52 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



(b) SUBULIPALPIA. 



Family PERYPHID^. 2 Peryphidans. 



XXV. Genus PERYPHUS. Meg. 



(74) 1. * Peryphus bimaculatus. Two-spotted Peryphus. 



P. (bimaculatus) niger, nitidus ; supra viridi-ccncus ; pedibus rufis ; elytris macula obliqua apicis lurida. 



Two-spotted Peryphus, black, glossy ; above green-bronzed ; legs rufous ; elytra with an oblique lurid spot at the apex. 



Length of the body 3^ lines. 



Taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body glossy, underneath black, above black-bronzed with a slight greenish tint. Head triangular, 

 with a thick convex neck ; frontal impressions long and deep ; antennas longer than the prothorax, 

 third joint of the length of the succeeding ones; scape and palpi rufous: prothorax obcordate con- 

 vex, at the base depressed, constricted, and grossly punctured ; dorsal channel as in Patrobus ; 

 basilar impressions single, round, and deepish : elytra slightly furrowed with the furrows punctured ; 

 the seventh from the suture nearly obliterated ; apex nearly smooth, near which is an oblique pale 

 spot : legs rufous with darker thighs, especially in the middle. 



N.B. When the elytra are raised from the body they are dusky-bronzed. 



(75) 2. * Peryphus sordidus. Sordid Peryphus. 



P. (sordidus J nitidus ; subtus sordide rvfus: ano infuscato ; capite prothoraceque nigro-aneis ; antennis articulis tribus primis, 

 palpis, pedibusque, pallide rufis ; elytris luridis : macula magna obliqua apicis pallida. 



Sordid Peryphus, glossy, underneath dirty rufous with the anus embrowned ; head and prothorax black-bronzed ; three first 

 joints of the antenna?, palpi, and legs, rufous ; elytra lurid with a large, oblique, pale spot near the apex. 



Length of the body 3 lines. 



A single specimen in Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This so nearly resembles P. bimaculatus, that I first put it aside as an immature specimen, but 

 further consideration induces me to consider it as distinct. It is wholly pale rufous, except the head 

 the prothorax and the anus : the three first joints of the antennas and the base of the fourth are also 

 rufous : the prothorax appears rather narrower in proportion, and less distinctly punctured at the 

 base ; the spot at the apex of the elytra is larger ; and the thighs are rather slenderer. 



2 The Peryphidcn are distinguished from the Bcmbidiada, not only by the shape of the thorax, but by having the apex 

 and sides of the elytra smooth, or with obliterated furrows. 



