206 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body very short, between pear-shaped and ovate, deep violet, naked, minutely punctured. Head 

 black, rostrum levigated : prothorax somewhat lozenge-shaped, emarginate anteriorly, very thickly 

 and confluently punctured, with a levigated discoidal longitudinal line : elytra furrowed, furrows 

 punctured. 



Variety B. Blue-green. 



Family ANTHRIBIML. Anthribidam. 



CIX. Genus ANTHRIBUS. Fab. 



(275) 1. Anthribus fasciatus. Banded Anthribus. 



Macrocephalus fasciatus. Oliv. Ent. iv, 80, 9, 9, t. i, /. 9. 

 Length of the body 4 lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, covered more or less with brown decumbent short hairs. Rostrum angular, thickish, 

 dilated at the tip, below the antennae covered thickly with snow-white decumbent pile; antenna 

 almost as long as the thorax, rufous, knob dusky-brown ; front marked with two whitish dots, one 

 adjoining each eye on their upper side : prothorax wrinkled with a transverse discoidal impression, 

 and near the base with an elevated transverse ridge : elytra wrinkled with a discoidal tubercle near 

 the base, near the apex adorned with an irregular angular band composed of snow-white decumbent 

 pile : abdomen whitish with a double indistinct series of black dots : tibia? with a white ring. 



Variety B. With the tubercles of the elytra less conspicuous ; the abdomen snowy-white ; 

 thighs variegated with white. 



I have no memorandum whence I received this variety. It is smaller, and probably American. 



There seems some approach in this genus to the Capricorn tribe, see Macrocephalus cinereus 

 Oliv. Ent. t. i, / 2. 



This species does not appear well to arrange under any of Schonherr's subgenera of Anthribus. 



