58 MATERIALS TOWARDS A HISTORY 



LEPTURIN^H. 



DESMOCERUS, Dej. R. an., pi. 09, fig. 1. 



200. D. palliatus, Forslcr. Harris, 92 — cyaneus, Fair. Mass., Penna., June, July. 



The figure in the atlas to the new edition of the Rlgne Animal which is given for the 

 antenna? of this species, was probably figured in error, as it is incorrect. 



RHAGIUM, Fabr. Mills., 222. 



207. R. lineatum, Oliv., (Stcnocorus) pi. G9, fig. 22. Harris, 93 — stripe-necked hargium! 

 Kirby, 178. 



RHAMNUSIUM, Latr. Muls., 220. 



208. R.? decoloratum, Harris, Injurious Insects, p. 93. Perhaps the next species. 



TOXOTUS, Serv. Muls., 231. 



209. T. RUDIBUS. 



Uniform dark-brownish-red, elytra yellowish-brown. 9'" long; 2 wide. T. rubidus, Dej. Cat. 



Head large, a prominent tubercle at tbe inner side of the torulus; nntennre robust; eyes large and prominent: 

 impressions of the pronotum profound: elytra with numerous, dilated, impressed punctures, largest at the base, 

 tip separately rounded. 



210. T. pictus. 



Reddish-brown, dull olivaceo-sericeous; elytra ochraceous, with irregular, longitudinal, brown lines. 



7'" long; Ij wide. Inhabits Pennsylvania. Rhagium pictuin, Knock. Mels. Cat., No. 785. 



Head small, eyes not prominent ; antenna' slender setaceous: thoracic impressions moderate: elytra with a 

 brown line arising near the base, and extending beyond the middle, slightly approaching the suture; another, 

 interrupted with yellow at two points, extends from the epipleura backwards and inwards to near the extremity, 

 and a third short one lies at the outside extremity of the latter; surface thickly covered with impressed punc- 

 tures, and invested with fine, sparse, prostrate hairs, tip conjointly rounded. 



211. T. trivittatus, Say. Journ. Acad. N. Sc, iii. 422. Inhabits Mississippi. T. vit- 

 tigcrn, Randall. 



Var. nigripes. Outer margin of the elytra yellow, feet black. Inhabits Pennsylvania. — Le Conte. 



212. T. atratus. 



Dull brownish-black j pectus, posterior femora, fifth and succeeding articulations, margin of the ventral seg- 

 ments, and of the epipleura, rufous. 



10'" long; 2$ wide. Inhabits Georgia. T. atratus, Le Conte, MS. 



Allied to the next species. There is a rufous spot beneath the eyes, and the clypeus is 

 of the same colour; frontal line and thoracic impressions profound; elytra obliquely trun- 

 cate and very slightly emarginatc; anterior and medial femora slightly tinged with rufous. 



213. T. cvlindricoi.i.is, Say. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, iii. 417. Rhagium sericeum, Knock. 

 Mels. Cat., No. 787. Inhabits Pennsylvania. 



214. T. DENTII'ENMS. 



Rufous; tibia?, tar^i, and apex of tin- femora dark-brown or blackish; elytra separately, obliquely cinarginato. 

 8'" long; 2.| wide. Inhabits Alabama? T. dentipennisi Dej. Catalogue. 



