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2. C. HTSTEROIDES. — Dark cupreous; clypeus emarginate; an- 

 tennae yellowish. 



Inhabits the United States. 

 Scarhseus h'stcroides Knoch in Melsh. Catal. 

 Body punctiared ; above dark cupreous ; beneath blackish-cu- 

 preous : clypeus with the punctures obsolete behind, and more 

 distinct before; an impressed line from the anterior can thus of 

 the eye to the lateral edge; anterior edge bidentate, teeth 

 slightly elevated and separated by an emargination : antennaa 

 yellow: thorax with an abbreviated impressed line from the 

 middle nearly to the base, nearly obsolete on the disk and [206] 

 anteriorly ; lateral submargin with an impressed dot ; lateral 

 edge not angulated; elytra striate; striae profound, slightly punc- 

 tured ; interstitial lines flat and impunctured ; anterior tibia 

 with series of yellowish cil^e ; exterior edge four-toothed, the 

 posterior tooth minute or obsolete ; terminqj spine acute. 



Length more than one-fourth of an inch. 



This insect, which occurs in Pennsylvania, I also obtained on 

 the Mississippi near Cape Gerardeau. 



[Belongs to Choeridium and is the same as Ateuclms caputra- 

 tns Fab. — Lec] 



3. C. TRIANGULARIS. — Cupreous ; head horned; thorax angu- 

 lated; elytra striated and punctured. 



Inhabits Arkansa. 



Body dark reddish-cupreous : clypeus reticulate, margined with 

 black ; horn as long as the thorax, recurved, black : thorax 

 minutely scabrous, with a depressed triangular plane upon the 

 surface ; the lateral angles very prominent ; a large submarginal 

 lateral puncture : elytra regularly striate, with impressed slightly 

 punctured lines ; interstitial spaces punctured. 



Length less than foui'-fifths of an inch. 



This species is somewhat larger than C. carni/ex, to which it 

 is closely allied, but differs in color, in having an impressed striae 

 upon the elytra, and punctured interstitial spaces; whereas in car- 

 ni/ex the sides of thorax and the elytra are green, and the latter 

 have elevated striae, and irregular elevated abbreviated lines on 

 the interstitial spaces. 



[A species of Phanaeus ; a variety of it was afterwards de- 

 scribed by me as P. torrens. — Lec] [207] 



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