194 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, minutely punctured, hairs white, decumbent ; those of the prothorax and elytra 

 looking like minute scales. Head with a pair of minute tubercles, not easily discovered, in the 

 space between the eyes, anteriorly transversely impressed ; mouth and antennae pale rufous : protho- 

 rax very thickly and minutely punctured, with a rather obsolete longitudinal dorsal ridge : elytra 

 dull-red, with several rows of larger punctures, the interstices of which are very minutely and thickly 

 punctured, at the base rough with minute elevations : legs rufous. 



(259) 2. * Apate (Lepisomus) nigriceps. Black-headed A. Lepisomus. 



A. L. (niyricepsj rufus, pimctulatissinws ; capite nigro, vnituberculato, naso impresso. 



Black-headed A. Lepisomus, rufous, minutely and thickly punctured ; head black, with a frontal tubercle ; nose impressed. 



Length of the body 1 line. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Smaller than the preceding. Body rufous, minutely and thickly punctured. Head black, with 

 a very minute tubercle between the eyes ; nose impressed ; antenna; and underside of the head pale 

 rufous: elytra sculptured as in the preceding species, but the rows of punctures are less conspicuous. 



(260) 3. * Apate (Lepisomus) brevicornis. Short-horned A. Lepisomus. 



A. L. (brevicornis) nigra punctulatissima, piloso-incana ; antennis brevissimis pedibusque rvfis. 



Short-horned A. Lepisomus, black, very minutely and thickly punctured, hoary from hairs ; antennae very short, with the 

 legs rufous. 



Length of the body 1 line. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, covered with hoary hairs, above resembling scales. Antenna; very short with a 

 small knob, rufous : front without a tubercle, nose not impressed ; elytra not striated. This species 

 seems to indicate another section of the genus. 



