or I'UILADELPUIA. 231 



the suture; thighs ciliiite at the inferior tip; tibia pioeous 

 black : venter with refleeted hairs. 



Rather larger than the preceding species. 



Found near Engineer (Cantonment. 



It differs from pullipcs in its differently colored feet, and ciliate 

 tip of the thighs. In many parts of the United States, this spe- 

 cies is found in the seed vessels of such plants of wheat as are 

 destroyed by the parasitic vegetable called smut. 



AGATHIDIUM Illig. Latr. 



A. PALLIDUM. — Body yellowish-testaceous; elytra with very 

 minute, transverse lines. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body oval, convex, yellowish-testaceous, glabrous : head with 

 a few hairs beneath the edge; [92] eyes prominent, hemisphe- 

 rical, black : palpi subulate: antennae hirsute, clavate ; club ob- 

 long, perfoliate ; second joint of the club minute : thorax im- 

 punctured : scutel minute : elytra rugose in transverse very 

 minute lines : thighs with very minute spines above : tibia with 

 prominent, rigid spines. 



Length more than three-twentieths of an inch. 



A single specimen occurred under wood, at Engineer Can- 

 tonment. 



[This insect is unknown to me. It is perhaps an Anit^otoma. 

 — Lec] 



COCCINELLA. i" 



1. C. UNDULATA. — Black ; exterior margin of the thorax, and 

 undulated exterior margin and spot of the elytra, yellowish. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body deep black, punctured : head slightly hairy before : 

 punctured obsolete : antenna) yellowish-testaceous : thorax with 

 acute punctures; lateral margin white: scutel triangular; tip 

 acute : elytra, punctures dilated, slightly indented ; a large white 

 spot on the centre of each, and an undulated, white exterior mar- 

 gin : undulations three : feet yellowish-testaceous, piceous at 

 base. 



Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch. 



Var. a. Undulated margin interrupted into three spots. 

 1824.] 



