20 Randall's New Species of 
Head black, slightly punctured: thorax black, with 
very small punctures; margin pale: scutel black: elytra 
minutely punctured, gray, with several black spots: 
apex and feet testáceous. In some lights, through a 
strong magnifier, the elytra appear striated with numerous 
cinereous lines, interspersed with à few spots of the same 
color. 
Length from less than one tenth to little more than 
one tenth of an inch. 
Stagnant waters, Hallowell. 
30. APHODIUS NODIFRONS. 
A. corpore supra rotundato; clypeo transversé carinato; capite 
tri-tuberculato; antennis rufis aut rufo-fuscis; thorace nigro, 
anticé (in maribus) profundé excavato, oe anticé rufo; elytris 
rufo-sanguineis, striatis, striis punctulati 
Body much rounded above: uso transversely 
carinated: head with three tubercles: antenne rufous or 
reddish brown: thorax black, with a profund excava- 
tion anteriorly, in the males; a large rufous spot on the 
anterior margin: elytra bright reddish, with regularly 
punctured striz. 
Length from three pens to nearly four tenths of an 
inch. : 
This insect is the counterpart of the A. fimetdrius of 
Europe, and is extremely abundant throughout all 
Maine. I have not met with it elsewhere. 
31. TENEBRIO (Upis) cxgurEvs.* 
T. corpore penitis sub-ceruleo et punctulato: thorace canaliculato, 
lateribus anticé sub-rotundatis, posticé multum contractis; elytris 
EE profundé pendon puuceiišlia; singulis, lineis EN 
que distantibus, elevatis. 
eile luii = 
.* See p SB L. 
