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CURIUS, Newn. 

 C. dentatus, Newn. Ent. p. 17: Dej. Cat. 3. ed., p 358; eoncinnatus Hald. 

 Trans. Am. Phil. X. 1S47. p. 43. 



Length .24 inch. = 6 mm. Huh. Florida. 

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

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

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

 punctulate and pubescent. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE III. 



1 Dicenthrus Bluethneri. 12 Curius dentatus. * 



2 Eburia 4-geminata. 13 Pcecilobrium chalybeum.* 



3 Elaphidion rufulum. 14 Eumichthus cedipus. * 



4 " parallelum. 15 Phyton pallidum. 



5 Ancflus protensus. 16 Obrium rubrum.* 



6 Eustroma validum.* 17 Hybodera tuberculata. 



7 Tylonotus bimaculatus. 18 Megobrium Edwardsii* 



8 Zamodes obscurus. 19 Callimoxys sanguinicollis. 



9 Compsa puncticollis.* 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. 



In a specimen of Monihma sent me as semipundatum 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 o( 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 recently 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 son 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 ol interest and curiosity. 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. 



