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Show 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. • MELOE PABVtrs, Hald. Black, somewhat shining, head with numerous dilated punctures, extending to the labrum, eyes uniform, a smooth fovea near them, and a smooth fradtule 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 fpllowing; 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 pilifferouB punctures. Feet blender. Leiigth from four to five lines. Kern's collection. HENOUB, Hald. Form of JSpteanta, with the elytra abbreviated, connate, and each obtusely rounded. Prothorax subglobular, lengthened anteriorly. Abclomen, 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 punctifres; labrum and clipeus with dilated impressed punctures, more crowded upon the labrum |