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A large species by no means common. I think it highly prob- 

 able that the 4-7M'<cj;/a/M.s of Palisot is no other than thi.s insect; 

 if .so, the spots of the elytra, and especially tho.se of the base, in 

 his figure, are by far too distinct ; indeed, the former are always 

 obsolete and sometimes not at all visible. 



2. 0. VIRIDIS. — Dark green, beneath blackish ; elytra punc- 

 tured, cupreous on the disk, edge bluish ; feet testaceous. 



Length one-fourth of an inch. 



Scarites virtdis Melsh. Catal. 



Body somewhat hairy; head equal, dark cupreous green ; 

 antennae and mouth rufous ; mandibles black at tip ; trunk 

 beneath reddi.sh-black ; thorax cupreous green, somewhat hairj- ; 

 lateral cariiiated edge abbreviated, very obli(jue, rectilinear : a 

 dorsal impressed line, and anterior, transverse, angulated one ; 

 elytra dark cupreous tinged with green, hairy ; striae obsolete, 

 lines of distant punctures obsolete behind, margin greenish, edge 

 blue, an impressed [22] line near the suture excurved at its 

 base near the suture ; feet testaceous. 



[Belongs to Ardistomis Putz., afterwards described by Dejean 

 as Clivina rostrata. — Lec] 



3. C. lineolata. — Blackish ; head with several elevated 

 lines; thorax with three impressed ones; elytra striate. 



Length one-fifth of an inch. 



Head with several elevated lines, of which the two interior arc 

 largest, forming a groove between them, and continued and con- 

 niveut upon the labrum ; behind the elevated lines punctured : 

 thorax throe impressed longitudinal lines ; intermediate one 

 attaining the anterior transverse angulated one, lateral ones ab- 

 breviated near the anterior margin ; lateral edge continued and 

 projecting into a slight angle behind the middle ; elytra black- 

 brown or greenish, stria; punctured, profound, and equal to the 

 intermediate lines ; feet testaceous. 



Readily distinguishable from the preceding ones by the ele- 

 vated frontal lines as well as by the impressed line of the thorax. 



[Belongs to Sthizoyt:nia^ Putzeys, and described by him a.s S. 

 sulci/rons. — Lec.] 

 1823.] 



