THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. LS 
with dark grayish fuscous : thorax and anterior wings dark purplish brown 
with a faint whitish spot on the dorsal margin near the base, a faint narrow 
whitish fascia about the middle, and a faint whitish costal and similar 
dorsal spot opposite, just before the ciliae, and another similar spot at the 
apex ; these spots are all very indistinct. Ciliae fuscous. Posterior wings. 
grayish fuscous. The ends of the fascia on each margin are visible as 
whitish spots in the wing itself after it is denuded. Adar. ex. Y% inch. 
(The wings are much longer than the body.) Kentucky. 
INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. 
COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. 
From Kirby’s Fauna Boreali-Americana: Insecta. 
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[223.] 300. DonaciA FEMORALIS X%rby.—Length of body 3% 
lines. ‘Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. 
Body bronzed, gilded, with a greenish tint, very minutely and thickly 
punctured, not conspicuously hairy underneath. Frontal channel slight ; 
antennae, except the scape which is bronzed, and mouth rufous ; prothorax 
with an impression above the scutellum ; anterior tubercles more than 
usually prominent; scutellum rather large ; elytra with single slight 
anterior impression adjoining the suture; legs rufous, but the thighs, 
which are much incrassated, except the base and summit, are green- 
bronzed ; posterior thigh without any tooth ; abdomen as in the preceding, 
species. 
This species seems nearly related to Donacia pusilla Say. 
391. Donacta FLAvIPES Kirby.—Length of body 4 lines. A single 
specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 
Body bronzed-copper with a golden lustre ; clothed below with very 
short, somewhat silvery, decumbent hairs, the metallic splendor of the 
body being visible through them. Head thickly, minutely, and con- 
fluently punctured or wrinkled, charinelled between the eyes; antennae 
testaceous, longer than the prothorax ; prothorax subquadrangular, longer 
than usual in the genus, widely channelled, very minutely, thickly, and. 
