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isli ; scutel black, an iiiflontoil, larj^c, triangular, paler spot each 

 side uii the disk : heiuelytra, meuibranaceous tip blaik ^vith a 

 whitish edge ; coriaceous portion red with a linetdar yellowish 

 margin, which on the costal edge becomes red towards the hume- 

 rus, inner submargin and edge with a black line: pectus and 

 postpcctus black, segments broadly margined with pale : feet 

 black : stigmata and anus black. 



Length about seven-twentieths of an inch. 



Sometimes occurs in Mis.souri; 1 have also received a speci- 

 men from Mr. A. (1. Oemler, of Savannah, Georgia. 



4. L. 5-SPlNOSUs; — Obscure rufous : posterior thighs five- 

 spined ; torgum red, margin lineate with black. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Body dull rufous, minutely and densely punctured : head tri- 

 angular : stemmata sanguineous: antonnaj, second and third 

 joints black at their extreme tip, fourth joint dusky, pale at 

 base : rostellum pale, black at tip ; setae black : thorax obsoletcly 

 indented longitudinally in the middle and transversely before the 

 middle ; posterior angles salient, acute, blackish at tip : scutel 

 pale at tip : feet pale rufous, whitish at base : posterior thighs 

 more robust, rufous at tip, fivc-spined beneath : pectus, post- 

 pectus and head beneath, black in the [324] middle : tergum 

 red : margin with about four pale spots, and black lincolar edges 

 t^ its segments. 



Length of the body more than half an inch. 



5. L. EURiNUs. — Blackish, hairy, punctured; tergum black, 

 disk rufous, margin with four yellowish spots ; posterior thighs 

 threo-spined. 



Inhabits Missouri and Arkansa. 



Body blackish, hairy, punctured : head triangular : eyes promi- 

 nent : antennae, second and third joints dull testaceous, blackish 

 at their tips : thorax densely punctured, mutic : hemelytra black- 

 brown : i'eet black : tibiao and first joint of the tarsi, dull testa- 

 ceous, with black tips : posterior thighs threc-spined beneath, 

 and one or two smaller spines at tip : abdomen, reflexed margin 

 with four yellowish spots : tergum rufous on the basal disk. 



Length about lialf an inch. 

 1825.] 



