158 [Feb. 1847. 



It is very extensively distributed on our continent, as I observed it also 

 common along the coast of Peru. 



Vireo solitarius, Vieill. Solitary Vireo. 



During the latter part of summer and winter, the young birds of this 

 species are abundant, frequenting low bushes and thickets, in small flocks. 



Descriptions of New Species of Coleoptera of the United States. 



By F. E. Melsheimer, M. D. 



(Continued from Vol. 3, page 66.) 



Crioceridce, Leach. 



Donacia, Fabr. 



1. D. cuprea. Cupreous above; antennae and feet testaceous, the former 

 with the third joint longer than the second; the latter with the posterior 

 femora brown at tip. 3 3^1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Cupreous, tinged with bluish above : head sparsely greenish-ashy-pubes- 

 cent, densely and very minutely rugose, with the frontal groove most fre- 

 quently profound, sometimes obsolete ; mouth, palpi and antennae, testa- 

 ceous, the latter with the third joint distinctly longer than the second ; 

 mandibles black : thorax subquadrate, hardly as long as wide, narrower 

 behind than before ; obsoletely and very distantly punctulate on the disk ; 

 confluently and very minutely rugose; a small oblong tubercle behind each 

 anterior angle ; medial line indistinct, sometimes wanting ; basal margin 

 rather transversely indented : elytra punctate-striate, the interstices densely 

 and minutely rugose, with two obtuse and rather obsolete subsutural im- 

 pressions ; humeral angles polished, almost impunctured ; apex obliquely 

 truncate ; beneath and sides of the head, dull silvery sericeous : feet dull 

 testaceous, with the posterior femora in particular, brown at the posterior 

 half, and obtusely toothed towards the tip. 



Var. a. Elytra golden-yellow. 



2. D. indica. Black above ; antennas, tibiae and tarsi dull rufous ; thorax 

 quadri-tuberculate ; elytra broad, rounded at apex. 41. long; \\ 1. wide. 

 Pennsylvania. 



Donacia indica, Melsh. Catal. 



Black, glossy above: head with a slight bluish tinge, densely rugose- 

 punctulate ; frontal impressed line short, distinct; antennae short, dull 

 rufous, with the basal joint entirely, and the apical half of the remaining 

 joints, brown or black ; second joint almost as long as the third; mouth 

 brownish-piceous : thorax distinctly longer than wide, not half as wide as 

 the elytra, wider at apex than at base ; above finely confluently rugose ; 

 four small, obtuse, polished tubercles before the middle, placed in a trans- 

 verse arcuated row, the two posterior or middle ones small, only dis- 

 tinctly seen from an above view; medial impressed line fine, and not pro- 

 found ; anterior angles raised: scutellum ashy-brown-pubescent: elytra 

 wide, comparatively short, transversely rugulose, punctate-striate, with 

 the apex decurved and rounded ; an obsolete subsutural depression : 



