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ly distingriished from that well marked insect. It inhabits the 

 N. W. Territory, where it was found by Major Long's party. I 

 also received specimens from Dr. T. W. Harris. 

 [Unknown to me. — Lbc.] 



CASSIDA Fabr. 



C- BiviTTATA. — Yellowish ; elytra with two liocs and suture 

 black. 



Cassuhi hivittata Melsh. Catal. 



Body sub-orbicular, yellowish, tinged with rufou.'^ ; margin all 

 round paler : elytra with regular striae of impres.sed punctures, 

 those on the margin much larger and blackish; two black vittae 

 on the middle, of which the exterior one is a little undulated, 

 and the inner one rather shorter ; suture black ; beueath piceous 



Length one-fifth of an inch. 



EUMOLPUS Fabr. 



1. E. PINT. — Brassy, with short whitish hair; antennae obscure 

 rufous. 



Body rather dark bras.sy polished, punctured, with short 

 whitish hair : head with an impressed longitudinal line on the 

 front : antennae and palpi dull rufous : thorax, as well as the head, 

 slightly tinged with cupreous : scutel cupreous : elytra destitute 

 of striae or lines : beneath reddish-brassy, more densely covered 

 with the whitish hair than the superior surface : feet not so 

 thickly hairy, dark rufous. 



Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 



I received this insect from Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, [296] under 

 the name which I have adopted ; he informed me that its favor- 

 ite food is the difi"crent species of Pinus. 



[Belongs to Cli/ptoa^cilia Lee. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 

 1859, 81, and was previously described as Eh. hirtiis Oliv. — Lkc] 



2. Yj. HARRATis. — Brassy, with .short ferruginous hair; an- 

 tennae obscure rufous. 



Eumolpus harbattis Melsh. Catal. 



Body dark bras.sy ; tinged, particularly on the head and tho- 

 rax, with cupreous ; somewhat polished ; punctured, and covered 

 with short, ferruginous hair : head with a longitudinal, darker, 

 1820.] 



