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(168) 4. Byrrhus varius. (Fabricius.) Varied Byrrhus. 



Byrrbus varius. Fab. Syst. Ent. 60, 2; Syst. Eleuth. i, 105, 10. Ollv. Ent. ii, 13, 7, 5, t. i, /. 6. Illig. Kaf. Preuss. i, 

 93, 7. Lat. Gen. ii, 42, 2. Sturm. Deutsch. ii, 104, 11. Gyll. 7ns. Suec. i, 197, 4. Payk. Fn. Suec. i, 76, 2. Panz. 

 Fn. Germ, xxxii, <. 3. Thunb. 7ns. Suec. 67. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. iv, 1613,5. Stew. Elem. ii, 36. 



maculatus. Herbst. Archiv. 25, 2. 



sericeus. Steph. Illustr. Mandib. iii, 138, 6. 



Cistela varia. Lai. Tyr. Ins. i, 71,2. 



sericea. Forst. Cent, i, 15. Marsb Ent. Brit, i, 104. Steph. Cat. 98, 1034,6. 



Voet. Col. t. xxxii, f. 4? Scbsff. /con. f. ccxxvii,/. 4. H — r. Ins. i, 64, 53. 



Length of the body 2| lines. 



Several specimens taken in the Journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body underneath black. Head and prothorax bronzed, the gloss obscured by glittering hairs, 

 above the scutellum is a patch of golden ones : scutellum channelled, covered with paler hairs : elytra 

 slightly furrowed, bronzed with the alternate interstices of the discoidal furrows green-bronzed, 

 spotted with little velvetty patches of black hairs. 



The European specimens have not the patch of golden hairs above the scutellum : in other 

 respects they are precisely the same. 



Taking our departure from the Geadephaga, or terrestrial branch of the Preda- 

 ceous, we have at length arrived at the confines of the LamelUcorn, Beetles ; but 

 before we proceed to the consideration of them, we must revert to the aquatic 

 branch, and the tribes, connected with it, that tend also to the same point: and 

 here, as our former route, if I may so speak, was by land ; so now we must chiefly 

 travel by water, since the Philhydrida of Mr. Mac Leay, which we are next to 

 describe, are mostly inhabitants of that element : or at least abound in very humid 

 situations : but our voyage will not be long, since only three specimens belonging 

 to one genus of these tribes were collected in the Expedition. 



