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204 The color of this species is a very dark, almost black brown; but the anterior portion of the body, and especially the head, is lighter. The antennæ are very pilose, and quite strongly clavate. The eyes are connected together by a black band. The anterior scuta have their lateral surfaces closely and deeply canaliculate, but are almost smooth on their upper surface. The posterior are everywhere deeply channelled, although more so below than above. There are a few hairs on the anal scales. The anal scutum is not mucronate. It affords me pleasure to dedicate this species to Professor Miles, who is laboring so assiduously and successfully to develop the zoology of Michigan.

The color of this species is brown, with a dark, sometimes obsolete ring of blue to each segment, except the most anterior. The lower portion of the anterior surface of the head is light brown. The labial margin is scarcely emarginate, but is rounded and fringed with rigid hairs. The eyes are arranged in subtriangular patches, with their transverse diameter much the greater. They are connected by a black band, which is much broader in the middle than at the ends. The first scutum is large, with very small lateral processes even in the female. There is on its anterior edge a very obscure light border, and a little posterior to this a black, more or less obsolete, band. The scuta are regularly, although rather lightly and distantly canaliculate over their whole surface. The last scutum is distinctly but minutely punctate, has its edge whitish, and is not at all mucronate. The anal scales are not at all pilose. The specimens from which this description is taken are in so bad a condition that I have hesitated to notice them. But probably the description will be found to be sufficiently accurate for the identification of the species. Length of body about 1½ inches.