with shortish M/tvC* hairs ; in C. vii/osus, these hairs arc cinereous, lon^jer, 

 more numerous, and cover a larger portion of the angle ; in the former, 

 the band of the elytra is whiter and wider than in the latter : in the 

 former also the back of the abdomen, especially the third and fourth 

 segments, is mottled with cinereous hairs ; in the latter the second and 

 third have each a cinereous band interrupted in the middle : again "Cacfour 

 first ventral segments in C. maxillosus are thickly covered with decumbent 

 cinereous hairs, with each a lateral black spot on both sides, while in C. 

 villosus only the three first segments are so distinguished ; and finally, in 

 the former the sides of the i)ostpectus arc covered with black hairs, and 

 in the latter with cinereous. 



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[96. j i,:;.j, .Nkckoi'Iiukls vklutixus Fiibr. Length of body, 

 8 lines. Taken in Xova Scotia by Dr. MacCuUoch. [Common in Ontario.] 



Body black : nose separated posteriorly from the front by a straight 

 line, anteriorly furnished with a submembranous rhinarium, above which is 

 a round flattened tubercle ; knob of the antenna black : prothorax dilated 

 anteriorly, thickly covered with golden pile : elytra with two orange- 

 coloured bands, toothed as it were on both sides, the anterior being the 

 widest : epipleura pale yellow : postpectus covered with golden pile : 

 posterior trochanters truncated at the apex and emarginate. 



135. Xecrophorus hebes A7/-^v. Length of body. 7 lines. Taken 

 in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 



[97.] Like the last, but the nose is separated from the front by a 

 curved line, it is also marked on each side by a deep longitudinal furrow, 

 and is depressed longitudinally in the centre ; but what more strongly 

 characterizes it, is the want of the rhinarium or nostril-piece discoverable 

 in most of the other species : the anterior part of the prothorax is less 

 conspicuously dilated and naked : the elytra anteriorly have a strongly 

 toothed orange band including a black dot at the suture ; jx)steriorly they 

 have a large toothed spot of the same colour ; the epipleura is orange in 

 the middle, black at the tip with a blrck spot at the base connected with 

 the black disk : postpectus not brilliant with golden j)ile. [L'nknown to 

 Dr. LeConte.] 



136. Necrophorus obscurus Kirby. — Length of body 9 — 10 lines. 

 A pair taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 



Body black. Nose separated from the front by a straight abbreviated 

 line, with a deep oblique furrow on each side and no distinct rhinarium ; 

 three last joints of the knob of the antenna? ferruginous : prothorax 



