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. 1877 Excerpt: ... rostrum is relatively broader, thicker, convexer, and more triangular, as well as a trifle more coarsely punctured; its eyes, although somewhat prominent, are a little smaller; its prothorax is perceptibly narrower or less rounded-outwards at the sides (being, in fact, oval, rather than ovate), and more constricted in ...
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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. 1877 Excerpt: ... rostrum is relatively broader, thicker, convexer, and more triangular, as well as a trifle more coarsely punctured; its eyes, although somewhat prominent, are a little smaller; its prothorax is perceptibly narrower or less rounded-outwards at the sides (being, in fact, oval, rather than ovate), and more constricted in front; its elytra are more rugulose, and with their very diminutive and remote pubescence a trifle more traceable; its metasternum is not quite so coarsely punctured; its funiculus is proportionally somewhat shorter and thicker; and the inner angle of its male tibiae (at any rate the four posterior ones) are not more powerfully spurred than is the case in the ordinary species. So far as I have observed, the M. dimidiatus is found only on the higher parts of the great central ridge, about Diana's Peak and Actaeon, --where I met with it beneath damp rotting pieces of the wood of the old cabbage-trees; whereas the M. calcaratus (although occurring sparingly in the same locality) was more particularly abundant at Cason's, which is appreciably lower in elevation, --where it seemed to have attached itself quite as much to the pines as to the native arborescent Compositce. 101. Jticroxylobius bisectus, n. sp. M. minutus, breviter subovato-fusiformis, nitidus, fere calvus (oculo fortissime armato in elytris minutissime et parcissime pubescens), niger; rostro breviter sublineari (postice atque etiam antice paululum latiore), minus convexo, minutissime et levissime punctulato, oculis minutis sed prominulis; prothorace magno, subovato, antice fere integro, argute punctulato; elytris breviusculis, rugulosis, profunde punctato-striatis, interstitiis subconvexis ac minutissime uniseriatim punctulatis; antennis pedibusque (brevibus) piceo-ferrugineis; tarsis .
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