INHABITING NORTH AMERICA. gl 



Body dark brownish-green, opake, beneath rather paler, po- 

 lished, glabrous, punctures very numerous, crowded. 



Head slightly corrugated between the eyes ; nntenim and 

 labriim blackish ; mandibles green each side at base, |)i- 

 ceous within near the tip ; palpi above piceous, beneath 

 paler; gnla ini|)unctured. 



Thorax broadest rather before the middle, narrower than 

 the elytra, a transversely indented curved line before the 

 middle, and a longitudinal abbreviated one, lateral edge 

 hardly prominent, slightly excurved behind, posterior an- 

 gles inconspicuous, base not wider than tlic petiole. 



Elytra equally punctured with about twenty large, dilated, 

 orbicular, impressed, purplish spots, and two or three 

 equidistant, elevated, elongate, subquadrate, impuncturcd, 

 bronzed spots each side near the suture, the anterior one 

 largest, a few obsolete elevated lines. 



Postpectas green tinged each side witli cupreous ; feet green ; 

 femora and tibia piceous at base; venter green, disk im- 

 puncturcd, segments brassy at tip. 



Genus NoTniopiiiLus. Dumeril. 



Antennse not longer than the head and thorax, rather more 

 robust towards the tip: external maxillary and labial palpi 

 with the terminal joint sul)cylindric, large, and longer tiian 

 the preceding joint ; labium profoundly emarsinate ; 

 inaxilhe hardly ciliated on their external side ; tliorax de- 

 pressed, transverse, subquadrate : anterior tibia emargi- 

 nate on their inner side. 



Species. 

 N. *semistriatns brownish bronze : front corruiated ; elytra 



with punctured striu- and a longitudinal eipial space near 



the suture. 

 Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch. 



FAaphrus aemistriadi.i. Mel ah. Catal. 

 vol,. II. — I, 



