400 G. R. CROTCH, M. A. 



Li. fasciatlts, Aube, Spec, vi., p. 423. — Ovate, head, thorax, legs and 

 under surface testaceous: elytra greenish-yellow, slightly varied with brown, 

 with a broad common black fascia behind the middle; elytra rounded at the 

 apex. L. -20 inch. 



% , stridulating plate with coarse visible strise. 



Georgia, Pennsylvania, Indian Territory, California. 



The markings on the elytra, though faint, are an exact reproduc- 

 tion of those of L. maculosus. 



L. proximus. Say, Tr. Am. Phil, ii., p. 201. — Ovate, pallid; elytra with 

 the sub-humeral vitta of L. maculosus, the other markings confused, underside 

 testaceous. L. -20 inch. 



% , stridulating plate visibly striate. 



Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Canada. 



Li. atristcrnalis, sp. n. — Rather narrower than L. maculosus, elytra ob- 

 liquely truncate, head, thorax ami legs pale fulvous; elytra brownish, uni- 

 colorous; metasternum black, venter pitchy. L. - 23 inch. 



% , stridulating plate finely but evenly striate. 



California. (Horn.) 



Li. (lecipiens, Leo. Ann. Lye. v., 205; truncatus, Mannh. B. M. (1853), 3, 



p. 160; calif or nicuLS, Motsch. B. M. (1859), 3, p. 172. — Very near L. maculosus, 

 but paler, margin of the elytra not pale (the triangular spot, however, similar. 

 but not margined with black), disc more uniformly irrorated. L. *24 inch. 



%, Btridulating plate with fine rather distant strise. 



California, Oregon, Sitkha. 



L«. picttlS, Lap. Et. Ent., p. 104; Horn, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 330.— 

 Again like L. maculosus. but vertex and elytra (with the epipleura) black; the 

 latter with a sub-marginal vitta (from the callus to the middle), and each with 

 about eight pale white spots. L. -24 inch. 



% , stridulating plate with fine striae, five in number. 



Lower California, Texas. (Horn.) 



L. quadrilineatus, Horn. Tr. Ent. Soc. iii., 330. — Similar to L. macu- 

 losus, but elytra rounded, color paler (as in decipiens); elvtra yellowish-white, 

 with four black linear vittne at base, coalescing at the middle into an irregular 

 black patch reaching the margin at two-thirds. L. -24 inch. 



% , stridulating plate hardly aciculate. 



Texas, Colorado. (Horn, Leconte.) 



L. iMirialiiS. Aube. Spec, vi , p. 435. — Narrowly oval; head, thorax, legs 

 and underside red ; elytra black, margin testaceous, a basal fascia (extremely 

 irregular, enclosing a spot on the callus), a spot on the margin about the mid- 

 dle, asub-apieal fascia, and the apex whitish. L. # 19 inch. 

 Pennsylvania; % unknown. 



L. geiltilis. L 'c. New Sp., p. 23.— Narrower and more convex, rufo-tesla- 

 ceous; abdomen beneath pitchy; elytra brown with a basal fascia (extremely 



