Entirely black. Head broad and thin, rounded in front and margined; having a strong erect horn, near half an inch long. Thorax margined, and much elevated, terminating upwards in an high ridge, whose sides are furnished with two short horns, varying very much in their length (the females being entirely hornless); it is also, as well as the head, regularly covered with innumerable small pustules, which are scarce visible to the naked eye. Scutellum obsolete. Elytra margined, short, and almost smooth. Femora broad, hairy, and strong. Tibiæ with strong spurs. Ungues very small, scarcely visible. PHILEURUS DIDYMUS. Plate XXXII. fig. 3. ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Dynastidæ. GENUS. PHILEURUS, _Latreille_. Geotrupes, _Fabr._ Scarabæus, _Linn._ PHILEURUS DIDYMUS. Depressus, thorace fossulâ excavatâ, capite tricuspide, elytris striatis. (Long. Corp. 2 unc.) SYN. Scarabæus Didymus, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 1. II. _p._ 545. _No._ 19. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 1. _p._ 20. _No._ 61. _Oliv. Ent._ 1. 3. _p._ 42. _No._ 46. _t._ 2. _fig._ 9. _Schonherr Syn. Inst._ 1. _p._ 19. _No._ 85. _Pal. Beauv. Ins. Col. pl._ 16. _f._ 3. HABITAT: (----? _Drury_). America (_Fabricius_). Head, black, small, and triangular, having three tubercles issuing from it, of which the anterior is pointed, the others blunt. Thorax black, which is the general colour of the insect, rounded, smooth, and margined, having an impression in front, with a short tubercle situated on it near the edge; from whence runs a hollow groove or channel to the posterior margin. Scutellum small. Elytra shining, margined and furrowed. Abdomen smooth and shining, without hair. Tibiæ furnished with spines, as are the first joints of the middle and posterior tarsi. BRACHYCERUS GLOBOSUS. Plate XXXII. fig. 4. ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Rhyncophora. FAMILY: Curculionidæ. SUBFAMILY: Brachycerides. GENUS. BRACHYCERUS, _Fabr._ Curculio, _Linn. &c._ BRACHYCERUS GLOBOSUS. Ovatus niger, rostro varioloso, subcarinato, medio bifoviolato, basi bi-tuberculato, thorace utrinque spinoso, quinque sulcato, postice truncato, elytris lævibus. (Long. Corp. 9 lin.) SYN. Curculio Globosus, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Fabr. Syst. Eleuth._ 2. 413. _No._ 6. _Oliv. Ent. V._ 82. _p._ 47. _No._ 6. _t._ 2. _f._ 10. _Schonh. Syn. Ins. Curcul._ 1. 392. _No._ 9. HABITAT: Cape of Good Hope. {65}Head black, long, and rough above. Antennæ short, gradually increasing in size from the base. Thorax black, and very rough; each side terminating in a thick spine or tubercle. Elytra black, smooth, and round, and reaching so far down the sides of the abdomen as almost to meet underneath, being rather longer than the head and thorax. Femora and tibiæ partly black, and partly of a dirty orange; being covered in several parts with a kind of pile of the colour last mentioned. Scutellum obsolete. Each of the ungues furnished with a spine.