120 LEXG AXD HAMILTON. 



[Variable in color and elytral ornamentation. The thorax is 

 somewhat aeiculately punctured, disc with five small tuberculoid 

 spots more or less obsolete, pubescence dark, a little variegated with 

 gray ; elyti'a closely, but coarsely punctured, each with two or three 

 faintly elevated costse, which with the suture each bear a row of dis- 

 tantly placed black points, indefinitely mottled with pale gray and 

 dark spots, an elongate dark spot behind base, another behind mid- 

 dle sometimes becoming a fascia, and another near apex ; sides dark 

 with a gray spot near base, and a smaller one near middle ; the an- 

 tennse and feet are annulated. 



All the above markings are more or less obsolete in a large pro- 

 portion of the individuals. A variety from New Mexico has the 

 body dull rufous and without the rows of penicillate points on the 

 elytra. Said to breed in pine.] " Ham." 



L. collaris Hald., 1847 {Amniscus), Tr. Am. Phil. Soc. x, 46; interruptus Hald., 

 1. c. p. 48 ; Lee, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. ser. 2, ii, 170. 

 Length 10 mm. ; .40 inch. Habitat. — New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky. 



[Dull luteous, elytral surface uneven, sprinkled with minute black 

 spots and irregular patches of dark and gray. In typical examples 

 a brownish irregular band extends from humerus to middle, thence 

 narrowing to suture, behind which near the suture are one or two 

 black spots, but in other examples the bands and spots are wanting ; 

 the basal angles are black and polished. Thorax with three con- 

 spicuous basal tubercles on disc and three smaller ones (sometimes 

 obsolete) near apex. 



Var. interruptus has red-brown bicostate elytra, with an obsoles- 

 cent cinereus spot at base, another at the outer margin behind the 

 middle, a third behind this near the suture, and a fourth before apex 

 at the junction of the costce.] " Ham." 



L<. per|>le."KUS Hald., 1847 [Amniscus), Tr. Am. Phil. Soc. x, 46 ; Lee, Jour. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. ser. 2, ii, 169. 

 Length 12.5 mm. ; .50 inch. Habitat. — Georgia, Florida. 



[Testaceous, pubescence cinereous mottled with brown, sides of 

 elytra in front and an oblique streak on the declivity darker ; the 

 disc of the thorax with five tubercles, the anterior two of which are 

 best developed, the others sometimes obsolete ; elytra coarsely punc- 

 tured.] " Ham." 



