302 INSECTS OF LOUISIANA. 



LAMIA Fabr. 



L. CRYPTA. — Clothed with dark ferruginous, prostrate hair. 



Inhabits Louisiana. 



Body densely covered with short, prostrate, dark reddish fer- 

 ruginous hair, concealing the punctures : antennae not longer 

 than the body, joints gradually diminishing in [6] length, eleven 

 in number, the terminal ones with a gray basal annulus : thorax 

 with the anterior and posterior diameters equal, with a tubercle, 

 or short, obtuse, spine each side : elytra with the slight punctured 

 series almost concealed by the hair ; a sutural striae obliterated 

 at base, but passing around the tip and uniting with a stria on 

 the exterior margin, which reaches the base 5 tip rounded. 



Length three-fifths of an inch. 



I have seen no other specimen than the individual sent me by 

 Mr. Barabino. 



[It belongs to the genus Stenosoma Muls., and was described 

 by Haldeman as Ataxia sordida, Trans. Am. Phil. Poc. 10, 56.-7 

 Lec] 



ALTICA F. [lUiger.] 



1. A. EXAPTA. — Dark-green J thorax with a transverse line; 

 feet tinged with piceous. 



Inhabits Louisiana. 



Body oblong-oval, dark-green, sometimes with a tinge of blue : 

 head not obviously punctured: antennae tinged with piceous, 

 particularly at base : mouth somewhat piceous : thorax not ob- 

 viously punctured, with a tinge of brassy, narrower than the 

 elytra, a little indented each side before the middle, and on the 

 posterior submargin an indented, obtuse line, not very profound, 

 extending each side to the lateral margin where it curves ante- 

 riorly and is lost in the depressed edge : scutel somewhat violace- 

 ous : elytra, distinctly punctured on the basal half; and having 

 a slight brassy tinge : beneath greenish-black, more or less, but 

 always slightly, tinged with brassy : tibiae and tarsi a little tinged 

 with piceous. 



Length three-twentieths of an inch. [7] 



In comparison with the chalyhea Illig. this is smaller and more 

 slender ; the color more greenish, though equally dark ; the tho- 



