krown color, one-eighth of tin inrh in Irnirih, 

 wltli the hrail and pn'th'Tux small and tht- f«-«'t and antennir l<.nn and shndi-r. The eljlra 

 •n oovon-il with hain>, and have a lonRiludlnal .stria fllh-d with ininrlurr.*. It is vt-rj 

 dwtnirtive u hen niimen>u.s, and is coninion to Kuro]>e and Anierira : in Kiir<>|ie, it d*- 

 «tn»ys stxred wheat. Hr. H.m.di_man remarks that he has found it feeding upon the eorn- 

 stalks us«sl to line east-s of inseets in an entomological collection, in the month of Fe- 

 bninry. It se«'ms to l)c a general fei-tler. 



Lyiiit'xylouidae. 



TiiK destruction of ship-timl»er collected in dockyards, which so often hai>i>ens, is fre- 

 quently efficted l>y the Lymtxxflotk itnvnlr, a species «>f insect l>elouging to this family, and 

 (bunil in Kun>iH'. Tlu* cause of thf damage was investigated hy Linm:vs, at the ncjuist t>f 

 the King of Swe«len ; and when ho disrovere«l it, he reeomniended immersing the tiniU-r 

 In water during the peri<Kl when the female iuM-ct would bt> engaged in dei>usiling her 

 eggs. Dr. HAKJtiii descrilns an Aiucricau s^>ecii^, or one belonging to the allietl genus 



•Hyi-IJlTKTrS. 



Clpra C.APITATA. 



Gulor black : heat! red or frrruginous, strongly ritlged and transVenM-ly gni<iTe<l, and 

 furnished wltli two prominent tubercles : thorax with three longitudinal ridge» : 

 elylm sir..ni{ly riilg.'d, with two n.>wsof punctures upi»n the l>ack,and three l'etwe«-n 

 the laUral ridges. 



