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antennas yellowish, clava fuscous; thorax with minute 

 punctures but slightly impressed ; angles rounded ; scutel 

 with obsolete punctures ; elytra with minute, numerous 

 punctures, which are very slightly impressed, obsolete ; 

 with nine regular strias of distinct larger punctures, and an 

 irregular series on each alternate interstitial space ; beneath 

 piceous-black ; tarsi colour of the palpi. 



Length three-tenths of an inch. 



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

 than any other species of this country yet discovered. 



3. H. nebulosiis. Pale whitish-testaceous ; a subsutural 

 line on the elytra obsolete before the middle. 



Inhabits United States. 



H. nebulosiis, Melsh. 7 ^^ , , r^ 

 r^ , J . , ir 1 r Melsh. Catal. 

 H. labtatus, Knoch. 3 



Body very finely but irregularly punctured ; punctures 

 sometimes obsolete ; head black or varied with black ; 

 thorax, angles rounded ; elytra with a subsutural impress- 

 ed line which disappears 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. 



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; mar- 

 gin reflected, particularly at tip; tip truncated, subemar- 

 ginate; Mo^«.r punctui*ed each side and at base; large, 

 equalling at least two-thirds the length of the elytra ; ely- 



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