l^Frotn the " Canadian Untomoloffitt."'] 
 
 INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 COMPILED BY THE REY, C. J. S. BETHF\E, 
 
 Editor of the "CaiuyAutn Efitomoloji.-ii." 
 
 From " Kirby^s Fauna Boreali-Americana : Imecta.'"'' 
 
 I.—COLEOPTERA. 
 
 For ten years we have been tr) %, and trying in vain, both in England 
 and America, to obtain a copy of Kirby's descriptions of the insects of the 
 Northern parts of British America, contained in the fourth volume of Richard- 
 son's Fauna Boreali-Americana, published at Norwich in 1837. Many of 
 our friends have been making similar attempts, and always with the like ill- 
 success. We have had, however, occasional access to a copy in the library of 
 the University of Toronto, which, with the exception of one in the library 
 of Parliament at Ottawa, is the only copy we know of in Canada. By the 
 kindness of Prof. Croft we have obtained a loan of the copy belonging to the 
 University, and, with the full approbation of many of our friends and corres- 
 pondents, we now propose re-publishing from it in the pages of the Canadian 
 Entomologist, Kirby's descriptions of new species and such other matter as 
 may be deemed of special value or interest. As the work consists of upwards 
 of 300 quarto, pages, it will be necessary for us to omit almost everything 
 except the descriptions of species that cannot be obtained elsewhere, in order 
 to accomplish the republication within a reasonable time, and without tres- 
 passiug too much upon our limited space. Though we shall thus depart a 
 little from the expressed intention of only publishing original matter in this 
 Journal, we feel assured that all our readers will be pleased to have brought 
 before them descriptions of Canadian insects to which they can hardly other- 
 'wise obtain access. For convenience of reference, the paging of the original 
 work, and any notes we may add, will be enclosed in square brackets. 
 
 [8] Family CicindeliduEv 
 
 * Labrum untdenlate. 
 
 1. CiciNDKLA HiRTicoLLis, Sai/. — Locality not stated. [For description, 
 vide Say'a Ent. ii. 423.] 
 
 [9] 2. CiciNDKLA RBPANDA, De Jean. — Locality not stated. 
 
 Very like the preceding species, but the labrum is shorter and less promi- 
 nent in the middle ; the lateral margin of the elytra is not continuously white ; 
 
the lower limb of the humeral crescent slopes towards the apex of the elytrum ; 
 the broken or S-sbaped band terminates in a streak at the margin ; all the 
 uarkings also of the elytra are buflF coloured rather than white; and the 
 minute mucro or point that terminates the suture, and the serrulations of the 
 apex of the elytra are less conspicuous. 
 
 De Jean regards this species as synonymous with C hiriicollis, but, if I 
 am correct in my reference to him, of which I have little doubt, they are 
 clearly distinct. 
 
 3. CiciNDELA Proteus, Kirby. — Length of body 5f lines. This species 
 of which several specimens were taken in the expedition, appears to abound 
 in North America, Dr. Bigsby met with it in Canada, and there was a 
 specimen in the late Mr. Marsham's collection, probably from the United 
 States. 
 
 Similar to C. repanda, but instead of ths humeral and terminal crescents, 
 in all the varieties, are four white dots, two at the base and two at the apex 
 of the elytra ; the middle broken or tortuous band resembles the figure 7 
 reversed, and does not terminate in a marginal streak. The body underneath, 
 as usual, is golden-green, or green with clouds of blue, above it is dark-brown 
 with a tint of copper. 
 
 Variety B. With the apical dots not larger than the humei^V. 
 6*. With an interrupted crescent at the apex. 
 
 D. With three apical and two humeral dots ; intermediate band 
 
 internally abbreviated. 
 
 E. Like the last, but with only one humeral dot. 
 
 [This is C. duodecim-guttataj Dej. ; it is commonly taken in many parts 
 of Canada.] 
 
 * Labrum trideniate. 
 
 [10] 4. CiciNDKLA. OBLiQDATA, De Jean. — Many taken in the expedition, 
 and apparently abundant in North America. I received it many years since, 
 but without a name, from my lamented friend Prof. Peck. 
 
 Body above greenish-copper, underneath golden-green clouded with blue. 
 Labrum white, tridentate, slightly prominent in the middle; mandibles white 
 at the base, black at the tip; palpi black; labial with the intermediate joint 
 rufous, darker at the tip. Elytra with a large white humeral crescent, ex- 
 tended at the lower end obliquely beyond the middle; mesal band bent down, 
 wards, recurved at the end, and connected by a marginal line with a crescent 
 at the apex. In the male the intermediate joint of the labial palpi is white, 
 and the mesal band is not connected with the terminal crescent. 
 
 [Le Conte (Pro. Acad. Nac. Sci. Phil., Dec. 1866, p. 362) states that this 
 species should hereafter be known as C. Kirhyiy since, as he learns from a 
 
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 drawing made by Mr. Aildrew Murray, from the type in the British Museum, 
 it is quite distinct from any species known to him ] 
 
 5. CiciNnELA VULGARIS, Say. — A common species in all North America. 
 [11] G. CiciNDELA PURPUREA, Oliv. — [Very common in most parts of 
 Canada.] 
 
 [12] 7. CiciNDBLA ALBiLALRis, Kirhy. Plate i. fig. 1. — Taken in lut. 64°, 
 and also in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. [Previously described as C. longilabris, 
 by Say. (Ent. "Works, i. 176.) We have received specimens of this species 
 from Nova Scotia, collected by Mr. J. M. Jones, and from Quebec and New 
 Hampshire.] 
 
 [Family Carabidje.] 
 
 [1.3] 8. Casnonia Pbnnsylvanica, De Jean. — Two specimens taken. 
 
 9. Cymindis maroinatus, Kirhy. — Piceons, thickly punctured; antennae, 
 mouth, dilated sides of the protborax, lateral margin and shoulders of the 
 striated elytra, and legs, rufous. Length of the body 4 J lines. 
 
 One specimen of this insect was taken in the route from New York to 
 Cumberland House, and the other in lat. 65°. It is nearly related to C. 
 pubescem, Dej., but appears distinct. 
 
 [14] Body depressed and flat, as in its congeners, piceous ; above densely 
 punctured ; mouth rufous : anteunje longer than the prothorax, piceo-rufous ; 
 front betweon the eyes tranversely wrinkled; prothorax convex, with a longi- 
 tudinal channel; lateral margin dilated, reflexed and rufous; elytra striated 
 or slightly furrowed, with the furrows and their interstices punctured ; viewed 
 on one side they appear hairy with upright ferruginous hairs ; their shoulders 
 and lateral margin are obscurely rufous ; their apex obliquely truncated, and 
 subemarginate ; the legs are rufous. 
 
 Var. B. Piceo-rufous ; elytra concolorate. 
 
 [In Melsheimer's Catalogue, p. 4, this species is put down as a synonym of 
 C. cribricollis, Dej., and in Le Conte's List, p. 6, with a mark of interrogation 
 under C. reflexa, Lee. The latter author, however, subsequently states 
 (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Feb. 1869, p. 244), that both C. Marginata, Kirby, 
 and C. refiexa, Lee, are identical with C. cribricollis^ Dej. The species 
 occurs in the most northern parts of the United States and in Canada.] 
 
 10. Cymikdis unicolor, Kirby. — Thickly punctured, ferruginous; legs 
 paler ; lateral margin of the thorax not dilated. Length of the body 3 J lines. 
 One specimen only taken. 
 
 This species greatly resembles variety B of the preceding. It is, however, 
 smaller and paler ; the prothorax has no longitudinal channel, and its lateral 
 margin is not dilated. 
 
[Placed, with a mark of interrogation, as a synoDym of C. ne(/lecta, Hald., 
 in Le Conte's List, p. 6.] 
 
 Genus Sericoda Kirhy. 
 
 Lahrum transverse, sub-quadrangular : with the anterior angles rounded 
 Mandibles acute, incurved at the apex, not toothed ? Labium \mentum\ 
 emarginate with a minute tooth in the sinus. Palpi : maxillary 5-jointed ; 
 first joint very minute, second longer than the rest, sub-cylindrical, attenuated 
 at the basej third ob-conicalj fourth as long as the third, fusiform, trun- 
 cate; fifth very minute, retractile within the fourth : Labial 3-jointed j joints 
 nearly equal in length; the two first conical; the last fusiform, truncated. 
 Antennoe rather incrassated toward the apex ; scape^ incrassated ; 2nd joint 
 the shortest, and the third rather longer than the others. 
 
 [15] ^of/y depressed, narrow. Head triangular. JEy^s large ?.nd promi- 
 nent. Neck very little constricted. Proihorax shorty channelled, widest 
 anteriorly ; with the angles rounded. Elytra obliquely truncated at the apex 
 and emarginate, so that internally they terminate in an acumen. Cubit 
 \tibia of 1st pair of legs] emarginate. Tarsi with the penultimate joint 
 entire. Claws single, not pectinated. 
 
 The maxillary paipi of the genus here defined present an anomaly observed 
 in no other known coleopterous genus, they appear to be furnished with a 
 minute ^/i!A joint retractile within the fourth. In one of these palpi, in the 
 only specimen taken, this little accessory joint is not apparent, but in the 
 other it is distinctly seen emerging from the fourth joint, or rather, as this 
 last appears broken at the apex, it is uncovered. There is only one supposi- 
 tion that can reconcile this case to the general rule, that no coleopterous 
 maxillary palpus shall exceed four joints, namely — that this is an effort of 
 nature, by a reproduction, to restore the mutilated or^an so as to fulfil its 
 functions. Did the insect belong to the Crustacea or Aracknida this would 
 be a satisfactory explanation of the anomaly, but I do not recollect any 
 instance upon record of a genuine insect having reproduced a lost organ. I 
 thought it possible that the palpi of other Predaceous beetles might contain a 
 retractile joint, and this truncated apex seemed in some degree to favour the 
 idea, but I did not succeed in my endeavours to discover one. [Mr. Scudder 
 (Pro. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. 99) describes the reproduction of lost limbs 
 in the Walking-Stick Jnsect (^Diapheromera femorata), specimens of which 
 we have seen in his cf.binet. We cannot but think that the case described 
 above by Mr. Kirby h an instance of reproduction.] 
 
 * iScape. The first, and often most conspicuous joint of the atitenna, terminating be- 
 low in the bulb, which inosculates in the head, and acts the part of a rotula. [Defini- 
 tiona, Ac, p. xvii.] 
 
The above structure of the palpi, if not accidental, seems to give our little 
 insect some uffinity with the SubuHpalpi of Latrcille, but its general charac 
 ters and aspect appear to demand a place for it somewhere between those 
 Trundpennia whose claws are not pectinated, and those who have those 
 organs so armed. 
 
 11. .SERrcoDA HEMBiDioiDES, Kirhy. — Plate 1, Fig. 2. — Black underneath, 
 above black bronzed, rather t=ilky ; prothorax sub-trapezoidul, with a pair of 
 impressions behind ; elytra substriated, impunctured, somewhat clouded, with 
 a series of in.pressions adjoining the suture. Length of body ^\ lines. Only 
 a single .specimen taken. 
 
 [IG] Body underneatli black glossy ; above the black has a brassy tint, 
 with somewhat of the lu.stre of silk ; head, between the eyes marked with a 
 short, anteriorly forked furrow; prothora.x sub-trapezoidal, anteriorly sub- 
 emarginate. sides oblique with tlie margin rcfloxed, transversely very minutely 
 wrinklt'd, with a pair of anterior excavations in the disk, posteriorly also 
 somewhat impressed on each side; elytra longer than the head and prothorax 
 together, slightly furrowed with impunctured furrows, obsoletely clouded : 
 there is a series of about five shallow impressions near the suture. 
 
 [Included by LeCoRte in the genus PlaiijuJis. Has been taken in Oregon.] 
 
 12. BKACfUNus CYW'NiPENNis. So]/. — [Say's Ent. Works, ii. 91.] Several 
 specimens of this insect were taken in the journey from New York to Cum- 
 berland House, and in lat. 54° ; it was taken also in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 [17J lo. Carabus Vtktingeiovii, AJams. — (Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscow, iii. 
 170; FiacJur Ent. Russ. i. 98; DeJ. Coleopt ii. Gl, 21.) Kirby, plate I., 
 fig. 3. , 
 
 9 . Length of the body 10 lines. Body very black and glossy. Head 
 punctured between the eyes with confluent but not minute punctures ; anterior 
 part of the front wrinkled on each side, but the nose and upper lip are quite 
 smooth; the seven terminal joints of the antenna) are brown ; the prothorax 
 is nearly square with the sides rounded anteriorly and the posterior angles a 
 little prominent ; it is deeply channelled, transversely wrinkled in the disk, 
 eonfiuently but not minutely punctured on the sides ; the disk also is black, 
 but the sides exhibit shades of dark blue and green, at the margin they are 
 of a iDost brilliant ruddy copper, some of the anterior punctures also appear 
 as if gilded ; the elvtra are rousrh and as it were reticulated with lon<?itudinaI 
 and transverse elevations, the former nearly arranged in lines which produce 
 deep cavities; the disk is of a fine deep blue, the sides green, and the lateral 
 margin of the same ruddy copper as that of the prothorax. The body under- 
 neath is quite smooth in the disk, with some irregular elevations and depres- 
 sions on the sides : the sides of the ante-pectus, or fore breast, are of a fine 
 
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 green; the intermediate segments have each a pair of impressions from which 
 a hair emerges. This is most visible in the % . 
 
 I at first regarded this splendid insect as a new species. I thought it, 
 indeed, very near C. Viefiti<jhovu, hut as it did not altogether agree either 
 with Dr. Fischer's figure or description, and was found in another quarter of 
 the glube, 1 regarded it as distinct; but having received from my friend, Mr. 
 Hope, a Kussian specimen of that insect, I find no difference sufficient to 
 constitute a species. In that specimen the marginal gilding uf the prothorax 
 and elytra is greener with v'*carcely any of the ruddy hue of copper which gives 
 such brilliance to the American specimen. 
 
 [A single specimen only of this magnificent beetle was brought to Mr. 
 Kirby in the llichardson collecilon, and no locality is given of its capture; 
 can it have come from Russia, and not from British America? No specimen 
 of it has been taken in this country, so far as we are aware, since the time of 
 that expedition, a period of over oO years. It miglit have been included in 
 the col'ection by some accident — a not infrequent occurrence. I'rof. Croft, 
 for instance, writes us that some years ago he had a collcctiun of moths given 
 to him " collected in or near Toronto," yet among them was a gigantic 
 Chinese Saturnia ! He adds, that on looking ijto Fischer's work he finds 
 the habitat for the insect is '-Eastern Siberia — banks of the Lena."] 
 
 [18] 14. Carabus Ligatus, Knock. — Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby" 
 Length of body 7* lines. 
 
 Body black and glossy. Head oblong, impunctured, separated from the 
 neck by a transverse slender curving ridge forming anteriorly a deep sinus ; 
 ridge, defending the base of the antennae, conspicuous; frontal impressions 
 Ion tr, not deep; antenna) not much longer than the prothuvax ; pmthorax 
 nearly square, black slightly bronzed ; sides lightly punctured, lateral margin 
 reiiesed; it is faintly channelled, depressed transversely at the base, with a 
 punctured impression on each side; elytra bronzed, sub-depressed with 
 scarcely any sinus at the apex, lateral margin reficxcd and carinated ; each 
 elytrum with 13 or 14 rows of impressed punctures ; a triple series of oblong 
 discodial elevations; interstices with numerous transverse linear impressions: 
 abdomen underneath smooth with a few minute punctures on the sides. 
 
 The insect here described agrees with Germar's description of Knoch's C. 
 J/'gafux. hut it is doubtful whether it be synonymous with C. carindtus of 
 DeJean. In most respects, indeed, it accords precisely with his description, 
 but the head is not slightly punctured, as he states his specimens to be. 
 
 [Both C. li'jatus and C. carinatus are included as races of C- vinctuSf 
 "SVeher, by LeConte, in his List of Coleoptera, p. 3.] 
 
 [Kitby divides the genus Calosoma into two sub-genera : Calosoma proper 
 having the maxillary palpi with the last joint of the length of the last but 
 
one, and the elytra gilded ; Chrysostigma having the maxillary palpi with 
 the last joint shorter than the last but one, and the elyt'-a obscure with gilded 
 punctiforai impressions. The two species that he describes both belon<: to 
 the latter sub-genus. Dr. Lo Conte (Pro. Acad. Nat Sci. Phil, Feb. 1862, 
 p. 52) has given a more complete classification oi' the species of this goujs 
 into six groups, based upon the differences of the anterior tarsi of the males. 
 Kirby's division has hot been adopted by subsequent authors] 
 
 [19j 15. Calosoma calidum, B'ab. This species is very common Id all 
 parts of North America; several specimens were taken in the expedition. 
 
 16. Calosoma FRifiiDUM, Kuby. — Length of the body 9| lines. Taken 
 in Drummond's Island, Canada, by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Not unlike C. calidum, but longer in proportion and more depressed. 
 Body black, not glossy above. Head confluently punctured and wrinkled : 
 mandibles obliquely but less densely wrinkled, and frontal impressions longer 
 tuan in C. calidum: prothorax scarcely at all bronzed, lateral margin obscurely 
 green, with the same nuu.ber of elevated lines as in C. calidum, but in the 
 furrows formed by them is a series of punctures, and the transverse lines 
 are le.ss conspicuous ; there is a triple series of punetiform impressions, but 
 they are bilobed, smaller, and the gilding is greenish and less conspicuous; 
 they are also less numerous, there being only seven or eight in the series next 
 the suture, eight or nine in the intermediate one, and three only towards the 
 apex in the external one : at the base there is also a pair on each side : the 
 sides of the body underneath are greenish, punctured and wrinkled, 
 
 [20] 17. Helobia [NebriaJ castampes, Kirby. — Length of body 5 
 lines. Two specimens were taken in lat. 65°. 
 
 Body black, glossy. Antenna, mouth, mandibles, and palpi pale chesnut 
 or mahogany colour; the former more dilate at the apex ; front with three 
 or four slight furrows between the eyes ; upper-lip very short : prothorax 
 heart-shaped, constricted posteriorly, convex in the disk ; sides and base 
 depressed and lightly punctured : elytra dark piceous, striated or slightly 
 furrowed : furrows very obsoletely punctured; interstices very flat; between 
 the 2nd and Brd furrows, adjoining the latter, are from three to five shallow 
 but rather large impressions : the legs are slender, of a pale chesnut or 
 mahogany colour, in one of the specimens the thighs are darker than the rest 
 of the leg. N.B. — lu one specimen there are three and in the other five 
 impressions. 
 
 18. Chl^nius sericeus, Forst. — [Say's Ent. Works, ii. 483.] — Several 
 taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. In Canada by 
 Dr. Bigsby. [Very common throughout Canada.] 
 
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 [21] 19. CuLiENius IMPUNCTIFRONS, ^tr&y.— [This name is preoccupied 
 by Say ; Kirby's species is probably identical with LeConte's C. hrevih' 
 bris.'] Length of body 5-5| lines. 
 
 Smaller than C. sericeus, though like it. Head without punctures ; 
 antenna; black, with the three first joints testaceous : scutellum not acumin- 
 ate : elytra black with a shade of green ; apex of the epiplGurse or side-covers 
 and legs testaceous; coxae chestnut. In other respects. this agrees with the 
 preceding species. 
 
 20. Chl^nius nemoralts, Sat/. — [Ent. Works, ii. 487.] 
 A pair taken in the journey from Now York to Cumberland-house. [Rare 
 in Canada.] 
 
 [22] 21. OHL.fiNius QUADRicoLLis, Kirly. — Length of the body six 
 lines. Taken by Dr. Bigsby in Canada, 
 
 Body hairy Hke the others, black underneath. Head and prothorax 
 bronzed-green ; mar Ubles piceous ; palpi and three first joints of the antea- 
 nae testaceous j the latter are longer than the thorax, with the 4th joint as 
 long as the 3rd ; prothorax rather square, a little narrower before, with the 
 sides curving, sculptured like the preceding species j scatellum sub-acumin- 
 ate : elytra blue-black, furrowed with deeper furrows very viisibly punctured, 
 interstices minutely punctured. 
 
 [Placed, with a mark of interrogation, as a synonym of C. Pensylvavicus^ 
 Say, in Le Conte's List, p. 11.] 
 
 22, Chl^nius cordicollis, Kirhy. — Length of the body 8 lines. Taken 
 in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body black. Head impunctured; palpi rufous; antennas dusky, with the 
 three first joints rufous, the third much longer than the fourth : prothorax 
 obcordate, constricted behind, deeply channelled, disk gibbous on each side 
 of the channel, centre of each gibbosity smooth, remainder of the prothorax 
 punctured ; posterior lateral impression longitudinal : elytra black with a 
 shade of green, sculptured as in the preceding species, bat the interstices of 
 the furrows are more visibly punctured : legs testaceous, thighs darker. 
 
 [23] 23. Chl^snius emarginatus, Say. — Length of the body 6i lines. 
 Taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 
 
 Body hairy, punctured ; black underneath. Head glossy green, with a 
 tint of copper between the eyes, and a net-work of very minute, confluent, 
 transverse wrinkles ; maxillae and palpi rufous, maxillary palpi very long ; 
 upper-lip transverse, rufo-piceous, anteriorly subemarginate ; mandibles pice- 
 ous; antennae rufjus, longer than the prothoiax, with the third joint rather 
 longer than the 4th ; prothorax dusky-green, transverse, rather narrowest at 
 the apex, very thick and minutely punctured; basilai impressions double. 
 
the inner one the longest : eljtra black with a very faint tint of blue : legs 
 rufous. 
 
 This is most probably the C. emarginatiis of Say. but it does not exactly 
 accord with De Jean's species. [Say's C. emarginatua belongs to the genus 
 Anomo'jlossus, Chaud. ; the species here described is C. impunctifrons, Say.] 
 
 24. Platynus angusticollis, DeJean. — Length of the body 5 Hues. 
 Taken in lat. 5-4° and 65°. Not uncommon in Britain 
 
 [24] Body very black, glossy, somewhat narrowed. Head smooth, nar- 
 rower than the prothoras. including the neck sub-rhomboidal, without it 
 triangular; palpi and antonnie piceousj frontal impressions large; prothorax 
 narrower than the elytra, obcoruatc, longer than wide; dorsal channel deep, 
 terminating anteriorly in a transverse obtuse angular impression; hitoral mar- 
 gin diluted, especially at the base, reflexed. somewhat piceous in a strong 
 light, basilar impressions single, large, round, with a few scattered indistinct 
 punctures : elytra rather deeply furrowed ; furrows very slightly punctured ; 
 between the second and third are two puuctiform impressions, the anterior 
 one being adjacent to the fjrmer furrow, and the posterior to the latter. 
 
 [This is considered an erroneous determination by Dr. Le Conte (List. 
 p. 7), and is inserted bj" him as a race of/*, sinnafus, Dej.] 
 
 25. Agonum (Anciiomenuj) E.\TKNSicor.LB:, Say. — [Ent. Works, ii. 478.] 
 A pair taken in lat. 54°. [Belongs to Platymis ; has been taken in Ontario] 
 
 20. Agonum picipenne. Kirhi/. — Length of the body 3] to 4 Hues, Seve- 
 ral specimens taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 [25] Body black, glossy. Mouth and its organs rufous, except the upper- 
 lip, which is edged with that colour ; antennae longer than the prothorax. 
 piceous with the scape paler than the other joints : prothorax longer than in 
 the foUowiog species, oblong-ovate, with the lateral margin piceous, and not 
 dilated posteriorly as in the majority ; basilar impressions rather shallow, 
 oblong : elytra oblong, rufo-piceous, slightly furrowed, furrows impunctured ; 
 five punctiform impressions between the second and third ; the three anterior 
 ones adjacent to the latter, and the two posterior to the former : legs dusky 
 rufous. 
 
 Variety B. With only four punctiform impressions, legs paler. 
 
 C. With the 2nd. 8rd and 4th joints of the antennae pioeous, the 
 
 rest ferruginous : impressions of the elytra as in B. 
 
 D. Larger, elytra with five impressions, in other respects like C 
 
 This species appears very like A. lennm, Dej., which is also North Ameri- 
 can, but the colour of the underside of the body and of the head and pro- 
 thoras is different. [Belongs to Plati/mifi.'] 
 
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 27. AooNUM S0RDEN3, Kirhy. — Length of the body three lines. Two 
 specimens taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 Body black, glossy. Head rhoinboidal ; mouth, mandibles at the tip 
 palpi at the base, and scape of the antennas, rufous ; frontal impressions very 
 slight : prothorax scarcely longer than wide, narrowest behind ; dorsal chan- 
 nel rather deep ; lateral margin underneath testaceous ; basilar impret-fiions, 
 oblong, deepish : elytra dusky-testaceous, in one specimen a little bronzed, 
 slightly furrowed, furrows impunctured ; between the second and third are 
 five punctiform impressions placed as in the last species : epipleura and legs 
 testaceous. 
 
 [20] Agonum melanarium, De Jean. — Length of the body 4| lines. 
 Taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 Body black, glossy. Mandibles at the tip, month and scape of antenna?, 
 piceous : prothorax nearly as long a.s wide; di.sk transversely wrinkled; late- 
 ral margin at the base much dilated, rather incrassated, and sub-anguiar; 
 posterior impressions large and distinctly punctured : elytra wider tban the 
 prothorax, sub-emarginate at the base , distinctly furrowed with very minute 
 and inconspic-uous punctures in the furrows ; three punctiform impressions 
 in the third furrow from the suture : legs piceous. 
 
 This species is the American representjtive of A versutum, which it much 
 resembles. [Belongs to llafynus ; taken at Ottawa by Mr. Billings.] 
 
 29 Agonum seminitidlm. Kirhy. — Length of body 4.^ lines. Taken in 
 lat. 54°. 
 
 Body smooth, glossy, black underneath. Head greenish-bronzed, very 
 glossy, with frontal impressions lunular ; antenna^ longer than the prothorax; 
 prothorax greenish-bronzed with a copper tint, very glossy, channelled, disk 
 transversely and minutely wrinkled ; basilar impressions longitudinal, lateral 
 margin, particularly at the base, reflexed : elytra black-bronzed, less glossy 
 than the head and prothorax, lightly furrowed ; furrows punctured ; in the 
 interstice between the second and third furrows are five punctiform impres- 
 sions, two nearer the base and three nearer the apex of the elytrum, so that 
 the interval between the second and third is greater than that between the 
 others. 
 
 Variety B. Second and third punctiform impressions not more distant than 
 the others. In this specimen, on the left hand elytrum, there 
 are only four impressions and on the other five, but in neither 
 are the second and third situated as in A. It may be a dis- 
 tinct species, but I can discover no other difference, 
 [27] 30. Agonum simile, Kirhy. — Length of the body 3i lines. Locality 
 
 not stated. 
 
1! 
 
 Body glossy, underneath very black, above black slightly bronzed. An- 
 tennoe scarcely longer than the prothovax : prothorax rather longor than 
 broad; basilar impressions roundish, impuuctured : elytra more biunzed tiian 
 the head and prothorax, lightly furrowed ; furrow adjoining the suture more 
 depressed and deeper than the rest ; in the space between the second and 
 third furrows are live equi-distant punctifoini impressions, the two anterior 
 adjoining the latter furrow, and the three posterior the former. 
 
 This little species greatly resembles A. set/iiaitiduiu. It is however umeh 
 smaller, less bronzed, the prothorax is longer in proportion, the sutural fur- 
 row is deeper, and the irapressiuns are diiferently arranged. 
 
 31. Agonum AFFiNE, Kirh)/. — Length of budy 4 lines. Locality not 
 stated. A single specimen taken. 
 
 Body very black, glossy. Antennae; longer than the prothorax : prothorax 
 of the same width before as behind, so as to appear more square than in the 
 preceding species ; its lateral margin at the base is likewise not reflesed, the 
 dorsal channel iS slight, and the disk is minutely and transversely wrinkled ; 
 the basilar impressions are deep, large and circular; elytra very slightly 
 bronzed ; thret punctiform impressions, the anterior one adjoining the third 
 furrow, and the two posterior the second, ire visible in the usual situation ; 
 the four anterior trochanters are of a deep red. 
 
 [28] 32. AciONiJM ERYTIIROPUM, Kirh)/. — Length of body 4} lines. 
 Taken in Canada by Dr. Rigsby. 
 
 Body glossy, black underneath, above bronzed. Antennae black, with 
 the scape dusky rufous ; prothorax tinted with copper, uboordate, with 
 rounded angles; basilar impressions round and deep; elytra tinted with 
 copper, with throe nearly obrfoleie punctiform impressions in the usual situa- 
 tion ; legs dusky rufous ; in other respects it resembles A. seminio'dum. 
 
 This species appears to be the American representative of A. p'trumpinic- 
 tatum. It is, however, larger, more bronzed, the impressions are less distinct 
 and more distant, and the thio'hs as well as the tibiaj and tarsi are rufous 
 
 [The name of this species is pre-oceupied by Dejean'ii P. er/zthropns ; it is 
 plar?ed with a mark of interrogation in l)r. LeCotite's list under Platyviii 
 subcordatiis, Lee.] 
 
 33. Ago.num cuPUirENNE. So)/. Plate I. fig. 1. — Many specimens of 
 this lovely Agonum. were taken in lat. 54*^. It appears to be very common 
 in iSorth Aujcriea, where it represents yl se.rpunctatum, the most brilliant 
 of our European species, 'but which A. cupnyenne far exceeds in beauty. 
 [Quite common in Western Canada] 
 
 [2yj 34. Calathus gheoarius, Say. — Taken frequently in lat, 54°. 
 [Say, Eat. Works, ii. p. 472. Taken in both Ontario aud Quebec] 
 
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 35. Platyderus nitidus, Kirh>/. Plate I. fig. 5. — Length of body 
 4 lines. Three speciaiens, all females, taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 Body black, glossy; head triangular; mouth pieeous ; antennae rathei" 
 longer than the prothorax, pieeous with the terminating joints paler, scape 
 rufousi; prothorax subquadrangular, with the posterior angles rounded, eraar- 
 ginute at the base as well as at the apex, slightly ohunnellod, with a pair of 
 linear basilar impressions on each side, the external one bt ing oblique and 
 the other longitudinal ; elytra rather deeply furrowed, with two punctiforni 
 impressions in the usual situation ; viewed in the sun, the elytra exhibit 
 changeable shades of blue and bronze ; forebreast pieeous j legs clear, testa- 
 ceous. [Previously described as Feronia {Fterostichus) eri/throjnts, by 
 Dcjean.j 
 
 [30] o6. Atigutor BTCOLOR. fiirh)/. — Length of body 3 lines. Taken 
 twice in lat. 51°. 
 
 r^ody glossy, above black, beneath mahogany coloured ; antenna? and palpi 
 at the base dark mahogany colour* prothorax longer than wide, ratner nar- 
 rowest at the base, where it is slightly sinuated, anterior an^lcg rounded, 
 without punctures, dorsal channel slight, a deep short basilar furrow on each 
 side; elytra slightly furrowed with iuipunctured furrows, the seventh from 
 the suture obsolete ; in the interstice between the second and third are three 
 puuctiform impressions, the anterior one adjoining the latter and the two 
 posterior jnes the former. 
 
 This species approaches very near to A. erythropus, Dejean, but it is 
 smaller, and the posierio) angles of the prothorax are not rounded. The 
 under side of thi.- body, the leg'^ and antenna?, are all of the same colour, 
 sometimes a little darker, at others a little paler. [The genus Argutor^ Meg. 
 is now included in Pterodkhns/\ 
 
 37. Argutor [Pterosttchus] femoralis, Klrhy. — Length of the body 
 '3^ lines. Taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 This species approaches very near to the preceding one, and its place is 
 between that and A vernahs, of which it is the American representative. 
 It differs from A. hknlor chiefly in having only the scape of the antennae 
 and the tibia' and tar.^i of a different colour from the rest of the body, and in 
 having the anterior half of the furrows of the elytra sli?zhtly punctured ; and 
 from the latter in having the prothorax narrower at the base, with only a 
 single iinpuGctured impression on e.tch side. [We have received a specimen 
 of this species, taken in the United States, from our friend Mr. F. G. 
 Sanborn, of Boston, Mass.] 
 
 [31] 38. Aruutor [PterostichusJ manpibularis, Klrhy. — Length 
 of the budv 3^ lines. Taken in lat. 54°. 
 
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 Body glossy, underneath black, above blaok-bronzed ; mandibles, palpi, 
 scape of antennae and legs rufous, or rather pale chestnut ; frontal impressions 
 rather wide ; prothorax truncato-obcordate, with a basilar furrow on each 
 side and a few punctures at the posterior angles; elytra lightly furrowed, with 
 punctures in the furrows ; two punctiform impressions in the usual situation, 
 one a little beyond the middle of the elytrum, adjacent to the second furrow, 
 and the posterior one near the apex adjacent to the third. 
 
 Variety B. Black above, with the whole antennae rufous, elytra piceous; 
 perhaps an immature specimen. 
 
 39. Argutor [Pterosticiius] BREVicoRNis, Ztr&y. Plate viii. fig. 3. — 
 Length of body 3 lines. Taken in lat, 65°. 
 
 This with the preceding species, in the shape of the prothorax, which 
 is obcordate, departs a little from the others. A. brevicornis resembles 
 A. mandibularis in many respects, but the body is black, as are also the 
 mandibles and palpi; the antennae of the male are shorter, and those of the 
 female not longer, than the prothorax ; one of these organs in the latter sex, 
 in the only 9 specimen taken, appears to have been affected by some 
 disease, for the two last joints are larger than the preceding ones, so as to 
 form a kind of knob; it is the right-hand antenna that is so circumstanced ; 
 the little furrows at the base of the prothorax are wider than in A. mandi- 
 bularis; the elytra of the % have three, and those of the J four, punctiform 
 impressions, all adjacent to the third furrow. The last eight joints of the 
 antennae in this species have less down and shine more than is usual with 
 the ground beetles in general. 
 
 [LeConte, in his list, asks whether this species may not be equivalent to 
 P. fastidiosus. Mann.] 
 
 [32] 40. Omaseus [Pterostichus] ortnomum, Leach. — Length of 
 body 5J lines. Taken frequently in lat. 64^ and 65°. 
 
 Body oblong, glossy, black. Head rather ovate, underneath, in some 
 specimens, chestnut, in others black; palpi piceous; prothorax subcordate, 
 rather longer than wide; a deep, punctured, basilar impression on each side; 
 posterior margin slightly sinuate ; elytra subacurainate, lightly furrowed with 
 from four to six largish impressions in the isecond and third furrows, the -first 
 usually being in the third and the second on the second furrow, but the 
 others occasionally varying; the natural number of these impressions seems 
 to be five ; legs black, with piceous tarsi. 
 Varieti/ B. Legs chestnut. 
 
 C. Tibiee and tarsi chestnut. 
 
 From the number of specimens collected in the expedition, I should con- 
 jecture this to be one of the most common of North American ins'^cts. It 
 
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 appears, however, not to have been noticed by Say, nor was it amongst those 
 collected by Dr. Bigsby in Canada, or by Dr. MacCalloch and Capt. Hall in 
 Nova Scotia. [According to LeConte an erroneous determination Fl P. 
 luczotU, Dej., a species taken in Ontario and Quebec] 
 
 41. Omaseus [Pterostichus] nigrita, Curtis. — [This is P. caudicalis, 
 Say (Ent. AVorks, ii. 480) ; it has been taken at Ottawa by Mr. Billings.] 
 
 [3-3] 42. Omaseus [Pterostichus] picicornis, Kirhy. — [Previously 
 described as P. muius by Say (Ent. Works, ii. 470) ; taken in Canada and 
 the United States.] 
 
 [34] 43. Stereocerus [Amara] similis, Kirhy. — Plate viii. iig. 1. — 
 Length of body 5i lines. A pair were taken in lat. 64°. 
 
 Body of a piceous-black, glossy. Palpi piceous; antennse chestnut; 
 frontal impressions deep, rather curving j occiput punctured with scattered 
 punctures; prothorax nearly square with cirved sides; basilar impressions 
 wide, punctured, deeply bisulcate, with an elevated little ridge between them 
 and the margin : elytra bronzed, furrowed, furrows scarcely punctured : legs 
 pale chestnut. In the 9 the elytra are not bronzed, the legs are darker, and 
 the terminal joint of the palpi is longer. 
 
 [35.] CuRTONOTUS [Amara] convbxiusculus, Stephens. — Length of 
 body 5i lines. Taken in lat. 65°. 
 
 Body dark piceous, sometimes a little bronzed. Antennae and palpi 
 rufous; frontal impressions short, connected by a rather deep furrow; pro- 
 thorax constricted and punctured at the base, depressed on each side ; basilar 
 impressions bisulcate ; posterior angles acute, recurved ; elytra furrowed, fur- 
 rows punctured : sides of the ventral segments of the abdomen somewhat 
 punctured and wrinkled, those of the mid-breast grossly punctured : legs 
 chestnut. 
 
 [LeConte considers this an erroneous determination, and places it, with a 
 mark of interrogation, as a synonym of his A. laticollis^ stating (Pro. Acad. 
 Nat. Sci.. Phil., June, 1855, p. 347,) respecting the latter that it is "found 
 in Nebraska Territory near the Rocky Mountains. Very similar to the Euro- 
 pean A. convexiusculaf but in comparison with that species the thorax is 
 more rounded on the sides, more narrowed behind, and more finely mar- 
 gined."] 
 
 45. CuRTONOTUS [Amara] rufimanus, Kirhy. — Length of body 5 
 lines. Several taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 This is extremely similar to the species last described, from which it prin- 
 cipally differs in having the legs of the colour of dark pitch, with the excep- 
 tion of the hands or anterior tarsi, which are rufous : the sides of the ventral 
 segments of the abdomen also appear less conspicuously punctured. 
 
15 
 
 [LeConte (Joe. cit. p. 356) states that this is " probably a variety of A. lati- 
 coUis, Lee, in which case the name will not have preference, as the descrip- 
 tion must be considered worthless, and moreover must be considered aa 
 erroneously separated from A. convexiusctila, Kirby." He makes the same 
 remarks also upon the two following species : C. brevilnhris, Kirby, and C. 
 latior, Kirby.] 
 
 45. CuRTONOTUft BREViLABRis, Kirhy. — Length of body 4J lines. A 
 single specimen taken in lat. 65°. 
 
 [36.] Like the preceding species, but smaller : the upper lip is blacker, 
 not half so long and slightly emarginate : the elytra are dark, and the legs 
 pale chestnut; the furrows of the former are less conspicuously punctured; 
 the frontal impressions likewise are longer and connected by a slighter 
 furrow. 
 
 47. CuRTONOTUS LATIOR, Kirhy. — Length of the body 5 lines. One 
 specimen only taken. 
 
 This species has a good deal the aspect of Bradytus apricarius, but it is a 
 larger insect and rather wider in proportion, and the bifid intermediate tooth 
 of the lower lip proves that it is a true Curtonotus. Body piceous, above 
 bronzed. Upper lip, palpi, antennae, side-covers, and legs, all rufous; nose 
 at the anterior margin has an obtuse-angular sinus ; front^al impressions punc- 
 tiform, connected by a slightly-drawn line or furrow : prothorax wider than 
 long, the lateral margins forming a segment of a circle without any posterior 
 constriction ; at the base the prothorax is depressed, the basilar impressions 
 are bisulcate, the inner furrow being the longest : furrows of the elytra punc- 
 tured. 
 
 48. PcECiLUS [Pterostichus] lucublandus. Say. — Many specimens 
 taken in lat. 54°. [Excessively common in Canada; for description vide 
 Say's Ent. Works, ii. 478.] 
 
 [37] 49. PcECiLus [Pterostichus] castanipes, Kirby. — Length of 
 body 5J lines. One specimen only taken. 
 
 This species differs from variety D of P. lucublandus ("entirely blacky 
 with the sides of the prothorax impunctured, elytra violet"), which it much 
 resembles, it being entirely black; in having slighter basilar impressions, less 
 distinctly punctured : it has likewise only three punctiform impressions on 
 the elytra, the granular reticulations of the substance of which are also more 
 easily discovered. [Considered to be merely a variety of F. lucublandus by 
 LeConte.] 
 
 50. PcECiLus [Pterostichus] chalcites, Say,— Only a single specimen 
 taken. 
 
 [Not uncommon in Canada; for description vide Say's Ent. Works 
 ii. 479.] 
 
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 51. Amara vulgaris, Lair. — Leogth of body 4 to 4i lines. Many 
 -specimens taken in lat. 65°, and in the Kocky Mountains. 
 
 Body black, glossy ; above black-bronzed. Scape of the antennae pic^ous; 
 inner lobe of the maxillse, and first joint of the outer palpi, testaceous; 
 basilar impressions of the prothorax double, deepish, impunctured, the exter- 
 nal one oblique; channel abbreviated anteriorly, with a punctiform impres- 
 sion beyond the middle : furrows of the elytra lightljpdrawn, indistinctly 
 punctured ; apex subacuminate or suddenly narrowed : legs black, with the 
 hairs, spurs and claws testaceous. 
 
 Variety B. Bright, bronzed with a cupreous tint. 
 C. Wholly black. 
 
 [An European species, unknown to Dr. LeConte. Stated by Mr. William 
 Couper — but probably erroneously — to be common at Toronto. — Can. Jour. 
 1855, p. 256.] 
 
 [38] 52. Amara in.«qualis, Kirly. — Length of body 4 lines. Several 
 taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 Very like A. vulgaris^ but the ttoo first joints of the antennae are rufous ; 
 the basilar impressions of the prothorax are not so deep ; and the interstices 
 of the furrows of the elytra are convex and uneven : in other respects there 
 is little difference between them. [Previously described as A. intersiitialis, 
 Dej. ; taken, according to Dr. LeConte {Pro. Acad. Nat. Set., Phil., June, 
 1855, p. 353), on Lake Superior, at Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River, and in 
 Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Also found at Grimsby, and other 
 places in Ontario.] 
 
 53. Amara impuncticollis. Sat/. — Taken in lat. 54°. [Common in 
 Canada ; for description vide Say's Ent. Works, ii. 463.] 
 
 54. Amara pallipes, Kirhy. — Length of body 3 lines. Only one speci- 
 men taken. 
 
 Body glossy; underside, mandibles, coxae and tarsi piceous; upperside 
 bronzed. Three first joints of the antennae rufous; frontal impressions very 
 slight, connecting line very distinct : dorsal channel of the prothorax nearly 
 entire; basilar impressions rather punctiform, punctured; elytra not subacu- 
 minate : legs yellowish. [Taken on Lake Superior and in Northern New 
 York, according to LeConte ; also in Ontario.] 
 
 [39] 55. Amara laevipennis, Kirhy. — Length of body 3* lines. Three 
 or four specimens taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 Body glossy; the underside, legs and antennae black; upperside black- 
 bronzed : frontal impressions very slight : prothorax smooth, with the basilar 
 impressions very faint : farrows of the elytra very lightly drawn, and some- 
 
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 times subioterrupted ; intermediate trochanters piceous. [" Lake SuperioTi 
 one pair; a female from Massachusetts, sent by Dr. Harris" (LeConto).J 
 
 50. Amara discors, Kirby. — Length of body 4 lines. One specimen 
 only taken. 
 
 This species has somewhat the aspect of a Ilarpalus^ but it exhibits the true 
 characters of Amara : it appears to bo related to A. discrcpans, Stephens. 
 Body dark piceous, glossy. (Jpper-lip, palpi, mouth and antennse ferniginouB : 
 prothorax a little narrowed behind ; bead of the lateral margin rufous j basilar 
 impressions rather slight: elytra less glossy than the rest of the body, the 
 infinitely minute and numerous granular reticulations of their substance being 
 more conspicuous than usual ; the furrows of the elytra from minute punc- 
 tures exhibit a slight appearance of crenulations : legs pale chestnut. [Un- 
 known to Dr. LeConte j the student of the AmarsR is referred to his paper 
 on this genus in the Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., June 1855, p. 346, for much 
 valuable matter and fuller descriptions.] 
 
 [40] 57. Harpalus pleuriticus, Klrhj. — Taken frequently in lat. 54®. 
 [For description vide Mr. Sprague's Carabidos, Can. Entom. ii. p. 96. 
 Taken in Ontario and, according to Pr. LeConte, in Minnesota and Winnipeg.] 
 
 58. Harpalus ^ xSILAris, Kirht/. — Length of body 4 lines. Taken with 
 the preceding, and in equal numbers. 
 
 This species differs from the preceding, which it nearly resemhles, in having 
 the two first joints of antennse yellow, and the remainder dusky; in having 
 the prothorax still wider in proportion to its length, with its posterior angles 
 more acute and impunctured, and with narrower basilar impressions also 
 without punctures; its lateral margin is also black and le.ss prominent: the 
 side-covers of the elytra are likewise black : the legs are dark-piceous, with 
 yellowish-red trochanters. In other respects it resembles IT. pleuritictu. 
 [Unknown to Dr. LeConte.] 
 
 [41] 59. Harpalus oohropus, Kirbi/. — Length of body 3J lines. [No 
 locality stated.] 
 
 This comes very near H. pleuritieus, but is considerably smaller; the 
 antennae are longer ; the prothorax is impunctured at the base, its basilar 
 impressions are linear; the side-covers of the elytra are chesnut; and its 
 thighs are more robust in proportion. [Unknown to Dr. LeConte ; supposed 
 by him to be perhaps IT. desertus, Lee.] 
 
 60. Harpulus interpunctatus, Kirly. — Plate vii. fig. 8. — Length of 
 body 5 J lines. Many taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 Body proportionally longer than in the antecedent species, black, glossy, 
 
 not depressed. Head triangular, with a pair of confluent red dots, visible 
 
 only in the son, between the eyes ; antennae shorter than the prothorax, with 
 2 
 
18 
 
 the scape and last joint of the palpi rufous: prothorax subquadrangular; 
 anterior angles rounded ; dorsal channel drawn from the apex to the hase 
 punctured especially posteriorly, disk impunctured, transversely wrinkled ; 
 bsBilar impressions shallow ; lateral margin dilated posteriorly ; elytra rather 
 deeply furrowed, furrows impunctured, interstices convex, very minutely but 
 not thickly punctured : the four anterior tarsi of the male are furnished with 
 a thick brush of vesicles, not arranged in a double series, as in other species 
 of this genus. [Placed, with a mark of interrogation, in LeConte's List, as 
 a synonym of Anmdactylus mclanopus, Hald., a specica taken in Canada.] 
 
 [42] 61. Harpalus longior, Kirht/ — Length of body 5^ to 7 J lines. 
 Two specimens taken, the largest in lat. 5-4°. 
 
 Body black. Upper-lip piceous ; antennae, palpi and legs reddish -tawny, 
 the first longer than the prothorax ; the nose terminates anteriorly in a red- 
 dish membrane or rhinarium : prothorax quadrangular with all the angles 
 rounded, rather longer than wide ; dorsal channel anteriorly abbreviated , 
 lateral margin minutely punctured, much dcpresser], especially at the posterior 
 angles ; basilar impressions double, shallow, and minutely punctured j elytra 
 very little glossed, more than twice the length of the prothorax, furrows 
 impunctured with convex interstices, the lateral ones with some scattered very 
 minute punctures ; the vesicles on the sole of the four anterior tarsi of the 
 male are arranged as in the other Ilarpali. 
 
 Both the specimens taken in the expedition are males, or I should have 
 supposed the unusual diflFerence in their size was sexual : probably the small 
 one was taken in a higher latitude. [Unknown to Dr. LeConte ; thought by 
 him to be perhaps //. vagans, Lee.] 
 
 62. Harpalus laticollis, Kirb^. — Length of body 5 J lines. A single 
 specimen taken. 
 
 This insect very closely resembles II. interpundatus ; it differs principally 
 in having a rather wider prothorax with all the angles rounded, with the 
 dorsal channel abbreviated anteriorly, and with only the base very indistinctly 
 punctured j the interstices of the furrows of the elytra are also without punc- 
 tures, and there is a single punctiform impression in the usual situation adja- 
 cent to the second furrow. [Previously described m Anisodactylus nigerrimus 
 by Dejean.] 
 
 [43] 63. Harpalus [Anisodactylus] Carbonarius, Say.—T^o speci- 
 mens taken in lat. 54°. [Taken also in Canada; for description vide Say's 
 Ent. Works, ii. p. 460.] 
 
 64. Harpalus rotundicollis, Kirhy. — Length of body 5 J lines. Two 
 specimens taken. 
 
 Body brownish, black, glossy. Antenna length of the prothorax, as well 
 as tha tip of the palpi, rufous : prothorax wider than long, with rounded 
 
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 angles ; basilar impressions shallow, round and punctured : the elytra exhibit 
 a silliy lustre from the granulations on the surface ; there is a single puncti- 
 form impression in the usual situation near the apex ; in this ?nd the following 
 species these organs arc transversely truncated with a slight sinuosity j legs 
 rufous or rufo-piceous, with black thighs; coxa) and trochanters rufous. 
 [A variety, according to Le('onte, of //. amjnUatus, Say (Ent. Works, ii. 546), 
 a species taken in " Kansas, New IMexico, Saskatchewan, Montreal, Canada."] 
 
 [44] 65. IIarpalus Stepdensii, KirLi/. — A. single specimen, taken in 
 lat 54°. [A synonym of //. ampulatus, *5fiv.] 
 
 [45] 66 SxENOLOPHUs VERSICOLOR, Kirltj. — Length of body 2i to 23 
 lines. Three specimens were taken in lat. 54°, 
 
 Body dusky-black, glossy Palpi, mouth and scape of the antennsc rufous j 
 prothorax scarcely longer than wide, rounded behind, with the basilar impres- 
 sions punctured : elytra reddish-brown, — viewed In the sun or in the light, 
 they exhibit a changeable tint of violet ; a punctiform impression adjoins the 
 second furrow ; apex slightly sinuatcd ; cpipleura yellow : thighs dusky, 
 especially the posterior pair, which arc larger than the Olivers; tibiae and 
 tarsi rufous. 
 
 The female has less of the violet tint, and the elytra are of a pale mahog- 
 any colour. 
 
 Variety B. With the two first joints of the antennaj rufous; legs yellow. 
 [Previously described as S. fuligiiiosus by Dejean ; is taken in Ontario.] 
 
 67. Trechus [Bradycellus] tibialis, A7/6y.— Length of body 2f 
 lines. Only a single specimen taken. 
 
 [47] Body black, somewhat glossy. The tip of the palpi and scape of the 
 antennae are rufous ; the prothorax is rather wider than long, but nearly 
 square; the short basilar furrows observable in AtQutor distinguish this 
 species from the succeeding ones ; elytra lightly furrowed, furrows impunc- 
 tured ; in the usual situation adjacent to the second furrow a little beyond 
 the middle of the elytrum a very minute punctiform ioipression is just 
 discernible; the lateral mrvgin and suture at the apex of the elytra are 
 reddish : the tibiae are rufous but the cubit is black at the tip ; the tarsi 
 are darker, the hand has four dilated joints as iu the other species of the 
 genus. 
 
 [Belongs to Bradycellus ; for a synopsis of the N. American species by 
 Dr. LeConte, vide Pro. Acad. N. S. Phil., Dec. 1868, p. 379.] 
 
 68. Trechus [Bradycellus] ruficrcs, Kirh}/ Length of body 2i 
 
 lines. Only one specimen taken. 
 
 Body black, glossy. Palpi piceous; scape of the antennae and mouth 
 rufous : prothorax subobcordate ; chanelled, channel not abbreviated, margin 
 
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 rufous especially the basilar ; angles rounded ; basilar impressions single, 
 round and punctured : el^'tra lurid or dirty yellow, witb a large blaokish 
 cloud or blotch beyond the middle : legs dull rufous, thighs darker. [In- 
 cluded by LeContc, he- cit.. under B. badupernus, Hald., a species taken at 
 Grimsby, Out., by Mr. Petiit.J 
 
 69. Treciius [Bradycellus] flavipes, Kirl//. — Length of body 2J 
 lines. Many taken ia Lat 51'^. 
 
 [48] Body picoous, glossy. Head undciUeath, nose, mouth, and oral 
 organs — except the palpi which are pale yellow — and antennae rufous ; three 
 first joints of the latter paler than the others : prothorax rufous, rather 
 longer than wide, between square and obcordate j basilar impressions single, 
 very slight, punctured, and black : elytra rufuus, with a broad black stripe 
 adjoining the suture and parallel with it ; furrows rr.ther deep, impunctured : 
 legs pale yellow. 
 
 N.B. — In the majority of &pccipieus tho black stripe of the elytra is very 
 faint, and in some ovanescont, and the impressions as well as the rest of the 
 prothorax rufous. [Previously described as B. rupestris, Say. — Ent. Works 
 ii. 505. Very common in Canada.] 
 
 70. Trechus immunis, Kirhy. — Length of body If lines. Two speci- 
 mens taken with the preceding species. 
 
 Similar to T. flavipes but smaller, the nose is piceous, the thorax is more 
 dusky; dorsal channel iudi.stinctj basilar impressions deeper and impunc- 
 tured : elytra dark piceous with merely the bead of the lateral margin rufous ; 
 the furrows also arc more lightiy drawn : legs darker. [Le Conte, loc. cit., 
 states that he has not identified this species, but that it is perhaps Stenolo- 
 phus cams, Lee., though the description is scarcely sufficient to warrant the 
 placing of the latter in synonymy.] 
 
 71. TuEcnus [Bradycellus] similis, A7r6y. — Length of body 3i lines. 
 Two specimens taken in Lat. 54°. 
 
 Body black, glossy. 3louth reddish yellow ; palpi yellow ; upper-lip and 
 mandibles rufous, the latter black at the tip ; antennae dusky-rufous, three 
 first joints more yellow : prothorax between obcordate and square, with the 
 whole of the base distinctly and grossly punctured ; basilar impressions 
 shallow ; limb of the prothorax is reddish-yellow, the disk is occupied by a 
 large square black spot : the suture, lateral margin, and apex widely, and 
 the inner base of the elytra, are reddish-yellow ; [49] adjoining the suture 
 is a broad black stripe not reaching tho apex ; the furrows are rather deep 
 End impunctured; and in the usual situation, a little beyond the middle, a 
 punctiform impression is adjacent to the second furrow : the sides of the 
 fore-breast, the anus and the legs, are reddish-yellow. 
 
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 Var. B. Thorax without a black spot in the disk, body underneath piceous. 
 [Previously described as Feronia atrlmedius by Say. — Ent. Works ii. 
 460.] 
 
 [50] 12. IsoPLEURUS NiTiDUS, A^r^^.— Plate i. fig. 6. Length of body 
 3^ lines. A single specimen taken in the Rocky "Mountains. 
 
 Body very glossy, underneath rufo-piccous, above bronzed with a light tint 
 of piceous. Upper-lip rufous; palpi, antennge which are slender, side-cover 
 of the elytra and leg3 roddish-yollow: prothoras rather wider than long, 
 punctured posteriorly, basilar iuipressions doubled : furrows of the elvtra 
 slightly punctured, at the apex impunctured. [Placed in LcContc's List, 
 p. 10, with a Uiark of interrogation, under Auiara sfpte/ilrionalis, Lee, and 
 with the note that the name has bc'.u previously employed for another 
 species.] 
 
