LONGS SECOND EXPEDITION. ]') 



rounded, convex, punctured; elytra densely punctured; punc- 

 tures small; striae none; three or four obsolete raised lines. 



Length rather more than two-fifths of an inch. 



A smaller species than the preceding and more rare; it differs 

 also in the color of the labrum, the more rounded form of 

 thorax, and in the elytra being destitute of striae. It may b< 

 sometimes found on plants in June. 



LAGRIA Fabr. Lam. 



L. aenea. — Green; thorax oblong ; elytra punctured ; anti 

 and palpi yellowish. 



Inhabits United States. 



L. aenea Melsh. Catal. 



Body green, sometimes tinged with brassy; head irregularly 

 punctured; with a few scattered hairs, which arc more numci 

 on the labrum ; a transverse groove between the antennas, formed 

 by the incisure of the nasus; antennae yellowish rufous, terminal 

 joint longer than 'the three preceding ones together; palpi yel- 

 lowish ; thorax cylindrical, rather larger than broad, punctured, 

 sometimes with transverse abbreviated wrinkles ; posterior angles 

 [288] slightly excurved ; elytra nearly rectilinear, not dilated at 

 the posterior curvature; punctures dense, profound, rather large; 

 beneath blackish-green ; tarsi dark testaceous. 



Length from two-fifths to nine-twentieths of an inch. 



This is not the Lagria aenea Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. as the 

 late Mr. F. V. Melsheimer supposed it to be, for independently 

 of the different specific characters in the description of that in- 

 sect, it has since been referred by that author to the g< 

 Dasytes, and must therefore be a Pentamerous insect. The cir- 

 cumstance of that species being removed from the genus Lagria 

 enables me to retain the specific name given by Mr. Melsheimer. 

 We obtained a specimen on Red river. 



[Belongs to Statyra Latr., subsequently described as Arthro- 

 macra donacioides Kirby, Faun. Bor. Am. 239. — Leo.] 



LYTTA Fabr. 

 L. aenea nob. varies in being green, with black tarsi. Th< 

 antennae of this species resemble very much those of the genus 

 Mylabrls. 



