with that of a Coleopterous genus (Rhagium), 

 united in rejecting the word, and suppHed its 

 place with that of Leptis, which I have adopted. 

 Some of the species are common ; they are 

 predaceous ; the larvae are cylindrical, apodal, 

 with a small horny head, and live in the earth. 



LEPTIS ORNATA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Velvet-hlack ; thorax and abdominal hands 

 with whitish hair ; wings hyaline ; feet white. 



SYNONYM. 



Leptis ornata. Nobis. Journ. Jicad. Nat. Sci- 

 ences, vol. iii. p. 34. 



description. 



Hypostoma and front vnth silvery white hair : 

 thorax, particularly on its lateral margins, with 

 silvery hair very slightly tinted with yellow: 

 pleura, pectus and coxse black : feet pale yellow- 



plate xiii. 