 [51] 73. Patrobus Ameuicanus, D^: Jean. — Three specimens taken in 
 Lat. 54°. Length of body 5| lines. 
 
 [Previously described as Feronia {Patrolus') lonr/icollt's, Say.; not un- 
 common in Ontario. For description i'«> Say's Ent. Works, ii. 466.] 
 
 [52] 74. Peryi'IIUc) [Bembidilm] bimaculatus, Kirbi/. — Length of 
 body 3 J lines. Taken in iat. G5°. 
 
 Body glossy, underneath black, above black-bronzed with a slight greenisli 
 tint. Head triangular, with :i thick convex neck; frontal impressions long 
 and deep; antenna longer tliuu the pj-olhorax, third joint of the length of 
 the succeeding ones; scape and palpi rufous; pcothorax obcordate convex, at 
 the base depresr^cd, constricted and grossly punctured ; dorsal c' ^nnel as in 
 Pairohus; basilar impressions single, round and dcoplsh; elytra sughtly fur- 
 rowed, with the furrows punctured; the scvoulh from the suture nearly obli. 
 terated; apex nearly smooth, near which is an oblique pule spot ; legs rufous 
 with darker thighs, especially in the middle. 
 
 N. B. — When the elytra are raised from the body, they are dusky-bronzed. 
 [The old genus Peryphus is included by Lc Oonte as a group under Bembi- 
 dium, Pro. Acad. N. S. Phil. 1857, p. 3.] 
 
 75. Perypiius [Bembidiu.m] sordidus, Kirb^. — Length of body 3 lines. 
 A single specimen taken in Iat. 54°. 
 
 This so nearly resembles /■*. bimaculatun, that I first put it aside as an 
 immature specimen, but further cunsidcration induces me to consider it as 
 distinct. It is wholly palu rufous, except the head, the prothorax and the 
 anus : the three first joints of the antennx and the base of the fourth are 
 also rufous : the prothorax appear.^ rather narrower in proportion, and less 
 distinctly punctured ai the base ; the spot at the apex of the elytra i3 larger, 
 and the thighs are rather slenderer. 
 
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 [53] 76. Peryphus [Bembidium] scopulinus, Kirhy. — Two specimens, 
 taken in lat. 54°. [Previously described as B. postrcmum, Say, Ent. Works, 
 ii. 561]. 
 
 77. Peryphus [Bembidium] rupicola, Kirbt/, — Taken abundantly in 
 lat. 54° and 65°. Length of body 2A lines. 
 
 This little species appears to be the American representative of F. littoralis, 
 which in many respects it closely resembles. It is, however, a smaller insect. 
 The body is invariably piceous or rufo-piceous, and the head and prothorax 
 are of the same colour, bronzed; the antennte arc ferruginous, with the scape 
 paler; the prothorax is rather shorter. [Included in Le Coute's List as a 
 variety of B. ntpestre. Dej., telracolum, Say, Ent. Works, ii. 503]. 
 
 [54] 78. Pery-phus [Bembidium] picipes, Alrbt/. — Length of body 2:^^ 
 lines. Two specimens taken in lat. Gb°. 
 
 Body black, glos.sy, above scarcely at all bronzed. First joint of the 
 antennae rufo-piceous j sculpture of the head, prothorax and elytra precisely 
 that of the preceding .species of the genus ; elytra unspotted, with two punc- 
 tiform impressions situated as in P. scopulinua, &c. ; legs rufo-piceous. This 
 comes very close to P. vitidi/lus, but that species has no punctiform impres- 
 sions, and the legs are of a different colour. 
 
 79. Peryphus [Bembidium] concolor, Xiib^. — Length of body 2 J lines. 
 Body and members black, glossy, above bronzed. Scape of the antennae 
 
 piceous; prothorax less constricted behind than in P. picipes; space between 
 the basilar impressions impunctured; elytra more deeply furrowed with larger 
 punctures in the furrows ; the lateral furrows are not obliterated, but the 
 apex of the elytrum is impunctured. [A species unknown to Le Conte.] 
 
 80. Perypus [Bembidium] quadrimaculatus, Linn. — Two specimens 
 in lat. 54'^. [Subsequently described as B. oppofAUim, Say. — Ent. Works. 
 ii. 501 ; taken in Canada.] 
 
 [55] 81. Peryphus [Bembidium] nitidus. ICirhy. — Plate i. fig. 7. 
 Length of body 3| lines. Two specimens, taken lat. 54°. 
 
 Body linear-oblong, subdepressed. very glossy, underneath black, above 
 black-bronzed. Head triangular ; frontal impressions long and rather curvi- 
 linear; scape of the antennae rufous underneath; prothorax nearly square, 
 and level with curving sidos ; dorsal channel nearly obsolete ; basilar impres- 
 sions double, the inner one round and rather deep, the other very slight, with 
 a little ridge between it and the margin ; anterior and posterior margin nearly 
 straight; elytra with sides nearly parallel as well as the apex impunctured; 
 a quintuple series of punctures adjoins the suture, which extends very little 
 beyond the half of the elytrum, with traces of slight furrows beyond it. 
 [Taken in Canada ; a specimen in our collection from 3Ir. B. Billings, Ottawa, 
 
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 Ontario; at Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River, by Mr. Kennicott; and in the 
 Platte River Valley, by Dr. Lc Conte]. 
 
 [50] 82. Taciiyta picipes, A7%.— Plate viii. fig. 6. Length of body 
 1^ lines. Four specimens, taken in lat. 51°. 
 
 Body black, glossy. Frontal impressions rather oblique ; eyes less pronai- 
 nent than usual in the tribe ; prothorax broader than long, subobcordate j 
 basilar impressions, which are single, and dorsal channel, rather deep; elytra 
 with three obsolete impunctured furrows next the suture, which do not reach 
 the apex. Apex rounded ; legs piceous. [Previously described as Tachys 
 nanus, Schaum, and Bemb. inornalum, Say. — Ent. Works, ii. 502 ; taken in 
 Canada.] 
 
 [57] 83. NoTAPiius [Bembidium] nigripes, Kirly. — Length of body 
 2 lines. Three specimens, taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 Body black, glossy; above bronzed with a greenish tint; the whole upper 
 surface, under a powerful nangnifier, appears covered with innumerable 
 granules, which are much more distinctly seen in this family than in the 
 FerypJiidcc. Scape of the antenna), which are longer than the prothorax, 
 rafo-piceous; frontal impressions parallel; the punctiform impression adjoin- 
 ing the eyes on their inner side has a central elevation : prothorax short, with 
 a deep dorsal channel ; basilar impressions double, with a little ridge between 
 the external one and the margin: elytra furrowed; furrows punctured for 
 about two-thirds of their length ; the first and second reach the apex, where 
 they are confluent; the third and fourth stop a littb short of the apex, and 
 are also confluent, as are the fifth and sixth, which are still shorter, and 
 terminate in a little furrow common to both ; the seventh and eighth reach 
 the apex, where they likewise unite; two punctiform impressions, in the 
 usual situation, adjoin the third furrow ; at the base of the elytrum, in the 
 interstice between the fifth and sixth furrows, is a longitudinal lurid streak, 
 then follows an abbreviated and articulate band of the same colour, consisting 
 of four streaks, those near the lateral margin being much the longest; in the 
 interstices between the second and third furrows are two such little streaks ; 
 near the apex is likewise another band, both articulated and undulated, con- 
 sisting of seven spots, the marginal one being rather the longest ; the tips of 
 the elytra are likewise lurid. 
 
 N. nvjripes is related to N. usUdatus, and appears to be its American 
 representative ; it differs from it in having black legs, and the lurid markings 
 of the elytra are different : it comes nearest to Gyllenhal's Variety C. [ Vide 
 Pro. Acad. N. S. Phil., July 1860, p. 31G.] 
 
 [58] 84. NoTAPHus [Bembidium] intermedius, Kirhy, — Length of 
 body 1* lines. A single specimen, taken in lat. 54°. 
 
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 Very nearly relnted to N". nigripes, but the head and prothorax are greener; 
 antcnnre as lonr^ as the prothorax ; the palpi arc rufous, with tho penultimate 
 joint rather dusky ; elytra bronzed-lurid, with a round bb 'k spot near the 
 base, a larger near the apes, aud an angular band of the sanoe colour between 
 them; the^legs are dull rufous. The sculpture of the cljira is nearly the 
 same as in that species, but the fifth furrow, by a turn outward, Dlraost inter- 
 cepts the sixth aud seventh, and then runs to the apex of the elytrum j the 
 turrows themselves are blatrli. 
 
 85. NoTAPnus [IJembidium] vahiegatus, Klrly. — Length of body If 
 lines. 
 
 This also is related to iV. m'l/rip^s, but is quite distinct. The head and 
 prothorax are without any arrecn tint ; tho antennae are not longer than the 
 prothorax ; the prothorax in proportionally not so wide before and narrower 
 behind : elytra scarcely at all bronzed ; lurid with a large blackish cloud or 
 spot near the base, another near the apex, and an intermediate black angular 
 band ; the furrows of the elytia, especially the external ones, do not reach 
 tho apex, or at least sre obliterated; they are punctured the whole of their 
 apparent length; instead of two, there are three punctiform impressions; the 
 legs are rufo-piceous. [This name is preoccupied by Say's species ; Le Oonte 
 considers Kirby's species syno- Vmous with /> versicohr Leo.] 
 
 [59] 8G. Bejibidium iMPa .sum, Gi/U. — Length of body 2J lines. 
 Tnken frequently in lat. 54° and 65°, and in the journey from New York to 
 Cumberland House. On the sandy shores of Lake Winnipeg, in the spring 
 of 1825 (Mr. Drumraond). In Canada (T>r. Bigsby). 
 
 [60] Body undernea-h green, bronzed, very glossy; above bronzed, gloss 
 much obscured, occasioned by an iclinity of most minute reticulations, visible 
 only under a good magnifier, which give it a granulated appearance ; frontal 
 impressions and ocellated punctures as in JVotajjhus; eyes very large and 
 prominent; palpi bronzed, with the second joint obscurely nifous ; antennsB 
 longer than the prothora^s. with the scape and the base of the second and 
 third joints rufous ; prothornx short, depressed both at the base and apex, 
 the depressed part being wrinkled longitudinally; dorsal channel and basilar 
 impressions rather deep ; in the latter are two little furrows ; in the elytra, a 
 little beyond the midtlle, ia the interstice between the second and third 
 furrows, are two quadrangular, oblong, slightly depressed spaces, of a some- 
 what golden lustre, aud marked at the anterior end with a punctiform impres- 
 sion; immediately before, between, and after tho depressed spaces, is a 
 levigated and rather elevated one of the same shape ; the furrows of the 
 elytra are arranged nearly in the same way as those o? Nbtaphus intermediui) 
 above described : the legs are rufous, with the thighs bronzed at the apex. 
 [Taken in Canada.] 
 
Cr.'u'S Oris ru US, K/rl>y. 
 
 Ox A organs sc.rrccl}" dilTcrenl from those c;!' I'llaphrtis. 
 
 Body dei)rcss(.'u aivJ Hat. Jhv.d irianguiar, anten.nrc nnuh imtrc sicndor 
 and longer tlv:n tho:-;i' i.f J^uiphrm, 3ru y^vM ralivr ];;n.:..'r tn;in 4tii. 
 Pr:)!hoi\:.\ \x-x\ >hv)rt. tr,;:y-\ersc. scareeiy wider than llu iicad : anteriorly 
 olisolctoly oblus-aMgui;;:, posteriorly subrcjuui;;. dcpressot' ;: little at base 
 .-.;"!(1 a'pe.N ; ohanelled, hut without basilar i!n|)ressiojis ; sides g;bl)ous ; 
 angjos ail ol'iu->e. .S; v.- A /////// rather obtus-ar,ga!ar. F'yfra, aiitnir.k/'^ and 
 a.bdonieii voiy niiui; dilated, nearly tv.'iee tlve \ridth c^f tlvj protl\t)ra.\, 
 without iurrows. witli several rows ot" obsolete itia.nmiiilatetl iivipressiop.s. 
 /.f^'^ rather longer and nityr;; slender liiaji those of I-lliipiuus : the /Ir* ?//</> 
 of the male ha\e the fir-t vaw joints a litrie diiat^d and furrashed under- 
 neath with a brush. 
 
 !6i| S;. ( )i';;v! ims Rii i: ••.RiJsnxn. Kirby. I'laile i. fig. <). Length of 
 bv)dy .} '4 lines: breadth of protiiorax i Inie : <->f cb.'.ra taken together 
 ?.ly lines. Mr. Drummond. from mv descri'ptitjn (.f this < urious insect, 
 thinks it was taken in Ma\, ^'"^-5. <mi an island, .■! l.iike ^^'innipeg. frc- 
 (juenting moist, muddy ;)laees from v.hi<-h t'le water hat! shnml.. 
 
 Ikxly v.iih the ;.'loss obseured ; midernca.tii bl.uk. somev.hat liairy ; 
 above, a little bron.x'd. .\!)tenna' nearh- half tiie lem/th (tf th.e bodv. first 
 four joints greenish-!)ron/.t,d., the rest dee{> blue : iVont with a slight irn- 
 jjression bet^.een the ar.tennac tnd a, few scattered short whilish h.airs ; 
 prothorax veiv sh( rt. VMy:\: bron.-'.ed, transxerselv verv rninutelv wrinkled : 
 elytra witli three rows of o;>long, greenish, very slight impressions, each 
 with a central o!>long elevation, with another levigated one jjetween each ; 
 adjoining the kaerU !nargin is a fourth series of greenish-bronzed inor(,' 
 numerous invpressions wiilTout ap.y i e-nin;! '.'r intermediate elevations ; 
 thighs green-bron/.ecL l.bue obscurely rufous, tarsi !)kirk. legs hair\-.— - 
 [Taken at l-'ort .Simpson, Mackenzie River, by Mr. liolnrr Kennicott.] 
 
 8S. Ki,.\i'iiiu's (h \ikvii i.n. Kiily. Plate i. i'g. I'., i.ength of body 
 .\ Imes. [A single S})ecimen, taken in the journey frtiu New \'ork to 
 Cumberianddu>use.] 
 
 |62i bixl)- giossv ; mulerneath greeivbrtiii/ed ; .ii)o\e bku k, slightly 
 bron/ed, covered with minute, scattered, gilded pimc ttires. Mandibles 
 and ])alpi piceous ; antenna; black, vvjth the three first joints dark blue ; 
 front with an elevation Ifctween the e}es. rather deejjly im]>ressed in the 
 centre ; prothorax longer than u ide uneven, with twcj large dis( oidal 
 
 * Tl'i, alii.runk is Ihiit jurt vsliich !n'»is tjic wiiijrs aii.l Ihc f.uir jn-Mcrivr k::s. 
 
2i'< 
 
 elevations sei»aratc(l by a dorsa! channel, each n itli a central impression : 
 a single ]")asilar impression at the posterior angles tinted with blue ; elytra 
 with four irregular rows, containing in all tweiUy-one slight circular im- 
 pressions punctured, and tinted with blue, each, exce])t the marginal ones 
 surrounded by an elevated ring, and j)laced in a wider impression ; be- 
 tween each of these impressions in the two first rows is an elevated and 
 levigated s])ace ; thighs glossy-green, the i)osteri(^r i)air rufus at the base ; 
 til)ine and tarsi piceous. 
 
 I am doubtful whether this sjK'cies may not be Mr. .Say's Ji. n'/an'us, 
 but It is not the real one, from which, and E. i/i{i(hiosi/s, it is distinguished 
 by being much less thickly dusted with green-gold glittering punctures, 
 which gives it a blacker hue. The impression also in the elevated space 
 between the eyes is much deeper. The blue-tinctured impressions of the 
 elytra are also more di.-,tinct. and surrounded by a more elevated ring. 
 [Taken on the Island of Toronto, by Mr. Couper.— C'r///. younial, 1856, 
 
 89. Elaphri s IN TKRMKDirs, K'uhy. — Ivcngth of body 4 lines, [Taken 
 by T)r. liigsby in Canada.] 
 
 'I'his species resembles li. ciiprci/s, but it is quite distinct. 'The body 
 is more thickly and minutely punctured on the whole ui)per surface ; under- 
 neath it is of a fine bronzed-green ; above it is blacker and less brilliant ; 
 the head is greenish ; the middle space between the eyes is less elevated 
 than in that species, and wrinkled longitudinally without any impression : 
 the impressions on the discoidal elevations of the prothorax are fainter ; 
 the elytra, like the other species, have a (piadrujjle series of impressions, 
 ])ut they are broader, more slight, without any elevated ring, are more 
 minutely punctured, have a slight elevation in the centre, and are of the 
 same colour with the rest of the elytrum ; the marginal series is nearly 
 ob.solete ; just before the middle, adjoining the suture, is a (juadrangular 
 elevation which unites with that of the other elytrum : the thighs are 
 green, rufous ai die base, libire rufous, tarsi i)iceous. [laken in Canada.] 
 
 [63] 90. Ej \phrus OB.scuRioR, Kirl>\. — Length of body 3 '4 lines. 
 A single specimen, taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 'This species is more strongly marked than the majority of the Elaphri. 
 On the underside the head and trunk arc copper, with a slight tint of green ; 
 the abdomen of a dusky purplish copper ; above it is copper-coloured ; the 
 head, with the exception of the upper-lip, is very thickly and confluently 
 l)unctured, with a levigated but scarcely elevated space between the eyes ; 
 
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 the four first joints of the nntcnnrc are <-upreoiis ; prothorax not wider than 
 the hcafl, continently and thickly pumtiired : discoidal elevations not con- 
 spicuous nor impressed ; elytra not glossy, punctured with scattered punc- 
 tures, marked hy a (juadruj)le series of very slight impressions, some nearly 
 obsolete, most of .hem marked out hy a very slight elevated ring and a 
 circle of punctures, three levigated (juadrangular space: near the suture, 
 and arranged in a line j)arallel with it, and a fourth triangular one removed 
 from it, near tlie apex ; the disk of the elytra is fainti/ ,niri)le : lei;s 
 hronzetl. 
 
 91. NcvrjoPHii.us AQi'ATici's, LhuL — One specimen taken. [An erro- 
 neous determination, according to Dr. I.eConte, who considers it to he 
 iV. seinisiriatus - "Sa)- . For description, which very <'losely corresponds 
 with Kirby's, -v//^- .Says Knt. Works, ii. 497] 
 
 [65] 92. O.Moi'HRoN .Sa\(, Kirby. Taken by Dr. Higsby in Canada. 
 Length of body 3 |j lines. 
 
 This si.)ecics seems intermediate between O. litnbatuin and O. labialmn. 
 Irom the fcmier it dififers in having a much fainter tint of green on the 
 darker jjarls of the body, in its black iirothorax with silvery sides as well 
 as margin ; from the latter, in having the lateral furrows as deep and 
 distinctly punctured as those of the disk ; and, instead of two reddish s|)ots 
 near the l>ase of the el}tra, having two angulato-undulated bands, one 
 near the base and the other beyond the middle, and the tips testaceous , 
 all connected by tJie margin of the same colour. It seems to have escai)ed 
 the describers of O. Hmhatu>n that the upper-lij) and lateral margin of the 
 jirothorax and elytra are likewise silvery, though not so conspicuously as 
 in O. liibiatiiin and Sayi. 
 
 The sculpture of the elytra in this genus, as well as in Cahsoftia, difters 
 from that of the other terrestrial predaceous beetles in having more than 
 nine furrows, which api)ears to be the typical number in the section. — 
 [.Synonymous with O. Aincricaniim, Dej. ; taken in many parts of Canada.] 
 
 [A'//// ^'/" ///r Cauaimd.k] 
 
 FAMILY UAl.IPMD.T",. 
 
 [This family- usually regarded as a sub-flunily of the Dytisculic^ is 
 restricted by I-eConte to the genera Haliplns and Cuemidotus ; but Kirby. 
 as will be ol>served, includes it in the genera J/yiirojHynis and Laccopfnlus.\ 
 
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 i\:;. ll.\iii'i,r> l.Mi'Ki >.>r>. /,,///■. ( )nc >ii(.Tiiiun uikcn \',) l,at. 65''. 
 I.tiigth of" l)()dy I jj lilies, n!:;;ri\. 
 
 [6i.i.] iJody, rcddihl-.-yclkiw ; Lead punctured, dusky bcliind : i)roihora.\ 
 yellow, depressed in ihc middle posieriorly, widi a trans\ersc curved series 
 of j)unctures iii tlie ilepression : anteriorly tliere are five or six black dots 
 r.rranged transversely ; at the ba'-c. between the ceiural i)oint and the 
 margin on each side, ai: ohh\ii:e litJe furrow, but n.)t easily disco\erable, 
 is impressed: elytra piale-3'eliow. \.itli a cinereous tiitl. nine rows of black 
 punctures on each, those near tiie laieral margin being the faintest ; 
 anteriorly, \n the interstices of the rows, there are also a few i)lack {)iuk-- 
 tures ; the ai)e\ of tlse el;.tra is oblicjue. terminating in an m ute point: the 
 lamina- that co\er ti.e posterior legs are I'unctured. [Kirby is doubtful 
 res])ecting the identity cf this s]iecinien with Latreille's species, as, th.«nigh 
 tile hitter's (Iescri[)tion agrees \\itii it. his figure '.h)es not, for it re['resenvs 
 the elytra will"! eight black sj>ots, u-'iich arc not \'j be found in //. Imfvrssii.w 
 LeConte j)uts it down as a probable synonym of 77. IiiiniacuHcoUi:-, Harris, 
 a specie.s taken in ('anada, and regards its identification with l,atreille's 
 si)ecies a.s erroneou.s.] 
 
 94. HvDROi'ORLS NioKc-l iXK.Mis, .V/, /'/•,/.•... .\ pair taken in l,at. 
 65 . I.ength of body 2'j in.-— 2-':^ lines. 
 
 l>ody lurid-yellow, somewhat giossy, minutel} and tliicklv p;inctured : 
 antenn?-' dusky at the tij) ; pvothora.\ with a minute i)Iark rhoniboidal 
 spot in the disk, which is marked with a pun(tiiV>rm iivi}iressi(>n : anteriorly 
 it has a transverse series of punctures larger than tliose of the rest of its 
 surface ; elytra most numerously and mintitely imnctured ; ti\e suture and 
 four longitudinal stripes not reaching the apex, nor the first and tliird the 
 base, all black ; t!ie fourth, or outermost, is distant from the niargin and 
 interru})ted : the alitrunk and abdomen are l)lack. In the female, which is 
 less glossy, the externa! stripe is continuous, and only tlie second reaches 
 the base : and in the male, the prothora\ is more conspicioush' j)unctured. 
 and the anterior series of j)unctures xr- wanting. 
 
 [67.] 95. HvDRoroKLS Pakai. I. Ki. rs, .S'cri'.-One specimen only taken. 
 [ Previously described a:> //. Catascopitnn, Saw and subsequently as //. 
 hitrrniptus, Say. For descriptions, vide Say's Knt. Hooks, ii.. 98, 516.560. 
 'i'aken in Canada.] 
 
 96. HvDii(.)PORi".s L.tvis, Kirhy. Length of body 2 lines. One spe<i- 
 men only taken. 
 
 Very like tl:e preceding sj)ec ies, but smaller ; it ditlers principally in 
 
2y 
 
 being perfectly smooth and withoiu jjum tiires, even when examined under 
 3 powerful magnifier. The head has two larger vertical, lurid-yellow spots, 
 and there is a triangle of the same colour lietween the eye<. whirh at its 
 base is dilated, and oc,cui)ies the nose and mouth : the i)roth()ra\ is lurid. 
 yellow, with two oblong oblifjue dusk}' Sjiots beyond tin- middle ; towards 
 the base is an obtus-angular trans\ erse impression, and on each side, at a 
 little distance from the margin, is an oblong pum tiform impression : in the 
 elytra are six distinct narrow black stripes, none of which are contiuenl 
 except at the apex ; at the side, but at some distance from the lateral margin, 
 are three black sj^ots ]>laced in a line, or a ^tri])e wider than the others 
 twice interrupted: the legs are testaceous, with the [)Osterior tibia- black 
 at the tip. [Finced, with a mark of interrogjiion, as a s}non)m of //. 
 Duodccim/itimtus, La., in I-e(.'ontes list. ]». 16. 
 
 [68.] i)i. HvDROPoRi s PnMr>. Kirb\. Length ot bc;dy -:'.- lines. 
 A single specimen taken in Liit. 54 . 
 
 Body, dark pic:eous. without g'o'^-^ ; covered. esj)ec iall\ abo\f. with an 
 infinity of punctures. Heaci, ol^scurely ferruginous, dusk\ behind, with a 
 paler quadrangular spot extending to the mouth, between the eyes : antennre 
 ferruginous : prothorax, with its anterior halt* ferruginous, marked with a 
 discoidal punctilorm impression or little furrow: elytra, with four posteriorly 
 abbreviated punctured furrows, very difficult to be discerned, and only by 
 looking on c»ne side from behind : forebreast and legs ferruginous : alitrunk 
 and abdomen blark. 
 
 c;8, HvijKC)['ORUS SiMiLis, A7/'/m, — Length of body 2}$ lines. laken 
 with the preceding species? 
 
 I at first regarded this as the other sex of }f. Picatus, but upon inspecting 
 their tarsi I tbund they were both males. This species is smaller, more 
 glossy ; the parts that in that are dark ferruginous, in this are much paler ; 
 the punctures c»n the upper surface are less numerous and larger, especially 
 those of the basilar half of the el) tra, and the four furrows, particularly the 
 three dorsal ernes, are deeper and more distinct ; the disk of the prothorax 
 also is transversely levigated and impunctured. Both these insects come 
 ver>- near to H. Picipcs, but that species has not the discoidal impression 
 in the prothorax ; and its elytra are dark testaceous, striped with black. 
 
 N.B. - All the above divisions belong to Mr. Stephens' second division 
 of the family, with the sides of the prothorax rounded. \H. Similis has 
 been taken in Canada.] 
 
 [69.] 99. Laccophilus Bigl'ttatus, Kirby. — Length of body 2 lines. 
 One specimen taken. 
 4 
 
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 Hoily, \(i) smooth, flossy. 1 Ic.ui, iliityyclUnv : p^iij'i. and antcnnsR 
 ilusky at the tip : m.initrinik (the inanitnink is that part of the trunk that 
 hears the anus (^r fore-legs: it incUides the prothorax and antepectus), dirty 
 yellow ; elytra, emhrownetl einereous, with a line of punctures, as in the 
 other .sj)eeies, adjacent to tlie suture. :\\u\ a pale yellow, indistinct, ohlonj;. 
 anterior, marginal spot: ie;4s, dirty ye'low ; posterior tarsi, dusky ; alitrunk 
 and abdomen. nigro-i)iceous ; a|>e\ of the segments of the latter reddish- 
 vellon. 'i'his >.pecies is smaller than /. minutns, which it rescmMes, and 
 the colour of the el\tra and underside of the body differs. [Inserted as a 
 probable synonym (y( L. fiisciii/us, Aubi', in l,cConte"s list; in Mclshcimer's 
 Catalogue it is recorded as synon)ir.ous with /. />ro.\imus (Say't and 
 /.. .Ii/irriuiiias {.\\\hl').\ 
 
 lAMiiv ii\i rscii'.i . 
 
 ICO. Co; N .MiiK] )•.- SKMirixi lAirs. A'lrby. — One sjtecimen only taken. 
 I cngth of bodv i ^.( lines. 
 
 i)Ody oblong, glossy, \er\- b!a( k. above very slightly bron/ed: under ;• 
 ])owerful magnifier the whole upper surface is most minutely reticulated, 
 and the under covered with longitudinal scratches. Head with a ])air of 
 vertical red crescents placed transversely, and scarcely visible except when 
 the sun shines ; uj>];er-lip, palpi, and antenniiD ferruginous : mandibles 
 black ; j)rothora\, anteriorly with a continuous transverse marginal scries of 
 })unctures, posteriorly with one widely interrupted in the middle, and in 
 the disk with a minute furrov.- : elytra with a triple dorsal series of j)uncture^ 
 not regularly or singly nrrangcd, with other scattered {junctures interjacent, 
 especially towards the a[>e\ ; on the side the punctures, which are not 
 numerous, are scattered without order: in the sutural series the {)unc- 
 lures are distant and single; be) ond the middle of each elytrum, not far 
 from the lateral margin, is a red streak, not distinctly visible except in a 
 strong light: the arms ;re pice<.)us, and the four anterior tarsi ferniginous. 
 [Belongs to Jgai'us. Taken at (irinisby, Ont., by Mr. Pettit.] 
 
 [70.] 101. CoLVMBKTF,.s (Agabus) Bicolok, Kirby. — Length of body 
 y/z lines. A single specimen taken in l^t. 54"". 
 
 Body nearly elliptical, convex, smooth, glossy, and very black. Reti- 
 culations more visible in the head than in the rest of the surface ; a pair of 
 round, obscure red spots in the vertex ; mouth palpi, and antenna: testa- 
 ceous : anterior transverse series of the prothorax with single punctures at 
 the sides, but scattered ones in the middle ; posterior series continuous, 
 with single and rather distant punctures ; elytra, externally of a pale 
 
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 »nahogany colour, with ,i ciouhlc scries ui juint turts, n<»i nuintrous nur 
 regularly arranged, which do not reach the apex ; there nre a \cry feu scat- 
 tered punctures besides in the side : legs mahogany-colour. 
 
 102. CoLYMUKTLh (Ai.ABVs) PH.KoPTKRis Kirbv. Length of l)v)dy 
 .>/''4 "-3K' 'J"cs. Two specimens taken in l^it. 54^. 
 
 Body nearly elliptical, rather de])ressed, smooth, very black, glossy. 
 Head with a pair of transverse obscure red spots in the vertex ; mouth and 
 antcnn.T: testaceous : posterior series of the prothor; x thickly punctured, 
 and discontinuous in the middle: elytra brown, a little paler at the base 
 and side: epiplcum yellow: sculpture of the elytra like that oi C. Scrni- 
 ftiiTiitatus, but fewer punctures in the side: legs femiginuns : body under- 
 neath longitudinally scratched. This species appears to be the American 
 representative of C. paludosus {Dytiscus p,)litus Mnrsh), whii.h it nearly 
 resembles, but the anterior part of the front is black, and not yellow as in 
 that sjK'cies ; and the ])rolhora.\ is wholly black, without a broad rufous 
 margin. [Placed with a mark of interrogation as a synon\m of Ai^abus 
 obliieratns Ixc, in l,eContc"s 1.1st, p. 17.] 
 
 [71.] 103. CoiAMiJKihs (.V'-.AKfs) HiiAkiis, Kirby. J'latc v.. fig. 6. 
 Ix'ngth of body 33^ lines. A single specimen taken in I.at. 54'. 
 
 Body oval, smooth, black, less glossy. Mead with a pair of verti( a! 
 red crescents: mouth, antennx and palpi ferruginous: maxillary palpi with 
 tiiC last joint black : prothorax longitudinally acudiictod, with the bead of 
 the lateral margin rufous: elytra at the base longitudinally, at the ajiex 
 transversely, acuducted: fore-breast and legs piceo-rufous. 
 
 104. CoLV.MiiETKs Rkikulatus. Klrbx. Length of body y/^ lines. 
 Three specimens taken in Lai. 65''. 
 
 Body oblong, black, gloss obscured from its being covered as it were 
 with a web of the finest net work, .sculptured as if with the point of a 
 needle. Head with a pair of round red vertical sjjots: i^rothorax with a 
 yellow mesal band and lateral margin : elytra dusky-cinereous, with the side 
 yellowish: legs ferruginous. [Not mentioned in either LeConte's or 
 >felsheimers Catalogues.] 
 
 105. CoLVMBETES PiciPEs, Kirby. — Length of body 4>^ lines. Two 
 specimens taken, one in Lat. 54°, the other in Lat. 65'. 
 
 [72.] Body oval, black, above slightly bronzed, not glossy, covered 
 above and below like the preceding species with, as it were, a web of net- 
 work ; but the reticulations are more minute. Upper-lip, palpi and antennae 
 fetTuginous ; a pair of oval, minute, obscure red spots mark the vertex : 
 
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 prothonix. with the ;>nteri()r transverse series ot' jninctures double in the 
 middle, the posterior on^ not easily dis«ernil)le, disrontinuous in the middle: 
 there aijpcar no rows of |>im< tures on the elytra. Itut a few scattered ones 
 may b;j discovered; the four anterior legs are pice«nis. This species 
 apj>roa<'hes C. ihiiitviuitiis. I ml it is longer, less glijssy. the reticulations of 
 the surface are more <1istinct. no rows of punctures are discernible, as in 
 that on the el) tra, which, as well as the prothorax, are all of one colour ; 
 and the posterior legs are black. It seems still nearer C. ater^ but it is 
 much smaller, less convex, and has no fenestrate spor on the elytra. 
 [laken in Canada.] 
 
 ioM. (Joi.YMHKTF.s .Xs.siMiiJS. Kirhy.- Length of body $3/^' lines. 
 Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCuUoch. 
 
 Rod} rather depressed, between oblong and obovate, smooth, rather 
 glossy, black, covered abo\e ^vith an infinity of very minute reticulations. 
 Head dirty-yellow: vertex black, with a pair of confluent transverse reddish 
 spots; prothorax dirty-yellow, rather dusky in the disk, transverse punctures 
 nearly obliterated: elytra of the same colour as the prothorax, but 
 sprinkled with innumerable black dots, which, however, do not extend to 
 the base and sides; a row of more distant and larger dots adjoins the 
 suture : the fore -breast, the base and apex of the other ventral segments of 
 the abdomen are dirty yellow; the legs are of the same colour, but the 
 arms are shorter than usual, and piceous; the dilated posterior coxae are 
 sculptured with branching rugosities. This species represents C. notaius^ 
 which it is very like, but the elytra are wider towards the apex, which gives 
 the insect an obo\ate shape : the black dots of the elytra are more 
 numerous and minute ; the prothorax is without spots ; and the arms, or 
 fore-legs, are shorter and of a different colour. [Included wwA'iX Agabus, 
 in Melsheimer's Catalogue.] 
 
 [73] ^07. CoLVMBETES TRiSERtATUS, Kirby. — Length of body 7^ 
 lines. A single specimen taken, I have a specimen also from New 
 England, taken by Professor Peck. 
 
 Body elliptical, rather depressed, underneath black, and covered with 
 an infinity of branching or confluent wrinkles, as if scratched by a pin or 
 needle. Head black, anteriorly testaceous; between the eyes is a pair of 
 transverse red spots; antennae and palpi testaceous, dusky at the tips:' 
 prothorax testaceous, with an abbreviated, sub-bilobed, discoidal band ; 
 variously acuducted so as somewhat to resemble net-work: s^utellian 
 ferruginous, black at the base, very minutely and confluently punctured : 
 
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 t-lytra dusky, which colour, f<jr they are really lurid or dirty yellow, 
 is produced by an infinity of transver.'^c black lines or furrows, bui 
 which at the lateral margin lose their blackness ; besides these there are 
 three rows of punctures arranged longitudinally but not regularly, the first 
 adjoining the suture, and the tuo others being discoidal ; between the 
 outer one and the margin, especially near the apex, are some scattered 
 punctures : the epipleura, and sides of the fore-breast, are yellow : le.ns 
 testaceous ; thighs and tibice punctured. 
 
 'this species is intermediate between ('. striiUtts and C. Jolab7-atn3. 
 svith ibe former it agrees in the majority of its characters, jjariicularly in 
 the longitudinal rows of punctures, except that its sutural one is more 
 perfe<t ; an<l with the latter in the prothoracic band and the color of the 
 legs. '\'\\i.: transverse furrows of the elytra are rather deeper than those of 
 the first-mentioned species, and not so deep as those of the last. 
 
 These insects, adding C. fuscus^ may perhaps be regarded as forming a 
 subgenus, whose connnon character is the jjeculiar sculpture of the elytra. 
 [.Synonymous with C. sculf^tilis Harris ; a species taken in Canada.] 
 
 loS. ('()i.NMnF.Ti:s (HvD.vnt L.s) Kt (.icoi.ms, Kirhy. Length of 
 body 6 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. .MacC!ullo( h. 
 
 [74.] I'xxly rather obovate and depressed; underneath rufous cloud\ 
 with dusky. Head subrufous, dusky behind ; antenn;\2 and palpi jel 
 lowish, dusky at the tip; j)rothorax with the posterior angle acuminate, 
 subrufous, dusky in the disk, posteriorly scratched longitudinally as if b) 
 a pin : elytra pale-yellow, thickly and minutely reticulated or vermiculated 
 with black ; lateral maigin yellow, unspotted : epileura yellow ; proster- 
 num depressed. This sjjccies ai)pears to represent C. H. irraratus. 
 
 109. C'oLVMi'.F.Tr.s (H\ DATicLs) MacCullochii, A'irhv. — Length of 
 body 53-^ lines. Several taken in Xova Scotia by Dr. MacCuUoch. 
 
 Body obovate, depressed, glossy ; underneath black, continently 
 punctured and Avrinkled. Head posteriorly minutely punctured, black ; 
 nose, mouth, and its organs, and a band between the eyes pale yellow : 
 antennae pale with the joints above dusky at the tij) : prothorax punctured. 
 l>ale yellow, v.ith a discoidal band, dilated at each extremity and sur- 
 rounded by a black margin of the same colour : elytra black, sprinkled 
 with innumerable pale-yellow dots ; near to the apex is a pale, angular, 
 undulated band, and beyond it a roimd white spot ; the margin of the 
 clytmm is paler^than the rest: the three intermediate ventral segments 
 of the abdomen have each a pair of roundish pale spots, one on each side; 
 
:i4 
 
 liic lour anterior legs arc jialc ^cilcw. [ I'rtvicusly described as .{ciliui 
 Mediatus Say — Ent. Works ii. 508.] 
 
 no. Dytkscus oOLicruKii, Kirhy. — Length of body : male, i inch 
 and 4 hnts ; female, i incli and 5 lines. A j/air were taken by the 
 Ksfiuimaiix Ooligbuk in the (»rtat Bear Lake River. [75.] As this 
 species was taken by the useful, worthy and honest Esquimaux Ooligbuk, 
 1 trust I may be excused for giving to it his name. [Previously described 
 as Dytiscus corijlunis b)' Sa\- — for description vide Say's Ent. Works ii. 
 p. 554. —He gives the State of Maine as its habitat; it was taken on 
 the north shore of Lake Superior by Agassiz's Expedition, and is now 
 included in the list of Canadian Coleoptera. Its range, it will br 
 observed, is thus a very wide one.] 
 
 [76.] HI. Dytiscus LLarrish Kirby. — Length of the body i inch 
 and 8 line;:. One specimen taken in the journc\ from New York to 
 Cumberland Mouse. 
 
 Body black, underneath banded and clouded v.ith paie chestnut. 
 Head smooth; nose, upperlip, and palpi, reddish-yellow; the latter with 
 the la.st joint dusky ; between the eyes is an obscure, roundish, red spot ; 
 prothorax smooth, except an anterior transverse series of punctures which 
 does not reach tiie sides ; as in the preceding specie?; it is surrounded 
 by a broad reddish-yellow marten: sculpture of the elytra like that of 
 D. Ooligbukii^ etc., but not so grossly punctured at the apex ; side 
 reddish-yellow,, the yellow stripe terminating in a fork or tv.-o branches, 
 the upper one not consisting of dots as in D. Margina/is, etc., but entire 
 and toothed : a reddish-yellow arch marks the dilated j)osterior coxre, 
 and the base of the abdomen is of the same colour; amis and thighs, 
 pale chestnut, tibiae and tarsi of the four posterio" legs black : the lobes 
 of the metasternum are remarkably obtuse. I have named this insect 
 after a very eminent American Entomologist, Dr. T. W. Harris, who well 
 merits such distinction. [One of our commonest Canadian species of 
 large water-beetles. North .shore of Lake Superior (Agas,>iz). A specimen 
 in my cabinet flew in at an open window attracted by light, July i, 1864. 
 
 [77.] 112. Dytiscus (Lciorwtus) Franklinii Kirby. Plate ii. fig. i. 
 — Length of body i inch and 4 lines. A pair taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 iNLile. Body oblong-ovate, glossy as if covered with varnish ; under- 
 neath black spotted and banded with pale chestnut ; above dark olive, in 
 certain lights of a beautiful olive-green. Head with a ^ery few minute, 
 scarcely discernible, jjunctures ; antenna,' chestnut ; mandil)les and {)alpi 
 
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 black ; nose, uppcrlip, margins of the prolhorax, and side of the elytra, 
 dusky yellow : prothorax distinctly channelled, surrounded within the 
 margin with an irregular series of punctures, interrupted at all the angles, 
 and in the middle anteriorly and ])osterior!y :" elytra sculptured, as in the 
 two preceding species, excejjt that there ;uo several very obsolete rows of 
 flat granules, scarcely discernible, between th.c suture and the first r(;w of 
 jiuncturcs ; and there is no yellow obliijue band or gleam near the apex : 
 legs black, witli the arms and i)nermediate thighs dusky or dusky lurid ; 
 the lobes of the metasternum \ er} acute, -norc than usually diverging ; 
 incurved a little at the ajjex. 
 
 Female. Head more visib!}', though still \cr\ minutely, punctured ; 
 prothorax minutely punctured ; elytra more coarsely punctured at the 
 apex ; legs dusky lurid, posterior tibiae darker, tarsi idack ; scapulars, and 
 parapleural grossly punctured ; angle of the mesostethium crinkled : 
 posterior coxa) lightly, but not thickly, punctured; lobes of the metaster- 
 num very acute, not incurved on the apex. [Considered by LeConte 
 to be a variet\' of I). Coufiucns Say.] 
 
 r.VMIJ.V i.VKI.MIJ.i. 
 
 [78.J 113. (JvcLiMs A.S.SIM :1.1s A7;7{v i 't-ugih. of body 5^'- lines. 
 Two specimens taken in kit 5.'," [79.] Body de])ressed, obovate ; under- 
 neath glossy, black, slightly bronzeil ; upj)erlip iiiinutely jjunctured ; front 
 wrinkled between the eyes : nose imjjressed <>n lik h side : prothorax 
 anteriorly on each side with a transverse series of punctisres parallel with 
 the margin, and with a slight discoidal transverse imj)ression : at the base 
 obtusangular and somewhat wavy : elytra with nine very slightly im- 
 pressed furrows, the interstices of which are minutely punctured ; at the 
 apex the elytra are wavy ; epii)leura black-bronzed : legs and anus tes- 
 taceous. This species approaches very near to Gyrinus Arncricanus 
 belonging to the same genus, of which 1 at first regarded it as merely a 
 variety, but upon comparing it Avith with the s[)ecimen preserved in the 
 Linnean cabinet, it appears clearly distinct. This species is smaller, 
 bronzed above, and the interstices of the funows are without punctures. 
 [Regarded by I.eConte as synonymous with Dinaiirs (Gyriniis) Ameri- 
 ciinus I-inn. 'I'his species is common in Canada. LeConte (Pro. Acad. 
 xVat. Sci., Philada.; Dec. 1868, p. 367), says that it is "our most abundant 
 species, usually known as apple but^ ; extends from Lake Superior to 
 Texas, and from Maine to Kansa.s."] 
 
 114. GvRiNi;s iMPRESSicoLLis A7//;r.- Length of body 4 lines. 
 Taken '\v\ Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
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 IJody glossv. Mack untlcrncadi, above blue-black. Head a little 
 bronzed ; nose tnmsversely impressed, wrinkled ; frontal inij)rcs.sions large 
 and deep ; prothor .\ with a deci> anterior transverse impression, reaching 
 nearly from side to side, in the centre of which is also a deep punctiform 
 impression, and behind it on each side two others, but \^•rinkled and 
 more shallow : on each side al.>o is a large gibbosity or boss : elytra 
 nearly oblong, with eie\en r(jus of shining bronzed inmctures : at their 
 apex the [)uncture.-i are s( altered, t!ie margins also are bronzed ; epiplenra 
 i)lack ; the tip of the elyrni is very obtuse and almost truncated : legs 
 rufous. This species is ver\ near Ci. viariiius, but it is mvich larger, 
 and is sufhcienil)- distinguished from it by the deep furrow or channel 
 that runs (juite :u nv-s the i)rolhorax. its more prominent bosses, and its 
 impres.sions. In G. i.tiirijius. also, the punctures at the tip of the elytra 
 are not scattered, but mark out a crescent-shaped area : and the apex 
 itself is not so obtuse. I Referred to 6'. bd'calis Aube, bv White. 
 ('>rit. ^[useum Cat. 45). Init probably incorrectly.] 
 
 [80.] 115. CiVRiNis .txLus Z<m-//. - Length of body zl lines. 
 Taken in ('anada by Dr. Higsby. Very like the preceding species, but 
 much smaller, the transverse imi)ression of the nose and the frontal 
 inipressions are not so dee]> : that of the prothorax is not so conspiaious. 
 and there arc no lateral bosses ; the elytra are much narrower at the apex, 
 where, as in G. Marinits. a crescent is marked out by punctures. 
 
 I to. (ivRiNLs vt:.\i-KALis AV/VM-.-- Length of body 2-:-, lines. Two 
 specimens taken in Lat. 54 . 
 
 Nearly related to 6". aoiiu^s, but the whole prone surface of the body, 
 tile epipleura of the elytra, and the legs, are ferruginous ; in which par- 
 ticulars it resembles G. /ineatus ; it is, however, much smaller than that 
 species, the punctures in the ro\\ s are more conspicuous, and the elytra 
 have no bronzed stripes. ["A beautiful species, easily known by its 
 larger size and more brilliant iridescent surface ; in one specimen the 
 under surface is nearly black." — LeConte, /< v. dt. p. 368. Taken in 
 Canada by Mr. Pettit at Grimsby, Ont. ; also on north shore of lake 
 Superior by Agassizs Expedition. New York to L. Superior (LeContc).] 
 
 [St.] 117. (JvkiNts AN'.M-is AV/'/^r. Length of body 3 lines. One 
 sjKcimen taken m Lat. 54^ 
 
 Near the preceding, but larger, punctures c;f the rows larger : breast 
 bones black ; mouth, sides of the forel>reast. anu.^. and legs, rufous ; the 
 remainder of the underside of the body, piceous : side-covers bron/cd 
 with a piceous tint. {Not G. aiuilis Say. Km. Works ii. 520. J 
 
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 I'Tv- (iNKiM^ MINI' n .^ /,'.'/7-. - Lcni^tii ol liody 2 linc^. \ Ningle 
 s})cci:iien uikcn i;i I,;it. 65'. 
 
 Variety ]>. iJody iihovc bine i/lac!;, nith the sides, pjiiieularly ot the 
 l)rolii<)r.ix .'ukI elytra, liron/cd ; underneath ])ice(jii.s, with ih.e lobes of the 
 niclasternuni, anus, and legs, rufous : epipleura nifo-i>ice<JUS. In othc'" 
 rc.-^peet- it j)reciseiy resembles the luuope;in si)ec.imens. | I'u/t: I,e- 
 Conte, IMo. Arad. X. S., Pl-iila., Dee. 1S68, \).\. 370 and 37-.] ' 
 
 h•A.\IiI.^■ .STAl'ilVJ.INlD.K.] 
 
 [S6.\ 119. r.r-i'i RU.s RiPARiu.s /'J)-/;/-. - Length of body 3 hnes. 
 Several taken in i>at. 54". 
 
 Head, breast, two last joints of abdomen, base of the tibia; and apex 
 oi tile thighs, blaek : prothorax, legs, and four first segments of the 
 abdomen testaceous: elytra dark blue: antennx dusky. [l'robal)ly an 
 erroneous detennination for /*. litiorariui, Grav.] 
 
 120. Lathroiuum I'lNcncoLi.F., Kirby. — Length of body 5 lines. 
 A single specimen taken in Lat. 54-'. 
 
 [87.] Body black, rather glossy, hairy excei>t the prothc>rax. Head 
 obovate, minutely and thickly punctured ; mandibles, palpi„ and what 
 '"emains of its mutilated antenna.% dark chestnut : jjrothorax an oblong 
 s<|uare with all the angles rounded : punctured, but not very thickly, with 
 scarcely any smooth longitudinal space : elytra longer than the prothorax, 
 thickly j)unctured. of a dark chestnut : legs maghogan}', cubit armed with 
 a short wide tooth or prominence on the inner side at the base, the four 
 first joints of the hand are dilated, indicating probably that tlie specimen 
 is a male. This appears to be the representati\e (;f /. iicnialutn, \\ 
 which it nearly resembles, but the elytra are considerably longer, the 
 colour of the leg.> is darker, and the humerus, or anterior tiiigh. is jiro- 
 jjortionally smaller and has no tooth. [Taken in Canada, j 
 
 121. LATHRoniVM «.RAVENHORsrii Kirbx. — Plate ii. fig. ::. Length 
 of body 4|j lines. Two specimens taken in \^\. 54'. 
 
 '['his species a good deal resembles the preceding, but the palpi, mouth, 
 scape of the antennie, and legs, are testaceous, the remainder of the 
 antennoe is darker ; mandibles chestnut. 1 lead oblong : anterior angles 
 of the jirothorax scarcely rounded : a distinct intermediate longitudinal 
 smooth sjjace adjoining which is a scries of junctures strikii>gly distin- 
 guishing s species from J.. piinctu\)llt\ t!\e sides of the i)rothora\ are 
 <:overed v\ith scattered punctures: the tip (jf the segments of the 
 rtbdomen, ventral as well as dorsal, is testaceous. [Synonymous with 
 Cryptobiitm pallipcs (ira\'.- a species taken in Canada.] 
 
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 122. Lathroi;ium [Cryptobilmj dicoj.or (y /-(?<•. — Length of body 
 4}3 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 [88.] Body testaceous, hairy. Head oblong, wider than the pro- 
 thorax, black, thickly punctured ; mandibles and other oral organs dusky- 
 rufous ; antenna; nearly as long as the prothorax, of the same color but 
 paler at the base and apex : prothorax punctured with a smooth longi- 
 tudinal intermediate space: elytra thickly punctured : abdomen black, 
 anus testatceous. Gravenhorst describes Knoch's specimen, which also 
 came from North America, as having dark chestnut thorax, elytra and 
 anus ; in the specimen here described they are of the same color with the 
 legs. The difference, as they agree in other respects, is [n-obably acci- 
 dental. [Common in Ontario.] 
 
 123. GvROHYPNUS ASSiMi LIS A7/7vr. -Length of liody 9 lines. 1 \so 
 sjtecimens taken in Lat. 54"". 
 
 This species approaches very near to G'. ih/irdcats, but is more 
 slender in proportion to its length. 13ody black and glossy. Head 
 rather larger than the thorax, behind the eyes are some rather large scat- 
 tered punctures ; antennce and pal].>i rufous ; neck rufo-piceous ; pro- 
 thorax jjiceous, with a trijjle series <.)f j»vuictures on each side leaving a 
 discoidal smooth space ; the dorsal ones consist of seven or eight 
 punctures, and the interniiidiate ones are really a coniinuati(3n of the 
 dorsal, since by the intervention K^i a puncture or two both arc united so 
 as to form a figure resembling a bisho[)"s crosier ; the lateral series con- 
 sists of a very few points, not easily seen ; near the anterior angle the 
 el\tra are scarcely longer than the prothorax, punctured, widi some of the 
 jjunctures arranged in rows and others scattered ; from the humeral to the 
 inner apical angle, they are internally yellowish-red, and externally black- 
 ish : legs yellowish-red. [Previously described by Say -Ent. Works ii. 
 567 — as Xantholiniis ccphalus. Taken in Oiitario. ] 
 
 [89.] 124. O.MAi-iUM MARoiNAiiM A'/V'/'v. -[>engkh of body 144 lines. 
 One specimen taken in Lat. 65 '. 
 
 Body piceous, glossy, naked, rather grossly j^unciurcd. Head nar- 
 rower than the ))rothorax ; eyes prominent ; antennae rather longer than 
 the heail and thorax, dusky-rufous : prothorax rather wider than long, 
 lateral margin somewhat dilated ; near it, and partly in it, is a deej) 
 punctiform impression, and above the scutellum another obsolete one : 
 elytra something wider than the i>rothorax, and nearly as long as the 
 abdomen, paler at their apex : legs dusky-rufous. This species is re- 
 lated to O. ftituifi, but it is more grossly [junctured, the lateral margin 
 
no 
 
 of the prolliorax is miu-li more dilate«i, and the punctiform impressions 
 more distinct. [Say has described a s])ecies, taken on Longs Expedition 
 in Missouri, under the same name. It is doulitful whether Kirby's 
 species is identical or not.] 
 
 [90.J 125. Ai.KorH \R V Pai iiTARsis. Kirby. Length of body 2 Hnes. 
 Locality unknown. 
 
 The sjiecies cf this genus of minute Bmi/h'/yim are so extremely 
 numerous, nearly 200 liaving been discovered in Britain alone, and so 
 tlifficuit to discriminate, that it is not with great confidence that I give 
 this as a nondescript. I ha\e many undescribed species in my cabinet 
 that come \ery near it, Init I cannot find one that altogether agrees 
 with it. 
 
 Body black, glo.ss deadened by short inconspicuous hairs. Head 
 rather spherical, narrower than the prothorax, \ery minutely punctured ; 
 antennae shorter than the prothorax, rather robust, intermediate joints 
 turbinate, last joint ovate, acute : prothorax sub-orbicular with the sides 
 deflexed, very minutely and thickly punctured : dorsal channel nearly 
 obsolete ; a large ])unctiform impression just above the scutellum : elytra 
 longer and rather wider than the thorax, iiiceou.s-black, extreme tips 
 rufous, very minutely ond thickly punctured : legs piceous-black with 
 rufous tarsi, 
 
 126. Tachvporus AcuDucTis, A'/V/n.- Length of body I line. Taken 
 near Cimiberland-hou.se, lat. 54'. 
 
 [91.] Body dark-piceous, naked, smooth, glossy. Antennae and mouth 
 testaceous : prothorax very smooth, wider than the elytra, posterior angles 
 testaceous : elytra longer than the head and prothorax together, piceous 
 with the external apical angle testaceous ; if viewed imder a good mag- 
 nifyer, they appear covered, especially next the suture, with minute 
 branching scratches, as if made by a pin or needle, intermixed with very 
 small punctures ; abdomen very short and conical, scarcely margined, 
 piceous with the segments paler at their tip. 
 
 127. Tachvporus affinis Kirby. — Length of body, i line. Taken 
 with the preceding species. This species is extremely similar to T. 
 acuductus, but the posterior angles of the prothorax are not testaceous ; 
 the elytra are palish-chestnut and thickly covered with very minute 
 punctures, without any scratches. 
 
 128. Philonthus politus Linn. — Length of body, 5 lines. Taken 
 in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 [92.1 Body very liL-^ck, hairy. Head orbicular, scarcely narrower 
 
40 
 
 than ihc j>rot}ion(.\, naked with the exreplion oi" a tc-u lon^ lateral 
 hristle-like hairs, slightly bronzed, very glossy, smooth with a few punr- 
 tiires on eacli side in the oeriput ; antennx shorter than t!ie i)rothorax. 
 last joint eiiiarginate at th.e tip : ]jrothora\, rather narrowest before and 
 transverse, rounded behind, slightly l)ron,icd, very glossy and smooth, with 
 a lew long hairs on each side, on the disc is a double scries, each ((in- 
 sisting of four ]Hinctures, there are thre-j or lour others in the sides : 
 elytra liron/ed, thickly pimctured, with a long hair issuing frcnn each 
 ])uncture : claws of tiie tar>i ferruginous, j In LeC^ontcs l,ist, put down 
 as a male and svnonxnifus \\\:h /'. i-;.-/i ns Rossi a sjX'cies taken in 
 Canada.] 
 
