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posteriorly ; the intermediate posterior lobe the longest ; prothorax white 

 with a large bipartite black spot, each lobe being trilobed with rounded 

 lobes resembling a trefoil leaf and connected with the other by a transverse 

 band ; elytra pale reddish-yellow • with three black spots and one at the 

 scutellum common to both elytra, placed 2, 1, 1 ; the scutellar spot some- 

 what bell-shaped, the humeral one roundish, the intermediate one nearly 

 kidney-shaped, and that nearest the apex rather crescent-shaped. 



Variety B. Frontal band replaced by three white spots, the inter- 

 mediate the longest and linear. 



LIST OF COLEOPTERA OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI. 



BY S. V. SUMMERS, M. D., NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



The following list has been prepared to enumerate all the known 

 Coleoptera — not new — found in Southern Missouri, collected on a line 

 between St. Louis and Sedalia during the summers of 1869, '70, '71, and 

 '72. The families Curculionidoe and Cerambycidse are omitted in this 

 list. 



Tetracha, Westw. 



Carolina, Linn. 



virginica, Linn. 

 Cicindela, Linn. 



sexguttata, Fab. 



purpurea, Oliv. 



splendida, Hentz. 



var. audubonii, Lee. 



generosa, Dej. 



Omophron, Latr. 



tesselatum, Say. 

 americanum, Dej. 

 nitidulum, Lee. 



CICINDELID^E. 



Cicindela, Linn, (continued.) 

 vulgaris, Say. 

 repanda, Dej. 

 var. 12-guttata, Chaud. 

 hirticollis, Say. 

 cuprascens, Lee. 

 macra, Lee. 

 lepida, Dej. 

 punctulata, Fab. 



CARABID^E. 



Elaphrus, Fab. 



clairvillei, Kirby. 

 ruscarius, Say. 



