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shaped, rufous, with a golden lustre : prothorax thickly punctured, not wider and not much longer 

 than the head, constricted behind, and anteriorly with a pair of oblique impressions, one on each 

 side : elytra minutely punctured, with larger punctures arranged in five rows, the two exterior ones 

 reaching from the shoulder to the middle, and the interior ones not so far ; the elytra are traversed 

 by a pair of white undulato-angular bands formed of decumbent hairs ; the first begins at the base 

 below the scutellum, and running down along the suture for a little way then diverges and forms the 

 band which is broadest at the lateral margin ; the other band is near the apex, broad, and projects 

 anteriorly into an angle : the legs are dull-rufous : the abdomen is between testaceous and orange 

 with the tips of the segments paler. 



Family CYPHONIDiE. Cyphonidam. 



CXXXVIII. Genus CYPHON. Fab. 



(334) 1. * Cyphon fusciceps. Brown-headed Cyphon. 



C. (fusciceps) luridus, pubescens : capite, (interims, abdomine, femoribusque fastis. 

 Brown-headed Cyphon, lurid, pubescent : head, antenna?, abdomen, and thighs brown. 



Length of the body 1 J line. 



A single specimen taken. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body lurid, downy. Head brown, mouth lurid ; antenna? mutilated in the specimen, but what 

 remains is brown : prothorax very short, transverse, slightly bisinuate both anteriorly and posteriorly ; 

 disk embrowned : elytra very minutely and thickly punctured : breast and belly brown : thighs 

 embrowned. 



Family TELEPHORID^. Telephoridans. 



CXXXIX. Genus TELEPHORUS. Schseff. 



(335) 1. Telephorus ater. Black Telephones. 



Telephone ater. Oliv. Ent. ii, 26, 13, 12, t. i, /. 3. Steph. Illustr. Mandib. iii, 294, 5. 



Cantharis atra. Linn. Syst. Nat. ii, 649, 16. Fab. Syst. Ent. 206, 5 ; Syst. Eleuth. i, 297, 18. Gyll. 7ns. Suec. i, 336, 

 10. Fall. Canth. 12, 9. Illig. Kaf. Preuss. i, 301, 10. Panz. Ent. Germ, i, 90, 7. 



Length of the body 2J lines. 



A single specimen taken in the Journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 



