NECROPHORID^E. 97 



DESCRIPTION. 



Like the last, but the nose is separated from the front by a curved line, it is also marked on each 

 side by a deep longitudinal furrow, and is depressed longitudinally in the centre ; but what more 

 strongly characterizes it, is the want of the rhinarium or nostril-piece discoverable in most of the 

 other species : the anterior part of the prothorax is less conspicuously dilated and naked : the elytra 

 anteriorly have a strongly toothed orange band including a black dot at the suture ; posteriorly they 

 have a large toothed spot of the same colour ; the epipleura is orange in the middle, black at the 

 tip with a black spot at the base connected with the black disk : postpectus not brilliant with golden 

 pile. 



(136) 3. * Necrophorus obscurus. Obscure Necrophorus. 



N. ( obscurus) ater ,- rhinario vix distincto ; elytris fasciis duabus obscuris, epipleuraque, rubris : antennis clavaferruginea. 

 Obscure Necrophorus, black ; rhinarium scarcely distinct, elytra with two obscure bands, and the epipleura, red: knob 

 of the antennae ferruginous. 



Length of the body 9 — 10 lines. 



A pair taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 



DESCRIPTION 



Body black. Nose separated from the front by a straight abbreviated line, with a deep oblique fur- 

 row on each side and no distinct rhinarium ; three last joints of the knob of the antennae ferruginous : 

 prothorax anteriorly dilated : elytra with two rather obscure deep red bands, the anterior one broad, 

 dentated and reaching from the epipleura to the suture : the posterior one externally broad, internally 

 narrow, and reaching neither epipleura nor suture ; epipleura deep red, narrower than usual : pos- 

 terior trochanter emarginate. 



(13*7) 4. * Necrophorus Melsheimeri. Melsheimers Necrophorus. 



A. ( 'Melsheimeri j antennis capitulo rhinarioque ferrugineis ; elytris fasciis duabus epipleuraque, aurantiis ; trochanteribus posticis 



apice truncatw extus recurvis. 

 Melsheimer's Necrophorus, knob of the antenna? and rhinarium ferruginous ; two bands of the elytra and the epipleura 



orange-coloured ; posterior trochanters truncated at the apex and externally recurved. 



Length of the body 9 lines. 



A single specimen taken in the Journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 



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