edge reflected, slightly elevated, acute ; a sutural, 

 common, reddish-brown margin: epipkura sca- 

 brous and punctured, with four or five obsolete 

 impressed striae : feet scabrous, anterior thighs 

 slightly dilated beneath before the tip into an 

 obtuse angle. 



Length one inch nearly. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



During the progress of Major Long's expedi- 

 tion up the Missouri, that enterprising and excel- 

 lent officer entrusted me with the direction of a 

 small party of thirteen persons, destined to ex- 

 plore the country on the south side of that ex- 

 tended river. After encountering many obstacles 

 and privations which it is unnecessary to enume- 

 merate, the party arrived at the village of the 

 Konza Indians, hungry, fatigued, and out of 

 health. Commiserating our situation, these sons 

 of nature, although suffering under the injustice 

 of white people, received us with their charac- 

 teristic hospitality, and ameliorated our condition 

 by the luxuries of repletion and repose. Wliilst 

 sitting in the large earth-covered dwelling of the 

 principal chief, in presence of several hundred of 

 his people, assembled to view the arms, equip- 



PLATE XVI. 



