OF PHILADELPHIA. 195 



approaches the description of C<ramhyx chulinits of Fab., but, 

 according to Olivier, that insect, which lie names Stvnoajrus trs- 

 (aceus, hAS the antennaj only a little more than half the length of 

 the body. 



[Belongs to Tragidion, and seems to be a variety of T. roquus. 

 — Lec] 



8. C. 6-fasciatt:m. — Black, varied with short, dense, pros- 

 trate, yellow hair ; margin of the thorax, scutel, and four elytral 

 fasciae yellow. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



lii)dy black, puncturetl, with a few lout: hairs : licad, beneath 

 rufous, above with yellow hair : antennae ferruginous, nearly a.s 

 long again as the body, and hairy beneath and towards the base ; 

 basal joint dilated, punctured ; mandibles black at tip: thorax 

 deeply margined, with dense yellow hair; transverse disk black, 

 with two hardly elevated, obtuse tubercles, and an intermediate, 

 longitudinal line, and a lateral, very obtuse, hardly elevated tu- 

 bercle each side behind the middle; a transverse, anterior and 

 posterior groove : scutel yellow: elytra, each 4-fasciate ; fasciae 

 yellow, equidistant, subequal ; two anterior ones bent obliquely 

 forward from the suture ; the two posterior ones retrofracted, the 

 last one terminal ; apex of each elytron emarginate : pectus and 

 postpectus with yellow hair and black incisures : feet rufous : 

 thighs dilated, compressed : abdomen fasciate with yellow. [416] 

 Length, male three-fourths; female seven-eighths of an inch 

 Found under the bark of a decaying elm, on Loutre island, 

 Missouri river. 



["This is the type of Dryohius Lec. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 _ Phila., 2d ser. 2, 2;j.— Lec] 



LEPTURA Latr. 



1. L. BIVITTATA. — Elytra pale yellowish-white, with two black 

 vitta on each. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Head black, with much crowded punctures; an impressed line 

 between the antennre : antennae as long as the body : thorax 

 slightly punctured ; two longitudinal black spots, and an anterior 

 jiosterior submarginal, impressed line, and an obsolete, dorsal, 

 longitudinal one ; au obtuse, slightly elevated, lateral tubercle : 

 1824.] 



