THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



joined to the thorax; the short antennae, and the legs, which 

 are adapted to digging. This insect was first described in 1832 

 by Desmarest, and it has been generahy conceded by entomolo- 

 gists that it forms a distinct genus and even family of Coleoptera. 

 The species is considered to be a remnant or fragment of a very 

 old fauna, otherwise unrepresented among living forms. The 

 illustration given herewith is about six-fifths natural size. 



W. Beutenmuller. 



LECTURES IN MARCH AND APRIL. 



The City Board of Education has provided the following 

 courses of illustrated lectures for March and April. 

 Saturday evenings, on physical geography : 



March i. — Jacques W. Redway, "Life of a World." An 

 explanation of some important facts in geology. 



March 8. — Jacques W. Redway, "Industrial Regions of the 

 United States." 



March 15. — Richard E. Dodge, "Man's Relation to Rivers 

 and River Valleys." 



March 22. — Richard E. Dodge, " Man's Relation to Moun- 

 tains and Plains." 



March 29. — Richard E. Dodge, "Life in the Deserts." 



April 5. — Cyrus C. Adams, "Great Ports of the World." 



April 12. — John W. Moyer, "How to Know the Common 

 Trees." 



April 19. — John W. Moyer, "Where Lumber Comes From." 



April 26. — Miss Louise Klein Miller, "Home Gardening." 

 Tuesday evenings, on the geography of North America : 



March 4. — ^John P. Clum, "Alaska." 



March 11. — S. T. Willis, "The Mississippi Valley and the 

 Southern States." 



March 18. — H. L. Bridgman, "Seeking Peary and the Pole." 



March 25. — W. E. Meehan, "Pennsylvania." 



April I. — Egerton R. Young, " In the Land of the Red Men, 

 as they Were and Are. With Glimpses of Prairies, Mountains, 

 Lakes and the Glorious Northern Auroras." 



April 8.— W. E. Meehan, "Florida." 



April 15. — John P. Clum, " In the Wake of the Setting Sun." 



April 22. — W. E. Simmons, "The Nicaragua Canal." 



April 29. — John C. Bowker, "Hawaii." 



The doors of the lecture hall will be opened at half -past seven, 

 and the lectures will begin promptly at eight o'clock. 



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