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bordered behind with black, sloping forwards at the suture, just behind the 

 middle; sides between the base and bands dusky; a small blackish spot near 

 the suture behind the band, and another further back and contiguous to the 

 outer margin; a subsutural series of small, fasiculated, black points, another 

 on the middle of each elytron, and several rather larger scattered over the 

 surface, particularly towards the base, near the middle of which are two much 

 more prominent than the rest; tips of the elytra obliquely truncated. Body, 

 beneath, dusky or chocolate brown, densely covered at the sides of the breast, 

 and sparsely on the abdomen with short, ashen-colored hairs. Thighs black- 

 ish brown at base, ashen at tip; tibia; ashen, with a narrow blackish band on 

 the middle and a broad one at tip; tarsi blackish. 



"This species closely resembles L. macula, Say, which is much more convex, 

 or not so much depressed, proportionally shorter and thicker, with a rather 

 narrower, more [page 89] cyhndrical thorax, with the punctures of the elytra 

 more dilated, without the elevated fasciculated points at the base, besides other 

 characters which sufficiently distinguish it from the fascicularis. Lamia alpha, 

 Say, is a smaller, more slender, more parallel species, with the dorsal fascia 

 much more oblique, &c." (This is 6428 [Henshaw], Liopus fascicularis Harris.) 



Page 89. "25. Molorchus mellitus, Sa;/. 



"M. mdlitus. Say, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 194. 



" Halsey's Collection, No. 263. A female." This is a variety of mellitus which 

 is described. (This is 6225 [Henshaw], Necydalis mellitus Say.) 



Page 89. "26. Cryptocephalxjs canellus ? Fabridus. Plate I, fig. 10." 



[Page 90] "C. canellus ? F. Eleuth. vol. ii. p. 52. C. cinctus ? F. Entom. 

 Syst. vol. i. part 2. p. 63. Halsey's Collection, No. 176. 



"This insect agrees better with the description of the cinctus than with that 

 of the canellus. M. Fabricius saj's that the former inhabits South America 

 and the latter Carolina. It maj' be a variety of the cariellus in which the two 

 black spots run together and unite with the black suture. Under this impres- 

 sion, and because it is a North American species, I have described it under the 

 name of canellus, with a doubt however as to its identity. It has the form of 

 CoLASPis quercus, S." (This is Typophorus canellus Fabr.) 



Page 90. "27. Galertjca (Adimonia) cristata. Plate I, fig. 11. 



" Black; thorax rufous ■with a black disc and two impressed spots; elytra with 

 the margin dilated, a lateral elevated and an abbreviated impressed line. 



"Length from 17 to 19 hundredths of an inch. 



"G. A. unicolor, Harris, Catalogue, p. — . 



"Halsey's Collection, No. 218. 



" Black, above and beneath. Front, between the antennae carinated, vertex 

 indented. Antennae about two-thirds the length of the body; first joint ob- 

 conic, second globose, third very short obconic, the two together shorter than 

 the fourth, which, with the following ones, is elong- [page 91] ated obconic; 

 terminal joint oblong-ovate, acuminated. Thorax impunctiu-ed, quadrate, 

 glabrous, rather broader than long, shghtly contracted behind, the lateral 

 edges acute; convex, black from the anterior to the posterior margin, sides 

 more or less obscurely rufous; a deep indentation each side of the centre. 



