148 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



(197) 1. Perimecus fulvipes. Tawny-foot Perimecus. 



Perimecus fulvipes. Dillw. Mem. Col. 32. Steph. Illustr. Mandib. iii, 263, 1 ? 

 Elater fulvipes. Herbst. 7ns. x, 46, 52, t. clxii, /. 2. Gyll. Ins. Suec. i, 407, 37. 



castanipes. Payk. Fn. Suec. iii, 23, 27. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 381, 15. 



fuscus major. De Geer, Ins. iv, 146, 3. 



major. Gmel. L. Syst. Nat. iv, 1915, 104. 



rugosus. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 381, 16? 



Length of the body 7 lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, punctured, glossy; gloss and colour obscured by numerous decumbent pale hairs. 

 Antennas pale chestnut, with the third joint double the length of the second : posterior angles of 

 the prothorax carinated : elytra with nine rows of large and deep punctures, interstices minutely 

 punctured : legs pale chestnut. 



The only difference that I can discover between the American and European specimens, is in the 

 length of the third joint of the antennae, which in the latter is scarcely longer than the second ; 

 and this may probably be a sexual distinction. 



(198) 2. Perimecus communis. K. Common Perimecus- 



Elater communis. Gyll. in Schon. Syn. iii, Append. 138, 189. 

 cinereus. Web. Obs. Ent. i, 77, 2 ? Ulig. Mag. i, 248 ? 



Length of the body 6^ lines. 



Several specimens taken at Cumberland-house Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 

 Very similar to the preceding species, but much smaller. Body chestnut-coloured, darker or 

 lighter in different specimens, punctured, glossy, hairy : third joint of the antennae twice the length 

 of the second : prothorax thickly punctured, obsoletely channelled, chiefly behind : elytra, antennae, 

 and legs rather paler than the rest of the body, the former sculptured as in the last species. 



