134 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. 



COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. 



From Kirby s Fauna Boreali- Americana : Insecta. 

 (Continued from page 116.) 



[95-] 1 33- Creophilus villosus Grav. — Length of body, 7 lines. 

 Taken in Lat. 54 in Canada, also by Dr. Bigsby, and in Nova Scotia by 

 Capt. Hall. I have specimens likewise, taken in Britain. [Quite common 

 throughout Ontario.] 



This species is extremely similar to C. maxillosus, and its American 

 representative. The following circumstances principally distinguish them. 

 The anterior angles of the prothorax in C. maxittosus are thinly cloathed 

 with shortish black hairs : in C. villosus, these hairs are cinereous, longer, 

 more numerous, and cover a larger portion of the angle ; in the former, 

 the band of the elytra is whiter and wider than in the latter : in the 

 former also the back of the abdomen, especially the third and fourth 

 segments, is mottled with cinereous hairs ; in the latter the second and 

 third have each a cinereous band interrupted in the middle : again the four 

 first ventral segments in C. maxiUosus are thickly covered with decumbent 

 cinereous hairs, with each a lateral black spot on both sides, while in C. 

 villosus only the three first segments are so distinguished ; and finally, in 

 the former the sides of the postpectus are covered with black hairs, and 

 in the latter with cinereous. 



[family silphid.e.] 



[96.] 134. Necrophorus velutinus Fabr. -— Length of body, 

 8 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. [Common in Ontario.] 



Body black ; nose separated posteriorly from the front by a straight 

 line, anteriorly furnished with a submembranous rhinarium, above which is 

 a round flattened tubercle ; knob of the antenna? black : prothorax dilated 

 anteriorly, thickly covered with golden pile : elytra with two orange- 

 coloured bands, toothed as it were on both sides, the anterior being the 

 widest ; epipleura pale yellow : postpectus covered with golden pile : 

 posterior trochanters truncated at the apex and emarginate. 



135. Necrophorus hebes Kirby. — Length of body, 7 lines. Taken 

 in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 



[97.] Like the last, but the nose is separated from the front by # a 



