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Body black, whitish sericeous : antennae dull rufous, dusky to- 

 wards the tip : thorax with two slightly indented dots a little be- 

 hind the middle : elytra with a yellow-cinereous band a little be- 

 hind the middle, interrupted at the suture and contracted on 

 each side, and a much larger basal band extending posteriorly 

 on each elytra in a point, nearly to the middle, and having a 

 subbasal obvious, definite, black dot each side of the suture : 

 tibiae and tarsi dull rufous. 



Length over three-tenths of an inch. 



The two black dots on the basal band of the elytra are very 

 obvious, and serve to distinguish it from M. fasciata Fabr., which 

 it certainly resembles, and to which it has been referred. 



3. M. SERVAL. — Blackish, spotted with yellowish. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body brownish-black : antenn c and palpi pale, dull rufous : 

 thorax with numerous spots of short, yellowish hair? : elytra with 

 numerous subequal spots of short, yellowish hairs, a dentated 

 band behind the middle, and narrow terminal margin : beneath 

 sericeous : venter each side with obsolete oblique, brown lines : 

 tarsi, color of the antennae. 



Length three-twentieths of an inch. 



A very pretty species. 



APATE Fabr. 

 A. BICAUDATA nob. — A variety of this species occuiTcd in 

 Mexico. It is large, the feet are nearly black, and the punctures 

 of the elytra are somewhat larger than in those of this country. 



PARANDRA Latr. [192] 



P. POLITA. — Ferruginous, head and thorax impunctured. 

 Inhabits Indiana. 



Body ferruginous, polished : head blackish-ferruginous, almost 

 impunctured, excepting behind the eyes, where the punctures 

 are numerous ; a longitudinal, slightly indented line before : an- 

 tennas ferruginous at tip : mandibles with a large, prominent, 

 rounded tooth near the base ; then a profound, rounded sinus, 

 then a subterminal tooth : palpi ferruginous : thorax blackish-fer- 

 ruginous, impunctured, gradually a little narrowed behind ; an ob- 



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