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Body lurid, downy. Head brown, mouth lurid ; antennae 'nutilated 

 in the specimen, but what remains is brown ; protliorax very short, trans- 

 verse, slightly bisinuate both anteriorly and posteriorly; disk embrowned; 

 elytra very minutely and thickly punctured ; breast and belly brown ; 

 thighs embrowned. 



[Is taken in Canada.] 



lAMll.V I hLKPHORiD.E. 



335. TELtPHokL'S AiKK Linn. Length of body zi/^ lines. A single 

 specimen taken in the journc} from New York to Cumberland-house. 



[246.] Body black, rather hairy. Head su!)orbi{uku\ obsolctely 

 channelled : mouth, paljM, and base of the antennae, ruious ; prothorax 

 rather wider than long, very glossy ; disk obsoletely ( hannelled and a 

 little elevated on each side tlie channel ; anterior angles rounded ; elvtra 

 minutely and contluently pum turcd. when elevated from the body they 

 appear embrowned ; tij) of the thighs, tibiae, and tarsi, rufous. 



336. Tklephokls Wesjwuodh Kirby.- Length of body 5^ lines. 

 A single specmien taken in Lat. 65". 



Body black, downy. Head suborbicular, rufous with a black anteriorly 

 tridentate band between the eyes ; mandibles and palpi dusky at the tip ; 

 antennae shorter than the hotly, with the scape and the base of the 

 pedicel or second joint, rufous ; j^rothorax rufous, rather wider than long, 

 anteriorly rounded, posteriorly transverse with the margin much reflexed ; 

 disk slightly channelled : elytra obsoletely punctured, or wrinkled, with 

 three obsolete longitudinal elevated lines, the outer one abbreviated at 

 both ends ; legs dusky, base and apex of the four anterior thighs 

 rufous ; posterior thighs rufous, dusky at the tip. 



337. Telephorus Sa.moi;ellii Kirby. — Length of body 5^^ lines. 

 Taken in the route from New York, in Lat. 65°, and in the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



Very like T. Westwoodii, but the antennae are dusky, pale at the ba^e; 

 between the eyes is a faint dusky cloud ; the scutellum and the legs are 

 testaceous, as are the sides and tips of the ventral segments of the abdo- 

 men as well as the anus. 



[247] 338. Telephorus Curtisii Kirby. — Length of body 4^ 

 lines. Taken in l^t. 65°. 



Very like the preceding species, but it is smaller ; there is a black 

 band between the eyes ; the prothorax is considerably longer and 



