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elytra are more prominent and become visibly confluent towards the apex, 

 where tliey form several reticulations : the underside of the body is much 

 more thickly covered with hairs, which are hoary instead of yellowish, 

 those on the breast being longer than those on the abdomen. In other 

 respcts these two insects resemble each other. [Included in the genus 

 Criocephalus Muls. Taken throughout Ontario and at Lake Sui)erior.] 



[171.] 226. Cai.i.idium striatum Linn. — Length of body ^y<^ lines. 

 A single sj)ecimen taken in Lat. (i'^\ 



Body linear, black, thickly i)Uiictured, underneath with a few hairs, 

 glossy ; above without any hairs or gloss. Antennae a little longer than 

 the prothorax : prothorax suborbicular, covered thickly with minute 

 granules, with an elevated tubercle in its disk : elytra most minutely and 

 thickly granulated, with four longitudinal slight furrows occupying the half 

 adjoining the suture, the alternate interstices being most elevated : tarsi 

 rufo-piceous. [.S\nonymous with .ut-mian ma.sium Hald. Taken through- 

 out Ontano.] 



227. Callidilm coi-Larl Kirl'y. — Length of body 5 lines. A single 

 specimen taken in Lat. 54°. 



Body linear, black, hairy with whitish scattered hairs. Head thickly 

 punctured ; antenn.e shorter tlun the body, railicr hairy, piceous, scape 

 black : protiiorax rutbus, with a few scattered punctures, glossy, project- 

 ing on each side into an angle or .sliort spine : elytra very thickly and con- 

 Huently punctured : body underneath glossy, slightly punctured : anterior 

 part of antepectus rufous : tarsi piceous, first joint of nearly equal length 

 in all the legs. [North Shore of Lake Superior, Agassi/.'s ICxpedition.] 



[172.] 228. Callidium Proteus Kirby. — Plate v., hg. 5. — Length 

 of body 5 — '6]/2 lines. Taken abundantly especially in Lat. 65''. 



body black, minutely pumtured, hairy with longish hoary hairs, csi)eci- 

 ally underneath. Nose with a deeply ploughed transverse furrow ; front 

 behind the antennae violet, contluentlv tmnctured : ])alrii black, maxillary 

 rather long, last Joint an obtusangular triangle ; antenna; longer thsn the 

 prothorax; sides of the prothorax very rough with deep confluent punc- 

 tures ; elytra wrinkled, violet, with three longitudinal, subintcrpj[)ted, 

 callous, pale lines, of which the intermediate one is the longest, and the 

 external one the shortest : legs piceous, with the incrassated part of the 

 thighs testaceous. 



'I'his species varies extremely both in size and colour. The following 

 are the principal varieties : — 



Variety B. Head and prothorax violet ; elytra lurid with only two 

 callous lines. Length Gj^ lines. 



