AMERICAN PUILOSOPniOAL SOCIETY. 435 



and white luaule at tip ; body and feet greenish-brassy, poliahed; 

 abdomen I'erruginons. Syst. Eleut. part 1, p. 2o7. 



15. C .MiCANS. — Flcad and thorax cupreous polished; elytra 

 obscure ; minute points and lunule at the apex white. 



Inhabits North America. Syst. Eleut. part 1, p. 23.S. 



It is highly probable that this description was intended to de- 

 signate an insect very similar to the 6'. /»uat7»/a/(/, perhaps the 

 same, or only a variety of it, for it is as characteristic of that 

 species as it can be of any other. 



[From Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 

 Vol. 2, No. 1, 1S23.] 



Descriptions of Insects of the Families of CARA.BICI and HYDROCAIT- 

 THARI of Latreille, inhabiting North America.* 



Rrud August 20th, 1819. 



In the first volume of the New Series of the Transactions of 

 this Society, I commenced the regular description of our North 

 American insects, by a Monograph of the indigenous Cicinde.letfC) 

 a Linna^an genus which occupies the first station in the improved 

 classification of Latreille. 



I now proceed to lay before the Society descriptions of such 

 of our native insects, as were included by Linne, in his three 

 genera, Carnhus, D^fiscm, and Cli/ruuis. The two former of 

 these, but more particularly the first, are now considered as great 

 families, constituting numerous genera, and agreeably to the or- 

 der in which I have enunioratod thcni, immediately succeeding 

 the Cicindclctsc, in the system which I have adopted. 



♦The title page of the 2d vol. of the New Series of these Transactions 

 bears date 182.'), which was the time of completion of the volume, but 

 the late Dr. T. W. Harris informed me in a letter, that he received from 

 Mr. Say a copy of this paper, with the following addition to the title : — 

 "Printed and published by Abraham Small, 1823." This, of course, 

 gives Say's names procodoncc of those published by Oermar in bis Sp. 

 Ins. Nov. in 1825.— Lbc. 

 1823.] 



