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Family CLYTHRIDjE. Clythridans. 



CX. Genus CHLAMYS. Knoch. 



(276) 1. Chlamys plicata. Plicate Chlamys. 



Chlamys plicata. Oliv. Ent. vi, 96, 870, 3, t. i, / 3. Klug. Monogr. 114, 22. 



tuberosa. Knoch. Nene. Beytr. i, 128, 1, t. iv, /. 42? 



Clythra plicata. Fab. Suppl. iii, 10; Syst. Eleuth. ii, 33, 20. Coq. Ittustr. Ic. iii, 129, t. xxix, / 8. 



Bruchus gibbosus. Fab. Ent. Syst. ii, 370, 8; Syst. Eleuth. ii, 397, 10. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. iv, 1735, 10. 



Length of the body 2 lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. I have also received a specimen probably taken 

 in New England by Professor Peck, from my friend the Rev. T. Brown, rector of 

 Hemingston, Suifolk ; and another from Massachusets from Dr. T. Harris, Jun. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body obscure, bronzed. Head impressed posteriorly between the eyes ; rhinarium, antennae, and 

 an elevated space adjoining the eyes anteriorly, rufous ; nose indistinctly punctured : prbthorax very 

 finely and concentrically scored, with some scattered indistinct punctures ; posteriorly considerably 

 elevated : elevation bifid ; behind this elevation the prothorax is producted and emarginate : scutellum 

 obtriangular : elytra tuberculated with several acute, compressed tubercles, the anterior ones cari- 

 nated ; interstices with some scattered deep punctures : space between the four posterior legs punc- 

 tured with large shallow punctures. 



X. PHYLLOPHAGA. Kirb. 



i. Cyclica. Latr. 



It appears to me that no very wide interval separates the Anthribidce from the 

 Cyclica of Latreille, the former tribe have lost the conical palpi, thus receding from 

 one great character of the Rhynchophorous beetles ; their maxilla is also different 

 and distinctly bilobed, approaching more nearly to that of the Cyclica — many forms 

 however still intervene between them. On the above account, I have transposed 

 Latreille's two sections of Eupoda and Cyclica. 



