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[A species of Æeodes, synonymous with Says Æeodes (Blaps) 
tricostata. 
FAMILY TENEBRIONIDÆ. 
317. UPIS CERAMBOIDES Linn.—Length of body 8-8% lines. A 
pair taken in the month of April, in Lat. 65°. Taken also in Canada by 
Dr. Bigsby. [Abundant throughout Canada; taken by Agassiz’s Expe- 
dition on Lake Superior. | 
Body dull-black, narrow, naked, minutely punctured. Head nearly 
round depressed, porrected; eyes lateral, kidney-shaped ; nose circum- 
scribed by the segment of a circle ; antennae a little shorter than the 
prothorax, joints obconical, four last lentile-shaped ; prothorax a little 
wider than the head, oblong with rounded sides; scutellum rounded at 
the apex ; elytra taken together wider than the prothorax, a little dilated 
beyond the middle, and then sloping to the apex, which is acute; very 
unequal with numerous irregular deep impressions and rugosities, variously 
separated by a number of elevated lines or obtuse ridges running con- 
fusedly in various directions ; legs long ; thighs incrassated ; tibiae and 
tarsi slender. 
[234.] 318. TENEBRIO MoLiror Zinn,—Length of body 7% lines. 
Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 
Body oblong-linear, minutely and numerously punctured, a little 
glossy, naked, above piceous, underneath rufo-piceous. Head uneven, 
nearly orbicular ; anteriorly rufo-piceous ; antennae and palpi rufo-piceous ; 
prothorax transverse, sides rounded with a reflexed margin; posterior 
margin wavy, just above which, on each side, is a roundish impression ; 
posterior angles acuminate: scutellum transverse, subacuminate: elytra 
scarcely wider than the prothorax, slightly furrowed, furrows punctured 
with the interstices transversely somewhat wrinkled, and most numerously 
and minutely punctured; shoulders short, compressed and incrassated ; 
cubit curved. 
[An introduced European species that has spread all over Canada and 
the Northern States, and has become a great pest to millers, flour dealers 
and house-keepers. | 
TENEBRIO PENNSYLVANICUS ÆXnoch.—Length of body 8-9 lines. 
Several specimens taken in Lat. 54°; it was also sent me by Dr. Harris. 
