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Psyche 
[February 
A NEW SPECIES OF NEW ENGLAND COLEOPTERA. 
By C. A. Frost, Framingham, Mass. 
Cantharis ( Telephorus ) andersoni, sp. nov. 
Size and form of rotundicollis Say. Color entirely testaceous 
except for the following black, or at least dark piceous areas: the 
outer joints of antennae, a diamond-shaped spot on the vertex 
a spot between the front coxae and one on each side of the gular 
suture, the meso and metasternum, the greater part of the first 
six ventral segments, the hind tibiae and generally the middle 
tibiae and the distal ends of the hind femora, a dark spot occa- 
sionally on the middle femora above at the knees, the scutellum 
generally dark and sometimes black, the tarsi more or less dark 
especially beneath. Head sparsely punctured and pubescent, 
tumid between and in front of the antennae, with a transverse 
impression above each antenna, the second joint of which is 
short and the rest subequal. Thorax orbicular, nearly smooth and 
sparsely pubescent; front and side margins translucent and 
reflexed, more deeply concave at the sides before the middle, 
the tumid cordiform area of the disk abruptly limited by a deep 
groove in front of the hind margin of the thorax, the median 
impressed line faintly indicated at the middle becoming deeper 
and broadly triangularly depressed behind. Elytra more densely 
pubescent with yellowish hairs, smooth (finely punctured at the 
insertions of the hairs) at the base, becoming gradually strongly 
granulato-rugose to the apex. Beneath finely punctured and 
pubescent, more sparsely so on the abdomen. Anterior claw 
on all the tarsi with a basal tooth which is more slender and with 
the inner edge more curved on the hind and middle ones. Length 
11 to 13 mm. 
The sexual characters are as usual not strongly indicated. 
The male antennae are slightly longer, the second joint being- 
shorter in comparison with the third, and the basal tooth of the 
claw on the anterior tarsi are broader than in the female; the 
seventh segment of the abdomen is broadly emarginate, ex- 
posing an eighth segment, in the male. 
