The American journal of science and arts . A Miscella7iies. 379 Abdomen and tail wanting in our specimen, believed to be tuber-cular throughout—(as a fragment presents that appearance.) Breadth of the head one inch and a quarter; length three quartersof an inch. (2.) Ceratocephala ceralepta. Communicated to the Western Academy of Natural Science at Cincinnati, April14th, 1838, by John G. Anthony. Ceratocephala ceralepta.—Clypeo antice rotundato, subplano, Vgranulato. Margine crenulata. Cornibus prorsum expansibus et gracilibus.* The buckler is semi-lunate, surface covered with fine granulation
The American journal of science and arts . A Miscella7iies. 379 Abdomen and tail wanting in our specimen, believed to be tuber-cular throughout—(as a fragment presents that appearance.) Breadth of the head one inch and a quarter; length three quartersof an inch. (2.) Ceratocephala ceralepta. Communicated to the Western Academy of Natural Science at Cincinnati, April14th, 1838, by John G. Anthony. Ceratocephala ceralepta.—Clypeo antice rotundato, subplano, Vgranulato. Margine crenulata. Cornibus prorsum expansibus et gracilibus.* The buckler is semi-lunate, surface covered with fine granulationsresembling shagreen ; its margin is raised, presenting a rounded rim,over which pass two antennae, distant from each other where theypass over, about one fourth of an inch. These antenna extendone third of an inch beyond the rim, and areonly one third of a line in diameter, forming acharacter from which we derive our specificname, ceralepta (slender horned); their ex-tremities are broken off, and it would appearthat they have been se
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