‘ShO5 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
INSECTS,OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA: 
COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. 
From Kirby s Fauna Loreah-Americanac Lnsecta. 
(Continued from Page 179.) 
PAMTOY, “CR YER Dan: ; 
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276. CHLAMYS PLICATA Olivier.—Length of body 2 lines. WVaken 
in Canada by Dr. Bigsby ; also in Massachusetts. 
Body obscure, bronzed. Head impressed posteriorly between the 
eyes ; rhinarium, antennae, and an elevated space adjoming the eyes 
anteriorly, rufous; nose indistinctly punctured: prothorax very finely 
and concentrically scored, with some scattered indistinct purictures ; 
posteriorly considerably elevated: elevation: bifid ; behind this elevation 
the prothorax is producted and emarginate: ‘scutellum obtriangular : 
elytra tuberculated with several acute, compressed tubercles, the anterior 
ones carinated ; interstices with some scattered deep punctures: space 
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between the four posterior legs punctured with large shallow punctures. 
[208.] FAMILY CRYPTOCEPHALID. 
277. CRYPTOCEPHALUS PUBESCENS /adr.— [Length of body 2% lines. 
‘Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
Body black, with a very slight brassy tint, a little glossy, grossly and 
thickly punctured ; downy more or less with cinerascent down : prothorax 
with a longitudinal levigated line, posteriorly with a double ane scu- 
tellum elevated towards the apex, perfectly smooth : elytra with a lateral 
lobe towards the base, shoulders with a tubercle. [Belongs to Sufinan’s 
genus Pachybrachis. | : 
278. CRYPTOCEPHALUS NOTATUS Zabr.—Length of body 234 lines. 
Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
Body black, naked, glossy. Nose with a bilobed reddish-yellow spot 
at the apex ; front with a yellow curvilinear spot adjoining the eyes on 
their inner side ; between the eyes behind is a pair of round impressions, 
and a longitudinal intermediate abbreviated channel ; antennae mutilated 
in the specimen, but what remains of them is reddish-yellow : prothorax 
levigated, but sprinkled with very minute and slight punctures, visible 
only under a powerful magnifier; behind with a slight sinus on each side : 
scutellum levigated and elevated posteriorly: elytra deeply punctured 
with the punctures arranged in ‘rows, the sixth row from the suture is 
