1851.] 343 



disco nigro lineato, utrinque antice late excavato, elytris scabris, sutura mar- 

 gineque testaceis, pedibus pallidis, genubus infuscatis. Long. "26. 



A common species, which resembles very much T. rectus, but the elytra are 

 more scabrous. 



29. T. scitulus Lee. Agass. Lake Sup. 229. Canih. scitulaSay. J. Ac, 

 Nat. Sc. 5, 168; T. nigriceps Lee. 1. c. 230. 



Middle and Northern States. My Teleph. nigriceps is only a distorted speci- 

 men of this species, which is much paler than usual. 



30. T. 1 o n g u 1 u s 5 pallidus thorace latitudinelongiore, tenuiter marginata, 

 angulis posticis non rotundatis, disco late canaliculato, antice ad latera excavato> 

 elytris substriatim scabris, antennis fuscis, basi pallidis. Long. "28. 



One specimen, Niagara. 



31. T. p u s i 1 1 u s , niger, mandibulis pedibusque flavis, thorace vix trans- 

 verso, marginato, lateribus rectis, flavis, disco subtiliter canaliculato, nigro, 

 elytris scabris, epipleuris pallidis. Long. "15. 



One specimen. New York. The thoracic margin is not broader in front than) 

 behind. Resembles much T. rectus, but is much smaller; only the- first joint of 

 the antennae is pale. 



32. T. V i 1 i s, niger, thorace subtransverso, marginato, lateribus flavis, disco 

 nigro, antice ad latera late excavato, postice ad angulos posticos rectos foveato, 

 elytris valde scabro-punctatis. Long. '15. 



New York and Upper Mississippi. The margin of the thorax is broader to- 

 wards the anterior angles. 



33. T. f r a X i n i. Cantharis fraxini Say. J. Ac. Nat. Sc. 3, 181 : Telephorus 

 uigrita'Lec. Agass. Lake Sup. 229: Malthacus mandihiilaris Kirby. F. BorAm, 

 248. Abundant at Lake Superior and Mackinaw; found also in Pennsylvania: 

 some of the specimens have the maxillary palpi much less dilated than is usual in 

 this genus ; they are probably females. 



PoDABRUs jFischer. 



Palpi articulo ultimo dilatato, securiformi, vel triangular!, antennae articulc 

 2ndo tertio vix breviore, caput pone oculos valde angustatum, thorax margine 

 integerrimo ad apicem truncatus vel emarginatus. 



I can find no description of this genus except in the synopsis at the end of 

 Westwood's introduction to the modern Classification of Insects, p. 27. If this 

 be the earliest publication of the characters of the genus, the name of Westwood 

 must of course be substituted in the place of Fischer, who in his Ent. Russ. only 

 mentions the genus by name, without giving any description. The species of 

 the first division all have a deep transverse impression before the middle of the 

 thorax. The second division is equivalent to Kirby's genus Malthacus. 



a. Thorax latius marginato ; ungues fere fissi : palpi art. ult. securiformi. 



1. P. tricostatus. Canlharis tricostata Say. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1, 

 158: Telephorus Ben?ietii Kirby F. Bor. Am. 249. Vermont, Prof. Adams; 

 Pennsylvania, Dr. Melsheimer. 



2. P. b a s i 1 a r i s. Cautharis basilaris Say. J. Ac. Nat. Sc. 3, 181. Mid- 

 dle States, rare. 



3. P. f la V i c o 1 1 i s, niger, fascia frontali thoraceque flavo-paDidis, hoc 

 transverso, subcanaliculato, parcius punctato, lateribus latius marginatis, subn>- 



