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FAMILY DlAPERlDif;. 



320. DfAPERis ( ArrhcnopUta ) iucornis. — Oliv. — Length of body 

 male i ^, female 2 lines. Several taken in the route from New York to 

 Cumberland-house. 



Body punctured, glossy ; underneath black, above black- bronzed or 

 green-bronzed. Head of the female transversely impressed between the 

 eyes, unarmed; in the male just behind the eyes is a pair of long 

 cylindrical vertical piceous horns rather paler at the apex, between which 

 is a deep excavation ; the nose also at the apex is armed with a pair of 

 minute triangular teeth ; mouth, in both sexes, rufous : antennae black 

 with the three first joints attenuated and rufous ; prothorax transverse 

 with the sides rounded, posteriorly obtusangular but not lobed ; scutellum 

 triangular ; elytra slightly furrowed with the furrows punctured ; interstices 

 minutely punctured ; anus underneath with two transverse obtuse ridges ; 

 legs rufous. 



[Belongs to Hoplocephala Lap. ; quite common in Canada.] 



[236.] FAMILY BOLITOPHAGIDi€. 



321. BoLiTOPHAGus coRNUTUS Fahr. — Length of body 5 lines. 

 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, in a Boletus of the birch, near I^ke 

 Huron. [Quite common in old dry fungi on trees and stumps. For 

 description and figures see Say's Amer. Entomology, vol. i, p. 114, plate 



51. With regard to the orthography of this word, we may mention that 

 the Greek term is BoHtes^ and the Latin Boletus ; as the termination 

 p&agus is Greek the generic name of the insect should be written as 

 above, Bolitophagus^ while Boletus is quite correct as applied to the 

 fungus.] 



322. BoLrroPHAGUs obcordatus Kirby. — Length of body 6)^ 

 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 



Body linear-oblong, pollinose. Head brown-black, subtriangular ; 

 labrum ciliated with yellow hairs; antennae black-piceous, last joint 

 smaller than the two antecedent ones, which are bigger than the rest : 

 prothorax brown-black, obcordate with a larger anterior sinus for the 

 head ; surface flat, uneven behind from five obtuse ridges, the lateral ones 

 abbreviated, and before from several rounded tubercles : scutellum minute : 