 \2(). !\m!I,i)N rins M wiMi'.n \i;!> A'.vv't. Lengtli (f body 5 lines 
 Locality unknown. 
 
 [«;3.] This species differs hum tb.e lireceding cluetly in iIk? shaj;e of 
 the head, and the color of the mandibles, agreeing in the fonner particular 
 with J\ poliins of modern luitomologists, from which it difters. besides 
 dieir colour, in having the mandibles shorter than the head : the inter- 
 mediate joints of the tarsi also are rufo-piceous. j Inserted in I,e('onte"s 
 List as the female of the preceding .species.] 
 
 130. PhilonthU-s picatus A7/Vm'. -Length of body 3 lines. Two 
 specimen:; taken in Lat. 54°. 
 
 I'ody piceous, as usual in the genus somewhat haiiy. Head ovate, 
 naked, and very glossy, with a few scattered punctures on each side 
 l)ehind the eyes and four between them ; antennx as long as the head 
 and thorax, scape testaceous ; prothorax naked and very glossj' ; dorsal 
 rows consisting of six punctures, there are five more punctures near the 
 anterior margin arranged in two oblique rows between them and the 
 lateral margin, and three or four other punctures are discoverable nearer 
 the base : elytra chestnut, hairy ; tips of the abdominal segment and anus 
 rufous : legs testaceous. [Previously described as StaphyUmis (Pliiion- 
 f/ius) brunneus (irav. Taken on the north shore of Lake Superior by 
 Agassi z's Expedition.] 
 
 131. Philonthus Fulvipes? Grav. — Length of body about 3 lines. 
 A single specimen taken in lat. 54°. 
 
 Body black, hairy, except the head and prothorax which are naked, and 
 very glossy. Head sculptured like that of P. picatus : antennae with the 
 two first joints testaceous : prothorax sculptured with regard to the dorsal 
 series as in that species, then follow about five punctures in an irregular 
 wavy series extending from near the base towards the apex, between which 
 
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 and the- aaicriur angle ate Uvu placed oi>i;4uely, and .scver.;l l>jsid(.'s are 
 discoverable in the lateral and posterior margins : [94] the scutellum is 
 black : llie elytra punctured, testaceous, and hairy : the abdomen is 
 entirely black ; the legs are testaceous with the posterior co\a2 black ; the 
 hands are not dilated. ['I'aken at llrimsby. (^nt., by Mr. I'ettit.j 
 
 132. SrAi'UVi.iM's ("iiR\suKLs, Kirh\. l.cnL;,t'ii of IkhIv 5'.. Hik--^ 
 Taken in Xova .Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. 
 
 Bodv underneath black, son>ewhat *rlossv. sprinkled wiih vetlow hairs. 
 Head suborbicular, .scarcely wider than the prothorax. conliuently punc- 
 tured, bronzed, and <:overed not thickly with short pale-yellow hairs, which 
 give it a cinereous tint, with several indistinct blackish sj)0is ; rhinariuin 
 and upper-lip pale yellow ; nundibles rufous at the base ; stalk ot* the 
 antennae tcstaceou.s, the six last joints are brown and larger than the 
 rest, so as to form a clava : prothorax sculptured, cloathed. and coloured 
 like the head, but more distinctly spotted and clouded with black, widest 
 behind with a slight lateral sinus near the ba.se : scutellum almost covered 
 by a heart-shajjcd vclvetty l)lack .spot : elytra, as to .sculpture, cloathing, 
 and general colour, resembling the head and prothornx, but they are 
 differently spotted with black ; in the centre of the ba.se is an oblique 
 oblong sj)ot, then follows an angular interrupted band, and lastly, is a 
 sicklc-.shaped band with the h.andle towards the lateral margin, the blade 
 is very broad and includes an insulated cinereous spot ; neither of these 
 bands reach the suture or the lateral margin, which is tawny-yellow : the 
 two last segmer.ts of the abdomen, especially the penultimate, are thickly 
 covered with short decumbent hairs, which in certain lights reflect a 
 brilliant golden lustre ; the after-breast is covered with hairs if possible 
 still more brilliant ; the legs are testaceous, but the tl.ighs excc[)t their 
 tip, and a dorsal line, are black. 
 
 This SDCcies resembles .SV. Ii\l>ruius ami niaculosus, but is suliicientlv 
 distinguished b\- its golden tail and l»reast : it is one of the smalle.st of 
 the genus. [Previously described as /,/.v/, '/■/-. yV/.v.s- ciu-nil^iUis C'.raw Xot 
 uncommon throughout Ontario.] 
 
 [95-] '33- C!reoi'Hii.i .s vii.iosi s Gra- . Lengdi ul" l,H)dy, 7 lines. 
 'I'aken in Lat. 54'""' in (Canada, also by Dr. Bigsby, and in Xova Scotia by 
 (!apt. Hall, f have specimens likewise, taken in }*rilain. [Quite common 
 throughout (Ontario.] 
 
 This species is extremely similar to C. maxillosm, and its Anieric.in 
 representative. 'I'he following circumstances principally distinguish them. 
 The anterior angles of the prothorax in C. maxiUosus are thinly cloathed 
 
with shortish M/tvC* hairs ; in C. vii/osus, these hairs arc cinereous, lon^jer, 
 more numerous, and cover a larger portion of the angle ; in the former, 
 the band of the elytra is whiter and wider than in the latter : in the 
 former also the back of the abdomen, especially the third and fourth 
 segments, is mottled with cinereous hairs ; in the latter the second and 
 third have each a cinereous band interrupted in the middle : again "Cacfour 
 first ventral segments in C. maxillosus are thickly covered with decumbent 
 cinereous hairs, with each a lateral black spot on both sides, while in C. 
 villosus only the three first segments are so distinguished ; and finally, in 
 the former the sides of the i)ostpectus arc covered with black hairs, and 
 in the latter with cinereous. 
 
 llAMII-V SU,1'H11J.K. ] 
 
 [96. j i,:;.j, .Nkckoi'Iiukls vklutixus Fiibr. Length of body, 
 8 lines. Taken in Xova Scotia by Dr. MacCuUoch. [Common in Ontario.] 
 
 Body black : nose separated posteriorly from the front by a straight 
 line, anteriorly furnished with a submembranous rhinarium, above which is 
 a round flattened tubercle ; knob of the antenna black : prothorax dilated 
 anteriorly, thickly covered with golden pile : elytra with two orange- 
 coloured bands, toothed as it were on both sides, the anterior being the 
 widest : epipleura pale yellow : postpectus covered with golden pile : 
 posterior trochanters truncated at the apex and emarginate. 
 
 135. Xecrophorus hebes A7/-^v. Length of body. 7 lines. Taken 
 in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 [97.] Like the last, but the nose is separated from the front by a 
 curved line, it is also marked on each side by a deep longitudinal furrow, 
 and is depressed longitudinally in the centre ; but what more strongly 
 characterizes it, is the want of the rhinarium or nostril-piece discoverable 
 in most of the other species : the anterior part of the prothorax is less 
 conspicuously dilated and naked : the elytra anteriorly have a strongly 
 toothed orange band including a black dot at the suture ; jx)steriorly they 
 have a large toothed spot of the same colour ; the epipleura is orange in 
 the middle, black at the tip with a blrck spot at the base connected with 
 the black disk : postpectus not brilliant with golden j)ile. [L'nknown to 
 Dr. LeConte.] 
 
 136. Necrophorus obscurus Kirby. — Length of body 9 — 10 lines. 
 A pair taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 
 
 Body black. Nose separated from the front by a straight abbreviated 
 line, with a deep oblique furrow on each side and no distinct rhinarium ; 
 three last joints of the knob of the antenna? ferruginous : prothorax 
 
4;'. 
 
 anteriorly dilated ; elytra wiih two rather ubiicurc tk-ci* red hands, the 
 anterior one broad, dentatcd and reaching from tlx* ei)ii»Ieura to the 
 suture : the posterior one externally broad, iniernall\ narrow, and reaching 
 neither epipleura nor suture ; epijjleura deej) red, narrower than usual : 
 posterior trochanter emarginate. [Taken in Canada : at Toronto by Mr. 
 Couper, and at (.irimsby by Mr. IV'ttit.] 
 
 137. Necrof'HORI's Mki.*»hkimkri Kirby. Length of body 9 lines. 
 A single specimen taken in tiie iourne\ t'rom New \oxV to ("uniberland- 
 house. 
 
 [98. j IJody black. Nose separated fnjm the front by an oblusanguUir 
 line ; rhinarium orange-coloured, subtra[»ezoidal ; three last joints of the 
 knob of the antenuic ferruginous : prothorax dilated anteriorly . elytra 
 with two orange-coloured subundulated toothed bands reaching from the 
 epipleura to the suture ; ej)ipleura broad, orange-coloured : posterior tro- 
 chanters truncated at the apex with tht- ext'.rnal angle recur\ed ; tibia.* 
 dilated, especially the anterior part, or cubits : postj)ectus t)n oach side 
 covered with tawny hairs. [Taken at J'oronto by Mr. Coui)er.] 
 
 138. Necrophorls H.wa.w A7/ -/^i'. I .ength of body 8-9 lines. Taken 
 in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall, and in Massachusetts by Mr. 1 »rake. 
 
 Body, as usual, black. Nose separatetl from the front by a straight 
 line, channelled ; rhinarium distinct, membranous, tawny, anterior angles 
 elongated ; knob of the antenn.ne with the three last joints dull-orange : 
 prothorax nearly circular, anteriorly emarginate : elytra with an anterior 
 angular band which does not reach the suture, and a posterior crescent 
 or kidney-shaped spot, both of a deep orange : epipleura black ; wings 
 dusky : trochanters emarginate at the tip, 
 
 139. Necrophorls pv<;m.e.us Kirby- V\\xW ii., Fig. 3. Length of 
 Itody 6 lines. A single specimen taken in the Rocky Mountains. [Taken 
 at (Grimsby, Ont., by Mr, Pcttit : north shore of I^ike Superior (Agassiz).] 
 
 [99.] This is the smallest known species of the genus. Nose separated 
 by a nearly straight line from the front ; rhinarium transverse, not mem- 
 branous ; knob of the antennce black : prothorax nearly circular, there is a 
 slight sinus on each side, and a deeper anterior one : elytra with an 
 anterior angular band dilated at the epipleura, and a nearly semicircular 
 spot at the apex of a dull deep red ; epipleura of the same colour but 
 black at the apex, and with a black spot at the l)ase : posterior trochan- 
 ters emarginate at the tip. 
 
 140. Necrodes [Sii.ph.\] SURIX.V.MENSI.S Fabr. -Taken in Nova Sco- 
 tia by Dr. MacCulloch. [/Vbundant on carrion in all });irt-s of (\anada.] 
 
jioo. j 141. ( ),(. I • .11. • i.\ jSn im: \J M \k«.i.\.\i 1: J'ahr. i.cngtii of body 
 6 lines. Sewral >;>■. Minn^ taken in I. at 54". taken also l>y Hr. Mac 
 C'lilloth in Xo\a Scot':-. 
 
 IjOcIv oblong, hl;N 1.. \»i\ i!iickl\- innuliiixd. Head \>'.i;i an oi^iong 
 pinu tiforni impression in the .si<;i(e between the eyes : the margins of the 
 prothornx. tin; Intern! inor'.- svidel). are of a pale-red : the whole disk is 
 covered by a l.irge thrce-lohed black spot, with the lateral lobes the 
 smallest ami .^iiortesl : the elytra ;ire reddish-brown with three longitudinal 
 ridges, the exlcnial one. as usiuil, stopping short of the npex. In the 
 female the elytra at the apex are subsiniiated and snbacuminated. [Very 
 common throughout C'anad.i.J 
 
 \ \2. OicKOi'To.MA [Sii.PiiAJ i.ArioNicLM Z////7. - [loi.] Taken abun- 
 dantly both in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house, in Lat. 
 65^, and in Canada by Dr. IJigsby. This species abounds in the huts of 
 the Laj)landers, devouring every thing- .skins, flesh, and dried fish. [V^ery 
 common throughout Canada. For description v'uie Say's Knt. Works ii.. 
 \22, who <lcscr!!)e(l it as a new species under the name of .V. candata?^ 
 
 i4^V (>uii'r«)\:A [.*<iirnA| 1 im j riiKKiAi.v] iM i^V/V'v. Length of 
 Inxly 4)^' lines. Several specimens taken in the journey from New York 
 l(j ( Aunberland-huuse, and in Lat. 54'. 
 
 1 102.) This species appears t<> be the American representative of 
 SilpJta opcuiu from which ir differs in being smaller, and proportionally 
 narrower ; the i)rothora\ is longer in proportion to its width, and has an 
 obsolete channel ; the elytra are more distinctly punctured, and besides 
 the ordinary elevation at the termination of the e.xternal ridge, have two 
 smaller ones at that of the other two ridges : the ridge next the suture also 
 is mere elevated at its termination than in .V. opaca, of which in every 
 other : >pect it is the exact counterpart. The elytra of the female are 
 slightly sinuated at the aj>e\. and obtusel}' acuminate. \'ariety K. (^uite 
 bla(k. 
 
 144. (ill r.oi'io.MA [Sii.i'HAJ iXiivtAii Juii'f. Length of body 5 '4- 
 6 lines. .Same localities as the preceding. 
 
 Body black, not at all glossy, minutely punctured : punctures not 
 visil)le except under a good lens. Three last joints of the antennae 
 cinereous : ]>rotliorax anteriorly emarginate with four discoidal obtuse 
 ridges, the lateral ones vmdulated and obli<|ue and the intermediate ones 
 straight and i)arallel : elytra with the three customary longitudinal ridge.s, 
 the outermost the shortest and mo.st elevated, and the intermediate one 
 towards the ape.x curving inwards ; in the female the apex of the elytra is 
 
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 snbacuminate and very acute, but with scarcely any sinus : in the male it 
 is rounded. [Quite common in Canada. ] 
 
 [103.] 145. OicEOPTOMA [Silpha] Americanum Z,///^/. — Length of 
 body 8>^ lines : breadth 7 hnes. Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 Body very much depressed, thickly punctured with a hair issuing from 
 each puncture ,: on the under-side black. Head with a round impression 
 between the eyes ; prothorax pale-yellow with a subquadrangular sublobatc 
 black spot in the disk ; punctures of the prothorax very thick, those of the 
 discoidal spot resembling scratches ; elytra brown-black, rather silky, with 
 two longitudinal, undulated, obsolete ridges that do not reach the apex ; 
 their surface is covered with irregular elevations, and near the suture is a 
 series of punctiform impressions ; epipleura very wide with its horizontal 
 portion resplendent with a lustre between bronze and gold, vertical part, 
 or inner margin, yellow ; the suture of the elytra terminates in a minute 
 ix)int. Olivier says there are three ridges on the elytra, hv* only two are 
 discernible in the specimen here described. It is singular that no author 
 has noticed the brilliant side-covers of the elytra. [Synonymous with 
 S. peltcUa Catesby. Common in Canada ; north shore of Lake .Superior 
 (Agassiz).] 
 
 146. OiCEOPTOMA [Silpha] terminatum Kirby. — Length of body 
 9j^ lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 This species seems nearly related to O. Americanum, but it is nar 
 rower in proportion to its length, the front has a distinct oblong impres- 
 sion ; the elytra are yellow at the apex and acuminate, which last is 
 probably a sexual character ; the epipleura is less brilliant than in the 
 preceding species, and the elytra are not silky. In other respects it 
 resembles it and may possibly be the female. [A variety of Silpha peltata 
 Catesby ; taken at Toronto by Mr. Couper] 
 
 147. OiCEOPTOMA [Silpha] affine A'/r/^j-. — Length of body 9 lines. 
 Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. Mac Culloch. 
 
 Very like the preceding species, but the frontal impression is smaller 
 and round : the discoidal black spot of the prothorax is smaller, with the 
 lateral lobes rounded, and with round confluent punctures : the horizontal 
 part of the epipleura is black with a slight tint of blue, and not at all 
 bronzed. [Also a variety of S. peltata. Taken at Toronto by Mr. 
 Couper ; and on north shore of Lake Superior by Agassiz's Expedition.] 
 
 [104.] 148. OiCEOPTOMA [Silpha] Canadensf. Kirby. — Length of 
 body 7 lines. Taken in dead fish on the shores of Lake Huron in 
 Canada, by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 This species approaches near to O. Americanum, but it is smaller, 
 
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 the frontal impression is deeper and ol long ; the discoidal spot of the 
 prothorax is mucli larger, extending from the anterior to the posterior 
 margm. it is scarcely at all lobed, and only the punctures of its posterior 
 part exhibit the appearance of angular scratches ; the elytra are dirty- 
 yellow at the apex, and the yellow occupies a much greater portion of 
 the extremity than in the two preceding species, they are not acaminate 
 at the tip, but have a very slight tendency to a sinus ; the epipleura in 
 colour resembles that of O. Ameruanum, but is less brilliant. [Also a 
 variety of S pe/tata.^ 
 
 FAMILY TROGOSITID.«. 
 
 149. PjiLTis FERRi GiNEA Linn. — Length of body 5 lines. A single 
 specimen taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 
 The insects of this genus are usually to be met with under the bark of 
 trees, and in fungi. 
 
 [105.] Body oblong, flat, ferruginous, resembling greatly, as De Geer 
 has observed, the common bed-bug. Head thickly punctured ; prothorax 
 deeply eaiarginate for the reception of the head, thickly punctured; lateral 
 margin sloping, reflexed : disk of the elytra with six elevated ridges 
 gradually diminishing in length from the suture outwards ; between the 
 ridges is a double row of punctures, each pair of punctures being con- 
 nected by a transverse furrow ; outside the discoidal ridges are several 
 irregular rows of punctures : lateral margin reflexed ; epipleura linear at 
 the apex, gradually dilated at the base. [Taken in Canada.] 
 
 FAMILY NITIDl^LIDiE. 
 
 150. NiTiDULA ORSCURA Fabr. — Length of body 2j^-2^ lines. 
 Several specimens taken in Lat. 65'. 
 
 Body subdepressed, black, with its lustre obscured by inconspicuous 
 decumbent subcinereous hairs. Head minutely punctured, transversely 
 impressed between the eyes ; occiput elevated ; mouth and stalk of the 
 antennae piceous : prothorax minutely punctured, most visibly at the 
 sides, which are depressed ; lateral margin reflexed ; elytra very obtuse 
 at the apex, they have the appearance of being acuducted which seems 
 to be produced by the pubescence : legs piceous or rufo-picecus. 
 
 [106.] 151. NiTiDULA OssiuM Kirby. — Length of body i^^-i^ 
 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Mr. Stephens regards this as a variety only of the preceding species, 
 but it is smaller, narrower in proportion, the legs and stalk of the antennae 
 are paler, and the elytra and sides of the prothorax, in the British as well 
 as American specimens, are piceous. In other respects they agree. 
 
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 152. NiTinui.v DiscoiDK-v /7?^r. —Length of hody t '/} lines. Many 
 specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Considerably smaller than the British specimens. Body subdepressed, 
 black, above minutely punctured, subpubcbcent. Stalk of the antennae ; 
 sides of the prothorax, whi<. h has posteriorly a pair of discoidal obsolete 
 impressions, legs and anus, rufous ; elytra with a large anterior discoidal 
 suborbicular pale-rufous spot common to both, in which, in some speci- 
 mens, is a black dot ; apex of the el>tra obscurely variegated with rufous. 
 Fabricus, and after him Mr. Maisham. describes the legs of this species as 
 black ; but others have properly denominated them by the term ferrugi- 
 nous and piceous. In the American specimens they vary in colour from 
 piceous to pale-rufous. 
 
 [107.] 153. Ips De Je.\x\ii Kirhy. —Plate ii., fig. 4. — Length of body 
 2^ lines. Three specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Body linear, depressed, thickly and minutely punctured, glossy, black 
 or dark piceous. Head with a punctiform impression in the vertex, and a 
 larger impression on each side between the eves : prothorax quadrangular, 
 rather narrowest behind : elytra piceous or rufo-piceous. with two oblong 
 white spots at the base, forming an interrupted line, and two oblique 
 nearly parallel ones below the middle , legs piceous. In the other sex the 
 elytra are subacuminate. Variety B. With five white spots, viz.: 1,2, 2. 
 [Taken in Canada ; and north shore of Lake Superior (Agassiz).] 
 
 [108.] 154. Choleva (Catops) Spenciana A7r<^_)'. — Length of body 
 2 lines. A single specimen taken. Locality not stated. 
 
 Body black, covered with decumbent pale hairs. Head minutely 
 punctured ; antennae shorter than the prothorax, the two first joints 
 ferruginous, the eighth shorter and smaller than the rest ; mouth and 
 palpi ferruginous ; prothorax not visibly punctured with ail the angles 
 rounded ; base with a slight sinus on each side ; elytra acute, very minu- 
 tely punctured with a hair emerging from each puncture, without furrows 
 except a single one parallel with the suture, ferruginous, black at the tip ; 
 abdomen piceous, rufous at the base : legs ferruginous. [Belongs to the 
 family Silphid(£.\ 
 
 [109.] FAMILY SCAPHIDI1D.€. 
 
 155. ScAPHiUM CA.sTANiPES Kirby. — Plate v., fig. i. — Length of 
 body 3 lines. A single specimen taken in the journey from New York 
 to Cumberland-house. 
 
 Body naked, glossy ; underneath smooth, black, with a very light shade 
 of bronze j above more evidently bronzed, punctured. Mouih, palpi, 
 and antennte. pale chestnut : prothorax behind, on each side, marked v/ith 
 
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 a pair of piuictiform impressions, between these impressions are several 
 large punctures, but not in a regular transverse series as in Scaphidium ; 
 elytra with six discoidal rows of punctures : the four rows nearest the 
 suture reach the base, but not the apex, and the two external ones neither 
 base nor apex ; the first row also terminates towards the base in three 
 large distinct punctures, and from the base of the third runs a transverse 
 row, as in Scaphidium, to the sutural furrow, which is impunctured : the 
 egs are pale chestnut. 
 
 [lIO.j FAMILY ANISOTOMID/E. 
 
 156. Leiodes puNCTO-STRiATUS A^r^^', — Length of body i hue. -A 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 65'. 
 
 Body hemispherico-ovate, naked, glossy, chestnut. Head very lightly 
 punctured ; mandibles rather prominent ; palpi and antennae rufous, cjava 
 of the latter much incrassated consisting of five joints, the second of which 
 is extremely minute : prothorax very large, wider than long, very lightly 
 punctured, vvith the sides paler than the disk : elytra deeply and grossly 
 punctured in rows, interstices impunctured ; legs and under-side of the 
 prothorax rufous : anus paler than the rest of the abdomen. This species 
 closely resembles the Anisotoma badia of Sturm, but the elytra are not 
 JineJy punctured, as Mr. Stephens describes them in that species. 
 
 FAMILY SYLVANID^ [lATHRII)I1D/«,] 
 
 157. CoRTiCARiA DENTicuLATA Kirby. — Length of body i line. A 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 65 . 
 
 [iii.l Body dark piceous, rather glossy, naked, minutely punctured. 
 Prothorax rather orbicular, with a circular deepish impression just above 
 the scutellum ; sides distinctly denticulated : elytra with several rows of 
 punctures. The insect here described approaches very near to C. impressa 
 Marsham, but it is sufliciently distinguished not only by its colour but 
 chierty by the very visibly denticulated siu?s of its prothorax. [As the 
 pecific name of this insect is preoccupied, it has been named C. Kirbyi 
 by Ur. l>e Clonte. Taken by Agassiz's Expedition on the north shore of 
 Lake Superior.] 
 
 FAMILY CRVPTOPHAGID.*. 
 
 [ ; I J. I 158. Atom ARIA .vira Stephens. — Length of body yi line. One • 
 specimen only taken. 
 
 Body black, punctured, glossy. Mouth reddish; antennae rufqus : 
 elytra pubescent, piceous. rufous at the tip : anus and legs rufous. 
 
 159 Crvptophagus humeralis Kirby. — Length of body i ^ Hhcs. 
 Several specimens taken in Lat. 54^. 
 
 Body subcylindrical, black ; above punctured and pubescent, rfttktr 
 
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 glossy. Prothorax rather widest behind, with the basilar angles somewhat 
 depressed : scutellum transverse, obtusangular : shoulders of the elytra 
 obscurely rufous : legs, especially the tibiae and tarsi, pale chestnut. 
 
 i6o. Cryptophagus concolor Kirby. — Length of body xV?. line. 
 A single specimen taken in Lat. 54^ 
 
 [113,] In shape, sculpture and pubescence this species resembles the 
 preceding, but it is smaller, and the whole insect is entirely of one colour 
 --^rk ferruginous. 
 
 N. B. — The two species last described differ from the other Crypto- 
 p^hagi in having the thorax without serratures or denticles, and the scutel- 
 lum obtusangular, and may perhaps forni a subgenus. 
 
 FAMILY DERMESTIDiE, 
 
 161. Attagenus cylindricus Kirby. Plate vii., fig. 3. — Length of 
 body 2 lines. Two specimens taken in the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 This little species has much the air of a Cryptophagus, but belongs to 
 the present genus. The body is subcylindrical, dark-piceous, very minutely 
 punctured, and covered, but not thickly, with decumbent cinereous hairs. 
 The two first joints of the antennae are large, globular, and of the same 
 colour with the rest of the body ; the intermediate ones very minute and 
 pale rufous ; the three last are incrassated and form an oblong piceous 
 knob, of which the terminal joint is as long as the two preceding ones, 
 ovate and acute : the prothorax behind is very obsoletely trilobed with 
 the intermediate lobe rounded : the tarsi are rufous. [L'nknown to Dr. 
 Le Conte.] 
 
 [114.] 162. AiTAGENUS PELLiu LiuH. — Length of body 2^ lines. 
 Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 This species, though particularly destructive to furs, is to be met with 
 in other animal matters, and is very common in houses. De Geer 
 describes its larva as having a very long bcdy covered with a hard, shining 
 skin of a reddish-brcwn colour and hairy ; as havijig six legs, and the 
 posterior extremity terminated by a long remarkable tail, formed of rufous 
 hairs as long as the body, and placed horizontally in ♦he same line. He 
 says that their motion is gliding, but by snatches. 
 
 The American specimen, which is a male, is considerably larger than 
 ray British ones and blacker ; but in other respects it precisely resembles 
 them. The species may generally be known by its black or dark-piceous 
 solour, covered, especially underneath, with decumbent whitish or ciner- 
 eous hairs. The stalk of the antennae, and the tarsi, are testaceous, and 
 the Ust joint of the former, in the male, is longer than the two first and 
 
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 cylindrical : the prothorax at the three posterior angles has three white 
 spots formed of hairs, and the elytra are in the middle near the suture. 
 [Taken in Canada.] 
 
 [115.] 163. I)er.me>tes lardarius //««. — Taken in Nova Scotia by 
 Capt. Hall ; in Massachusetts by Mr. Drake. Latreille observes that 
 this insect is found in every quarter of the old world. [We may add, in 
 the new as well. It is a great pest to collectors m Canada.] 
 
 164. Derme-stes dissector Kirby. — Length of body 3V3 lines. 
 Taken by Dr. Bigsby in Canada. [Apparently identical with Say's Z>. 
 nubilus (t!nt. Works, i. p. 300), which differs little, if at all, from D. 
 camnus Germ. Not uncommon in Canada.] 
 
 [116.] 165. Byrrhis picipes Kirby. — Length of body 35 lines. 
 A single specimen taken in Lat. 54^ 
 
 Body black, covered with short decumbent hairs. Scutellum velvetty- 
 black : elytra with a pair of deep black interrupted stripes terminating in 
 a transverse abbreviated posterior band of the same colour : legs piceous. 
 [As this specific name is preoccupied, Le Conte has named the species 
 B. Kirbyi. It is taken in Canada from Quebec to the north shore of 
 Lake Superior.] 
 
 [117.] i66. BvRRHUs concolor Kirby. — Length of body 3 lines. 
 Two specimens taken in Lai. 54'. 
 
 This nearly resembles B. picipes. but it i.s much smaller, the prothorax 
 is more distinctly channelled, the elytra have no black band, and the legs 
 are black. [Supposed by Le Conte to be a variety of Cytilus varius Fab.] 
 
 167. BvRRHUs CYLLOPHORUs Kirby. — Length of body 35^ lines. 
 One specimen only taken. 
 
 Body underneath and limbs dull ferruginous, above black with some 
 cinereous hairs intermi.xed. Antennae piceous : elytra with two deep 
 black sub-interrupted stripes, and inscribed in the middle with traces of a 
 circle formed of pale, or cinereous hairs, common to both. The circle is 
 probably more distinct in recent specimens. [Taken at Grimsby, Ont., 
 by Mr. Petti t, and at Toronto by Mr. Couper ; north shore of Lake 
 Superior by Agassiz's Expedition.] 
 
 [118. J 168. Byrrhus varus Fabr. — Length of body 2^ lines. 
 Several specimens taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland- 
 House. 
 
 Body underneath black. Head and prothorax bronzed, the gloss 
 obscured by glittering hairs, above the scutellum is a patch of golde.i 
 ones: scutellum channelled, covered with paler hairs: elytra slightly 
 
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 furrowed, bronzed, with the alternate interstices of the discoidal furrows 
 green-bronzed, spotted with little velvetty patches of black hairs. [Be- 
 longs to Cytilus ; not uncommon throughout Canada.] 
 
 [119.J FAMILY HYDROPHILID^. 
 
 169. HvDROBiLs FUSCIPES Liiin. — Length of body 3 lines. A 
 single specimen taken m Lat. 65^ 
 
 Body oblong, convex and rather vaulted; underneath black, very 
 minutely and thickly punctured with a pale short decumbent hair planted 
 in each puncture ; above slightly bronzed, more conspicuously punctured, 
 naked and rather glossy. Head slightly impressed on each side between 
 the eyes ; palpi pale rufous, last joint dusky at the tip : antennae rufous 
 with a black knob : sides of the prothorax with two or three groups of 
 larger punctures : elytra furrowed with thickly punctured furrows, dusky 
 rufous at the sides : legs dark rufous, base of the thighs black. This is 
 smaller than my British specimens, the furrows of the elytra are rather 
 deep, and their sides more conspicuously rufous. [Taken in Canada.] 
 
 [120.] J 70. HvDROBius MARGiNELLus /iz^r. — Length of body I ^'3 
 line. Two specimens taken in Lat. 54". 
 
 Body sub-ellip'-ical, convex, minutely punctured, black ,; above glossy. 
 Palpi and antennae dusky rufous , knob of the latter black : sides of the 
 prothorax, and the anterior margin dusky rufous : elytra with a single 
 furrow adjoining the suture ; sides dusky rufous : tarsi rufous. 
 
 171. HvDROBius MELANOCEFHALUS Oliv. — Length of body 2>4^-2 V^ 
 lines. Two specimens taken in Lat. 54'. 
 
 [i2i,] Body sub-elliptical, minutely punctured; underneath black, 
 somewhat hairy with very short inconspicuous hairs, above lurid or dirty 
 yellow, glossy, more conspicuously punctured. Head black with a qua- 
 drangular yellow spot before each eye ; nose gibbous, separated from the 
 front by a transverse angular line ; palpi and antennse dirty-yellow, the 
 latter with a black knob : prothorax with a dark, discoidal, subquadran- 
 gular spot, which does not reach the anterior margin : shoulders with a 
 dusky line : tibiae and tarsi dusky rufous. 
 
 Var. B. Larger, dusky rufous above, spots before the eyes larger and 
 subtriangular : black spot on the prothorax wider but not so near the 
 anterior margin ; shoulders of the elytra without a dusky line. [This and 
 the preceding are European species ; Kirby's descriptions of them are not 
 sufficiently definite to enable them to be identified with any of the species 
 described by Le Conte in his '* Synopsis of the Hydrophilida of the 
 United Sta^^s." (Pro. Acad. N. S., Philada., June, 1855).] 
 
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 [123.] FAMILY HlblKRlD.l!:. 
 
 172. HisTER Va\kvui A'irdy. — Length of body 3^ lines. One spe- 
 cimen taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 
 
 Body black, glossy. Head circumscribed by a rather deeply ploughed 
 furrow ; antennae piceous with a pale knob ; mandibles longer than the 
 head : prothorax rather wider behind, seemingly quite smooth, but under 
 a strong magnifier it appears thickly covered with very minute lightly 
 impressed punctures ; it is circumscribed on all sides, by a deepish furrow, 
 between this furrow and the lateral margin is another abbreviated one less 
 impressed ; elytra besides a distinct marginal furrow have three discoidal 
 subpunctured ones running from the base to nearly the apex , between 
 the external discoidal furrow and the margin is a series of punctures near 
 the apex, representing what is called the marginal furrow, and between the 
 interna] one and the suture are the traces of three others, the first just 
 discernible, drawn, but interruptedly, from the base to the apex ; the 
 second consisting of three or four punctures near the apex, and the third 
 parallel with the suture, consisting also of punctures, sometimes confluent, 
 and extending from the apex not quite half the length of the elytrum ; the 
 surface of the elytra is covered with minute punctures very lightly im- 
 pressed, so as not to be discoverable except under a good magnifier : the 
 cubit or anterior tibia is armed with three teeth, the last of which appears 
 cleft from its being furnished at the apex with two short truncated trans- 
 parent bristles, the two other teeth have only one such bristle. 
 
 [Synonymous with If. depurator Say (Ent. Works ii. 261). a species 
 found in Canada, and taken by Agassiz's Expedition on the north shore 
 of Lake Superior.] 
 
 173. HiSTER Harrtsii Kirby . — Length of body 3^^ lines. One 
 specimen taken in the iourney from New York to Cumberland-house. 
 
 Body black, glossy, thickly punctured, the punctures on the upper- 
 surface being most conspicuous. Head circumscribed ; antennae and 
 palpi nearly of a mahogany colour ; mandibles longer than the head ; nose 
 slightly impressed : prothorax with two furrows at the lateral margin, both 
 nearly reaching the base, the inner one, as usual, when arrived at the 
 anterior margin, with the corresponding one on the other side forming one 
 furrow surrounding the prothorax on three sides ; just above the scutellum 
 is a punctiform impression : the elytra, including the submarginal one, 
 have seven distinct furrows, the two next the suture being anteriorly 
 
abbreviated and very short, especially ihe first ; t'roiu the base of the first, 
 or external discoidal one, an obsolete furrow runs obliquely towards the 
 Kubmarginal one ; the four discoidal entire furrows when arrived near the 
 apex of the elytra are bent towards the sutu.re : cubit i)iccous, armed with 
 five teeth, the three cuter ones obtuse, jlaken at Crimsln-, Ont., by Mr. 
 I'ettit.] 
 
 [125.] Lamellicornia. — Faihly Coprid-E [Scarab.x:id.f..] 
 
 174. Onthophagus latebrosus Fair. — Length of body, ^ 3^^ 
 lines ; ? 3 — 3^. A single specimen of the % taken in the journey 
 from New York to Cumberland-house : a ^ taken in New England by 
 Prof. Peck. 
 
 The species of this little interesting genus, remarkable for the great 
 variety of processes resembling horns, that arm the head of the males, are 
 as widely dispersed as those of any genus of beetles ; they arc to be found 
 in every climate from the frigid to the torrid zone, nor do they increase in 
 size as they recede from the former and enter tlie latter, for the most minute 
 species are to be found in Southern India, v.lv.re they abound, whilf" the 
 largest seem to inhabit temparate climates. 
 
 ^ Body entirely black, except the li;>ndr. or anterior tarsi, which are 
 rufous : gloss obscured by hairs. Nose at the ape.\ bent upwards, form- 
 ing a vertical, triangular, acute tooth ; on the vertex are two obsolete 
 transverse ridges ; the prothorax is rougli with little granules, and anter- 
 iorly sends forth a longish wide horn truncated at the end and overhang- 
 ing the head : the two angles of the apex are elevated, and the spa^-c 
 between them is deSexed, and bidentate : the cubits are armed with four 
 sharpish teeth. 
 
 The female differs from tJie male n.erely in having the shield of the 
 head more distinctly notched on each side, and the apex of the nose 
 rounded and reflexed, but without any triangular horn or tooth ; in having 
 two distinct ridges on the vertex, and in having no j)r; -.thoracic horn, which 
 is replaced by a transverse emarginate ridge in tlie middle. [Quite com- 
 mon ever)'where throughout Canada; generally found imJcr t!ie droppings 
 of horses or cattle.] 
 
 [126.] 175. Onthophagus scabricollis AV/-^)'.— Length of body 4 
 lines. A single % specimen taken in (Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 This is so like the last insect that 1 felt at first disposed to consider it 
 as merely a variety. The following diiferences in their character induce 
 me however to consider them as distinct. Not to mention the difference 
 of size, the female of O. ia/ebrosus has a distinct notch on each side of the 
 
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 head, of which there is no trace in O. suror::t)///s, t'.ic ridges i)f die \crtex 
 of the latter are more elevated, the prothorax is larger in proportion and 
 much rougher, with larger and more numerous granules, and the four teeth 
 of the cubit, which in the former are long and acTitc. in the latter are 
 shorter and obtuse. 
 
 176. Trox ARENARIUS Fa^r. -l.cn^th of body 3 linos. I'aken by 
 Capt. Hall in Nova Scotia. 
 
 [127.] Body oblong, black, witliout any gloss. liead 'overod with 
 cinereous varioles ; nose a little reflexed, rounded with a slight tendency 
 to be obtusanguiar ; antennae ferniginous ; prothonix with a wide rather 
 obsolete dorsal channel ; sides with two impressions, one near the anterior 
 angle, and the other basilar in the disk ; base lobed ; lateral margin fringed 
 with ferruginous bristles : elytra slightly furrowed, interstices with each a 
 series of elevations crowned with brown bristles, the ele\ations of the 
 alternate series are minute ; anterior tibiae with three acute teeth, they ure 
 also serated at the base. [An European species, not found in Canada, j 
 
 177. Pelidnota punctata Linn. — Taken by Dr. liigsby in Canada, 
 near Lake St. Clair. [Abundant, and often very injurious to the foliage 
 of the grape-vine throughout the Western peninsula of Ontiirio ; it does 
 not occur, however, as far east as Toronto. For description and illus- 
 trations, see " First Report on the Noxious Insects of Ontario," Saun- 
 ders's Report, page 106 ; or Harris's '• Insects injurious to Vegetation,'" 
 p. 25 ; Fitch, Riley, Packard, etc.] 
 
 [129.] 178. Camptorkina atracapilla Kirby. — Length of body 
 5 ^ lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, and in Nova Scotia by Capt. 
 Hall. [Synonymous with Serica vespertina Schonh., a species taken com- 
 monly throughout Ontario, and, according to Dr. Le Conte. in the Middle, 
 Southern, Eastern and Western States, as far as Lake Superior. For 
 description zvV/^ Say's Ent. Works, ii., p. 143.] 
 
 Genus Diplotaxis Kirby. — Labnrni transverse, lanceolate, anteriorly 
 emarginate. Mandibles very short, trigonal, incurved, truncated and con- 
 cavo-convex at the japex ; molary space small, irregular, ( hannelled ? 
 Maxilloe very short, incurved, incrassated at the base ; apex armed with 
 three short, stout, conical teeth. Labiiun very short, transverse, entire, 
 separated by a faint line from the mentum. Mentum quadrangular, rather 
 wider than long. Palpi maxillary four-jointed, very minute, cylindrical ; 
 second and third joints thicker, equal in length, obconical ; last thickest 
 and longest, lanceolate-ovate, acute. Palpi labial three-jointed ; first joint 
 obconical ; second subcylindrical ; third nearly as long as the other two, 
 but scarcely thicker, conical. Antennae ten-jointed : scape elongate- 
 
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 obconical ; pedicel nearly spherical ; third and fourth joints conical ; fifth 
 and sixth nearly top-shaped ; seventh pateriform ; the three last forming a 
 short ovate knob. 
 
 [130.] Body between oblong and ovate, not hairy. Head inserted, 
 subtriangular with the vertex of the triangle truncated ; rhinarium trans- 
 verse, vertical, widely emarginate ; nose transverse, distinct, anterior mar- 
 gin reflexed and subemarginate ; no distinct postnasus or aftcrnose ; can- 
 thus septiform, cleaving : prothorax transverse with an anterior sinus of its 
 whole width to receive the head : scutellum short, triangular, somewhat 
 rounded at the vertex : podex and part of the penultimate dorsal segment 
 of the abdomen uncorered : legs thus located ; ; ; cubit tridentate ; tarsi 
 filiform, slender ; claws bipartite, the interior lobe the shortest and widest, 
 and very obtuse ; the exterior very slender and acu^e. 
 
 179. DiPLOTAXis TRiSTis Kirby. — Plate v., fig. 3. — Length of body 
 5 — S/'^ lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 54". Taken also in Nova 
 Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 [131,] Body dark chestnut, more or less grossly punctured above and 
 below^ Head thickly punctured with a pair of impressions between the 
 eyes ; nose subemarginate ; antennae and palpi rufous : prothorax thickly 
 punctured, slightly impressed at the four angles : scutellum impunctured : 
 elytra rather paler than the head and prothorax, with nine rows of punc- 
 tures, viz., a single one at the suture, four arranged in pairs at the disk, 
 and four in the sides ; the interstices between the rows are also irregularly 
 punctured ; the four posterior tarsi, especially the intermediate pair, are 
 longer than the tibiae. 
 
 Obs. In more recently disclosed specimens the body is often entirely 
 pale - chestnut and sometimes rufous. [Common throughout Ontario. 
 *' Middle States and Lake Superior, not rare." Le ConU.^ 
 
 [132.] 180. Rhizotrogus fervens Gyii. — Two specimens taken in 
 I^t. 54°; a variety in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. [Synonymous with Lack- 
 nosterna fusca Frohl ; the common May Beetle, or Cockchafer, of Canada. 
 " A very common and, through Atlantic America, widely extended species, 
 embracing several races, to which, however, no definite characters can be 
 given." (Le Conte). For description and figure see Harris's Injurious 
 Insects, page 30.] 
 
 [133. J 181. Rhizotrogus Drakii A7r^>'. — Length of the body 9^ 
 to 1 1 ^ lines. A single specimen taken in the journey from New York to 
 Cumberland-house. Varieties B and C, by Mr. Drake in Massachusetts. 
 
 This species is extremely similar to the last, it differs principally in 
 ha\ ing the sides of the scutellum more thickly punctured, the ridges of the 
 
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 elytra, except the siitural one, arc scarcely discovtrablc. .ind the podcx 
 larger and rounder at the apex : the tarsi also arc long« r In proi)orticn : 
 the knob of the antennx in all the specimens is longer. 
 
 B. Much larger, and the elytra appear somewhat m(^i\- (iufklv juinc- 
 tured, but it is scarcely distinct. 
 
 C. Like A, but the ridges of the elytra ;irc v\\ disccrnibk-. |A ra. c of 
 the preceding species.] 
 
 Genus Dichelonych.\ Harris. — Labrum Iran*, verse, lanceolate, scarcely 
 emarginate. Mandibles short, trigonal, incurved, toothless, acute : molary 
 space transverse, furrowed. Maxilla; minute, linear, bidentate, with short 
 teeth. Labium subquadrangular, not distinct from the mentum. Palj)! 
 maxillary four-jointed ; first joint very minute ; second longer than the 
 third, obconical ; third triangular : last joint as long as the three others 
 together, veiy large, subsccuriforn"!. Palpi labial three-jointed : joints 
 short, .subfiliform ; last truncated. Anlennai nine-jointed; scape obconi- 
 cal, incrassated ; pedicel subspheriral : t-urd ar.vl iourfh joints subfiliform ; 
 fifth obconical ; sixth subturbinate ; the tiiree la^t fonning a sJiort sub- 
 ovate knob. Body narrow, snbcylindrical. Hca«l suDciuadranguiar ; nose 
 transverse, separated by an indistinct ubtuiangular line, anteriorly rcilexed; 
 rhinarium transverse marked \.-:th a transverse series vX rather large punc- 
 tures ; eyes prominent ; canthus entering: j)roihora\ hexagonal, the sides 
 being obtusangular : scutelkun lO'imded at the verte.\, dilated ^^ the base : 
 elytra linear, rounded at the apex, obsoletcly ridged, wrinkled ; cpij.»leura 
 vertical, narrow : legs rather .slender ; liind legs long ; cubit tridenlate ; 
 tarsi filiform ; claws equal, all bilid at the a.|>e.\ : jjodex sublrlangular. 
 
 [134.] This genus evidently belongs to the same family with Macrod- 
 aciyhis, from which it is distinguished by ha\ ing its maxillie armed only 
 with two teeth, the last joint of its palpi of a (.liiTiTent sliape, and its 
 labium approaching to a square form : whereas in the latter genus the 
 maxillai are more conspicuous and armed with lliree teeth, th.e last joint 
 of the palpi is subovate, and the labium is ol)long and cliannelled. 
 
 The species of this genus, as far as at present known, appear to i-e 
 confined to the more northern parts of the new world : 1 have seen none 
 south of the province of Massachusetts, from whence 1 ha\e received 
 specimens both from Dr. Harris and Mr. Drake. Type of the genus 
 Melolontka liiicaris Herbst. 
 
 182. DiCHELONVCHA Backii Khby. — Plate ii., llg. 6.- Length of 
 body 4^^4 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 54^^. 
 
 Body black, glossy, hair}', especially underneath, with white decumbent 
 hair.i ; above thickly and coarsely punctured. Nose much refiexed, inar- 
 
i^ln entire ; stnlk (jf the antenna." chestnut ; elytm silky, green, more f)r 
 less bronzed. 
 
 Variktv ];. Antcnnx rufous. Tarsi pale cliestnui. [Taken on 
 iK^rta shore of Lake Superior by Agassiz's Expedition, j 
 
 iS".. DiciiEi.oxvcHA viRKSCENS Kirl'V. — Length of body 43.4 — 5 
 ii.nes. I'aken in Canada by Dr. Big.sby, in Xova Scotia by Dr. ^L'l(■ 
 (.'ullocii, in -Massachusetts by Dr. LLarris, and in Pennsylvania by Dr. 
 1 lorsneld. Dr. iligsby found it common on the different species of SalLx. 
 
 1^35] ^^'^^^h' l*i<^t.'f'iis, thickly covered underneath, e.xcepl the disk of 
 ih;.- breast and abdomen, with decumbent snowy hairs, minutely j)unr- 
 tured, punctures most numerous on the upper side. Head nearly black, 
 covered with glittering decumbent hairs ; nose very obtuse and almost 
 truncate, less retlcxed than in D. Backii, reflexed part obscurely rufous ; 
 rhinarinm, underside of the head, and mouth with its organs, rufous ; 
 antennae reddish-yellow : !;rolhora\ nearly black with the sides a little 
 paler, with a longitudinal discoidal rather obsolete channel and an im- 
 [>ression on each side ; sprinkled with short glittering decumbent hairs : 
 scutellum rufous, thickly covered at the base with whitish decumbent 
 hairs : elytra reddish-yellow tinted with green, sprinkled wiUi short de- 
 cumbent whitish hairs, the lateral punctures are almost arrangefl in dense 
 rows : abdomen nifous ; }>odex thiickly covered with .snowy hairs : legs 
 reddish-yellow: tarsi darker: posterior tibiae black, reddish at the base : 
 po.sterior tarsi piceous. 
 
 V'ariftv B. Head and prothorax rufopiceous ; legs rufous. 
 
 ( ". Head and pnjthorax rufous mottled with dusky ; elytra 
 with a green spot at the shoulders and tips ; posterior 
 legs entirely rufous : trunk rufous. 
 
 [This species is in all })robabiIity synonymous with D. elougatida 
 Schon.. the var. C belonging to I), sulnnttata Lee. Both of these species 
 are common in Canada : m'c Iiave generally taken them upon various 
 kinds of Oaks.] 
 
 184, DiciiKLONVCKA tf..staci:a A7/-<^j'.- Length of body 4/3 line.s. 
 Taken by Dr. Bigsb)' in Canada. 
 
 Very similar to Variety C of live preceding species ; but the body, with 
 the exception of the eyes which are black, is entirely of one colour, rufo- 
 testaceous, the head, prothorax, and tarsi being rather darker than the 
 rest ; the eyes are larger and more prominent ; the head and prothorax. 
 especially the latter, are r^ore thickly and minutely punctured ; and in 
 this there is no dorsal channel : its margins, especially the lateral, are 
 more hairy, the elytra exhibit no humeral or apical green spot : and they 
 
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 are very slit;htl\ tinted v ■ h iliat c(;ii)iir. [ I'wu females lound ai Kagk* 
 Harbour, Lake Superior, by Or. J.e Conte. Included in the List ot" 
 C'anadian Coleoptera.] 
 
 [136.] 185. Cetonia M,i.t;ii).\ Fiih: Length ot body 7,'- lines, 
 iaken in Canada, at Lake St. Clair, by Dr. Digsby. 
 
 Fiody depressed, of a beautiful glo.s.sy green. Head black underneath, 
 above grossly punctured; eyes reddish-brown; antennae bro\vn-l)lack ; 
 nose anteriorly subemarginate and a little retlexed ; prothora.x with a 
 triple posterior sinus, grossly but not thickly j)imcturcd, sides luteous : 
 scutellum an isosceles triangle, impunctured : elytra, in some lights, 
 luteous, in others with a shade of green ; at the l)ase grossly but not 
 thickly ])unctured, the remainder of the elytrum is acuducted like net 
 work ; disk longitudinally depressed : {)odex dusky, luteous at the apex, 
 with four triangular, white, basilar spots ; abdomen underneath with :i 
 double series of triangular white spots on each side, the outer ones elon- 
 gated : sides of the breast hairy ; mesosternum suborbicular, hairy ; legs 
 luteous ; tarsi and ba.se of the cubits, brown-black. [This beautiful insect, 
 now included in the genus FAiryom'ni Hurm., is taken occasionally, but not 
 commonly, in Ontario.] 
 
 186. Trichius Bigsbii Kirb}\ — Length of body 7 lines. I'aken in 
 Canada, near I^ke St. Clair, by Dr. Bigsb\-. 
 
 [137.] This species exhibits the habit and general aspect of T. fasci- 
 atus, but it is larger and less hairy. Body obovate. black, covered more 
 or less with tawny longish hairs. Head (juadrangular ; nose reflexed, 
 emarginate ; antennae and palpi luteous, black at the tip ; prothorax 
 trapezoidal, narrowest anteriorly, sides rounded or subobtusangular, pos- 
 teriorly with an obsolete sinus near each angle ; scutellum short, rounded 
 at the apex : elytra without hairs, covered as it were with a bloom ; luteous 
 with a black margin and nine black spots — viz. one large one at the 
 shoulders, seven in the disk arranged transversely 2, 3, 2, and one larger 
 than the rest on the apical tumour ; the humeral and apical spots are 
 glossy : three tawny-yellow mealy spots, -the intermediate one straight and 
 longitudinal, and the lateral ones sinuated and oblique, mark the podex : 
 the tibiae and tarsi of the four anterior legs are deep ferruginous ; cubit ^v. 
 bidentate, [Synonymous with Gnorimis m.\cui.osvs Knoch. Taken, 
 but rarely, in Canada.] 
 
 187. Trichius asslmilis Kirby. — Length of body 4%- 5 lines. 
 Taken in Lat. 65°.; in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall ; and in Massachusetts 
 by Dr. Harris. 
 
 [138,] Body obovate, black, covered more or less with long yellowish 
 
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 hairs. Head punctured ; uosl- rctiexed, emargiiiate ; stalk of the antennae 
 testaceous, scape and knob ])lnck ; palpi dusky : prothorax punctured, less 
 hairy in the disk, not channelled : elytra black, very short, depressed next 
 the suture with an intcnncdiate ridge; at the l)ase is a large i)ale-yellow 
 spot common to both elytra, from which run a pair of narrow, white, 
 mealy bands, which nearly rcaih the external margin, and a white mealy 
 stripe adjoining the suture also runs from the same spot to the apex of the 
 clytrum : the iiodcx is cosered with hmg yellowish hairs, so thick on the 
 sides as almost to corneal the ()b!ong white mealy spot common to the 
 subgenus : legs black. 
 
 N. H. In the specimen taken in the Kxjjedition. the white mealy 
 stripe next the suture appears to have been rul)bed off and and is replaced 
 by a continuation of the pale spot. | Previousiv described as 1\ atjiyiis 
 (iory. Taken in Canada.] 
 
 I.H8. TkicniLs k(jii;.Ni>ic(ji.i.is A7//m-,- - I-ength of body 5 ^j lines. 
 'Taken in \o\a Scotia by ('apt. Hall. 
 
 IJody obovate, black ; covered, i»articularly underneath, with longish 
 pale hairs. Head \ cry thickly ])unctured ; no.se rellexed, emarginate ; 
 stalk of the antennae, excluding the scape, testaceous : prothorax subor- 
 bicular, with the segment of a circle taken out next the head ; very thickly 
 {punctured, channelled, sprinkled with short yellowish hairs : at the side of 
 each of the four angles is ;i mealy-white spot : the elytra next the lateral 
 margin have two tran.sverse mealy-white streaks or bands, which are con- 
 tinued towards the suture by a l)roader, naked, ferruginous, obscure band: 
 just below the scutellum. on each elytrum, is another mealy stripe, and 
 parallel with the suture is an obscure, naked, ferruginous one : ])odex 
 hairy with the ordinary mealy j^ale spots very conspicuous ; it is sculptured 
 with transverse undulated lines : cubits robust with two stout teeth : a 
 mealy spot marks the ba.se of the posterior legs. [Synonymous with T. 
 piger Fabr. : taken commonly in Ontario.] 
 
 180. Trichus viRiDAX.s A7/'/^r. — Length of l)ody 4.^ lines. .\ 
 smgle specimen taken in C'anada by Dr. Higsby. 
 
 In the markings of its elytra this species agrees precisely with that last 
 described, but the upper side of the body, especially the head and pro- 
 thorax, is green ; the latter is of a different shape and less thickly punc- 
 tured ; and the cubit and its teeth are less robust : the podex also is more 
 hairy. These can scarcely, all of them, be mere sexual distinction.s. 
 
 It seems intermediate between T. rotundicollis and T. viridulus. [A 
 variety of T. affinis Gory.] 
 
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 [140.] 190. Tkichii's Rifux*;!. s Kirby. Length of body loj-'a— 13 
 iincs. Taken in Xova Srotiaby Dr. Mac Culloch and Clapt. Hall. 
 
