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triangular, 10 more rounded. Eyes large, prominent. Labrum dis- 
tinct, anteriorly ciliate with silky brown hair. 
Thorax very~convex, sparsely clothed laterally with short brown 
hair; middle of anterior portion without the distinct bulge shown in 
Horn’s figure of adult female; posterior half granulate with a median 
longitudinal sulcus smooth; anterior half with recurved dentate tuber- 
cles (teeth less pronounced in the females), the extreme anterior edge 
granulate only. 
Elytra shining, glabrous; costae 4, the 2 outer indistinct; intervals 
of inner 2 costae foveolate, smoother towards sides; the 2 inner 
costae terminate in a tubercle (female), and in a robust tooth (male). 
Elytra bent downward behind the upper tubercle at an angle of 
45-60 degrees. The declivity smooth in the male, granulate in the 
female. 
Abdomen 5-segmented, all segments equal and fully visible; entire 
ventral surface covered with fine silky brown pile. 
Legs more or less covered with hair, front coxae prominent, coni- 
cal, trochanters prominent, femora stout, tibiae flat and acutely dentate 
externally, tarsi 5-jointed, claws simple and arcuate, 5th tarsal joint 
with a bristle-bearing pad. 
Length 38-51 mm.; width 14-18 mm. 
The adult is lumbering in its movements and has poor eye- 
sight as one of the beetles escaped and while in flight collided 
with anything that came in its path, making its recapture easy. 
Although the wings are well developed, the heavy body im- 
pedes swift and unerring flight. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. 
Dinapate wrightu Horn. 
1. Adults, dorsal view—X 26/25. (Male with robust elytral tooth.) . 
2. Adults, lateral view—X 26/25. 
3. Larvae and pupae—Natural size. 
4. Larval gallery in wood of Washingtonia filifera—X 8/9. 
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Selenis sueroides (Lep.). 
Mr. J. G. Bonniwell has recently sent me a specimen of Selenis mon- 
otropa Grote. It is labeled, “Bradentown, Florida, ex larva, August 
17th.” Mr. Bonniwell says: “My wife and IJ have raised quite a few 
of these from the larvae. It feeds on a variety of ‘sensitive plant’ and 
penetrates the stem to make its pupa.” The species was described by 
Grote in the Canadian Entomologist, 1876, vii, 209, from Texas. We 
have specimens of the same moth from Cuba, in the Poey Collection, 
under the name, Selenis sweroides Guénée. Sueroides was described 
in 1852—HENrY SKINNER. 
