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[249-] 342. Telephorus (Rrachvn()tus) Bknnetii Kirby. — 

 Length of body 6 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, and in Massa- 

 chusetts by Mr. Drake. 



Body black, hoary with decumbent hairs. Head suborbicular, 

 punctured behind the antennae ; neck rufous ; front, before the antennae, 

 pale yellow ; exterior margin of the nose black \ mandibles yellow at the 

 base ; antennae longer than the prolliorax ; prothorax pale yellow, disk 

 elevated with a black irregular punctured spot ; elytra minutely and 

 confiuently punctured, somewhat dilated externally ; obsoletly tricarinate; 

 legs black; knees rufous, 



[Synonymous with Podabrus tncostatus Say ; a common species in 

 Canada. 



FAMILY LAMPYRID^.. 



343. Lampyris corusca Linn. — Length of body 4^ lines. Taken 

 at New York and Cumberland-house, Lat. 54°. In Canada, by Dr. 

 Bigsby. 



Body oblong, pubescent, brown-black. Nose and mouth elongated ; 

 prothorax nearly semicircular, disk elevated ; a rose-coloured arched 

 streak dilated and yellower anteriorly adjoins the elevated pnrt on each 

 side ; elytra obsoleteiy carinated, most numerously and minutely 

 punctured. 



[Belongs to Ellychnia Lee. Very common in Canada.] 



[250.] IL— ORTHOPTERA. 



family I.OCUSTID/E. 



344. LocuSTA leucostoma A7r^^. — Length cf body izV'i lines. A 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65"". 



Body obscurely rufous, clouded with darker shades. Upper lip, and 

 large spot of the mandibles, white ; palpi reddish, with the two last joints 

 whiter, summit black ; antennae as long as the trunk, which on the upper 

 side is subpubescent ; last segment of the prothorax carinated ; tegmina, 

 cinereous, with piceous and rufo-piceous nervures ; and at the base is a 

 longitudinal mesal series of black spots ; the legs arc rufo-testaceous, with 

 the summit of the thighs and the spines black ; the posterior thighs above 

 are clouded with the same colour. 



[Synonymous with Caloptentis bivittatns Say. This species is found in 

 Canada and the New England States, as far south as Maryland and 



