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Body elliptical, gloss obscured, especially on the elytra, by very short 

 decumbent hairs. Head longitudinally and slightly impressed between 

 the eyes ; antennae longer than the prothorax, reddish brown, with the 

 three first joints rufous : prothorax transverse, anteriorly not wider than 

 the head, posteriorly obsoletely trilobed, and nearly as wide as the elytra ; 

 lateral angles acute ; elytra slightly furrowed ; furrows scarcely punctured ; 

 legs pale rufous ; posterior tarsi long, embrowned. 



[240.] FAMILY DIKUEWM. 



326. Xylita buprestoides /•(?>'/('. — Length of body 3 lines. Taken 

 in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



Body narrow, biack-brown, very minutely and thickly punctured, 

 sprinkled with short decumbent pale hairs, not glossy. Head inserted ; 

 eyes hemispherical ; palpi rufous ; antennae nearly as long as the pro- 

 thorax, ferruginous, a little embrowned at the apex ; prothorax not wider 

 than long, anteriorly narrowest, posteriorly obsoletely trilobed ; sides 

 rounded ; scutellum transverse ; elytra very little wider than the pro- 

 thorax ; tarsi ferruginous. 



[Taken by Agassiz's Expedition to Lake Superior.] 



FAMILY ANTHICID.t. 



327. NoToxu.s MONUDON Fudr. — Length of body 1^3 line. A 

 single specimeh taken in Lat. 65°. 



[241.] Body hairy with pale hairs. Head blackish ; mouth, palpi, 

 and antennae testaceous ; prothorax testaceous ; horn convex above, 

 margin denticulated ; elytra testaceous with a blackish band near the 

 apex which rises upwards at the suture, and three blackish spots ; two at 

 the base, and one between the band and the apex, the last very faint ; 

 legs testaceous ; postpectus and base of the abdomen embrowned ; the 

 remainder of the prone part of the body is testaceous. 



[Not uncommon in Canada. Described and figured by Say (Am. 

 Ent, i, 21, plate 10).] 



FAMILY CANTHARID;E. 



328. Cantharis unicolor Kirby. — Length of body 7 lines. Taken 

 in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



