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12. Bracfunis cyannipennis, Say. — [Say's Ent. Works, ii. 91. j Several 

 specimens of this insect were taken in the journey from New York to Cum- 

 berland House, and in lat. 54°; it was taken also in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



[17] 13. Carabus Vietinghovii, Adams. — (Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscow, iii- 

 170 ; Fischer Ent. Russ. i. 98 j Dcj. IMeopt. ii. 61, 21.) Kirby, plate I., 

 fig. 3. 



9- Length of the body 10 lines. l>ody very black and glossy. Head 

 puuetured between the eyes with confluent but not minute punctures ; anterior 

 part of the front wrinkled on each side, but the nose and upper lip are quite 

 smooth ; the seven terminal joints of the antennae are brown : the prothorax 

 is nearly square with the sides rounded anteriorly and the posterior angles a 

 little prominent; it is deeply channelled, transversely wrinkled in the disk, 

 confluently but not minutely punctured on the sides; the disk also is black, 

 but the sides exhibit shades of dark blue and green, at the margin they are 

 of a most brilliant ruddy copper, some of the anterior punctures also appear 

 as if gilded : the elytra are rough and as it were reticulated with longitudinal 

 and transverse elevations, the former nearly arranged in lines which produce 

 deep cavities ; the disk is of a fine deep blue, the sides green, and the lateral 

 margin of the same ruddy copper as that of the prothorax. The body under- 

 neath is quite smooth in the disk, with some irregular elevations and depres- 

 sions on the sides: the sides of the ante-pectus, or forebreast, are of a fine 

 green ; the intermediate segments have each a pair of impressions from which 

 a hair emerges. This is most visible in the % • 



I at first regarded this splendid insect as a new species. I thuught it, 

 indeed, very near C. Vietinghovii, but as it did not altogether agree either 

 with Dr. Fischer's figure or description, and was found in another quarter of 

 the globe, I regarded it as distinct; but having received from my frieud Mr. 

 Hope, a Russian specimen of that insect, I find no difference sufficient to 

 constitute a species. In that specimen the marginal gilding of the prothorax 

 and elytra is greener with scarcely any of the ruddy hue of copper which gives 

 Such brilliance to the American specimen. 



[A single specimen only of this magnificent beetle was brought to Mr. 

 Kirby in the Richardson collection, and no locality is given of its capture; 

 can it have come from Russia, and not from British America ? No specimen 

 of it has been taken in this country, so far as we are aware, since the time of 

 that expedition, a period of over 30 years. It might have been included in 

 the collection by some accident, — a not infrequent occurrence. Prof. Croft, 

 for instance, writes us that some years ago he had a collection of moths given 

 to him "collected in or near Toronto," yet among them was a gigantic 



