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64 MATERIALS TOWARDS A HISTORY 



253. S. CRUENTATA. 



Black, metathorax, venter, base of the posterior femora, and margin of the elytra (except at the base,) sangui 

 neous; elytra black, thickly punctured, suture with a rufous tinge, and curving outwards towards the exterio 

 apex, leaving a deep emargination. 



3k'" long; 1 wide. Pennsylvania. Leptura cruentala, Knock. Mels. Cat., 841. 



LEPTURA, Lin. Muls., 266. 

 254. L. canadensis, O/iv., pi. 23, fig. 27. Fabr., ii. 357. Mass., Penna.— August. 



255. L. CINNAMOPTERA. 



Size and habit of the preceding; elytra rufous, outer angle of the apex black. 

 L. erythroptera, Kirbij, Northern Zoology, p. 180. 



256. L. erythroptera, Zenker. Germar's species, p. 522. L. rubrica, Smj, Journ. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., iii. 418. Mels. Cat., No. 826. L. annulata, Dcj. 



Smaller than the preceding, less profoundly punctured, elytra entirely rufous. Makes 

 its appearance in Pennsylvania in June. 



257. L. tenuioornis. 



Black, scabrous with confluent punctures, basal fourth of the elytra rufous; antenna; dentate, slender and longer 

 than the body. 4j'" long; Is wide. Cab. Le Conte. 



Distinguished from canadensis by the long, slender antennae, which are not annulate. 



258. L. vagans, Oliv., iv. pi. 73, fig. 46— axillaris, Dcj. 



Black, a triangular rufous macula at the external base of the elytra, these conjointly deeply emarginate, scarcely 

 truncate. 3 — 4'" long. 



2."lD. L. MALACHITICUS. 



Splendent green, scabrous witli dilated, impressed punctures; antenna? and scutel black, tropin and feet testa- 

 ceous, tarsi and outer half of the tibiae brown; prothorax with a lateral tubercle; elytra entire. 

 6j'" long; 2 wide. Pennsylvania. 



This beautiful insect is in the cabinet of the Rev. Dr. Morris, who received it from 

 Somerset County, Pennsylvania. 



260. L. niFOius, Newman. 



Yellowish-brown, or dull testaceous, elytra paler, with a black macula about the middle of the outer margin, 

 and a small, obsolete one upon the margin, near the base. 



6'" long; l wide. Pennsylvania — June. L. marginenotata, Dej. Catalogue. 



Body covered with short, fulvous hair, somewhat sericeous beneath: head dark-brown; frontal line impressed, 

 vertex scabrous; antennae, feet, and beneath dull testaceous: prothorax subglobular, with fine, piliferous punctures; 

 dorsal groove impressed: elytra taper, not divaricate, apex slightly obliquely truncate. 



261. !-. vittata, Oliv., iv. pi. 7:1, fig. 45. Encyc, vii. 523. Mels. Cat., No. 829. 

 Occurs from Massachusetts to Alabama. 



262. F/. l-i'i nctiA i'a. 



Black, villose ; i Ij Ha slightly obliquely truncate, with a flavous, yellow spot behind the middle, near the suture, 

 and anothi I ture near the apex : posterior feet, « nh the tarsi, and base of the femora, yellow. 



6"' long; I i wide, Pi nnsylvania. I,, l-punctata, Mels. Catalogue, No. 830. 



