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rounded ; base with a slight sinus on each side : elytra acute, very minu- 

 tely punctured with a hair emerging from each puncture, without furrows 

 except a single one parallel with the suture, ferruginous, black at the tip : 

 abdomen piceous, rufous at the base : legs ferruginous. [Belongs to the 

 family S ///>// iWce.] 



[109. J FAMILY SCAPHIDIIDJE. 



155. Scarhium castanipes Kirby. — Plate v., rig. 1. — Length of 

 body 3 lines. A single specimen taken in the journey from New York 

 to Cumberland-house. 



Body naked, glossy ; underneath smooth, black, with a very light shade 

 of bronze ; above more evidently bronzed, punctured. Mouth, palpi, 

 and antennae pale chestnut : prothorax behind, on each side, marked with 

 a pair of punctiform impressions, between these impressions are several 

 large punctures, but not in a regular transverse series as in Scaphidium : 

 elytra with six discoidal rows of punctures : the four rows nearest the 

 suture reach the base, but not the apex, and the two external ones neither 

 base nor apex ; the first row also terminates towards the base in three 

 large distinct punctures, and from the base of the third runs a transverse 

 row, as in Scaphidium, to the sutural furrow, which is impunctured : the 

 legs are pale chestnut. 



[iIO.] FAM 1 L V A X I SOTOM J D.K. 



156. Leiodes puncto-STRIATUS Kirby. — Length of body 1 line. A 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



Body hemispherico-ovate, naked, gloss}", chestnut. Head very lightly 

 punctured ; mandibles rather prominent ; palpi and antennae rufous, clava 

 of the latter much incrassated consisting of five joints, the second of which 

 is extremely minute : prothorax very large, wider than long, very lightly 

 punctured, with the sides paler than the disk : elytra deeply and grossly 

 punctured in rows, interstices impunctured : legs and under-side of the 

 prothorax rufous : anus paler than the rest of the abdomen. This species 

 closely resembles the Anisotoma badia of Sturm, but the elytra are not 

 finely punctured, as Mr. Stephens describes them in that species. 



FAMILY SYLVAN ID.-E [laTHRIDIID-'E.] 



157. Corticaria denticulata Kirby. — Length of body 1 line. A 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65 . 



[in.] Body dark piceous, rather glossy, naked, minutely punctured. 

 Prothorax rather orbicular, with a circular deepish impression just above 

 the scutellum ; sides distinctly denticulated : elytra with several rows of 



