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two-thirds longer, ferruginous to piceous. Thorax transverse, wider than long, sides nearly 

 parallel to apical third, then rapidly rounding to apical constriction ; apex one-fourth 

 narrower than base subconvex, surface even, closely covered with granuloid tuber- 

 culations, smaller on the disk, larger and rugous on the sides; median carina tine, mostly 

 attaining the i^ase. Elytra oval, striato-punctate, striiu when denuded slightly acutely 

 impressed, intervals not obviously inequal, granuloid tubercles fine and sparse ; apices 

 conjointly rounded, notch very slight. Anterior femora with the sinuation for the tibi^ 

 strongly rectangularly laminate and usually the middle and posterior ; mesosternum 

 elevated between the coxae. The vestiture is very uniform, mostly of white and gray 

 fine hairlike scales tessellated on the elytra, sparser below ; the median spot on the 

 elytra usually seen in the other species is absent, but there is a white one on each apical 

 protuberance; the femora are not annulated and the abdominal spots are wanting. The 

 American examples seen are from Michigan ; the European, from Hungary. 



L. gemellus^ Kirby. — This elegant species was taken by Mr. F. C. 

 Bovvditch, in the Rocky Mountains near Eagle Pass, at an elevation of 

 13,000 feet or over, examples of which, through his cotirtasy, I have been 

 enabled to see. From these the recorded distribution is Vancouver 

 Island; Alaska (the Peninstila of Kenai and the adjoining Continent, also 

 the Yukon); the Hudson Bay region to Lat. 65°. In the former notice, p. 

 126, the word " scalerous " should read scabrous. 



Lcpyrus palustris. — Examples from Indiana in the cabinet of F. H. 

 Snow, Chancellor of the University of Kansas, are absolutely identical 

 with the cylindrical, long-beaked European form usually sent to America. 



Lixjis fossus, Lee, 1876, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV., 417 ; lucukiittis, 

 Casey, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci , VI., 209. 



Fossus was described from a unique taken at Enterprise, Florida ; 

 luciclentus from examples taken at Lake Worth, Florida, about 250 miles 

 southward. Except in size, the individuals of this species are little 

 variable, but enough so to make two or three species of by any one 

 inclined in that direction. Mr. Casey's types seemingly differ from Dr. 

 Leconte's in three or four points which more ample material shows to 

 possess only individual value. The material in my collection, $ and ? , 

 is from near Jacksonville and from Lake Worth, the latter due to the 

 munificence of Mrs. Slosson, who recently sent me nine examples. The 

 (J exami)le3 from Jacksonville agree with Dr. Leconte's description of the 

 thorax and basal fovea, the 9 with his description of the supposed 9 

 which is the 9 of Mr. Casey's luculetitus. In the males of the examples 

 from Lake Worth the thorax and basal fovese are diverse, some as in fossus, 

 some as in hiailentiis, and others intermediate. The characters drawn 

 from the beak are likewise mutually intermixed. 



The following description drawn from 10 male examples illustrates 



