SILPHIDiE. 10.S 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body very much depressed, thickly punctured with a hair issuing from each puncture ; on the 

 under-side black. Head with a round impression between the eyes : prothorax pale-yellow with a 

 subquadrangular sublobate black spot in the disk; punctures of the prothorax very thick, those of 

 the discoidal spot resembling scratches : elytra brown-black, rather silky, with two longitudinal, 

 undulated, obsolete ridges that do not reach the apex ; their surface is covered with irregular eleva- 

 tions, and near the suture is a series of punctiform impressions ; epipleura very wide with its horizon- 

 tal portion resplendent with a lustre between bronze and gold, vertical part, or inner margin, yellow ; 

 the suture of the elytra terminates in a minute point. 



Olivier says there are three ridges on the elytra, but only two are discernible in the specimen here 

 described. It is singular that no author has noticed the brilliant side-covers of the elytra. 



(146) 2. * Oiceoptoma (Necrophlla) terminatum. Terminated O. Necrophila. 



O. N. f terminatum) nigrum, prothorace pallide flavo, macula discoidali lobata nigra ; elytris apice flavis, acuminatis ; epipleura 



subaurata, intus flava. 

 Terminated O. Necrophila, black, prothorax pale-yellow, with a black lobed discoidal spot ; elytra at the apex yellow, 



acuminate ; epipleura somewhat gilded, with the inner margin yellow. 



Length of the body 9^ lines. 



Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This species seems nearly related to O. N. Americanum, but it is narrower in proportion to its 

 length, the front has a distinct oblong impression ; the elytra are yellow at the apex and acuminate, 

 which last is probably a sexual character ; the epipleura is less brilliant than in the preceding species, 

 and the elytra are not silky. In other respects it resembles it and may possibly be the female. 



(147) 3. * Oiceoptoma (Necrophila) affine. Kindred O. Necrophila. 



O. N. (affine J nigrum, prothorace pallide flavo, macula lobata discoidali nigra; elytris apice flavis acuminatis; epipleura nigro- 



ccerulescanti, intus flava. 

 Kindred O. Necrophila, black; prothorax pale-yellow with a black, lobed, discoidal spot: apex of the elytra yellow and 



acuminated ; epipleura black-blue, inner margin yellow. 



Length of the body 9 lines. 



Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. Mac Culloch. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Very like the preceding species, but the frontal impression is smaller and round : the discoidal 

 black spot of the prothorax is smaller, with the lateral lobes rounded, and with round confluent 

 punctures : the horizontal part of the epipleura is black with a slight tint of blue, and not at all 

 bronzed. 



