. Coleoptera. Beetles. Fig. 423. — C/irt/ro Xihora virfiiniensis. elytra, the species of Chi-i/sohothrys, but are generally larger ami have a distinct sixth ventral segment. C. liberta, from the eastern United States, is light copjier-bronze in color, the elevated portions of the surface being polished while the depressed parts are dull. It feeds, as larva, in pine woods, as does also ('. virginiensis, which is generally a little darker colored and somewhat larger; the former species is from to inches long. The larvae of both species inhabit pine wood. Gi/ascutus and J'silop- tera ar
. Coleoptera. Beetles. Fig. 423. — C/irt/ro Xihora virfiiniensis. elytra, the species of Chi-i/sohothrys, but are generally larger ami have a distinct sixth ventral segment. C. liberta, from the eastern United States, is light copjier-bronze in color, the elevated portions of the surface being polished while the depressed parts are dull. It feeds, as larva, in pine woods, as does also ('. virginiensis, which is generally a little darker colored and somewhat larger; the former species is from to inches long. The larvae of both species inhabit pine wood. Gi/ascutus and J'silop- tera are genera only rej)resented by a few large species, from western North America, of which the earlier stages are unknown; they are sejiarated from Chulcophora by their having the mentum rounded in front; they are distinguished from one another by the first joint of the posterior tarsi lieing elongated in Gi/asciitus, and not elon- gated in Psiloptera. Near these genera in classification are the ^„ giant South American s]iecies of i'«c/«'OH/«, of which J';i<(ntC(( has been already mentioned, and the brilliant oriental and African species of C/tri/sochroa, the latter generic name being conqxiundcd /" from two Greek words meaning "gold " and "; C/iri/soc/iroa i^ ocelltitii, a large species from the East Indies, is beautiful shining green, with elytra marked with golden and yellow spots, and three- toothed at the apex. Sternocei-a, another Asiatic and African genus, contains large and brilliant species, in which the sternum fig. 42i. — G;insciiti(s ? . ° ' pliinicosta. IS prolonged forward and downwaiTl as a liorn. tSteriiocera ^^ large species with chestnut-brown elytra, lays ellijitical white eggs ^ #f{(% / ''''^'^ ^^*^' ^'^^ "^^ ^" ™'^^ \ox\s, and of an inch in shorter diameter, and from which the larvir at hatching are about :') of an inch long. The dcscrilied sjiecies of Scauab^ number over seven
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