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elevations sei»aratc(l by a dorsa! channel, each n itli a central impression : 

 a single ]")asilar impression at the posterior angles tinted with blue ; elytra 

 with four irregular rows, containing in all tweiUy-one slight circular im- 

 pressions punctured, and tinted with blue, each, exce])t the marginal ones 

 surrounded by an elevated ring, and j)laced in a wider impression ; be- 

 tween each of these impressions in the two first rows is an elevated and 

 levigated s])ace ; thighs glossy-green, the i)osteri(^r i)air rufus at the base ; 

 til)ine and tarsi piceous. 



I am doubtful whether this sjK'cies may not be Mr. .Say's Ji. n'/an'us, 

 but It is not the real one, from which, and E. i/i{i(hiosi/s, it is distinguished 

 by being much less thickly dusted with green-gold glittering punctures, 

 which gives it a blacker hue. The impression also in the elevated space 

 between the eyes is much deeper. The blue-tinctured impressions of the 

 elytra are also more di.-,tinct. and surrounded by a more elevated ring. 

 [Taken on the Island of Toronto, by Mr. Couper.— C'r///. younial, 1856, 



89. Elaphri s IN TKRMKDirs, K'uhy. — Ivcngth of body 4 lines, [Taken 

 by T)r. liigsby in Canada.] 



'I'his species resembles li. ciiprci/s, but it is quite distinct. 'The body 

 is more thickly and minutely punctured on the whole ui)per surface ; under- 

 neath it is of a fine bronzed-green ; above it is blacker and less brilliant ; 

 the head is greenish ; the middle space between the eyes is less elevated 

 than in that species, and wrinkled longitudinally without any impression : 

 the impressions on the discoidal elevations of the prothorax are fainter ; 

 the elytra, like the other species, have a (piadrujjle series of impressions, 

 ])ut they are broader, more slight, without any elevated ring, are more 

 minutely punctured, have a slight elevation in the centre, and are of the 

 same colour with the rest of the elytrum ; the marginal series is nearly 

 ob.solete ; just before the middle, adjoining the suture, is a (juadrangular 

 elevation which unites with that of the other elytrum : the thighs are 

 green, rufous ai die base, libire rufous, tarsi i)iceous. [laken in Canada.] 



[63] 90. Ej \phrus OB.scuRioR, Kirl>\. — Length of body 3 '4 lines. 

 A single specimen, taken in Lat. 65". 



'This species is more strongly marked than the majority of the Elaphri. 

 On the underside the head and trunk arc copper, with a slight tint of green ; 

 the abdomen of a dusky purplish copper ; above it is copper-coloured ; the 

 head, with the exception of the upper-lip, is very thickly and confluently 

 l)unctured, with a levigated but scarcely elevated space between the eyes ; 



