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cldSi'ly ullicd to sani/uinicolfis, and ma}' prove to ]jc xcdjutlan's 

 <Miv., [432] the description of which I have not seen. 



[ IJclongs to Aiioji/itis Kirbv, and is Ifis/>a srajiiifnn's ()\. — 

 LK.r.] 



1. H. PALLIDA. — Yellowish-white; elytra with puncturt-d 

 striiC, clovatod lines, and blackish, linear spots towards the tip. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Hody pale testaceous, densely punctured : head with a longi- 

 tudinal, impressed line, and indented point each side near the 

 eyes : thorax (juadrjlineate, with black : elytra serrate ; each 

 elytron with tliree obtuse elevated lines, and a eonunon 

 one ; a blackish spot before the tip of the common line, one or 

 two black spots behind the middle of the second line, and one 

 before the middle; two upoJi the ne.xt line, of which one is upon 

 the middle of it ; two upon the next line, and two corresponding 

 ones u|ton the lateral edge ; between each two of the elevated 

 lines are double series of profoundly impressed, large, transverse 

 punctures : feet pale testaceous : beneath black or pale yellowish, 

 varied with blaek : venter black or pale yellow, with four series 

 of brown spots. 



Length about three-twentieths of an inch. 



[Appears to be Ifixpa rosea Weber. — Lec] 



3. H. OBSOLETA. — Blackish ; thorax with punctured striae, 

 elevated lines, and obsolete, yellowii<h spots. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Head dull rufous, black at base, and with a black line im- 

 pressed in the middle : antennae black : thorax dull yellowish, 

 with four equidistant [433] black lines : elytra black, serrate, 

 each with three elevated lines, and a common sutural one, sepa- 

 rated by double series of large, profoundly impressed, transverse 

 punctures ; several small dull yellowish or rufous spots on the 

 elevated lines, (placed similarly to the black elytral spots of the 

 preceding species) and a larger spot at tip ; beneath black : feet 

 pale testaceous. 



Length three-twentieths df an inch. 



Very similar to the preceding species, than which it is more 

 common ; a.s in that insect the spots on each elytron are arranged 

 in two oblique bands, of whieh the anterior one is much more 

 1824.] 



