248 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, rather hairy, with short decumbent white hairs. Head rhomboidal, lightly and 

 minutely punctured ; posteriorly obsolctely channelled ; impressed between the eyes ; pale-yellow 

 below the antenna? ; antennae longer than the prothorax, three first joints underneath of a dull-red, 

 second and third, taken together, scarcely longer than the fourth : prothorax nearly square, lightly 

 and very minutely punctured ; anterior angles rounded, posterior rectangular ; disk channelled, and 

 on each side the channel longitudinally elevated; sides luteous; posterior margin reflexed : elytra 

 very minutely and thickly punctured; lateral margin anteriorly rather pale: legs black; trochanters 

 and cubits dull-rufous. 



(340) 2. * Telephorus (Malthacus) l/evicollis. Smooth-necked T. Malthacus. 



T. M. (IcevicollisJ niger, capite rhombuidali ; antice, antennis basi, pedibusque luteis ,• prothorace Icevissimo disco canaliculalo 



ulrinque subelcvato, angulis anticis obttisissimis luteis, posticis subrecurvis. 

 Smooth-necked T. Malthacus, black, head rhomboidal, anteriorly, antennoe at the base, and legs, luteous : prothorax im- 



punctured ; disk channelled, somewhat elevated on each side ; anterior angles very obtuse, luteous ; posterior 



subrecurved. 



Length of the body 3i lines. 



A single specimen taken in the Rocky Mountains. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, somewhat hoary with decumbent hairs. Head impunctured, impressed transversely 

 between the eyes ; mouth and three first joints of the antennas luteous ; prothorax nearly square 

 very glossy, impunctured ; elytra less visibly punctured than in the preceding species ; legs luteous, 

 thighs brown at the base. 



(341) 3. * Telephorus (Malthacus) mandibulars. Mandibular T. Malthacus. 



T. M. (mandibularis) totus ater, mandibvlis solis rvfis. 

 Mandibular T. Malthacus, entirely black, mandibles only rufous. 



Length of the body 2J lines. 



Several specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body all black, except the red mandibles, somewhat hoary with decumbent hairs. Hind-head 

 received by the prothorax ; eyes very prominent ; antenna longer than the prothorax ; third joint 

 nearly twice the length of the second: prothorax impunctured, scarcely wider than long, all the 

 angles rounded ; disk channelled, less elevated on each side ; posterior lateral margins somewhat 

 reflexed : elytra black, minutely and confluently punctured. 



This species, as to the insertion of its head, varies from the others, and comes nearer to the 

 typical Telephori. 



