120 AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGY. 



Clytus CAPREA. — Specific character. Fuscous; thorax with 

 the anterior edge yellow ; elytra with four bands at tip, yellow. 

 C. caprea nobis, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. vol. iii. p. 424. 

 Desc. Body blackish, hairy: head immaculate; antennae short, 

 dull rufous : thorax very hairy ; a longitudinal series of trans- 

 verse, abbreviated, elevated lines, of which the anterior one is 

 much more elevated : a yellow line on the anterior edge, inter- 

 rupted on the side : scutel small, black : elytra dark brown, black- 

 ish towards the base ; four bands and tip yellow : the first and 

 second bands on each elytrum are united in the form of a circle, 

 only interrupted by the prominent humerus ; third band central, 

 and representing a common M ; fourth band drawn obliquely 

 backward from from the suture ; tip emarginate, a prominent 

 spine at the exterior angle : abdomen and posterior portion of the 

 postpectus fasciate with bright yellow sericeous hair : feet hairy, 

 rufous or blackish ; posterior pair elongated ; thighs dilated mu- 

 cronate at tip. 



Obs. A handsome species, easily distinguished from others 

 by the rugous thoracic line, combined with the at the base 

 of the elytra. It inhabits this jState, and Mr T. Nuttall pre 

 sented me with many specimens which he found in Arkansaw. 

 The bands of the elytra are sometimes white. 

 The left figure of the plate. 



[This was subsequently described as C. elcvatus and C. gibbi- 

 collis Lap and Gory. — Lec] 



DANAUS. Plate LIT. 



Generic character. Anterior feet spurious in both sexes ; an- 

 tennae terminated by a club ; palpi distant, subcylindric, slender, 

 short ; inferior wings rounded, not forming a groove for the re- 

 ception of the abdomen ; nails of the tarsi simple. 



Obs. Latreille established this genus to comprehend the Fa- 

 brician genera Euploea and Idea. They were included in the 

 genus Papilio by Linnaeus, and formed part of his division of 

 Danai festivi. 



Danatjs plexippus — Specific character. Wings entire, ful- 

 vous, with dilated black veins, margin black, with white dots. 



Papilio danaus plexippus Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. vol. i. part 5, 

 p. 2278 



