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Hah. Virginia. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila.) 



Head black, shining, clothed with erect light-colored hair ; antennae 

 pale fulvous at the base, becoming darker towards the tip ; palpi pale 

 yellow ; mandibles piceous. Thorax black, shining, clothed with erect 

 hair. Elytra dark blue, neatly and closely punctured ; humeri promi- 

 nent, covered with light brown hair; beneath black, shining, glabrous 

 in the centre of the head back of the gular suture, punctured back of 

 the eyes ; prothorax in the centre sparsely punctured, transversely 

 rugose towards the lateral margins; remaining portions of under-surface 

 minutely and closely punctured. Legs punctured, clothed with grayish 

 pubescence ; femora piceous ; trochanters, tibijB and tarsi, yellowish. 

 Length 3 J lines. 



Leptura atro-vittata, n. sp. 

 Body testaceous ; clothed with golden pubescence ; antennae annu- 

 lated ; elytra with three broad black vittae. 



Hah. New Jersey. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila.) 



Head closely punctured, well clothed with golden pubescence, deeply 

 impressed in the centre ; central line very distinct, dividing one-fourth 

 from the frontal margin, thence running obliquely to the base of the 

 mandibles ; anterior margin slightly elevated; labrum, the anterior half 

 of the clypeus, tips of the mandibles, and the palpi, piceous ; collar 

 black ; basal joint of the antennje obscurely annulated, 2nd and 8rd 

 joints black, the following joints more or less annulated with fulvous. 

 Thorax very closely punctui'ed, clothed with golden pubescence, regu- 

 larly narrowed from the base to the apes ; anterior margin elevated, 

 posterior angles divergent; central line distinct; on each side of the 

 middle a large, round, black spot ; surface suddenly depressed near 

 the base, forming a transverse sinuate line ; base bi-emarginate ; sides 

 furnished with an obtuse tubercle. Scutellum black, triangular. Elytra 

 very closely punctured ; each elytron with two broad black vittae, one 

 confluent with the suture, extending along the suture from the base to 

 slightly over one-half the length of the elytra ; the outer vittfe extends 

 from the tip to very near the base ; the vittae are covered with a black- 

 ish pubescence ; epipleurae testaceous, except near the tip, which is 

 widely separated and obliquely truncate, the outer point of the tip pro- 



