IS DESCRIPTION OF INSECTS 



Not uncommon in Pennsylvania. Found also by Mr. T. 

 Nuttall on the Missouri. The name of Lebias has been more 

 recently applied by Cuvier, to designate a genus of fishes, 



g. L. vittata rufous ; elytra black, with a white fillet and 



yellowish margin ; feet black. 

 Length rather more than one-fourth of an inch. 



Winged ; thorax orbicular, rufous ; elytra black, with a white vitta. Fabr. 

 Syst. Eleut. I. p. 202. Mus. D. Yeats. 



.intennx black; head rufous; sciitel small, rufous; elytra glabrous, shining 

 black with a longitudinal white fillet in the middle ; body ferruginous ; legs 

 black. Tiirt. 



Antennas h\a.c\i.', head mions; eyes black; thorax rufous, hardly broader than 

 the head ; scutel rufous ; elytra black, slightly striated ; exterior margin and 

 triangular spot around the scutel rufous ; a longitudinal white line on each ; 

 beneath fulvous ; feet black with half of the thighs rufous. (Length of figure 

 one-fourth of an inch.) Oliv. III., p. 98, pi. 6, fig. 69, a. b. 



Body impunctured, nearly destitute of hairs. 



Head rufous; antefince black-brown, rufous at base; palpi 

 black. 



Tnnik rufous, glabrous. 



Thorax with an impressed longitudinal line- 



Elytra with acute distant striae ; two parallel black viftfe, — the 

 outer one originating on the humerus and abbreviated 

 near the middle of the tip, — inner one originating at the 

 middle of the base, becomes common before the middle of 

 the suture, and is abbreviated near the inner angle of 

 the tip; an elongated common whitish triangle at base, a 

 white vitta on the middle, and a pale rufous margin and 

 tip. 



Feet deep black ; nails pectinated ; coxce rufous. 



Venter rufous. 



Var. a. — Colour of the outer margin extended round the 

 base to the scutel, thighs rufous at base, common black 

 vitta continued to the tip. 



If the figure given by Olivier be correct, the specimens 



