CANTHARID/E. 241 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body hairy with pale hairs. Head blackish ; mouth, palpi, and antennae testaceous : prothorax 

 testaceous ; horn convex above, margin denticulated : elytra testaceous with a blackish band near 

 the apex which rises upwards at the suture, and three blackish spots ; two at the base, and one 

 between the band and the apex, the last very faint : legs testaceous : postpectus and base of the 

 abdomen embrowned ; the remainder of the prone part of the body is testaceous. 



vi. Vesicantia. Lat. 



Family CANTHARID/E. Cantharidans. 



CXXXIII. Genus CANTHARIS. Geoff. 



(328) 1. Cantharis unicolor. One-coloured Cantharis. 



C. I unicolor J tola nigra, piloso-incana ; prothorace canaliculato ; antennis articulis duobus primis valde elovgatis. 

 One-coloured Cantharis, all black, hoary from pile ; prothorax channelled : antennae with the two first joints very long. 



Length of the body 7 lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, hoary from numerous decumbent white hairs : antennae subsetaceous, a little longer 

 than the prothorax ; two first joints very long, the first curved and nearly twice the length of the 

 second; and the second as long as the three following ones together: prothorax rather bell-shaped, 

 channelled : wings embrowned. 



This species seems to come near to the Lytta immaculata of Say, 4 but the relative lengths of 

 the joints of the antennae differ, the palpi of our insect are black, and it is much smaller. 



CXXXIV. Genus MELOE. Linn. 



This genus appears to be one of the stepping stones to the Orthoptera, which is 

 proved not only by its galeate maxillae, but, by its elytra lapping over each other, 

 and its vertical and often inflexed head, in this respect resembling the Blattina. 



4 Journ. Ill, i, 10, 304, 8. 



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