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the Western form, found in Vancouver Island and British Cohimbia. 

 It has the first two abdominal segments piceous, the rest yellowish, 

 and is the species which I incorrectly called lepida in my paper 



(Can. Ent., Vol. XXVI., p. 305) occidentalism Horn. 



Elytra as in preceding, except that there is no sutural stripe connecting 

 the basal band with the spot, which is transversely oval, not 

 cordiform. The middle portions only of the first and second 

 ventrals are piceous. Size of the other species. Found in the 

 Eastern Provinces lepida, Lee. 



Endomychid^. 



Quite recently I have received from the Rev. Geo. W. Taylor, a 

 number of specimens of ^///^r/^/rt! heta, Lee, a most beautiful insect of 

 this family. He took them at his home near Nanaimo, Vancouver 

 Island. It is more than likely that the insect will be found also on the 

 mainland of British Columbia, and the following descrip- 

 tion will render it easy of recognition, since the form is 

 unmistakable and closely resembles that of the other 

 species of this and allied genera. It is .28 inch, long, 

 yellowish-testaceous, antennce blackish, terminal joint 

 more or less pale. The prothorax bears two small black 

 Fig. 28. spots, one on each side before the middle, and the elytra 



have a very large common blue spot which covers most of the surface, 

 leaving only the humeri, side margins and apex pale. It is shown in 

 Fifi;. 28. 



Another nice species has been sent for determination by Mr. John 

 D. Evans, who took it in Eastern Ontario. It is Mycetina testacea, 

 Ziegl, a small, yellowish-testaceous beetle, of more elongate form than 

 Q\t\iQ.r perpulchra or Hornii. The antenn«i are piceous, but otherwise the 

 colour is quite uniform — aside from a tendency of the sides of the pro- 

 thorax to become a little paler than the disk. It is distinctly shining 

 above, notwithstanding the covering of yellow pubescence. Length, .15 

 inch. Mr. Evans writes that he has only a single specimen, taken near 

 Trenton in 1884. 



The style of coloration (by lack of all pattern) is so different from 

 that of M. Hornii and Af. perpulchra, the previously-known northern 

 forms, that the present species would not fall into the genus (nor any of 

 the other genera) by the scheme which I used in the generic synopsis on 



