OF I'lIILADEI.PIIIA. rjl 



Body vrliitc : eyes fuscous j a small spot on the vertex, and 

 another behind each eye, light brown : antenna) moderate, 

 slii^htly tiniiod with bluish : thorax lij,'ht brown, with two broad, 

 white lines approaching before : elytra light brown, irregularly 

 punctured; a broad, white, longitudinal line on each, nearer to 

 the suture than to the outer edge. 



Length from one-half to seven-tenths of an inch. 



A very pretty insect. Tn the larva; state it is very injurious to 

 the apple tree ; boring into the wood. 



[Previously described by Fabricius as S. Candida. — Lec] 



8. S. MUTICA. — Reddish-brown, covered with cinereous and 

 ferruginous hair ; elytra niutic; antonns annulated. 



Inhabits Missouri Territory. 



Body dark reddish-brown, partially covered with cinereou.s- 

 yellow, prostrate hair, varied with ferruginous hair: front, and a 

 geminate line on the vertex, ferruginous : antenna; annulate, with 

 cinereous and blackish ; shorter than the body : thorax trilineate, 

 with ferruginous : scutel yellow, subemarginate behind : elytra 

 with yellowi.sh-cinereous hair, varied with ferruginous spots ; 

 numerous glabrous punctures ; tip uiutic, obtusely sublanceolate. 



Length half an inch. [410] 



A'ery much resembles S. caharafa, and may possibly prove to 



be a sexual variet}', nevertheless the differences arc remarkable; 



in the present in.sect the antennae are shorter than the body, and 



annulated, and the elytra are destitute of a spinose point at tip. 



[A very distinct species. — Lec] 



CERAMBYX Fabr. 



C. SOLITARIUS. — Black; thorax bituberculate each side ; elytra 

 destitute of elevated lines. 



Inhabits Upper Arkansa. 



Body deep black, immaculate, punctured : head with a longi- 

 tudinal, impressed line between the eyes ; front transversely in- 

 dented, and with one or two small, abbreviated, elevated, trans- 

 verse lines; a slight tubercle at the inner ba.se of the antennae: 

 antenna; long ; basal joints a little hispid beneath : labrum 

 piceous : thorax, with three very obtuse, hardly elevated tubercles 

 behind, placed transversely ; lateral edge with two tubercles, of 

 which the anterior one is more obtuse, and the posterior one is 

 1824.] 



