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being perfectly smooth and withoiu jjum tiires, even when examined under 

 3 powerful magnifier. The head has two larger vertical, lurid-yellow spots, 

 and there is a triangle of the same colour lietween the eye<. whirh at its 

 base is dilated, and oc,cui)ies the nose and mouth : the i)roth()ra\ is lurid. 

 yellow, with two oblong oblifjue dusk}' Sjiots beyond tin- middle ; towards 

 the base is an obtus-angular trans\ erse impression, and on each side, at a 

 little distance from the margin, is an oblong pum tiform impression : in the 

 elytra are six distinct narrow black stripes, none of which are contiuenl 

 except at the apex ; at the side, but at some distance from the lateral margin, 

 are three black sj^ots ]>laced in a line, or a ^tri])e wider than the others 

 twice interrupted: the legs are testaceous, with the [)Osterior tibia- black 

 at the tip. [Finced, with a mark of interrogjiion, as a s}non)m of //. 

 Duodccim/itimtus, La., in I-e(.'ontes list. ]». 16. 



[68.] i)i. HvDROPoRi s PnMr>. Kirb\. Length ot bc;dy -:'.- lines. 

 A single specimen taken in Liit. 54 . 



Body, dark pic:eous. without g'o'^-^ ; covered. esj)ec iall\ abo\f. with an 

 infinity of punctures. Heaci, ol^scurely ferruginous, dusk\ behind, with a 

 paler quadrangular spot extending to the mouth, between the eyes : antennre 

 ferruginous : prothorax, with its anterior halt* ferruginous, marked with a 

 discoidal punctilorm impression or little furrow: elytra, with four posteriorly 

 abbreviated punctured furrows, very difficult to be discerned, and only by 

 looking on c»ne side from behind : forebreast and legs ferruginous : alitrunk 

 and abdomen blark. 



c;8, HvijKC)['ORUS SiMiLis, A7/'/m, — Length of body 2}$ lines. laken 

 with the preceding species? 



I at first regarded this as the other sex of }f. Picatus, but upon inspecting 

 their tarsi I tbund they were both males. This species is smaller, more 

 glossy ; the parts that in that are dark ferruginous, in this are much paler ; 

 the punctures c»n the upper surface are less numerous and larger, especially 

 those of the basilar half of the el) tra, and the four furrows, particularly the 

 three dorsal ernes, are deeper and more distinct ; the disk of the prothorax 

 also is transversely levigated and impunctured. Both these insects come 

 ver>- near to H. Picipcs, but that species has not the discoidal impression 

 in the prothorax ; and its elytra are dark testaceous, striped with black. 



N.B. - All the above divisions belong to Mr. Stephens' second division 

 of the family, with the sides of the prothorax rounded. \H. Similis has 

 been taken in Canada.] 



[69.] 99. Laccophilus Bigl'ttatus, Kirby. — Length of body 2 lines. 

 One specimen taken. 

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