 I^ody rather glossy, dark pitcli-colour, naked above with a few scat- 
 tered hairs on the underside and on the legs. Head above plane, thick!}- 
 covered with impressions and punctures that anastomose and run into 
 each other, in some specimens leaving here and there some elevated, 
 levigated, narrow spaces: nose anteriorly transverse, reflexed : ])rothora\ 
 with a longitudinal posteriorly abbreviated channel ; sides obtusangular : 
 surface covered, less thickly in the disk, with large, and often conlluent, 
 punctures : scutellum an isosceles triangle, channelled, with a few scattered 
 large punctures on each side : elytra indistinctly furrowed, confluently and 
 irregularly wrinkled, wrinkles marked with shallow indistinct punctures, 
 interstices elevated : cubit acutely tridentate : podex transversely irregu- 
 larly acuducted. [This is a description of Xhtfemak of Osmodcrma scabra 
 I^ej., a species quite common in Ontario.] 
 
 191. Tkichius foveatus Kirby. — Length of body 11 ^'4 lines. Taken 
 in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 Near the preceding species, but i)erfectly distinct. Jiody nearly naked, 
 somewhat glossy, of a dark pitch-colour. Nose and front between the 
 eyes with a very deep and large impression, the bed of which is acuducted 
 in circles with a minute puncture in the centre of each ; the rest of the 
 head is confluently punctured ; a])Ove the bed of the antennae the front 
 rises into a rather lofty levigated prominence : the j^rothorax is shaped 
 like that of G. rw^osus, but is rather less obtusangular, the channel is 
 deeper, Avith its sides more elevated, and there are one or two slight 
 impressions between it and the margin ; the punctures on the disk are 
 rather more numerous : the elytra are paler than the rest of the body and 
 a little bronzed, the wrinkles of the surface are more \ermiform than in the 
 species just named, without any punctures, and the appearance of furrows 
 is less distinct : the podex is distinctly punctured and scarcely acuducted ; 
 and the cubit is sinuated rather than dcntated, the three prominences 
 being extremely obtuse. [A description of the male of Osmoderma scabra 
 Dej.] 
 
 [141.] 192. Platvcerus piceus Web. — Length of body 6 lines. A 
 single .specimen taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland- 
 house. 
 
 [142,] Body dark piceous, rather glossy, thickly punctured. . NohC 
 very retuse, or rather with a larg;j sinus : mandibles shorter than the head, 
 acute, armed on their inner side with a stout tooth with the segment of a 
 «:irclc taken out of it ; antennae pale chestnut • prothorax with the lateral 
 
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 margin ootusangalar, suhcrcnaic, aiul rtllexfl ; dislc longiiudinally im- 
 l);'.nrtiirc(l, and ol)solclfly channelled : s« uiclliini channdicd. i'iipiin<t'.ircd : 
 elytra furrowed ; ( iibit scrrubtc and denticulate, two s'u;;) t.teth longer 
 than the rest at the a;)e.\ ; tarsi chestnu!. 'I'his !•> ihc smallest spec ie> of 
 the stag beetle tribe [Vlaced, with a mark of int Trogation, as a synonyni 
 fif P/(i/yirr!/< (/,-f>iiSsns Lc:. This .spccifi', name \\ prcor'"ui)iod by ^i' 
 I.eay's Ccruchu.< />itcus. P. Drpnssu.^ is taken in Canada.] 
 
 193. Passaij.s I NTiiRRUFTL'S /.//<;;;. -Length of body 1J4 -''*> nr^h. 
 Many taken in the journey from N>w \'ork to Cinnberlund house. 
 
 Body black or piceous, uniierneath sometimes nifc-piicous, imfamc- 
 tared, glossy. Head with a crooked horn between the eyes jiointing 
 towards the nioatli. and a triangular elevation adjoining each eye on the 
 inner side : labrum with a deep sinus ; mandibles vviih diree teeth at the 
 extremity, and one in the middle of the ujiper side ; knob of the antenntr 
 consisting of three hairy joints, the outer one th!<:kcr than th-. ot-Mjrs and 
 curved : proth')rax channelio I. impressed on each side near the bisc ; 
 under a powerful lens sewrd scattered very minute punctures may 1 e 
 discovered on its surface : tiie cn'a, or undersides of tb.e prothorax, arc 
 likewise punctured, and sou with tawny hairs ; elytra furrowed: fc.rrous 
 punctured : cubit many-tootiv.-d : intermediate tibiic densely bearded, c!i 
 the outside, with tawny hairs. 
 
 The l)ent or nodding horn ^w the iiead of die species lure described 
 has generally been taken for » sexual character ; Inii 1 am in< lined to 
 regard this as a mistaken noti(^n. Specimens thus circumstanced, as far 
 as I have been able to ascertain, have hitherto lie^n found only in North 
 America ; while those with a tuberculated head are found in various ]uris 
 f«r South America, in tlie East and West Indies : and I have one in my 
 cabinet from New Holland. Eleven specimens of the former v.xre col- 
 lected in the Expedition, varying in .size, and not a single one of the latter. 
 [Genera.lly known by the Fabrician name of /'. coi nufus. '1 Vvken fre({uently 
 in the southern and Avcstern jwrts of Ontario. ! 
 
 IWMH.V KLATKRllJ.];. 
 
 [145.] J 94. Campylus DENTicoRNis, A'/>/>]'. - Length of bod> 6 line.'-. 
 Taken in C'anada by Dr. Bigsb\ . 
 
 'I'his is the American representative of C- mtsomdaa^ from wliich it is 
 sutiiciently distinguished by its toothed antennae and lojiger })rothorax. 
 Body linear, black, hairy with pale decum!)ent hairs. Head punctured ; 
 antennae longer than the prothorax, filiform, with all the joints., except the 
 scape, pedicel, and terminal one, terminating at their internal extremity in 
 
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 a |)roniinenl tooth, less conspicuous in the two lower ones • upper-lip, and 
 nose which is rellexed and overhangs the mouth, yellow : prothora.x chan- 
 nelled. ])unctnred, (juadrangular, with the anterior angles rounded, and the 
 i>osterior diverging and terminating in a sharp tooth or prominence ; .sides 
 rather v»avy ; limh yellow ; scutellum subcordate : elytra minutely and 
 thickly i)unctured, slightl) furrowed, furrows thickly i)unctured ; marked 
 wiili a T'lrrow yeHo^v striT)e which does not reach the apex ; there is also a 
 Nhort yellow streak on the shoulders : base of the tibiae, claw-joint of the 
 t.irsi. and cla-.vs. yellow. [•- Lake Superior, Maine and Pennsylvania" (l.c 
 <"ontc). W c ha\e specmiens taken in the neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ont. j 
 
 }i46.] 195. Pkdf.tks Brichtwili.!. Kirhv. -Length of body 6 lines. 
 'I 'aken in Xo\a Scotia by Ci\\)X.. Hall. 
 
 • >ody ciongaie, more slender than that of the type, testaceous; hairy. 
 with dec iimbent ]>a!e i)air> ; thickly punctured. Head dusky-red ; an- 
 ii-nnac longer than the ))rothora\. slenderer than u-^ual in the tribe, 
 scarcelv serrated, with the four last joints rather slenderer than the rest ; 
 cics large and hemispherical : nose a good deal refiexed : prolhorax t:on- 
 \e\. channelled, dusky-red, darker in the disk: elytra pale testaceous; 
 tarrowed. furrows deeply punctured : interstices minutely punctured with 
 -•'Uttered pun{'tures : legs paler than liie rest of the l)ody, and nearly 
 yellow. I Included now i;i tlic genu-; . ///' '.vy l'',sch. Le Conte, in his 
 •■ Re\ision 01" the I'lateridii? (jf the United State.'-," (Amer. Phil. Trans, vol. 
 v., p. 4::5). states that this sjiecies occurs in Uie "-Slidd'e and Southern 
 States, nol f-are. The specimen describ.ed by Kirby seems to have been a 
 pale ct>lGured variety of this species, which Aaries much in colour. In the 
 male the tliorax is constricted before the j)osterior angles, which are slightly 
 divergent : in the female, the sides arc straight and the angles do not 
 diverge : the dorsal channel is never deep, ajid is frequently wanting."' 
 
 si:f;;;F.Ni\s .vsaphf.s Kirby. 
 
 Ilody widev. Xose not overhanging the mouth. Rhinanum attenu- 
 ated in the middle, l^rothorax short, ])Osterior angles carinated. 
 
 I ajn doubtful whether this .should not be considered as forming a di.s- 
 tinct genus. The general I'orm is very different. But as the tarsi have 
 '^itckers on the '^econd and third j )ints, till more species are disco\ered, I 
 liave given it as onlv a subgenus i){ Pcdcirs. 
 
 [Dr. Lc Conte (Am. l*hil. Trans, x. 449) states that "'although but 
 one species of this genus is described by Kirby and another by (iemiar, 1 
 find that several of our Elatcrs possess characters which require them to 
 be associated with his type. They seem to form a natural group aporoach- 
 
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 mg moiii nearly to Corymbilcs, and indet-d tiiUcring from thai geiui> only 
 in the structure of the tarsi. The second and third joints of the tar.^i are 
 dilated beneath into a short spongy lobe : the first joint is as long as the 
 second and third together, and usually s]»ongy at the tip : the fourth joini 
 is small and narrow, received upon the tliinl, and i:^ sometimes also 
 spongy beneath : the tifih joint is elongate with simple claws."] 
 
 196. Pedkies (Asxi'HKS) RL'FicoRNi's A'///')'. - Length of body 7 l^ 
 lines. Taken m Xova Scotia by C'apt. Hall. 
 
 Body black, rather glossy, miiuitely [)un<nured, downy with pale down. 
 AntenniE, mouth, and [jalpi rufous or dusky-riUous ; !al>rum and mandibles 
 [)iceous j nose rounded, not reiicxed, not o\crshadowing the mouth; 
 antennae serrated on the inner side in the middle, last joint acuminated : 
 prothorax short, widest behind, very obsoleiely channelled, sides .sulmjar 
 gincd ; posterior angles dentiform, strongly carinated : elytra piceous, t 
 rufo-piceous, very slightly furrowed with oblong punctures in the furro»\s, 
 interstices minutely jjunctured: margin of the abdomen and of the penuUi- 
 mate segment, rufous. [Pre\iously descril.)ed as Elaicr vicatnonius Herbst. 
 Quite common in Canada : taken alsi) in >daine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 
 Alabama (Le Conte). ] 
 
 [148]. 197. Pkrimrcis h [,vii>! s //vA-v. - Length of body 7 lines. 
 'laken in Canada by Dr. jiigsliy. 
 
 IJodv black. i)unctured, <^loss\- ; i:i'.)s-> and <(»iour obscured 1)\' nu- 
 merous decumbent pale hairs. Antenna; i)ale chestnut, with the third 
 joint double the length of the second : posterior angles of the prothorax 
 carinated : elytra with nine rows of large and dee{» ))unctures. interstice- 
 minutely jHUictured : legs i)ale < hestnul. 
 
 The only difference that 1 can discover between the American and 
 Kuropean specimens, is in the length of the third joint of the antenna.*, 
 which in the latter is .scarcely longer than the second ; and this may 
 probably be a sexual distinction. [ Belongs to the genus Mclauotus Ksch., 
 and is synonymous with AT. ( Crafonyc/ius) uisfampcs Payk.] 
 
 198. Peklmfxis c< > m. mix is GV//.- Length of bod\ 6's lines. Se- 
 veral specimens taken at Cumberland-house. I at. 5.1'. 
 
 Very similar to the [>receding sjiccies. but much smaller. Body chest- 
 nut-coloured, darker or lighter in different s})ecimens, punctured, glossy, 
 hairy : third joint of the antennae twice the length of the second ; pro- 
 thorax thick!y punctured, obsoleteiy channelled, chieily behind : elytra, 
 antennae, and legs rather paler than the rest of the body, the fonricr sculp- 
 
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 tured as in ihe Inst spe( k-s. [Taken in Canada. •' Abundant as for as 
 Xebraska'* (Le Conic}. ]!etongs to the genus Melatwtvs.\ 
 
 [149.] 191;. PiRiMi .•, s!.%!n.is AV/v'j'.-- -Length of body 6'^ lines. 
 Takeji in Lat. 54". 
 
 I .should liuvo iilvoM tills as nierelv a \arietv 01 the last ; but besides 
 its blacker i-ody, the fiunctures of the prothora.x are not nearly so 
 numerous, and there is no appearance of its being channelled : the breast 
 is rhestniu. iiJelon^s to the genus MdanotusA 
 
 -'oo. CiT.xn.FRi > K.r:.\i)Ai.i.i A'/>v'^r.~ Plate ii., fig. 7. length, ^--f 
 t)ody 7 lines. .\ si'.-.gic sp-jciiTien taken in I. at. 65°. 
 
 I)Ody bla<k. ilnckly punctured ; gloss obscured by inconspicuous 
 hairs, ilead \\\k\\ iwo impressions between the eyes ; nose subemargi- 
 nate ; anleiuKc shorter than the i>rothorax, serrated : j)rothorax longer 
 tlian wide, channelled, posterior angles diverging, v<.'ry acute, carinated : 
 scutelhnr. suboval, ccered with white hairs : elytra rather wider than the 
 protiiorax. testaceous with a black discoidal lilotch at the tip ; slightly 
 furrowed with |)iuu.tures in the i'urrows ; interstices punctured : legs 
 ] )iccous. 
 
 'i'his species, which is a ieuiale, is related to Ct. cuprcus, but is much 
 wider in proportion to its length. [Pjelongs to the genus Corymbiii's 
 Latr. "One specimen found on the north shore o\ I,ake Superior. Mr. 
 Randall found it in Maine ' (Le Contc).] 
 
 [150 ] 201. KL.vrER (Afhotistus) .ERjPLNNis AVav^i'.- -Length of 
 body 6 lines. Several taken in Lat. 54". Cumberland-house. 
 
 Body very black, without hairs, underneath very minutely punctured. 
 Mead thickly and ccnducndy ptmctured; no.se with two slight impressions: 
 antennae shorter than the prothorax, third joint longer than the fourth : 
 prothorax very thickly ])unctured, obsoletely channelled, longer than wide, 
 rather narrowest before, sides curving, posterior angles acute, diverging, 
 carinated : scutellum heart-shaped : elytra bronzed, or green-bronzed ; 
 furrowed, furrows punctured ; interstices convex, minutely punctured ; 
 tips acute : a discoidal rufous spot or band, and sometimes two, marks 
 the underside of the abdomen : legs piceous. 
 
 This s[)ecies is the .Amcrij^ui representative of /;". hupressus, from 
 which it differs princii)all\- in being smaller, narrower in j)roportion, with 
 the head and ])rothorax r.ot at all bron;^ed, and the latter more thickly 
 punctured and without any glo.ss. [Not uncommon in Canada; "very 
 abundant at Lake Superior: found by Randall in Maine' (Le Conte). 
 Belongs to the genus Corymbita Latr. j 
 
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 FAMILY BUPRESTID.t. 
 
 [151.] 202. BuPRESTis (Anoplis) RUSTicoRUM Kirby. — Length of 
 body 9^^ lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. 
 
 Body black-bronzed, punctured, glossy. Head with a levigated ele- 
 vation in the centre between the eyes, channelled behind ; marked with 
 two yellow spots underneath, on the cheeks, a triangular one adjoining the 
 eyes on their inner side, and two dots of the same colour between them ; 
 prothorax grossly punctured with levigated spaces, the discoidal one longi- 
 tudinal ; above the scutellum is an impression ; sides converging at the 
 l)asc of the [irothorax ; anterior angles with a yellow stripe : elytra slightly 
 furrowed with numerous very minute punctures in the furrows ; rounded 
 at the apc.x : interstices with scattered punctures ; those of the second, 
 third, fourth, fifth, eiglith and ninth furrows elevated so as to form an 
 obtuse ridge : the four last ventral segments of the abdomen have on 
 each side a reddish -yellow spot, those on the last segment being the 
 largest and most irregular ; anus with two distinct lateral teeth. 
 
 This species is so similar to B. mstica, that at first I regarded it as 
 merely a variety, that insect however is smaller ; the head has a distinct 
 longitudinal channel . the prothorax is less thickly punctured, and the 
 sides, at the base, converge less but more suddenly : the elytra are trun 
 rated, or rather premorse, at the apex with a few minute denticles: the 
 mandibles have a yellow spot, and there are none on the ventral segments 
 of the abdomen, except the anal one : the anal teeth also are obsolete. 
 TBelongs to the genus Ancylochira Elsch. " Oregon and Washington Ter- 
 ritories, abundant"(L'- Conle).] 
 
 [152.] 203. BuPRESTis (Anoplis) Paganorum Kirby. — Length of 
 body 7^4 lines. A single specimen taken at Cumberland-house, Lat. 54°. 
 
 Very like the species last described. Body of the same colour, head, 
 anterior angles of the prothorax, and underside of the abdomen similarly 
 spotted, except that in the ft>rmer there are no frontal dots. The pro- 
 thorax however is difi'erently shaped, being somewhat constricted anter- 
 iorly, with the sides towards the base rounded, it is also channelled ; the 
 sculpture of the elytra is similar, 1>ut they are more attenuated and trun- 
 cated at the end, like B. A. rustica, and armed with three minute den- 
 ticles. [Probably belongs also to Aticylochira ; unknown to Dr. Le 
 Conte.] 
 
 204. BuPRESTis (Anoii.is) Xutalli Kirby. — Length of body y^-s — 8 
 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 65°. and on the Rocky Mountains. 
 
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 This species appears to be related to B. octo^uttata. Body black- 
 bronzed, glossy, punctured ; underneath with a few pale decumbent hairs. 
 Head confluently punctured with several irregular connected levigated 
 spaces ; labial palpi, spOt on the mandibles, labrum, lower margin of the 
 eyes, and frontal spots, scllow : prothorax bisinuate both at the apex and 
 base, grossly punctured with several levigated spaces ; lateral margin, 
 except the base, and part of the anterior yellow ; elytra slightly furrowed 
 furrows punctured : interstices alternately convex and plane ; the sutural 
 one is convex and forked at the base ; the flat ones are most punctured, 
 but the con'-ex ones more grossly ; m the disk of the elytra are three 
 equidistant irregular yellow spots arranged longitudinally, and nearer the 
 base, on the second ridge, a line of confluent yellow dots ; the apex of 
 the elytra is truncated: [153] on each of the ventral segments of the 
 abdomen the sides are marked with a triangular orange-coloured spot, 
 those on the anal segment being larger and irregular ; the coxoe also and 
 underside of the thighs are partly of the same colour. 
 
 Variety B. Without the yellow line of confluent dots at the base of 
 the elytra, and with the spots arranged longitudinally 
 indistinct. 
 
 C. With all tlie ventral orange spots large and irregular. 
 
 D. Front with a large central spot. Base of the belly bluish. 
 
 E. Elytra with only yellow spots. Front as in D. 
 
 F. With only one distinct yellow spot. 
 
 The most certain distinction of this varying species i.. the alternately 
 convex and plane interstice of the furrows of the elytra. [Belongs to 
 Ancylochira. " Lake Superior, one female." (Le Conte).] 
 
 205. BuPRESTis (Anoplis) lineat.v Fabr. — Length of body 9 lines. 
 Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 Body above black-bronzed, underneath bronzed, punctured. Head 
 below and mouth orange : mandibles black with a basilar orange spot ; 
 front obscurely banded and dotted with the same colour ; vertex chan- 
 nelled : prothorax dilated posteriorly ; anterior angles deep orange : elytra 
 slightly furrowed ; furrows scarcely punctured ; interstices flat, grossly 
 punctured ; truncated at the apex and armed with three minute teeth, one 
 nearly obsolete ; on each elytrum are two obscure deep orange stripes, the 
 outer one diverging towards the base so as to pass below the shoulders, 
 the inner one subinterrupted, widest towards the base, and not reaching 
 the apex : fore-breast anteriorly orange. [Taken in Canada, but not com- 
 
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 mon. " Middle and Southern States, nor rare. Varies very much in the 
 fulvous markings of the elytra, which are normally two broad vittae upon 
 each ; the extreme variation is where the outer vitta is broken into three 
 spots, and the inner one into two ; the two anterior spots arc then con- 
 nected by a transverse line forming a hamate spot. The tip of the abdo- 
 men in tlie male is truncate, with a little tooth on each side ; in the 
 female, it is broadly rounded, but the same teeth are seen. The under 
 surface is dull bronze, with the head and anterior margin of the posternum 
 fulvous-' (Le Conte, Am. Phil. Trans, xi., p. 206.) Belongs to Ancylochira.'] 
 
 206. BuPRESTis (Anoplis) fasciata Fiibr. — Length of body 7 — 8 
 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby ; B and C in Nova Scotia by 
 Capt. Hall. 
 
 [154.] Body of a lovely brilliant green, punctured underneath with a 
 few pale hairs. Head confluently punctured : antennse bronzed ; vertex 
 channelled : prothorax transverse marked before the middle with two 
 transverse impressions, and another just above the scutellum ; grossly 
 punctured : elytra furrowed ; furrows thickly punctured ; interstices con- 
 vex with fewer punctures ; apex trancated with the angles terminating in a 
 short point ; beyond the middle of the elytrum is a rather broad, especially 
 next the suture, wavy orange band surrounded by a dusky blotch ; beyond 
 this and near the apex is another oblique abbreviated little band of the 
 same colour. 
 
 Variety B. Smaller with the bands paler and narrower. 
 
 C. With only a single band narrowest next the suture : pro- 
 thorax without the anterior impressions. [Quite common in many parts 
 of Canada, in al lits variations. We found it abundant at Credit, Ont., 
 but quite rare at Cobourg and Port Hope. Le Conte (ioc. cit.) states 
 that it is " not rare, especially in the Northern portions of the Adantic 
 States ; varies in colour from green to blue, and also in the size of the 
 markings of the elytra. The tip of the abdomen of the % is tnmcate • 
 in the '^ it is truncate and bisinuale : the anterior tibiai arc simple." 
 Belongs to AncylochinC\ 
 
 207. Buprestis (Stenuris) DivARiCATA Say. — Length of body 10 
 lines. Taken in Canada by E)r. Bigsby ; I received both sexes also from 
 Massachusetts by the kindness of Dr. Harris. 
 
 [155.] Body below copper-bronzed, above dusky-bronzed ; glossy ; 
 confluently punctuied and wrinkled. Head with numerous branching, 
 levigated, narrow sp)aces : eyes yellow surrounded with a black orbit ; 
 
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 mandibles black at the tip ; front longitudinally impressed in the centre : 
 prothorax with numerous levigated spaces, obsoletely channelled ; sides 
 anteriorly rounded with a slight sinus near the base ; basilar angles diverg- 
 ing : elytra very obsoletely furrowed, reticulated' with numerous elevated 
 lines, many scattered levigated spaces ; bicarinated at the apex, the inner 
 ridge being very short ; suture terminating in a point ; at their truncated 
 extremity the elytra are divaricated and suddenly attenuated : the first 
 segment of the abdomen, and the breast bones are hollowed out into a 
 longitudinal channel : prosternum linear. [Exceedingly common in Can- 
 ada ; the larva bores into cherry and beech, and probably other trees. 
 Belongs to the genus Dicerca Esch.] 
 
 208. BuPRESTis (Stenuris) tenebrosa Kirby. — Length of body 
 734 lines. Several taken in Lat. 65"^, and in the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 Very like the species just described but much smaller. Body con- 
 fluently punctured, upper surface black, with only the elevated parts 
 glossy, lower bronzed-copper and glossy. Mouth and antennae bronzed ; 
 eyes black ; front sculptured as in St. divaricata . prothorax uneven with 
 shallow impressions and a broad dorsal channel ; distinctly bisinuate at 
 the base ; surface with levigated elevations : scutellum very minute, im- 
 pressed : elytra divaricated and suddenly atten^iated at the apex, which is 
 rounded and has a single ridge ; surface rough with many concatenated 
 and levigated irregular elevations, side of the tip bronzed : breast channel- 
 led underneath, but the first segment of the abdomen less conspicuously, 
 prosternum nearly an isosceles triangle : hypopygium with three short 
 teeth. [Taken in Canada, but not very common: "abundant at Lake 
 Superior" (Le Conte). Belongs to Dicerca.\ 
 
 209. [156.] BuPRESTis (Stenuris) tknebrica Kirby. — Length of 
 body "^y^^ — 9 lines. Several taken in Lat. 54° and at Cumberland-house. 
 
 This species differs principally from St. icnebrosa, which in other 
 respects it greatly resembles, in having the prothorax without any levigated 
 elevations, and with the impressions, except the channel which is better 
 defined, more obsolete. The filytra are distinctly furrowed, especially 
 next the suture, with punctured funows, and there is only a series of levi- 
 gated elevations near the lateral m.argin ; the attenuated ajiex of the elytra 
 is longer, rather truncated, and underneath of a dark blue : the prosternum 
 is linear, and the base of the abdomen scarcely channelled : the teeth of 
 the hypopygium are longer and of a brilliant ruddy-copper. 
 
 Variety B, Smaller, upper surflice black-bronzed. [Probably synony- 
 
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 mous with Dicerca lacustr is l^tc, a species taken at Point Kewenan, on 
 Lake Superior.] 
 
 [157], 210. BUPRESTIS (OdONTOMUS) TRINERVIA Klfby. — Plate ii.. 
 fig. 9. — Length of the body 5^^ — 5^ lines. Several specimens taken in 
 Lat. 54° and 65° and in the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 Body punctured, above black-bronzed, below copper-coloured and 
 glossy. Head obscurely copper, confluently punctured and wrinkled, 
 with a pair of levigated irregular elevations between the eyes; nosebilobed 
 with divaricated lobes forming an obtusangular sinus ; antennae copper 
 with a testaceous oedicel: prothorax transverse, confluently punctured 
 with several levigated spaces ; lightly and widely impressed, impressions 
 faintly gilded ; disk channelled ; sides very slightly emarginate ; base with 
 a doubl.; sinus , scutellum triangular, acuminated : elytra with the de- 
 pressed parts confluently punctured and very faintly gilded ; with three 
 subinterrupted longitudinal ridges connected by transverse levigated ele- 
 vations ; the two external ridges become confluent and proceed as a single 
 ridge to the apex ; lateral margin towards the apex minutely serrulate : 
 back of the abdomen of a fine silky green : underside of the body thinly 
 planted with hoary hairs ; proslernum constricted in the middle and ter- 
 minating towards the anus in a dilated trilobed point : shoulders much 
 incrassated, armed below with a stout tooth ; cubits clubbed at the apex ; 
 four anterior tibiae bent or bowed : hypopygium bidentate. [Belongs 
 to the genus Chrysoboihris Esch. Taken in Canada, and, according to 
 Dr. Le Conte, in the following localities : *' I^ke Superior, Lake Winni- 
 peg, Oregon and Washington Territories.'' He states that " the colour 
 beneath is somewhat variable, and that he has a ^ with the body entirely 
 green, and a $ in which it is coppery, with purple spots at the sides of 
 the abdomen. The sides of the thorax are sometimes straight, sometimes 
 rounded, but it is never obviouslv wider m front.'"] 
 
 211. BuPRESTis (Odoxtoml's) pRoxiMA Kirhy. — Length of body 5j,i- 
 lines. A single specimen taken in the Expedition. 
 
 [158.J Body minutely and thickly punctured : above black-bronzed 
 obscure ; underneath cupreous with the gloss obscured ; except near the 
 anus, cloathed with numerous rather long decumbent hoary hairs. Head 
 somewhat cupreous, hoary from decumbent hairs ; nose green, bilobed 
 with divaricated lobes, including a somewhat obtusangular sinus ; antennae 
 green ; vertex channelled : prothorax embossed in the disk, impressed 
 and wrinkled at the sides; depressed parts punctured and reflecting a 
 f^int lustre pf copper : $Qutellum an isosceles triangle, depressed and green 
 
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 at the base, elevated part black ; el>'tia embossed, with a ndgc extending 
 from the apex where it is broader, by the side of the suture towards the 
 base where it is abbreviated : the depressed spaces have a faint histre of 
 copper and bronze, and are thickly punctured ; apex rounded and obso- 
 letely serrulated : shoulders incrassated with a short robv.nt tooth : all the 
 tibiae are bent or bowed ; cubit not dilated at the extremity : hypopygium 
 with a deep sinus. 
 
 This nearly resembles B. O. irinervia, but is sufficiently distinguished 
 by having only a single ridge on the elytra, and the posterior tibiae as 
 well as the other pairs, bowed : the prothorax also is not channelled and 
 its sides are rounded. [Belongs to Chrysobotliris. Is not included in Le 
 C'onte's List.] 
 
 [159,] 212. BuPRESTis (Trachvpteris) Drum.uondi Kirby. — Plate 
 ii., fig. 8, var. B. — Length of body 4^^ lines. Several specimens taken m 
 Lat. 54' and 65^ and in the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 Body as it were reticulated with numerous punctures, bronzed, more 
 obscurely on the upper surface, more glos.sy on the lower. Head very 
 thickly punctured, obsoletely and slenderly channelled; apex of the nose 
 levigated : prothorax transverse, with a double sinus in the basilar margin; 
 obsoletely channelled, impressed on each side nearer the base, covered 
 with innumerable scratches variou.-:ly drawn, those of the disk being 
 somewhat concentric ; sides punctured ; scutellum very minute, trans- 
 verse : elytra very thickly punctured, and also exhibiting an appearance 
 of granulations, slanting at the apex ; the disk of the elytra. Ticarer the 
 apex than the base, is marked with three yellow roundish dots arranged 
 In an obtuse-angled triangle with the vertex towards the side : underside 
 (/f the abdomen towards the anus less thickly punctured. 
 
 Variety B. Elytra with four yellow dots, a minute one, but varying in 
 size, being placed outside the anterior one. [Belongs to Melanophila 
 Esch. " Oregon and Washington Territories, abundant, straying into 
 California and Alaska." (Le Conte).] 
 
 213. BupRESTis (Trachvpteris) umbellatarum Fabr. — Length of 
 body 2 3^ lines. Several specimens taken near Cumberland-house, Lat. 54*. 
 
 [160.] The description that Fabriclus and Olivier have given of B. 
 umbellatarum is so extremely brief, that I am by no means certain that 
 the insect I here give under that name is really synonymous with it. As 
 far as their description goes it corresponds, and also with Olivier's figure, 
 but that is very indistinct. It has been found in Barbary, Portugal, and 
 Provence. Fabricius says it affords no characters except its colour and 
 
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 smooth elytra; but it will be founci upon a close inspection, i speak, 
 with regard to the American specimens, to exhibit several. 
 
 Body black-bronzed, covered all over as it were with a fine net-work, 
 produced by minute lines as if scratched by a pin or needle ; above dull, 
 below glossy. Antennae much shorter than the prothorax : prothorax 
 transverse with rounded sides, and longitudinal basilar impressions near 
 each posterior angle : scutellum triangular : elytra with three very slight 
 impressions arranged longitudinally ; an obsolete series of punctures runs 
 parallel with the lateral margin ; apex obtuse and very minutely serrated : 
 prosternum acuminate. 
 
 2x4. BuPRKSTis (Oxvn'ERis) APPENDicuLAfA Fabr. — Length of body 
 4/i — 5/^ lines. Several specimens in the Rocky Mountains,- and near 
 Cumberland-house. 
 
 [161.] Body black, not glossy. Head minutely and thickly punctured, 
 channelled, on each side of the channel between the eyes is an impression ; 
 antennae nearly as long as the prothorax : prothorax scarcely wider than 
 long, channelled, with a large but shallow impression on each side ; sides 
 thickly punctured so as to resemble net-work ; rounded with the basilar 
 angles depressed and a little diverging : scutellum nearly heart-shaped, 
 acute : elytra rough with very minute and numerous granules, and several 
 very slight shallow impressions, between which runs an obsolete obtuse 
 ridge from the shoulder towards the apex, serrulated at the apex, and ter- 
 minating in a very sharp point : breast minutely and thickly punctured ; 
 prosternum a little constricted in the middl?, point triangular. [Though, 
 as Le Conte remarks, this species here described is very closely related to 
 the European insect to which it is referred by Kirby, it is Says' Melano- 
 phila longipes — a species not at all uncommon in Ontario, and taken also 
 in such widely separated localities as Pennsylvania, Kansas and Lake Su- 
 perior.] 
 
 215. Agrilus bivittatus Kirby. — Length of body 4 lines. Taken 
 in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 [Previously described as Buptesiis ( Agrilus) hilincatus Weber ; for 
 description vide Say's Ent. Works, i. 386 and ii. 596. This very pretty 
 species is not uncommon in Canada, and is taken throughout the United 
 States.] 
 
 [162.] 216. Trachvs aurulexta Kirby. — Length of body 3 lines. 
 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body obovate, black-blue, glossy. Sinus of the head deeper than in 
 the other species ; face nearly covered with glittering copper-coloured 
 
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 decumbent hairs ; antennae shorter than the prothorax : prothorax trans- 
 verse, repand on each side at the base with a central lobe, concave at the 
 ap?x ; anteriorly in the middle very convex ; >sides and base depressed ; 
 surface impunctured and tesselatcd with ruddy-copper hairs like those of 
 the head : scutellum at the base transverse, with the vertex terminating in 
 a long and sharp acumen : elytra with three ridges, the two inner ones l«ess 
 distinct, parallel, obtuse and abbreviated at each extremity, the external 
 one distinct, acute running from the shoulder in an undulated line nearly 
 to the apex of the elytrum ; several rows of larger punctures are discernible, 
 and several spaces thickly punctured with minute ones ; the elytra are 
 also spotted with several hairy ruddy-copper spots, and ornamented with 
 four or five undulated hairy indistinct silver bands : underneath the tint 
 of blue is very faint and the disk of the breast is bronzed ; the mesoster- 
 num is hollowed out into a deep channel. [Previously described as 
 F'Uprcstis (Brachys) m'atca ^Veber. Rather rare in Canada ; taken in the 
 Eastern, Middle and Southern States.] 
 
 217. Trachvs acuduct.a A'iVv^T-.-- Length of body 4 lines. Taken 
 by Capt. Hall in Nova Scotia. 
 
 [163.] Body oblong, punctured, hairy with scattered minute decum- 
 bent brisdes resembling little scales, of a bronzed and glossy copper 
 colour. Front with a slight sinus : prothorax transverse, trilobed at the 
 base ; disk longitudinally convex and naked ; sides hairy ; surface in the 
 disk covered with minute transverse undulated lines curving upwards, and 
 sides reticulated with them : scutellum transverse acuminated : elytra 
 uneven, constricted before the middle, clouded and obsoletely banded 
 towards the apex with minute whitish bristles ; tips rounded, serrulate : 
 prosternum broad, a litt! i constricted in the middle^ rounded at the apex. 
 
 [164.] FAMILY PVTHID^. 
 
 218. PvTHO NIGER Kirby. — Plate vii., fig. 2. — Length of body 5 34 — 
 5)^ lines. Several taken in Lat. 54°, and in the journey from New York 
 to Cumberland-house. 
 
 [165.] Body linear, depressed, black, shining, punctured. Head with 
 a longitudinal impression on each side between the eyes \ nose smooth, 
 flat, with the intermediate space less punctured ; antennae and palpi 
 dusky-rufous : prothorax conspicuously channelled, with the usual deep 
 longitudinal impression on each side, lateral contour very convex, con- 
 stricted posteriorly : elytra furrowed with elevated smooth interstices ; 
 furrows punctured and abbreviated at each end ; base of the elytra, where 
 
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 the rirrovvs cea«;e. punrtiire*'! : body underneath niinutcly i-iincUired ; 
 alxlonien pici ous ; t:ir-.i nifou-:. 
 
 Vakikty IJ I'ihiiC al-o rufous : thighs piceous. 
 
 C. l)-.'ily entirely ferruginous. It agrees with A in sculpture 
 and every other respect except cohmr. 
 
 Many individual of ihe present species were taken in tli Fxpedition, 
 all of theni a^^reting in having lio tint of bhie m the (.lytrn ; in having the 
 levigated j.art of the l)ase punctured, an-j the ^itli.'^ of the prothornx more 
 prominent, than in /*. Jrf>rfs<;u>\ from wliich it s«tros rlc.trly di>t;n»t. [in- 
 chided in the List of (.'anadian Coleoptera. 'J'aken on the North Shore 
 of Lake Superior hy Aiassiz's Fxpedition.] 
 
 2 10. PvTHO A.MKRiCANi s A';vr.- Length of body 5-7 h'nes. Se- 
 veral taken in L;'.t. 54°, and in the journey from Xew 'N'ork to (^ujibtr- 
 land-hofise. 
 
 This s{)ef ie'^ <liffers trom tli-.- pre<:e<h!ng < hiefly in hi\ini; tiu; abdomen, 
 niedij)t'<-tus. post[)ectu>, legs and iiuuitli rufous ; in a shght punctured 
 elevation en each side of th.e nose; *iiC s]Mce bet^\etn the e}es :'Lo is 
 more distinctly pun' tured, anti there are (wo deep impressions und ■ the 
 head between tlie eyes ; the prothorax is widest anterioriv. and not cn- 
 ftricled behin(i : and the elytra are dct i> i:)kie, and scarcLl}' pinv tured at 
 the base. 
 
 It differs from /\ uc/'nsjt/w in being v/ider in prr)ponion to its liir.'.tlA, 
 and in having tlie abdomen, and V\o postericir sections of the brea'-t. 
 invarial.)!y rufous. 
 
 V.ARiKiv B. Idytra rufobs al the sides ai'd tip. 
 C. Llyira entirely ru{ou.->. 
 
 I). Elytra entirely rutous ; l:ead and prothorax j.ic .'ous. 
 K. r.odv entirely rufous, ['i^aken in various parts of Canada.] 
 
 [ I (';6. ] KAM I l.Y 7 KOGGSn I !XT.. 
 
 220. Tkogosita AmiiIRicana Kirhy. — Length of bo('y 5 lines. Iwo 
 specimens taken in th.e journey iietween New York and Cumberland 
 house. 
 
 'iliis species is tlie American representative oi T. caraboides from v.-hich 
 it prinei})aily differs in being larger, with tlie frontal impressions more 
 distinct ; the stalk of the antenna; much slenderer, and the knob thicker : 
 the prothorax not so narrow and constricted at the base, and the elytra 
 slightly furrowed. ["'The description of this species is so imperfect that it 
 cannot be identified " (Le Conte)]. 
 
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 [167.] FAMIiy CERAMBYCID-t. 
 
 22 1. Mov(X'tlAMi s RKSiTOR Air/>j\--] ATi^sih of body io?-( lino?, 
 Frequently taken m I. at. 65'. 
 
 [Synonymous with Monohamnius scuttlhitus Say — ;i very abundant spe- 
 cies in niany parts of CanaiLi. Far description of this well-known insect, 
 7'/V/(^ Say's Knt. Wc^rks, i. \<)z.\ 
 
 [168. 1 222. MoNOCHAMrs cuN'Fi;?OR Kirhy. — Length of the ])0(ly 
 I inch and \y^ lin..'.s. Taken in N'ov.i Scotia by Or. Mac f.ailloch, in 
 Canada by Dr. Kigsby, in Massachusetts by Mr. Drake. 
 
 l»ody linear, elonf^'aie, i^lark, covered with white or < inereous decum- 
 bent hairs, but so as to let the Ijlack apj-ear in confused spots and reticu- 
 lation'^. I,:d)rii(Ti rather lon^% frini^ed ante:"iorly wiih ferra;.;inou-i hairs; 
 maxillary jialpi i(»ng ; rhinarium broad, rufous ; antenna'' tesl;iceous with 
 the redness o])scnred by decuniltent cinerous hairs, but the ■-cnpe and 
 pedicel arc bkuk ; the antennie of the ffnnie are something longer than 
 tht- l>ody ; thos'.^ of the male are twice its len;j;th : the sj)ines of the [)ro- 
 thora.\ are stout, C(;vercd thickly with white hairs, and dotted posteriorly 
 with black ; in the disk is a central oblong impression : scutelhun tliickly 
 covered with white decundnMit '.airs, with a black longitudinal lint : the 
 ground colour of the elytra is testaceous winch is more or less obscured 
 and clo\ided by white decumbent hairs, besides tliere are several black 
 dots and oblong spots jjroduced l>v erect hairs ; at the liase of the elytra, 
 especially on the projecting shoulders, are numerous round elevated 
 smooth little sj>aces, and their whole surface is covere<i v.ith scattered 
 mmute punctures. 
 
 N. IJ. -In the male the black spots and dots of the elytra are fainter, 
 and sometimes nearly obliterated. [The synonyms of this species are 
 so much confused thai; Kirby's specific name inay certainly be considered 
 a most appropriate one, if it is allowed to stand. The insect here de- 
 scribed is a'pjnirently identical with Mo>h>hammui notaUis Drury, and M. 
 titl'iator Harris ; aciordmg to \^\\<i rules of priority, it should, therefore, 
 have the former name. It is a very common species in the pine forests 
 of this country, especially in timber that has been left standing after a tire 
 has run through the woods. Spei imens of this beetle are often found in 
 recently built houses and about himber-yards.] 
 
 [169.] 223. MoN()CHAMi:.s MAKMORATOR A7r/M'. — Length of body I r 
 lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54^ 
 
 Body black, covered underneath, but so that the black appears in 
 various places, with subcinereous, or somewhat tawny decumbent hairs. 
 
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 Head and prothorax covered in the same way but with redder hairs : 
 spines of the j^rothorax very robust, rather long, sharjjish ; srutelhim 
 covered with a coat of i inercous hairs, divided by a black longitudinal 
 line: elytra black, marbled variously with cinereous and reddish tawny 
 hairs ; the cinereous spots are dotted with black ; the surface of the 
 elytra when laid bare appears punctured, and at the base are several con- 
 liuent smo(;th elevated spaces ; suture and lateral margin testaceous ; apex 
 acute. 
 
 N. 13.-— The antenn.ne. in the specimen arc broken off. [Unknown to 
 us.] 
 
 224. A(:.\NTHOciN'i:s (Graphisurus) PisiLLVS Kirby. — Length of 
 bo(iy 4^ lines. .\ single specimen taken in the journey from New V'urk 
 to Cumberland-house. 
 
 [170.] This specie^ is ore of the most minute nf the Capricorn tri])es. 
 liody linear, bkuk but covered with a coat <>♦' uT.itish decumbent hairs, 
 which apj)ears more or less sprinkle(i \vitli black dots. Head h^igitudi- 
 nally channelled ; antennx* mutilated in die specimen, but those joints 
 that remain are white at the Ixise : j)roihorax short, armed on each side, 
 towards the base u ith a short sharp spins.-, ])uncturcd with scattered ])unc- 
 tures ; elytra punt tured especJally towards the base, mottled and speckled 
 with brown, with an obliqiie brown band a little beyond the middle, apex 
 of the elytra rounded : jjwdex and hypopygium, or last dorsal and ventral 
 segments of the alxlonien elongated, so as to defend the base of the ovi- 
 ])Ositor which is e\r.ertcd, causing the insect to a[i[jear as if it had a tail ; 
 the hypo})ygium is emarginate : thighs Ukuch incrassated at the apex. [Not 
 common ; taken at (irini>by by Mr. Pettit. and on oak-trees in the neigh- 
 bourhood of Philadelphia by Mr. Bland] . 
 
 225. C.ALLiDiu.M AGRESTi: A7;/^y. — Length of body 11 lines. Several 
 specimens taken in the Expedition, and likewise in Nova Scotia by Dr. 
 Mac Culloch and Capt. Hall. 
 
 I at first took this for a variety of C. rusticum, but on a closer inspec- 
 tion I found it differed in the sculpture as well as colour ; and having 
 received a specimen of that insect from Dr. Harris, in which its charac- 
 ters were all preserved, I am Induced to desci'be C. agrcsie as a distmct 
 species. 
 
 It differs from C. rusticiim in being smaller, of a darker brown, with- 
 out a tint of red ; and in having more gloss. The prothorax has three 
 deep round impressions, while in the insect last named, the impressions 
 are slight, and x\\!^ two anterior ones ob'long : the elevated lines of the 
 
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 elytra are more prominent and become visibly confluent towards the apex, 
 where tliey form several reticulations : the underside of the body is much 
 more thickly covered with hairs, which are hoary instead of yellowish, 
 those on the breast being longer than those on the abdomen. In other 
 respcts these two insects resemble each other. [Included in the genus 
 Criocephalus Muls. Taken throughout Ontario and at Lake Sui)erior.] 
 
 [171.] 226. Cai.i.idium striatum Linn. — Length of body ^y<^ lines. 
 A single sj)ecimen taken in Lat. (i'^\ 
 
 Body linear, black, thickly i)Uiictured, underneath with a few hairs, 
 glossy ; above without any hairs or gloss. Antennae a little longer than 
 the prothorax : prothorax suborbicular, covered thickly with minute 
 granules, with an elevated tubercle in its disk : elytra most minutely and 
 thickly granulated, with four longitudinal slight furrows occupying the half 
 adjoining the suture, the alternate interstices being most elevated : tarsi 
 rufo-piceous. [.S\nonymous with .ut-mian ma.sium Hald. Taken through- 
 out Ontano.] 
 
 227. Callidilm coi-Larl Kirl'y. — Length of body 5 lines. A single 
 specimen taken in Lat. 54°. 
 
 Body linear, black, hairy with whitish scattered hairs. Head thickly 
 punctured ; antenn.e shorter tlun the body, railicr hairy, piceous, scape 
 black : protiiorax rutbus, with a few scattered punctures, glossy, project- 
 ing on each side into an angle or .sliort spine : elytra very thickly and con- 
 Huently punctured : body underneath glossy, slightly punctured : anterior 
 part of antepectus rufous : tarsi piceous, first joint of nearly equal length 
 in all the legs. [North Shore of Lake Superior, Agassi/.'s ICxpedition.] 
 
 [172.] 228. Callidium Proteus Kirby. — Plate v., hg. 5. — Length 
 of body 5 — '6]/2 lines. Taken abundantly especially in Lat. 65''. 
 
 body black, minutely pumtured, hairy with longish hoary hairs, csi)eci- 
 ally underneath. Nose with a deeply ploughed transverse furrow ; front 
 behind the antennae violet, contluentlv tmnctured : ])alrii black, maxillary 
 rather long, last Joint an obtusangular triangle ; antenna; longer thsn the 
 prothorax; sides of the prothorax very rough with deep confluent punc- 
 tures ; elytra wrinkled, violet, with three longitudinal, subintcrpj[)ted, 
 callous, pale lines, of which the intermediate one is the longest, and the 
 external one the shortest : legs piceous, with the incrassated part of the 
 thighs testaceous. 
 
 'I'his species varies extremely both in size and colour. The following 
 are the principal varieties : — 
 
 Variety B. Head and prothorax violet ; elytra lurid with only two 
 callous lines. Length Gj^ lines. 
 
C. Head, c\(cj)t at the base- oi the ;iiUcniuc, i)lack : sities 
 
 ot' tin- jirothoniv •. iolct. di>k i»rnii/cii : fhtra as in the 
 
 hist. Length 5 h'ncs. 
 I'. {ica<i jii.i ].ri)thc)ra\ ulai k ; eUtra lurul ; jinc> t'aiiulv 
 
 n^arkfik I.c!ii:i!i ; ' .; ; liiu-s. 
 !•.. I lead and jjioiliuiax i-rtni/ed ; eUlra hind 1 iiDn/ed. with 
 
 Iwo di>tiii< i iitu>. Length '» 7 !iiie>. 
 i". IIe:ul Mi)iet ; jtfi )tii' .r:i\ I T' in/('-<l : el\tta. a,>« in the lust. 
 
 Length d hne>. 
 (1. I.:ke tile la>l. hill the (aliens hne-. n{ [hv i-K;r. are (i|)>o- 
 
 'ele. I englh 5 ' .. n ' ^ hne>. 
 H. Head an:i jir. -th.orax Lia! k • el\ir,i hirid with three hnc 
 
 Length 7 ' .. hne^. 
 r. Head and j;rotiu)ia\ IiKk k liion/ed : ehtr.i ltr<_'n/ed hind 
 
 with two \\uc>. 
 
 [173.] 329. CAi.iji'HM .>iMii.i- /vV/'/m. - -Length f)t' body 7 lines. 
 A .single specimen taken w ith t! e preceding species. 
 
 This species in most resjieci . i- so like (.'. J/ Proh-u^. that I had >et "t 
 l»y iih another \ariety : but upoi; turthcr eemsideration I am mduced t(. 
 give ii as distmct. Ninie it (htVers ni;t onlx in (ojotn- bnt in the form an(L 
 MU.lpture ot" the prothorax andi uuier parts. 
 
 Idle ape.\ (j1 the palp; is niore dilated. '>'i tlia' ii i> strictly secunform : 
 the tronf i^ehind the antent^ae i> eiexateil and gibbous, with tew scattered 
 pimctlires : i\\\: side> oi the jirotimrax are ni(»re pvilVed out. ;uid much 
 more minuteK" and thick!} pnnetnred.. and there i^ a jjaii' e.f impressions 
 in die disk : the antemiae als(j at tlie ba^e /n nifons: in other respects it 
 does not dilier trom J/. rr,,t,ii>. 
 
 [rb.is .^i)ecies. togethei with the j)re( eding ^w^X ihie subseijuent one. 
 lielong to th.e genus Phv/'Uiiouts Mills. It i> i)re)bab!\ another variety of 
 the very \ariabie Protrus. as it iia^ nr.t iieen identified by any author \\\M 
 we are aware ot". 1 
 
 2^0. C Ai.i iiMiM I'lMim A 1 1 M Ki.rry. Lengih. o! bod) .) line.s. Two 
 specimens in Lat. 54. 
 
 Hody not glossy ; iniijunclured ; haii\ 'widLrneaih : and except tiie 
 t"orel)reast. whieh is bla( k. ot a dull rutbiis. Llead channelled between the 
 eves, behind them convex : antennae rufous, shorter than tlie body : j)ro- 
 thorax somewhat '.oarctate at the base : minutely granulated ; oi)soletely 
 channelled, more cons])icuously behind : ehlra rufous anteriorb. 
 
 This species comes \er\ near to C. < Mainm } .i/ni. but it is larger and 
 has no white bands. 
 
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 [C'i.Nii> i'Aj.i.i\ii> li.ilil. i> a i.UcT >yn».)nMn of thi> .s[>t;cies. It is 
 uiken in Cnnadn and the I'.asiorn States : also on north shore of Lake 
 SM|)er!or h\- .\uas>izs ['".xpedition. I 
 
 J174.] Siih-i^eniis Ti'i i.:<M'U \: Kirhv ^'.y^:'•^ tutu'. connected by an 
 elevated line. .\nteim;>e ml nisi, -^hori : sca.pe much iiKTassated, subry- 
 iindricaL reniainniij; !oiIn■^ si!i)cla\aicd. I'rothorav constricted anteriorly 
 and povteriori) . Thiuhs iiiiich incrassated. ^oInetime^ clubbed. 
 
 The t\pL- c.j" this subi^enus is Calliiihun fristc j'"abr. lor those witli cla- 
 vated thii(hs. and C. (in'ictnii. I'M- those in which the\ arc incrassated 
 nearl)- their ^\ liolc lengtli. i'luse inse< is will be found to have four dis- 
 tinct e\es. separated b\ the substance of tlie iiead elevateil into a ridge, 
 which at first sigin ap{)ears a continuation of the eye. but whi' h e\identiy 
 has no lenses ini])lantc<! in it iiir\- are also distinguished b\- their robust 
 .md short antennae. 
 
 Z\,\. rA!,in)!l\l ( rKIKdlMiM ) t ! N'N A \U U' I 1' k T M Kirf'V. i'late \ . tig. 
 
 S. Length of bod\ :; ^ to 6 line>. Several specinien> taken in Lat. 65'. 
 
 At tirst sigh.t this spec;;-^ seem-, die exac r < i)unterpari of Ctillidiuni 
 tnsit\ whiei) it tesembles in almost e\evy resi)e(;t : iiut \\\)0^^ examination 
 !t will be tound thai the th.ighs of these two insin ts are of a \-ery diiferent 
 shape, those' of <". /.' trisic being much attenuated at tliC base, while those 
 of C. I . cirniatucpt-Tii'ti are not at all. in, the latter also the sides of the 
 fore-breast are red, and the el\'.ia are ( onsiderablv darker. \er\ near the 
 colour of cinnanKui. 
 
 The American s[iev aniens \ar\ mucii in >i/e. but all agree in t'le shape 
 t.'f t!"!e thighs. 
 
 (Taken at ( )iiawa. < )nt.. ])y Mr. l))l!inL;s : Lake .Superior (.\gassi/..) 
 .\'ot common, j 
 
 [175.1 2\,2. ('\\{v> iMi\\n> Kiihy. I'late V ii, fig. 5. Length 
 oi body <S lines. luo spe<imens taken in Lat. 5.}^ . ^»5 . 
 
 Body l/'ack. undernea.th hoary from deiannbent hairs. abo\e velvetty. 
 Head anter' y liair\ with whitish hair.>. behinti the antennae \ery thickly 
 punctured : pal|>i. la'nrum, (ip of the nose and <-hei'ks. eyes, antennae, and 
 subfare rufous ; proth'^jrax rough uitli \er\- minute and numerous granules, 
 the base and apex Iia\e an interrupted band of \eilow liairs. .atul a hoary 
 >.pot on each side jirodiu ed In haus : xutellum da.)"k brown . elytra with 
 an obliciue iinelet adjoinin;; liie scutellum, another ui the disk near the 
 l»ase. two wa\\ bands, the eMremities of tlv anterior one pointing to 
 wards the base, and of the jxistenor one towar<.»s the apex ; the ape.\ and 
 suture, all pale yellow . produced b\ decumbent hairs : imderneath on each 
 •>ide of the breast are tliree sjiois of the same colour, as likewise is the 
 
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 tip ol t!ic \ciUrai scunirms of iIk- aixliinu-n ; tlu- It'us .ir;.- nil'niiv. -^prinklfd 
 with hiiavv h.iirs. 
 
 [A \anety df (','. u'lttH/itiu.- >-.\\ . Knt, \\(>rk>. i. i lo. jlaic s.v i'.ikci! 
 <iuring Long ^ ^(.''(^nd expcditiop. in S'i\ : I :ik'- Su]>fM-;(«r (Au^ssi/. i ; ami 
 ihroug-hout Cai^.-uia Wc-i.i 
 
 -.vv *"'vii ^ !! \! i \ I i -, A'/r/'j. Ix-ir^th of 1»()<;\ 7 y^ litic.v nut.- 
 'jtcrimen taken '^.r, \.i\. 54', Taken i\\--o ii) (aiiada i)} Dr. Hi,u^l)v. .uui 
 ;n NcAa Scotia b\ ('ar.i. Mali. 
 
 I 170. I I jiiN >pcc;(.-s 1-, e\tlr;nci\ Mlliiiario liie j Te.cdinu;, Mill it> Irvudv 
 and >[)()ts a:v ii-nti- ^\!nu- wirht.iU any liiii (»l \i.]!(/vv ilu- |)rr)tli()ra\ has 
 no postermr u rcrniptod ii.ind. r!v,- antiri;;!- ^im-.i *.»!" tiie <'\-tra, i> ( resci-nt <.>r 
 kidnvv sJiaptNl, fl-ic thii_:h> rir" iiu>k\ ; ar,.! iho c:\cs arc Ijlark ^ i.-ut dir 
 niost striking distinction is t. vli p. ,{ 1^^.(1 i,v [],r hca(]. wh.ic !i is pericctl\ 
 smooth and wiihouf piuictiMcs. Imh v.lu-n die ci t iput i> (h'sengagcd t'roni 
 the T)rothora\. as ;i is ulu-n ilu; lica<l is inclined forwards, tlic front wiil l)c 
 iound to !>o scparnicdi iV'.Mu ii l'\ a hi!oi>ed line, behind whidi liif- hiMd is 
 thickl} aifil ( ontiiieiitix piinctiired. 
 
