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scutel covered with white hair : elytra with irregular, inequal 

 spots of short yellowish-white hair ; of these spots there is in 

 many specimens, a series at the suture, another on the middle, 

 and a third on the exterior submargiu ; but in other specimens 

 the scries are obsolete, and in some, many of the spots are con- 

 fluent ; [277] tip truncate, emarginate : wings blackish: feet 

 rufous ; knees, tarsi, and tip of the tibia black. 



Length about seven-twentieths of an inch. 



I obtained a small individual several years since in this State, 

 and my brother B. Say took a specimen near Pleasant Mills, 

 New Jersey, and I subsequently obtained another in the X. ^Y. 

 Territory. ' 



[This is the type of Afimi'a Hald., but not being recognized 

 by him, was described as A. tristis. — Leg.] 



2. C. ANNOSUS. — Black, with short gray hairs ; a triangular 

 carina between the eyes. 



Body black, covered with short, gray, prostrate hair : head 

 with a grooved prominence between the eyes, terminating in a 

 short carina : antennae but little longer than the thorax : thorax 

 with a naked dorsal vitta : elytra with the hair more densely 

 arranged in some parts, so as to exhibit the appearance of small 

 spots, which are arranged in two bands, in each of which are 

 two spots each side, the second band is on the middle ; near the 

 tip are one or two common spots ; tip entire.. 



Length nearly one-half of an inch. 



I received this species from Mr. T. Nuttall, who brought it 

 from Missouri. 



[Unknown to me. — Lec] 



CALLIDIUM Fabr. 



C. cucu.TlFORME.— Pale yellowish ; thorax a little contracted 

 in the middle. 



Callidium citcitjiforme Melsh. Catal. 



Body depressed : head Avith a slight rufous tinge: antennre 

 rather shorter than the body, tinged with rufous : thorax [278] 

 longer than broad, obtusely contracted each side, rather before 

 the middle: elytra irregularly punctured, without elevated 



[Yol. y. 



