_Male._ Head black, and furnished with a single horn terminating in a point, and bending backwards, having in front two small protuberances; hairy beneath. Thorax black, shining and margined; the upper part elevated, and appearing almost perpendicular. Elytra margined and furrowed; also black, as is the anus. Abdomen reddish brown, with dark yellow hairs. Thighs brown, almost black; broad, strong, and hairy. Anterior tibiæ deeply dentated with a strong spine at the tips, and hairy. Middle tibiæ strong, and very spinose; particularly at the tips, where there are two long ones on each, which are likewise very hairy. Ungues very small. Scutellum triangular and small. _Female._ Resembles the male in every part but the thorax and head; the former being quite smooth and convex without any prominence, and the latter, in the room of a horn, has a small protuberance, just discernible by the naked eye. DYNASTES ANTÆUS. Plate XXXIV. fig. 3. [male].--4. [female]. ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Dynastidæ. GENUS. DYNASTES, _MacLeay_. Geotrupes, _Fabricius_. Scarabæus, _Linn. &c._ DYNASTES ANTÆUS. Thorace tricorni; cornu intermedio longiori simplici, capite mutico, elytris lævissimis. (Long. Corp. fere 1 unc. 3 lin.) SYN. Scarabæus Antæus, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 1. _p._ 12. _No._ 31. _Olivier Ent._ 1. 3. 24. _No._ 23. _t._ 12. _f._ 105. & _t._ 13. _f._ 124. a. b. Geotrupes A. _Fabr. Syst. Eleuth._ 1. _p._ 12. _No._ 36. _Pal. Beauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Col. Pl._ 1. _fig._ 5. 6. HABITAT: Jamaica. _Male._ Head black, with two small protuberances like teeth in front. Thorax black, smooth, shining, and margined; having three horns on it, each of which is about a third of an inch in length; two of which are placed near the elytra, almost erect, inclining towards each other, but with their points inclining to the wings; the third arises from the front of the thorax, bending backwards in a curved direction. Elytra brown, very smooth, shining, and margined. Scutellum triangular. Abdomen red, brown, and hairy. Tibiæ the same colour, and hairy, all of them being armed with spines, principally about the tips. _Female._ Resembles the male in every respect except the horns, which are wanting in that sex. {70}PELIDNOTA PUNCTATA. Plate XXXIV. fig. 5. ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Rutelidæ. GENUS. PELIDNOTA, _MacLeay_. Scarabæus, _Linn._ PELIDNOTA PUNCTATA. Testacea, elytrorum singulo punctis tribus fuscis distantibus. (Long. Corp. fere 1 unc.) SYN. Scarabæus Punctatus, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 1. II. _p._ 557. 76. Melolontha P. _Fabricius Syst. El._ II. _p._ 166. 28. _Olivier Ent._ 1. 5. _p._ 22. _t._ 1. _f._ 6. a. b. _Herbst. Col._ III. _p._ 69. 16. _t._ 23. _f._ 6. HABITAT: New York, Virginia, Maryland, Antigua.