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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
List of several new species of Coleoptera from Vancouver Island and 
British Columbia, collected by I. K* Lord, F.Z.S., late naturalist to the 
British North American Boundary Commission, presented by him to the 
B.A. Institution, by permission of Colonel Hawkins, HE., late Her Majesty’s 
Commissioner . 
Genus, Cardbus .— (Linn). 
Carabus bicolor (n.s). 
Niger breviusculus subtilissime punctatus tborace stria media bene determinata 
lateribus subconvexis angulis posticis productis elytris cupreio lineis sex e pustulus 
elongatis nigris lateribus subconvexis. 
Black, rather short, head and thorax very minutely punctured, the former with 
the usual impression on each side, in front. Thorax with an impressed distinctly 
marked middle line, sides slightly convex, hind angles produced extending over the 
fore border of the elytra. Elytra cupreous, each with three lines of elongated black 
pustules and with a submarginal line of minute impressions ; sides slightly convex. 
Length of the body eight lines. This belongs to the group of C. ligatus , which it 
resembles in the sculpture of the elytra. Hab. Vancouver Island and Eort Colville. 
Genus, Calisthenes .— (Fischer). 
^Calisthenes pimelioides (n.s). 
Nigra brevis lata obscura subtilissime punctata capitis lateribus retusis excavatis 
disco antico sublsevi thorace lateribus subconvexis subretusis stria media tenui 
elytris lineis pustularibus lateribus valde rotundates. 
Calosoma black, short, broad, thick, dull. Head and thorax very finely and thickly 
punctured. Head, in front, with an almost smooth disk, and a retuse and excavated 
border on each side. Thorax slightly convex and retuse along each side narrower 
hinderward with a slight impressed middle line. Elytra very convex on each side; 
each with about seventeen lines of minute pustules. Length of the body eight lines. 
It is somewhat allied to an undescribed Calisthenes from California, but quite 
distinct. Hab. same as preceding. 
Earn ., Silphidve .— (Leach) . 
Genus, Necrophorus .— (Eab .) 
*Necrophorus conversator (n.s). 
Niger obscurus subtiliter punctatus capite nitente subtilissime punctato sulcis 
duobus postice connexis thorace marginibus latis subreflexis elytris maculis sex 
ocliraceis. 
Black, dull, thickly and minutely punctured. Head shining, very minutely 
punctured with two furrows which converge, and are connected hindward. Thorax 
with a broad and slightly elevated rim, transverse line in front and longitudinal 
distinctly impressed. Elytra with six ochraceous spots of which four form an unin¬ 
terrupted band before the middle, and the other two are near the hind border. 
Abdomen extending much beyond the elytra, four segments uncovered. Length of 
the body nine lines. 
It is quite distinct from the North American N. hebes , obscurus, Hallii, 
Melsheimeri, pygmseus, and Vetulinus. In the markings of the elytra it resembles 
N. defodiens , but the scutellum is much smaller. Hab. Eort Colville in the 
upper Columbia river, also found on the sand plains about Walla Walla. 
