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2 75- Anthrikus fasciatus Olivier. — Length of the body 4 lines. 

 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



Body black, covered more or less with brovsn decumbent short hairs. 

 Rostrum angular, thickish, dilated at the tip, below the antennae covered 

 thickly with snow-white decumbent pile ; antennae almost as long as the 

 thorax, rufous, knob du>^ky-l)rown ; front marked with two whitish dots, 

 one adjoining each eye on their upper side : protliorax wrinkled with a 

 transverse discoidal im[>ression, and near the base with an elevated 

 transverse ridge : elytra wrinkled with a discoidal tubercle near the l)ase, 

 near the apex adorned with an irregular angular band composed of snow 

 white decumbent pile : alxiomcn whitish with a double indistinct series of 

 black dots : tibiae with a white ring. 



Varietv B. With the tubercles uf the elytra less conspicuous : the 

 abdomen snowy-white ; thighs variegated with white. 



I have no memorandum whence 1 received this variety. It is smaller, 

 and [)robably American. 



[207. j FAMILV CIV I'HRID.K. 



276. Chlamvs Pi.icAiA (9/V77Vr. Length of IxmIv 2 lines. Taken 

 in (Canada by Dr. Bigsby; also in VLissachusetts. 



Body obscure, i)ron/ed. Head impressed posteriorly between the 

 eyes ; rhinarium, antennae, and an elevated sjjace adjoining the eye- 

 anteriorly, rufous; nose indistinctly punetured : prothorax very finely 

 and concentrically scoreiJ, with some scattered indistinct punctures ; 

 posteriorly considerably ele\ated : elevation bitid ; behind this elevation 

 the prothorax is producted and emarginate ; scutellum obtriangular ; 

 elytra tubercuiated with several acute, <om])ressed tubercles, the anterior 

 ones carinated ; interstices with some scattered deep punctures : space 

 !)etween the four posterior legs punctured with large shallow puncture 



[20S.J FAMILY CRVPTOCF.PHAI.ID.t:. 



277. Crvptocephalus pube.scens Fabr. — Length of body 2 j^. lines. 

 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



Body black, with a very slight brassy tint, a little glossy, grossly and 

 thickly pimctured ; downy more or less w ith cinerascent down : prothorax 

 with a longitudinal levigated line, posteriorly with a double sinus : scu- 

 tellum elevated towards the apex, perfectly smooth : elytra with a lateral 

 lobe towards the base, shoulders with a tuben le. [Belongs to Sut^Vian's 

 genus Pachyhrachis. J 



278. Cryptocf.pkalus notatus Fabr. — Length of body 2^^ lines. 

 Taken in ('anada by Dr. Bigsby. 



