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Head and prothorax covered in the same way but with redder hairs : 

 spines of the j^rothorax very robust, rather long, sharjjish ; srutelhim 

 covered with a coat of i inercous hairs, divided by a black longitudinal 

 line: elytra black, marbled variously with cinereous and reddish tawny 

 hairs ; the cinereous spots are dotted with black ; the surface of the 

 elytra when laid bare appears punctured, and at the base are several con- 

 liuent smo(;th elevated spaces ; suture and lateral margin testaceous ; apex 

 acute. 



N. 13.-— The antenn.ne. in the specimen arc broken off. [Unknown to 

 us.] 



224. A(:.\NTHOciN'i:s (Graphisurus) PisiLLVS Kirby. — Length of 

 bo(iy 4^ lines. .\ single specimen taken in the journey from New V'urk 

 to Cumberland-house. 



[170.] This specie^ is ore of the most minute nf the Capricorn tri])es. 

 liody linear, bkuk but covered with a coat <>♦' uT.itish decumbent hairs, 

 which apj)ears more or less sprinkle(i \vitli black dots. Head h^igitudi- 

 nally channelled ; antennx* mutilated in die specimen, but those joints 

 that remain are white at the Ixise : j)roihorax short, armed on each side, 

 towards the base u ith a short sharp spins.-, ])uncturcd with scattered ])unc- 

 tures ; elytra punt tured especJally towards the base, mottled and speckled 

 with brown, with an obliqiie brown band a little beyond the middle, apex 

 of the elytra rounded : jjwdex and hypopygium, or last dorsal and ventral 

 segments of the alxlonien elongated, so as to defend the base of the ovi- 

 ])Ositor which is e\r.ertcd, causing the insect to a[i[jear as if it had a tail ; 

 the hypo})ygium is emarginate : thighs Ukuch incrassated at the apex. [Not 

 common ; taken at (irini>by by Mr. Pettit. and on oak-trees in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Philadelphia by Mr. Bland] . 



225. C.ALLiDiu.M AGRESTi: A7;/^y. — Length of body 11 lines. Several 

 specimens taken in the Expedition, and likewise in Nova Scotia by Dr. 

 Mac Culloch and Capt. Hall. 



I at first took this for a variety of C. rusticum, but on a closer inspec- 

 tion I found it differed in the sculpture as well as colour ; and having 

 received a specimen of that insect from Dr. Harris, in which its charac- 

 ters were all preserved, I am Induced to desci'be C. agrcsie as a distmct 

 species. 



It differs from C. rusticiim in being smaller, of a darker brown, with- 

 out a tint of red ; and in having more gloss. The prothorax has three 

 deep round impressions, while in the insect last named, the impressions 

 are slight, and x\\!^ two anterior ones ob'long : the elevated lines of the 



