INHABITING NOBTH AMERICA. >J\i 



Length about three-tenths of an inch. 



Bodi/ pale rufous, minutely punctured, beneath testaceous 

 tinged with reddish, minutely lineuted. 



Head blackish at base ; aritennce and palpi testaceous. 



Thorax at the middle of the liasc and lip blackish. 



Elytra blackish, witli very minute, numerous, fenestrate punc- 

 tuics, a submarginal whitish line interrupted at tip, passing 

 round the humerus, and falcate on the base, an abbreviated 

 subsutural one at base, hardly attaining tlie middle, and 

 two or three smaller obsolete ones near the marginal line. 



Sternum acutely carinated. 



A remarkal)ly handsome and distinct species. It is not 



common, and may probably prove to be the interrogatus of 



Fabricius. 



8. C. *ghjphiciis dark brown or blackisli ; elytra profoundly 

 striated. 



Length one-fifth of an inch. 



Dyliscus glyphicus. Mehh. Calal. 



Body dark reddish-brown, miimtely punctured, beneath 



blackish, minutely lineated. 

 Thorax with an anterior, indented, rugous, submarginal line. 

 Ebjtra with eleven profoundly impressed slri:e. alternately 



abbreviated towards the tip, the inner ones abbreviated at 



base, marginal one extending from the middle towards the 



tip. 

 Feet rufous. 



This insect varies in being of a paler colour. I found it 

 numerous in fresh water ponds oti Sullivan's Island, South 

 Carolina. 



9. C. *nhfumtu!i black ; elytra four-spotted, punctured. 

 Length three-tenths of an inch. 



Bfuli) black. 



Head with two obsolete piceous spots on the vertex, a single 



