170 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This species is one of the most minute of the Capricorn tribes. Body linear, black but covered 

 with a coat of whitish decumbent hairs, which appears more or less sprinkled with black dots. Head 

 longitudinally channelled ; antennae mutilated in the specimen, but those joints that remain are white 

 at the base : prothorax short, armed on each side, towards the base with a short sharp spine, punc- 

 tured with scattered punctures ; elytra punctured especially towards the base, mottled and speckled 

 with brown, with an oblique brown band a little beyond the middle, apex of the elytra rounded : 

 podex and hypopygium, or last dorsal and ventral segments of the abdomen elongated, so as to defend 

 the base of the ovipositor which is exserted, causing the insect to appear as if it had a tail; the 

 hypopygium is emarginate : thighs much incrassatad at the apex. 



Family CALLIDIAD^. 



LXXXIX. Genus CALLIDIUM. Fab. 



(225) 1. * Callidium agreste. Country Callidium. 



C. f agreste J fuscum, subobscurum, punctulatissimum ; prothorace, trifoveato ; ehjtris lineis tribus elevatis apice confluentibus: 



corpore subtus albido villoso ; pectore longius. 

 Country Callidium, brown, less obscure, very minutely and thickly punctured; prothorax with three impressions; elytra 



with three elevated lines confluent near the apex ; body underneath coated with white hairs, those on the breast 



being longer than the rest. 



Length of the body 11 lines. 



Several specimens taken in the Expedition, and likewise in Nova Scotia by Dr. 

 Mac Culloch and Capt. Hall. 



DESCRIPTION. 



I at first took this for a variety of C. rusticum, but on a closer inspection I found it differed in 

 the sculpture as well as colour ; and having received a specimen of that insect from Dr. Harris, in 

 which its characters were all preserved, I am induced to describe C. agreste as a distinct species. 



It differs from C. rusticum in being smaller, of a darker brown, without a tint of red; and in having 

 more gloss. The prothorax has three deep round impressions, while in the insect last named, the 

 impressions are slight, and the two anterior ones oblong : the elevated lines of the elytra are more 

 prominent and become visibly confluent towards the apex, where they form several reticulations : the 

 underside of the body is much more thickly covered with hairs, which are hoary instead of yellowish, 

 those on the breast being longer than those on the abdomen. In other respects these two insects 

 resemble each other. 



