Catalogue of Coleopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Volume 3-7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...18i lines. Hab. N. India. Palpi long, with the terminal joint nearly twice the length of the preceding, obliquely truncated at the tip, and covered on each side with shortish hairs. Antennae cylindrical, covered with small hairs, third joint not much longer than the fourth. Thorax rather wider than long, the sides angulated. Elytra with the sides nearly parallel. Legs simple; tibiae compressed, and more or less thickly covered with short hairs. In one of the specimens there is a curious malformation of the palpi; from the third joint proceed two longish hairy joints, one of them bent. 1. Cyrtonops Punctipennis, n. s. PI. II. f. 3. B.M. C. brunneo-einnamomeus, pilis brevibus erectis flavis tectus; thorace punctato; scutello pilis adpressis tecto; elytris obscure tricostatis, profundi punctatis, punctis longitudinaliter ordinatis. Of a ricb cinnamon-brown, closely covered with short erect yellowish hairs. Thorax irregularly punctured, the punctures running into each other, and sometimes leaving small smooth spaces; scutellum rounded at the end, covered with short hairs which lie close to the surface. Elytra with three rather indistinct longitudinal costae; surface, except at the tip, with many deep punctures more or less regularly arranged in lines; between these are smaller punctures, from which proceed the hairs. Length from 9 to 11 lines. Hab. India. 59. APHANASIUM. Aphanasium, Dej. Cat. p. 348. 1. Aphanasium Australe. B.M. " Aphanasium australe, Dej. Cat. p. 348," Chevr. Hah. New Zealand. 60. TRICHODERES. Trichoderes, Chevr. Guerin, Mag. de Zool. 1843, p. 35. 1. Trichoderes Pini. B.M. Trichoderes Pini, Chevr. Mag. de Zool. 1843, p. 36. pi. 113. Hab. Mexico. 61. RHAPHIPODUS. Rhaphipodus, Serv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 168. 1. Rhaphipodus Suturalis. ...