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bi'own above, with one or two broad dark-brown bands, light-yellow below; 

 apex black ; hind tibife yellowish-red, black at the base and tips. 



The female differs from the male in being darker, and in wanting most 

 of the black on the sides of the pronotum. Head, dorsnm of the j^ronotum, 

 and elytra freqnently mottled or even blotched with dark-brown ; sides of 

 the pronotum like the dorsum, except a small patch of black on the upper 

 posterior angle. 



Dimensions. — $ Length, 0.8 to 0.9 inch; elytra, 0.30 to 0.37 incli ; hind 

 femora, 0.50 to 0.55 inch, s Length, 0.65 to 0.70 inch ; elytra, 0.35 to 0.40 

 inch; hind femora, 0.40 to 0.45 inch. 



Massachusetts, New Hampshire, easter-n shore of Lake Winnipeg, 

 British America (Scudder) ; Maine (Smith). Figured, Glover, Ills. Am. Ent. 

 Orth, PI. vi. Fig. 11, and PI. x, Fig. 12. 



Ch. i»MiactiiIatsBiBi, Thos. 



Syn., Ghlomltis punetulata, Scutkl., Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., 1862, vol. VII, 455. 



Vertex broad, much as in Ch. viridis, but slightly more prominent. 

 Sides of the pronotum very nearly parallel, slightly divergent posteriorly ; 

 lateral and median carinae distinct, sharp. Elytra and wings reach the tip 

 of the abdomen. 



Coh): — Vertex edged with reddish-brown ; a narrow reddish-brown band 

 extends along the lateral carinas of the pronotum to the eye, edged below 

 with black; it extends also slightly upon the base of the elytra. The 

 abdomen, sternum, fore legs, and parts of the mouth (except the black man- 

 dibles), reddish-brown. Hind tibiae yellowish-brown, their spines tipped with 

 black ; all the tarsi darker. Elytra green with scattered small brownish 

 spots. 



Dimcnsiojis. — 2 Length, 0.95 inch; pronotum, 0.19 inch; hind femora, 

 0.54 inch ; elytra, 0.70 inch. 



Connecticut (Scudder). 



ACROLOPHITUS, Thos, 



Head pyramidal, short; the dorsum ascending anteriorly; the vertex as- 

 cending obliquely between the antennfe in the form of a short pyramid. Eyes 

 ovate, placed high and well forward. Face long, narrow, slightly ol)lique, and 

 straight; carina? distinct. Antcnnai stout, passing the thorax, filiform or slightly 

 llattened ; the joints near the base sub-elongate. Maxillary palpi of medium 