 [Prol)at>l\ a \ariety ot t'ne jirceciling s|iec ics.] 
 * 2\j^. Ca,\i!s i rsci s AV/Zr I -cngth ot' !)od>. 5^, lines. .\ Mngie 
 s]»e(-imen taken m I.at. 5.5"'. 
 
 '['his spct'ics reseniliies the last in liaxing the 'iccipnt siniilarU' \!\\u< 
 tiired. ,\Vi(\ the niarkini-.j of tl-.c elytra are siniihir. c\ct'[;t thai in.steud of 
 the ■v\hite streak at d.ve l)as^• there is <.)nl) a dot : imt ii is of a hrovsti 
 i.'Oloiir, with the iicai ii^d proiimrax near!\ Mack : flic tormer \.> disiinrtlv 
 gramiiated ; the j)al[M. ialtruin, eyes, :\nd antennae are rutous. as in ( '. 
 undatus., an<l hke that tlie proritorax lia^ i»ot'n a" anterior and j)osteric)r 
 interrupted hand ^'f v\!iiic hairs: ihe ei\tra and underside ci t!ie})odv ar<r 
 reddish-brown ; \\\v legb riirnus. pn^tcricr e^nes \er\ long. 
 
 ri'aken a,t (Htawa and cnhei jdaces ni Ontario. ' 
 
 -.KV (in 11^ i'>N<,!i-i> Kirl'\. Letyuth (>i' bcw.i\ ^\ iines. A 
 single s[;ecnnie!i taken nt I.at 54'. 
 
 h/7-] f'^Hly redda>ii brown, cndciijea;!! 'n.Mix. wiiii unite decinnJK'tu 
 hair.-K Head black, ni.ncaielx and tiiickb, pani tured;. w ith a longitudinal 
 slight chann<-l. trati-\cr->el\ cK.'\;;ted between liic anientiae : >c'rle\ ele- 
 vated : j)ali>i. Iai)niin. anitamac and exlreniitv ^'T tli'- n'i.-,c. rnlou.-, • pro- 
 thorax black, rather (>!>lca-(g. ele\ared longinidin^dlv in the <!isk witlt 1 
 anterior bo\>^ed r.artsvers^» ri<{gc. r(r!lowed bv se\erai minute ac u'.e tubcr- 
 cle.s. next in the middle is another shorter ridge, wh.ich is alst, succeeded 
 by similar rubercle^ liie sides ot' iite jirothorax are giaiiiUated ; between 
 the granulated portion anil ''h.-vated disk, it is n>intiiel_\ reticnlaicd. with u 
 
Nc 
 
 j'orr !ji tlK: (cnirr '4 t.a( ii rctirul.ui(;!i : ^Awvd hrouii. >ul>ar.itL\ with ihvce 
 ! Kinds tornied of (If-unihci.t uliiu- !::iirs : []\v ni.t fonnin- ;i (;res*.;ent ar 
 the ><-iuri)!ni!. ui-!( !i niiis ,,i..n., th,. !,,isc aiul .!.r,\!i iiu- -,;iiu!\' : ihe sc(.oiul 
 in [Ul- niiddlr hr-M ruuiun;,' ;i.ifi.>\ rrscU . llicn tuiniiij; uj.w.inK ;()u.;rci-> the 
 i>a^c j:iu ;iL;jin !;i!-nin^ tiown -.o ,;> u. (iiiii) j lioiik ucm il.c suturt; : the 
 rhtrd n-.n- tlic .j.;\. niniiin- ir,!iis\ cr-c]\ f:<Mii liu- cMmiui m.i>-^in to the 
 siiliire :;!ui ihe!i ruriiii!;.; iipuurci^ <o .! ^ it) thrill auolber Ki\:.^i:-r\ ; tii-re Js 
 .ii>!) a (](>t I'einee;) tiie luo iir^r Ijau'i;. near lia- laiera] niaiai'i : ilu-iv is a 
 hirge hairv Uiiii' -,j)or, on ilie >idi-s i)\' t'ite Ineast. aii'i the aiiirrior wniral 
 srgiiienis have a vvhite hiity l.:iii.; at ihe ai>e\ : rh^ ies^v ;,re ruluU^. the 
 Innder "pair :"e!)iaa;k.il)i\ ionu. 
 
 1 1 nelu'.kii iii I ,i>t ol {';;!iadMri ( '■)leo|iU'r)., j 
 
 2 ;,h. ('\\r.< AMin' \iin- A'/r/n. \ /,:n^{h <i\' \>ni\\ ; inu-.. Main- 
 ■-oe. inun-- ta.ki ai ai I .at 5 ; . 
 
 1 hU ( .inu > e\tre!i)r!\- near t.- the preeedinu; .-.peeies. but i.-, !«iniller. the 
 (hseoidai i•i(;_^e•^ <•!" riic- laMthorax aie r.ear!\ ohxdete. th;it part has four 
 Whitehall) •>|><.t^. ihv h,ind^ i-i" the ei\tra :\\\: difteremly ^ha])ed, and the 
 ])<.>steriar leu- are i unsid.-r ihly •shorter ; the Nrea.-i dnd i-a.^e of the abdo- 
 v\\ct\ ie)de,-!ie,il!i are iiujrv wiih whiri.- h;n"r-. 'htit ;iui .dua\s .>]uttted and 
 lu'anded. 
 
 i Ha^ ]'i<n iK-eu ideniiiieii a,.a (h>tinei ^pi^eies. j 
 
 hjS.j .:-. } i \Kvat \i j Km \<,i! \ii 1 in;:\!1 \i (W;-. - i ,rni::th uf hodv 
 5^4 !ine.-. 'i ,ik..ii nn-re tiiaii t)P.(\- in !,:it. 51 . and also !>■, Mr I )rakf 111 
 the |jr>i\ini. e -H Ma.-^-ariva.setl-. 
 
 f!. 
 
 jdv lihu K. rather L'i<e-.>\ , riear\ ironi ioHL^rdi (■!n'jie(ii;.-. hair--. Head 
 
 «a)ii--ir)(;ti-d !»e;nn(! inio a ne'k. |)inuiared ^Aith kir^e -.v altered piini. ti;res ; 
 aater.nae .^kicrtcr ill.;!, tlie jjr. admrav, r^)!)iist, list joint oNat'-. pediv.el tes- 
 ta.ee(.iu> : ] irMii-|(>ra\ (A.nistra ^^'d auteru.>ri\ and i-'i-terKiriv , jrmed on Lduch 
 -u\v 1)\ a -I'^iil rati'ier sii:'rw ^pnie. jhhu tared hke t!ic head, andl hairw but- 
 iliere arv tka'ee iMnuitiidinal ^lnj.e> v. iliu.nit hair>. an',! the interinctnatt' one 
 Without panrtiir-'s, ijn.- j itcrai i..iic- pi;.^ i,\er (he st»ines : eUtra niottietl 
 ''"ath uintish. va- eincieoas han's. wwh {hwc: ioiigiludana! rulges. tiie t\v<) 
 e\tern.ii ones < MHihient nv'.ir tla ai-ev, and ;! h'ttle higlKi' i:j. including 
 
 i:;e niterbt;* e- ate bunetured 
 
 .e ; 
 
 i>etv\een thcan .1 -ihiM't rd/iM'exKited ridi 
 
 iikc the iieaai and proth'.irax ; at the ha^e ;ind later^d niai'gni the elytra are 
 
 icddish, and on th,e ridge nex! liie suture ih.ere are lwo \eli(>\\ ash spots : 
 
 e.<}\ae, tnx iiant'i'rs. uul base of tiie thigh-- reddish : ahdianen carinaied 
 
 underncuthi. 
 
 [Taken gtner.dl) tr>>ni I'idl idei|.'hia nurUiwards. luidev die iurk of 
 piric trees.] 
 
8i 
 
 238. Pachyta liturata Kirby. — Length of body 7-9 lines. Several 
 specimens taken in Lat. 54" and 65^ 
 
 [179.] This is the American rcjiresentative of P. ifuadritnaculatit, irota 
 which it difters principally in being not so hairy, with hoary instead of 
 yellow-tinted hairs . the punctures of llie prothorax and elytra arc more 
 minute: the antennae arc ratiicr shorter, and the elytra, instead of two 
 subquadrangular blac k. spots. Jiave three less black linear ones, tlie two 
 anterior ono being ]*ari!y paralleb and in some specimens conHucnt. 
 
 la.Ms iji'ii. kA. Linn. 
 
 This genus may Ix.- thus su])o.\ id-'d w ith ropect to the '-pecies about 
 
 to be described. 
 
 ''■ Eyes emargmalc, or k'ducv-sh:i])ed. • 
 
 t Elytra triangular. 
 
 a truncated I , 
 
 1, • , , at tlic apex. 
 
 i> premorse, or with a smus taken oai | ' 
 
 1 prothorax anteriorly constricted without posterior 
 
 atigics. 
 
 ■ not I on^trictcd. posterior angles acute. 
 
 -rounded at the apex. 
 
 tt Elytra linear. 
 
 a truncated * , 
 
 1 , , at I he atjcx. 
 
 ij rounded . ' 
 
 ** Eves entire. 
 
 ^ t a 
 
 239. Lf.P'JI'ra chkvs<i( v. >.! \ A7r/n'. • jMate v.. fig. i. Eength of ])od\ 
 ^\z~(i]i lines. 
 
 Several specimens taken : the largest, in the joiu-ney from New York ; 
 the smaller, near Cumberland-house. Taken likewise by Dr. MacCuUoch 
 and Capt. Hall, in Xova Scotia. 
 
 [180.] 'i his beautiful insect is related toZ. v'nrnsAwW perfectly distinct. 
 The body appear-- to l>e black, but that colour is. in most parts, nearly 
 concealed In a thick and mostly long coat oi brilliant goiden hairs with 
 a \ery slight tint of green, where the i t>at is thm tlic body appears 
 minutely punctured. Head subelongated. the neck exserted. subtri- 
 angular ; nose with only a few scattered v, hitish hairs ; antenna' black, 
 third, fourth, and fifth joints rather slenderer and longer than tiie succeed- 
 ing ones i^rothorax between globose and l)ell-shaped. (.onstricted anter- 
 iorly, channelled, grossly ].)unctured : substance of the el>tra pale testa- 
 ceous, towards the apex externally they are dusk\ : the golden down on 
 
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 them is shorter and Jci umbciU : aptx diverginj; ^nd obliquely truncated : 
 underside of the alHlomen particukirly brilliant from decumbent hairs : 
 lefj.s less huirvthan t!u- rest of the l)od\. I I'aken from New York to Lake 
 Superior. Init not common. Moic frequently taken in the neighbourhood 
 i)r (^)iiebec. I 
 
 ..'.|o. i.!.i'iiK.\ si lii'i iji;.^e!- N.-^ A7//'_r. i.euLrl!^. <;f body not noticed, 
 i'aken m ("anadu by Dr. Bigsb}, 
 
 Ividv black, th.inlv coated wiiii xellow hairs. licad and neck 
 grossly iHUKtiired , anr-..nnie lunger than the jHothora.x, black, downy, 
 iniermedu.te jonits rather sicn.derer than tiie others, fourth shorter than 
 tile fiftii : |,»rothora.\ sha[jed ;is iu C'. i/:rysoio>fuu widely but obsoletely chan- 
 nelled ; rougii and rcticuiiited. >is it were, witli ninneroiis cimtiuent punc- 
 tures, sides PU)re hair\ than il:e disk : ei}tra thickly punctured, pale 
 testaceous. l)la( k at the apex, where tlie suture ciu'ves outwards so that 
 ihev ili\erge from each otlier, extremity nearly transversely truncated : 
 .ibdomen imderneaih min.nteh. breast rather .urosslv. punctured: ])odex 
 sui)emargiiiate. 
 
 ■'■ + b I. 
 
 2J^u Li.iMiKA i K\ i ii];oi'i'i;:;.'. AV/vH. -- I.engtli of bod\ .S lines. 
 Taken in Xo\a Scotia b\' Cajit. Hall. 
 
 [iHr.] Uodv \ery Idack, slightlv d'»wny. uiiderneath Uiinutely punc- 
 tured. lle.;d sii()rrer than in the last section, as well as the neck 
 v»bsoletel\" ( hannelieri : thickly I'Ui not ininulel\' ])t!nclured : antennfo 
 r.Miter longer titan t!ie j rothurav ; third and fourth joints a little slenderer 
 ilia!! ti>e others, and pale red at tlic i)ase : the .sixth, is j)ale nith a black 
 s]>ot "yU each side at thie apex ; and the vrhole (.■! the eighth is (jf the same 
 colour; the las; joint is dctuninated . the {)rothorax is constricted anter- 
 i<irl}-. and the con M.ricted part is i»erfectl\- smooth, the rest is thickly and 
 '■.uithiently [>u]ietured and wrinkled ; a.t the base the prothorax is 
 d,c[)ressed am.! obsolelelv iriiol>ed : sciitelhmi black, representing an 
 isosceles triangle • elvtra of a dull red. gross)}- and dce|)ly jumctured ; 
 extremity scooped our wit!. tliC external angle longer than th.e interna! 
 and aciuninate : mesosterntim emarginate |ioster!orly. jTaken in Canada 
 im t'owers in July ; nut conmion. j 
 
 2\2. \a-.vvvm\ c.WADr.wsis, 0//-XV/-.- j.eng']-. e,t" body 6A| to 8 lines. 
 Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCiiIloc h. 
 
 I'>ody very l.tiack, slightly downy, minutely pitnctured. Head as in 
 the ast species, but the neck is not cluinneiled ; antennai with base of the 
 fifth joint, the whole of tlie sixth and eighth, except the black apex of 
 
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 the fonncr, pale or pale rufous : pruthorax as in /.. cryth-optera^ only 
 de*:;ply and confuiently punctured bui not wrinkled : elytra lilack. san- 
 guineous ai the I'ase. In other re>i)ects this species resembles that 
 insect ; tl:e external an!j;le of tb.e anex of the elvtra is however shorter. 
 [Quite common from (leorgia lo Lake Su])erior. j 
 
 - •♦■ 1, 2. 
 
 243. Li Pii KA ri-N! loK Kiih:. length of body 5 V; hues, 'taken 
 n"i (,'aiuida by I )r. Ijigshw 
 
 J1S2.] l!<dy [.lack, nitlur sicndcr. .>hu!iil} puiicturt-d. thinly coated 
 \\iti) deiHimiienL \ciliiv- hairs. \utcnr-:a; shorter than the body, fifth joint 
 .-icarcc!;.- lorigcr ihan [':!;_■ foiuiii : [irothi-rax between bell-sliaped and a 
 truncated cone, a liitle consiiidefl in the middle, fringed with yellow hairs 
 anterior!) au;l posteriorly : >( utelli'm triangular : elytra testac;cous, yellow 
 at the base, an' widi three \ellow band>. the hrsl interruj^ted : oblique 
 s:nus at tiie a[iex niji so (,^'ep is in the Iwo [^receding species, legs 
 testaceous ; abdomen ot a deeper colour : and segments scarcely emargi- 
 nate. i'his -pei ies diftcrs \w habit trom the tw(i preceding ones, it is 
 narrower in i.)ro]Kjrtion. and ( (.■n^es nearer to /. ijitailrijasiiata, but the 
 posterior angles of the proihorax, though a* ute. are not so prominent ; it 
 l^elongs howexer to the same suitdivision. with the last mentioned insect. 
 ['Considered i)} Newjna.n to iie synonvmous with Strair^aiiii fir^a.\?\^ 
 
 ■■'■ t e. 
 
 J44. b):niK.\ in';.\ i^ A7'-/'i-.- Lengt!) oi body 5 lines. Taken in 
 Canada b}' i)r. l)igsl)\. 
 
 i'>ody shorter tiian usual n^ [-roijortioii to ;ti v.idih : biaek, underneath 
 minuteh" punctu.redi and thini\- co\ercd witli rather silvery decumbent 
 hairs, liead tlriekly and eont'Uenth puu' tiu'ed. rather dowtiy with erect 
 hoary iiairs : antenniC slioiter ilian the bode : fourth, iifth. and sixth joints 
 ii,»ng and slenderer than the re.--; : .>i\ last ^hort and jvale at the base : 
 i'rothorax l>etween beli-shaped and giobt-.^e. deci>iy and conliuerttly punc- 
 ttired : down;/ with some erect hoary ]lair^ : anteri'.trly (M.'tnstricted, poster- 
 iorly depressed: scutellum linear covered with r-ale decumbent hairs. 
 elvtra \er\ 'jrossb and deei>lv punctured, sliorter than the abd<amen and 
 rounded at the apex, w'th a lateral i^aml bent a little inwards towards the 
 base, which it does not reach, of the colour of the yolk of an egg ; anus 
 entire; doun on the legs yellow. | .\ variet}' of Z. 'vri/iirz/.v (.)li\-. Taken 
 in Canada, also in \. \'. and Penn. ] 
 
 245. Lf:PTUR.\ sv\\[.\cui,.\rA /.//v.'/, Length of body 5' j lines. Two 
 specimens taken in Lat. 65'. 
 
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 [183.] body rather short, black, downy, minutely punctured. Head 
 very thickly and minutely punctured, obsoletely channelled ; antennae 
 slender, shorter than the body, fifth joint consideral)ly longer than the 
 fourth : prothorax shajied as in the preceding species but less depressed 
 jjosteriorly ; very thickly as well as minutely punctured : scuiellum tri- 
 angular : elytra pale-yellow, with an arched black spot at the base, then 
 follows an interrupted band consisting of three acute black spots placet! 
 in a triangle, beyond the middle is a dentated black band wliich reaches 
 neither the suture nor the lateral nuirgin , tlic apex :ils(». the suture, and 
 the lateral margin towards the apex, are all black. 
 
 Variktv IJ. Head not channelled : spot at the base of the elytra 
 coalescing with the intermediate and lateral ones of the anterior band, 
 and reaching the lateral margin ; interior spot reachmg the suture so as 
 to form the half of a spot common to both elytra ; the intermediate band 
 is broader and reaches both the suture and lateral margin, j Belongs to 
 Stran^a/ia ( Pachyta ). Taken at Quebec l)y Mr. Couper ; 1-ake Superior 
 by Agassizs Expedition.] 
 
 '^ ++ a. ■' 
 
 246. Lkptlra SKMiviTTAiA AV/v^r. — Length of body 6 lines. Taken 
 in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body long and narrow, black, underneath slightly antl minutely punc- 
 tured, -with the sides of the breast ar»d abdomen brilliant .vith a silver)- 
 lustre from decumbent silky hairs, above cjlossv and almost naked. Head 
 thickly jiunctured. but behind each eye there is a levigated space ; 
 antennae longer than the prothorax. intermediate joints not slenderer 
 than the others, the fourth as long as the fifth : neck short and levigated: 
 prothorax bell-shaped, not constricted anteriorly, depressed posteriorly ; 
 thinly punctured, especially in the disk ; scutellum triangular : elytra 
 ])unctured but not thickly, jxmctures almost arranged in rows, towards 
 the apex they are very slight : w reddish-}-ellow subflexuose stri])e runs 
 from the middle of the base of the elytra a little more than half way 
 towards the apex, which is diverging and truncated ; the \ entrai segments 
 of the abdomen terminate in a reddish uiembrane. [Synonymous with 
 L. vittata k)\\\.. common in Canada on tloutrs during June and July; 
 taken from Alabama northwards, j 
 
 [184.] 247. Lkf'tura <.i i.osa A'/v/'i'.- Length of the body 5 lines. 
 Taken in Nova .Scotia by Dr. MacCullo(h. 
 
 Very nearly related to the preceding specie.s, from which it differs 
 chiefly in being much smaller, in having the vmdersidc of the body more 
 
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 thickly covered with h.iirs glittering like silver , in luuing the throat pale 
 red ; the fifth joint of the antennae hmger than the fourth ; the punctures 
 of the elytra more numerous and scattered ; the yellow stripe ninnir.Li 
 nearer to the apex of the elytra, diluted at the base and not tlexuose : the 
 fore-breast also in the disk, the after-breast on ea<:h side, and the lose of 
 the thig'!^ are obscurely red : the tibia: are piceo\:s. 
 
 *■ ft h. 
 
 2.\.S. I,!.i'iTRA su!iAK<;i:M ATA A'/>/^.— Length of the body 4 hnes. 
 Taken in I -at. 05*^'. 
 
 ]>o:iv narrow, entirely black, very minutely and thickly puncturejd. 
 underneath giiitering. but less cons]ticuously with silver pile ; antenna- 
 shorter tlian the body, nearly filiform, fourth and fifth joints of equal 
 length ; prothorax perfectly bell-.haped. anteriorly not constricted, 
 posterior angles acute, di'.erging and covered with silver jiile : elytra 
 rounded at the apex. [1 aken in Canada and Lake Superior.] 
 
 [185.] 249. Lr.i'fURA siMiLih. AVr/^/.-— Length of bodv 3^3 lines. .\ 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 65*^. 
 
 This may possibl)' be the other sex of the preceding species which it 
 resembles in every respect, e.xcept that the antennae are rather longer, the 
 .scape or first joint, all but the base on the upper side, is rufous, a- are 
 likewise the thighs and four anterior tibia; : the posterior thighs are 
 however black at the apex. 
 
 250. Lei'TURa LOXGi'CORNis Kirhy. — lenuth c;f bod)' 5 b'nes. \ 
 .sii-.gle sj)e* imcn taken in i.at. 65'. 
 
 .\\ first sight this species a good deal resembles L scnih-i/fata and 
 pa'osa of the forme- section, but its eyes are entire, and its antennae 
 much slenderer and of r. different type, more nearly resembling those of 
 Z. argeufaia and s/;;:i/is. Body black, minutely punctured, downy, 
 especially underneath, with silvery hairs. Head minutely, thickly, and 
 confluentjy punctured ; labruni and base of the mandibles rufous ; last 
 joint of the palpi securiform; antennae very slender nearly as long as the 
 body . scape incrassated, rufous, black at the ba.^e : prothorax a little 
 constricted anteriorly, very thickly ];unctureu ^^;th a longitudinal dorsal 
 impuncture'^ line or channel : scutellum longitudinally ccr :ave, rounded 
 at the apex ; elytra nearly linear, grossly punctured, glossy, nearly black, 
 with a pale stripe extending from the middle of tlie base to near the ajiex, 
 and gradually approaching the suture ; apex subtruncated : legs rufous at 
 the base. [Relongs to the genus Acmceofs Lee] 
 
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 [t86.] 251, Lepti'ra Proteu.'; A'/>^>'.— I .cngth of body 3)4^ — 5}^- 
 lines. Taken abundantly in Lat. 54° and C^". 
 
 Body narrow, blacl., punctured, somewhat glossy, rather hairy, especi- 
 dVy underneath, with decumbent hairs, those on the elytra have somewhat 
 of a golden lustre, the rest are silvery. Nose more grossly punctureil 
 than the rest of the head : vertex convex ; eyes subovate, pale with a 
 slight golden lustre ; antennae filiform, longer than the prothorax, 
 obscurely rufous, with the four first joints black, fifth joint longer than 
 the fourth : prothorax campanulate, anteriorly constricted, posterior angles 
 a little diverging, thinly punctured ; channelled, the channel running 
 l)etween two dorsal gibbosities: scutellum triangular: elytra rather widest 
 at the base, and punctured there more grossly next the suture ; diverging 
 and truncated at the apex : tibiae piceous or rufo-plceous ; four posterior 
 thighs rufous at the base. 
 
 Variety B. In this variety only the base of the six last joints of the 
 antennae is rufous, all the thighs are rufous at the 
 base, and the tibiae of a clearer red, but they are 
 dusky at the apex ; tarsi rufous at the base. I>ength 
 of the body 3^4^ lines. 
 
 C. i>lytra v/ith a stripe at the base, tips and lateral margin 
 rufous ; antennae entirely black : legs as in \-ariety B. 
 Length of the body 4^4^ lines. 
 
 1). Elytra with a longitudinal rufous stripe dilated at the 
 base and apex ; bead of the lateral margin also rufou.s ; 
 antennae and legs nearly as in B, but the whole of 
 the tarsi is obscurely rufous, Length of the body 
 3 — 4 lines. 
 
 K. P^Iytra rufous with the suture and a stripe near the 
 margin abbreviated at both ends, dusky : antennae as 
 in A ; legs as in B. Length of the body 4 — 5 lines. 
 
 F. Elytra rufous, with a dusky suture ; antennae as in A ; 
 
 legs as in D. 
 
 G. Like F, but elytra luteous ; antennae all black. Length 
 
 of the body 4 lines. 
 H. Like F and G, but legs and antennae black. Length of 
 the body 3^ lines. 
 
 Z. Prokus seems to vary ad infinitum in the colour of the elytra, 
 antennae, and legs, but as all the varieties agree in every respect except 
 
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 colour and size, and the elytra advance 5.0 grad\i:il!y from pale rufous to 
 black, or vice vcr.^a, there can be little doubt of the identity of the 
 different varieties. [This very variable species is common throughout 
 Canada. It belongs to the genus /Unurops Lee] 
 
 [iJ^j.] 252. Lki>ti RA LoNGicF.i'S Kirbx. — Length of l)ody -} line;'. 
 Several specimens taken in Lat. 54° and 65^ 
 
 Lake the preceding spcries but shorter in proportion vvitli a longer 
 head. Ek)dy black, pimoturcd, lioary with rather silvery down : head as 
 long or longer than the prothorax ; eyes pale, subirlangular ; antennae 
 with the second, third and fourtli joints slenderer than the rest : prothorax 
 shaped as in L. Proteus, constricted before, de})rcssed behind, but without 
 diverging angles, < hannelled but with no gilibosity on each side the 
 channel : elytra nearly linear, veiy thickly punctured, dirt\-yellow, with a 
 dusky lateral blotch extending from the base beyond the middle of the 
 elytrum, suture and subtruncated apex black ; down yellowish. [Belongs 
 to AcmcFops Lee] 
 
 KND OF CEKAMBYCIDiK. 
 
 [190.] 253. Anoiuum foveatum Kirby. — Length ot body 2 lines. 
 A pair taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 This species veiy closely resembles A. striatmn^ of which it may be 
 regarded as the American rejjresentative. It differs pjrincipally in having 
 a racher large excavation in the middle of the elevated back of the pro- 
 thorax, the sides of which are armed with a triangular tooth or promi- 
 nence. 
 
 The male is obscurely rufous, both above and below, the female is 
 browner above. [I'aken in Canada by Mr. Billings. Belongs to the 
 genus Hadrobtrgmus.'\ 
 
 254. Cis MiCANS Fabr. — Length of body i line. Two specimens 
 taken in the Expedition. 
 
 Body subcylindrical, black-brown, glossy, with numerous short upright 
 pale rather glittering hairs ; minutely bul not very visibly punctured. 
 Head rather flat and lacunose ; antennae and legs testaceous. Prothorax 
 anteriorly sinuated on each side with the middle lobe rounded and pro- 
 jecting a little over the head ; sides slenderly margined ; Dosterior angles 
 rounded. Punctures of the elytra seem almost, but very indistinctly, 
 arranged in rows. 
 
 [J9I.] FAMILY SCOLYTID^.. 
 
 255. ToMicus PiNi 6'a>'.— Length of body I ^ — alines. Frequently 
 taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house, and also in 
 Lat. 65'. 
 
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 Body cylindrical, deep chestnut, glossy, hairy underneath. Head 
 above with scattered gianules ; nose fringed with yellowish hairs : antennrc 
 testaceous : prothorax rather oblong, angles rounded, anteriorly granu- 
 lated with minute elevarions, posteriorly punctured with scattered punc- 
 tures, hairy next the head and on the sides : elytra hairy on the side, with 
 five rows of transverse punctures next the suture,, which reach only to the 
 truncated part ; punctures of the side and apex scattered ; apex truncated 
 obliquely and excavated, with the external edge of the excavation armed 
 with four denticles, of which the second and third are the largest : legs 
 pale chestnut ; tarsi testaceous. 
 
 In the other -sex? the elytra are entire and unarmed, and the dorsal 
 rows of punctures on the dislc of the elytra are more numerous. 
 
 Varietv B. Entirely rufous, or pale-chestnut [Quite common in 
 Canada under bark of Pine trees.] 
 
 [192.] 256. Apate bivittata A7r/a'. — Plate viii. , tig. 5. — Length of 
 body 1 34 lines. A pair taken in the Expedition, 
 
 Very near A. domestka (A. lunbata F.) but distinct. Body piceous or 
 nigro-piceous, cylindrical ; underneath with some scattered pale hair?. 
 Head rough with minute elevations or granules ; nose terminating in a 
 transverse ridge ; antennae testaceous v;ith a very large knob : prothorax 
 subglobose, reddish, rough behind with numerous transverse rugosities ; 
 before with sharp points or denticles ; elytra with several rows of punc- 
 tures, and two luteous stripes which unite at the apex of the elytrum ; or 
 perhaps it might be better to say, luteous, with two piceous stripes, one of 
 the disk and the other of the side, but not reaching the apex : anus and 
 legs testaceous. 
 
 In the other sex the front, or rather face, is hollowed out into a con- 
 cavity ; the prothorax is black anteriorly, and less rough from rugosities 
 and points. [Belongs to the genus Xylotcrus, Er. LeConte (Trans. Am. 
 Ent. Soc, 1868) states that this species is taken from " Maine to Alaska. 
 In tlie ^ the head is concave, and the thorax finely transversely asperate 
 before the middle ,; in the % the head is convex, and the thorax much 
 more roughly asperate. This species varies greatly in colour. *he black 
 elytral vitiae sometimes occupy nearly the whole surface,, ana sc; netimes 
 are almost wanting."] 
 
 [193.] 257. Apate rufftarsis Kirhy. — Length of body i^^ lines. 
 Two specimens taken in the Expedition. 
 
 Body cylindrical, black, hairy underneath. Head hairy; face concave; 
 antennae pale testaceous : prothorax rufous posteriorly, granulated especi- 
 
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 ally anteriorly ; elytra punctured in rows, rufous, with a black humeral 
 blotch : tarsi rufous. 
 
 The face of the other sex is probably plane ; and the prothorax with 
 more prominent points and asperities. [Unknown to LeConte.J 
 
 258. Apate (Lepisoml's) rufipennis A7r^>'. -Plate viii., fig. 2. 
 Length of body r ^ line. Two specimens taken in L^t. 65°. 
 
 [194.] Body black, minutely punctured, hairs white, decumbent ; 
 those of the prothorax and elytra looking like minute scales. Head with 
 a pair of minute tubercles, not easily discovered, in the space between the 
 eyes, anteriorly transversely impressed ; mouth and antennae pale rufous : 
 prothorax very thickly and minutely punctured, with a rather obsolete 
 longitudinal dorsal ridge : elytra dull-red, with several rows of larger punc- 
 tures, the interstices of which are very minutely and thickly punctured, at 
 the base rough with minute elevations : legs rufous. [Belongs to Poly- 
 graphus Er. Taken according to LeConte in " Alaska, Canada, Maine, 
 Loaisana." f Kv/<? Trans. A. E. Soc.,Sept. 1868, p. 169).] 
 
 259. AI'ATE (Lepisomus) nicriceps Kirby. — Length of body i line. 
 A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Smaller than the preceding. Body rufous, minutely aiid thickly 
 punctured. Head black, with a very minute tubercle between the eyes ; 
 nose impressed ; antennae and underside of the head pale nifous : elytra 
 sculptured as in the preceding species, but the rows of punctures are less 
 conspicuous. [Synonymous with the preceding, according to LeConte.] 
 
 260. Apate (Lepi.somus) brevicornis Kirby. — Length of body i 
 line. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 Body black, covered with hoary hairs, above resembling scales. An- 
 tennae very short with a small knob, rufous : front without a tubercle, 
 nose not impressed ; elytra not striated. This spiles seems to indicate 
 another section of the genus. [Unknown to LeConte.] 
 
 [195.] 261. HvLURGUS RUFIPENNIS Kirby. — Length of body 3 Imes. 
 Many specimens taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland- 
 house, and in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Body dusky, hairy, rather glo.ssy, puncturtd. Head black, comluently 
 punctured ; vertex obsoletely channelled ; antennae rufous : prothorax 
 constricted anteriorly, and dusky-rufous ; base with a double slight sinus, 
 and dorsal ridge terminating in an impression at the angle between the 
 sinuses : elytra rufous, furrowed ; furrows punctured ; interstices of the 
 furrows rough with minute elevations, especially at the base, which is 
 infiexed : tibiae and tarsi dull-rufous ; the former denticulated on one side. 
 
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 N. B, In some specimens the elytra and anterior pari of the protliorax 
 are piceous or nearly black ; in others the elytra are testaceous, and the 
 prothorax piceous and paler anteriorly. [Belongs to Daufrcctonns Er. 
 Taken in Alaska. ''The punctures of thj thorax are net very dense, and 
 of two sizes intermixed.'' — I.e Conte.] 
 
 FAMILY CURCUI.IONID-E. 
 
 [in6.] c62. Calan"oi-i.\ pe rtinax Othirr. — Length of lK'<:y 7 lines. 
 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body obversely pear-sliaped, l.ilack, naked. Head immersed in the 
 prothorax, smootli; rostrum rather shorter than the prothorax, compressed, 
 impunrtured, channelled above at the base and tumid ; antennae a little 
 longer than the rostrum, scape as long as the rest of the antennae, knob 
 pear-shaped : eyes immersed, lateral, subovate, not meeting belovv' : pro- 
 thorax oblong, rather narrowest anteriorly, tricostate, tlie two lateral 
 costae sending a branch towards the base ; four depres.sed broad punc- 
 tured dull-red stripes occupy the intervals ])etwcen the elevated parts ; 
 sides a little elevated and punctured; the jamctures of the strfpes and 
 sides are whitish : scatellum an isosceles triangle, excavated at the base : 
 elytra oblong, very slightly furrowed v»-ith whitish punctures in the fur- 
 rows ; suture, and alternate interstices, elevated ; the others or depressed 
 ones dull-red ; body underneath with scattered whitish punctures varying 
 in size ; postpectus and tarsi chestnut. [Belongs to the genus Spiaio- 
 phorus Schonh., of the Himily Ciirculionid^: Not uncommon in Canada.] 
 
 263. Hvi/jKius coNFUSUS Kirb}K — Length of body 4J/4 lines. Taken 
 in Canada by Dr. Bigsb} , also in Massachusetts by Mr. Dralte. 
 
 [197.] Body oblong, of a dark pitch-colour, hoary from decumbent 
 hairs, confiiiently more or less punctured. Rostrum ihickish and rather 
 shorter than the prothorax ; thickly and continently punctured : prothorax 
 with a dorsal levigated line not i caching the base ; disk with numerous 
 confluent irregular exca\ ations or wrinkles ; sides confluently punctured : 
 elytra with ten rows of oblong deep punctures, the interstices of which 
 are confluently punctured, mottled confusedly, except at the base, with 
 whitish hairs : thighs armed widi a short tooth ; tibiae, as in tlie other 
 species of the genus, armed at the apex v.iUi an inflexed stout spine o^ 
 claw ; tarsal claws reddish. 
 
 -164. Lepvrus colon Linn. — Length of body 6 lines. Several spe- 
 cimens taken in Lat. 65°. Also taken by Dr. Bigsby in Canada. 
 
 Body black covered with decumben*. gray hairs. Rostrum arched, 
 thickish, a little longer than the prot}ior.:x, conHuently punctured, having 
 
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 also a dorsal longitudinal ridge, terminating between the eyes in a little 
 narrow excavation r prothorax narrowest anteriorly, covered with minute 
 elevations producing wrinkles, and having also a dorsal longitudinal ridge 
 and two oblique, rather curved stripes formed of dense white hairs : the 
 elytra have several rows of punctiires, with the interstices minutely granu- 
 lated ; each elytrum has a discoidal vvliite dot a little below the middle, 
 and, in several specimens, tliere is also an indistinct one between it and 
 the apex : on eaeh side of the abdomen underneatli. as in Z, arcticus, are 
 four yellowish round spots formed of hairs. In some specimens the 
 pubescence has a tawny hue, in others the indistinct spot is obliterated, 
 [Taken in Canada.] 
 
 [19S.] 265. Lepyrus fiKMELLUs A7r/|>*. — Plate v., fjg. 7. — Length of 
 body lyl lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 Body very black, covered more or less with decumbent v/hite hairs, 
 and also with minute tubercles. Rostrum as in L. Colon: prothorax 
 ridged, confluently tuberculated, minutely punctured between the tuber- 
 cles, marked on each side with an oblicjue stripe composed of white hairs: 
 elytra confluently tuberculated, with five pairs of longitudinal streaks, 
 converging towards the apex : the first and fifth including the rest. 
 
 [199.] 266. Cleonis viiTATUS A7/(^j'. — Length of body 3J< — 5 lines. 
 Several specimens taken in the Expedition. 
 
 Body narrow, black, covered with decumbent hoary pile. Head 
 thickly covered with hairs, but on each side from the eye to the insertion 
 of the antennae, the hairs are less dense, which gives the appearance of 
 a blackish stripe ; rostrum thick, shorter than the prothorax, obsoletely 
 ridged, punctured : protliorax obsoletely ridged, punctured with rather 
 large scattered punctures, often concealed by the hairs, with three blackish 
 stripes, produced as in the head by the hairs being thinner : the elytra 
 also have three similar stripes, and are punctured in rows : the abdomen 
 underneath appears as if dotted with black from the same cause. 
 
 GENUS MACROPS. 
 
 Body Oijlong, winged. Rostrum shorter than the prothorax, sulicylin- 
 drical, somewhat arched, having a dor.sal longitudinal ridge ; bed of the 
 scape of the antennae oblique reaching from near the apex of the nostrum 
 to the middle of the eye ; antennae apical, longer than the head, eleven- 
 jointed ; scape as long as the remainder of the antennaj, incrassated at 
 the apex, reaching the eye ; two next joints longer than the subsequent 
 ones, obconical j the following four very short, top-shaped ; the four last 
 forming a subovate knob ; eyes lateral, subimmersed, long, forming, in 
 
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 some measure, an isosceles triangle with the base rounded, and the vertex, 
 downwards : prothorax subglobose ; antepectus emarginate, sides obso- 
 letely lobed : scutellum very minute, triangular ; coleoptera oblong : 
 thighs unarmed ; tibiae armed with a very minute incurved spine or spur ; 
 tarsi not dilated, penultimate joint bipartite. 
 
 At first sight the species of this little group would be set aside as 
 belonging to Sitona Germer, with which they possess many characters in 
 common ; a closer inspection, however, will satisfactorily prove that they 
 belong to different genera. In the genus just named, the rostrum is 
 shorter, thicker, and channelled ; the knob of the antennae consists only 
 of three joints, the bed of the scape turns below the eye , the eye itself is 
 round : the antepectus is not emarginate, or lobed ; the tibiai have no 
 incurved soine. 
 
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 [200.] 267. MACRors MACULicoLLTS Kirby. — Plate viii., fig. 4. — 
 Length of })ody 2 lines. Two .specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Body black, rather hoary from decumbent hairs and scales. Rostrum 
 very minutely punctured ; ridge reaching from the base to the apex ; stalk 
 of the antennai a dull-red : prothorax minutely and thickly punctured, 
 obsoletely ridged, having the sides, especially at the base, covered with 
 little white scales : elytra furrowed, furrows punctured : tibiae, tarsi, and 
 base of the thighs of a dull obscure red, posterior thighs on the inside 
 more distinctly rufous. 
 
 268. Macrops vitticollis Kirby. — Length of body 25^ lines. A 
 single specimen taken. 
 
 Body covered with brownish- black scales. Rostrum ridged it the 
 tip, the rest covered with scales, which perhaps conceal the remainder of 
 the ridge ; stalk of the antennae rufous : prothorax with three narrow pale 
 stripes, the lateral ones a little waved : scutellum pale ; elytra slightly 
 furrowed ; furrows minutely punctured ; mottled with pale : tibiae and 
 tarsi, the former obscurely, rufous. 
 
 [201.] GENUS LEPIDOPHORUS. 
 
 Body covered with scales. Antennae longer than the head, eleven- 
 jointed ; scape as long as the remainder of the antennae, reaching to the 
 eye, growing gradually thicker towards the apex , pedicel as long as the 
 two following joints, obconical ; the remaining joints of the stalk rather 
 top-shaped ; knob three-jointed, ovate, acute ; rostrum shorter than the 
 prothorax, thick, subcylindrical, straight; bed of the scape of the antennae 
 very short, not reaching the eye ; eyes subobtusangular, with the vertex 
 4ownwards : prothorax rat'ier longer than wide, barrel-shaped : elytra 
 
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 taken together oblong-oval : scutellum punctiform : thighs cluhbcd. un- 
 armed; tibiae armed at the apex with a short incurved spine ; penultimate 
 joint of the tarsi bilobed. 
 
 269. Lepidophokus lineaticoi.ljs AVrAj. —Length of the body 2 ^•.. 
 lines. Several specimens taken in Liit 65^. 
 
 Body black, underneath hairy with little whitish round scales and 
 hairs of the same colour intermixed. Head and rostrum l)ehind the 
 antennae covered with similar scales : antennae dusky-red : prothorax 
 dusky, confluently punctured with three whitish longitudinal narrow 
 indistinct stripes tormed of minute scales : elytra mottled with whitish 
 and dusky round scales ; slightly furrowed with punctures in the furrows : 
 at the apex, in the detlexed part, there is a series of white rigid minute 
 bristles between each furrow : legs hairy, reddish brovn, thighs darker. 
 
 [202.] 270. TkACHVPHLCiiis MEi.ANoTHRix Ktrby. — Length of the 
 f)ody 2 3/^ lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65''. 
 
 Body really black, but quite covered with a brown powdery substance, 
 resembling mud or dirt. Head impressed between the eyes ; rostnun 
 longer than the head, and nearly as wide, emarginate and hair\- at the 
 end ; antennae rufous, scape co\'ered with brown powder ; prothorax 
 transverse, obsoletely rhaimelled, with several short rigid black bristles 
 on each side of the channel arranged nearly in rows : elytra obsoletely 
 furrowed with slight punctures in the furrows, and between each furrow is 
 a row of longer rigid black truncated bristles ; a few white ones are 
 discernible at the apex : legs bristly, with white bristles, rufous, but the 
 thighs are covered with powdery scales. 
 
 [203.] 271. Pachvrhvnchus (RHhXARiA) ScHONHERRi Ktrby. — 
 Length of the body 5 — 7 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Also 
 in Georgia? by Mr. Abbott. 
 
 Body thickly covered, especially underneath, with hoary pile. Antennae 
 shorter than the head : eyes brown : prothorax with three faint whiter 
 stripes : scutellum white ; elytra with nine rows of punctures, and at the 
 base of the lateral margin is a portion of a tenth row, between the second 
 and third ; in the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth rows the pile is thicker 
 than in other parts of the elytrum, so as to form three white stripes, 
 on these stripes there are also four rows of distant black dots on each 
 elytrum. [Not uncommon in Canada. ] 
 
 [204.] 272. Attelabus siMii.is Kirby. — Length of the body 2)/% 
 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 This species is nearly the transcript of A. curcuiionoules, for which I 
 at first mistook it, but a closer inspection convinced me it was distinct. 
 
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 They agree in being black, glossy, and naked ; in having a red prothorax 
 and elytra, the latter with several rows ot" punctures ; in having the head 
 and rostrum more or less punctured, with curved impressed lines on ench 
 side just above the eyes, in the disk of the front ; the [)rothora> also in 
 both is minutely punctured, and the cubit arched and internally serrulated. 
 They ditfer, however, in several respects. In .-7. curculionoides the head 
 is wider in proportion, the occiput lilack, levigated, with a central im- 
 pression ; the curved lines of the front not distin< tly punctured ; the 
 stalk i^i the antennae rufous ; the prothorax at the !)ase is streaked 
 with transverse linear imj^ressions ; the scutellum is nearly black, and ^^\^ 
 interstices of the rows of punctures of the elytra are irregularly punctured. 
 In A. similis the hinder part of ihc head which is punctured and wrinkled, 
 and scutellum are rufous, a transverse impression divides the occiput 
 from the front ; the curved lines are distinctly punctured ; in the front 
 between the eyes is a wide channel ; tlie antennae are piceous ; the 
 prothorax is not streaked at the base : and the elytra between the rows of 
 ))unctures a'v levigated. [Synonymous with A. aiuilis lUig. ; taken in 
 Canada.] 
 
 273. AiTKi-AHUS liFFUSiUi-A'ius luibr. — Length of the body 1 lines. 
 Taken in Canada, near Lake St. Clair, by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 [205.] In sculpture this species for the most part agrees with A. citr- 
 . uaonoiiic^^ except that there is an impression between the eyes, and a 
 [)air on the disk of the prothorax. The whole of the body is very black, 
 except the shoulders of the elytra, wliich are covered by a large oblong 
 red spot, the anterior thighs are armed with a minute tooth : the disk of 
 the coleoptera, or elytra taken together, towards the base is de^jressed ; 
 and the scutellum is obversely triangular, the vertex of the triangle jjoint- 
 ing towards the head, [i'his and the preceding species are both de- 
 scribed and figured in Harris' Injurious Insects, pages 65 and 66 : taken 
 in Canada.] 
 
 274. Apdtomls ovatus /'(?/^i>-. —Length of the body i J4 line. Var- 
 iety B taken by Dr. Bigsby neixr Lake St. Clair. 
 
 [206.] Bodv very short, bet'Aeen pear-shaped ;in(l ovate, deep violet, 
 naked, minutely punctured. Head black, rostrum levigated : [.rothorax 
 somewhat lozenge-shaped, emarginate anteriorly, very thickly and con- 
 tiuently punctured, with a levigated discoidal longitudinal line : elytra 
 furrowed, furrov/s punctured. 
 
 Varikiy B. Blue-green. [Belongs to AtUlabus Fabr., or Pterccolus 
 Sch.] 
 
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 2 75- Anthrikus fasciatus Olivier. — Length of the body 4 lines. 
 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body black, covered more or less with brovsn decumbent short hairs. 
 Rostrum angular, thickish, dilated at the tip, below the antennae covered 
 thickly with snow-white decumbent pile ; antennae almost as long as the 
 thorax, rufous, knob du>^ky-l)rown ; front marked with two whitish dots, 
 one adjoining each eye on their upper side : protliorax wrinkled with a 
 transverse discoidal im[>ression, and near the base with an elevated 
 transverse ridge : elytra wrinkled with a discoidal tubercle near the l)ase, 
 near the apex adorned with an irregular angular band composed of snow 
 white decumbent pile : alxiomcn whitish with a double indistinct series of 
 black dots : tibiae with a white ring. 
 
 Varietv B. With the tubercles uf the elytra less conspicuous : the 
 abdomen snowy-white ; thighs variegated with white. 
 
 I have no memorandum whence 1 received this variety. It is smaller, 
 and [)robably American. 
 
 [207. j FAMILV CIV I'HRID.K. 
 
 276. Chlamvs Pi.icAiA (9/V77Vr. Length of IxmIv 2 lines. Taken 
 in (Canada by Dr. Bigsby; also in VLissachusetts. 
 
 Body obscure, i)ron/ed. Head impressed posteriorly between the 
 eyes ; rhinarium, antennae, and an elevated sjjace adjoining the eye- 
 anteriorly, rufous; nose indistinctly punetured : prothorax very finely 
 and concentrically scoreiJ, with some scattered indistinct punctures ; 
 posteriorly considerably ele\ated : elevation bitid ; behind this elevation 
 the prothorax is producted and emarginate ; scutellum obtriangular ; 
 elytra tubercuiated with several acute, <om])ressed tubercles, the anterior 
 ones carinated ; interstices with some scattered deep punctures : space 
 !)etween the four posterior legs punctured with large shallow puncture 
 
 [20S.J FAMILY CRVPTOCF.PHAI.ID.t:. 
 
 277. Crvptocephalus pube.scens Fabr. — Length of body 2 j^. lines. 
 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body black, with a very slight brassy tint, a little glossy, grossly and 
 thickly pimctured ; downy more or less w ith cinerascent down : prothorax 
 with a longitudinal levigated line, posteriorly with a double sinus : scu- 
 tellum elevated towards the apex, perfectly smooth : elytra with a lateral 
 lobe towards the base, shoulders with a tuben le. [Belongs to Sut^Vian's 
 genus Pachyhrachis. J 
 
 278. Cryptocf.pkalus notatus Fabr. — Length of body 2^^ lines. 
 Taken in ('anada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
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 Body black, naked, glossy. Nose with a bilobed reddish-yellow spot 
 at the apex ; front with a yellow curvilinear spot adjoining the eyes on 
 their inner side ; between the eyes behind is a pair of round impressions, 
 and a longitudinal intermediate abbreviated channel ; antennje mutilated 
 in the specimen, but what remains of them is reddish yellow ; prothorax 
 levigated, but sprinkled with very minute and slight punctures, visible 
 only under a powerful magnifier ; behind with a slight sinus on each side : 
 scutellum levigated and elevated posteriorly : elytra deeply j)unrtured 
 with the punctures arranged in rows, the sixth row from the suture is 
 interrupted, and in the interstices on each side of it are some irregular 
 punctures, the intermediate rows do not reach the apex ; a luteous band, 
 abbreviated next the suture and growing gradually wider till it reaches 
 the lateral margin, and an irregular spot at the apex of the same colour, 
 distinguish the elytra. 
 
 Fabricius describes his C. notatus in so few words that it admits of 
 some doubt whether his insect is synonymous with Dr. Bigsby's here 
 characterized. The spots at the apex can scarcely be denominated 
 punda, but as he occasionally designates a large spot by this term, and 
 both insects are fron) North America, for the present it may be allowed 
 to stand under the above name. [Haldeman states that •' C. notatus 
 Fab. is southern. The northern species, described by Kirby under the 
 same name, has been called C sellaius by SufiVian." Common in Toronto 
 and other parts of Ontario.] 
 
 [209.] 279. EuMoi.PUS (;\d()XUs) vitis Fabf. — Length of body 2^ 
 lines. Several taken in the journey from New York, in lat. 54° and 65°. 
 
 [210.J Body black, a Httle glossy, hairy with cinerascent hairs, 
 minutely punctured. Palpi rufous, last joint black ; five first joints of 
 the antennae rufous, the rest black : elytra and tibiae rufous. 
 
 Both (jeoffroy and Fabricius complain of the ravages committed by 
 this little species upon the vine in Europe, and probably it is equally 
 destructive to those of America. [A very destructive insect in Europe, 
 but of doubtful occurrence in America.] 
 
 FA\aLY CHRVSOMELID.*:. 
 
 280. Chrysomela Philadelphia Z/««. — Length of body 3^ — 4 — 
 4^ lines. The type and viiriety C taken in Canada by Dr, Bigsby. 
 Variety B in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. 
 
 Body oblong, black-green, naked, glossy, convex, punctured with 
 
 scattered punctures. Palpi, antennae, rhinarium, and legs rufous ; labrum 
 hairy: prothorax with the punctures at the sides more numerous than 
 
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 those on the disk : elytra pallid, with a longitudinal stripe at the suture 
 with three diverging obsolete branches, and several irregular spots ; one 
 at the shoulders larger than the rest and as it were broken, or obtus- 
 angular, all of a dark green : the elytra are grossly punctured with scat- 
 tered punctures, but next the suture the punctures are disposed in two 
 rows, the sutural one [211] extending from the base to near the apex, 
 where it becomes confluent with the second, both diverging towards the 
 base and surrounding the upper branch of the sutural stripe ; there is a 
 fourth series of punctures at a little distance from the lateral margin, and 
 the interstice between them is irnpuncturcd : ej)ip]eura dark-green. 
 
 N.B. The two lower L^anches of the above stripe are surrounded by 
 a common series of punctures. 
 
 Varietv B. Smaller, green-bronzed, green spots oi" the elytra inore 
 numerous, epipleura pallid. 
 
 C. Sutural stripe vrith only nne branch, the two lower ones 
 forming separate spots ; epipleura pallid. 
 
 This varying species may be known n-yA\ the succeding ones by the 
 green colour of its bod\ : all the varieties are distinguished by the obtus- 
 angular spot at ths shouldirs of the elytrA: the varying number of green 
 spots on these organs is produced by the separation of som.e of the 
 irregular ones into distinct ones, and the lower branches of the sutural 
 stripe doing the same. Variety C comes nearest to that figured by De- 
 Geer and Olivier. [Quite common in Canada]. 
 
 281. Chrysomela confinis Kirby. — Length of body 4}^ lines. A 
 single specimen taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 Nearly related to the preceding species. Body oblong, obscurely 
 bronzed-green, grossly punctured. Palpi, antennae, legs, and rhinarium 
 ferruginous : punctures of the prcthcrax scattered in masses, with the 
 interstices very minutely punctured : srutellum bronzed : elytra reddish 
 with a discoidal flexuose irregular pale stripe dilated at the base and 
 towards the apex ; there are also two tlexuose dark-green discoidal stripes 
 in the disk, the exterior one nearly reaching the base and the interior 
 approaching nearer to the apex, between these towards the base is a single 
 oblong green spot, and outride them are many irregular ones of the same 
 colour ; all these spots and stripes are convex and mostly circumscribed 
 by punctures ; there is a double series of punctures diverging towards the 
 base ; and an oblique abbreviated one between these and the scutellum. 
 
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 as in many JLir/>aIii:ai, tV'c. ; ihc intersiicj between the double series is 
 green nt the base. There is a lateral series of punctures also as in C 
 
 Pliiladeiphiui. 
 
 [Synonymous with C. Spi'tuac Say. Taken on Lake Superior by 
 Agassiz.] 
 
 [212.] 28.;. Chrvsomela biosFiVANA Kirhx. — Length of body 4 
 lines. A single % specimen taken in Canada by Or. Bigsby. [Taken in 
 Ontario.] 
 
 Colour and sculpture of the body like those of the preceding species, 
 from which C. Bigsbyana differs principally in having the sides and the 
 anterior margin of the prothorax reddish-yellow ; the elytra are of the 
 same colour, but the suture itself, especially at the base, a stripe parallel 
 to it, a large humeral bilobed spot, the interior lobe of which is obtus 
 angulir or broken, and several irregular dots and spots on the elytra are 
 black-crreen. 
 
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 2S3. Chkvsomela multipun'Ctata Say. — Length of body 4 j.( lines. 
 Taken frequently in the journey from New York to Cumberland House. 
 [Taken in Canada.] 
 
 Body, head, antennae, and legs ferruginous. Prothorax pale-yellow, 
 with two posterior triangular ferruginous spots with a dot of the same 
 colour between them ; the punctures of the prothorax are more numerous 
 and smaller than in C. Philaddphica^ &c. ; elytra yellowish-white; suture 
 and a confluent stripe circumscribed with the double series of punctures, 
 diverging towards the base of the elytra, ferruginous ; surface covered 
 with irregular greenish dots and short lines, as in the preceding species, a 
 row of punctures marks the exterior side of the elytra, the interstice 
 between it and the margin is immaculate and impunctured, the rest of the 
 elytrum being thickly covered with scattered minute punctures. 
 
