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being much less thickly dusted with green-gold glittering punctures, which 

 gives it a blacker hue. The impression also in the elevated space between 

 the eyes is much deeper. The blue-tinctured impressions of the elytra are 

 also more distinct, and surrounded by a more elevated ring. [Taken on the 

 Island of Toronto by Mr. Couper, Can. Journal, 1856, p. 33.] 



89. Elapiirus intermedius, Kirly. — Length of body 4 lines. Taken 

 by Dr. Bigsby in Canada. 



This species resembles E. cupreus. but it is quite distinct. The body is 

 more thickly and minutely punctured on the whole upper surface; under- 

 neath it is of a fine bronzed-green ; above it is blacker and less brilliant j the 

 head is greenish ; the middle space between the eyes is less elevated than in 

 that species, and wrinkled longitudinally without any impression : the im- 

 pressions on the discoidal elevations of the prothorax ave fainter : the elytra 

 like the other species have a quadruple series of impressions, but they are 

 broader, more slight, without any elevated ring, are more minutely punctured, 

 have a slight elevation in the centre, and are of the same colour with the 

 rest of the elytrum ; the marginal series is nearly obsolete; just before the 

 middle, adjoining the suture is a quadrangular elevation which unites with 

 that of the other elytrum : the thighs are green, rufous at the base, tibiae 

 rufous, tarsi piceous. [Taken iu Canada.] 



[63] 90. Elaphrus obscurior, Kirby. — Length of body 3^ lines. A 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



This species is more strongly marked than the majority of the E/apJiri. 

 On the underside the head and trunk are copper with a slight tint of green; 

 the abdomen of a dusky purplish copper: above it is copper-coloured; the 

 head, with the exception of the upper-lip, is very thickly and confluently 

 punctured, with a levigated but scarcely elevated space between the eyes ; 

 the four first joints of the antennas are cupreous : prothorax not wider than 

 the head, confluently and thickly punctured ; discoidal elevations not con- 

 spicuous nor impressed ; elytra not glossy, punctured with scattered punc- 

 tures, marked by a quadruple series of very slight impressions, some nearly 

 obsolete, most of them marked out by a very slight elevated ring and a circle 

 of punctures, three levigated quadrangular spaces near the suture, and arrang- 

 ed in a line parallel with it, and a fourth triangular one removed from it, 

 near the apex ; the disk of the elytra is faintly purple : legs bronzed. 



91. Notiophilus aquaticus, Linn. — One specimen taken. [An erro- 

 neous determination, according to Dr. LeConte, who considers it to be i\T. 

 semistriatus, Say. For description, which very closely corresponds with 

 Kirby's, vide Say's Ent. Works, ii. 497.] 



