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with dark grayish fuscous : thorax and anterior wings dark purplish brown 

 with a faint whitish spot on the dorsal margin near the base, a faint narrow 

 whitish fascia about the middle, and a faint whitish costal and similar 

 dorsal spot opposite, just before the ciliae, and another similar spot at the 

 apex ; these spots are all very indistinct. Ciliae fuscous. Posterior wings 

 grayish fuscous. The ends of the fascia on each margin are visible as 

 whitish spots in the wing itself after it is denuded. Alar. ex. }± inch. 

 (The wings are much longer than the body.) Kentucky. 



INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. 



COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. 



From Kirby s Fauna Borcali- Americana : Insecia. 



(Continued from Paye 99.) 



[223.] 300. Doxacia femoralis Kirby. — Length of body $]i 

 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. 



Body bronzed, gilded, with a greenish tint, very minutely and thickly 

 punctured, not conspicuously hairy underneath. Frontal channel slight ; 

 antennae, except the scape which is bronzed, and mouth rufous ; prothorax 

 with an impression above the scutellum ; anterior tubercles more than 

 usually prominent ; scutellum rather large ; elytra with single slight 

 anterior impression adjoining the suture ; legs rufous, but the thighs, 

 which are much incrassated, except the base and summit, are green- 

 bronzed ; posterior thigh without any tooth ; abdomen as in the preceding 

 species. 



This species seems nearly related to Donacia pusilla Say. 



301. Donacia flavipes Kirby. — Length of body 4 lines. A single 

 specimen taken in Lat. 65 . 



Body bronzed-copper with a golden lustre ; clothed below with very 

 short, somewhat silvery, decumbent hairs, the metallic splendor of the 

 body being visible through them. Head thickly, minutely, and con- 

 fluently punctured or wrinkled, channelled between the eyes ; antennae 

 testaceous, longer than the prothorax ; prothorax subquadranguiar, longer 

 than usual in the genus, widely channelled, very minutely, thickly, and 



