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Smaller and somewhat more convex than the preceding spe- 

 cies. It is altoerether different from the limhatus Oliv., of 

 Cayenne. 



[Belongs to Lycoperdina and was previously described as L. 

 ferruginea Lee, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 1, 172. — Lec] 



LYCOPERDD^A Latr. 



L. vestita. — Yellowish, hairy; disk of the elytra blackish. 



Body oval, covered with rather short hairs ; yellowish : an- 

 tennae, the six terminal joints piceous : thorax with the disk 

 somewhat darker ; lateral margin with an impressed line ; lateral 

 submargin with an abbreviated impressed line at base : elytra 

 dark piceous ; basal sutural and exterior margins yellowish : be- 

 neath immaculate. 



Length more than three-twentieths of an inch. 



I have found this species on the Oak in June. 



[Belongs to Stenofarsiis Perty, and was previously described 

 as Erotylus hlspidus Herbst, and subsequently as Ephehus limha- 

 tus Gu^rin, Archiv. Entom. 1, 270. — Lec] 



[From vol. 6, 1829: pp. 149—178.] 



Descriptions of North American DIPTEEOUS INSECTS. 

 CULEX Linn. Meig. 



C. Musicus. — Tergum purplish, with lateral yellowish spots. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Head dull honey-yellow : vortex blackish with yellowish hair : 

 proboscis and palpi black : thorax black-purple, with yellowish 

 hair or scales : wings dusky : poisers white, a little dusky at tip : 

 tergum purple, or violaceous, with a band at base, and large 

 lateral spot on each segment of yellowish hair or scales : feet 

 black-violaceous: thighs, excepting at tip, and coxae whitish, 

 sericeous : tarsi, two terminal joints of the posterior pair white. 



Length more than one-fifth of an inch. 



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