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front, sinuale behind, hind angles distinctly rectangular, sides 

 moderately refiexed and with a few punctures within ; basal im- 

 pression moderately deep, sparsely punctured : elytra subparallel 

 faintly striate, striiv; punctured, third striiv with four or five dis- 

 tinct large punctures, intervals flat. Length, .40 inch = \o mm. 

 Habitat, New Hampshire, westward to Oregon and Siika. 



N. hudsonica Iac. — Allied to Sa/i//>cii:;i, but differs in its more 

 depressed furni and by the hind angles of the thorax being scarcely 

 rectangular. I'he sides of the thorax are less roundt^d in frynt 

 and feebly sinuate behind. The sides of the elytra are nearly 

 l^arallel and the surface faintly striate, the striiV scarcely punctured. 

 the third with four large punctures, rather vaguely defined. 

 Length, .40 — .42 inch = 10—10.5 mm. 



Habitat, Hudson's Bay Territory. 



N. paKipes Say. Plate I\', Fig. 3. — Jet black, shining, legs 

 and antenuic pale yellowish ; thorax very broad, with sides rounded, 

 oblique behind, hind angles obtuse not rectangular; elytra deeply 

 striate, stria; punctured, the third with five distinctly impressed 

 large punctures, intervals convex. Length, .40 — .46 inch = 10- • 

 1 1.5 mm. 



Habitat^ N. E. America. 



Pelophila Dcjcan. 

 Antenui Laisi of male broadly dilated ; antenna; stout, shorter 

 than half the length of body, joints 3 — 4 thicker at tip, joints 3-- 

 II distinctly flattened; scutellar stria obliterated; body robust, 

 in form like Blethisa. 



P. ulkei Horn. — Brownish icneous, shining; head with moder- 

 ately deep frontal impressions, wrinkled longitudinally, strigose 

 behind the apex; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, slightly 

 narrower at base, sides moderately rounded in front, slightly 

 sinuate behind, basal angles rectangular, median and apical im- 

 pressions faint, the latter sparsely punctured; elytra oblong, sides 

 feebly rounded, slightly broader behind the middle, striie faint, 

 punctures obsolete, intervals nearly flat, the third with four and 

 the fifth with two large I'unctures, margins of elytra green; body 

 bencatii black, tibia; brownish, femora rufous. Length, .35 inch. 

 = 9 mm. 



Habitat, IIud^on's Bay Territory. 



