254 A RARE COLEOPTERA PAPER OF T. W. HARRIS 



Page 74. " 12. Lampyris decipiens. Plate I, fig. 2. 



"Brownish black or fuscous; lateral dilated margins of the thorax rosaceous, 

 or sanguineo-ruf ous ; tip of the abdomen immaculate. 



"Length from 22 to 26 hundredths of an inch. 



"L. decipiens, Harris, Catalogue, p. 500. 



"Halsey's CoUedion, No. 77. 



"Body oblong, nearly linear, brownish black, opaque. Antennae nearly 

 linear, slightly dilated and subcompressed; terminal almost as long as the 

 penultimate joint, linear, obtuse at tip. Thorax polished black from the base 

 to the front edge, the dilated and depressed lateral margins above and beneath 

 rosaceous in recent and sanguineo-rufous in old specimens. Elytra brownish 

 black, opaque, minutely granulated, and \\ith two shghtly elevated lines. 

 Abdomen entirely black beneath. 



"Inhabits Massachusetts." 



[Page 75] "DifTers from L. nigricans in not having the lateral margin as well 

 as the disc of the thorax black, in the form of the last joint of the antennae, &c, 

 &c. It somewhat resembles L. laticornis, Fabricius, a much larger and pro- 

 portionally broader species, which has more dilated antennae, and the sides 

 of the last abdominal segment yellowish white both above and beneath." 

 (This is 4820 [Henshaw], Lucidota decipiens Harris.) 



Page 75. "13. Anobium peltatum. 



"Reddish brown, sericeous; thorax transverse, obsoletely carinated in the 

 middle of the base; elytral stria* impunctured, slender, not profound. 



"Length from 17 to 18 hundredths of an inch. 



" Hahey's Colleclion, No. 221, male and female. 



"Last three joints of the antennae in the male oblong-oval, not much elon- 

 gated; remaining joints triangular, dilated, serrate. In the female the joints of 

 the antennae are proportionallj' shorter than those of the male, the two or three 

 basal ones transverse, the rest progressively longer but all triangular, except 

 the last, which is oblong-oval. Thorax transverse, not abruptly contracted 

 before, basal edge slightly bisinuated, basal angles wanting, margin regularly 

 rounded from the base to the anterior angles, which was subacute; disc not 

 verj' convex, with an abbre\'iated, almost obsolete carina near the base. Ely- 

 tra sericeous, with faintly impressed, slender striae, which are impunctured; 

 the outer and inner ones (as in most other species) coalescing at the tip. Tarsal 

 joints short, stout; the first long-obconic, longer than either of the others; 

 the second about two thirds the length of the first, obconic; third and fourth 

 subtransverse, each produced beneath in the form of a cordiform lobe; the 

 fourth emarginated above to receive the fifth joint, which is longer than the 

 penultimate, attenuated at base, gibbous at the end, and terminated laterally 

 by verj' small simple claws." 



[Page 76] "This species differs from the carinatum, of Mr. Say, in having the 

 thorax shorter and wider both at base and tip, the striae of the elytra much less 

 deeply impressed and impunctured, &c. &c. It approaches nearer to tenuestria- 

 tum. Say, which, however, is much smaller, and has punctured striae. 



"The tarsi of the peltatum are short and thick, like those of the striatum, 

 Fabricius, and carinatum, Say; but the penultimate and antepenultimate 



