208 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



Family CRYPTOCEPHALID^. Cryptocephalidans. 



CXI. Genus CRYPTOCEPHALUS. Fab. 



(277) I Cryptocephalus pubescens. (Fabricius.) Pubescent Cryptocephalus. 



Cryptocephalus pubescens. Fab. Gen. Ins. 220, 11, 12; Syst. Eleuth. ii, 43, 15. Oliv. Ent. vi, 96, 61, t. vi, /. 91. 

 hirsutus. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. iv, 1703,22. 



Length of the body 2| lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black with a very slight brassy tint, a little glossy, grossly and thickly punctured ; downy 

 more or less with cinerascent down : prothorax with a longitudinal levigated line, posteriorly with a 

 double sinus : scutellum elevated towards the apex, perfectly smooth : elytra with a lateral lobe 

 towards the base, shoulders with a tubercle. 



(278) 2. Cryptocephalus notatus. (Fabricius.) Marked Cryptocephalus. 



Cryptocephalus notatus. Fab. Mant. i, 83, 56 ; Syst. Eleuth. ii, 33, 76 ? Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. iv, 1708, 56 ? 



Length of the body 2J lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, naked, glossy. Nose with a bilobed reddish-yellow spot at the apex ; front with a 

 yellow curvilinear spot adjoining the eyes on their inner side ; between the eyes behind is a pair of 

 round impressions, and a longitudinal intermediate abbreviated channel ; antennas mutilated in the 

 specimen, but what remains of them is reddish-yellow : prothorax levigated, but sprinkled with very 

 minute and slight punctures, visible only under a powerful magnifier; behind with a slight sinus on 

 each side : scutellum levigated and elevated posteriorly : elytra deeply punctured with the punctures 

 arranged in rows, the sixth row from the suture is interrupted, and in the interstices on each side of 

 it are some irregular punctures, the intermediate rows do not reach the apex ; a luteous band, abbre- 

 viated next the suture and growing gradually wider till it reaches the lateral margin, and an irregular 

 spot at the apex of the same colour, distinguish the elytra. 



Fabricius describes his C. notatus in so few words that it admits of some doubt whether his insect 

 is synonymous with Dr. Bigsby's here characterized. The spots at the apex can scarcely be deno- 

 minated puncta, but as he occasionally designates a large spot by this term, and both insects are 

 from North America, for the present it may be allowed to stand under the above name. 



