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Sept. i8 97 .] Hayward : Coleoptera of N. E. America. 
scarcely wider than long; legs yellowish testaceous. Length, .12-. 14 inch ; 
sr 3 , ^■•••••• .pedicellatum. 
blightly depressed ; color varying from brownish to nearly black, slightly ceneous, 
elytra with a large, triangular subhumeral spot, and a smaller one, behind the 
middle, yellowish testaceous; thorax rather more than one half wider than 
long; legs yellowish testaceous. Length, .10-. 14 inch; 2. 5-3.5 mm. 
. .. , , quadrimaculatum. 
44 - Black, slightly aeneous; thorax cordate, slightly wider than long, very distinctly 
narrower at base than apex, basal impressions unistriate ; elytra more than 
one-half wider than the thorax, variegated with testaceous markings along the 
margin; legs testaceous. Length, .10-. 14 inch; 2.5-3_5 mm . affine. 
Piceous or nearly black, the elytra often tinged with brown, unicolorous; thorax 
about one-half wider than long, subcordate, slightly narrower at base than 
apex, basal impressions bistriate; elytra slightly wider than the thorax; legs 
rufo-testaceous. Length, . 10 -. 13 inch ; 2 . 5 - 3.25 mm...., ... muscicola. 
45 - Slightly elongate, moderately convex; black, often tinged with greenish, elytra 
with a subapical spot and the apex pale ; thorax subquadrate, slightly nar¬ 
rower at base than apex, hind angles carinate; elytra moderately finely striate, 
the striae abbreviated behind, the two inner nearly entire; legs rufo-testaceous 
. ^ Leng ! h, : I3 7 I4inch; 3- 2 5~3 5 mm .sulcatum’ 
40. Thoiax distinctly wider than long; elytra about one-half wider than the thorax. 47 
Thorax scarcely wider than long; hind angles rectangular; convex, nigro- 
seneous, the elytra often brownish, deeply striato-punctate, with a subapical 
spot and the apex pale testaceous, legs testaceous. Length, .08-. 11 inch; 
. 3 ,.assimile. 
Hind angles of thorax acute; form slightly elongate, convex; color black, 
scarcely aeneous, the elytra with a subapical spot and the apex more or less 
testaceous; basal impressions of thorax unistriate; elytra finely striato-punc¬ 
tate; legs piceous or rufo-piceous. Length, .13-.15 inch; 3.25-4 mm. 
47 - 
anguliferum. 
Hind angles of thorax rectangular; less elongate than anguliferum ; color nearly 
as in that species, the elytral spots more marked; basal impressions of thorax 
bistriate; striae of elytra deeper; legs rufous or pale rufo-piceous. Length, 
.12 .15 inch, 3-3.75 mm .. cautum. 
4 *. Slightly elongate, convex; black, scarcely aeneous; thorax distinctly narrower 
at base than apex; striae of elytra with deep, not closely placed punctures; legs 
yellowish testaceous. Length,. 1 5-. 17 inch; 3.75-4.25 mm. .semistriatum. 
49 . Maxillae with the outer lobe biarticulate; elytra with two dorsal punctures on the 
third striae. 
Thorax about one-half wider than long, basal impressions moderately deep ; 
elytra oblong-ovate, slightly wider than the thorax, deeply striate, the’ 
striae entire ; form elongate, depressed; color dark rufous, the elytra vary¬ 
ing to slate-color; legs rufous. Length, .14-.16 inch; 3.5-4 mm. 
puritanum. 
Maxillae with the outer lobe with the two joints united; mandibles long, slender, 
nearly straight; elytra with two dorsal punctures on the third interval. 
Feebly convex; rufous or rufo-piceous; thorax slightly wider than long, dis- 
