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rather short, black, the club red, with the basal joint black ; neck rather deeply punctured. Thorax small, 
rounded, scarcely broader than long, widest near the middle, the medial line and all the impressions 
very deep, the disc almost impunctate, and very shining; front, sides, and base depressed, and more 
deeply punctured, the sides and base continuously rounded and deeply margined. Scutellum triangular, 
obtusely pointed, and closely punctured. Hlytra twice longer and much broader than the thorax, widest 
at the extremities, rather deeply and very closely punctured; subhumeral fascia very broad, the apical 
fascia rather narrow, both reaching the suture, the epipleural fold and fascie red; the extremities 
bisinuated, with the sutural angles produced and black. Abdomen rather deeply punctured, and clothed 
with black hair. Legs rather long, with the intermediate tibiw slightly incurved. Underparts black, 
rather closely punctured, the breast not pubescent. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova, Tuxtla, Juquila (Sallé), Zapotlan in Colima (Hége). 
Differs from the other allied species in its small rounded and deeply sculptured 
thorax, piceous epistoma, closely-punctured elytra, and breast devoid of pubescence. 
4. Necrophorus marginatus. 
Necrophorus marginatus, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 384; Lec. Proc. Ac, Phil. 1853, p. 275°; Horn, 
Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. viii. p. 231”. 
Depressus, nitidus, impressionibus solitis sat levibus, niger, fasciis rufis elytrorum ambabus latis et ad suturam 
extensis, epipleuris totis rufis; capite modico, distincte punctato, epistomate rufo; oculis magnis, promi- 
nentibus ; pronoto subcordato, longiore quam lato, antice latissimo, ad medium contracto, basi rotundata, 
una cum lateribus marginata et depressa, margine confertim punctata, disco nitidissimo, remote et minute 
punctato, interstitiis minutissime punctatis, linea mediali atque impressionibus omnibus leviter impressis ; 
elytris quam pronotum sesqui-longioribus, parum latioribus, ad extrema latissimis, modice punctatis, fasciis 
duabus rufis, latissimis, ad suturam extensis notatis, epipleuris totis rufis; abdomine sat profunde punctato ; 
pedibus sat brevibus, robustis, nigris, tibiis posterioribus rectis; antennis nigris, clavis totis rufis. Long. 
ad extr. elytrorum 7 lin.=14 millim. Lat. elytrorum 3} lin.=7 millim. 
Body depressed, shining, with the usual impressions faintly marked; black, with the fascie of the elytra red, 
very broad, and reaching to the suture, the epipleural folds red. Head moderate, distinctly punctured, 
the epistoma rufous; eyes large, very prominent; antenna black, with the whole club red. T'horaw sub- 
cordate, longer than broad, widest in front, contracted near the middle; basal margin rounded ; sides and 
base depressed and margined, the margin closely punctured ; disc very shining, minutely and remotely punc- 
tured, with the interstices more minutely punctured, the medial line and all the impressions rather shallow. 
Scutellum large, triangular, and deeply punctured. lytra one half longer, and rather broader than the 
thorax, widest at the extremities, moderately punctured, with two indistinctly elevated coste on the disc ; 
with very broad subhumeral and apical red fasciw, both reaching to the suture, the epipleural folds entirely 
red; extremities bisinuated, with the sutural angles acute. Abdomen rather deeply punctured, not pube- 
scent. Legs rather short, robust ; posterior tibie straight. Underparts black, rather deeply punctured, 
the breast covered with golden hair. 
Hab. Norra America?, New York, Georgia, Nebraska, Texas, and California 1.— 
Mexico, Parras in Coahuila (Dr. Palmer). 
So far as it is possible to judge from the two Mexican examples before me, this 
species appears to be distinguished from its congeners by its depressed form, faint 
sculpture and general shape of the thorax, the broad fascie of the elytra, and wholly 
red club of the antenne. 
5. Necrophorus quadrimaculatus, sp. n. 
Sat angustus, nitidissimus, impressionibus solitis omnibus profundis, aterrimus, maculis humeralibus atque 
