BOSTON 
- JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
, Vor. II. FEBRUARY, 1838. No. 1. 
ART. L—DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF COLE- 
OPTEROUS INSECTS INHABITING THE STATE OF 
MAINE. By J. W. RanparL. Communicated Oct. 18, 1837. 
In the following paper I offer a few of the m 
apparently undeseribed species of Coleoptera ewe c 
from a collection of insects, obtained by me in various 
journeys to different parts of the State, during a fifteen 
months’ residence at Hallowell, Maine. 
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1. PaTROBUS ANGICOLLIs. 
P. eorpore atro; eapite transversé subrugoso; antennis subpilosis, 
nigris; thoraes ; sub-depresso, profundé inequaliterque canaliculato, 
transversé rugoso; „elytris demens, striatis ; tape tibiisque 
nigris, geniculis tarsisque pi OM 
Body elongated, black: Aead ar GU and une- 
qually channeled, with a few transverse wrinkles; inter- 
mediate spaces smooth, convex: eyes small, black, very 
little prominent: palpi piceous: mandibles black, not 
Very stout: antenne long, a little hairy : thorax t Mc 
versely rugose, much flattened, d Mio on 
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