OF PHILADELPUIA. 335 



lines : thighs dilated : pectus with a large discoidal, very slightly 

 iudcnted space on each side. 



Length three-tenths of an inch. 



[Belongs to Kiinodicutn. — Lec] 



LEPTURA Linn. Fahr. 



1. L. SCALARIS. — Rufous, sericeous; elytra slender, witli 

 sericeous triangles along the suture. 



Body elongated rufous, more or less covered with golden seri- 

 ceous ; iiupunctured : head with a transverse indentation before, 

 and a longitudinal indented line ; space behind the eyes promi- 

 nent : antenna) rather more than half the length of the body : 

 thorax with a transverse impressed line before, and anotlier be- 

 hind : elytra slender, coneavely arcuated on the outer edge be- 

 hind the middle, rounded at tip, considerably shorter than the 

 a'ldiimen ; a darker rounded spot on the mi<ldle, and an oblong 

 one behind the middle, so arranged as to exhibit two sutural 

 goldcn-sericeoiis triangles on each elytron : posterior thighs 

 blackish at tip : tergum- longitudinal!}' black in the middle : be- 

 neath with brilliant golden sericeous hair. 



Length one inch. 



For this fine species I am indebted to my friend. Prince 

 !Musignano, who obtained it near his summer residence, at Point 

 Breeze, New Jersey. It is much like the C''ramht/x hnr/ipes of 

 Drury, 1, pi. 37, fig. 4, [279] but tjie thighs are not spinous at 

 tip, as in that species. 



2. L. NIGRELLA. — Blackish-brown ; thorax cylindrical. 

 Lrpfurn niijra Melsh. Catal. 



Body punctured, .somewhat pubescent : head witli confluent, 

 small punctures; those of the nasus, and labruni .sparse : antennae 

 more than two-thirds the length of the body : thorax cylindrical, 

 very slightly wider behind, punctured like the head ; an obtuse, 

 lightly impressed, transverse line on the anterior submargin, and 

 another on the posterior submargin : elytra with very obvious, 

 numerous punctures, which are more particularly confluent near 

 the base ; tip a little truncated oblirjucly : beneath dull silvery 

 sericeous. 



Length nearly seven-twentieths of an inch. 



I received this species from Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, under the 

 1S2G.] 



