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a |)roniinenl tooth, less conspicuous in the two lower ones • upper-lip, and 

 nose which is rellexed and overhangs the mouth, yellow : prothora.x chan- 

 nelled. ])unctnred, (juadrangular, with the anterior angles rounded, and the 

 i>osterior diverging and terminating in a sharp tooth or prominence ; .sides 

 rather v»avy ; limh yellow ; scutellum subcordate : elytra minutely and 

 thickly i)unctured, slightl) furrowed, furrows thickly i)unctured ; marked 

 wiili a T'lrrow yeHo^v striT)e which does not reach the apex ; there is also a 

 Nhort yellow streak on the shoulders : base of the tibiae, claw-joint of the 

 t.irsi. and cla-.vs. yellow. [•- Lake Superior, Maine and Pennsylvania" (l.c 

 <"ontc). W c ha\e specmiens taken in the neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ont. j 



}i46.] 195. Pkdf.tks Brichtwili.!. Kirhv. -Length of body 6 lines. 

 'I 'aken in Xo\a Scotia by Ci\\)X.. Hall. 



• >ody ciongaie, more slender than that of the type, testaceous; hairy. 

 with dec iimbent ]>a!e i)air> ; thickly punctured. Head dusky-red ; an- 

 ii-nnac longer than the ))rothora\. slenderer than u-^ual in the tribe, 

 scarcelv serrated, with the four last joints rather slenderer than the rest ; 

 cics large and hemispherical : nose a good deal refiexed : prolhorax t:on- 

 \e\. channelled, dusky-red, darker in the disk: elytra pale testaceous; 

 tarrowed. furrows deeply punctured : interstices minutely punctured with 

 -•'Uttered pun{'tures : legs paler than liie rest of the l)ody, and nearly 

 yellow. I Included now i;i tlic genu-; . ///' '.vy l'',sch. Le Conte, in his 

 •■ Re\ision 01" the I'lateridii? (jf the United State.'-," (Amer. Phil. Trans, vol. 

 v., p. 4::5). states that this sjiecies occurs in Uie "-Slidd'e and Southern 

 States, nol f-are. The specimen describ.ed by Kirby seems to have been a 

 pale ct>lGured variety of this species, which Aaries much in colour. In the 

 male the tliorax is constricted before the j)osterior angles, which are slightly 

 divergent : in the female, the sides arc straight and the angles do not 

 diverge : the dorsal channel is never deep, ajid is frequently wanting."' 



si:f;;;F.Ni\s .vsaphf.s Kirby. 



Ilody widev. Xose not overhanging the mouth. Rhinanum attenu- 

 ated in the middle, l^rothorax short, ])Osterior angles carinated. 



I ajn doubtful whether this .should not be considered as forming a di.s- 

 tinct genus. The general I'orm is very different. But as the tarsi have 

 '^itckers on the '^econd and third j )ints, till more species are disco\ered, I 

 liave given it as onlv a subgenus i){ Pcdcirs. 



[Dr. Lc Conte (Am. l*hil. Trans, x. 449) states that "'although but 

 one species of this genus is described by Kirby and another by (iemiar, 1 

 find that several of our Elatcrs possess characters which require them to 

 be associated with his type. They seem to form a natural group aporoach- 



