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Very nearly relnted to N". nigripes, but the head and prothorax are greener; 

 antcnnre as lonr^ as the prothorax ; the palpi arc rufous, with tho penultimate 

 joint rather dusky ; elytra bronzed-lurid, with a round bb 'k spot near the 

 base, a larger near the apes, aud an angular band of the sanoe colour between 

 them; the^legs are dull rufous. The sculpture of the cljira is nearly the 

 same as in that species, but the fifth furrow, by a turn outward, Dlraost inter- 

 cepts the sixth aud seventh, and then runs to the apex of the elytrum j the 

 turrows themselves are blatrli. 



85. NoTAPnus [IJembidium] vahiegatus, Klrly. — Length of body If 

 lines. 



This also is related to iV. m'l/rip^s, but is quite distinct. The head and 

 prothorax are without any arrecn tint ; tho antennae are not longer than the 

 prothorax ; the prothorax in proportionally not so wide before and narrower 

 behind : elytra scarcely at all bronzed ; lurid with a large blackish cloud or 

 spot near the base, another near the apex, and an intermediate black angular 

 band ; the furrows of the elytia, especially the external ones, do not reach 

 tho apex, or at least sre obliterated; they are punctured the whole of their 

 apparent length; instead of two, there are three punctiform impressions; the 

 legs are rufo-piceous. [This name is preoccupied by Say's species ; Le Oonte 

 considers Kirby's species syno- Vmous with /> versicohr Leo.] 



[59] 8G. Bejibidium iMPa .sum, Gi/U. — Length of body 2J lines. 

 Tnken frequently in lat. 54° and 65°, and in the journey from New York to 

 Cumberland House. On the sandy shores of Lake Winnipeg, in the spring 

 of 1825 (Mr. Drumraond). In Canada (T>r. Bigsby). 



[60] Body undernea-h green, bronzed, very glossy; above bronzed, gloss 

 much obscured, occasioned by an iclinity of most minute reticulations, visible 

 only under a good magnifier, which give it a granulated appearance ; frontal 

 impressions and ocellated punctures as in JVotajjhus; eyes very large and 

 prominent; palpi bronzed, with the second joint obscurely nifous ; antennsB 

 longer than the prothora^s. with the scape and the base of the second and 

 third joints rufous ; prothornx short, depressed both at the base and apex, 

 the depressed part being wrinkled longitudinally; dorsal channel and basilar 

 impressions rather deep ; in the latter are two little furrows ; in the elytra, a 

 little beyond the midtlle, ia the interstice between the second and third 

 furrows, are two quadrangular, oblong, slightly depressed spaces, of a some- 

 what golden lustre, aud marked at the anterior end with a punctiform impres- 

 sion; immediately before, between, and after tho depressed spaces, is a 

 levigated and rather elevated one of the same shape ; the furrows of the 

 elytra are arranged nearly in the same way as those o? Nbtaphus intermediui) 

 above described : the legs are rufous, with the thighs bronzed at the apex. 

 [Taken in Canada.] 



