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nium quadrituberculate, anterior tubercles more robust and obtuse than posterior 

 ones; an entire, longitudinal, impressed line between the tubercles ; posterior 

 edge sinuate ; surface densely yellowish-ashy pubescent ; eyes large, globose, 

 ashy-brown; antennas long, and like the head densely pubescent ; mandibles 

 black; palpi testaceous : thorax small, about half as wide as the elytra, abruptly 

 contracted before the middle, and there each side angularly prominent; pubes- 

 cent ; disk carinate, each side of the carina widely and deeply indented ; anterior 

 margin with four oblong impressions : scutel small, subquadrate : elytra five 

 times longer than the thorax, each with three longitudinal raised lines, of which 

 the first and second became confluent a little before the apex, and the first and 

 third are united still nearer to the tip, each line is distinctly alternated with brown 

 and ferruginous, interstices cancellate; sutural and lateral edges raised : pectus 

 and femora dark ferruginous ; tibiss and tarsi color of the elytra. Cupes cinerea, 

 Say, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist. I, 168, and a species by the same name, page 

 169, appears to be distinct, the latter, if not the same, must be closely allied to 

 the present species. 



Stattra, Latr. 



S. senea. Green; thorax oblong; elytra punctured ; antennas and palpi yel- 

 lowish. Lagria senea, Say, Appendix to the Narrative of an Exp. page 287. 



Var. b. Black. greenish-brassy, robust. 6 1. long ; 2 1. wide. 



Var. c. Green, brilliant, very slender. 5 1. long ; \\ 1. wide. Lagria viridis, 

 Melsh. Catal. 



1 . S. resplendens. Pale fuscous ; thorax and feet yellowish ; elytra punctate- 

 striate. 3 1. long ; 1 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Lagria resplendens, Melsh. Catal. 



Yellowish-brown : head piceous sparsely punctured, transversely indented be- 

 tween the antennae, glabrous ; labrum and palpi piceous; eyes approximating 

 above and below, black, lunate, hollow side behind ; antennae brown ; thorax 

 subquadrate, truncate before and behind, slightly longer than wide, slightly 

 wider before than behind, where the sides are obviously contracted, with the 

 basal edge raised; yellowish, glossy, obsoletely and remotely punctulate: scutel- 

 lum small, subtriangular: elytra twice as wide as thorax, slightly widest behind 

 the midle; shining, striate, striae crenulate at the inner edge, interstices subcon- 

 vex, impunctured : pectus yellowish : abdomen piceous : feet pale brown. 



Var. a. Uniformly yellowish brown, with the eyes and feet as in the type. 

 Lagria fusca, Melsh. Catal. 



2. S. gagatina. Black, glossy ; elytra punctate-striate. Size and form en- 

 tirely of the preceding species. Pennsylvania. 



Black, tinged with bluish, glossy : head as in the preceding, but distinctly dis- 

 tantly punctulate ; eyes as in the preceding ; clypeus, labrum, palpi, and two basal 

 joints of the antennas, piceous : thorax, apart of the color, as in the preceding, but 

 less obscurely punctulate : elytra sculptured as in the preceding : beneath and 

 feet blackish-piceous ; tarsi dull testaceous or pale brown. This is perhaps also 

 a variety of the preceding species. 



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