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Feronia ohesa Say, which resembles the latter in form, and is 

 a larger species than jP. impmicticoUis, hut so much like it as 

 hardly to be distinguished, belongs, with it, to Amara and is 

 destitute of the triple spine. 



HARRIS TO HENTZ. 



Milton, June 17, 1828. 



Buprestis femorata Fabr., differs from the species marked 

 characteristica? Herbst, in many respects. The distinctive 

 characters of B. femorata appear to be, face plain, with two 

 large metallic impunctured raised spots ; body slightly convex, 

 the impressed portions of the elytra metallic, distinctly and 

 densely punctured, serratures of the elytra minute. 



B. character isticaf Face divided by a transverse line be- 

 tween the eyes, the inferior portion below the level of the supe- 

 rior, which seems to lap on it like a cap; metallic facial spots 

 very small or obsolete. Body more dilated, more depressed 

 than in B. femorata; elytral impressions not very distinctly 

 metallic, nor so densely punctured; serratures very obvious, 

 especially at tip. Color tinged with purplish brown. The 

 first character alone, viz. : the division of the face by a trans- 

 verse line, is sufficient to separate the two insects. 



I have examined Telephorus bilineatus, and observed that the 

 maxillaj and lingua were so feoft as to yield on pressing the 

 abdomen, and jut out into cai'uncles from what appeared to be 

 a crowd of the fluids ; whether these parts are susceptible of 

 voluntarv dilatation I cannot determine. Mv friend, Mr. 

 Leonard, has promised to send me a quantity of du})licates 

 from his parish in Dublin, N. II., near the Grand Monadnoc 

 Mountain. Many among those wliich I have already received 

 from him are entirely new to me. Mr. Leonard is indefatig- 

 able in studying the habits of insects, and very successful in 



