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taken together oblong-oval : scutellum punctiform : thighs cluhbcd. un- 

 armed; tibiae armed at the apex with a short incurved spine ; penultimate 

 joint of the tarsi bilobed. 



269. Lepidophokus lineaticoi.ljs AVrAj. —Length of the body 2 ^•.. 

 lines. Several specimens taken in Liit 65^. 



Body black, underneath hairy with little whitish round scales and 

 hairs of the same colour intermixed. Head and rostrum l)ehind the 

 antennae covered with similar scales : antennae dusky-red : prothorax 

 dusky, confluently punctured with three whitish longitudinal narrow 

 indistinct stripes tormed of minute scales : elytra mottled with whitish 

 and dusky round scales ; slightly furrowed with punctures in the furrows : 

 at the apex, in the detlexed part, there is a series of white rigid minute 

 bristles between each furrow : legs hairy, reddish brovn, thighs darker. 



[202.] 270. TkACHVPHLCiiis MEi.ANoTHRix Ktrby. — Length of the 

 f)ody 2 3/^ lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65''. 



Body really black, but quite covered with a brown powdery substance, 

 resembling mud or dirt. Head impressed between the eyes ; rostnun 

 longer than the head, and nearly as wide, emarginate and hair\- at the 

 end ; antennae rufous, scape co\'ered with brown powder ; prothorax 

 transverse, obsoletely rhaimelled, with several short rigid black bristles 

 on each side of the channel arranged nearly in rows : elytra obsoletely 

 furrowed with slight punctures in the furrows, and between each furrow is 

 a row of longer rigid black truncated bristles ; a few white ones are 

 discernible at the apex : legs bristly, with white bristles, rufous, but the 

 thighs are covered with powdery scales. 



[203.] 271. Pachvrhvnchus (RHhXARiA) ScHONHERRi Ktrby. — 

 Length of the body 5 — 7 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Also 

 in Georgia? by Mr. Abbott. 



Body thickly covered, especially underneath, with hoary pile. Antennae 

 shorter than the head : eyes brown : prothorax with three faint whiter 

 stripes : scutellum white ; elytra with nine rows of punctures, and at the 

 base of the lateral margin is a portion of a tenth row, between the second 

 and third ; in the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth rows the pile is thicker 

 than in other parts of the elytrum, so as to form three white stripes, 

 on these stripes there are also four rows of distant black dots on each 

 elytrum. [Not uncommon in Canada. ] 



[204.] 272. Attelabus siMii.is Kirby. — Length of the body 2)/% 

 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



This species is nearly the transcript of A. curcuiionoules, for which I 

 at first mistook it, but a closer inspection convinced me it was distinct. 



