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brown ; elytra color of the thorax, widest behind the middle, rather numer- 

 ously and deeply punctured, and like the thorax glabrous ; beneath and 

 femora, black ; pleurae, epipleurae, tibiae and tarsi, testaceous. Very rare. 



" G. atripennis. Black ; thorax rufous, with two impressed spots ; venter 

 pale yellowish rufous." Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. iii. 461. 



Var. a. Testaceous ; antennae and eyes black; scutellum, tibiae andtarsij 

 dusky. Galeruca paleacea, Melsh. MS. Referable to the genus Luperus, 



Geoffir. 



Calomicrcs, Dillwyn. 



C. thoracicus. Black ; thorax and feet testaceous-yellow. 2 1. long. Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Crioceris thoracica, Melsh. Catal. 



Head deep black, with the clypeus dusky-piceous ; very minutely punc- 

 tured ; a short longitudinal impressed line between the eyes, interrupted by 

 a short transverse one; antennas black or dark brown, more than half the 

 length of the body, with the joints elongated ; second and third joints short- 

 est, equal ; palpi black, piceous, with the tips dusky; labium and gula, tes- 

 taceous ; thorax transverse, testaceous-yellow, hardly punctulate, with the 

 sides obtusely rounded ; anterior edge truncate : posterior one obtusely 

 rounded ; an obtuse indentation each side of the middle, very faintly defined : 

 scutel black ; elytra oblong, with the sides parallel ; deep black, shining, 

 glabrous, obsoletely rugulose and punctured, punctures minute and distant; 

 apex rounded : postpectus and abdomen, black ; antepectus and feet, testa- 

 ceous-yellow. 



(Edionychis, Latr. 



1. CE. /alias.. Black; thorax with the limb, and elytra with the lateral 

 margins and a broad vitta, red. 2 2| 1. long ; li 1 J 1. wide. Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Short-ovate, black, densely punctured : head very dark dull red, almost 

 black, coarsely punctured, with a longitudinal impressed line between the 

 antennas, which are short, black, with the fourth joint slightly longest : 

 thorax finely wrinkled, and somemhat distantly punctulate, with the limb 

 red ; and the disk transversely brown or dull reddish brown : scutel black, 

 finely rugose-punctured : elytra rugulose, and with numerous small, pro- 

 found punctures ; black, each elytrum with the lateral margin and a broad 

 medial vitta, red, margin and vitta united at tip : beneath and feet, black- 

 piceous ; pleurae and epipleurse, red; posterior femora much incrassated. It 

 may be necessary to add to the foregoing description that the red color soon 

 after death changes into a dirty testaceous, and that, most frequently, there 

 is an indentation, more or less obvious, each side of the middle behind the 

 anterior margin of the thorax. This species must be closely allied to mini- 

 ata, Fabr. 



2. CE. litnbalis. Brown-piceous ; basal joints of the antennas, lateral mar- 

 gins and apex of the elytra, and the (wo anteriorpairs of feet, dull testaceous. 

 li 2. I. long. Pennsylvania. 



Flat, ovate, brown-piceous : head with a few minute scattered punctures ; a 

 profound transverse impressed line between the eyes, intersected in the middle 

 by an obsolete longitudinal one ; eyes deep black ; antennas fuscous, with the 

 Lx first joints dull testaceous; palpi and two anteriorpairs of feet, dull tes- 



