156 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. 



COMPILED BY REV. C. J. S. BETHUNE, M. A. 



From Kirbfs Fauna B or eali- Americana : Insecta. 



(Continued from Vol. vii, p. 113.) 



COLEOPTERA. 



By an unfortunate oversight, descriptions of the following Coleoptera 

 have been ommitted. They should have preceded the family Cleridae on 

 p. 109 of the present volume. In the reprint which we are preparing 

 they will appear in their proper place. — Ed. C. E. 



[240.] FAMILY DIRC^EIDjE. 



326. Xylita buprestoides Payk. — Length of body 3 lines. Taken 

 in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



Body narrow, black-brown, very minutely and thickly punctured, 

 sprinkled with short decumbent pale hairs, not glossy. Head inserted ; 

 eyes hemispherical ; palpi rufous ; antennae nearly as long as the pro- 

 thorax, ferruginous, a little embrowned at the apex ; prothorax not wider 

 than long, anteriorly narrowest, posteriorly obsoletely trilobed ; sides 

 rounded ; scutellum transverse ; elytra very little wider than the pro- 

 thorax j tarsi ferruginous. 



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



FAMILY ANTHICIDAE. 



327. Notoxus monodon Fabr. — Length of body if 3 line. A 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65 . 



[241.] Body hairy with pale hairs. Head blackish • mouth, palpi, 

 and antennae testaceous ; prothorax testaceous ; horn convex above, 

 margin denticulated \ elytra testaceous with a blackish band near the 

 apex which rises upwards at the suture, and three blackish spots ; two at 

 the base, and one between the band and the apex, the last very faint ; 

 legs testaceous ; postpectus and base of the abdomen embrowned ; the 

 remainder of the prone part of the body is testaceous. 



[Not uncommon in Canada. Described and figured by Say (Am. 

 Ent., i, 21, plate 10). J 



