APPENDIX C. — INSECTS. 377 



HORIA STANSBURII, Hald. 



Black, elytra sanguineous. Head pilose, and with the pro- 

 thorax scabrous with confluent punctures. Pectus shining, and, 

 with the feet, punctate. Abdomen of the female with a small fovea 

 upon the middle of the three terminal segments. Elytra scabrous, 

 with large irregular confluent punctures. Length of the male four, 

 of the female six lines. Yalley of the Great Salt Lake. 



Meloe parvus, Hald. 



Black, somewhat shining, head with numerous dilated punctures 

 extending to the labrum, eyes uniform, a smooth fovea near them, 

 and a smooth pustule between the fovea and the insertion of the 

 antennae. Antennae eleven-articulate, filiform, extending a little 

 beyond the prothorax, and apparently alike in both sexes; the 

 second articulation is the smallest, and the third equal to the two 

 following; beyond the third the length gradually increases to the 

 apex. Prothorax subquadrate, but the anterior angles are rounded 

 and the middle advanced so as to form a neck; posterior angles 

 raised in an obtuse pustule; dorsal line interrupted, impressed 

 before the middle, and forming a rima posteriorly. Scutel punc- 

 tate with the disk impressed. Elytra scabrous and acute. Ab- 

 domen above and below with minute piliferous punctures. Feet 

 slender. Length from four to five lines. Kern's collection. 



Henous, Hald. 



'FoYmoHJpicanta, with the elytra abbreviated, connate, and each 

 obtusely rounded. Prothorax subglobular, lengthened anteriorly. 

 Abdomen, with the middle part above, coriaceous, and the lateral 

 parts membranous ; that of the female inflated. Antennas setace- 

 ous, third articulation longest ; from the third to the sixth slightly 

 dilated and compressed in the male. Ungues cleft, with the parts 

 equal. 



Henotjs techanus, Hald. 

 Pl. IX. Fig. 12-14. 



Black, short, pubescent, minutely granulate. Head, thorax, and 

 elytra scabrous, with confluent punctures; labrum and clipeus 

 with dilated impressed punctures, more crowded upon the labrum 



