304 [Dec, 1S45. 



vex, while in nigricans the lateral thoracic margins are of one color, and the 

 convexity of the disk triangular, the color of which does not attain the apex. 



Pyratomena, Dej. Catal. 



P. lucifera. Thorax yellowish, with the disk and a lateral abbreviated vitta, 

 black; elytra brown, with the limb yellowish. 4| 1. long ; 1J 1. wide. Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Lampyris lucifera, Melsh. Catal. 



Head testaceous, with the eyes black ; antennas brown, hirsute, two basal 

 joints and base of the third yellowish or testaceous : thorax longer than wide, 

 with the sides nearly rectilinear and parallel from the base to before the middle, 

 thence to the apex strongly narrowed ; apex acutely rounded ; yellowish, tinged 

 with rosaceous each side of the middle; a medial, anteriorly and posteriorly ab- 

 breviated vitta, and a short submarginal one, black : scutel testiceous, truncate 

 at apex : elytra brown, obscurely two-ribbed, with the sutural and lateral mar- 

 gins testaceous : beneath brown, with the three terminal ventral segments yel- 

 lowish: feet brown with the bases of the femora and tibisE, testaceous. Resem- 

 bles L. centrata, Say> from which, however, it is distinguishable by theoutlines 

 of the thorax. 



2. 'P.fenestralis. Black; thorax each side of the middle with a rosaceous 

 spot. 4| 1. long; 1| 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Elongate, parallel, black or black-brown, opake ; antennae compressed, black, 

 with the second joint small, calathiform, third and fourth joints subcqual : thorax 

 semioval, black, with a large rosaceous spot each side of the middle ; disk with 

 two transverse ridges behind the middle, interrupted by the medial line ; basal 

 edge rectilinear between the hind angles; scutellum glossy, truncate at apex : 

 elytra obscurely two-ribbed, finely shagreened : beneath and feet black ; antepec- 

 tus rosaceous within the lateral margins. 



Telephoridse. 

 Telephorus, De Geer. 



T. rufiolus. Black ; head, thorax, femora and sides and apex of abdomen 

 rufous. 5j 1. long ; l-§ 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Cantharis rubricollus, Melsh. Catal. 



Head rufous, much contracted behind the eyes, rugosely punctured, deeply 

 indented on the front, with the clypeus large, impunctured, shining; palpi and 

 mandibles, testaceous, with the tips blackish ; eyes prominent, black ; antenna} 

 simple, brown, with two basal joints and base of the following, rufous or testa- 

 ceous, second and third joints subcqual, shorter than the following ones : thorax 

 rufous, transverse, with all the margins sub-angularly elevated ; sides rounded ; 

 anterior edge straight, posterior one sinuate ; disk longitudinally concave, with 

 the medial linedistinct; scutel rufous: elytra blackish, finely shagreened, obscure- 

 ly two-ribbed : beneath blackish, with the antepectus, femora, sides and tip of 

 the abdomen, rufous ; claws bifid. It may be placed in the genus Podabrus, 

 Fisch. It occurs in July, on the Water Lily. 



2. T. dubius. Black; lateral margins of the thorax whitish ; antennoe com- 

 pressed. 3f 1. long; 1J- 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



