Expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake: Including a Description of its Geography, Natural History, and Minerals, and an Analysis of Its Waters

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APPENDIX C- IKBKCT8. . * 876 s MELOLPNTHA DECEMLINKATA, Say. Valley of the Great Salt Lake. PELIDNOTA TRIPI7NCTATA. Fort Gates, ^ ARBODA XAHIGERA. Santa F& APHO DIETS STRIGATUS, Say, which is common in the United States, occurs in Western Texas and as far south, as Jalapa, in Mexico. , HYDROCHUS FOVEATUS, Hald. Silvery- gray, varied With curious reflexions. Head* coarsely and densely punctate; the largest punctpres between the eyes; palpi flavous, prothorax nearly quadrangular; widest before, produced posteriorly into an obtuse angle; surface punctate with three foveas, across the ' middle, the central forming a triangle ^ rith two others in contact with it posteriorly. Elytra each with ten rows of deep dilated punctures. Feet flavous, varied With brown; . length less than two lines. Fort Gates, Texas. Allied td ff. % cabratu% of Mulsant, 1844. Ann. Sci. Pbys. Nat. Lyon, vol. vii. p. 373. H. gibbostUy Melsheimer. STAPHYLOMAS VILLOSUS, Crav. Mr. Kern brought a specimen of the specie^, which is common in the United State*, and is found in Mexico and Cuba. PHILONTHUS COMPTUS, Hald. Allied to P. ceneus and P . harrMi. Polished black. Head, rather narrower than the prothdrax, with fovea in a transverse line, the external one orbital and placed before the middle of the eyeVthe next midway between this and the medial one-, which is more shallow than the others, and in advance of them. There are three additional prbital fovea posterior to the first, and several upon the posterior angles, which are strongly and sparsely punc­tate. Mandibles strong and incurved, with a stout tooth near the base, external margin with a groove for about half its length. Pronotum with four distant punctured arranged longitudinally