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curved line, it is also marked on each side by a deep longitudinal furrow, 

 and is depressed longitudinally in the centre ; but what more strongly 

 characterizes it, is the want of the rhinarium or nostril-piece discoverable 

 in most of the other species : the anterior part of the prothorax is less 

 conspicuously dilated and naked : the elytra anteriorly have a strongly 

 toothed orange band including a black dot at the suture ; posteriorly they 

 have a large toothed spot of the same colour ; the epipleura is orange in 

 the middle, black at the tip with a black spot at the base connected with 

 the black disk : postpectus not brilliant with golden pile. [Unknown to 

 Dr. LeConte.] 



136. Necrophorus obscurus Kirby. — Length of body 9 — 10 lines. 

 A pair taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 



Body black. Nose separated from the front by a straight abbreviated 

 line, with a deep oblique furrow on each side and no distinct rhinarium ; 

 three last joints of the knob of the antennae ferruginous : prothorax 

 anteriorly dilated : elytra with two rather obscure deep red bands, the 

 anterior one broad, dentated and reaching from the epipleura to the 

 suture : the posterior one externally broad, internally narrow, and reaching 

 neither epipleura nor suture ; epipleura deep red, narrower than usual : 

 posterior trochanter emarginate. [Taken in Canada : at Toronto by Mr. 

 Couper, and at Grimsby by Mr. Pettit.] 



137. Necrophorus Mkj.shelmkri Kirby. — Length of body 9 lines. 

 A single specimen taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland- 

 house. 



[98. J Body black. Nose separated from the front by an obtusangular 

 line; rhinarium orange-coloured, subtrapezoidal ; three last joints of the 

 knob of the antennae ferruginous : prothorax dilated anteriorly : elytra 

 with two orange-coloured subundulated toothed bands reaching from the 

 epipleu'ra to the suture ; epipleura broad, orange-coloured : posterior tro- 

 chanters truncated at the apex with the external angle recurved ; tibiae 

 dilated, especially the anterior part, or cubits : postpectus on each side 

 covered with tawny hairs. [Taken at Toronto by Mr. Couper.] 



138. Necrophorus Hallii Kirby. — Length of body 8-9 lines. Taken 

 in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall, and in Massachusetts by Mr. Drake. 



Body, as usual, black. Nose separated from the front by a straight 

 line, channelled ; rhinarium distinct, membranous, tawny, anterior angles 

 elongated: knob of the antennae with the three last joints dull-orange: 

 prothorax nearly circular, anteriorly emarginate : elytra with an anterior 



