30 DESCRIPTION OF INSECTS 



margin slightly depressed, impunctured, dorsal line ob- 

 solete, basal lines subimpressed. 



Elytra dark green or cupreous ; striae impunctured, edge 

 ferruginous, tip acutely rounded. 



Feet pale testaceous. 



I collected this species in North Carolina, where it ap- 

 pears to be rather common. It is distinguishable from the 

 preceding only by immediate comparison : the tips of the 

 elytra when taisen together are more acute, the labrum fer- 

 ruginous, hind thoracic angles more acute, feet much paler, 

 and the thorax more distinctly transverse. 



8. H. *vulpeculus rufous ; elytra brownish, impunctured ; 

 posterior thoracic angles rectangular. 



Length nearly two-fifths of an inch. 



Body glabrous, beneath obsoletely punctured. 



Head with the mandibles black at tip. 



Thorax a little contracted behind, base each side depre^^sed 

 and punctured, dorsal line obsolete, lateral angles rectan- 

 gular, basal edge rectilinear. 



Scutel dark rufous. 



Elytra blackish-brown, strise profound, impunctured, inter- 

 stitial lines convex, impunctured. 



Pectus and postpedus obsoletely punctured ; feet paler. 



This, at first view, resembles Feronia inter stitialis. 

 I have but a single specimen, which is a female. 



9. H. *iripennis black ; elytra black-blue iridescent ; feet 

 testaceous. 



Length o\\f'-v.}\\r{\\ of an inch. 



Body l)lack, beneath dark piceous. 



Jlntenmv, labrum, mouth, and feet rufo-testaceous, the latter 



paler. 

 Thorax somewhat wider than long, widest in the middle, 



liardly narrower at base than at tip ; lateral edge piceous. 



