904 Le Conte's Descriptions of 
the country which gives them birth ; but in what civilized land 
are they less studied ? 
These remarks may appear rather high- flown to one who is 
not interested in the subject; but I trust I may be pardoned 
for this outburst of feeling, for, with Juvenal, * siccum jecur 
ira," when I see— shall I say ship-loads ? — of our 
finest insects sent off to Europe, with no authority but a cabi- 
net name, or perhaps not even with that, until some person of 
more than ordinary industry, into whose hands they chance to 
fall, describes them, and acquires great praise for doing that 
which he ought not to have had a chance of doing. Can it be 
wondered at that there is so much confusion about the synony- 
my of our species, when they are published in every country 
of the globe, but deri in which they ought to be € ? 
T ,BeanrrEs SUBSTRIATUS. Tab. XVIII. Fig. E 
Mandibularum parte exteriore "wg levi, profundo, lined elevata ae 
diviso ; parte interiore oblique striata. 
Habitat in provinciis dusted sub cortice ae emor- 
tuarum. Long. lin. 141-12, lat. 41-31. 
S. substriatus. Haldeman, ` Proceed. dad uk Se. 
Philad. . S. otus nosis, MSS. 
"Caput postice leve, anticé rugoso-striatum ; mpressionibus 
frontalibus magnis, profundis, rugosis, quae partem int 
am elatam, arcuatam et leviusculam complectuntur ; lineaque 
obliquà ab angulo anteriore ad i impressionem frontalem exten- 
dente, cum lineà transversali vix conspicua angulum formante. 
Mandibule exterius lineis duabus elevatis, ad apicem conjunc- 
tis, quee suleum profundum formant, versus basin lined alierà 
elevata, obliqua divisum, paucisque rugulis indistinctis nota- 
tum; interius, sicut in omnibus, oblique. striate. Antenné 
articulis quatuor primis glabris, reliquis pilosis. . Thora” se 
lunatus, basi medio leviter emarginatus ; impressione pot 
sali anteriore distinctâ, margine remotâ, margine - 
confluente, vix conspicuá ; basalibus obliquis, bre bros: pm 
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