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are very slit;htl\ tinted v ■ h iliat c(;ii)iir. [ I'wu females lound ai Kagk* 

 Harbour, Lake Superior, by Or. J.e Conte. Included in the List ot" 

 C'anadian Coleoptera.] 



[136.] 185. Cetonia M,i.t;ii).\ Fiih: Length ot body 7,'- lines, 

 iaken in Canada, at Lake St. Clair, by Dr. Digsby. 



Fiody depressed, of a beautiful glo.s.sy green. Head black underneath, 

 above grossly punctured; eyes reddish-brown; antennae bro\vn-l)lack ; 

 nose anteriorly subemarginate and a little retlexed ; prothora.x with a 

 triple posterior sinus, grossly but not thickly j)imcturcd, sides luteous : 

 scutellum an isosceles triangle, impunctured : elytra, in some lights, 

 luteous, in others with a shade of green ; at the l)ase grossly but not 

 thickly ])unctured, the remainder of the elytrum is acuducted like net 

 work ; disk longitudinally depressed : {)odex dusky, luteous at the apex, 

 with four triangular, white, basilar spots ; abdomen underneath with :i 

 double series of triangular white spots on each side, the outer ones elon- 

 gated : sides of the breast hairy ; mesosternum suborbicular, hairy ; legs 

 luteous ; tarsi and ba.se of the cubits, brown-black. [This beautiful insect, 

 now included in the genus FAiryom'ni Hurm., is taken occasionally, but not 

 commonly, in Ontario.] 



186. Trichius Bigsbii Kirb}\ — Length of body 7 lines. I'aken in 

 Canada, near I^ke St. Clair, by Dr. Bigsb\-. 



[137.] This species exhibits the habit and general aspect of T. fasci- 

 atus, but it is larger and less hairy. Body obovate. black, covered more 

 or less with tawny longish hairs. Head (juadrangular ; nose reflexed, 

 emarginate ; antennae and palpi luteous, black at the tip ; prothorax 

 trapezoidal, narrowest anteriorly, sides rounded or subobtusangular, pos- 

 teriorly with an obsolete sinus near each angle ; scutellum short, rounded 

 at the apex : elytra without hairs, covered as it were with a bloom ; luteous 

 with a black margin and nine black spots — viz. one large one at the 

 shoulders, seven in the disk arranged transversely 2, 3, 2, and one larger 

 than the rest on the apical tumour ; the humeral and apical spots are 

 glossy : three tawny-yellow mealy spots, -the intermediate one straight and 

 longitudinal, and the lateral ones sinuated and oblique, mark the podex : 

 the tibiae and tarsi of the four anterior legs are deep ferruginous ; cubit ^v. 

 bidentate, [Synonymous with Gnorimis m.\cui.osvs Knoch. Taken, 

 but rarely, in Canada.] 



187. Trichius asslmilis Kirby. — Length of body 4%- 5 lines. 

 Taken in Lat. 65°.; in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall ; and in Massachusetts 

 by Dr. Harris. 



[138,] Body obovate, black, covered more or less with long yellowish 



