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margin of the thorax curved, posterior angles turning a 
little inwards, and very slightly acute: elytra smoothish, 
each with two black spots placed obliquely in relation to 
each other; apex rounded in each, so as to leave a 
notch at the suture. 
Length three twentieths of an inch. 
Bears a close resemblance to the genus Ips, in the 
shape of the body. E 
Occurred in similar situations with the above. 
98. Ips sEPULCRALIS. 
I. corpore elongato; capite nigro, levitér punctulato, lateribus sub 
parallelis, antennis paululim lanatis ; thorace levitér punctulato, sub- 
quadrato; coleoptris punctulatis, maculis decem albis elongatis 2, 4, 
, positis. 
Body much elongated, black, a little piceous ; sides 
parallel: head minutely punctured: antenne piceous, 
club black and somewhat woolly: thorax minutely 
punctured, sub-quadrate: coleoptra rather strongly pune- 
tured, and marked with ten narrow, elongated white 
spots, placed 2 on the upper margin, 4 above the mid- 
dle, lateral ones indistinct, becoming lost in the margin, 
and 4 behind the middle, lateral ones a little superior to 
the others ; apex obliquely sub-truncated. 
Length somewhat more than two tenths of an inch. 
It occurred in April, with many other species of its 
tribe, about the trunks of newly cut sugar maple (Acer 
saccharinum). 
99. HypROPHILUS AGILIS- 
H. capite nigro, punctulato, thorace nigro, léviter punctulato, mar- 
gine pallido; scutello nigro; elytris griseis, eiie ie et sub- 
tilissimé punctulatis; apice pedibusque testace 
