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black spot before: antenne black, base piceous under- 
neath: thorax and elytra blue: four anterior tibie. tes- 
taceous, two posterior black. 
Length more than one tenth of an inch. 
Inhabits Hallowell, May. 
Closely allied to the M. flavilabris of Say. 
24. PELTIS FRATERNUS. 
corpore dilatato, penitus ae — valdé punctulato ; 
scutello transverso; elytris canaliculatis, canaliculis serie dupliei 
punctatis, lateribus obliqué contractis, margin recurvato. 
Body dilated, wholly ferruginous, punctured above: 
scutel transverse: elytra broadly channeled, with a 
double series of impressed punctures on each, somewhat 
laterally peranged 5 -channels obsolete toward the margin, 
which is T recurved; intermediate spaces 
smooth ; sides only obnquely contracted. 
' Length from eight twentieths to more than nine 
twentieths of an inch. 
Lives under the bark of trees. 
Allied to the ferrugínea of Europe, but is larger, 
rather more depressed, rather less abruptly contracted 
at the sides, and far more distinctly punctured. 
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25. PELTIs SEPTENTRIONALIS. 
P. corpore penitüs rufo, supra punctulato; scutello transverso; 
elytris canaliculatis, punctulatis, punetis transversis, in ordinibus sin- 
gulis impressis, lateribus abrupt? contractis. 
Body entirely rufous, punctured above: scutel trans- 
verse : elytra channeled, with a single series of transverse 
punctures in each channel; sides very is con- 
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