so DESCRIPTION OF INSECTS 



Head impressed, frontal lines profound; antennm with ferru- 

 ginous hairs towards the tip. 



Thorax margined with blued-purple, slightly contracted be- 

 hind ; edge near the posterior angles slightly excurved ; 

 dorsal and basal lines very distinct. 



Elytra with broad shallow sulcations ; with (in some parts) 

 obsolete rudiments of punctures ; interstitial lines slightly 

 elevated, convex, obtuse ; margin blued-purple, with a re- 

 gular series of minute, elevated, ocellate granules. 



I found several specimens of this insect in Georgia and 

 Florida. It is sufficiently distinct from the preceding ; being 

 smaller, more of an oval form, the thorax less contracted 

 at the base, and the elytra subsulcate; the lateral edge 

 also is excurved at the base, which character distinguishes 

 it at once from the marginatm of Fabr. and the subloevis of 

 Palisot. How closely it may correspond with the siilcatus 

 of Macleay I am unable to determine, not having vet seen 

 his work. 



1 have to regret the circumstance of my not having it in 

 my power to refer to M. Palisot de Beauvois's splendid" work 

 on the insects of Africa and America. The seventh number 

 only, belonging to the library of the Philadelphia museum, 

 has yet met my eye ; although I have made several attempts 

 to procure an entire copy of the work from Paris. 



Genus Clivina. Litr. 



Anterior tibia emarginate and crenate ; elytra entire ; labrum 

 entire ; mandibles with obsolete teeth ;' tongue prominent, 

 membranaceous each side ; thorax rounded. 



Species. 



1. C. hipustulata black ; thorax impunctured ; elytra with 

 punctured strife, and a large obscure rufous spot near the 

 tip and at tlie base of each. 



Length three-tenths of an inch. 



