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and rostrum more or less punctured, with curved impressed lines on each 
side just above the eyes, in the disk of the front; the prothorax also im. 
both is minutely punctured, and the cubit arched and internally serrulated. 
They differ, however, in several respects. In A. curculionoides the head 
is wider in proportion, the occiput black, levigated, with a central im- 
pression ; the curved lines of the front not distinctly punctured ; the 
stalk of the antennae rufous; the prothorax at the base is streaked 
with transverse linear impressions ; the scutellum is nearly black, and the 
interstices of the rows of punctures of the elytra are irregularly punctured. — 
In A. similis the hinder part of the head which is punctured and wrinkled, 
and scutellum are rufous, a transverse impression divides the occiput 
from the front; the curved lines are distinctly punctured ; in the front 
between the eyes is a wide channel; the antennae are piceous; the 
prothorax is not streaked at the base: and the elytra between the rows of 
punctures are levigated. [Synonymous with A. analis Mlig.; taken in 
Canada. | é 
273. ATTELABUS BIPUSTULATUS /aér.—Length of the body 2 lines. 
Taken in Canada, near Lake St. Clair, by Dr. Bigsby. = 
|205.] In sculpture this species for the most part agrees with 4. cur 
cuctonoides, except that there is an impression between the eyes, and a 
pair on the disk of the prothorax. The whole of the body is very black, 
except the shoulders of the elytra, which are covered by a large oblong 
red spot, the anterior thighs are armed with a minute tooth: the disk of 
the coleoptera, or elytra taken together, towards the base is depressed ; 
and the scutellum is obversely triangular, the vertex of the triangle point- 
ing towards the head. [This and the preceding species are both de- - 
scribed and figured in Harris’ Injurious Insects, pages 65 and 66; taken” 
in Canada. | 
274. APOTOMUS ovatus Æabr.—Length of the body 14 line. Var 
iety B taken by Dr. Bigsby near Lake St. Clair. 
[206.] Body very short, between pear-shaped and ovate, deep violet, 
naked, minutely punctured. Head black, rostrum levigated : prothorax 
somewhat lozenge-shaped, emarginate anteriorly, very thickly and con- 
fluently punctured, with a levigated discoidal longitudmal line: elytra 
furrowed, furrows punctured. 
Variety B. Blue-green. [Belongs to A#e/abus Fabr., or Prerocolus 
Sch. | 
275. ANTHRIBUS FASCIATUS Ofivier.—Length of the body 4 lines. 
Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