 [213.] 284. Chrysomela clivicollis Kirby. — Length of body 0^ 
 lines. A single specimen taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body between oblong and hemispherical, violet. Head punctured ; 
 labrum without punctures : prothorax elevated in the centre to an obtuse 
 peak, from the summit of which descend several concentric channels 
 which run nearly to the margin, the interstices of which are punctured : 
 scutellum violet with a green tint : elytra reddish, punctured, punctures 
 scattered with some tendency to arrange into rows ; three large dark 
 violet spots distinguish the elytra, the first upon the shoulders subtri- 
 angular with the vertex truncated, the second near the apex bilobed, the 
 
third ;U tli.- l)a>;o forming with that on the other tlytrum a large cruciform 
 spot ; sutuTL' violet : antc.ior thiirh-. anrted with two stout teeth. 
 
 285. Chkv.somkla RUFiiM-s Z>t' Oc\r. - Length of 1 ody 2?4 lines. A 
 single specimen taken in tl;c Kxpodition. 
 
 [214.] The Americvin differs a little from llie British sjiccirnens. In 
 the first place it is scarcely half the si/e, not only the mouth but the space 
 before and between the eyes is rufous, only the vertex and occijuit being 
 black : the black spot of the prothorax, instead of consisting of two 
 distinct spots connected only at their base, is only divided at its apex into 
 two lobe;,, and the spots of the elytra thougii similarly arranged, are less 
 distinct: they agree in having the body underneath, txcej4 the rufous 
 anus, black ; and the legs ruloub. 
 
 [Taken on Lake Superior by Agassi;:":^ EApediticn.j 
 
 286. Pii.^DON Adonidi.s Pallets. — Length of body 3-4 lines. Several 
 specimens taken in Lat. 54'. 
 
 [215.] Body black, pimcturcd, sprinkled underneath with cinereous 
 hairs. Vertex rufous with nn occipiral black spot : prothorax reddish- 
 yellow, with a large discoidal black spot reaching from base to apex and 
 constricted anteriorly ; on ea( h side also there is a round black dot ; 
 scutellum black, impunctured : elytra reddish yellow, thickly punctured 
 with scattered punctures ; suture black except at the base ; a black dis- 
 coidal stripe or blotch reaching neither to the base nor the apex,anteriorl7 
 obliquely truncated and posteriorly ' acute, also distmguishes these 
 organs. 
 
 Varii'TY B. With the discoidal stripe acute at each extremity and 
 smaller. 
 
 Variety C. With the discoidal stripe evanescent. 
 
 [Taken at Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River, by Mr. Kennicott.] 
 
 287. Ph.edon Raphan'i. Fabr. — Length of body 2j^-23.^ lines. 
 Several tiken in Lat. 54". 
 
 Body oblong, punctured, glossy ; underneath black with the disk a 
 little bronzed, above green or green-gold. Head and prothorax minutely 
 punctured ; five first joints of the antennae bronzed and glossy ; the 
 remainder cinereous and obscure : scutellum impunctured, violet : elytra 
 very thickly punctured, punctures not arranged in rows : parapleura con- 
 fluently punctured : disk of the postpectus bronzed and transversely 
 striated with very slightly impressed striolae. 
 
roo 
 
 In the female the abdomen, as in Ph. Po/ygoni, is oft* n fo distended 
 with eggs as to make the elytra appear abbreviated. 
 
 Variety B. With the whole of the u|>per surface green, without any 
 golden lustre. 
 
 [This and the two following species are included in the genus Casirc- 
 physa Che v.] 
 
 [216.] 288. Ph<i-:don polygoni Linn. — Length of body 2 lines. 
 'I aken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch and Capt. Hall. [Very com- 
 mon in Canada.] 
 
 Body oblong-ovate, punctured, glossy, underneath black. Hend deep 
 blue, with an abbreviated channel in the vertex between the eyes ; antennae 
 piceous, with the first five joints rufous : prothorax convex, rufous : elytra 
 deep blue, thickly punctured : legs rufous with piceous tarsi ; anus 
 rufous. 
 
 289. Phyllodecta V'itellix.e Zm7/.-- Length of body 2^3 hne.s. 
 [217.] Body oblong, a little inclining to ovate, glos.sy ; underneath 
 
 black-bronzed, scarcely punctured ; above bronzed with a copper tint, 
 minutely punctured. First and second joints of the antennae ^ufous : 
 scutellum impunctured : elytra punctured in rows, with the interstices 
 indistincdy punctured : tarsi piceous with the first joint rufous. 
 
 [Taken on Lake Superior by Agassiz's Expedition ; in Ontario, also.] 
 
 Family Halticid.e. 
 
 290. Haltica (oRCHESTRis) viciNA Kifby. -Length of body ^^■S 
 lines. A single specimen taken. 
 
 Body underneath pale rufous with the disk of the postpectus black. 
 Head punctured in the vertex, dirty-white, v/ith a pair of contiguous black 
 dots between the eyes and a subtriangular one on the nose ; antennae 
 black with the underside of the scape and the two next joints dusky- 
 rufous : prothorax very minutely and lightly punctured, white with two 
 irregular black spots placed obliquely on each s.de, and a black longitu- 
 dinal streak between them : scutellum black : elytra very minutely and 
 thickly punctured, with a sutural stripe common to both, a discoidal one 
 rather nearer the lateral margin, and another }ust above it all black : the 
 Intermediate stripe falls .short of the apex of the elytra : the upper side of 
 the tibiae is dusky, and the tarsi are black. 
 
 [218.] 291, Haltica (oRCHE.srRi.s) punxticollis A7/-(^j. — Plate vii, 
 %• 9- — Length of body 2^4^-3 lines. A single specimen taken in IjiX. 
 65°. Taken also by Prof Peck in New England ? 
 
lOI 
 
 Body siil)Ovate. \ery black, underneath ^Mo>sy. Head irregul.idy 
 punctured l»ehind : antennae underneath piceous at the base: prothcrax 
 very minutely and lightly punctured, pale-yellow with two black round 
 dots in the disk between which above the scutelluni is a less black tri- 
 angular imi)ression: elytra very minutely and lightly punctured: lbrel>reast 
 pale-yellow. 
 
 Vaku:tv B. Klytra with a blue lint. 
 
 I AM I V C. \J KR5\Il) v.. 
 
 292. (lAi.F.RUCA Oi.iviERi A'/V/m'. Lcu^^tli of bodv 3/4 lines. 
 Taken in Canada by I )r. Bigsljy. 
 
 Very near related to Galfrin-a quadrimaculata F. Body long, glossy, 
 reddish-yellow : posterior part of the head black, a cross impressed 
 between the eyes ; antennae dusky with the four first joints rufescent ; 
 prothorax impunctured. transversely subimpressed behind, sides mar- 
 gined: elytra very minutely and lightly punctured with punctures just 
 visible under a good lens ; at the base of each elytrum nearest the suture 
 Ls a roundish black spot, and another large oblong one extends from above 
 the middle towards the apev : j)osterior thighs a little incras.sated ; tarsi 
 dusky, especially at the apex ; medipectus and j)ostpectus black. 
 
 [.Synonymous with P/iyllohrotka decorata Say. Taken in " ('anada, 
 Lake Superior, Illinois ; rare. In the ^ the 5th ventral segment is very 
 large, canaliculate, deeply excavated behind, with a small testaceous 
 triangular appendage projecting over the 6th segment. The disc of the 
 thorax is not impressed." Le Conte. ] 
 
 [219.] 295. (iALF.ui CA Cana[>kns]s A'/V/'i. Length of l)ody 4 
 lines. Taken in ('anada by Or. I'igsby. 
 
 Body elongate, hairy with short decumbent » increous hairs or down, 
 dirty-rufous, underneath l)lack. Head with a black vertical spot ; six last 
 Joints of the antennae black, the others, except the sc\ipe, rufous blac k at 
 the tip ; scape rufous, black abo\e ; prothorax transversely impressed, 
 sides posteriorly oblicpie with a slight sinus ; three equidistant irregular 
 black spots or dots placed transversely on the disk : the two elytra taken 
 together have three black stripes, the intermediate or sutural <me being 
 common to both, and converging with the lateral ones at the tip ; anus 
 obscurely rufous. 
 
 [Belongs to l^e Conte's genus Triehabda. '* A common specie.s, 
 extending from I.ake Superior and the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific' 
 Le Conte.] 
 
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 294- Oalerlca SAoriTARi^ Gyll. — T-^ngth of body iV^ lines. 
 Several specimens taken in T^t. 54°. Taken also by Dr. Bigsby in 
 Canada. 
 
 Body brown, a little downy, not glossy. Mouth dirty-yellow ; pro- 
 thorax transverse, impressed, reddish-yellow, with three black nearly 
 confluent spots ; scutellum sulxiuadrangular, tnincated at the apex ; elytra 
 grossly but not thickly punctured ; suture and lateral margin paler than 
 the rest of the elytrum ; anus and legs reddish-yellow ; tarsi darker. 
 
 Variety B. With the base of the antennre yellowish anderneath, the 
 black spots on the prothorax distinct, and the elytra entirely of a brown- 
 ish yellow. 
 
 f '* Found throughout the middle and northern parts of the Atlantic 
 district." Le Conte.] 
 
 [220.J 295. (iALERUCA Bii.ixEATA K'lrby. — Length of body 2 lines. 
 A single specimen taken in l^t. 54'. 
 
 Nearly related to the preceding species, but smaller, the whole of the 
 head is nifous, the joints of the antennse are shorter ; the prothorax is 
 longer in proportion to its width ; and the elytra, nearer the suture than 
 the lateral margin, have two somewhat elevated approximated blackish 
 ridges, the interior one being the shortest and extending from near the 
 middle to the base, and the other reaching neither base nor apex. 
 
 [Considered by Le Conte as probably a sj)ecimen of G. notulata 
 Fab, with indistinct markings.) 
 
 296. C.ALERicA MARr.ixEi.i.A A'/V//).— Length of bodv 3 lines. A 
 single specimen taken in I^t. 65'. 
 
 Body very black, a little downy. Mouth and base of the first joint of 
 the antennae subtestaceous or reddish-yellow ; prothorax wider than long, 
 impressed and confluently pimctured on each side, with a longitudinal 
 dorsal channel ; behind the margin has a .slight sinus ; reddish-yellow with 
 three black spots, the intermediate one being the sm-^llest ; elytra grossly 
 and thickly punctured ; lateral margin and apex reddish-yelloAv ; legs 
 dusky yellow : last ventral segment of the abdomen yellow .md deeply 
 emarginate. 
 
 ]Le Conte refers a specimen from F'ort Simpson. Hudson's Bay 
 Territory, to this species.] 
 
 [221.] rA.MlI.V SACRIU.i:. 
 
 297. Orsod.\c.\a TiiMALis Kith}'. — Length of body 2:^ lines. A 
 single specimen taken in ttie journey from New York to Cumberland- 
 house, 
 
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 Body piceous ; underneath hoary with decumbent hairs ; above naked, 
 glossy, thickly punctured, Pali)i and two last joints of the antennae 
 obscurely rufous ; front between the eyes with a transverse levigated ele- 
 vation ; prothorax longer than wide, constricted at the base ; lateral 
 margin and epipleurae or side-covers of the elytra, except at the base, 
 yellowish-red ; thighs, at the base, and tibiae reddish-yellow, the four 
 posterior tibiae darker at the apex. 
 
 ['J'aken at Lake Superior by Agassiz's B'xpedition.] 
 
 298. OksoDACNA Cun.DRKM A'ir/'j.— Vkdc vii, lig. 6 Length of 
 body 2 3/( lines. .\ single specimen taken in Lat. 54' 
 
 [222.] Body above punctured, naked. Head and its organs yellow, 
 with the eyes, occiput, and apex of the mandibles black ; a levigated 
 transverse elevatign of the front, as in the preceding species ; prothorax 
 longer than wide, constricted at the base, with an impression in the 
 middle, pale-yellow, disk embrowned ; scutelluui rufous ; elytra rather 
 paler than the prothorax, with a stripe adjoining the lateral margin, an 
 angular band beyond the middle and the base, black ; aniepectus, anus, 
 and legs, yellow, rest of the underside of the body is black, and hoary 
 with decumbent white hairs. 
 
 [Taken in Canada.] 
 
 FAMILY DOXACIAD.K. 
 
 299. H/EMONiA NiGKicoRNis A't'/fij. — Length of body ^J 3 lines. 
 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 This species is considerably larger than //. Equiscii and Zostene, from 
 which it is perfectly distinct. Body luteous above and glossy; underneath 
 it is covered with a thick coat of ])ale, decumbent, rather silky hairs, with 
 somewhat of a golden splendor, if these are rubbed o^, the colour of the 
 breast and basal abdominal segment is black. Head hairy, dusky, with a 
 levigated naked testaceous longitudinal elevation between the eyes ; 
 antennae black, robust, very little longer than the prothorax ; prothorax 
 subquadrangular with prominent anterior and posterior angles making it 
 appear constricted in the middle, it is channelled with an irregular discoidal 
 impression on each side ; a few large dusky punctures are observable 
 where the channel terminates : elytra with ten equidistant rows of large 
 punctures which converge at the apex ; besides these there is an abbrevi- 
 ated row at the base next the suture, as in many Hiirpalida-, &c., the apex 
 
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 of the elytra terminates in two teeth or spines ; the inner one short and 
 dentiform, the outer one long and spiniform ; legs and anal portion of the 
 abdomen yellow, the former with all their articulations dusky at the 
 extremity. 
 
 The sculpture of the elMra in this species much resembles that of 
 another a(]uatic genus lla/iplus, Lai. 
 
 [223.] 300. l)i>NA< i.\ iTMoRAF.is Khby. Length of body 3^4 
 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCullo<:h. 
 
 J*ody bron/ed, gilded, with a greenish lint, \ery minutely and thickly 
 punctured, not • onspicuously hairy underneath. Frontal channel slight ; 
 antennae. e.\ce[)t the scape which is bron/ed, and mouth rufous ; prothorax 
 with an imi)ression abo\e the scutellum ; anterior tubercles more than 
 usually prominent ; scutellum rather large ; elytra with single slight 
 anterior imjiression adjoining the suture ; legs rufous, but the thighs, 
 which are much incrassated, e\cei>t the base and summit, are grecn- 
 l)ronzed ; i)osterior thigh without any tooth ; abdomen as in the preceding 
 species. 
 
 I'his species seems nearly related to Donacia pusilla Say. 
 
 301. 1)(.*NA( i.v 1 i.AViPi s Kirby. — Length of body 4 lines. A single 
 s))ecimen taken in Lat. 65'. 
 
 Hody bronzed-copper with a golden lustre ; <'Iothed below with very 
 hort, somewhat silvery, decumbent hairs, the metallic splendor of the 
 body being visible through them. Head thickly, minutely, and con- 
 tinently punctured or wrinkled, channelled l)etMeen the eyes ; antennae 
 testaceous, longer than the prothorax ; prothorax sulxiuadrangular, longer 
 than usual in the genus, widely channelled, very minutely, thickly, and 
 confluently punctured and wrinkled ; anterior tubercles large and not 
 prominent ; elytra with two impressions adjoining the suture, elevated at 
 the base ; legs testaceous. 
 
 [Taken in Ontario and at Lake Superior]. 
 
 302 Dox.uiA AFMNis A'/Vi^j. - Length of body 3^4 lines. Taken 
 by Dr. MacCuUoch in Nova Scotia. 
 
 Body minutely punctured, copper-coloured brilliant with the splendor 
 of gold ; underneath very slightly hairy, Head channelled between the 
 eye.s ; antennae and mouth testaceous ; prothorax widest anteriorly, chan- 
 nelled, punctured but not thickly, lateral anterior tubercles levigated ; 
 scutellum small ; elytra with a single impression, not far from the base, 
 
J05 
 
 adjoining the suture ; base elevated ; margin of the ventral segments of 
 the abdomen of a tine bright, the anus of a deeper orange ; legs 
 testaceous. 
 
 A''ery near D. fiiiviprs, but the sculpture of the prothora.x, the 
 impressions of the elytra, and the colour of the underside of the al)domen 
 are different. It differs from D. discolor in having the prothorax much 
 more thinly punctured, the anterior tubercles, which in that species are 
 near obsolete, more prominent, and the scutellum much smaller. 
 
 [Named /?. A7r/>'j7 by Lacordairc.] 
 
 303. DoNAciA r.MARGiXATA A»/y'.-- Length of body 3-3 lines. 
 'I'aken with the precedmg. 
 
 [225.] Body black-blue, clothed underneath with pile, in certain 
 lights, glittering like silver. Antennae black ; tubercles of the prothorax 
 prominent ; elytra with an im])ression near the suture ; last dorsal segment 
 of the abdomen emarginate ; thighs very thick, bronzed, posterior one 
 with a stout tooth. 
 
 This species comes very near D. sericca^ but it is sufficiently 
 distinguished by its deeply notched podex, and the silver pile that clothes 
 its body underneath, which in that species has a golden lustre. 
 
 ['I'aken in Canada and at Lake Superior,] 
 
 304. DoNAciA PROXLMA Kirby. — Length of body 5 lines. Taken 
 in Canada by 1 )r. Bigsby. 
 
 IJodv a little flattened, covered underneath with a dense coat o< 
 glittering silver pile resembling satin. Head a little bronzed, channelled 
 between the eyes, minutely punctured ; palpi testaceous; antennae entirely 
 black ; prothorax in the disk dark violet and channelled, sides bron/.cd 
 and impressed ; anterior tubercles not prominent ; scutellum l^ronzed ; 
 elytra nearly black with a slight tint of violet, punctures green-gilt, inter- 
 stices of the rows not wrinkled ; an anterior im]>ression near ^he suture , 
 rounded at the apex ; posterior legs long, with thighs somewhat curved, 
 attenuated at the base, armed at the apex with two teeth placed 
 consecutively, the nrst long, slender, and acute ; the last wide, short, and 
 denticulated |>osteriorly. 
 
 This species is nearly related to D. crassipa Fab., but the antennae 
 and the legs are entirely black, the teeth on the i)osterior thighs are noi 
 equal. 
 
rc6 
 
 [Prolmbly synonymous with D. episcopalis Lac. Taken on shore of 
 l^ke Superior.] 
 
 305. DoNACiA CUPR.KA Kit by. — Length of body 4ji Hnes. Taken 
 in Canada by Dr. Bigsby [also on lake Superior.] 
 
 [226.] Body above copper-coloured, glossy ; underneath covered 
 with a thick coat of decumbent pile of a cinereous colour, glittering in 
 certain lights. Head downy, channelled : mouth and palpi rufous ; man- 
 dibles and antennae black ; prothorax rather wider than long, very 
 minutely, thickly and confluently punctured and wrinkled ; channelled, 
 with a pair of impressions on each side, anterior tubercles not prominent ; 
 scutellum downy ; elytra very grossly punctured in rows ; a single anterior 
 impression near the suture ; truncated at the apex ; three intermediate 
 ventral segments of the abdomen have a yellow margin ; legs obscurely 
 rufous ; thighs bronzed in the middle ; posterior thighs with a minute 
 tooth near the apex. 
 
 306. DoNAciA HiRTicon-is Kirby. — Length of body 3 J i- lines. A 
 single specimen taken in I^t. 65". 
 
 Body underneath covered with a thick coat of decumbent pile 
 resembling satin and shining like silver. Head hoary from inconspicuous 
 hairs, most minutely and confluently punctured with a slight interocular 
 channel with an obtuse ridge on each side ; antennae with the second and 
 third joints equal in length ; labrum glittering with silver pile ; prothorax 
 longer than wide, hoary from inconspicuous down, most minutely and 
 confluently punctured, channelled, sides su bun pressed, anterior tubercles 
 flat ; scutellum large, levigated ; elytra black, punctured in rows, whose 
 interstices are wrinkled ; posterior thighs with a single short obtusangular 
 tooth. 
 
 This pretty species comes near D. ^/di'/w Oliv., which I always find on 
 Potamogeton natafu, but it is sufficiently distinguished by its black thoraji 
 hoary from down, and legs without any red. 
 
 [Synonymous with D. riuikoUis Lac. Taken on Lake Superior.] 
 
 307. J^ONACiA .*;guAL!S Say. — Length of body 4-4)2 lines. Many 
 taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house [also in On- 
 tario.] 
 
 [227.] Body underneath covered with a thick coat of silver pile as in 
 the preceding species. Head bronzed, hoary from cinereous down, 
 minutely and confluently punctured, channelled between the eyes with a. 
 
107 
 
 longitudinal obtuse ridge on each side the channel ; antennae black, 
 bronzed at the base, second and third joints eiiual in length , mouth 
 piccous ; prothorax bronzed and gilded, rather longer than wide, th>.kly 
 and confluently i)unctured and wrinkled ; channelled; sides longitudinally 
 subimpressed ; anterior tubercles obsolete ; scutellum hoary from down ; 
 elytra bronzed, gilded, punctured in rows except at the apex where the 
 punctures are confluent, two impressions adjoining the suture, and one in 
 the middle of the base ; apex truncated ; ventral segments of the 
 abdomen, the last excepted, with a bright orange margin ; posterior thighs 
 with a stout short tooth. 
 
 N. B. In the male the ventral segments are without the orange 
 margin. 
 
 Varifiv B. Prothorax bright copper, elytra black-bronzed. 
 
 FAMn.V HISPID.+:. 
 
 308. HiSPA (Anoplitis) bicoi.or OHv. — Length of l)ody t^Y^ lines. 
 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Mr. Francillon had specimens from 
 Georgia. Oliv. 
 
 [228.] Body linear, naked. Head black, smooth, channelled iDCtween 
 the eyes ; antennae robust, scarcely longer than the prothorax, black ; eyes 
 large, dark-brown ; prothorax transverse, narrowest anteriorly, red, with 
 four dusky spots placed transver.sely, grossly punctured, posterior angles 
 producted, behind with a slight sinus on each side ; space above the 
 scutelhmi truncate; scutellum dull-red ; elytra linear, ])lack, three-ridged, 
 with an abbreviated ridge towards the ai>ex between the second and 
 third ; ridges elevated ; interstices with a double series of large and very 
 close punctures : between the second and third at the ba.se and apex the 
 series is quadrui)le, in the middle triple; lateral margin and apex serrulate; 
 imdersidc of the body blood-red ; legs black, ba.se of the thighs red. 
 
 KAMILV COCClNKl.Mf).?^. 
 
 309. CocciNELi.A F.PiscoPAi.is Ktrhy.- -VX^iXn v, fig. 4. Length of 
 body 2 lines. Taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland- 
 house. 
 
 [229,] Body narrow, nearly linear, having at first sight the aspect of 
 a llaltka^ underneath black. Head black with three oblong pale yellow 
 spots, two adjoining the eyes on their inner side, and one placed back- 
 wards in th<? vertex ; mouth, antennae, and palpi rufous ; prothorax and 
 
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 both elytra taken together, pale yellow with two Mack stri]>e.s, «:onimon to 
 both, rescml)ling a bishops crosier, the crook being on the thorax and 
 the stalk on the elytra ; suture of the latter black ex* e|it at the tip ; legs 
 pale testaceous ; anus, sides of the abdomen, ar 1 tii)s of the ventral 
 segment, except the basal one, pale. 
 
 [Belongs to XiCmiii Muls.] 
 
 310. Co(.\;i.\Kij,A iRi:i>FArM-Pi N\ lAiA Itnn. — Length of body 3 
 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 54". 
 
 Dody oblong, black, liglitly and minutely punctured ; underneath 
 .slightly downy. Mouth and its organs pale rufous ; nose white, whiteness 
 with a posterior central lobe ; antennae rufou.s ; prothorax vvhite with a 
 large di.scoidal s])ot falling short of the anterior margin, where it is trun- 
 cated ; sides lobed, besides which there is a black dot on each side 
 connected with the above spot ; elytra reddish-yellow with six largish 
 black dots, namely r. 3, 3. i, and one at the scutellum common to both 
 elytra ; the first marginal dot is ovate, the rest approaching to round ; the 
 tibiae and tarsi are testaceous ; there are two transverse white spots on 
 each side the breast, between the four posterior legs ; and four triangular 
 pale ones on each side the abdomen. 
 
 \'ar[i:tv B. Xose rufous, with a parallegramniscal white spot between 
 the antennae. 
 
 [ Belongs to Jfippodafnia Muls. ; very common in Canada.] 
 
 311. CoeciNi.i.i.A jRiDKNs A7//n. -I ,ength of bcdy 2'^' lines. Two 
 s|)ecimens taken in the Expedition. 
 
 [230.] Body rather oblong, very minutely punctured: black under- 
 neath, with two distant white spots on the breast, and three contiguous 
 ones on each side of the abdomen. Head black with a transverse white 
 band or trident between the eyes, tricuspidate both anteriorly and 
 l)Osteriorly ; the intermediate [toslerior lobe the longest ; prothorax white 
 with a large bipartite l)lack spot, each lobe being trilobed \\'\\X\ rounded 
 iobes resembling a trefoil leaf and connected with the other by a transverse 
 band ; elytra pale reddish-yellow ; with three black spots and one at the 
 .scutellum conunon to both elytra, jjlaced 2, 1. r ; the scutellar .spot some- 
 what bell-shaped, the humeral one roundish, the intermediate one nearly 
 kidney-shaped, and that nearest the ape.\ rather crescent-shaped. 
 
 Varieiv B. Frontal band replaced by three white s{.)ots, the inter- 
 mediate the longest and linear. 
 
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 This species seems to come near C. Parenthesis Say, but still may be 
 distinct. 
 
 [Considered to be a variety of HippodiVnia parenthesis Say, a species 
 not uncommon in Canada.] 
 
 312. CocciNELLA QUiNQUE-siGNATA Kirby. — Plate vii, fig. 1. Length 
 of body 3 lines, A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Body oblong-hemispherical, very minutely and thickly punctured ; 
 underneath black and a little downy. Head black with an acute white 
 spot in the forehead between the eyes \ antennae obscurely rufous, dusky 
 at the base and tip ; prothorax black, anterior angles and intermediate 
 streak white ; elytra tawny yellow with an abbreviated band common to 
 both at the base, an oblique discoidal abbreviated band and apical dot, 
 black ; four distant lateral triangular white spots mark the breast. 
 
 313. CocciNFLLA (^uiNQUE-NOTATA Kirby. — Length of body 3^ 
 lines, A single specimen taken in Lat. 54^ Taken also by Dr. Bigsby 
 in Canada. 
 
 ]23i.] Very like the last, but shorter and more hemispherical. Two 
 subtriangular transverse spots between the eyes, apex of the nose, dot at 
 the sinus of the eyes, and anterior angles of the prothorax whitish-yellow ; 
 basal band of the elytra broadest at the suture, the two other black spots 
 are of equal size and placed transversely, and each lorms an abbreviated 
 band, falling far si ort of the suture and the lateral margin, so as to be 
 scarcely more than two transverse spots ; scutellar angle of the elytra 
 paler than the rest : the breast has no white spots. In other respects it 
 is exactly like C. ysignata. 
 
 314. CocciNELLA TRicuspis Kirby. — Length of body 2% lines. 
 Several specimens taken in the Journey from New York to Cumberland- 
 house. 
 
 Body black, punctured. Head with two irregular transverse yellow 
 spots between the eyes ; antennae pale rufous, black at the tip : prothorax 
 with the anterior angles and a slender portion of the anterior margin 
 yellow, the black part fornoing a large three-lobed spot ; the middle lobe 
 being the longest and truncated, the lateral ones shorter and rounded ; 
 elytra tawny-rufous, paler and almost yellow at the base and sides, where 
 there is a black band common to both elytra not reaching the lateral 
 margin, which anteriorly has a double sinus so as to form three triangular 
 lobes or points in the band ; towards the apex of each elytrum is another 
 irregular black band, which reaches neither the suture nor the margin. 
 
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 315. CocciNELT.A iNCARNATA Kirhy. — Plate vii, fig. 7. Length of 
 body 2 lines. A single specimen taken in lat. 65". 
 
 [232.] Hody black. Mo\ith and its organs and antennae reddish ; 
 prothorax flesh-coloured with two large siibquadrangular black spots, 
 separated by a narrow flesh-coloured stripe, which occupy almost all the 
 disk : elytra flesh-coloured, taken together with eleven roundish rather 
 large black spots, three of which are common to both elytra, viz. 3, 4, 3, 
 I, the common spot at the apex is transverse ; legs black with the base of 
 the thighs and tibiae, tarsi, sides of the abdomen, and anus testaceous. 
 
 This species seems to come near C. bormlis of Thunberg, but it differs 
 in colour and the number and disposition of the spots. 
 
 FAMILY PIMEMAD.I-:. 
 
 316. PiMELiA ALTERNATA Kirby. — Plate V, fig. 9. Length of body 
 6^ lines. A single specimen taken at Carlton-house, I-^t. 53°, in April. 
 
 [233.] Body dull-black, oblong, naked. Head minutely punctured ; 
 antennae shorter than the prothorax ; prothorax widest in the middle, 
 subcjuadrangular with the sides rounded, minutely but not very thickly 
 punctured, with some slight impressions in the disk : scutellum short, 
 wide, rounded at the apex ; elytra with six elevated granulated lines 
 .alternately more pronounced, besides the suture and marginal one sep- 
 arating the epipleura, which meet just aboA'e the apex ; epipleura granu- 
 lated : posterior legs much longer than the four anterior. 
 
 Mr. Say says of his P, rotunda that it was the first of that genus found 
 on the New Continent ; that above described furnishes therefore a valu- 
 able addition to the American insect Fauna. Africa appears to be the 
 metropolis of the genus, though several species have been found in 
 Russian Tartary. 
 
 [A species of Kieodes, synonymous with Say's Eleodes (Blaps) 
 tricosiata. 
 
 FAMILY TENEBRIONID.E. 
 
 317. Upis CERAMBoiDES Z///«. — length of body 8-8)^ lines. A 
 pair taken in the month of April, in Lat. 65°. Taken also in Canada by 
 Dr. Bigsby. [Abundant throughout Canada ; taken by Agassiz's Expe- 
 dition on I^ke Superior.] 
 
 Body dull-black, narrow, naked, minutely punctured. Head nearly 
 round depressed, porrected ; eyes lateral, kidney-shaped ; nose circum- 
 
Ill 
 
 scribed by the segment of a circle ; antennae a little shorter than the 
 prothorax, joints obconical, four last lentile-shaped ; prothorax a little 
 wider than the head, oblong with rounded sides ; scutellum rouii..ed at 
 the apex ; elytra taken together wider than the prothorax, a little dilated 
 beyond the middle, i;nd then sloping to the apex, which is acute ; very 
 unequal with numerous irregular deep impressions and rugosities, variously 
 separated by a number of elevated lines or obtuse ridges rvmning con- 
 fusedly in various directions ; legs long ; thighs incrassated ; tibiae and 
 tarsi slender. 
 
 [234.] 318. Tknebrio MoLiTOR Z/;/;/. — I^ngthof body 7J/. lines. 
 Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 Body oblong-Hnear, minutely and numerously punctured, a little 
 glossy, naked, above piceous, underneath rufo-picepus. Head uneven, 
 nearly orbicular ; anteriorly rufo-piceous ; antennae and palpi rufo-piceous ; 
 prothorax transverse, sides rounded with a reflexed margin ; posterior 
 margin wavy, just above which, on each side, is a roundish impression ; 
 posterior angles acuminate : scutellum transverse, subacuminate : elytra 
 scarcely wider than the prothorax, slightly furrowed, furrows punctured 
 with the interstices transversely somewhat wrinkled, and most numerously 
 and minutely punctured ; shoulders short, compressed and incrassated ; 
 cubit curved. 
 
 [An introduced European species that has spread all over Canada and 
 the Northern States, and has become a great pest to millers, flour dealers 
 and house-keepers.] 
 
 Tenebrio Pennsvlvanicus Knock. — Length of body 8-9 lines. 
 Several specimens taken in Lat. 54° ; it was also sent me by Dr. Harris. 
 
 [2 3 5.] Body long, rather widest towards the anus, black, minutely 
 punctured, naked, not glossy. Head somewhat quadrangular, longer than 
 in the preceding species, uneven , prothorax nearly square with a minute 
 impression above the scutellum ; posterior margin wavy ; lateral very 
 slender and a little rounded ; scutellum subtriangular ; elytra with nine 
 rows, including the marginal one, of punctures, and an abbreviated one at 
 the base next the suture ; under a powerful lens the interstices are minutely 
 but not thickly punctured : the shoulders are scarcely thicker than the 
 thighs. 
 
 [Belongs to Nyctobates Guen. ; very abundant throughout Canada.] 
 
IIS 
 
 FAMILY DlAPERlDif;. 
 
 320. DfAPERis ( ArrhcnopUta ) iucornis. — Oliv. — Length of body 
 male i ^, female 2 lines. Several taken in the route from New York to 
 Cumberland-house. 
 
 Body punctured, glossy ; underneath black, above black- bronzed or 
 green-bronzed. Head of the female transversely impressed between the 
 eyes, unarmed; in the male just behind the eyes is a pair of long 
 cylindrical vertical piceous horns rather paler at the apex, between which 
 is a deep excavation ; the nose also at the apex is armed with a pair of 
 minute triangular teeth ; mouth, in both sexes, rufous : antennae black 
 with the three first joints attenuated and rufous ; prothorax transverse 
 with the sides rounded, posteriorly obtusangular but not lobed ; scutellum 
 triangular ; elytra slightly furrowed with the furrows punctured ; interstices 
 minutely punctured ; anus underneath with two transverse obtuse ridges ; 
 legs rufous. 
 
 [Belongs to Hoplocephala Lap. ; quite common in Canada.] 
 
 [236.] FAMILY BOLITOPHAGIDi€. 
 
 321. BoLiTOPHAGus coRNUTUS Fahr. — Length of body 5 lines. 
 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, in a Boletus of the birch, near I^ke 
 Huron. [Quite common in old dry fungi on trees and stumps. For 
 description and figures see Say's Amer. Entomology, vol. i, p. 114, plate 
 
 51. With regard to the orthography of this word, we may mention that 
 the Greek term is BoHtes^ and the Latin Boletus ; as the termination 
 p&agus is Greek the generic name of the insect should be written as 
 above, Bolitophagus^ while Boletus is quite correct as applied to the 
 fungus.] 
 
 322. BoLrroPHAGUs obcordatus Kirby. — Length of body 6)^ 
 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
 
 Body linear-oblong, pollinose. Head brown-black, subtriangular ; 
 labrum ciliated with yellow hairs; antennae black-piceous, last joint 
 smaller than the two antecedent ones, which are bigger than the rest : 
 prothorax brown-black, obcordate with a larger anterior sinus for the 
 head ; surface flat, uneven behind from five obtuse ridges, the lateral ones 
 abbreviated, and before from several rounded tubercles : scutellum minute : 
 
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 elytra embrowned with a yellowish tint from lutose scales, anteriorly [23;] 
 with three obtuse ridges r tl;e interior one very short ; the intermediate 
 one discoidal. abbreviated at each end ; and the exterior one reaching 
 from the base to the ai)i(al tubercles, of which there are two much 
 elevated, the interior one bcin;' the larcjest and hi^jjhcst ; in the interstices 
 there are four rows of deep impressions : the sides ot the antepectus are 
 verrucose ; the abdomen is black-brov/n with lutose sides ; the disk is 
 longitudinally, densely, and thickly wrinkleJ, '•nd the sides are verrucose; 
 legs black-brown. 
 
 This species differs from the preceding one in the form of the thorax 
 and the clava of the antennae, and ought perhaps to/crm a subgenus. 
 [Belongs to Nosoderma Esch. : rather rare in Canada.] 
 
 F.\MILV HKLOPIDit:. 
 
 Genus Meracantha Kirby. — Labnim transverse, scarcely cmarginate ; 
 labium subtriangiilar, longitudinally and obtusely ridged in the middle 
 with a deep impression on each side , mandibles bidentate ? at the apex ; 
 maxillse mutilated ; maxillary palpi first joint minute : second longer than 
 the rest, clavate ; third obconical ; fourth very large, securiform ; labial 
 palpi broken off; mentum trapazoidal ; antennae filiform, scape incras- 
 sated ; pedicel obconical ; third joint longer than the rest, subcylindrical, 
 a little incrassated at the apex ; fourth shorter than the fifth, subobconical ; 
 fifth longer than the subsequent ones, elongate, obconical ; 6 — 10 
 obconical, gradually decreasing in length, and the 9th and 10th in thick- 
 ness ; nth ovate acute. 
 
 Body ovate, convex, apterous. Head triangular ; front elevated on 
 each side at the eyes protecting the base of the antennae ; eyes large, 
 lateral, internally emarginate. Prothorax rather wider than long, narrowest 
 anteriorly, subquadrangular ; margined on the sides and anteriorly, margin 
 very slender. Scutellum an obtiisangled triangle. Elytra with the 
 epipleura narrow, falciform ; shoulders incrassated, armed with a tooth ; 
 calcaria very short and scarcely visible. 
 
 [238.] 323. Meracantha canadensis A7r^^.— Length of body 6 
 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body black-bronzed, naked, glossy, punctured : on the upper side of 
 the body the colour is more metallic. Head and prothorax confluently 
 punctured, two last joints of the antennae pale from hairs ; elytra slightly 
 furrowed, the sutural and the marginal furrows meeting at the apex and 
 
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 including the rest ; furrows punctured ; interstices very minutely and 
 thinly punctured ; sides of the abdomen longitudinally wrinkled : tooth 
 of the shoulder short and wide, placed a little above the middle. 
 
 FAMILY STENOCHIADit. 
 
 Genus Arthromacra AVr/^y.— Labrum transverse ; labium dilated 
 above the insertion of the palpi, subemarginate : mandibles bidentate at 
 the apex ; maxillaj bilobed ; lobes thick, obtuse ; maxillary palpi 
 incurved, four-jointed ; first joint minute ; second longer than the rest, 
 clavate ; third shorter than the fourth, triangular ; fourth very large 
 securiform, with the .truncature oblique : labial palpi three-jointed, last 
 joint securiform ; mentum obtriangular ; antennae filiform, eleven-jointed ; 
 scape short, incrassated ; pedicel short, incrassated at the apex ; joints 
 3 — 8 obconical, nearly twice the length of the pedicel ; last joint cylin- 
 drical, downy, as long as the five antecedent ones taken together. 
 
 Body long and slender ; head triangular ; eyes kidney-shaped ; pro- 
 thorax cylindrical, not wider than the head ; scutellum rounded ; elytra 
 wider than the thorax, linear ; legs slender ; tarsi very long. 
 
 [239.] 324. Arthromacra donacioides Kirby. — Length of body 
 5 lines. Taken in Canada, near I^ake St. Clair, by Dr. Bigsby. Speci- 
 mens also from Massachusetts. 
 
 Body black-bronzed with a greenish tint, glossy, with the whole upper 
 surface thickly aud irregularly punctured ; underneath, except the sides 
 of the trunk, impunctured. Antennae much longer than the head and 
 prothorax, scape and pedicel dusky, 3 — 8 joints tawny-yellow : last joint 
 black, downy ; prothorax nearly cylindrical ; elytra wider than the pro- 
 thorax, obtuse at the apex ; thighs a little incrassated ; apex of the cubit 
 and tarsi tawny-yellow ; two last joints of the latter dusky. 
 
 This singular insect, at first sight, looks very like a Donacia, a 
 resemblance merely given by its colour. 
 
 [Belongs to Statyra Latr. ; previously described as Lagria aenea by 
 Say (Am. Ent. i, 191) ; not uncommon in Canada.] 
 
 FAMILY CISTELlDvE. 
 
 325. CiSTELA ERYTHROPA Kirby. — Length of body 5 lines. Taken 
 in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
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 Body elliptical, gloss obscured, especially on the elytra, by very short 
 decumbent hairs. Head longitudinally and slightly impressed between 
 the eyes ; antennae longer than the prothorax, reddish brown, with the 
 three first joints rufous : prothorax transverse, anteriorly not wider than 
 the head, posteriorly obsoletely trilobed, and nearly as wide as the elytra ; 
 lateral angles acute ; elytra slightly furrowed ; furrows scarcely punctured ; 
 legs pale rufous ; posterior tarsi long, embrowned. 
 
 [240.] FAMILY DIKUEWM. 
 
 326. Xylita buprestoides /•(?>'/('. — Length of body 3 lines. Taken 
 in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body narrow, biack-brown, very minutely and thickly punctured, 
 sprinkled with short decumbent pale hairs, not glossy. Head inserted ; 
 eyes hemispherical ; palpi rufous ; antennae nearly as long as the pro- 
 thorax, ferruginous, a little embrowned at the apex ; prothorax not wider 
 than long, anteriorly narrowest, posteriorly obsoletely trilobed ; sides 
 rounded ; scutellum transverse ; elytra very little wider than the pro- 
 thorax ; tarsi ferruginous. 
 
 [Taken by Agassiz's Expedition to Lake Superior.] 
 
 FAMILY ANTHICID.t. 
 
 327. NoToxu.s MONUDON Fudr. — Length of body 1^3 line. A 
 single specimeh taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 [241.] Body hairy with pale hairs. Head blackish ; mouth, palpi, 
 and antennae testaceous ; prothorax testaceous ; horn convex above, 
 margin denticulated ; elytra testaceous with a blackish band near the 
 apex which rises upwards at the suture, and three blackish spots ; two at 
 the base, and one between the band and the apex, the last very faint ; 
 legs testaceous ; postpectus and base of the abdomen embrowned ; the 
 remainder of the prone part of the body is testaceous. 
 
 [Not uncommon in Canada. Described and figured by Say (Am. 
 Ent, i, 21, plate 10).] 
 
 FAMILY CANTHARID;E. 
 
 328. Cantharis unicolor Kirby. — Length of body 7 lines. Taken 
 in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
ii6 
 
 Body black, hoary from numerous decumbent white hairs ; antennae 
 subsetaceous, a little longer than the prothorax ; two first joints very 
 long, the first curved and nearly twice the length of the second ; and the 
 second as long as the three following ones together ; jjrothorax rather 
 bell-shaped, channelled ; wings embrowned. 
 
 [Belongs to the genus Epicauta Red.] 
 
 [242.] 329. Meloe i>?prf.ssa Kirby. — Length of body 5^ lines. 
 A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Nearly related to Meloe violacea, but very much smaller. Body violet- 
 coloured. Head with scattered but not large punctures ; front between 
 the antennae transversely and obtusely elevated ; antennae irregular ; 
 prothorax not much narrower than the head, anteriorly rounded, posteriorly 
 narrower and emarginate, towards the base with a decpish impression, 
 with several scattered but not large punctures, and two little transverse 
 oblique crescents formed of punctures ; elytra wrinkled ; outer claws and 
 spurs riifo-piceous, inner claws paler. 
 
 330. Mei.ok nigra Kirby. — Length of body 6 lines. A single 
 specimen taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 f^xtremely similar to the preceding species, but the body is all black 
 wiih no tint of violet, except the base of the antennae below the band 
 and the tibiae and tarsi ; the head and prothorax are more thickly 
 punctured, and the claws and spurs are ferruginous. 
 
 [Previously described as M. coitferta, Say.j 
 
 [243.] FAMILY MELVRIlJ-t. 
 
 331. Dasvtes FOVEicoi-Lis Kirbx. — Length of body 2^ lines A 
 single specimen taken in the Journey from New York to Cumberland- 
 house. 
 
 Body somewhat hairy, underneath black and glossy ; above with a 
 blue tint. Head glossy, punctured with largish scattered punctures ; front 
 with two impressions : prothorax nearly square, with the sides a little 
 curved, punctured at the head, with a pair of transverse anterior impres- 
 sions ; sides and base margined, margin reflexed ; elytra less glossy than 
 the rest of the body, minutely, but not conspicuously, punctured. 
 
 [Belongs to the family MalachiidcE.\ 
 
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 FAMILY CLERID.*: 
 
 332. Necroiua violacea Linn. — Length of body anilines. Taken 
 abundantly on the journey. 
 
 [244,] Body dark bhie, glossy, minutely punctured, rather hairy. 
 Punctures on the head and prothorux nearly conlluent and larger than 
 those of the underside of the body ; antennae black, last joint sub- 
 quadrangular ; sides of the prothorax obtnsangular ; scutelluni black ; 
 longer punctures of the anterior half of the elytra arranged in rows, with 
 the interstices minutely punctured; the rows then disappear, and the whole 
 of the apex is indiscriminately and minutely punctured ; legs black with 
 
 a tint of brown. 
 
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 [Taken in Canada.] 
 
 333. Thaxasimus abdc)M1Nai,is Kirby. — Plate ii, fig. 5. — Length of 
 body 4J2 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 65 \ 
 
 Body black, hairy, with longish white and some black hairs. Head 
 punctured with two |)Osterioriy converging imi)rcssed lines between the 
 eves ; palpi and antennae dull rufous, last joint of the labial palpi, which 
 are more than twice the length of the maxillar)', very large and semi- 
 cordate ; last joint of the antennae, which are shorter than the prothorax, 
 ovate and subacuminate : eyes kidney [245] -shaped, rufous, with a golden 
 lustre ; prothorax thickly punctured, not wider and not much longer than 
 the head, constricted !)chind, and anteriorly with a pair of oblique 
 impressions, one on eacli side : elytra minutely punctured, with larger 
 punctures arranged in five rows, the two exterior ones reachmg from the 
 shoulder to the middle, and the interior ones not so far ; the elytra are 
 traversed by a pair of white undulatoangular bands formed of decumbent 
 hairs ; the lirst begins at the base below the scutellum, and running down 
 along the suture for a little way, tlien diverges and forms the band, which 
 is broadest at the lateral margin ; the other band is near the apex, broad, 
 and projects anteriorly into an angle ; the legs are dull rufous : the 
 abdomen is between testaceous and oranu;e. with the tips of the segments 
 paler. 
 
 [Synonymous with 7! (Clenis) undnlatus Say. Kirby's name 
 abdominalis being preoccupied, was changed by Klug to nubiius, who did 
 not recognize the identity with Say's si)ecies. Is occasionally taken in 
 Canada.] 
 
 FAMILY CYPHONID.-E. 
 
 334. Cyphon fusciceps Kirby. — Length of body i^ lines. A 
 single specimen taken. 
 
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 Body lurid, downy. Head brown, mouth lurid ; antennae 'nutilated 
 in the specimen, but what remains is brown ; protliorax very short, trans- 
 verse, slightly bisinuate both anteriorly and posteriorly; disk embrowned; 
 elytra very minutely and thickly punctured ; breast and belly brown ; 
 thighs embrowned. 
 
 [Is taken in Canada.] 
 
 lAMll.V I hLKPHORiD.E. 
 
 335. TELtPHokL'S AiKK Linn. Length of body zi/^ lines. A single 
 specimen taken in the journc} from New York to Cumberland-house. 
 
 [246.] Body black, rather hairy. Head su!)orbi{uku\ obsolctely 
 channelled : mouth, paljM, and base of the antennae, ruious ; prothorax 
 rather wider than long, very glossy ; disk obsoletely ( hannelled and a 
 little elevated on each side tlie channel ; anterior angles rounded ; elvtra 
 minutely and contluently pum turcd. when elevated from the body they 
 appear embrowned ; tij) of the thighs, tibiae, and tarsi, rufous. 
 
 336. Tklephokls Wesjwuodh Kirby.- Length of body 5^ lines. 
 A single specmien taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 Body black, downy. Head suborbicular, rufous with a black anteriorly 
 tridentate band between the eyes ; mandibles and palpi dusky at the tip ; 
 antennae shorter than the hotly, with the scape and the base of the 
 pedicel or second joint, rufous ; j^rothorax rufous, rather wider than long, 
 anteriorly rounded, posteriorly transverse with the margin much reflexed ; 
 disk slightly channelled : elytra obsoletely punctured, or wrinkled, with 
 three obsolete longitudinal elevated lines, the outer one abbreviated at 
 both ends ; legs dusky, base and apex of the four anterior thighs 
 rufous ; posterior thighs rufous, dusky at the tip. 
 
 337. Telephorus Sa.moi;ellii Kirby. — Length of body 5^^ lines. 
 Taken in the route from New York, in Lat. 65°, and in the Rocky 
 Mountains. 
 
 Very like T. Westwoodii, but the antennae are dusky, pale at the ba^e; 
 between the eyes is a faint dusky cloud ; the scutellum and the legs are 
 testaceous, as are the sides and tips of the ventral segments of the abdo- 
 men as well as the anus. 
 
 [247] 338. Telephorus Curtisii Kirby. — Length of body 4^ 
 lines. Taken in l^t. 65°. 
 
 Very like the preceding species, but it is smaller ; there is a black 
 band between the eyes ; the prothorax is considerably longer and 
 
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 narrower in proportion, the posterior angles are more acute, and the tarsi 
 are black. 
 
 [Taken by Agassiz's Expedition to Lake Superior.] 
 
 339. Tklephorus (Malthacus) PuNCTicoLLis Kirby. — Plate vii, 
 fig. 4- — Length of body zVi lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54". 
 
 [248]. Body black, rather hair}-, with short decumbent white hairs. 
 Head rhomboidal, liglitly and minutely punctured ; posteriorly obsoletely 
 channelled ; impressed lietween the eyes ; pale-yellow beiow the antennae ; 
 antennae longer than the prothorax, three lirst joints underneath of a 
 dull-red, second and third, taken together, scarcely longer than the fourth ; 
 prothorax nearly S(|uarc, lightly and very minutely punctured ; anterior 
 angles rounded, posterior rectangular ; disk channelled, and on each side 
 the channel longitudinally elevated ; sides luteous ; posterior margin 
 reflexed ; elytra very minutely and thickly punctured ; lateral margin 
 anteriorly rather pale ; legs black ; trochnnters and cubits dull rufous. 
 
 [Belongs to Pfldabnis?\ 
 
 340. Telepfiorus (MAi/rHAcus) L.^vicoLLis Kirby. — Length of 
 body 33^ lines. A single specimen taken in the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 Body black, somewhat hoary with decumbent hairs. Head im- 
 punctured, impressed transversely between the eyes ; mouth and three 
 first joints of the antennae luteous ; prothorax nearly square, very glossy, 
 impunctured ; elytra less visibly [lunctured than in the preceding species ; 
 legs luteous, thighs brown at the i-ase. 
 
 [Taken by Agassiz's ?Apedition to T^ake Superior. Belongs to 
 Podabrns.\ 
 
 341. Tef-ephorus (Malthacus) Mandibularis Kirby. — Length of 
 body 2^ lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 65'. 
 
 Body all black, except the red mandibles, somewhat hoary with 
 decumbent hairs. Hind-head received by the prothorax ; eyes very 
 prominent 3 antennae longer than the prothorax ; third joint nearly twice 
 the length of the second ; prothorax impunctured, scarcely wider than 
 long, all the angles rounded ; disk channelled, less elevated on each side ; 
 posterior lateral margins somewhat reflexed ; elytra black, minutely and 
 confluently punctured. 
 
 [Synonymous with T. fraxini Say. Taken in Canada j also by 
 Agassiz's Expedition to I^ke Superior.] 
 
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 [249-] 342. Telephorus (Rrachvn()tus) Bknnetii Kirby. — 
 Length of body 6 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, and in Massa- 
 chusetts by Mr. Drake. 
 
 Body black, hoary with decumbent hairs. Head suborbicular, 
 punctured behind the antennae ; neck rufous ; front, before the antennae, 
 pale yellow ; exterior margin of the nose black \ mandibles yellow at the 
 base ; antennae longer than the prolliorax ; prothorax pale yellow, disk 
 elevated with a black irregular punctured spot ; elytra minutely and 
 confiuently punctured, somewhat dilated externally ; obsoletly tricarinate; 
 legs black; knees rufous, 
 
 [Synonymous with Podabrus tncostatus Say ; a common species in 
 Canada. 
 
 FAMILY LAMPYRID^.. 
 
 343. Lampyris corusca Linn. — Length of body 4^ lines. Taken 
 at New York and Cumberland-house, Lat. 54°. In Canada, by Dr. 
 Bigsby. 
 
 Body oblong, pubescent, brown-black. Nose and mouth elongated ; 
 prothorax nearly semicircular, disk elevated ; a rose-coloured arched 
 streak dilated and yellower anteriorly adjoins the elevated pnrt on each 
 side ; elytra obsoleteiy carinated, most numerously and minutely 
 punctured. 
 
 [Belongs to Ellychnia Lee. Very common in Canada.] 
 
 [250.] IL— ORTHOPTERA. 
 
 family I.OCUSTID/E. 
 
 344. LocuSTA leucostoma A7r^^. — Length cf body izV'i lines. A 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 65"". 
 
 Body obscurely rufous, clouded with darker shades. Upper lip, and 
 large spot of the mandibles, white ; palpi reddish, with the two last joints 
 whiter, summit black ; antennae as long as the trunk, which on the upper 
 side is subpubescent ; last segment of the prothorax carinated ; tegmina, 
 cinereous, with piceous and rufo-piceous nervures ; and at the base is a 
 longitudinal mesal series of black spots ; the legs arc rufo-testaceous, with 
 the summit of the thighs and the spines black ; the posterior thighs above 
 are clouded with the same colour. 
 
 [Synonymous with Caloptentis bivittatns Say. This species is found in 
 Canada and the New England States, as far south as Maryland and 
 
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 Texas, westward to Nebraska and Minnesota, and northward to Lake 
 VVinnepeg. 
 
 345. LocusTA VERRUCULATA Kirb}'. — Length of body 12^ lines 
 A single specimen taken in Lat. 57^ 
 
 [251.] Body cinereous, sprinkled with black dots or punctures, and 
 indistinct spots. Head punctured ; palpi white at the tij) ; mandibles 
 piceous ; antennae shorter than the trunk, pale, black at the tip and 
 longitudinally concavo-convex ; prothorax with an entire longitudinal 
 dorsal ridge, wrinkled, and warty from the wrinkles ; tegmina with a 
 reddish tint, irregularly reticulated : wings with a black mcsal band, and 
 reddish-yellow nervures ; abdomen pale underneath. 
 
 [Belongs to the genus CEdipoda Latr. Is taken in Canada and the 
 New England States ; has been found also at Lake Winnepeg.] 
 
 FAMILY ACRYDIAD/E. 
 
 346. AcRYDiUM GRANULATUM Kuby. — Length of body 5 lines. A 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 65^ 
 
 Body black, sprinkled w ith numberless very minute elevated points or 
 granules. Prothorax cinereous, clouded obscurely with black, three- 
 ridged ; with middle ridge straight, and the lateral ones curved at the 
 base ; rudiments of the tegmina cinereous, ridged, punctured with 
 excavated punctures ; nervures of the wings black, those of the costal 
 area white ; the four anterior tibiae are reddish, obscurely banded or 
 rather annulated with white. 
 
 [Belongs to the genus Tettix Latr. Taken by White in Sir J. Richard- 
 son's Arctic Searching Expedition, on the borders of the Mackenzie and 
 Slave Rivers, and Fort Simpson. Found also in N. E. States and 
 Minnesota.] 
 
 [252.] IIL— NEUROPTERA. 
 
 FAMILY AGRIONID.I^. 
 
