ACRYDIUM ORNATUM. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Whitish; heneath fuscous; thorax nearly as 

 long as the wings, spotted with black. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Head blackish ; vertex with an elevated longi- 

 tudinal line, which extends down over the front 

 where it is grooved, but this groove does not 

 reach the acute ridge which divides the vertex 

 from the front; thorax flattened, somewhat gra- 

 nulated and whitish, laterally projecting a little 

 over the origin of the hemelytra, a slightly elevat- 

 ed longitudinal central line, and two abbreviated 

 oblique elevated lines near the head ; a velvet 

 black spot each side over the tip of the hemely- 

 tra : pleura^ hemelytra and pectus black-brown. 



Length to the tip of the wings, half an inch. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



I am indebted to Mr. Lesueur for this inte- 



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