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" Corduroy Roads " in the great Huron track ; and Dr. Thaddeus 

 W. Harris, librarian of Harvard University, lias also informed me, 

 that " the larvoe inhabit the solid trunks of oaks, which they attack 

 immediately after the trees have been cut down for timber or fuel : 

 they do not perforate living trees ; they are very singular in their 

 form and habits." M. Lacordaire discovered the insects of this 

 family, which inhabit Guiana, burrowing under the bark of trees 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., vol. i. No. 4.) ; and Professor Savi informed 

 Latreille (7?. An. vol. v. 75.), that the Italian species above-mentioned 

 resided in the colonies of a species of ant, which takes up its 

 quarters under the bark of trees. 



Some of the most extraordinary species of Rhyncophoi'ous insects 

 compose the South African g. Antliarhinus, in one sex of which the 

 rostrum is nearly three times as long as the body, porrected, and as 

 thin as a fine needle (y?r/. 40. 22.). Schonherr regards these indi- 

 viduals as females, and considers this genus as most nearly allied to 

 Brenthus and Cylas, rather than to Balaninus, near which it was at 

 first arranged. Thunberg (Nov. Act. Scien. Upsal, vol. iv. p. 29.) 

 has described the female of the Antliarhinus Zamiae, which inhabits 

 the Cycas CafFra, a Cape palm, in the larva state ; and which is thus 

 described : " Larva habitat intra squamas ipsius strobili femini, ubi 

 nutrimentum suum sumit ; tam ex ipsis nucibus quam ex rubro carne, 

 singulam obvelantem nucem. Alba est tota pilis albidis erectis, 

 semiunguicularis ; maxilla; brunnCcE ; caput, segmentum primum 

 thoracis et anus supra brunnea, et segmentum penultimum macula 

 brunnea notatum ; in dorso et lateribus linese sex longitudinales e 

 punctis parvis nigris ; pedes veri sex, segmentis tribus primis insert!, 

 spurii verruciformes, quorum ultimi duo parum majores, segmentis 

 abdominalibus inserti." 



The second subfamily Attel abides* is distinguished by the anten- 

 nai being straight {Jj(j- 41. 2.), and inserted upon the rostrum, and with 



* BiBi.ioGK. Refeu. to the Attelahides. 



Illiger, in Sclineider's IVIag. v. 



Thunberg. Dissert. Nov. Ins. Spec. III. 



Germar, in Neue Ann. dcr Wetter. Gesellscli. !., and Ins. Sp. Nov. 



Bohemann, in Act. Mosq. vi. 



