THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. II. 



DECEMBER, MDCCCXL. 



Price 6d. 



Art. I. — Entomological Notes. By Edward Newman. 

 (Continued). 



Class. — COLEOPTERA. 



Natural Order. — Cerambycites, Newman. 



Genus. — Curius, Newman. 



Caput porrectum, oculis magnis, fere rotundis, ad antennarum ba- 

 sim vix emarginatis ; antennaB corpore longio- 

 res, graciles, 11-articulatae, articulus lus cae- 

 teris paullo crassior, 2us brevis, 3us caeteris 

 longior, 4us et sequentes longitudine fere 

 fequales : prothorax capite duplo longior, dor- 

 so paullo complanatus, lateribus convexus : 

 elytra prothorace latiora, lateribus parallela, 

 apice rotundata : pedes longitudine mediocres, 

 femoribus tumidis, subtus dente magno medi- 

 ano armatis. 



Curius dentatus. Testaceus, obscurus, subtiliter ac crebie punc- 

 tus ; caput fuscum, antennae palKdae, articulis apice fuscis : 

 prothorax testaceus, vitta longitudinali ante marginem posticam 

 di\dsa, fiisca : elytra testacea, fusco nubila : femora apice late 

 fusca. (Corp. long. '275 unc. lat. "075 unc.) 



Inhabits North America. A single specimen, taken by Mr. E. 

 Doubleday at St. John's Bluff, in East Florida, is in the cabinet of 

 the Entomological Club. This curious little insect differs from all 

 the longicorns with which I am acquainted, in the possession of a 

 very strong distinct tooth on the underside of each femur, resembling 

 tliat of so common occurrence in the genus Donacia. The appear- 

 ance of the insect is very much that of a small Callidium, and in no 



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