Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: One male, Virginia City, Nevada, Mr. Edwards. Nearly allied to X. Agassizii Lee., but the prothorax is distinctly narrowed behind and subsinuate, very much as Spoudylis upifurmis, and the sculpture of the elytra is not suddenly finer behind the middle. The convex sides of the prothorax are less coarsely and more densely punctured than the disk. The antenna? are two-thirds the length of the body, quite hairy, and the 4th joint is very little shorter than the 5th. GANIMUS Lec. Head moderately large, eyes coarsely granulated, deeply emar- ginate, lower lobe very large, genae extremely short, front short, perpendicular; mandibles short, stout, acute at tip, external outline with a well-defined obtuse angle near the tip, so that the front margin is straight and transverse; palpi very unequal, last joint triangular, obliquely truncate. Antennae ( ) longer than the body, llth joint indistinctly divided; 1st joint thicker, and about two-thirds as long as the 3d joint, very rough with small acute spines, 3d and following rough but gradually becoming smoother, fringed beneath but not densely with hairs, which also gradually become thinner and shorter. Prothorax wider than long, feebly rounded on the sides, not constricted either before or behind, transversely impressed before the base, which is produced into a broad subtruneate lobe; disk rather flat, with a narrow, smooth dorsal line, and two vague discoidal impressions; scutel- lum broad, rounded behind; elytra as wide at the base as the thorax, gradually narrower behind, and rounded at tip. Pros- ternum laminiform between the coxse, but not prolonged as in Oeme; surface in front of coxae finely transversely rugose, and depressed each side; the finely roughened dorsal surface extends on the flanks to the prosternal suture, as …
