The above structure of the palpi, if not accidental, seems to give our little 

 insect some uffinity with the SubuHpalpi of Latrcille, but its general charac 

 ters and aspect appear to demand a place for it somewhere between those 

 Trundpennia whose claws are not pectinated, and those who have those 

 organs so armed. 



11. .SERrcoDA HEMBiDioiDES, Kirhy. — Plate 1, Fig. 2. — Black underneath, 

 above black bronzed, rather t=ilky ; prothorax sub-trapezoidul, with a pair of 

 impressions behind ; elytra substriated, impunctured, somewhat clouded, with 

 a series of in.pressions adjoining the suture. Length of body ^\ lines. Only 

 a single .specimen taken. 



[IG] Body underneatli black glossy ; above the black has a brassy tint, 

 with somewhat of the lu.stre of silk ; head, between the eyes marked with a 

 short, anteriorly forked furrow; prothora.x sub-trapezoidal, anteriorly sub- 

 emarginate. sides oblique with tlie margin rcfloxed, transversely very minutely 

 wrinklt'd, with a pair of anterior excavations in the disk, posteriorly also 

 somewhat impressed on each side; elytra longer than the head and prothorax 

 together, slightly furrowed with impunctured furrows, obsoletely clouded : 

 there is a series of about five shallow impressions near the suture. 



[Included by LeCoRte in the genus PlaiijuJis. Has been taken in Oregon.] 



12. BKACfUNus CYW'NiPENNis. So]/. — [Say's Ent. Works, ii. 91.] Several 

 specimens of this insect were taken in the journey from New York to Cum- 

 berland House, and in lat. 54° ; it was taken also in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



[17J lo. Carabus Vtktingeiovii, AJams. — (Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscow, iii. 

 170; FiacJur Ent. Russ. i. 98; DeJ. Coleopt ii. Gl, 21.) Kirby, plate I., 

 fig. 3. , 



9 . Length of the body 10 lines. Body very black and glossy. Head 

 punctured between the eyes with confluent but not minute punctures ; anterior 

 part of the front wrinkled on each side, but the nose and upper lip are quite 

 smooth; the seven terminal joints of the antenna) are brown ; the prothorax 

 is nearly square with the sides rounded anteriorly and the posterior angles a 

 little prominent ; it is deeply channelled, transversely wrinkled in the disk, 

 eonfiuently but not minutely punctured on the sides ; the disk also is black, 

 but the sides exhibit shades of dark blue and green, at the margin they are 

 of a iDost brilliant ruddy copper, some of the anterior punctures also appear 

 as if gilded ; the elvtra are rousrh and as it were reticulated with lon<?itudinaI 

 and transverse elevations, the former nearly arranged in lines which produce 

 deep cavities; the disk is of a fine deep blue, the sides green, and the lateral 

 margin of the same ruddy copper as that of the prothorax. The body under- 

 neath is quite smooth in the disk, with some irregular elevations and depres- 

 sions on the sides : the sides of the ante-pectus, or fore breast, are of a fine 



