COLEOPTERA 80ABAB KI! B. 489 



a groove very similar to the striae and bearing similar punctures ; tlu-n- is 

 also a short ami exceedingly slight ami taint snitellar stria crowded against 

 the scutellum. 



Length of elytron, 3 mm ; breadth, 1.3"". 



Not improbably these should lie looked IIJH.M as belonging to ( 'arahida- 



Bone caves <.|' Port K.-micdv. IVimsvlvania. 



I.atreille. 



RUI'TA. 



I'l. s, Fi<r. i:. 



A single specimen and its reverse an- preserved \vitli partially expanded 

 Strongly arched elytra. l>ody elongated ultovate, t\v.> and a half times 

 longer than broad I lead Mnall, broadly rounded in front, the eyes (not 

 shown in the plate i moderately lar^e, oval, less than half as large as one of 

 the pair of oval distinct marks in the middle of the head posteriorly, which 

 are either some part> beneath showing through, or ridges or the l.a-es of 

 horns on the upper Mirfare. Prothorax about twice as broad a> long, taper- 

 ing anteriorly from the poster! .r edge and with rounded .sides, the whole 

 front border broadly emarginate, the hind margin scarcely convex, the sur- 

 face indistinctly granulate. Elytra rather heavily striate, the stria' rather 

 distantly punctate. 



Length of body. :;.-l" 1 '": of middle of pn.tho rax. i of elytra, 2 a " n 



breadth of prothorax in front. 0.7" '"' ; the same behind. 1.1"""; of middle of 

 body, 1.3f>" 



Green luver, \\'\omiuu r . ' >ne specimen. No-. M> and si i 1 r. A. S. 

 Packard). 



Pll.\N.i:rs MacLeay. 



1'llAN.I.I > AN n,'l i 



I'l. i, i-'i-s. r_'-u. 



/'/IIIH.IH-, IIH/l./Hrl- II..' Vlllfl. Kilt . S... . V. '.'I '. 



" Elytra with feeble stria-, intervals moderately convex, surface sliifhtlv 



nigulo.se. Abdomen smooth Length, . h> inch : I 11 



"A Species is iinlicat.-.! SOmewhal l.ir^-.-r tli.ui curnilex; the elytral 

 sculpture is. however, more m-arl\ that of pluto, iuasmucii as the intervals 



