36 COLEOPTEBA COLLECTED IN CANADA. 



low, with three black dots, thus v on eachelytrura. Length 4| inches. 

 Common in Canada. It feeds indiscriminately on all animal sub- 

 stances, and is found throughout summer, on the Island of Toronto, 

 in putrified fish. 



BYRRHUS 



? CYCLOPHORTJS Kirb. N. Z. 117. 



Thorax dark chestnut color, glossy, and intermixed with short 

 cinereous hairs ; scutellum very black and triangular ; elytra not so 

 dark as the thorax, glossy and covered with short rust-colored hairs ; 

 three longitudinal stripes on each, and a transverse double band of 

 pale cinereous hairs in form thus ^T; body beneath and legs dull 

 ferruginous. Length 2£ lines. Taken by Mr. F. H. Ibbetson, at 

 the Lake of Two Mountains. 



The naturalists to the northern expedition captured only one spe- 

 cimen, which Mr. Kirby describes as having two black stripes on the 

 elytra, and its length 3J lines. Mr. Ibbetson's specimens vary in 

 size ; they are evidently related, as in some of them the third stripe 

 is obsolete. 



BRACHYS 



TESSELLATA Eab.El. 2,218. ovata, Web. Obs. Ent, p. 78; aurulenta, Kirb. N.Z.162; 

 aerosa, Mels. Pr. Acad. 2, 148. 



Body obovate, black-blue, glossy ; antennae black-blue, shorter 

 than thorax ; head has a sinus in front, and covered with glittering 

 copper-colored decumbent hairs ; thorax transverse, impunctured, 

 lobed and impressed on each side posteriorly, and interspersed with 

 copper-colored decumbent hairs ; scutellum transverse, smooth, im- 

 punctured, rounded anteriorly, and acuminate posteriorly ; elytra with 

 three longitudinal ridges — the two inner ones are not so distinct as the 

 external one, which is more acute, running from the shoulder in an 

 undulated line nearly to the apex of elytrum. The elytra are min- 

 utely punctured in double rows, those on each side of suture are 

 very distinct ; ornamented with copper spots and undulated silver 

 bands formed of decumbent hairs; beneath dark-blue, glossy, truncate 

 at the apex. Length 2\ lines. 



The northern species of Brachys are small, but extremely beauti- 

 ful ; in habit they vie with the larger Buprestidce. In summer they 

 are found on the upper surface of the leaves of oaks, on which they 

 subsist. Common in the neighborhood of Toronto. 



RHINARIA 



SCnOENHERItt Kirb. N. Z. 203. S.-h. Cur. 7, 369. 



Body oblong, pear-shaped, covered with hoary pile; antennae 

 black, and nearly the length of the head, the knob ovate, acute ; 

 the rostrum sub-cylindrical, with three slightly elevated oblique 



