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tarsi, and claws, yellow. [" Lake Superior, Maine and Pennsylvania " (Le 

 Conte). We have specimens taken in the neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ont.] 



[146.] 195. Pedetes Brightwelli, Kirby. — Length of body 6 lines. 

 Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 



Body elongate, more slender than that of the type, testaceous ; hairy, 

 with decumbent pale hairs ; thickly punctured. Head dusky-red ; an- 

 tennae longer than the prothorax, slenderer than usual in the tribe, 

 scarcely serrated, with the four last joints rather slenderer than the rest ; 

 eyes large and hemispherical ; nose a good deal reflexed : prothorax con- 

 vex, channelled, dusky-red, darker in the disk : elytra pale testaceous ; 

 furrowed, furrows deeply punctured ; interstices minutely punctured with 

 scattered punctures : legs paler than the rest of the body, and nearly 

 yellow. [Included now in the genus Athous Esch. Le Conte, in his 

 " Revision of the Elateridas of the United States," (Amer. Phil. Trans, vol. 

 x., p. 425), states that this species occurs in the "Middle and Southern 

 States, not rare. The specimen described by Kirby seems to have been a 

 pale coloured variety of this species, which varies much in colour. In the 

 male the thorax is constricted before the posterior angles, which are slightly 

 divergent ; in the female, the sides are straight and the angles do not 

 diverge j the dorsal channel is never deep, and is frequently wanting." 



subgenus asaphes Kirby. 



Body wider. Nose not overhanging the mouth. Rhinarium attenu- 

 ated in the middle. Prothorax short, posterior angles carinated. 



I am doubtful whether this should not be considered as forming a dis- 

 tinct genus. The general form is very different. But as the tarsi have 

 suckers on the second and third joints, till more species are discovered, I 

 have given it as only a subgenus of Pedetes. 



[Dr. Le Conte (Am. Phil. Trans, x. 449) states that " although but 

 one species of this genus is described by Kirby and another by Germar, I 

 find that several of our Elaters possess characters which require them to 

 be associated with his type. They seem to fonn a natural group approach- 

 ing most nearly to Corymbites, and indeed differing from that genus only 

 in the structure of the tarsi. The second and third joints of the tarsi are 

 dilated beneath into a short spongy lobe : the first joint is as long as the 

 second and third together, and usually spongy at the tip : the fourth joint 

 is small and narrow, received upon the third, and is sometimes also 

 spongy beneath : the fifth joint is elongate with simple claws."] 



196. Pedetes (Asaphes) ruficornis Kirby. — Length of body 7^ 

 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Llall. 



