7- ORDER COLEOPTERA. 



Mr. Harris mentions another species, called t] ■• • enicola : its color is deep maho- 

 ut m brown, smooth, polished ; the male has a deeper tinl before the middle of the thorax. 



Gekus DICHELONYCHLA ( 11 uuus). 



Labrum transi ers olate ; mandibles short, trigonal, incurved, acute and toothh ss ; 



maxiihe minute, linear, bidentate, teeth shori : first joint of the palpi minute, the 

 second longer than the third : antennas nine-jointed. 

 It is m 're quadrangular and i ted than the Genus M icrodactyli s. 



DlCBELONYCHA 1I.om.aia. ( Plate XXV, fig. 1.) 



Color light brown : b idy qu idrate, or with parallel sides, and the head extremity equal- 

 ling the base ; elytra punctured, and marked with a greenish stripe. Length rather 

 more than one-fourth of an inch. 



ros El I HLORA (Macueat). Lhomala (Mergerle). 



ElCHLORA CUXKBS (Gl\). (Place \\iv. fig. 6.) 



Yellowish brown; back part of the head, and central part of the thorax, shaded with 

 darker brown : elytra bordered with brown. 

 \ r. strata. Darker brown, nearly black (fig. 8). 



Gehos BOPLLA ( li.Lic). 

 • Antennae ten-jointed ; claws simple, but unequal " ( Westwood). 



HOPLIA TKIFASCIATA (S.). ( Plate \xiv, fig. 4.) 



Etufous : surface thickly coven d with scale-like grains, with downy hairs ; beneath silver] . 

 or rather brassy. Elytra traversed transverselj by three paler bars, confluent with 

 the darker : post-abdomen covered with brass] granules, similar to the abdomen; 

 legs v< ry long. Female darker than the male. Length one-fourth of an inch. 



Macrodact-yus subspinosa (Latr.). Alclolcntha s. (Fab.). (PI. v, fig. 13.) 

 llow "r ashen or drab, and clothed with a short dense down. It i-- Blender before, 

 hut comparatively thick, full and obtuse behind, but tapers gently from the base of 

 the elytra to the extremity of the abdomen, the point of which is exposed : labrum 

 projecting over the mouth: thorax protuberant laterally, becoming spinous ; elytra 

 1 1 rt d closely wit! ■! hairs, nearly covering the < \tr< mity of the abdo- 



men :b . the abdomen protuberant and greenish; legs long, rufous, and but 



Bparselj hairy ; joints of the tarsi dark brown, and Burrounded with small spines: 

 this is more conspicuous upon the hindlegs. 



