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-— nelled ; rough and reticulated, as it were, with numerous confluent punc- 
tures, sides more hairy than the disk: elytra thickly punctured, pale 
testaceous, black at the apex, where the suture curves outwards so that 
they diverge from each other, extremity nearly transversely truncated : 
abdomen underneath minutely, breast rather grossly, punctured: podex 
subemarginate. : 
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CA SAT. LEPTURA ERYTHROPTERA Kirby. — Length of body 8 lines. 
Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
[181.] Body very black, slightly downy, underneath minutely punc- 
_tured. Head shorter than in the last section, as well as the neck 
obsoletely channelled; thickly but not minutely punctured ; antennæ 
rather longer than the prothorax ; third and fourth joints a little slenderer 
than the others, and pale red at the base; the sixth is pale with a black | 
spot on each side at the apex ; and the whole of the eighth is of the same 
colour ; the last joint is acuminated ; the prothorax is constricted anter- 
iorly, and the constricted part is perfectly smooth, the rest is thickly and 
confluently punctured and wrinkled; at the base the prothorax is 
depressed and obsoletely trilobed: scutellum black, representing an 
isosceles triangle: elytra of a dull red, grossly and deeply punctured ; 
extremity scooped out with the external angle longer than the internal 
and acuminate : mesosternum emarginate posteriorly. [Taken in Canada 
on flowers in July; not common. ] . 
242. LEPTURA CANADENSIS O/ivier.—Length of body 634 to 8 lines. 
Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. : 
Body very black, slightly downy, minutely punctured. Head as in 
_ the last species, but the neck is not channelled ; antennæ with base of the 
fifth jomt, the whole of the sixth and eighth, except the black apex of 
the former, pale or pale rufous: prothorax as in. Z. erythroptera, only 
deeply and confluently punctured but not wrinkled: elytra black, san- 
guineous at the base. In other respects this species resembles that 
insect ; the .external angle of the apex of the elytra is however shorter. 
{Quite common from Georgia to Lake Superior. | 
aly Dip 
243. LEPTURA TENUIOR Azrby.—Length of body 534 lines. Taken 
in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
[182.] Body black, rather slender, slightly punctured, thinly coated 
with decumbent yellow hairs. Antennze shorter than the body, fifth joint 
