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analogue of paludosum, it belongs to the genus Bemhidium, as 

 at present restricted. 



2. B. HONESTUM Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. — When de- 

 scribing this species 1 stated that the elytral strise are " not ob- 

 solete behind." This may be corrected by substituting the phrase 

 '' almost obsolete behind." The punctures of the striee are large 

 and obvious at base, but are obsolete, or rather entirely wanting 

 on the posterior third. The exterior margin and epipleura are 

 blackish green. 



3. B. PUNCTATOSTRIATUM Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. — 

 The posterior angles of the thorax are very acute ; the basal and 

 anterior margins are slightly longitudinally wrinkled, the dorsal 

 line transversely wrinkled on its margins, and the basal lines are 

 obliquely wrinkled ; the sides of the thorax are also somewhat 

 tindulatedly wrinkled. The third interstitial space is much wider 

 than the others, and the posterior punctures is much nearer to 

 the anterior puncture than to the tips. 



4. B. L^viGATUM Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. — The basal 

 thoracic lines are much dilated. 



5. B. coxENDix Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. 3, 151. — An- 

 tennse with three basal joints and base of the fourth pale yellow- 

 ish ; palpi (in the dry state) pale yellowish, dusky at tip ; face 

 with an impressed line each side; vertex longitudinally wrinkled ; 

 surface somewhat wrinkled transversely and at base longitudi- 

 nally ; basal indentations dilated, minutely rugose ; elytra with 

 the anterior and posterior discs obscurely testaceous. I am not 

 so fortunate as to possess definitions of the several genera into 

 which this genus, as originally constructed by Latreille, has been 

 recently divided ; but I rather think, by analogy, that the pre- 

 sent species is a Peiyplms Meg. 



[This variety, if it be so, was previously described by Dejean 

 as B. nitidulum. — Leg.] [437] 



6. B. DORSALE Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. — This species 

 varies considerably. The dorsal line is more or less obvious, and 

 sometimes rather deeply impressed. In one specimen is a slight 

 appearance of puncturing on the middle of the thoracic base. 

 The thorax is more or less engraved with undulated lines, which 



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