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CURIUS, Xeicn. 

 C. dentatus, Ncwn. Ent. p. 17; Dej. Cat. 3. ed., p 358; concinnatus Hnld. 

 Trans. Am. Phil. X, 1847, p. 43. 



Length ,24 inch. = 6 mm. Hab. Florida. 



Form depressed, surface dull, slightly pubescent. Color pale brown, 

 the elytra with three longitudinal darker spots. The eyes are coarsely 

 granulated, the antennse slender, longer than the body, annulated, finely 

 punctulate and pubescent. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE III. 



1 Dicenthrus Bluetlineri. 12 Curius dentatus.* 



2 Eburia 4-geminata. 13 Pcecilobrium chalybeum. * 



3 Elaphidion riifulum. 14 F.umichthus oedipus.* 



4 " parallelum. 15 Phyton pallidum. 



5 Aneflus protensus. 16 Obrium rubrum.* 



6 Eustroma validum.* 17 Hybodera tuberculata. 



7 Tylonotus bimaculatus. 18 Megobrium Edwardsii.* 



8 Zamodes obscurus. 19 Callimoxys sanguinicollis. 



9 Compsa puncticoUis.* 20 Molorchus bimaculatus. 



10 Heterachthes 4-maculatus. 22 Ancylocera bicolor. 



1 1 Plectromerus dentipes. * 



* The drawings for this figure we owe to the kindness of Dr. Horn. 



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In a specimen of JMonilema sent me as sanipunLiaiiim. I observe a 

 strange aberration. The tarsus of one hind leg is five-jointed, the first 

 four joints being quite equal in length but each shorter than usual so 

 that the four occupy only the length that the usual three would do. The 

 final joint is of the usual size. The spongy pubescence which covers the 3d 

 joint only, on the normal tarsus, is in the other spread over all four joints 

 and reaches even the tip of the tibia. In view of the well established theory 

 that such aberrations are a reversion to an ancestral type more or less re- 

 mote, this specimen would be a further indication that the Longicorns are 

 descended from individuals possessing five jointed tarsi. Chas. W. Leng. 



Not everybody knows the qualifications required to make a good 

 Entomologist, but we have recendy discovered one not previously known 

 to us, and which might prove interesting. A well known Coleopterist re- 

 joices not only in a fine collection, but in a little six year old soi^ who 

 takes a great interest in his father's collection and in his callers as well. 

 Recently came a visitor who was viewed by the youngster with a great 

 deal of interest and ciwiosity. After he had left, the boy sidled up to his 

 father and said confidentially: "Papa! that wasn't a real one; was it.?'' 

 "What do you mean.?" said the astonished father. "He collect insects; 

 don't he.?" "Yes, certainly." "But he isn't a real collector; not a genuine 

 one I mean!" "But why not?" "Because he has too much hair on his 

 head: all the real ones have very little!" said the youngster decidedly. 



