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Black, ovate, variously spotted and villose with yellow- 

 ish hairs; head quadrangular, front margin reflexed and 

 emarginate, antenna? and legs black, sometimes more or 

 less luteous, vertex occasionally with a yellow- white longi- 

 tudinal spot. Thorax narrowed in front, sub-angulated at 

 the sides, broadly lobed at the base, which is sinuate on 

 each side of the middle, densely but not finely punctured, 

 and villose with yellow hairs, the surface not or variably 

 maculate with numerous yellow spots. Elytra luteous, with 

 a slight bloom, and usually with nine black spots arranged 

 transversely, two in front, three at the middle and two 

 behind the middle, the humerus and apical gibbosity also 

 black and shining. Tarsi piceous. The jyygidium is often 

 covered with dense yellow-white scales. Very variable in 

 color, another individual in my collection being almost 

 entirely black, the elytra alone having four rufous spots in 

 the middle and two indistinct ones near the scutel. 



Length - 53 in. ; 13*5 mm. 



Lake St. Clair (Bigsby), Ontario (Kilman), Montreal 

 (Cushing). 



Mr. Cushing tells me he took it on thorn blossoms in 

 spring. Uncommon. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. 



Fig. 1. ZlLORA CANADENSIS, n. Sp. 



" 2. " seen from beneath to show details. 



" 3. Philonthus stictus, n. sp. 



'' 4. Hydnobius longulus, Lee, $ . 



" 5. The underside of the same to show structure. 



" 6. Limonius stigma, Herbst. 



" 7. CORYMBITES HAMATUS, Say. 



" 8. Gnorimus maculosus, Knoch. 

 Errata. 

 The following errors, partly clerical, partly typographical, occur 

 in rny paper in the last number of this magazine : — 



Page 252, 1- 17 from top, instead of stenopus read stenops. 

 " 252, 1. 28 " " " sullcatis read sulcatis. 



" 252, 1. 31 " " " simplictus read simplicibus. 



" 253, 1. 20 " " " points read joints. 



" 253, 1. 31 " " " freely read feebly. 



" 253, 1. 34 " " stenopus read stenops. 



" 254, 1. 15 " '' '' stenopus read stenops. 



