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Prof. Say returned me the name of dispar Herbst, and to him 

 I owe all the names from Herbst and Illiger, whose works I 

 have not seen. Prof. Say was probably mistaken in this in- 

 stance, as you will see from the following description of this 

 and an allied species of my Notliora. 



^'- Nothora (6, my cabinet). Pale reddish brown, densely 

 covered with depressed pale ochreous hairs. Antennse with 

 simple elongated obconic joints in both sexes ; head and thorax 

 with distinct dilated punctures, the disk of the latter with an 

 impressed line, obsolete before ; elytra punctato-striate, punc- 

 tures distinct ; interstitial lines minutely punctured. Length 

 about 2^^ inch. This species is certainly specifically distinct 

 from the next, and to neither of them can we apply the names 

 E. lividus De Geer and E. elongatus Beauvois, both of which 

 Schonherr makes synonymous with the dispar of Herbst. It 

 is more probable that this Notliora is the Elater cinereus of 

 Weber." 



'•'■ Notliora (146 of my cabinet). Dark castaneous, antennae 

 and feet paler, body with short depressed yellowish hairs. 

 Antennse as in the preceding; head and thorax with dilated 

 punctures, the latter with an abbreviated dorsal line at base, 

 obsolete on the middle ; elytra puncto-striate, interstitial lines 

 minutely punctured. Length nearly -| inch. Can this be the 

 fulvipes or casta^iipes Fabr. ? Those species are described as 

 having striated elytra, but Fabricius does not inform us whether 

 they are '■'■ punctato-striata." 



I am not sure that I know your 143 ; the following descrip- 

 tion from my mss. seems most likely to be the same : 



" Plater liieroglyphieus. Thorax black, elytra pale yellowish 

 brown, striated, with two oblique irrdgular black fascise. Length 

 over 2% inch." 



