34 COLEOPTEEA COLLECTED IS CANADA. 



impressions have a slight elevation in the centre — marginal series 

 smaller, and in some specimens nearly obsolete ; body beneath 

 bronze-green ; femora? green, tibia? rufous. Length 4 lines. Island 

 of Toronto. 



The sutural quadrangular elevation which unites the elytra "just 

 before the middle" in Kirby's specimen, is almost obsolete in the 

 above ; in every other respect it agrees with his description. Kirby's 

 insect was taken by Sir John Eichardson, at Great Bear Lake, in 

 lat. 66*— 67°. 



NECEOPHOETJS 



F MELSHEBIERI, Kirb. N. Z. 97. 



Jaws black, minutely punctured, and tufted on each side beneath 

 the base with orange-colored hairs ; head black, minutely punctured 

 in front, with a subtrapezoid orange-colored nostril-piece, and a 

 transverse sulcus between the antenna? : eyes black, smooth, lobed 

 behind — the lobes punctured and set with short rigid hairs ; knob 

 of the antenna? orange-colored ; neck ringed with yellow hairs ; tho- 

 rax margined, punctured, dilated and obliquely depressed anteriorly ; 

 scutellum bell-shaped, black and punctured ; elytra black, densely 

 punctured, the shoulders elevated, with two longitudinal abbreviated 

 obsolete lines, and two orange-colored toothed bands — the anterior 

 is transverse, but the posterior one does not reach the suture : both 

 connect with the deeply orange-colored epipleura ; postpectus on 

 each side covered with tawny hairs ; posterior femora? truncate at 

 the apex; tibia? toothed and dilated; body beneath black, and densely 

 punctured. Toronto, not common. Length 8^ lines. 



OBSCURTJS, Kirb. N. Z. 97. 



Head black, finely punctured in front, and without a rhinarium 

 or nostril-piece ; the sides of the latter obliquely furrowed and sepa- 

 rated transversely by an abbreviated line ; has no prominent lobe 

 behind the eyes; posterior part of the neck ringed with tawny hairs 

 very distinctly seen when the head is bent down ; antenna? black, 

 three last joints of the knob orange-colored ; thorax dilated, mar- 

 gined — the margin punctured, with a longitudinal groove through the 

 disc; scutellum triangular, slightly elevated; elytra black, densely 

 punctured, the anterior sutural region slightly depressed, the shoul- 

 ders and two longitudinal lines elevated, as in the last species ; epi- 

 pleura deep red, from which an anterior dentated band of the same 

 color nearly reaches the suture — the posterior one is kidney-shaped, 

 and reaching neither epipleura nor suture ; body beneath black ; 

 postpectus covered with short glossy hairs ; the tibia? are dilated and 

 toothed. Toronto, not common. Length 8£ lines. 



