long's second expedition. 183 



This species is oval, not elongated, and is more convex than 

 any other species of this country yet discovered. 

 [This is a species of Hi/drohhis Leach. — Lec] 



3. H. NEBULOSUS. — Pale whitish-testaceous; a subsutural line 

 on the elytra obsolete before the middle. 

 Inhabits United States. 

 H. nehulosus Melsh. 



rr 7 1 • T- 1 ^ Melsh. Catal. 

 H. laoiatus Knoch. 



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Body very finely but irregularly punctured ; punctures some- 

 times obsolete ; head black or varied with black ; thorax, angles 

 rounded ; elytra with a subsutural impressed line which disap- 

 pears before the middle, and is more deeply impressed behind ; 

 beneath, excepting the feet, blackish. 



Length less than three-twentieths of an inch. 



I obtained a specimen in the Lake of the Woods. 



[Belongs to Philhydms. — Lec] 



APHODIUS Illig. Fabr. 



1. A. HAMATUS. — Thorax impunctured on the disk; claw of 

 the anterior tibia dilated, incurved. 



Inhabits North-west Territory. 



Body dark piceous ; clypeus minutely punctured ; margin re- 

 flected, particularly at tip ; tip truncated, subemarginate ; thorax 

 punctured each side and at base ; large, equalling at least two- 

 thirds the length of the elytra; elytra [278] paler than the head and 

 thorax; striate; strife punctured; feet rufous; the claw at the tip 

 of the anterior tibia is dilated and curved inwards like a hook. 



Length less than one-fourth of an inch. 



An insect remarkable for its short robust stature and the pro- 

 portional length of its thorax, as well as for the dilatation and 

 and crooked form of the appendages at the extremity of the tibia. 



2. A. CLYPEATUS. Black ; elytra testaceous; clypeus, covered 

 with small tubercles. 



Inhabits North-West Territory. 



Head black, convex, covered with very small obtuse tuber- 

 cles ; edge a little elevated, piceous ; tip hardly truncated ; tho- 

 rax with irregular small obtuse ruga) ; anterior angles rectangular; 

 posterior edge regularly arcuated, not dilated in the middle ; 

 elytra rufo-testaceous, dusky at base ; with deep, punctured striae ; 



