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Length nearly half an inch. 



Var. Thoracic margin rufous ; front obscure. 



The width of the elytra and the form of the elevated lines 

 are like some species of Lampyris ; but although the palpi are 

 very unequal, yet those of the maxillae are not acute at tip, and 

 the antennae are distant. 



[Belongs to Podahrus ; afterwards described as TelejjJioinis 

 Bennettii Kirby. — Lee] 



2. C INVALIDA. — Blackish ; sides of the front of the thorax, 

 and margins of the elytra, yellowish. 



Inhabits Indiana. [159] 



Body brown-black, covered with short hairs : head each side 

 beneath the antennae yellowish : mandibles yellowish at base : 

 antennae, first and second joints yellowish beneath : thorax mar- 

 gined, black, each side yellowish ; dish rather unequal : elytra 

 rather rough irregularly, with three or four obsolete nervures ; 

 base of the exterior margin of the suture and elevated humerus, 

 yellowish : pectus each side and before, yellow : venter, segments 

 laterally margined with yellow. 



Length less than one-fourth of an inch. 



Var. a. Margin and suture of the elytra yellowish to the tip. 



It differs from rufipes nob., and scitula nob., in being more ro- 

 bust and hairy ; from angulata nob., which it most resembles, by 

 the entirely black feet, yellowish humerus and basal elytral mar- 

 gins, yellow lateral ventral margins, somewhat more dilated ter- 

 minal joints of the palpi, &c. 



[I have not identified this species. — Leg.] 



3. C. PERCOMis. — Black, thorax rufous, immaculate. 

 Inhabits Massachusetts, Harris. 



Body black, somewhat polished : antennae with the basal joint 

 tinged with piceous; second joint less than one-third the length 

 of the third, which is a little shorter than the fourth : thorax 

 transversely oval, bright rufous, the edge a little elevated and 

 dusky : elytra with a slightly uneven appearance, not amounting 

 to punctures or granulations. 



Length nearly one-fifth of an inch. 



I have seen but one specimen which was presented to me by 

 Dr. Harris, 



[Vol. I. 



