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lowisli hair, the last one of which is not terminal, and the ground 

 color of 3-/asciata is yellow. 



[Not an Anasjpis but a Mordella. — Lec] 



2. A. 4-PUNCTATA. — Black ; each elytron with two cinereous 

 points. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Head and thorax densely covered with brownish-cinereous, 

 silky hair : elytra each with two cinereo-argenteous approximate 

 points, rather beyond the [ 277 ] middle of each elytron, the ex- 

 terior one somewhat linear, and a smaller obsolete subsutural one 

 near the base. 



Length three-tenths of an inch. 



[Belongs to Mordella. — Lec] 



MORDELLA Linn. Latr. 



1. M. bidentata. — Brown, varied with cinereous, scute! 

 bidentate. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body light brown, covered with short dense hair : head dusky, 

 with cinereous hair : palpi pale rufous : thorax with cinereous 

 lines somewhat radiating from the middle of the anterior margin : 

 scutel profoundly emarginate at tip, the angles dentiform, acute : 

 elytra brown varied with cinereous; asutural line, a subterminal 

 arc, one or two abbreviated basal lines, and about three linear 

 spots rather beyond the middle placed 1, 2, of which the inner 

 one is confluent with the sutural line, cinereous, tip angulated 

 or slightly mucronate at the suture. 



Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 



The largest species that I have seen native of this country. 



2. M. SCAPULARIS. — Black ; elytra with a large ferruginous 

 spot on the base of each. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Mordella himaculata Melsh. Catal. 



Head and thorax with obscure yellowish hair : [278] antennae 

 at base, labrum, and palpi rufous : elytra with black hairs, and 

 an oval spot of ferruginous hairs, situated near the base and ex- 

 tending obliquely from the humerus towards the suture : tarsi 

 1824.] 



