cell with the parent. These ova are spherical and of a peach color. This fact I think indicates that the fertilized ova are deposited in the uterus which as quickly as hatched attach themselves for a time to the orifice of the outlet, as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 2-Vascular Contractile Testes, &c. COLEOPTERA COLLECTED IN CANADA.* BY WILLIAM COUPER, Toronto. For synonyms, &c. see Melcheimer's Catalogue. CLAIRVILLEI, Kirb. N. Z. 4, 61. ELA PHRUS Antennæ and head black, the latter glossy, minutely punctured and slightly tinged bronze-green, having a transverse elevated line in front, and a conoidal elevation on top between the eyes in which is a deep pit; thorax black, glossy, longer than wide, and impressed thus: Y-with a slight tinge of copper bronze on the dorsal margin; elytra of the same color as thorax, each contains 21 circular inpressions, punctured and tinged with blue, and surrounded by an elevated ring the punctures in the region of scutellum are much smaller than the marginal series; beneath green and copper bronzed; femoræ rufous at the base. Length 4 lines. Island of Toronto. Kirby describes his insect as having the base of the posterior femoræ rufous; in my specimen they are all rufous at the base. Sir J. Richardson captured only the single described specimen, otherwise, had there been duplicates to examine, he would probably have given the color as characteristic to the whole, and not confined to the posterior femoræ alone. In my specimen all the elytral impressions are ringed; in Kirby's, the rings of the marginal series are obsolete. ? INTERMEDIUS, Kirb. N. Z. 4, 62. Lec. Ann. Lyc. 4, 448. Antennæ black, set with short rigid hairs, thickest at the apex; head bronzed copper, minutely interspersed with bright green the space between the eyes less elevated than in E. Clairvillei, and occu. pied by a central longitudinal impression; thorax of same color as head, the Y impression is not so deep, but the side-punctures are more distinct than in the latter species; elytra minutely punctured, and with less brilliancy-the copper color darker, with a quadrangular series of impressions without any elevated ring. Some of the * See, for previous notes, Canadian Journal (Old Series) 1855, impressions have a slight elevation in the centre-marginal series smaller, and in some specimens nearly obsolete; body beneath bronze-green; femoræ green, tibiæ rufous. Length 4 lines. Island of Toronto. The sutural quadrangular elevation which unites the elytra "just before the middle" in Kirby's specimen, is almost cbsolete in the above; in every other respect it agrees with his description. Kirby's insect was taken by Sir John Richardson, at Great Bear Lake, in lat. 66-67°. NECROPHORUS ? MELSHEIMERI, Kirb. N. Z. 97. Jaws black, minutely punctured, and tufted on each side beneath the base with orange-colored hairs; head black, minutely punctured in front, with a subtrapezoid orange-colored nostril-piece, and a transverse sulcus between the antennæ: eyes black, smooth, lobed behind-the lobes punctured and set with short rigid hairs; knob of the antennæ orange-colored; neck ringed with yellow hairs; thorax margined, punctured, dilated and obliquely depressed anteriorly; scutellum bell-shaped, black and punctured; elytra black, densely punctured, the shoulders elevated, with two longitudinal abbreviated obsolete lines, and two orange-colored toothed bands-the anterior is transverse, but the posterior one does not reach the suture: both connect with the deeply orange-colored epipleura; postpectus on each side covered with tawny hairs; posterior femoræ truncate at the apex; tibiæ toothed and dilated; body beneath black, and densely punctured. Toronto, not common. Length 8 lines. OBSCURUS, Kirb. N. Z. 97. Head black, finely punctured in front, and without a rhinarium or nostril-piece; the sides of the latter obliquely furrowed and separated transversely by an abbreviated line; has no prominent lobe behind the eyes; posterior part of the neck ringed with tawny hairs very distinctly seen when the head is bent down; antennæ black, three last joints of the knob orange-colored; thorax dilated, margined-the margin punctured, with a longitudinal groove through the disc; scutellum triangular, slightly elevated; elytra black, densely punctured, the anterior sutural region slightly depressed, the shoulders and two longitudinal lines elevated, as in the last species; epipleura deep red, from which an anterior dentated band of the same color nearly reaches the suture-the posterior one is kidney-shaped, and reaching neither epipleura nor suture; body beneath black; postpectus covered with short glossy hairs; the tibiæ are dilated and toothed. Toronto, not common. Length 8 lines. TERMINATA, Kirb. N. Z. 103. NECROPHILA Antennæ and head black, the frontal impression between the eyes oblong; thorax minutely and confluently punctured, margined yellow-the discoidal spot black, and very slightly lobed at the sides, with a yellow sphenoid spot inserted posteriorly; elytra brown black, and minutely punctured, with two longitudinal obsolete ridges and a row of distinct punctures on each side of the suture-yellow at the apex; beneath black. Length 9 lines. Toronto, not common. AFFINIS, Kirb. N. Z. 103. Head and antennæ black, the frontal impression not so deep; thorax pale yellow, very finely punctured-discoidal spot smaller and differently formed than in the last species-the lateral lobes are larger and more oblique-the posterior part is rather of a deltoid form and slightly sphenoid in the centre with yellow; elytra of a brown silky color, with the same irregular elevations and sutural rows of punctures as in terminata; the apex of elytra yellow, body beneath, and legs black. Length 9 lines. Toronto, rare. This and the preceding species are nearly related to N. Americana, Linn., the true northern type of the genus. Kirby describes four species which he states are