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Curculio cinctus, Drury, App. vol. 3. (nec Cholus cinctus, Oliv. Rhynchænus.) Herbst. Col. vi. p. 478. t. 79. fig. 7.

HABITAT: Musquito Shore, near Honduras.

Head black. Rostrum half the length of the insect. Antennæ black, arising near the end of the beak. Thorax dirty green, with a cream-coloured stripe running on each side, which is continued along the sides of the elytra, meeting at the anus. Beneath cream colour. Legs the same, being dirty green above. Every part of the insect appears covered with innumerable small black pustules, like spots, some smaller than others, those on the upper side being largest. Each of the femora is furnished with a single spine.

DYNASTES CLAVIGER.

Plate XLVIII. fig. 3.

ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Dynastidæ.

GENUS. DYNASTES, MacLeay. Geotrupes, Fabr. Scarabæus, Linn. Latr.

DYNASTES CLAVIGER. Rufus, thoracis cornu elevato apice dilatato; capitis longo, subulato recurvo. (Long. Corp. fere 2 unc.)

SYN. Scarabæus claviger, Linn. Mant. 1. p. 529. Fabr. Syst. Ent. 1. p. 5. No. 7. Syst. El. 1. p. 6. No. 11. Oliv. Ent. 1. 3. p. 20. No. 18. t. 5. fig. 40. a. b. Jabl. Nat. Syst. 1. p. 239. No. 10. t. 3. f. 1. Pal. Beauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Col. ix. pl. 1e. f. 1.

HABITAT: Cayenne.

Head small, margined, and armed with a long horn which bends upwards. Thorax dark brown and margined, having a very remarkable erect and black horn issuing from it, which bends forward towards the head, the extremity of which is trifurcate, hollowed beneath, and covered with a brown pile like that of velvet. Elytra brown, the margin and suture being black. Legs black. Thighs brown. Tibiæ with two spurs. Anterior tibiæ with three spines placed on the external part.

HISTER (OXYSTERNUS) MAXIMUS.

Plate XLVIII. fig. 4.

ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Clavicornes. FAMILY: Histeridæ.

GENUS. HISTER, Linn. &c. (SUBGENUS: Oxysternus, Erichson.)

HISTER (OXYSTERNUS) MAXIMUS. Depressus ater nitidus; elytris striatis, mandibulis exsertis capite longioribus. (Long. Corp. cum mandib. 1 unc. 3 lin.)

SYN. Hister maximus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 566. 1.

Hololepta maxillosa, Park Mon. Hist. III. 9. t. ix. f. 7.

Hister maxillosus, Drury, App. vol. 2.

Oxysternus maximus, Erichson in Jahrb. der Ent. 1. 100.

O. maxillosus, Guérin & Percheron Genera des Ins. 1. Col. pl. 7. ([female]?) Fabricius Ent. Syst. vol. 4. Append. p. 437. Schonh. Syn. Ins. 1. p. 98.

HABITAT: Cayenne.

{73}Black. Head furnished with two horn-like mandibles, being thicker near the head, and terminating in a point; that fixed on the left side of the insect being longest. Thorax broad and margined. Elytra slightly striated. Scutellum not to be seen. Posterior tibiæ rather long. Tarsi short.

PHANÆUS FESTIVUS [female].

Plate XLVIII. fig. 5.

ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Scarabæidæ.

GENUS. PHANÆUS, MacLeay. Copris p. Fabr. Scarabæus p. Linn.

PHANÆUS FESTIVUS. Thorace gibbo bicorni, capitis cornu erecto , elytris rubro-æneis; [female] thorace mutico æquali nigro-maculato, capite mutico. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 1½ lin.)