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and it does not seem possible to imagine, for instance, that authentic 

 examples of iracundus and the European julgidus Fabr., could even 

 have been placed in juxtaposition with a view to careful compari- 

 sons, other than to note that they are of about the same size and 

 are both black, with bright red elytra. In julgidus the eyes are 

 very much larger than in iracundus in both sexes and, in a female at 

 hand from Morea, carefully identified by Reitter, they are distant 

 from the nuchal constriction by about half of their own length 

 only in the male by less than half, while in a typical male of 

 iracundus they are separated therefrom by distinctly more than 

 their entire length; the antennae in the latter specimen are thick 

 and incrassate, with the outer joints much wider than long, while 

 in the fulgidus example cited, they are much longer, more filiform 

 and with all the penultimate joints somewhat longer than wide; 

 finally, the basal joint of the hind tarsi is relatively much more 

 elongate in the European species. The supposed identity of these 

 two species, which is reiterated also in the recent European cata- 

 logue of Heyden, Reitter and Weise, can therefore be demonstrated 

 to be the result of hasty and careless investigation. 



Raphirus Steph. 



The European fulvicollis Steph. (hyperboreus Er.) is assumed 

 above as the type of this group, as it seems to be one of its most 

 widely distributed members. There are numerous species inscribed 

 under Raphirus in the catalogues, but I am unable just now to give 

 the essential differential characters, other than to state that, so 

 far as the moderate number of American species are concerned, 

 the body is always small in size, with the eyes very greatly developed 

 as a rule, and the abdominal sculpture is frequently irregular, giving 

 rise to paler or more silvery spots of pubescence in many cases. 

 Our species are the following so far as known : 



Scutellum smooth 2 



Scutellum punctate 7 



2 Eyes very large, extending to within a short distance of the nuchal 

 constriction; front with a small, posteriorly angulate median im- 

 pression 3 



Eyes jess developed, extending to within fully half their length of the 



constriction 6 



3 Elytra with very few remote punctures arranged in about four series, 

 the inner subsutural, the outer along the summit of the flanks and 



