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Title: Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences
Identifier: bulletinofcalifo021887cali (find matches)
Year: 1886-1887 (1880s)
Authors: California Academy of Sciences
Subjects: Natural history; Science
Publisher: (S. l. : The Academy)
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62 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Female: Form and color as in male. Labrnm project- ing, rugose, covering the mandibles. Head; clypeal mar- gin raised; a feeble tubercle just in front of the clypeal suture, immediately behind which is a central trans- verse ridge, undivided, slightly higher in the middle and slightly apiculate at either end. Antenna9 less robust than in the male. Thorax: very convex, shining; out- line obtusely triangular; anterior margin seen from FEMALE. above, truncate in the centre; angles j^roduced; sides rounded; posterior margin much produced to meet the scutellum, sinuate toward the angles which are rounded; the front discal area characterized by a bi-lobed transverse riised line at either enl of which, outward and for- ward, is a well formed but depressed tubercle; behind which line the disc is dense with coarse corrugated punctures, which become scattered and plain, nowhere reaching the posterior margin, but taking a transverse course, barely reach the side margins, where they become less distinct. Elytra: much the same as in the male, but the interstices of the fourteen punctate striae a tdfle more wrinkled and much more convex. Length, smaller than the male. Habitat: burrowing in the ground near the city of Sonora, Tuolumne Co., Cal.; found also in Sacramento Co. The name selected for this species is intended to be a slight tribute of hon" or to Dr. Geo. H. Horn, the emiaent Coleopterist, as a slight return for many favors. STRIDULATINa ORGANS. Chas. Fiichs, Esq., having obtained living specimens of the above new species of Bradjcinetas discovered thit it pos- sessed the power of stridulating. His researches through coleopterological literature disclose nothing relative to the stridulating faculty in this genus. The latest work on class- ification, that of L3 Conte and Horn, makes no mention of it, and as these able authors always notice such biologic characters when aware of them, it is safe to affirm that the observations of Mr. Fuchs are new, and that to him belongs the credit of the discovery of these particulars. The anatomical investigation by Mr. Fuchs of this beetle discloses the stridulating apparatus to be well developed, and to consist of three trans- verse bands situated respectively upon the fourth, fifth and
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