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[246.] Body black, rather hairy. Hesd suborbicular, obsoletely 

 channelled ; mouth, palpi, and base of the antennae, rufous ; prothorax 

 rather wider than long, very glossy ; disk obsoletely channelled and a 

 little elevated on each side the channel ; anterior angles rounded ; elytra 

 minutely and confluently punctured, when elevated from the body they 

 appear embrowned : tip of the thighs, tibiae, and tarsi, rufous. 



336. Telephorus Westwoodii Kirby. — Length of body 5)^ lines. 

 A single specimen 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 body, with the scape and the base of the 

 pedicel or second joint, rufous; prothorax rufous, rather wider than long, 

 anteriorly rounded, posteriorly transverse with the margin much rerlexed ; 

 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 Samouellii 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 base; 

 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 Curtisji Kirby. — Length of body 4^ 

 lines. Taken in Lat. 65 . 



Very like the preceding species, but it is smaller ; there is a black 

 band between the eyes ; the prothorax is considerably longer and 

 narrower in proportion, the posterior angles are more acute, and the tarsi 

 are black. 



[Taken by Agassiz's Expedition to Lake Superior.] 



339. Telephorus (Malthacus) Puncticollis Kirby. — Plate vii, 

 fig. 4. — Length of body 2^3 lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54". 



[248]. Body black, rather hairy, with short decumbent white hairs. 

 Head rhomboidal, lightly and minutely punctured ; posteriorly obsoletely 



