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tures: three profound round impressions between the eyes placed triangularly: 

 antennae robust, half the length of the body, black, with the basal joint rufous : 

 mandibles with the tips black ; thorax impunctured, each side of the middle 

 with a small, round indentation ; scutellum impunctured : elytra distinctly 

 widest behind the middle : much, finely, and profoundly punctured : each ely- 

 trum with a broad vitta, and a common sutural one, black, bands equidistantly 

 abbreviated before the apex: feet color of the body: outer edge of the tibiae 

 blackish: tarsi dusky: posterior femora moderately incrassated: claws simple. 



Graptodera, Chevr. 



G. kalmice. Golden-cupreous above : antennae and beneath black. 1 \ 1. 

 long. Pennsylvania. 



Attica Kalmice, Melsh. MS. 



Oblong: head golden-green, polished, hardly punctulate: eyes palpi and an- 

 tennae, deep black, the last with the two first joints metallic : mouth piceous: 

 thorax color of the head, highly polished: disk impunctured: transverse basal 

 groove profound, entire : scutellum small, black-cupreous: elytra golden cu- 

 preous, shining, punctured, punctures placed in irregular series, and rather 

 obsolete towards the apex ; beneath dark-cupreous : tibiae and tarsi fus- 

 cous: femora cupreous, glossy, the anterior pair almost black. 



Var. a. Head and thorax color of the elytra, with the abdomen black- 

 cupreous. Attica cuprea, Melsh. Catal. This species is found on the Laurel, 

 (Kalmialatifolia and glauca) and other plants. 



Systkna, Chevr. 



S. blanda. Testaceous : beneath and antennas black : elytra with a sutural 

 vitta and lateral margins, reddish-brown. 1 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Elongate ; head dull rufous, glossy, a few punctures near and between the 

 eye3 ; labrum, eyes and last joint of the palpi, deep black ; antennae slender, 

 nearly half the length of the body, blackish or brown, with the base of the 

 first joint testaceous ; thorax pale testaceous, with the lateral margins more 

 or less blackish or dusky ; sides slightly rounded ; surface with a few obso- 

 lete punctures ; scutel reddish-brown piceous : elytra minutely and rather 

 distantly punctured ; testaceous, with a common sutural vitta and a lateral 

 one, reddish-brown, more or less obvious ; beneath black-piceous ; pleurae, 

 epipleurae and feet, dull testaceous. 



Crepidodera, Chevr. 



1. C. violacea. Dark violaceous above ; antennre, palpi and feet, yellow- 

 testaceous. 1 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Altica Du Chou, Melsh. Catal. 



Oval, violaceous, with a green reflection, shining ; head impunctured, very 

 glossy, with the clypeus and inner margins of the eyes green : antennae half 

 the length of the body, yellowish ; labrum, mouth, palpi and feet, color of the 

 antennae ; thorax transverse-quadrate, with the sides feebly rounded ; above 

 very minutely and remotely punctured; a distinct transverse basal groove, re- 

 fracted at each end ; scutellum dark violaceous ; elytra striate-punctate ; be- 

 neath black; posterior femora brown-piceous. Not the Altise Du Chou. 