 347. AoRiON PUELLA Linn. 
 
 Variety B. Trunk sea-green, above black with two sea-green longi- 
 tudinal stripes ; abdomen black, sea-green at the 
 base, inscribed with black ; legs black above, under- 
 neath sea-green or white ; the stigma of the wings is 
 blackish with a transparent margin. 
 
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 C. Tnink blaoV and white with two dorsal white longitudinal 
 stripes ; legs black ; stigina of the wings black ; 
 abdomen mutilated. 
 Both taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 [Hagen (Synopsis of Neuroptera of N. A., p. 98) says that this is 
 " perhaps another species which is inextricable." ] . 
 
 FAMILY PERLIDiE. 
 
 348. Peri.a nicAUDATA Linv. — Length of body about 7^^ lines. 
 Several specimens taken in T.at. 68°. 
 
 [253.] Body black, hairy. Antennae, tibiae, tarsi, caudal setae, and 
 wings dull testaceous ; the vertex consists of a yellowish membranous 
 spot ; the joints of the caudal antenniform organs are dark at the tip. 
 
 The larva is white underneath, fusco-cinereous above ; head and 
 thorax spotted with white, with a pale longitudinal line. More than one 
 species seems to have passed under the name of P/iryganea hicaudata. I 
 will not affirm that the present species is not distinct : but as the speci- 
 mens w^ere not perfect, I thoutjht it best to consider them as belonging to 
 that type. 
 
 [Synonymous with P. frontalis Newman. Taken at St. Martin's 
 Falls, Albany River, Hudson^ Bay ; at Trenton Falls, N. Y., and in 
 Ohio.] 
 
 IV.- TRICHOPTERA. 
 
 FAMILY PHRYGANIDAE. 
 
 349. LiMNEPHiLUS NEBULOSUS A7/v^. — Length of body 7 lincs. A 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 65°, 
 
 Body black, hairy with whitish hairs! Antennae are mutilated in the 
 specimen, but the base is black ; scutellum testaceous ; upper wings 
 testaceous, spotted and dotted- with white except the costal area, which is 
 without any of that colour ; under wings white with testaceous nervures ; 
 legs testaceous. 
 
 350. LiMNEPHiLUS FEMORALis Kirhy. — Length of body 6)^ lines. 
 Taken with the preceding. 
 
 Very like the preceding species, but paler, with black scutellum and 
 thighs. 
 
 [Both species are unknown to Dr. Hagen.] 
 
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 [254 j V. HYMKiNOPTKRA. 
 Family ciMBiciD/t. 
 
 351. CiMHLX nMukAiA Ltiiii. ' -englli of i)()dy so lines; expansion 
 of wings 21 lines. A single specimen taken in J^at. (i^\ 
 
 %. Body very black, hairy. Antenme yellow, brown at the base ; 
 legs blue-lilack ; tarsi yellow ; wings hyaline with yellow nervures, brown 
 at the tip, with a brown cloud in the middle areolet adjoining the costa. 
 
 352. Trichkxsoaia TR'ANiiL llm A'/>/{y'. -Length of body 9 lines. 
 A single specimen taken in l.at. 65". Another was also sent me from 
 Canada by l)r, Bigsby. 
 
 [255.] Body black, shining, covered with soft and woolly whitish 
 hairs, punctured more or less. Head, excluding the mmdibles, depressed, 
 orbicular, as wide as the trunk ; mandibles crossed, very sharp, black ; 
 upper lip subpentagonal, Hat with a longitudinal elevation in the middle, 
 hairs on this part black ; anterior margin of the nose wavy, emarginate in 
 the middle ; antennae with the fourtli, fifth, and sixth joints testaceous ; 
 three eyelets behind the antennae arranged in a triangle ; eyes oval, pro- 
 minent ; vertex square, marked out by a ridge on each side ; trunk 
 subglobose ; prothorax with a longitudinal furrow ; thighs and coxae 
 black-blue ; under a strong magnifier beautifully and most minutely 
 reticulated, which gives them a silky lustre ; the rest of the leg is testa- 
 ceous ; the two posterior pair of thighs are thicker than the others and 
 armed at the apex with a short tooth on each side, between which is a 
 cavity to receive the shank when folded ; tarsi with a sucker underneath 
 at the apex of the four first joints ; wings testaceous with piceous ner- 
 vures, and a cloud at the tip ; abdomen ferruginous with a dorsal 
 triangular black spot, extending from the base towards the apex, but not 
 entering the last segment ; the basilar ventral segments are spotted with 
 brown. 
 
 [Found in Canada and Colorado.] 
 
 353. Trichiosoma lucorum Lifw. — Length of body 7 lines ; expan- 
 sion of wings 1 5 lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
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 Body black with a very slight ;eneous tint ; glossy, hairy with ciner- 
 ascent hairs, those of the trunk Iohl;. Head orliicular, scarcely so wide 
 as the trunk ; upper lip small, convex, orbicular, punctured ; antennae 
 black ; wings subhyalinc with a cknid at the tip ; nervures some uiceous 
 and others rufous ; tliiglis black witli a very slight tint of blue ; posterior 
 pair arrned with a tcxjth ; abdomen short, subovate, black, covered more 
 or less with short decumbent down ; black above, underneath reddish at 
 the tail. 
 
 [256.] FAMILY lENTHRtDlNlD^:. 
 
 354. Ai.i.ANTUS •''dc'wroMA A7;-/'j'.— Length of body 6 lines. One 
 specimen taken in I. at. 65". 
 
 Body narrow, black, glossy, without hairs. Head scarcely so wide as 
 the trunk, wcdge-shaj^cd ; palpi, suborbicular upper lip, emarginate nose, 
 and base of the mandibles, white ; a])ex of the latter rufous ; antennae a 
 little shorter than the trunk, nine-jointed, with tht; third joint longer than 
 any of the others ; neck constricted ; legulae testaceous ; wings sub- 
 hy^iline with piceous nervures ; legs yellow, with the apex of the tibiae 
 and the whole of the tarsi of the p'osterior legs, black ; abdomen linear, 
 acute at the anus. 
 
 This species comes near Allantus ater, but the mandibles are rufous at 
 the apex ; the palpi are whiter ; and the legs of a different colour. 
 
 FAMILY SIRIClDiC. 
 
 355. SiRKX 15IZONATUS 6"/f^/it7w.-- Length of body 18 Hnes ; expan- 
 sion of Avings 27 lines. Taken in Lat. 65" and in the journey from New 
 York. 
 
 [257.] Body very black, covered with innumerable i)unctures from 
 each of which proceeds a black upright hair. Head narrower than the 
 trunk ; mandibles incumbent ; palpi rufo-piceous ; antennae as long as 
 the trunk, yellow ; behind each eye is a large oval yellow eye-like spot 
 perfectly naked and smooth \ legs and tips of the thighs yellow ; wings 
 yellowish with dark nervures ; abdomen with the second, seventh and 
 eighth segments luteous : anal mucro linear, yellow, terminating in a 
 point \ ovipositor black. 
 
 The specimens of this species, which Mr. Stephens found near Lon- 
 don, might probably have been imported in fir timber from Canada. 
 
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 356. SiREX ji^VKNcus Linn. — l.cnt(lh of body, rnucro included, 11 
 lines; expansion of winsrs 20 lines, (^ne specimen taken in l^t. 65^ 
 
 Body hhck-Uiie, glossy, punctured \ ery tiiickly on the head and 
 trunk, in which from each puncture proceeds a biai k hair. Head between 
 globose and triangular, verv hairy with a naked spot behind the eyes ; 
 cheek terminating in a tooth or point as in the other species of the genus ; 
 verte.x blue-green ; ant-^nna- black, shorter than the thorax ; palpi piceous ; 
 trunk subglobose, with the ( entral ])art of the thorax and the part between 
 the four anterior legs tinted with green ; legs lufous with the coxae and 
 trochanters l)lack ; wings hyaline with piceous nervures ; abdomen naked, 
 terminated by a subtriangulav acunn'nated murro or horn , ovipositor 
 piceous. 
 
 In this specimen the ovipositor is longer and goes further beyond the 
 anal horn than in the Kuropean ones, and the horn itself is more dilated 
 at the base. 
 
 [258.] FAMILY rcKNID.+:. 
 
 357. Imknl's jACULAioR Lifui. — Two sj)eciniens taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 The American specimens differ from those of Europe, which also 
 vary, in having the red segments of the abdomen marked with a large 
 black basilar dorsal spot, the former having mostly only a darker cloud. 
 Panzer's figure, however, comes very near the American. 
 
 [It is doubtful that the European species occurs in America ; they are 
 probably distinct] 
 
 F A.M I L V ICH .< KU MON I D.«. 
 
 358. Ichneumon ffrrucjator Kirby. — Length of body 7 lines. 
 Taken in the Expedition, but no locality stated. 
 
 [259.] Abdomen black, rather glossy, very thickly punctured with 
 minute and often confluent punctures. Head transverse, triangular, not 
 quite so wide as the middle of the trunk : anterior margin of the face 
 rounded ; palpi reddish ; eyes long, subelli[)tical : antenna^ shorter than 
 the trunk, spirally convoluted ; trunk oblong, subcorapressed ; scutellum 
 subtriangular, rounded at the apex ; metathorax armed on each side with 
 a short tooth, with several elevated longitudinal and oblique lines ; legs 
 with decumbent whitish hairs, anterior tibiic obscurely, and all the tarsi, 
 rufous ; wings embrowned with a rufous tint, nervures darker ; abdomen 
 lineari-lanceolate, rufo-ferruginous, with the first joint, which is dilated at 
 the apex, black ; footstalk channelled longitudinally on each side. 
 
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 KAMI I. Y cRYPTIO/E. 
 
 J59. Ckvi'iis \ 11)1 Ai.ikii -> /l?/;/. Length of l)od>, with ovipositor, 
 5V4 hncs ; do, withoui ovipositor, 3)4 hnes. One specimen taken in 
 Lat. 54^ 
 
 * 
 
 Jjod) blu k. Head subtruni^ular, transverse, very minutely and 
 thickly punctured ; palpi j)alo rufous ; face plane with two elevations in 
 the middle ; eves large, oval ; antenme shorter than the trunk, rather 
 slender. in\olutc, bla« k with a white hand in the n.nldle : orbit of the 
 eyes behind with .1 very indistinct white line ; trunk oblong, lubical, gib- 
 bous, very thickly and conflucnlly punctured except on the back ; tegulse 
 white : nietathorax armed with two minute teeth on each side, one in the 
 middle and the other at the l)ase, forming the terminal angle, marked out 
 into three areas by elevated lines : legs red with coxa;, trochanters, and 
 posterior tarsi black : wings subtestaceous with the larger nervures black ; 
 abdomen, excluding the ovipositor, scarcely so long as the trunk ; first 
 segment impunctured, glossy, dilated at the apex, vvhich is subquad- 
 rangular ; footstalk flat : second and third segments very large, with their 
 gloss obscured by infmitcly uiinute punctures ; ovipositor shorter than the 
 abdomen ; borer red. 
 
 I 260.] GhNU.S CRVPTOCENTRUM. 
 
 Head between transverse ajid globose ; face quadrangular, with the 
 anterior margin crenate ; [)alpi long, filiform; antennae slender, first joint 
 thick ; second mmute ; third longer than the rest : trunk ovate-oblong, 
 subcompressed . neck moderately long ; scutellum * trapezoidal ; legs 
 .slender, posterior pair elongated ; upper wings-apical areolets three ; 
 middle lour, viz.. 2, 2, without a cellule: ba.silar three; under wings- 
 areolcts seven, vi/.. 4. 3 ; abdomen sessile, smooth, subcompressed, in 
 the female clubbed at the apex ; four first .segments longer than the rest, 
 the first (uirved, rather wider at the apex ; the three next are wider than 
 long, the last is minute and triangular ; at the extremity the tail is cleft 
 for the pa.ssage of the ovi[»ositor ; this cleft is formed by the turning up 
 of the sides of the last ventral segment ; ovipositor very short ; the four 
 last ventral segments, at least in the dead insect, project so as to form an 
 elevated ridge in which the ovipositor is concealed. 
 
 360. Crvptocentru.m i.ineolatum Kirby. — Plate vi., fig. i. — Length 
 of body 6 lines. A single specimen taken in l^t. 65°. 
 
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 n<idy very black, somewhat j;lo.ssy,s])rink led wiili whitish (lc( umhctit 
 hairs. Head subtiansvcisc, hollowed out behind to ic< eive the ne<:k ; 
 face with a streak on each side the eyes ; feelers and stai)e of the antenna; 
 on the outside white; antennre slender, black, externally obscurely testa- 
 ceous, with a white annulet below the niiddh: : trunk < omi)rcssed ; margin 
 of the collar on each side, tegulae, and two transverse elevated streaks on 
 the scutcllum, white ; four anterior legs with the coxae and trochanters, 
 tip of the thigh and under side of the tibiae, white ; the thighs, except the 
 tip, testaceous ; upper side of the tibiae aud tarsi, and long posterior 
 legs, black ; wings hyaline with black nervures : abdomen sessile, with 
 the last segments dilated for the reception of the ovipositor ; the apical 
 margin of all the segments but the two first is interruptedly white ; but in 
 those segments the interruption is not perfect. 
 
 [261.] KAMHA' HRACONID.I-;. 
 
 361, Bracon crocator ATiVi^j. -Length of bodv without ovipositor 
 3 lines. A single specimen taken in T,at. 65^ 
 
 Body very black, glossy. Head subglobose, with tlie segment of a 
 circle taken out behind ; eyes between oval and round : antennae as long 
 as the trunk ; trunk oblong, widest between the wings ; scutellum rather 
 large, rounded at the ape.x ; metathorax obsoletely transversely wrinkled, 
 sioi^ing towards the abdomen ; posterior legs rather robust ; wings 
 embrowned, middle areolets four, vi/.., 3 and i, all (luadrangular ; stigma 
 very large ; abdomen lanceolate-ovate, as long as the trunk, saffron 
 coloured, paler towards the a})ex ; tiie three hrst segmeuts are emarginate, 
 and marked with two longitudinal faint furrow.s. the fust pair being curvi- 
 linear ; ovipositor longer than the body, borer red. 
 
 FAMILY FORMICID.i:. 
 
 [262.] 362. Formica semipunctata A7/-^j' --Length of body 7^4 
 lines. Several taken in Journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 
 
 Body black, glossy. Head something wider than the trunk, s'j^)- 
 triangular ; antennae piceous with the scape black : wings cast in all the 
 specimens ; scale vertical between the trunk and abdomen, sloping to a 
 thin edge upwaxds, where it is very slightly emarginate ; abdomen oblong, 
 subcylindrical, minutely punctured with the punctures piliforous ; hairs 
 decumbent with those of the margin of the segments and the anus, longer ; 
 
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 margin of both alidoininal and ventral segments membranous, membrane 
 reddish ; base of the three intermediate segments not punctured. 
 
 363. Formica fusca Linn. — Length of body i)^ line. One speci- 
 men taken in T>al. 65'. 
 
 [263.] % . — Body black, but not intensely, glossy, subcinereous from 
 down. Head triangular, large, much wider than the trunk ; antennae with 
 the scape, the three following joints, and the terminal one, rufous ; the 
 other joints are darker : trunk oblong, compressed, anteriorly elevated and 
 wider ; the prothorax with the scutellum forming a rhomboid : scutellum 
 large, trapezoidal, subrufous ; scale subtriangular, subemarginate ; legs 
 rufous ; thighs embrowned : abdomen subglobose, more hairy than the 
 rest of the body, especially towards the anus. 
 
 FAMILY VESPID^. 
 
 364. Vespa vulgaris Linti. — Length of body 6)^2 lines. A single 
 specimen taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 [264.] $. — Body black, variegated with yellow. Head and trunk 
 thickly clothed with long woolly down of a grayish colour ; face with 
 three yellow spots placed in a transverse line behind the antennae, the 
 two lateral ones subtriangular, the intermediate one subquadrangular, with 
 a reddish cloud on its disk ; the nose below the antennae is yellow, 
 inclming to red round the margin ; it has also three black dots placed in 
 a triangle in the disk, the two lower ones being very minute ; the vertex 
 of the nose is also black ; the mandibles are yellow with black tips , on 
 the outside the orbit of the eyes is reddish-yellow ; the trunk is black 
 underneath : above the posterior upper margin of the collar, the tegulae 
 which cover the base of the wings, and a triangular spot underneath 
 them, are yellow ; on the metathorax and scutellum are six yellow spots 
 placed in a double series, the upper and lower pairs being subtriangular, 
 and the intermediate pair crescent-shaped ; the thighs are black at the 
 base, but their apex, and the rest of the leg, and a small triangular spot 
 on the inner side of the four posterior trochanters, are yellow ; the wings 
 are yellowish red with red nervures ; the abdomen, except at the base, is 
 less hairy than the rest of the body ; it is yellow with all the segments 
 black at the base : though the blackness in the terminal ones is chiefly 
 concealed by the antecedent segments ; in all in the middle it projects 
 into a triangle; the four intermediate ones have also each a round-headed 
 
small black spot, the connection of which with the blackness of the base 
 is interrupted in the second segment : on the under side of the abdomen 
 the base of the segments is black, and the intermediate ones have each a 
 pair of rather crescent-shaped black spots not connected with the black 
 ness of the base. 
 
 [Kirby states that the specimen above described differs somewhat from 
 the European wasps of this species, but he considers it to be merely a 
 variety of the latter. Later authors state that both V. -nilgaris and V. 
 g^rmanica, European species, are found on this side of the Atlantic] 
 
 365. Vespa borealis Kirby. — Length of body 74 lines. A single 
 specimen taken with the last. 
 
 [265.] Body black, downy, especially the head and trunk, with gray 
 hairs. Nose trapezoidal, yellow with a black floriform discoidal spot ; 
 anterior margin with three sinuses taken out : vertex with a trapezoidal 
 yellow spot just above the base of the antennas ; antennae black, luteous 
 underneath ; external orbit of the eyes and mandibles yellow ; lateral 
 margin of the collar, a triangular small spot under each wing, two narrow 
 transverse and internally acute spots on the scutellum, and two similar 
 ones below them on the metathorax, all white ; tegulae w^liite with a 
 brownish s|K)t in the disk ; legs yellow ; thighs black at the base ; wings 
 testaceous ; abdomen heart-shaped, with the bases of the segments where 
 uncovered, and two dots on each except the first, black ; the middle part 
 of the black basal bands projects into a triangular tooth ; the under side 
 is nearly similar, but the projections form a longitudinal stripe. 
 
 366. Vespa margixata Kirby. — Plate vi., fig. 2. — Length of body 
 "jYz lines. Taken in the route from New York, and again in Lat. 65". 
 
 %. — Body black, punctured, downy from a mixture of black and gray 
 hairs. Mandibles white with a black margin ; palpi reddish ; nose white 
 with a flask-shaped longitudinal black spot in the disk ; just above the 
 antennae is a bilobed white spot, between which and the eye is a white 
 line, and another external one above it ; arftennae short, not much 
 exceeding the head, black with the scape white underneath ; in one of the 
 specimens there is a reddish spot underneath on the four or five last 
 joints, which is not discernible in the others ; the external margin of the 
 collar, before each wing, and a small triangular spot on each side of the 
 scutellum, are white; wings embrowned with darker nervures, but the 
 
costal neryure and tegulac are ferruginous ; legs testaceous, black at the 
 base ; abdomen with the apex of the dorsal and ventral segments white ; 
 anal segment black with a pair of white spots ; the white margin of the 
 dorsal segments receives an intermediate triangular point, and on each 
 side of it a rounded lobe from the black base. 
 
 [266.] 367, Vesi'A maculata Linn. — Length of body 10 lines. A 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 65''. 
 
 [As this insect, commonly known as tlie " White-faced Hornet," is so 
 abundant in ( 'anada, and has been so often described, it is unnecessary to 
 quote Kirby's description.] 
 
 1 AMIL\ PROSOPID.1- . 
 
 36S. Prosopis elijptk^a Kirhy. — Length of body 3 lines. Three 
 specimens taken in Lat 65". 
 
 [267. j Body very black, slightly downy, minutely punctured. Apex 
 of the nose white, whiteness lohed ; inner orbit of the eyes below the 
 antennae white : vertex channelled below the eyelets ; antennae scarcely 
 longer than the head ; the projecting lobes of the collar terminate in a 
 white tubercle : base-covers piceouF ; wings hyaline with dark nervures ; 
 metathorax longitudinally wrinkled ; posterior tibiae annulated at the base 
 with white : abdomen more glossy than the rest of the body, almost 
 naked, and scare ely punctured ; it is narrower and more elliptical than in 
 any other known species of the genus. 
 
 (This species and another, P. affinis Smith, are found in Canada,] 
 
 FAMILY ANDRENIDvt.. 
 
 369. Hai.rtus RUBicuNDUs Stephens .-\ /^.wgi)^ of body 5 lines. 
 Four specimens taken, locality not stated. 
 
 $. —Body black, downy. Head suborbicular, down grayish; space 
 between the eyes broad ; down on the thorax thicker, ferruginous ; base* 
 covers rufo-piceous ; win|^ subhyaline ; nervures and stigma testaceous ; 
 post-costal nervure black ; legs thickly set with yellow hairs which shine 
 like gold ; tarsi testaceous ; abdomen elliptical, downy with decumbent 
 hairs ; margin of the segments fringed with white hairs, the two first sub- 
 interruptedly ; the ventral segments are similarly fringed, but the hairs 
 are shorter. 
 
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 370. HAi.icrus cRAssicORNis A7>/'>'. -Length of body 3 lines. A 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 54"". 
 
 [268 ] ^ . — This little insect is so extremely like Halicius /cti'is, that 
 at first ' . egarded it merely as a variety of that species, but upon a closer 
 inspection they appear to rne distinct. In //. ^rassicornis the antennae 
 are proportionally more robust, but the ])rincii)al difference lies in the 
 sculpture of the thorax. In H. /iptIs that ])art is visibly punctured with 
 scattered punctures, but in the insect ! am describing, under a common 
 lens, the punctures are scarcely discernible, but under a higher power, 
 besides a slight channel drawn longitudinally, innumerable very minute 
 punctures appear. In the former also the stigma of the upper wings is 
 piceous, while in the latter it is testaceous. In other respects they arc- 
 perfectly similar. 
 
 371. Andrena IMFINCTA Kirby. — Length of body 5I.J Imes. A 
 single specimen taken in the Journey from New \'ork to C'umberkmd- 
 house. 
 
 % . — Body black, clotbcd with rather long whitish hairs, especially the 
 face below the antennae ; hairs of the thorax rufescent ; wings subhyaline 
 a little darker at the tip ; nervures testaceous, post-costal black ; brush 
 of the posterior tibia white ; abdomen impuneiured with the hairs of its 
 anterior half white ; the other hairs above and below black. 
 
 372. Andrena varians Ros^. Length of body 5 V^' lines. Three 
 specimens taken, locality not stated. 
 
 [269.] ^ . — Very like the species just described. but the head is clothed 
 with black hair ; that of the thorax and base of the abdomen is tawny red ; 
 the brush of the posterior tibia is changeable, as the site varies, from black 
 to white ; the hairs of the under side of the body and of the last 
 abdominal segment above are black, ex( ept those on tlie posterior thighs 
 forming the flocculus, which are whitish, as are those of the anterior part 
 of the abdomen. 
 
 KAMILY NO.VIAUIDA:. 
 
 373. NoMADA AMERit ANA Kirbx. - Plate vi.. fig. 3. — Length of body 
 4j^ lines. A single specimen taken in Lai. 65'. 
 
 Body dark-ferruginous. Thorax with a longitudinal mesa! black line, 
 less distinct on the metathorax ; breast with a black spot on each side : 
 

 wings, as in the rest of the genus, embrowned with a white spot near the 
 tip ; thighs black at the base on the under side ; first segment of the 
 abdomen black at the base, and, with the second and third, brown at the 
 apex. 
 
 This is the only American Au^Niada I ever saw, and Fabricius describes 
 none from that country. It comes near Nomada ntjicoruis and striata, but 
 it has only a single black stripe on the thorax. 
 
 [Dr. Packard states tiiat these Cuckoo-bees, the Nomada, are very 
 numerous in America. ] 
 
 [270. j I- AMI I. Y CHELOSTO.N[IDAE. 
 
 374. Chelosto.ma aluifrun.^ Kirby. — Length of body 4I/2 lines. A 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 05^ 
 
 ^ . — Body black, thickly punctured. Mouth bearded with white ; 
 mandibles carinated above, armed with two strong terminal teeth ; nose 
 square, flat, clothed with decumbent silver pile ; antennje filiform ; scape 
 black ; the other joints are rufo-piceous underneath ; trunk very hirsute 
 with white or subcinercous hairs : wings a little embrowned, with black 
 veins and base-covers ; legs hairy ; abdomen subcylindrical, hirsute with 
 black hairs, incurved with the apex of the four intermediate segments 
 fringed with white hairs ; anal joint with a concavity above, obtuse ; last 
 ventral segment (orcipate, rufo-j.iceous 
 
 FAMILY MEGACHILID.K. 
 
 375. Megachilk MARiiiMA Stfp/u'us. — Length of body 7 lines. 
 
 [27 1. 1 Body black, pubescent, thickly and mii^^tely punctured. 
 Mandibles very large, triangular, protended, not crossing each other, 
 armed with four terminal teeth ; face between the eyes thickly clothed 
 with brown hairs, which grow tawn/ towards the mouth ; antennae 
 filiform ; back of the trunk clothed with brown hairs less thickly in the 
 disk ; wings a little enibrov/ned, especially at the apex ; nervures dusky ; 
 base-covers piceous ; legs hairy with pale hairs ; abdomen subovate with 
 the three last segments fringed with pale hairs intermixed with black ; the 
 ventral hairs are tawny, paler towards the base, and darker towards the 
 apex. 
 
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 FAMILY ANTHOPHORIDiE. 
 
 376. Anthophora bomboides Kirby. — Length of body 6 lines. A 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Body black, thickly punctured, clothed like that of a humble-bee with 
 dense pallid hairs. Head triangular, upper lip subquadrangular, white 
 with a black dot at each upper angle ; nose white, naked \ a. bunch of 
 whitish hairs conceals the base of the antennae ; antennae filiform, scarcely 
 longer than the head ; vertex with some black hairs thinly scattered ; 
 occiput fringed with whitish ones ; trunk subglobose, set with longish 
 white hairs ; hairs of the legs mostly black ; tarsi piceous ; the first or 
 dilated joint is armed with a strong and sharp tooth on the inner side at 
 the base ; wings subhyaline with black nervures ; abdomen between glo- 
 bose and triangular, with the three first dorsal segments clothed with long 
 whitish hairs, and the tail and ventral segments with black. 
 
 [272.] FAMILY BOMBID/E. 
 
 377. BoMBUS SYLVicoLA Kirby. — Length of body 7 lines. A single 
 specimen taken in Lat. 65*. 
 
 General hirsuties of the upper side of the body yellowish. Head with 
 a tuft of the same colour below the antennae, and another at the vertex j 
 trunk with a broad Mack band between the wings; hairs of the thighs 
 yellowish ; those of thj tibiae black ; tarsi more or less covered with short 
 decumbent pale hairs ; wings somewhat embrowned, with black nervures ; 
 abdomen with a broad, mesal, ferruginous band. 
 
 378. BoMBUS BOREALis Kirby. — Length of body 8 lines. Several 
 taken witn the preceding. 
 
 [273.] Body clothed underneath with black, above with tawny, hairs. 
 Face and vertex with a tuft of yellowish ones ; thorax, between the wings, 
 with a black hairy band ; wings somewhat embrowned with black ner- 
 vures ; legs black ; abdomen above with a thick coat of tawny hairs palest 
 at the base ; anus black. 
 
 379. BoMBUS TERRicoLA Kirby. — Plate vi., fig. 4. — Length of body 
 9 lines. Taken with the preceding. 
 
 % . This species approaches very near to B. terrestris, but the whole 
 upper surface of the abdomen is clothed with yellow hairs, with the excep- 
 tion of the first segment, the hair of which, and a band near the anus, are 
 
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 black ; the extremity only of the latter is dirty-white ; there are a few yel- 
 low hairs on the metathorax ; and the wings are embrowned. In B. ter- 
 resiris the abdomen is black, with a yellow band, and the two last anal 
 segments are white ; there are no yellow hairs on the metathorax, and the 
 wings are much clearer. 
 
 380, BoMBUS Derhamellus Kirby. — Length of body 8 lines. Taken 
 with the preceding. 
 
 % . Body hairy, black. Head with a tuft of yellowish hairs on the 
 vertex ; thorax yellow, black between the wings ; wings more embrowned 
 than in the male ; abdomen yellow at the base with a black posterior 
 band ; anus ferruginous. 
 
 [274.] 381. BoMBUs PRATicoLA Kirby. — Length of body 7 lines. 
 Taken with the preceding. 
 
 % . Body black, clothed above with yellowish hairs. Head with a 
 tuft of yellowish hairs below the antennae, and on the vertex ; thorax 
 black between the wings, which are embrowned ; legs with yellow hairs at 
 the base ; anterior half of the abdomen yellow, posterior ferruginous. 
 
 382. BoMBUs VIRGIN icus Z/««. — Length of body 8 ^'^ lines. Locality 
 uncertain. 
 
 1^ . Hairs of the body in general black, except a tuft on the vertex 
 behind the antennae, the anterior and posterior extremities, and sides of 
 the thorax, and the first segment of the abdomen, which are clothed with 
 yellowish hairs ; between the wings the thorax is black ; the tarsi are 
 rufous ; the wings are rather embrowned, most so at the apex ; nervures 
 black. 
 
 [275.] VL HEMIPTERA. 
 
 FAMILY PENTATOMIDiE. 
 
 383. Pentatoma carnifex Fabr. — Length of body 2)^ lines. Sev- 
 eral specimens taken in the road from New York to Cumberland-house. 
 
 Very near P. oleracea^ and probably its American representative. Body 
 black, a little bronzed ; grossly and thickly punctured, the punctures on 
 the upper surface the deepest. Head subtrapezoidal ; promuscis pale in 
 the middle ; antennae longer than the head ; prothorax wider than long, 
 
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 with the lateral angles obtuse ; signed with a sanguine cross, the arms of 
 
 which extend from angle to angle ; lateral margin, as well as that of the 
 hemelytra and abdomen, white ; scutellum longer than the thorax, obtuse 
 with a subtriangular sanguine spot on each side near the apex; penulti- 
 mate ventral segment of the abdomen margined with white ; membrane 
 white. 
 
 [276.] 384. Pentatoma variegata Kirhy. — Length of body 3 
 lines, A single specimen taken in the road from New York to Cumber- 
 land-house. 
 
 Upper surface of the body punctured. Head, excluding the prominent 
 eyes, subtrapezoidal, black, with the margin below the eyes, white ; pro- 
 muscis extending to the base of the hind legs, pallid, black at the tip ; 
 antennaj black ; prothorax transverse with lateral angles obtuse ; pallid 
 with a tint of flesh-colour, especially at the angles, with a broad anterior 
 and narrow posterior black band, both abbreviated on each side, and the 
 latter almost divided into two ; scutellum an isosceles triangle, obtuse at 
 the apex, black with the lateral margin pallid ; hemelytra black with a 
 pallid lateral margin, membrane embrowned ; underside of the trunk black 
 spotted with pallid and sanguine, punctured ; tibi» and apex of the thighs 
 black ; base of the thighs sanguine ; abdomen below punctured at the 
 sides, sanguine, with a large black discoidal spot, rather nearer the anus ; 
 nearly divided into two ; on the sides and at the base naked, but a quad- 
 rangular space of the inner side of each division is covered with decum- 
 bent subcinereous pile. 
 
 N. B. The antepectus is entirely pallid, but the socket, if it may be 
 so called, of the legs is redder at the margin than the rest. 
 
 385. Pentatoma trilineata Kirhy. — Plate vi., fig. 6. — Length of 
 body 3 lines. One specimen taken with the preceding. 
 
 [277.] B-ody underneath and the head black, a little bronzed ; thickly 
 punctured with rather deeply impressed punctures ; antennae reddish at 
 the base, with the two last elongated and incrassated joints black ; pro- 
 thorax black anteriorly, posteriorly lurid with the lateral margin and an 
 intermediate longitudinal impunctured line, which extends nearly through 
 the scutellum, white ; the scutellum has also a white linear spot and dot 
 on each side at t'.ie base ; the punctures of the thorax, scutellum, and 
 hemelytra are black ; the membrane of the latter is white ; the legs and 
 §ides of the breast arq lurid spotted or punctured with black ; the elevated 
 
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 basilar portion of the bed of the rostrum is concave and has a semicir- 
 cular outline, and its margin, viewed under a strong magnifier, is minutely 
 serrulate. 
 
 FAMILY EDESSIDit. 
 
 386. Edessa nebulosa Kirby. — Length of body 3-4 lines. Three 
 specimens taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house, 
 and in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Body pale yellowish, sprinkled v/ith black impressed punctures, most 
 numerous and largest on its upper surface, which is clouded with reddish- 
 brown, or blackish shades ; the antennae are of a reddish-yellow ; the 
 lateral angles of the prothorax are more acute than in the Pmtatoma ; the 
 scutellum is acuminate or attenuated at the apex ; the lateral margin of 
 the abdomen has a black spot on each segment, which sometimes appears 
 on the ventral segments. 
 
 Variety B. Smaller, with the ventral segments of the abdomen 
 rufescent, and the clouding of the upper surface of the body blacker ; the 
 thorax also is black posteriorly. 
 
 FAMILY CAPSID^. 
 
 387. MiRis PUNCTULATUS Kirby, — Length of body 3 lines. Two 
 specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 [278.] Body oblong, pale, somewhat lurid with a very slight tint of 
 green. Head triangular, impunctured ; eyes a little embrowned, pro- 
 minent ; antennje as long as the prothorax, subtestaceous with the two last 
 joints and the underside of the first black ; thorax, scutellum and heme- 
 lytra very minutely punctured \ a small portion of the prothorax adjoining 
 the head is separated from the rest by an impressed sinuous line and is not 
 punctured ; legs pale ; abdomen subpyramidal, black above, pale under- 
 neath. 
 
 388. MiRis VENTRALis Kirby. — Length of body 3 lines. Taken with 
 the preceding. 
 
 Very similar to M. punctulaius, and perhaps only a variety, but the 
 hemelytra are faintly clouded with black, the underside of the abdomen is 
 dusky with two longitudinal reddish spots or stripes. 
 
 FAMILY ACANTHI AD.«. 
 
 389. Aradus tuberculifer Kirby. — Plate vi., fig. 5. Length of 
 body 3^ lines. A single specimen taken with preceding. ^ 
 
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 [279-] Body dull black, very flat. Head with the nose prominent 
 and obtuse, and the front armed with a sharp tooth on each side ; antennoe 
 black with the second joint rufous all but the tip ; the last joint white at 
 the tip ; prothorax with a short anterior truncated lobe, widest in the 
 middle where the sides form a rounded angle ; emarginate posteriorly ; 
 edge very minutely serrulate ; six longitudinal ridges occupy the disk of 
 the thorax, the two external ones are abbreviated and rather obtuse ; scu- 
 tellum with a reflexed margin, and bearing on its disk a large subhemi- 
 spherical tubercle : hemelytra reticulated with cinereous, especially the 
 membrane ; abdomen with a broad margin, and the last segment bilobed 
 with incurved lobes. 
 
 This species appears to be related to A. depressus and elevatus Fabr., 
 and to A. quadrilineatus of Say. 
 
 390. Aradus affinis Kirby. — Length of body 2^ lines. Several 
 taken with preceding. 
 
 Extremely similar to A. tuberculifer, but much smaller. Antennse entirely 
 black ; prothorax not extended anteriorly, so as to form a lobe ; lateral 
 abbreviated ridge more obtuse, resembling a tubercle ; margin of the 
 abdomen with a white point at the apex of each segment ; anus not lobed. 
 
 FAMILY REDUVIADiE. 
 
 [280.] 391. Reduviolus inscriptus Kirby. — Plate vi., fig. 7. — 
 Length of body 3 lines. A single specimen taken with preceding. 
 
 Body of a pale or yellowish white, lineari-oblong, widest posteriorly. 
 Antennae shorter than the body, rufous, three last joints very slender ; 
 head and prothorax streaked and dotted with black ; with the anterior 
 lobe of the latter constricted next the head, separated from the posterior 
 by an impressed sinuated black line ; scutellum black with two pale longi- 
 tudinal elevations, thickest anteriorly ; hemelytra with the nervures whiter 
 than the rest of their substance ; with three blackish discoidal dots 
 arranged longitudinally from the middle to the membrane ; thighs dotted 
 with black, the anterior pair being incrassated and thicker than the inter- 
 mediate, and these than the posterior, which are not incrassated ; back 
 of the abdomen black, with a white lateral margin, underneath with three 
 longitudinal black stripes. 
 
 [281.] 392. Chiroleptes raptor Kirby. — Length of body nearly 
 4 lines. Two specimens taken in the road from New York to Cumber- 
 land-House. 
 
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 Body black and shining. Head subrhomboidal, connected with the 
 prothorax by a long cylindrical and transversely wrinkled neck, which 
 altogether gives the animal a serpentine aspect ; legs pale ; shoulders 
 much incrassated, blackish at the tip, armed below with several strong 
 spines j cubits with a single intermediate one ; prothorax bell-shaped, 
 black, dull from inconspicuous pubescence ; scutellum dull, white at the 
 tip ; hemelytra dull from pubescence, blackish-brown, with paler lines 
 which extend into the membrane ; lateral margin white ; abdomen black, 
 with the ventral lateral margin white. 
 
 This species approaches very near to Say's Reduvius raptorius, but it 
 is distinct. 
 
 [282.] 393. Nabicula suBCOLEOPTRATA A'<;>^>'. — Length of body 4 
 lines. Taken with the preceding. 
 
 Body apterous, black, without any gloss. Head subtriangular, antennse 
 rufous ; thorax bilobed, first lobe thrice as long as the last, bell-shaped ; 
 last a little wider than the first, flattish ; hemelytra a little shorter than the 
 abdomen, brownish-black, punctured ; lateral margin obscurely rufous ; 
 membrane scarcely differing in substance or colour from the rest of the 
 hemelytrura ; legs rufous ? abdomen obtusangular underneath. 
 
 FAMILY HVDROMETRID/K. 
 
 394. Gerris rufo-scutellata Latr. — Length of body 6}^ lines 
 One sficimen taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 Bor^y underneath black, covered with silver pile. Head brown-black, 
 subpilose ; two first joints of the promuscis black and robust, the 
 remainder rufous and more slender ; antennae rufous with the last joint 
 black ; eyes large, subhemispherical, brown ; prothorax dull-fen uginous, 
 with the lateral margin, a dorsal subelevated line, and the scutellum, paler ; 
 legs rufous, pale at the base ; hemelytra dull-ferruginous, with the lateral 
 margin and nervures black ; the bead that forms the lateral margin of the 
 abdomen, and the two last segments, are rufous \ the anal spines are very 
 little shorter than the tail. 
 
 [283.] 395. Gerris lacustris Linn. — There were three pupae of 
 this species taken, which do not appear to differ from the European 
 specimens, 
 
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 FAMILY CORIXID^:. 
 
 396. CoRiXA STRIATA Lhm. — Length of body 3 — 3^ lines. Many 
 specimens taken with the preceding. 
 
 Body yellowish, depressed, naked, smooth. Head inflexed, obtuse ; 
 eyes brownish, triangular ; antennae inserted before the eyes under the 
 lateral margin ; scape incrassated ; remaining joints together are setiform ; 
 prothorax subtriangular, with the hemelytra, brown, streaked transversely, 
 with irregular yellow streaks ; epipleura not streaked, pale-yellow ; breast 
 black, spotted with yellow on the sides ; legs yellow ; anterior and pos- 
 terior tarsi natatory \ the latter longer than the tibiae ; abdomen with the 
 first ventral segment, and an abbreviated basilar band of the second, 
 black. 
 
 Variety B. With the first joint of the posterior tarsi black at the 
 tip. This may be a distinct species ; there were seven 
 specimens distinguished by a black annulet surrounding 
 the terminal half of the first dilated joint of the tarsus 
 in question. 
 
 [284.] 397. Corixa carinata Kirby. — Length of body 4 lines. 
 Two specimens taken with preceding species. 
 
 Body yellow underneath, embrowned at the insertion of the legs. Head 
 yellow j front broad and flat ; labrum transversely tricarinate ; occiput 
 obtusangular ; vertex with an obsolete longitudinal ridge issuing from the 
 angle of the occiput j prothorax with a longitudinal intermediate ridge, 
 transversely streaked with yellow and brownish black ; hemelytra 
 sprinkled, and towards the base almost streaked, with black and yellow. 
 In other respects this species resembles C. striata, 
 
 398. Corixa planifrons Kirby. — Length of body 4 lines. 1 wo 
 specimens taken with the preceding. 
 
 This species differs from the preceding in having the under side of the 
 body black, with two pale spots on each side of the breast, and the anal 
 half of the abdomen pale-yellow. The head is yellow, the vertex is ridged 
 longitudinally and separated from the front by a transverse curvilinear 
 ridge ; and from which the anterior part of the face is inflexed, plane or 
 slightly concave ; in other respects this species exhibits exactly the same 
 characters with C. carinata. They may perhaps be sexual varieties. 
 
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 [285.] FAMILY NOTONECTIDif:. 
 
 399. NoTONECTA INSULATA Kirby. — Length of body 6^ lines. A 
 single specimen taken. 
 
 Body underneath black, above yellowish. Head yellowish, with a 
 brownish longitudinal stripe between the eyes, which are reddish ; scutel- 
 ium very black, velvetty ; hemclytra with the lateral margin brown spotted 
 with yellow ; the posterior half of the hemelytra is brown anteriorly, black- 
 brown in the middle, fuliginous at the apex ; in this darkened portion 
 anteriorly is a yellowish triangle connected with the last marginal spot, and 
 posteriorly is a white kidney-shaped spot followed by the sooty apex ; 
 breast very hairy with longish fuliginous hairs \ legs yellowish. 
 
 VII. HOMOPTERA. 
 
 FAMILY CERCOPIDiE. 
 
 400. Cercopis marginella Fabr. — Length of body 3^ lines. 
 Taken with the preceding, and at Carlton-house in April. 
 
 Body black, dotted and inscribed with white. Hemelytra embrowned ; 
 nervures black ; lateral margin sanguine ; margin of the abdomen edged 
 with white. 
 
 [286.] Vlll. LEPIDOPTERA. 
 
 FAMILY PAPILIONIDAE. 
 
 401. Papilio TURNUS Z/««. — Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. [It 
 is, of course, quite unnecessary to repeat Kirby's description of this very 
 familiar butterfly.] 
 
 [287.] 402. Colias edusa Fahr^ — Several specimens from North 
 America. [This species is, no doubt, C. cury theme Boisd., which is quite 
 common at Sault Ste. Marie and other localities in the North-west. For 
 aescription and admirable figures see Edwards' " Butterflies of North 
 America," vol. i., part iv.] 
 
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 [26S.\ 403. PoNiMA 1 ASIA Kirb}'. — Plate iii., fig. i.- Three speci- 
 mens t;iken in Lat. 65'. 
 
 [A well-known vaiiety of Pieris olcracta IJoisd. ; cjuile coinmon in 
 CaiKula.] 
 
 [289.] FAMILY' NYMl'HALID/i;. 
 
 404. MELiT.tA sELENis AV/v^j.- lakcH in North America. [Is our 
 common M. t}iayos.\ 
 
 405. Ar(;ynnis cyuei.i: /y//^;-. —Taken in Canada by Dr. Higsby. 
 [Common in Canada ; for description and figures, and for a full account 
 of the differences that distinguish this species from A. aphrodite, No. 407, 
 see Kdvvards' " Butterflies of N. America," Part i.] 
 
 [290.] 406. Argynnis myrina Fabr. — Taken in Canada by Dr. 
 Bigsby. [(^uite common in Canada and well-known to collectors. ) 
 
 407. Argynnis aphrodite iv;/>r.- Taken in Canada by J^r. Bigsby. 
 [Quite common ; see our note on A. cyhek above.] 
 
 [291. j 408. Argynnis i reya ^jy><;v. — Expansion of the wings 1J2 
 inches. Three specimens taken near Cumberland-house, (.at. 54°. 
 
 Stalk of the antennae yellow with a large compressed dark-brown knob, 
 red underneath at the base and tip ; wings tawny, dark-brown at the base, 
 with a narrow black band occupying the posterior margin, followed by a 
 series of black arrow-headed spots ; next to which in the primaries is a 
 zigzag angular discoidal black band, and at the anterior margin five trans- 
 verse spots of the same colour ; the underside of these win^s is tawny 
 variegated with black and white spots and lines ; the secondaries are 
 underneath reddish-brown variegated with white and yellow spots and 
 bands, with a discoidal arrow-headed white spot in the centre ; the fringe 
 of the wings is alternately white and yellow. 
 
 [A decidedly northern insect ; has been taken in Labrador. ] 
 
 [292.] FAMILY VANESSID.E. 
 
 409. Vanessa C-argenteum Kirhy. — Plate iii,, figs. 6 and 7. Ex- 
 pansion of the wings 2 inches. ,A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. 
 
 Antennae brown above, pale below : knol) pale at the tip ; wings 
 angular, cut out into sinuses which are dentated ; primaries above orange- 
 tawny, with five black round spots forming a right-angled triangle with 
 
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 each other ; two triangular costal bars and posterior margin black ; above 
 the black marginal band is a series of paler tawny triangular spots ; under- 
 neath the wings are veined, marbled i.nd clouded with black, brown, and 
 cinereous ; the primaries have a very broad paler band near the margin ; 
 secondaries above dull-orange, at the base with a black spot or two near 
 the anterior margin ; the other half is black with a transverse series of 
 triangular pale spots, the interior ones being nearly obsolete ; the disk is 
 mscribed with a slender silver somewhat obtusangular C, with the con- 
 cavity towards the anterior margin, 
 
 [Synonymous with our common Grapta progne Cramer.]. 
 
 410. Vanessa furcillaia Say. — Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 Common in the N. West Territory and the vicinity of Fort William. 
 
 [Synonymous with K Milberti Godt., a common and very familiar 
 butterfly throughout Canada. For description and figure see Say's Am. 
 Entomology, vol. ii., pi. 27.] 
 
 [293.] 411. Vanessa antiopa Lmn. — Taken in Canady by Capt. 
 Sheppard. [Too common in Canada to require any description.] 
 
 [294.] 41::. Vanessa atalanta Linn. — Several taken in Canada. 
 [Quite common ; for description see Harris' Insects of Mass., p. 294.] 
 
 [295.] 413. Cvnthia cardui. — Linn. — [Another very common 
 butterfly ; see Harris' Insects of Mass., p. 291.J 
 
 [296.] 414. Cynthia huntera Drury. — [Almost as '^ommon as 
 *he preceding species ; see Harris' Insects, p 292. This and the two 
 p ceding species are now included in the genus Pyrameis Hubn.] 
 
 [297.] FAMILV HlPPAPCHIAD/fr:. 
 
 415. HiPPARCHiA NEPHELE Kifby. — Expansion of the wings 21^2 
 inches. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Antennai brown annulated with white, rufous at the end ; knob 
 slender ; wings brown ; primaries both above and below with a paler sub- 
 marginal broad band including two eyelets ; the upper ones surrounded 
 by a paler atmosphere, with a black iris and white pupil ; on the under 
 side the atmosphere of the eyelets is more distinct and forms a kind of 
 glory round them; the pupil is snowy-white with some blue scales scattered 
 
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 round it ; the under side of both wings, above the band, is marbled with 
 transverse deeper coloured streaks ; the secondaries nre dcntated but not 
 the primaries, which at the margin have two transverse black parallel 
 lines ; in the former there is anteriorly a costal paler bar, and the posterior 
 half of the wing is paler ; between the bar and the marginal paler band 
 are three minute eyelets, with a black iris and bluish pupil, arranged 
 transversely in a triangle; and three more similar ones arranged oblicjuely, 
 the external one minute, in the paler part, the internal one pointing to the 
 anal angle. 
 
 [Quite common in Canada ; included in the genus ^rt/j-^^/j- West wood.] 
 
 [298.] 416. HiPPARCHiA DiscoiDAiJS Kirby. — Plate iii., figs. 2, 3. — 
 Expansion of the wings 1^-2 inches. Several specimens taken at Cum- 
 berland-house, Lat. 54°. 
 
 Body brown. Antennae annulated with white ; wings very entire, 
 brown ; costa spotted with gray ; a triangulai obscure reddish-tawny dis- 
 coidal stripe extends from the base to the posterior margin of the pri- 
 maries, and is discoverable also on the under side where the wing is faintly 
 clouded with gray at the tip ; the secondaries underneath are indistinctly 
 marbled and clouded with gray or whitish scales ; fringe whitish and brown 
 alternately. 
 
 [A northern species ; has been taken at Fort Simpson, and in Alaska.] 
 
 FAMILY LYCEXID.K 
 
 417. Thecla AUGUSTUS Kirby.— Plate iii., figs. 4, 5. — Expansion of 
 the wings i inch. Taken in Lat. 54°. 
 
 Antennas annulated with white \ knob elongated ; wings dusky black 
 with a dull ferruginous disk ; fringe alternately black and white ; second- 
 aries underneath black at the base ; at the apex dusky ash coloured, with 
 a transverse series of about eight black spots, rudiments of which appear 
 on the same surface of the primaries. 
 
 Named after the Esquimaux Augustus. 
 
 [Taken in Canada, the New England States, and New York.] 
 
 [299.] 418. Lyc1':na DORCAS Kirby. — Plate iv., fig. i. — Expansion 
 of the wings i inch. Taken in Lat. 54''. 
 
 Body black above, white underneath. Antenna? black, annulated with 
 white ; knob tipped with orange ; wings brown with a reddish tint, under- 
 
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 neath tawny ; primaries with an angular band formed of faint black spots ; 
 behind these nearer t!ie costa is a black bar, above which are two more 
 spots ; between the band and the posterior- margin are three more black 
 sj)ots arranged transversely, and above the base arc three spots forming a 
 triangle ; the secondaries have a slight sinus near the anal angle, the fringe 
 of which projects so as to assume the appearance of a short tail ; across 
 the disk runs an angular band formed of faint black spots, above which 
 is a crescent of the same colour ; at the anal angle is an orange coloured 
 angular bar, or abbreviated band ; underneath, these wings have several 
 indistinct black dots, the three external ones of which form an obtuse 
 angle with the four internal ones. 
 
 This species seems the American representative of Z. Phiccas, but its 
 colour is much less vivid. 
 
 I Belongs to tlie genus Chrysophanus Hubn. ; it is probably identical 
 with C. AHicricana D" Urban,] 
 
 419. PoLYOMMATUS LUCIA Kifhy. — Plate iii., figs. 8, 9.— Expansion 
 of the wings i inch. One specimen taken with the preceding. 
 
 [300. j Wings above silvery-blue, terminatmg,especiaUy at the posterior 
 margin, in a \ery slender black line : fringe white barred with black ; prim- 
 aries underneath ash-coloured mottled with white ; in the disk is a black 
 crescent and a curved macular band, consisting of, mostly, oblique black 
 crescents edged with white, especially on their under side ; the wing ter- 
 minates posteriorly in a broadish, brown band, formed chiefly by obsolete 
 eyelets ; the secondaries are brown ; underneath spotted and striped with 
 black and white ; towards the posterior margin the white spots are arranged 
 in a transverse band parallel with it ; and. as in the i)rimaries, the wing 
 terminates in several obsolete eyelets. 
 
 [Figured by Harris (Ins. Mass., figs. 105, 106) under the name of P. 
 pseiidaty:iohis. Not uncommon in Canada and the Northern States.] 
 
 KA.MILV HKSPERIAD/t.. 
 
 420. Hespfria Pkckius Kirby — Plate iv., figs. 2. 3. — Expansion 
 of wings 1 inch and ^2 ^ line. Taken with the preceding, and also by 
 Prof. Peck. 
 
 Body brown, paler on the under side. Antennae rufous above, below 
 the joints have a patch of white scales ; knob fusiform, hooked ; wings 
 above tawny-brown, with an articulate angular band, common to both 
 
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 wings, of pale yellow ; primaries striped and streaked with the same colour 
 near the base, and in the costal area ; underneath the wings are paler; the 
 primaries have nearly the same marks as above but more conspicuous ; on 
 the secondaries the angular band is surmounted by anotlier irregular spot, 
 so as to form two contiguous spots, or rather one large irregular didymous 
 one. 
 
 [Quite common in Canada.] 
 
 [301.] FAMILY ZVG/KNID.-E. 
 
 421. Alypia Mac Cullochii Kirby. — Plate iv., fig. 5. — Expansion 
 of wings i^ inch. Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. Mac Culloch, and in 
 Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body and wings very black. Orbit of the eyes externally clothed with 
 white hairs ; base-covers or tippets whitish ; priraar>^ wings with three very 
 white spots, one near the base oblique, obversely wedge-shaped, divided 
 into two by a longitudinal black line ; next, at a little distance from the 
 anterior margin is a subtrapezoidal, small, white spot, between which and 
 the posterior margin is an articulate band, abbreviated at each end, of the 
 same colour, consisting of six spots divided by black lines ; the same 
 spots distinguish the under surface of these wings, and besides there is a 
 whitish longitudinal one in the costal area ; in the secondaries are also 
 three white spots on both surfaces, viz., a large rectangular one near the 
 base divided longitudinally into four ; a longitudinal undivided one at the 
 anterior margin ; and an articulate posterior abbreviated band, divided 
 into five spots ; the longitudinal costal streak may almost be regarded as 
 forming a sixth, as the lower end is parallel with the last spot of the band ; 
 the four anterior legs arc externally covered with long orange coloured 
 hairs, which character is slso found in A. odomaculata. 
 
 FAMILY SPHINGID.t. 
 
 422. Smerinthus Cerisyi Kirby. — Plate iv., fig. 4. — Expansion of 
 the wings 2^ inches. Taken in North America, locality not stated. 
 
 [302.] Body ash-coloured : thorax with a large trapezoidal brown spot 
 dilated next the abdomen ; primaries angulated, ash-coloured, with a 
 transverse series of brown submarginal crescents in a paler band, between 
 which and the posterior margin is another obsolete paler one ; above tlie 
 crescents is a straight whitish band, and a linear angular forked one under 
 the internal sinuses of which the wings arc clouded with dark brown ; 
 
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 underneath the above markings of the wing are very indistinct ; the 
 secondaries are rose-colour, paler at the costal and posterior margins ; 
 underneath they are dusky-cinereous, with a whitish band coinciding with 
 that of the primaries, a transverse series of cr2scents and a dentated 
 brownish band, all rather indistinct ; but the most conspicuous character 
 of the secondaries is a large eyelet situated at the anal angle, consisting 
 of a black pupil, nearly but not quite surrounded by a blue iris, and situ- 
 ated in a black triangular spot or atmosphere, which extends to the anal 
 angle, and is surmounted bv sou blue scales ; the abdomen above is 
 dusky ash-coloured. 
 
 This insect appears to be the American representative of .S. oceilatus^ 
 from which, however, it differs considerably. It comes very near to S. 
 geminatus (Say Am. Ent. i., /. xii.,) but in that the eyelet has two blue 
 pupils. 
 
