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qnus, which is the type of the second division of Trichophoms, does 

 not ajjpear to me to be one of the Phoracanthidae. The following- 

 species is, I believe, undescribed, and although so veiy similar to Trie, 

 lippus, I tliink it is distinct. 



Trie, distiifctus. Feriaigineo-fuscus maculis numerosis albo-tomen- 

 tosis : prothorax et elytra aspere puncta. (Corp. long. '85 unc. 

 lat. '2 unc.) 



The entire colour of this insect is darker than Trie, lippus, it is also 

 more rugose and less shining, and the white markings on the elytra 

 are not surrounded with a black margin : the white markings are thus 

 distributed ; on the crown of the head are two parallel longitudinal 

 lines ; a spot occupies the space between the eye and antenna ; on 

 the posterior part of the prothorax is a longitudinal line on each side, 

 each of these joins a marginal transverse line; the scutellum is white: 

 each elytron has three longitudinal lines; the 1st is near the suture 

 and above the middle of the elytron; the 2nd is exterior to the 1st, on 

 a level with the termination of which it commences, it is broken in the 

 middle ; the 3rd is exterior to the 2nd, and extends below it, being 

 the longest of the three. Both the species are from Brazil, and are 

 in the cabinet of the Entomological Club. 



Genus. — Elaphidion, Serville. 



The genus Elaphidion was established by Audinet-Serville, in the 

 'Annales Soc. Ent. of France,' iii. GQ. It contains a great number of 

 species, very similar in general appearance, and all of them inhabit- 

 ants of the New World. The characters by which it is distinguished 

 from the foregoing are slight ; the prothorax is rounded laterally, and 

 is without spines ; above, it is flattened : the elytra are obliquely trun- 

 cate, and bear a spine at each angle of the truncature. The typical 

 species is Stenocorus spinicornis of Fabricius, ' Syst. Eleu. ' ii. 306. 

 The following species I think is hitherto undescribed. 



Elapli. dejiendum. Antennae corpore paullo longiores, caput par- 

 vum, antice acuminatum : prothorax glaber : elytra jjarce ac 

 profunde puncta, apice vix spinosa : color niger, prothorax laite 

 Tufus macula magna rotunda dorsali nigra : scutellum lanugine 

 albida dense tectum : totum insectum pilis albidis sparsis irrora- 

 tum. (Corp. long. '5 unc. lat. -112.5 unc.) 



Inhabits the United States of North America. A specimen in the 

 cabinet of the Entomological Club, was taken in Georgia. 



