Tin Ml Bl 



nothing remarkable about it The elytra, however, are well 



■ • hv ol a i an ful ex anuria! ion In the first place, H 

 elongated to a txv rdinary extent, and the out* 



i ;i« li i • ill. iv, ii oul • ' appends 



be abdomi d and thi Indeed, the 



i,i the in ' ' i may be dividi d into three tolerably equal parts, i ) i « - 

 i Lm ing one, the body and thi aud the appen- 



dages i" the elytra the third T ppendages an-, like the 



head, cov< red with dark brov • hem a 



roughem d oul Lin 



r,y the unaided eye the upper pari of each elytron i seen 

 be adoi m 'I « il h a tiny whit< ibly powerful 



magnil • d before the ual are of tin nade cL 



The whole ol the urfi deeply pitted in r parallel 



row . o b to look very much like a bon my of the 



cell . i pecially those near the suture, are filled with ome white 

 material which produces tin* appearance which has already b 

 mentioned Bven m i the uture il ell the white material lias 

 oul "I leveral ceils winch then show their full depth 

 ami a iiun- the I''" 1 ' ;> ' tomb h Ice a pect which lias ju > been 

 mentioned Beneath, the in eel U blacki h brown, over which 

 number of whil ly scattered 



The generic name Dmwms, or "double-tail," u to th< •• 



in ects "ii accounl of the elongated elytra; while tl ific 



name fureUlatut, or " forked," refei to the mode in which the 

 antennae projeel from thi end ol the head like the prongs of a 

 fork Four species of Diurus ar< known, Sarawak and fndia 

 being their homes. Then are I" id< i many allied genera, winch 

 in mo ' n mbL the Dim 



►thee example of thi ingular family is called Tera- 



mocerus barbicorni , and com< from '■ Zealand The generic 

 name is formed from two Greek wop ifyingj "delict 



horned the antenna? of this genu lender than that 



ol the la i mentioned in though they al o are covered with 



down like seal In this in ect, and that which will I 

 inilv described, the elongation of the head seems to have 



■ hed i i reatesl po ible extent In one pecimen which I 

 have just measured, the entire length, including the elongated 

 elytra i three inchi i and a hair, of which the head alone 



