Excerpt from A Revision of the North American Species of Beetles Belonging to the Family BostrichidaeMala - Uniformly dark to light reddish brown, except palpi and antennae, which are brownish yellow.Head densely, rather coarsely granulose on front, very finely, sparsely granulose on occiput, the granules round on front and trans verse on occiput, densely clothed with short, erect, arcuate, whitish hairs, clypeus concave, broadly, shallowly emarginate in front, densely, finely rugose or granulose, densely clothed with short, erect, arcuate, whitish hairs, clypeal suture distinct, curved forward between sides of clypeus and lateral lobes, labrum smooth at middle. Antennal club with the segments narrowly oblong, second and third segments petiolate at bases, the third distinctly longer than second, and narrowly rounded at apex.Pronotum much wider than long, widest along basal half, with a narrow, transverse groove along base, a triangular, median ¿attened space along anterior margin, and a narrow, longitudinal, median groove on basal half, sides parallel on basal half, arcuately converging anteriorly, with a number of small tubercles near margins, posterior angles rectangular, each with four teeth, disk with four rather acute, erect tubercles, placed in a transverse row near middle, and a few smaller tubercles scattered over apical half, surface finely densely granulose, the granules distinctly separated, densely, uniformly clothed with short, erect, arcuate, whitish hairs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.