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blossoms of Ceanothus microphyllus, and also in Canada by Dr. Bigs- 

 by : Mr. Kirby, in the ' Fauna Boreali- Americana,' p. 181, has given it 

 the new name of Lep. tenuior. 2. Lep. zebrata of Fabricius, Zebra of 

 Olivier, quoted by Dr. Hanis in his 'Animals of Massachusetts,' as 

 synonymous with Lep. nitens of Forster : it was found in profusion by 

 Messrs. Doubleday and Foster on the blossoms of Cactus opuntia, at 

 St. John's Bluff, in East Florida. 



Lep. sinuata. Nigra, lanugine aurea obsita ; caput nigrum, anten- 

 nis fusco-ferrugineis : pro thorax convexus rotundatus piceus : 

 elytra flavida, humeris loete feiTugineis, vestigiis nigris ornata ; 

 q. e. d. sutura, fascia ante medium, utriusque macula rotunda 

 mediana, fascia pone medium bisinuata, apicibusque nigris : 

 sternum nigrum : pedes et abdomen ferruginea. (Corp. long. 

 •4 unc. lat. '15 unc.) Insectura perpulchrum. 



Inhabits the United States of North America. A single specimen 

 in the cabinet of the Entomological Club, was taken by Mr. R. Foster, 

 at St. John's Bluff, in East Florida. 



Lep. aurigera. Nigra, lanuginosa, ore flavo : antennae fuscse : or- 

 bitus oculorum aureus : prothorax aureo-lanuginosus, disco me- 

 diano subnigro : elytra apice truncata haud acuminata, nigra, 

 fasciis 4 aureis, margine costali ferruginea : subtus splendide 

 aureo-lanuginosa : pedes testacei. (Corp. long. *4 unc. lat. "15 

 unc.) 



Inhabits the United States of North America. The specimens in 

 the cabinet of the Entomological Club, were taken by Mr. R. Foster 

 at Trenton Falls, in the State of New York. This beautiful insect is 

 irequently labelled as the Lep. Zebra, to which, regarded superficially, 

 it bears a considerable resemblance. 



LcjD. biforis. Nigra, aureo-lanuginosa; antennis pcdibusque fuscis ; 

 elytra obscuro-testacea, macula utriusque laterali nigra : abdo- 

 men testaceum ; prothorax capitem versus profunde transverse 

 impressus, disco profunde longitudinaliter impressus. (Corp. 

 long. '6 unc. lat. '2 unc.) 



Inhabits the United States of North America. A single specimen 

 in the cabinet of the Entomological Club, was taken by Mr. R. Foster 

 at Trenton Falls, in the state of New York. 



