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convex, obtuse; margin blued-purple, with a regular series of 

 minute, elevated, ocellate granules. 



I found several specimens of this insect in Georgia and Florida. 

 It is sufficiently distinct from the preceding ; being smaller, more 

 of an oval form, the thorax less contracted at the base, and the 

 elytra subsulcate ; the lateral edge also is excurved at the base, 

 which character distinguishes it at once from the marginatus of 

 Fabr. and the sublsevis of Palisot. How closely it may correspond 

 with the sukatus of Macleay I am unable to determine, not having 

 yet seen his work. 



I have to regret the circumstance of my not having it in my 

 power to refer to M. Palisot de Beauvois's splendid work on the 

 insects of Africa and America. The seventh number only, belong- 

 ing to the library of the Philadelphia Museum, has yet met. my 

 eye ; although I have made several attempts to procure an entire 

 copy of the work from Paris. 



CLIVINA Latr. 

 x\nterior tibiae emarginate and crcnate ; elytra entire ; iabrum 

 entire; mandibles with obsolete teeth; tongue prominent, mem- 

 branaceous each side ; thorax rounded. 



1. C. BIPUSTULATA. — Black ; thorax impunctured ; elytra with 

 punctured strias, and a large obscure rufous spot near the tip and 

 at the base of each. 



Length three-tenths of an inch. [21] 



Scarites hipuftulatusl black; elytra striated ; a large ferruginous spot 

 behind. Fabr. 1. p. 126. 



Scarites bipustulatus, Melsh. Catal. 



Scarites 4-macuZatws Palisot de Beauvois. 



Body blackish ; beneath piceous ; head somewhat unequal 

 before; antennae and palpi reddish-brown; thorax black, impunc- 

 tured ; a longitudinal impressed line joining a transverse angu- 

 lated one before ; lateral carinated edge abbreviated and recurved 

 at the tip ; elytra brown-black, strongly striated ; stnse nearly 

 equal to the intermediate lines and punctured, punctures exca- 

 vated ; a large obsolete spot at the base, and a large and more 

 distinct spot near the tips of each, rufous ; epipleura with large 

 a«d profound punctures at base. 



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