 423. Deilephila intermedia Kirby. — Expansion of wings 23^ 
 inches. Taken in North America. 
 
 This species is intermediate between D. Eup/iorbice Sind D. Galii, which 
 last it most resembles, but the anterior portion of the mesal stripe of the 
 primary wings is pale rose-colour ; the fringe of their inner margin, and 
 of the posterior of the secondaries is white ; there is no series of white 
 dots on the back of the abdomen and the ventral segments are fringed at 
 the apex with white hairs. This description was taken from an old speci- 
 men apparently somewhat faded. 
 
 [Is probably identical with D. Cliamcencrii Harris, a common species 
 in Canada.] 
 
 [303.] FAMILY SESIAD/K. 
 
 424. Sesia ruficaudis Kirby (Sphinx pdasgus Cramer). — Expan- 
 sion of the wings 2^ inches. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, and in 
 New Jersey by Mr. Drake. 
 
 Body yellow-olive, underneath pale-yellow. Antennas black ; primaries 
 reddish-brown, hyaline in the disk, with the hyaline i)art half divided 
 towards the base with a costal bar, covered with yellow-olive hairs at the 
 base ; underneath the costa, the posterior margin and the nervures are 
 dark ferruginous ; there is also a yellow stripe on the inner side of the 
 base ; secondaries hyaline in the disk ; base externally and costa yellow ; 
 internally the base is ferruginous ; underneath the dark part of the wing 
 
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 is ferruginous, and tlie base pale-yellow ; two first segments of the abdo- 
 men yellow-olive, two next black, the rest ferruginous with pale-yellow 
 lateral spots. 
 
 This species appears to be the American representative of Sesia fuci- 
 formis^ which it greatl} resembles, but differs in the colour of the tail and 
 the base of *he secondaries. 
 
 [This description is not suft'iciently definite for the determination of the 
 species.] 
 
 FAMILY LITHOSIAD.'t:. 
 
 425. Callimorpha parthenice Kirby. — Expansion of the wings 
 i^ inch. Taken in North America. 
 
 [304.] t. Antennae black, bipectinated ; thorax fiesh-coloured with 
 two anterior, and three posterior, oblong, black spots, the latter being the 
 largest \ primary wings black, with the so-called rivulets pale with a slight 
 pinkish tint ; the main streams, especially towards the apex of the wing, 
 form several islets, most of which are divided by slenderer ones which do 
 not appear on the under side of the wing ; the secondaries are of the colour 
 of red lead, with five black spots towards the posterior margin, the inter- 
 mediate tl.ree forming a macular band, above which is one smaller one 
 and below it another ; underneath there is also a small spot, at the costal 
 margin, above the others. 
 
 [A species of Arctia, probably identical with A. virgo Linn. ; not 
 uncommon in Canada.] 
 
 426. Callimorpha virguncula Kirby. — Plate iv., fig. 6. — Expan- 
 sion of the wings i ^ inch. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Head pallid ; orbit of the eyes, and the mouth, black ; antennae black, 
 serrato-pectinate ; thorax pallid, with five lanceolate black spots, the pos- 
 terior ones being the largest ; primary wings black, with pallid rivulets, 
 which are formed by the scales that clothe the nervures, and produce the 
 rays at the apex of these wings, where the lines are traversed by a trans- 
 verse, angulated band \ underneath they are pale, with the black parts less 
 distinct, except at the apex ; there is a black spot in the disk near the 
 costal margin : the secondaries are orange-tawny, spotted at the apex with 
 black ; abdomen tawny above, below pale, with a dorsal, and on each side 
 a double, lateral, black, macular stripe ; trunk underneath black, with pale 
 
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 hairs intermixed ; legs black ; tibine pale above ; thighs with a pale spot 
 at the base and a])ex. 
 
 This is nearly related to the preceding species, but is much smaller ; 
 and the painting and spotting of the wings difTer materially. 
 
 ' [A species of //;r//« ,• taken in Canada.] 
 
 [305.] 427. LiTHOSL\ iMiNiATA Kirh}\ — E.xpansion of the wings 
 I Yz inch. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Head, trunk, base and apex of the abdomen, costal and anal margin, 
 mesal forked stripe of the primary wings, and base of the secondary, 
 miniatous or of the colour of red lead ; two longitudinal stripes and the 
 space between the apical fork of the primaries, apex of the secondaries, 
 and middle of the abdomen, slate-coloured. 
 
 [Belongs to the genus Hypoprepia Hiibn. ; not uncommon in Canada.] 
 
 FAMILY CTENUCHIDil':. 
 
 428. Ctenucha Latreillana Kirby. — Expansion of wings 2^ 
 inches. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, and in Nova Scotia by Dr. Mac 
 Culloch. 
 
 [306.] Body, and primary wings, light-brown. Antennae and anal 
 hairs black ; head and base of the primaries, bright orange ; trunk, back 
 of the abdomen, and outside of the thighs, cyaneous or blue-green ; fringes 
 of the wings white, but in the middle of the posterior margin brown ; 
 secondaries short. 
 
 [Previously described under the specific name of virginica Charp. \ 
 quite common in Canada.] 
 
 FAMILY NGCTUID.^:. 
 
 429. Plusia rectangula Kirby. — Expansion of wings i^ inch. 
 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
 
 Body cinereous, underneath whiter. Antennae testaceous ; thorax 
 crested ? as the scales are mostly rubbed off this cannot however be posi- 
 tively asserted ; wings incumbent ; primaries with a subcrenate edge ; 
 inclining to ash-coloured, clouded with black, with a subramose rectangu- 
 lar somewhat silvery spot, extending from near the base to the middle of 
 the wing ; between which and the apex is a narrow white wavy band, edged 
 
149 
 
 KAMILV NOt'lUID.K. 
 
 429. Plusia rectangula Kirby. — Expansion of wings \% inch. 
 Taken in Canada hy Dr. I'igsby- 
 
 Body cinereous, underneath whiter. Antenna; testaceous ; tno-ax 
 crested ? as the scales are mostly rubbed off this cannot however be 
 positisely asserted ; win^js incumbent ; primaries with a subcrenate edge ; 
 incHning to ash colored, clouded with black, with a subrarnose rectangular 
 somewhat silvery spot, extending from near the base to the middle of the 
 wing ; between which and the apex is a narrow white wavy band, edged 
 with black ; and still nearer the margin a /ig/ag transverse black line ; 
 the secondary wings arc piicatile, cinereous, and dusted at the apex with 
 brown. 
 
 N. B. The silvery rectangular sjjot in the primary wings of this 
 inse' t, when tliey arc brought near to each other, forms a quadrangular 
 Tirea very nuich resembling a picture in a silver frame. 
 
 [307.] 430. I'll'sia gamma Linn.- F.x[);insion of the wings 1 Jj 
 inch. Taken in Canada by l>r. IJigsby. 
 
 Head, crests of tlie thorax and abdomen gray ; these crests are edged 
 with white and in the anterior ones the margin is formed by a black and 
 white line ; abdomen cinereous ; antenna; above testaceous, underneath 
 white banded with brown ; tb.e primar) wings are shaded and clouded 
 with black, brown and white, and towards the apex have three indistinct 
 bands, the first white internally abbreviated, the second dark-brown, and 
 the marginal one gray including a transverse series of black crescents ; in 
 the disk of the wing is a pallid silvery signature, representing the Creek 
 letter gamma, or the Roman V, the forked part pointing to the costal 
 margin ; from the upper point of the fork a white curving line runs 
 obhquely to the anal margin of the wing near its base ; secondary wings 
 light brown, or drab, with the nervures, and posterior margin broadly, dark- 
 brown ; fringe alternately dark and light ; underneath the wings are cin- 
 ereous, darker at the apex. 
 
 [308.] 431. Plusia falcifera A7//'_>'. — Expansion of the wings i )^ 
 inch. Taken in Nova Scotia by I )r. Mac Culloch. 
 
 Body gray. Antennse and thorax, when laid bare, testaceous ; primary 
 wings gray with a faint reddish tint, a broad brown spot, or cloud, almost 
 
i^o 
 
 triangular, traverses the middle of the wing, which partly includes, and is 
 partly edged, by a sickle-shaped silvery streak ; the part representing the 
 handle of the sickle being broader than the rest, and sending forth 
 externally near its apex a short branch, which, with the internal apex of 
 the handle, forms a fork ; the inner tine, or branch, of which terminate; 
 in a slend.r line running in a curve to the costal margin, where it touches 
 the scutellum ; a lirown indistinct cloud, or band, also runs obliquely from 
 the anal to the apical angle of the wing ; a very minute, pale streak marks 
 it just transversely above the former angle ; the posterior margin is slightly 
 indented ; the secondary wings are reddish-brown, with an obsolete, pale, 
 submarginai band. 
 
 432. I'LusiA 101 A Linn. — Expansion of wings i^ inch. Taken in 
 Nova Scotia by Dr. Mac CuUoch and in Canada by Dr. Eiigsby. 
 
 [309.] Body, legs and antennas fawn-colored, as are likewise the paler 
 parts of the wings ; primaries clouded and streaked with dark, and reddish- 
 brown ; the disk of these wings is occupied by a large cloud of this color 
 inscribed with two, sometimes silvery, and sometmies golden, brilliant 
 metallic spots, tending to form an obtuse angle with each other ; the upper 
 one, or that nearest tiie base of the wing bemg acuminated towards that 
 part, rounded towards the apex, and sending forth two branches towards 
 the costal area ; the lower spot is subtriangular or V-shaped, with the 
 point towards the base of the wings ; the two together form, in some sort, 
 a semicolon reversed ; between the lower or ovate spot and the costa is a 
 rather indistinct circlet of gold or silver, and two streaks of the same 
 lustre may be traced lower down between it and the inner margin of the 
 wing ; the disk near the apex is bronzed ; from the brown cloud men- 
 tioned above runs a wavy brown streak to the external apical angle, the 
 apex itself is terminated by a band formed by indistinct black crescents ; 
 and above the streak is a transverse band formed by two faint lines of 
 dark indistinct crescents including a pale band ; secondary wings darker 
 at the apex. 
 
 N. B. In the Nova Scotia specimens the discoidal spots are silvery, 
 while in that trom Canada their lustre is golden. The synonymy of this 
 species seems very doubtful ; the metallic signature can scarcely be said 
 to represent either a mark of interrogation, or a Greek Iota reversed ; 
 they most resemble a semicolon. 
 
'5 
 
 IX.— DIPTERA. 
 
 FAMILY CULICID/K. 
 
 433. CuLEX PUNCTOR Kirby. — Length of body 3^3 lines. Two 
 specimens taken in Lat. d^'. 
 
 Body black. Proboscis longer *han the trunk ; sheath black ; valvules 
 and lancets testaceous : palpi somewhat incrassated towards the apex ; 
 antennae broken off in both specimens; wings wiiite. iridescent, with 
 testaceous nervures, without scales, hairs and fringe ; legs testaceous. 
 
 [310.] FAMILY T1PULID.€. 
 
 434. TiPULA PRATORUM Kirby. — Length of body 7 lines. Taken 
 with the preceding. 
 
 ^. Head and trunk slate-colored. Antennai black, with the scape 
 yellow ; thorax with four brown stripes, the lateral ones abbreviated ; 
 wings embrowned, clouded with white ; nervures black, but those at the 
 base of the wing are testaceous ; there is a black dot or two near the 
 anterior margin ; and the stigma, or what represents it, is black ; the 
 poisers are pale but black at the tip ; legs obscurely testaceous ; thighs 
 and shanks black at the tip ; tarsi black ; abdomen clubbed, yellow, with 
 a longitudinal dorsal brown stripe ; anal club black. 
 
 ^. Wings not spotted with white ; legs distinctly testaceous, black 
 at the joints ; last joints of the tarsi black ; abdomen lanceolate, yellow, 
 with a dorsal, ventral, and on each side a lateral, brown stripe. 
 
 FAMILY BIBIONID.*:. 
 
 [311.] 435. Asi'iTES (Arthria) analis AV/-^^. — Plate vi., fig. 8. — 
 Length of body, excluding wings, 2 lines ; including wings, 3 lines. 
 Several taken in Lat. 65". 
 
 Body black, naked. Head very small ; trunk with a dorsal area marked 
 out by a ridge ; on each side is a reddish-yellow line drawn from the 
 collar to the base of the vving ; but in some specimens this is very indis- 
 
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 tinct ; poisers white ; wings hyaline, iridescent, much longer than the 
 body ; costal area divided into three areolets, with testaceous nervures, 
 terminating in a black stigma ; there are tour spurious nervures, the first 
 abbreviate'^ and the anal one Lent towards the margin ; the legs are 
 reddish-yellow except the apex ot the tarsi, which is black ; the inter- 
 mediate pair are smaller and shorter than the others ; anterior thighs are 
 much incrassated, and the tibii€ terminate in a spine; the posterior thighs 
 are elongated ; abdomen Hat above ; anus yellow, as is sometimes the 
 margin of the ventral segments. 
 
 FAMILY K^^FIl).^:. 
 
 436. Em PIS LUCTUOSA Kirhy. — Length ot body, including wings, 3 
 lines. Taken with the preceding. 
 
 Body entirely black. I'roboscis very little longer than the head ; 
 wings a little embrowned, with a large black stigma, iridescent, nervures 
 black. 
 
 [312.] 437. F^MFis <-enici;lata A7;/'J'.- -Length of body 3 lines. 
 Taken with the preceding. 
 
 Very similar to the preceding, but not so black ; wings slightly em- 
 browned, beautifully iridescent : legs, where the shank is united to the 
 thigh, white ; proboscis nearly as long as the thorax. 
 
 FAMILY HOMin LIAD.€. 
 
 438. BoMP.YLius MAJOR Z///«.- Length of body, including pro- 
 boscis, 7 lines ; excluding do., 5 lines. Expansion of wings 1 in. to ^ 
 inch. Taken in I.at. 65 . 
 
 [313.] Body black, thickly covered above with yellowish, soft, but 
 erect hairs ; underneath the hairs are whiter, but those on the breast, at 
 the origin of the legs, are black ; wings with the anterior half longitudinally 
 black-brown, the dark color on the inner side being sinuated or uneven ; 
 the posterior half of the wings is transparent with black nervures ; the 
 legs are long, and pale-yellow ; but the tarsi are reddish-black at the 
 extremity ; the eyes are triangular. 
 
 [This species is taken in Europe, and in N. America in Nova Scotia, 
 New York, (ix.j 
 
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 439- BoMRYLius I'YGM/F.us Fabr. — Length of body, including pro- 
 boscis, 5 lines ; excluding do., 3 lines ; expansion of wings 9 lines. 
 Taken with the preceding. 
 
 Body black, hairy. Hair below the eyes black ; eyes meeting at the 
 vertex ; behind the eyes the hairs are gray ; those on the thorax are tawny 
 or reddish with a white tuft on each side at the anterior and posterior 
 margin ; the wings are longitudinally dusky at the anterior margin ; more 
 than the posterior half is hyaline, with several scattered black dots, the 
 interior ones being the largest ; the legs are testaceous, bat black at the 
 tip ; the abdomen is covered by reddish hairs with dark ones intermingled; 
 those at the anus are whitish. 
 
 [Taken in various localities throughout N. America.] 
 
 FAMILY TADANID/E. 
 
 440. Tap-anus affini.s Kirby. — Length of body 7^ lines. Taken 
 with the preceding. 
 
 [314.J Body black with hoary down. Proboscis, palpi, and base of 
 the antennse obscurely, all red ; down on the trunk very thin, mixed with 
 a few black hairs ; tubercles before the wings, winglets and knob of the 
 poisers, pale testaceous ; legs black with the four posterior tibiae rufous ; 
 wings embrowned, with darker nervures ; three first segments of the abdo- 
 men rufous, each with a black dorsal spot ; margin of the segments pale 
 with a whitish fringe ; the fourth segment has a pair of round, red, dorsal 
 spots. 
 
 Variety B. Antennae all black. 
 
 441. Tabanus zonalis Kirby. — Length of body 7j^ lines. Taken 
 with the preceding. 
 
 Body black, with a few hairs of the same color, especially at the sides 
 of the trunk. Antennae reddish at the base ; sheath of the proboscis, 
 and palpi, black ; haustellum testaceous ; breast whitish from inconspicu- 
 ous down ; tubercles before the wings subferruginous ; wings subtestaceous 
 with some of the nervures black : knob of the poisers reddish ; thighs 
 black, reddish at the tip ; tibiae, and tarsi, except the anterior pair, which 
 are black, as well as the apex of the anterior tibiae, red ; abdominal seg- 
 ments above and below margined with white decumbent down and fringe. 
 
154 
 
 442. Chrvsops SEPULCHRALis Fabr . — Length of body 6 lines. 
 Taken with the preceding. 
 
 [315.] Body black, slightly downy. Head hoary from pubescence ; 
 proboscis with a black sheath and testaceous haustellum ; feelers black ; 
 antennae red at the base ; below the antennoe is an obtriangular levigated, 
 and naked space, with rounded angles, and somewhat elevated ; behind 
 the antenna; in the frontal space, between the eyes, the ordinary levigated 
 and naked areas, which in Tabanus are longitudinal, in Chrysops are 
 transverse ; sides of the trunk hairy with black erect hairs, it is also 
 marked above with four longitudinal hoary stripes formed by invisible 
 pubescence ; underneath the trunk is govered with down of the same 
 description and color, and se^ with tufts of longer hairs ; wings white, 
 with the costal margin and a middle abbreviated band, and nervures 
 brown ; legs and abdomen black, and extremity whitish from down. 
 
 [An European species.] 
 
 FAMILY SVRPHID/E. 
 
 443. Scj1<:va ribesii Fabr. — Length of body 4 lines. Taken with 
 the preceding. 
 
 Head concavo-convex ; underneath black, with the edge fringed with 
 whitish hairs ; vertex black ; face below the antennae yellowish ; hoary 
 from decumbent hairs next the eyes ; antennge yellowish with a darker 
 cloud ; trunk bronzed with a greenish tint, downy especially on the sides, 
 down whitish ; wings hyaline, longer than the body, with black nervures, 
 but those of the costal area are ferruginous ; scutellum large, yellow ; 
 legs luteous, coxae and trochanters dark-brown, posterior tarsi black, first 
 joint below with a brush of golden colored bristles ; abdomen depressed, 
 above black with five yellow bands, viz., one consisting of two crescents, 
 forming an interrupted band, [3 1 6] traversing the middle of the first seg- 
 ment ; then a broadish subinterrupted one traversing the base of the 
 second and third ; and lastly the margin of the two last segments is also 
 yellow, as is the under side of the abdomen. 
 
 [An European species ; taken also in Nova Scotia.] 
 
 FAMILY MUSCID^. 
 
 444. Muse A CADAVERUM Kirby. — Length of body 4^ lines. A 
 single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
•55 
 
 Body black, with black hairs and bristles. Antennae plumate ; eyes 
 brown ; the cheeks and front in certain lights appear hoary or silvery from 
 inconspicuous down, in others black ; feelers subferruginous ; trunk and 
 abdomen black-blue with a greenish tint ; wings hyaline ; intermediate 
 areolet obtusangular ; winglets white, bordered with a test jceous nervure. 
 
 This species approaches very near to M. cadaverina, but the front, 
 winglets and palpi are of a different color. 
 
 445. MuscA iMORTisKQUA Kirhy. — Length of body 5^^ lines. Sev- 
 eral taken with the preceding. 
 
 [317.] Body black, with black hairs and bristles. Eyes brown; 
 cheek and front ferruginous, in certain lights exhibiting something of a 
 golden lustre ; feelers long, slender, reddish-yellow ; trunk slightly hoary, 
 with three very indistinct bljtk dorsal stripes ; wings hyaline, with the 
 intermediate areolet projecting internally into an acute angle ; winglets 
 white terminated by a white nervure ; abdomen heart-shaped, glossy, blue 
 with a slight tint of green. 
 
 This seems to be the American representative of M. vojuitoria^ from 
 which it differs chiefly in having three obsolete black stripes between the 
 wings; in the anterior spin cles not being of a different color from the 
 rest of the trunk ; in having white winglets and not black edged with 
 white ; and in the abdomen exhibiting no changeable appearance of 
 chequer-work. 
 
 Variety B. with a green abdomen. 
 
 C. with chalybeous abdomen. 
 
 X.— HOMALOPTERA, Leach. 
 
 FAMILY HIPPOBOSCIDi*:. 
 
 446. HipPOBOSCA EQUINA Litin. — Length of body, excluding wings, 
 4 lines ; including do., 5 lines. Locality not mentioned. 
 
 Body flat ; subpubescent, dirty-yellow, spotted with brown, with whit- 
 ish signatures. On the forehead, between the eyes, is a brown quadrangu- 
 lar spot shaped like what are called skates eggs, with four projecting points 
 
156 
 
 at the angles ; abdomen underneath pale, anus hairy ; tarsi with four black 
 claws, the inner ones shorter and truncated ; wings much longer than the 
 body. 
 
 [An European species. Loew (Mmographs of Diptera, part i.) 
 divides the order of Diptera into three sections : — Nemocera, Brachycera 
 and Coriacea^ and includes this family, with the Nycteribida^ in the last 
 mentioned.] 
 
 [318] XL— APHANIPTERA. 
 
 FAMILY PULICID^^ 
 
 if 
 
 447. PuLEX GiGAS Kirby. — Plate vi., fig. 9. — Length of bcc*^ 2 
 lines. Two specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 
 
 Body ovate, reddish-yellow ; segments, particularly the first of the 
 trunk, pectinated with black bristles ; antennas, though short, very distinct, 
 standing out from the head, they seem to consist of two joints, the last 
 conical and obtuse ; the base of the second segment of the trunk is 
 black ; the thighs are very flat and wide, inclining to ovate ; tibiae armed 
 with long black bristles. 
 
 This I believe is the largest flea known, but I have not been able to 
 ascertain upon what animal it was captured. 
 
The foregoing reprint t)f Kirby's Fauna Boreali-Americana was begun 
 in the number of the Canadian Entomologist for April, 1870 (Vol. ii, No. 6)), 
 and was earned on as space could be afforded for it, and consequently 
 with much interruption, up to the current year, 1876. No one interested 
 in the publication anticipated that so long a period of time would have 
 elapsed before its completion. The usefulness of the reprint has no doubt 
 been soniew^hat impaired by its diffusion through sc many issues of our 
 journal, and by the irregularity with which the several portions have 
 appeared ; but on the whole, it is evident that the temporary inconveniencg 
 — if such there has been to any one — has been more than counterbalanced 
 by the criticism and consequent benefit that the work has received. 
 
 While expressing his thanks for many hints and much valuable assist- 
 an.e that he has received from his friends from time to time, the compiler 
 desires especially to state that he feels deeply grateful to Dr. George H. 
 Horn, of Philadelphia, for the great kindness he has shown and the 
 trouble he has taken, in going over the whole of the Coleoptera and 
 correcting the synonymy wherever it was not in accordance with the latest 
 investigations of competent Entomologists. He deems himself particulaly 
 fortunate in havin^^ this work done by so eminent an Entomologist as Dr. 
 Horn, and he feels that the reprint may now go forth to the world as a 
 satisfactory and reli:.ble guide to the student in the determination of the 
 species oi Coleoptera described by Kirby : without Dr. Horn's revision, it 
 certainly would not have been so. Ihe following is the revision of the 
 synonymy contributed by Dr. Horn ; — 
 
 SYNONYMY OF THE COT>EOPTERA OF THE FAUNA 
 BOREALI-AMERICANA, KIRBY. 
 
 BY GEO. H. HORN, M. D., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
 
 Since the reprint of Kirby's Fauna Boreali-Americana began, much 
 has been learned concerning the species of Coleoptera therein described 
 or mentioned, so that at the present time very few remain unidentified. 
 Through the kindness of the authorities of the British Museum, every 
 facility was granted to Dr. Leconte and myself for the study of Kirby's 
 types, and the results of these studies have already been made known by 
 Dr. Leconte. It will be noticed in very many })laces that the synonymy 
 here given differs very greatly from that given by Mr. Bethune, who com- 
 piled from the best known sources all that was at the time known or 
 guessed concerning Kirby's species. 
 
The present paper is necessarily in great part a compilation, but 
 sufficient new material is presented to render it' worthy of appearing as a 
 whole, so that Kirby's species may be at once determined without the 
 necessity of consulting scattered publications. 
 
 A few words are necessary to a correct understanding of the paper. 
 The species named by Kirby are in small capitals. Should names in their 
 entirety remam valid, no remarks are made, as in i, i6, &c. Should the 
 
 generic name only be changed, the species is quoted as " is a ," as 
 
 in 25, 28, 37, &c. Should the specific name be changed, the species is 
 quoted as in 3, 5:c., and the true name is in smaU capitals also. In some 
 instances, Kirby's species not having been identified, the species have 
 received more recent names and are well known ; in this case the latter 
 name (being a synonvm) is quoted in italics, as in 58 and 59, so that 
 those having the Kirbyan species under the more recent names may 
 change them. 
 
 1. Cicindela hirticollis Say. 
 
 2. " repanda I)ej. 
 
 3. " Proteus Kby. is duodecimguttata Dej. 
 
 4. " OBi.iQUATA Kby. This is a variety of the species pre- 
 
 viously described by Say under the name vulgaris. 
 Herbst anteriorly named th.e species tranque- 
 BARICA with a false locality. 
 
 5. " vulgaris Say (see above). 
 
 6. " purpurea 01 i v. 
 
 7. " ALBiLABRis Kby., is LONGiLABRis Say. 
 
 8. Casnonia pensylvanica Dej. 
 
 9. Cymindis marginata Kby., is cribricollis Dej. 
 
 10. " TTNicoLOR Kby. Subsequently described as /i«d^jt;«z<rti Lee. 
 
 11. Sericoda bembidioides Kby. is a Platynus. 
 
 12. Brachinus cyanipennis Say. 
 
 13. Carabus Vietinghovii Adams. This species is found in Alaska and 
 
 extends its habitat toward British Columbia and also 
 toward the Hudson's Bay region. Numerous speci- 
 mens were collected by the late Robt. Kennicott in 
 Alaska. 
 
 14. " ligatus Knoch is vinctus Weber. 
 
 15. Calosoma calidum Fab. 
 
 16. " FRIGIDUM Kbv. 
 
17- Helobia [Nebria]*CASTANiPES Kby. An immature form of N. 
 
 Sahlbergi Fisch., described anteriorly to Kirby, 
 from Alaska. 
 
 1 8. Chlaenius sericeus Forst, 
 
 19. " iMPiN'CTiFRONS Kby. is PENSYLVANicus Say 
 
 20. " nemoralis Say. 
 
 21. " QUADRicoLLis Kby. is TRICOLOR Dej. var. 
 
 22. " (jORDicoLLis Ki)y. This species, anteriorly to Dr. Le- 
 
 contes visit to the British Museum (1869), was 
 erroneously considered to be chlorophanus Dej. 
 
 23. •* EMARGiNATUS (Kby.) The type of this species could 
 
 not be found in the British Museum. It is not 
 identical with Sa/s species, and as the name is pre- 
 occupied, it would be better to drop it entirely from 
 our lists. 
 
 24. Platynus angusticollis (Kby.) is not the European species of that 
 
 name, but our commoR sinuatus Dej. 
 
 25. Agonum extensicolie Say is a Platynus. 
 
 26. " piciPENNE Kby. is prolvibly the species subsequently 
 
 described as Platynus lutulentus Lee. The varie- 
 ties E and D are distinct and are Plat, ruficornis 
 Lee. 
 
 27. *' soRDENS Kby. Flas been named in some collections 
 
 f usees cens Chaud. 
 
 28. " meianarium Dej. is a Platynus. 
 
 29. " SEMiNiTiDUM Kby. Probably the same as Platynus 
 
 chaleeus Lee. 
 
 30. ■*' SIMILE Kby. In doubt. 
 
 31. '• AFFiNE Kby. is Platynus Harrisii Lee. 
 
 32. " ERYTHROPUM Kby. The n.Tme is pre-occupicd and Plat. 
 
 SUBCORDATUS Lcc. must be used. 
 
 33. '* cupripenne Say is a Platynus. 
 
 34. Calathus grcgarius Say. 
 
 35. Platyderus xitidus Kby. is Pterost. erythropus (Dej.) 
 
 36. Argutor bicolcr Kby. is Pterost. patruelis Dej. 
 
 37. " FEMORALiS Kby. is a Pterostichus. 
 
 38. " MANLiBULARif Kby. is a Pterostichus. 
 
 39. " BREv::CORNis Kby. Probably the same as fastidiosus 
 
 Mann. This and the preceding species belong to 
 
the Cryobius group of Pterostichi, in which the 
 species are very difficult to separate. * 
 
 40. Omaseus orinomum Knoch. is a Pterostichus. 
 
 41. " NiGRiTA Curtis (Kby.) This species is erroneously deter-. 
 
 mined by Kirby and does not appear to differ from 
 Pterostichus caudicalis Say, from specimens in 
 my cabinet from Hudson's Bay region. 
 
 42. " PicicoRNTS Kby. is Pterost. mutus Say. 
 
 43. Stereocenis similis Kby. is Amara haematopus (Dej.) 
 
 44. Curtonotus convexiusculus Steph. (Kby.) Erroneously deter- 
 
 mined by Kirby ; is amara laticollis Lee. 
 
 45. ** rufimanus Kby. If the hind angles of the thorax are 
 
 prominent, as stated by Dr. Leconte (Proc. Acad. 
 1S735 P- 323), this species is rather laticollis than 
 LACUSTRis, as there stated. The species of Amara 
 in this vicinity need a careful revision, when their 
 number will be considerably decreased. No actual 
 comparison of Kirby's and our own types have been 
 made, and any positive expression might mislead. 
 
 46. " BREViLAHRis Kby. Identical with the preceding species. 
 
 47. " LATiOR Kby. is Amara ( Bradytiis ). Described since 
 
 Kirby as libera Lee, laevistriaUi Putz. and Oregona 
 Lee. (See Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1875, p. 128). 
 
 48. Poecilus lucublandus Say is a Pterostichus. 
 
 49. " castanipes Kby. is a variety of 48. 
 
 50. " chalcites Say is Pterostichus Sayi Brulle. 
 
 51. Amara VULGARIS Latr. (Kby.) is not that species, but erratica 
 
 Sturm. 
 
 52. " inaequalis Kby. is interstitialis Dej. 
 33. " impuncticoUis Say. 
 
 54. " pallipes Kby. 
 
 55. " i.AEViPENNis Kby. is a smooth erratica Sturm. 
 
 56. " DiscoRS Kby. is chalcea Dej. 
 
 57. Harpalus pleuriticus Kby. 
 
 58. " basilaris Kby. is obesulus Lee. 
 
 59. " OCHROPUS Kby. is rt'.fjY-r/ttJ- Lee. 
 
 60. '' interpunctatus Kby. is probably merely a variety of 
 
 Anisodactylus nigrita Dej. 
 
 61. " LONGiOR Kby. is longicollis Lee. 
 
62. Marpalus lai il<)!.!.is fCby. is Amisodaci yi.us xickrki.mi s Dej. 
 
 63. " carbonarius Say is Anisodac. car);. 
 
 64. " KO'!UN'i)i(:<»i.!.is Kl)y. is AMiTiAius Say. 
 
 65. " STKriiK-Nsii Kby. is amittatus Say. 
 
 66. Stcnolophus VEKsicoiOK Kby. is fulriinosus Dej. 
 
 67. 'I'rechus tiiuai.is Kl>y. is Uradycelus riniAT.is. 
 
 68. '• RificRUS Kby. is Bradvlelm's c()(.natus ((lyll). 
 
 69. •' i r.AVfPKs Kby. is Bradvcki.eus ri:pkstri> .Say. 
 
 70. •' i.MMi;xis Kby. is Stexolophi;.s (jonjun( lus Say. 
 
 71. " siMii.is Kby. is Aooxodkrus com.ma Fab. 
 
 72. Isopleurus xitidls Kby. is Amara subaenea T.ec. 
 
 73. Patrobus americamis Dej. is loxiikdrxis Say. 
 
 74. Peryj)hus bima*. ueatus Kby. This species ot i>FNrn!i>ii;M occi.rs 
 
 also in Colorado. 
 
 75. " sordidus Kby. Immature specimen of the preceding. 
 
 76. " scoPULixus Kby. is Bemk. geiiduni Lee. 
 
 77. " ftUPicoi A Kby. is Bemi;. rupe-Sire Fab. 
 
 78. " coxcOEOR Kby. is Be.mh. salebrafum Fee. 
 
 79. " PierPES Kby. The type of this is in very bad conditi' •^. 
 
 Uncertain. 
 
 80. " (]uadrimaculatiis Linn, is a Bemijidu.m. 
 
 81. " St riDus Kby. is a Bemhidium. 
 
 82. Tachyta picipes Kby. is Tachys xaxu.s Gyll. 
 
 83. \otaphus NiGRiPES Kby. A Bembidiu.m which occurs also in 
 
 Oregon and British Columbia. 
 
 84. " IXTERMEDIU.S Kby. is probably Be.mbidium rapidum Lc. 
 
 85. •' VARiEGATUij Kby. The specitic name is pre-occupied* 
 
 It is now known as Bembid. pictu.m Lee. 
 
 86. Bembidium impressum Gyll. 
 
 87. Opisthius Richarusonii Kby. (Recurs in British Columb;a, 
 
 Oregon, Northern California and Colorado. 
 
 88. Kla|)hrus Clairvillii Kby. for a long time called politus Lee. 
 
 S9 " [XTERMEDius Kby. This specics forms onc of the varietii s: 
 
 of tliat known in our collections as Ca/ifoniic..s 
 Mann. 1 cannot see any difference between this 
 and the European riparius. 
 
 90. •' ORSCURIOR Kby. is probably a small obliteratus Mann. 
 
 91. Notiophilusaquaticus Linn. (Kby.) is semistriatus Say. 
 
92. Omophron Sayi Kby. is americanum Dej. 
 
 93. Haliplus impressiis Latr., erroneously determined, is ruficollts 
 
 De Geer. 
 
 94. Hydroporus nigrolineatus Steph. Not known to us. Is the identi- 
 
 fication correct ? * 
 
 95. " parallelus Say. 
 
 96. " LAEVis Kby. This and the preceding seem to me to 
 
 be merely varieties of catascopium Say, which Crotch 
 says is GRiSEOSTRiAius De Geer. 
 
 97. " PiCATU.s Kby. 
 
 98. " siMiLis Kby. is impressopunctatus Schall. (fide 
 
 Crotch). 
 
 99. Laccophilus biguttatu.s Kby. is proximus Say. 
 100. Colymbetes semipunctatus Kby. is a (Iaurodytes. 
 loi. " BicoLOR Kby. A Gaurodytes. 
 
 102. " PHAEOPTERU.S Kby. is probably Gaurodytes <7/V///rr- 
 
 atiis Lee. 
 
 103. " F.iFARius Kby. Placed by Crotch in a new genus, 
 
 Ilybiosoma. 
 
 iP4. " RETicuLATDS Kby. is probably identical with Gauro- 
 
 dytes ARCTicus Payk. 
 
 105. " PiciPES Kby. is an Ilvdius. 
 
 106. " ASSiMiLis Kby. 
 
 107. " TRiSERi Tus Kby. is scuLPTiLis Harris. 
 
 108. " RUGicoLLis Kby. is Graphoderes libepus Say. 
 
 109. " MacCullochii Kby. is Acilius mediatus Say. 
 no. Dytiscus OoLiGBUKii Kby. is confluens Say. 
 
 n I. " Harrisii Kby. 
 
 112. " Franklinii Kby. is confluens Say, 7'flr. 
 
 113. Cyclinus assimilis Kby. is Dineutus americanus Linn. 
 
 114. Gyrinus iMPRESSicoLLis Kby. I think the reference to borealis 
 
 Aube is correct. 
 
 115. " aeneus Leach (Kby.) Kirby's determination is probably 
 
 incorrect. 
 it6. " ventrams Kby. 
 
 * Dr. David Sharp, of .Scotland, is now preparing a monograph « f the 
 Dytisoidak of this world ; and by means of typical spftcimens from Dr, Leconte 
 and myself, will settle dttinitely the synonymy of ali of Kiiby's species in thia 
 
 f:imilv. 
 
117. Gyrinus analis Kby. Impossible to identify this species. The 
 
 name is preoccupied. It is not Say's analis. 
 
 118. " minutus F'ab. 
 
 119. Paederus riparius Fab. (Kby.) is i.ittorarius Grav. 
 
 120. Lathrobium puncticollk Kby, 
 
 T2I. " Gravenhorsti Kby, is Cryptobium pallipes Nord. 
 
 12 2. " bicolor Grav. is a Cryptobium. 
 
 123. Gyrohypnus assimilis Kby. is Xantholinus cephalus Say. 
 
 124. Olophnun marginatum Kby. is an Omalium. 
 
 125. Alaeochara pallitarsis Kby. is a Homalota. 
 
 126. Tachyporus acuductus Kby. is Coproporus ventriculus Er. 
 
 127. " affinis Kby. 
 
 128. Philonthus politus Linn. (Kby.) is aeneus Rossi. 
 
 129. " mandibularis Kby. Male of aeneus. 
 
 130. " piCATus Kby. is brunneus Grav. 
 
 131. " fulvipes ? Grav. 
 
 132. Staphylinus chrysurus Kby. Leistotrophus cingulatits Grav. 
 133- Creophilus villosus Grav. 
 
 134. Necrophorus velutinus Fab. N. tomentosus Weber is an older 
 
 name. 
 
 135. " HERES Kby. is a variety of ve.spilloides Herbst. 
 
 136. " OBSCUR^'S Kby. is the Melsheimeri X Lee. 
 
 137. " Melsheimeri Kby. Occurs also in Alaska and is 
 
 maritima Mann. 
 
 138. " Hallii Kby. is orbicollis Say. 
 
 139. " pygmaeus Kby. is vespilloides Hbst. 
 
 140. Necrodes surinamensis Fab. is Silpha surinamensis. 
 
 141. Oiceoptoma riarginale Fab. An older name is Silpha novebora- 
 
 CENSis Voet. 
 
 142. ** lapponicum Linn, is Silpha lapponica. 
 
 143. " trituberculatum Kby, is a Silpha. 
 
 144. " inaequale Fab. is Silpha inaequalis. 
 
 145. " americanum Linn, has been known by the ante-Linnean 
 
 name oi peltata. 
 
 146. " terminatum Kby. is a variety of the preceding. 
 
 147. " AFFINE Kby., variety of 145. 
 
 148. " canadense Kby., variety of 14'* 
 
 149. Peltis ferruginea Linn. 
 
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 150. Nilidula obscura Fab. 
 
 151. " ossiuM Kby., same as 150. 
 
 152. " discoidea Fab. Subsequently described ;i;>OMusnA mrrjj 
 
 Lee, from California. 
 
 153. Ips Dfjeanii Kby. is vittatus Say. 
 
 154. Choleva Spenciana Kby. is a Catops. 
 
 155. • ScAPHHTM CASTANIPES Kby. IS vcry rare. Occurs also in the White 
 
 Mts., N. H. 
 
 156. Leiodes punctatostriatus Kby. is Anisoiotna indistincta Lee. 
 
 157. Corticaria denticulata Kby. The name is preoccupied and was 
 
 changed to Kirbyi Lee. It is proba])ly dkletus 
 Mann. 
 
 158. Atomaria atra Steph. (Kby.) Incorrectly determined by Kirby 
 
 and is probably a dark variety of laetui.a hec, 
 
 159. Cryptophagus humeralis Kby. is a Triphylt.u.s, and is rujicor/iis 
 
 Lee. 
 
 160. " coNCOLOR Kby. A variety of the preceding. 
 
 [61. Attagenus cvLiNDRTcus Kby. Belongs to a new genus, Perjmk- 
 
 GATOMA Horn. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1875, p. ^35- 
 
 162. " pellio Linn. 
 
 163. Dermestes lardarius Linn. 
 
 164. " DISSECTOR Kby. is nubilus Say. 
 
 165. Byrrhus picipes Kby. Name is preoccupied and is now Kirkvi 
 
 Lee. 
 
 166. *' CONCOLOR Kby. Now known to us. Is not a variety of 
 
 Cytilus varius Fab., but appears to be a small 
 CYCLOPHORUS Kby. 
 
 167. " CYCLOPHORUS Kby. 
 
 168. " varius Fab. This is an erroneous determination. The 
 
 species is Cytilus trivhtatus Mels. 
 
 169. Hydrobius fuscipes Linn. 
 
 170. " raarginellus Fab. Probably an erroneous determination 
 
 and may be Philhydrus fimbriatus Mels. 
 
 171. " melanocephalus 01. An erroneous determination and 
 
 is Philhydrus perplexus Lee. I have specimens 
 from Mr. Pettit which correspond with Kirby's de 
 scription of both the above species. 
 
 172. Hister Paykulii Kby. is depurator Say. 
 
173- Hister Harrisii Kby. 
 
 174. Onthophagus latcbrosus Fab. is Hecatk Panz. 
 
 175. " scARRicuLLis Kby. is Janus Panz. 
 
 176. Trox arenarius Fab, (Kby.) This may be aequalis Say. 
 177 Peiidnota punctata Linn. 
 
 178. Camptorhina airacapii.la Kby. is Serica vespertina Sclionh. 
 
 179. Diplotaxis tristis Kby. 
 
 180. Rhizotrogus fcrvens Gyll. (Kby.) is Lachnosterna fusca Frohl. 
 i8i. " Drakii Kby. A race of 180. 
 
 182. Dichelonycha Backii Kby. 
 
 183. " viRESCENS Kby. is elongatula Schonh. Variety C 
 
 is subvittata Lee. 
 
 184. " testacea Kby. 
 
 185. Ceionia fulgida Fab. is EuRYOMiA FULG. 
 
 186. Trichius Bigsbii Kby. is Gnorimus maculosus Kn. 
 
 187. " ASSiMiLis Kby. is afunis Gor}'. 
 
 188. " ROTUNDicoLLis Kby. is pioer Fab. 
 
 189. '' viridans Kby. is AFF'NisGory. 
 
 190. Gymnodus foveatus Kby. $ 
 
 191. " RUGOsus Kby. ^ is Osmoderma scabra Beauv. 
 
 192. Platycerus piceus Weber (Kby.) is erroneously determined and is 
 
 depresses Lee. 
 
 193. Passalus interruptus Linn. (Kby.) is coRNtrrus Fab. 
 
 194. Campylus denticornis Kby. 
 
 195. Pedetes Brightwelli Kby. is an Athous. 
 
 196. *' (Asaphes) ruficornis Kby. is Asaphes memnonius Hbst. 
 
 197. Perimecus fulvipes Hbst. (Kby.) is Mel.\notus castanipes Payk. 
 
 198. ** communis Gyll. is also a Melanotus. 
 
 199. " siMiLis Kby. A Melanotus, but the synonymy is un- 
 
 known. 
 
 200. Ctenicerus Kendalli Kbyi is Corymbites virens Sc.hr. 
 
 201. Elater aeripennis Kby. is a Corymbites. 
 
 202. Eaprestis rusticorum Kby. is a variety of maculiventris Say. 
 
 203. " PAGANORUM Kby. is 202. 
 
 204. " NuTTALLi Kby. 
 
 205. " lineata Fab. 
 ao6. " fasciata Fab. 
 
 207. *' divaricata Say is a Dicerca. 
 
 208. " tenebrosa Kby. is a Dicerca. - 
 
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 209. Buprestis teneerica Kby. may ^ e the same as Dicerca lugubris 
 
 Lee. 
 
 210. " TRiNERviA Kby, is a Chrvsobothris. 
 
 211. " PRoxiMA Kby. is Chr^ souothris scabripennis Lap. et 
 
 Gory. 
 
 212. " Drummondii Kby. is .: Melanophila. 
 
 213. " umbellatarum Fab. (Kby. Ms erroneously determined and 
 
 is Anthaxia inornata Rand. 
 
 214. " appendiculata Fab. (Kby.) is erroneously determined and 
 
 is Melanophila longipes Say. 
 
 215. Agrilus BiviTTATUS Kby. is bilineatvis Weber. 
 
 216. Trachys aurulenta Kby. is Brachvs ovata Weber. 
 
 217. " acuducta Kby. Mr. E. Saunders (Trans. P2nt. Soc, Lon- 
 
 don,, 1868, p. 60) says this is a Cisseis and from 
 Australia. 
 
 218. Pytho NIGER Kby. 
 
 219. " AMERICANA Kbv. 
 
 220. Trogosita Americana Kby. is probably corticalis Meis. 
 
 221. Monochamus resutor Kby. is 'jcutellatus Say. 
 
 222. " confusor Kby. 
 
 223. " marmorator Kby. is probably that variety of scu- 
 
 TELLATUS Say, called Orcgonensis Lee. 
 
 224. Acanthocinus (Graphisurus) pusillus Kby. is now called Graphi- 
 
 surus PUSILLUS Kby. 
 
 225. Callidium agreste Kby. is a Criocephalus. 
 
 226. " striatum Linn. (Kby.) is Asemum moestlm Hald. 
 
 227. " collare Kby. is now Gonocallus collaris. 
 
 228. " PROTEUS Kby. is no\\ Merium proteus. 
 
 229. " simile Kby. is 228. 
 
 230. " DiMiDiATUM Kby. is . Phymatodes. 
 
 231. " (Tetropium) cinnam pterum Kljy. is known as a Te- 
 
 TROI'IUM. 
 
 232. Clytus undatus Kby. is Xylo'j liECHUS undulatus Say. 
 
 233. " lunulatus Kby. is the -ame. 
 
 234. " Fuscus Kby. A variety of the same. 
 
 235. " longipes Kby. is a Neoclytus. 
 
 236. " MURiCATULUS Kby. is -d Neoclytus and has since been 
 
 described as Icuc' zovus Lap. 
 
 237. Hargium iineatum 01. is a Rf wGilm. ; 
 
IT 
 
 238. Pachyta liturata Kby. 
 
 239. Leptura chrysocoma Kby. 
 
 240. " suBPUBESCENS Kbv. IS PROXiMA Say. 
 
 241. " ERYTHROPTERA Kby. Variety of 242. 
 
 242. " canadensis 01. 
 
 243. '* TENUiOR Kby. is Typocerus velutinus Oi. 
 
 244. " BREVis Kby. is L. vagans 01. 
 
 245. " sexmaculata Linn. 
 
 246. " SEJIIVITTATA Kby. is L. VITTATA 01. 
 
 247. " GULosA Kby. is also L. viitata 01. 
 
 248. " SUP.ARGENTATA Kbv. 
 
 249. " siMiLis Kby. is rujibasis Lee. 
 
 250. " LONGicoRNis Kby. is AcMAEOFS marginalis Lee. 
 
 251. " PROTEUS Kby. is an Acmaeops. 
 
 252. *■' LONGictPS Kty. is Acmaeops pratensis Laieh. 
 
 253. Anol)ium foveatum Kby. is a Hadrobregmus. 
 
 254. Cis mieans Fab. (Kby.) Unknown ; seems to be Chevrolatii 
 
 Mell. 
 
 255. Toraicus pini Say. 
 
 256. Apate Bi VITTATA Kby. is a Xyloteres. 
 
 257. '•' RUFiTARSis Kby. is a Xyloteres unknown to us. 
 
 258. " (Lepisomus) kuFiPENNis Kby. is a Polygraphus. 
 
 259. " (Lepisomus) nigriceps Kby. Probably the same as 258. 
 
 260. " (Lepisomus) brevicornis Kby. Unknown. 
 26 r. Hylurgus rufipennis Kby. is a Den'droctonus. 
 
 262. Calandra pertinax 01. is a Sphexophorus. 
 
 263. Hylobius confusus Kby. 
 
 264. Lepyrus eolon Linn. 
 
 265. " GEMELLUS Kby. 
 
 266. Cleonis vittatus Kby. is Cleonu.s. 
 
 267. Macrops maculicollis Kby, 
 
 268. " vitticollls Kby. 
 
 269. Lepljophorus lineaticollis Kby. 
 
 270. Trachyphloeus melanothrix Kby. Constitutes, with a California 
 
 species, a new genus, Geoderces Horn. 
 
 27 r. Paohyrhynchus ScHONHERRi Kby. is Lfhycerl's noveboracensis 
 
 Forst. 
 
 272, Attelabus simh.is Kby. is analis Iliig. 
 
 273. " bipustulatus Fabr. 
 
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 2 74' Apotomus ovatus Fab. belongs to the genus Pterocolus. 
 
 275. Anthribus fasciatus Oliv. is a Tropideres. 
 
 276. Chlamys plicata Oliv. 
 
 277. Cryptocephalus pubescens Fab. is a Pachvbrachys. 
 
 278. '• notatus Fab. is sellatus Sufif. 
 
 279. ICiimolpis vitis Fab. is correctly determined, but is an Aooxl'S. 
 
 280. Clirysome^i pliiladelphica Linn. 
 
 281. " coNFiN'is Kby. is C. spiracae Say and a variety of the 
 
 preceding. 
 
 282. " Ijigsbvana Kby. 
 
 283. " multipunctata Say. 
 
 284. " cLivrcoLLis Kby. This name should remain. The 
 
 C. irimacitlata Fab. is the same, but the name was 
 pre-occupied by Linncus. 
 
 285. " rufipes De Geer is C. pallida Linn.,, a Gonioctena. 
 
 286. Phaedon Adonidis Pallas, is an Entomoscelis. 
 
 287. " raphani Fab. Probably a correct determination. The 
 
 species is known in American cabinets as (jastrc- 
 physa formosa Say. 
 
 288. " polygoni Linn, is a Gastrophvsa. 
 
 289. Phyllodecta vitellinae Linn. 
 
 290. Haltica vicina Kby. appears to be Disonycha alternata lUig. 
 
 291. " PUNCTicoLLis Kby. is Disonycha trl\ngularis Sav. 
 
 292. Galeruca Olivieri Kby. is Phylw)brotica decor.\ta Say. 
 
 293. " canadensis Kby, A Trirhabda, and Crotch thinks it a 
 
 variety of tomentosa Linn. 
 
 294. '* sa/yittariae Gyll. This species and its allies form the genus 
 
 Galerucella Crotch. 
 
 295. " bilineaia Kby. i<^ a variety of Galerucella notulata 
 
 Fab. 
 
 296. " marginella Kby. is a Galerucella. 
 
 297. Orsodacna tibialis Kby. 
 
 298. *• Childreni Kby. The.se tw<^ are considered identical, 
 
 and the latter name adopt _d. 
 
 299. Haemonia nigricornis Kby. This seems to be the same as that 
 
 subsequently described by I^acordaire as Mel- 
 shcimeri. I have seen Canadian specimens which 
 do not differ. 
 
 300. Donacia femoralis Kby. 
 
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 jot 
 
 302 
 
 303 
 304 
 
 305 
 306 
 
 307 
 
 308, 
 
 309 
 310 
 
 3" 
 312 
 
 3^3 
 
 314- 
 
 3^^5- 
 
 316. 
 
 317- 
 318. 
 
 319- 
 
 320. 
 
 321. 
 322. 
 
 323- 
 324 
 325- 
 
 326. 
 
 327- 
 
 328. 
 
 Donacia flavipes Kby. 
 
 " AFFiNis Kby. is KiRiivi Lac. 
 
 " F.MARGINATA Kby. 
 
 " I'ROxiMA Kby. 
 
 " cupR/F:a Kby. 
 
 " HIRTICOLLIS Kby. 
 
 '' aiiquaHs Say. 
 Hispa bicolor Oliv. is an Udontota. 
 Coccinella episcopalis Kby. is an Anisosticta. 
 
 " tredecimpunctata Linn, is a Hippodamia. 
 
 " TRiDENS Kby! is Hippodamia parenthesis Say. 
 
 " QuiNQUESiGNATA Kby. is a Hippodamia. 
 
 " QUiNQiiENOTATA Kby. In the revision of the Coccinel- 
 lidse Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1873, p. 370, Crotch 
 allows the name to remain. In his general revision 
 (published posthmnousiy) London, 1874, the name 
 is placed as a synonym of transversoguttata, 
 which is probably correct. 
 
 " TRictJSPis Kby. In the London publication the name 
 
 by Kirby is said to be pre-occupied and changed to 
 
 KiRHYi by C'-otcli, but is allowed to remain in the 
 
 American publication. 
 
 " incarnata Kbv. is Anisocalvia buodecimm.-vculata 
 Gebl. ■ ' 
 
 Pimelia alternata Kby. is P^leodes tricostata Say. 
 
 L^pisceramboides Lini:. 
 
 Tenebrio molitor Linn. 
 
 *' pensylvanicus Kn. is a Nyctobates. 
 
 Diaperis bicornis 01. is a Hoplocephala. 
 
 Bolitophagus cornutus Fab. is Bolitotherus bifl'RCUS Fab. 
 
 *' obcordatus Kby. is a Phellopsis. 
 
 Meracantha canadensis Kby. is contracta Beauv. 
 
 Arthromacra donacioides Kby. is aenea Say. 
 
 Cistela erythropa Kby. is Androchirus hiteipss Lee, which ir 
 
 not rare in Canada. 
 Xylita buprestoides Payk. X. laevigata Hellen. is an older 
 
 name. 
 Notoxus monodon Fab. 
 Cantharis unicolor Kby. is a Malrobasis, cinerea \\ r'ab. and 
 
 Fabricii Lee. are its s}'nonyms. 
 
329 
 33<^ 
 331 
 332 
 333 
 
 334 
 335 
 
 33(> 
 
 337 
 33^ 
 339 
 
 340 
 
 341 
 342 
 343 
 
 14 
 
 Meloe IMPRESSA Kby. 
 
 " NIGRA Kby. 
 Dasytes foveicollis Kby. is a Dolfchosoma. 
 Necrobia violacea Linn, is a Corynetes. 
 Thanasimus ahdominalis Kby. is nubilus King, a variety of undu- 
 
 LATUS Say. 
 Cyphon fusciceps Kby. 
 
 Telephorus ater Linn. (Kby.) is erroneously determined and is 
 FRAXiNi Say. 
 " Westwoodii Kby. The legs of this opecies are dark. 
 
 It seems to me merely a variety of the next. 
 " Samouellii Kbv. 
 
 " CuRTisii Kby. This and the preceding are the same. 
 
 " puNCTicoLLis Kby. is a Podabrus. 
 
 " lae . icoLLis Kby. is a Podabrus. 
 
 " MANDiBULARis Kby. docs not differ from fraxini .Say. 
 
 " Bennetii Kby. is Podabrus tricost.atus Say. 
 
 Lampyris corrusca Linn, is an Ellychnia. 
 
 Synopsis of Kirbys Species. 
 
 Number of species described as new by Kirby 238 
 
 Those which retain Kirby's specific names and are known to us .111 
 
 Number which must be considered synonyms 108 
 
 Specific names pre-occupied and a more recent name used 6 
 
 Species in doubt and undetermined by us 10 
 
 To be dropped (name pre-occupied and type lo^ in one instance). . . 2 
 
 Two species mixed under one name , 2 
 
 Number of species quoted from previous authors 105 
 
 Of these there are correctly determined ... 68 
 
 Those which must be placed in synonymy on account of incorrect 
 
 detennination or otherwise 35 
 
 Uncertain and unknown to us 2 
 
 Australian species described in error i