closely related to the latter. N. Canadensis is evidently the of Americana. I have noticed invariably both the form of the thoracic discoidal spot, and the color of epipleura, to vary in almost every specimen; also, in the smaller specimens the sutural termination of elytra are not so acuminate; probably it may be, as he states, a sexual character. LATHROBIUM PUNCTICOLLIS, Kirb. N. Z. 86. Erichs. p. 604. Head obovate, minutely punctured; antennæ, mandibles and palpi dark chesnut; thorax "oblong square with all the angles rounded, punctured, but not thickly;" elytra of a dark chestnut color, longer than wide-not much longer than thorax, and thickly punctured; posterior part of the body black, and covered with very short glossy hairs; beneath black glossy; legs bright mahogany; tibiæ armed with a spine. Length 5 lines. Toronto, common. Taken in lat. 54-Kirby. DERMESTES LARDARIUS Linn, Fabr. El, 1, 312. Le Règne Animal, Insectes, tab, 36, fig. 10. Head and thorax black, the latter with several minute yellow spots; scutellum black; elytra posteriorly black, glossy-base yel low, with three black dots, thus . on each elytrum. Length 43 inches. Common in Canada. It feeds indiscriminately on all animal substances, and is found throughout summer, on the Island of Toronto, in putrified fish. ? CYCLOPHORUS Kirb. N. Z. 117. BYRRHUS Thorax dark chestnut color, glossy, and intermixed with short cinereous hairs; scutellum very black and triangular; elytra not so dark as the thorax, glossy and covered with short rust-colored hairs ; three longitudinal stripes on each, and a transverse double band of pale cinereous hairs in form thus ; body beneath and legs dull ferruginous. Length 21 lines. Taken by Mr. F. H. Ibbetson, at the Lake of Two Mountains. The naturalists to the northern expedition captured only one specimen, which Mr. Kirby describes as having two black stripes on the elytra, and its length 3 lines. Mr. Ibbetson's specimens vary in size; they are evidently related, as in some of them the third stripe is obsolete. BRACHYS TESSELLATA Fab. El. 2, 218. ovata, Web. Obs. Ent., p. 78; aurulenta, Kirb. N. Z. 162; aerosa, Mels. Pr. Acad. 2, 148. Body obovate, black-blue, glossy; antennæ black-blue, shorter than thorax; head has a sinus in front, and covered with glittering copper-colored decumbent hairs; thorax transverse, impunctured, lobed and impressed on each side posteriorly, and interspersed with copper-colored decumbent hairs; scutellum transverse, smooth, impunctured, rounded anteriorly, and acuminate posteriorly; elytra with three longitudinal ridges-the two inner ones are not so distinct as the external one, which is more acute, running from the shoulder in an undulated line nearly to the apex of elytrum. The elytra are minutely punctured in double rows, those on each side of suture are very distinct; ornamented with copper spots and undulated silver bands formed of decumbent hairs; beneath dark-blue, glossy, truncate at the apex. Length 2 lines. The northern species of Brachys are small, but extremely beautiful; in habit they vie with the larger Buprestide. In summer they are found on the upper surface of the leaves of oaks, on which they subsist. Common in the neighborhood of Toronto. RHINARIA SCHOENHERRI Kirb. N. Z. 203. Sch. Cur. 7, 369. Body oblong, pear-shaped, covered with hoary pile; antennæ black, and nearly the length of the head, the knob ovate, acute; the rostrum sub-cylindrical, with three slightly elevated oblique lines in front joining between the eyes, the latter are round, prominent; thorax rather narrowest anteriorly, and more granulate than the head; scutellum conspicuously white; elytra with nine perfect rows of punctures, and from the density of the pile in some specimens they are not quite visible: on each elytrum there are three longitudinal white stripes, and four rows of distinct black tuftsdepressed at the apex; tibia clavate. Length 6 lines. Toronto, rare. The genus Rhinaria, founded by Kirby (Linn. Trans. xii, 430, t. xxii, p. 9), from the above typical form, and the only species as yet discovered north of Mexico. LEPTURA VAGANS, Oliver, 73, 46. Lec. J. Acad. 2d. 1, 337. brevis Kirb. N. Z. 182. Head black, thickly and minutely punctured, and interspersed with erect hoary hairs; antennæ 10-articulate, the four first joints. are black, and the fifth to apex are yellow at the base; thorax globose, anteriorly constricted, posteriorly depressed, deeply and confluently punctured, having some erect hairs of the same color as on the head; scutellum "linear, covered with decumbent hairs;" elytra densely and deeply punctured, rounded and spread apart at the apex, with a lateral longitudinal stripe, commencing behind the shoulder, "of the color of the yolk of an egg;" beneath black, minutely punctured; legs with yellow decumbent hairs. Length 5 lines. Toronto, rare. The elytra in this insect are wider across the shoulders, and the "body shorter in proportion to its width." SCALARIS, Say, J. Acad. 278. Entirely dark ferruginous above, of a silver gloss beneath, antennæ 10-articulate, the third joint from base shortest; head much inclined, interspersed with slender erect silken hairs, and minutely punctured posteriorly-separated from the thorax by a conspicuous ring; thorax minutely punctured, somewhat narrower in front, with a central abbreviated depression-the posterior angles acute; scutellum triangular; elytra shorter than the body, covered with ferruginous decumbent glossy hairs, which occupy the greater part of the anterior, thence they extend on each side of the suture-the mark is compressed twice. In this insect the elytra are remarkable for their great marginal compression towards the apex. Length 1 inch 2 lines. Taken by Mr. Ibbetson, at Manitoulin. NOSODERMA ? OBCORDATUM Kirby (Boletophagus), N. Z. 236. Body oblong, depressed, of a rusty color above; antenna with large globular articulation at base, and the apical joints thicker than |