Excerpt from Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Vol. 3: 1912Form oblong - oval, evenly convex, strongly shining, deep black, the tarsi slightly piceous, the antennae ferruginous, short, slender, with a broad and very abrupt club of three subequal transverse joints the last rounded at tip, head wider than long, strongly parabolic in outline, the eyes basal, well developed, prothorax two and three fourths times as wide as long, the sides strongly, evenly converging from base to apex, evenly and very feebly arcuate, the base broadly and distinctly arcuate, the apex more feebly sinuate, surface strongly, sparsely punctate, more closely and coarsely toward the sides, scutellum acutely triangular well developed, a little longer than wide, elytra about a fifth longer than wide, slightly widest before the middle, verv little wider than the prothorax, very obtuse at apex, the punctures strong, well separated, becoming decidedly coarse but only a little closer laterally, each with a short erect and' squamiform parallel seta, more especially visible and sublinear in arrangement apically, sterna coarsely but not densely punctate, abdomen finely, sparsely and unevenly so, very convex narrowly along the middle, the sutures very coarse and deep, strongly arcuate medially, becoming straight and transverse laterally, the excavation for the tibiae deep and extending obliquely almost across the second segment, with a lateral oblique connecting channel for the tarsi extending entirely through the second segment, legs short and very stout, the t'arsi short and notably slender, simple. Length mm., width mm. Northern Illinois and Kansas. [noso' dendron unicolor Say, - Long's Exped., 1824, Vol. 2, p.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.