OF NATURAL IIISTOIIT. Ool 



Al'llODirS Illig. 



1. A. INNKXUS. — "Black; elytra with a dull yollowif^h iiiar-in. 

 Inhabits Mexico, 



Head widely emarginate before, punctured ; disk convex ini- 

 punctured : antennne cinereous at tip ; palpi honey-yellow : thorax 

 punctured, excepting on the disk, anterior margin and middle of 

 the lateral margin ; margin, at the anterior angles, obsoletely dull 

 honey-yellow : scutcl inipunctured : elytra with impressed, very 

 regular crenate striic, exterior and terminal margins rather ]«:ile 

 honey-yellow ; this color dilates towards the tip, and is deeply 

 undulated on the inner edge : feet honey -yellow. 



Length less than one-fourth of an inch. 



About the size of .1. ntrr Fabr. 



2. A. SERVAL. — Black; elytra dull whiti.sh, with black spots. 

 Inhabits Indiana. 



Body piceous black, punctured ; head widely emarginatcd before, 

 and with a dull rufous margin ; thorax with a dull rufous lateral 

 margin : elytra yellowish white, with seven or eight subfjuadrato 

 black spots, and a lateral, abbreviated, black, double, confluent 

 vitta : with slender punctured striic ; interstitial lines flat, im- 

 punctured. 



Length over three-twentieths of an inch. 



Very closely allied to the iiujuinatus Fabr., and resembles also 

 .1. coiifainiiKttux Fabr., but the clypcus is much more deeply 

 emarginatcd, and is acutely angulated [178] at each end of the 

 emargination. This latter species is hairy. 



PSA>LMOI)IUS Gyll. 



P. i.NTERRUPTUS. — Thorax with three lateral, transverse undu- 

 lations. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body dark chestnut, punctured : head deeply and somewhat 

 acutely emarginatcd ; with very numerous raised points : thorax 

 with about three, lateral, tran.svcrse, but little impressed grooves, 

 obsolete above; with a dorsal, longitudinal, impressed line, 

 obsolete before ; edge ciliated ; surface somewhat rough ; elytra 

 grooved, and somewhat punctured. 

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