CHOLUS URBANUS. 



Plate XLVIIII. fig. 2. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section; Rhyncophora. Family: CiirculiouidEE. Subfamily: Cholides. 



Genus. Cholus, Germar. Rhynchsenus, Fahr. Curculio p. Linn. §-c. 



Cholus Urbanus Fusco-viridis, thorace elytrisque flavo marginatis. (Long. Corp. rostr. inclus. 1 uuc. 1^ lin.) 



Syn. Curculio urbanus, Olio. Bnc. MHh. v. p. 503. Sch. Syn. Ins. Curcul. 3. 571. 17. (Cholus u.) 



Curculio cinctus, Drury, App. vol. 3. (nee Cholus ductus, Oliv. Rhynchaenus.) Herbst. Col. vi. p. 

 478. t. 19. fg. 7. 



Habitat : Musquito Shore, near Honduras. 



Head black. Rostrum half the length of the insect. Antennae black, arising near the end of the 

 Ijeak. Thorax dirty green, with a cream-coloured stripe running on each side, which is continued along 

 the sides of the elytra, meeting at the anus. Beneath cream colour. Legs the same, being dirty green 

 above. Every part of the insect appears covered with innumerable small black pustules, like spots, 

 some smaller than others, those on the upper side being largest . Each of the femora is furnished with 

 a single spine. 



DYNASTES CLAVIGER. 



Plate XLVIII. fig. 3. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Lamellicornes. Family : Dynastidse. 



GENU.S. Dynastes, MacLeay. Geotrupes, FaJn Scarabseus, iwm. ia^r. 



Dynastes Claviger. Rufus, thoracis cornu elevato apice dilatato; capitis longo, subulato recurvo. (Long. 

 Corp. fere 2 une.) 



Syn. Scarabceus claviger, Linn. Mant. 1. p. 529. Fabr. Syst. Ent. 1. p. b. No. 7. Syst. El. 1 . /;. 0. No. 1 1 . 

 Oliv. Ent. 1. 3. p. 20. No. 18. t. b.fig. 40. a. b. Jabl. Nat. Syst. 1. p. 239. No. 10. t. 3./. 1. Pat. 

 Beauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Col. ix. pi. le.f. 1. 



Habitat; Cayenne. 



Head small, margined, and armed with a long horn which bends upwards. Thorax dark brown and 

 rrargined, having a very remarkable erect and black horn issuing from it, which bends forward towards 

 the head, the extremity of which is trifurcate, hollowed beneath, and covered with a brown pile like that 

 of velvet. Elytra brown, the margin and suture being black. Legs black. Thighs brown. Tibiee with 

 two spurs. Anterior tibiae vnth three spines placed on the external part. 



HISTER (OXYSTERNUS) MAXIMUS. 



Plate XLVIII. fig. 4. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Clavicornes. Family : Histeridse. 



Genus. Hister, Linn.^c. (Subgenus: Oxysteruus, Eriehson.) 



Hister (Oxysternus) Maximcs. Depressus ater nitidus ; elytris striatis, mandibulls exsertis capite 

 longioribus. (Long. Corp. cum mandib. 1 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Hister maximus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 566. 1. 



Hololepta maxillosa, Pari Mon. Hist. 111.9. t. ix./. 7. 

 Hister maxillosus, Drury, App. vol. 2. 

 Oxysternus maximus, Eriehson hi Jahrb. der Ent. 1. 100. 



0. maxillosus, Guirin If Percheron Genera des Ins. 1. Col. pi. 7. ( J ?) Fabricius Ent. Syst. vol. 4. 

 Append. p. 437. Schonh. Syn. Itis. l.p. 98. 



Habitat : Cayenne. 



