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Show 9 APPENDIX C.- INSECTS. 877 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. Valley of the Great Salt Lake. MELOB 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 punctate with the disk impressed. Elytra scabrous and acute. Abdomen above and below with minute piliferous punctures. Feet slender. Length from four to five lines. Kern's collection. HENOUS, Hald. Form of JSpicanta, 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. Antennae setaceous, third articulation longest; from the third to the sixth slightly dilated and compressed in the male. Ungues cleft, with the parts equal. HENOUS TECHANUS, Hald. PL. IX. Fio. 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 |