long's second expedition. 197 



from the vertex bifurcates near the antennae; antennae, five basal 

 joints testaceous, more slender than the remaining ones, and 

 hardly equalling their collective length ; palpi testaceous, termi- 

 nal joint black; thorax with short, prostrate, cinereous hairs like 

 those of the head; punctured, punctures rather large, giving 

 origin to the hairs ; transversely oval ; sides without edges ; ely- 

 tra testaceous ; punctures numerous, rather large, subequidistant, 

 giving origin to prostrate hairs ; beneath deeper black, with 

 smaller punctures and shorter hairs ; feet also with fine hairs, 

 more numerous on the tibiae which are testaceous. 



Length $ more than three-twentieths, V one-fifth of an inch. 



[Considered by Kirby as the same with the Europeau Adoxus 

 or Bromius vitis. — Lec.] 



COCCINELLA Linn. 



C. bitriangularis. — White; thorax with six, elytra each 

 with nine black spots. 



Inhabits North-west Territory. 



Body above white ; vertex black, the color extending down- 

 wards in a point near each eye ; thorax with six large [297] 

 black subquadrate spots, placed by threes in two triangles, one 

 on each side of the middle, the two inner spots of each triangle 

 sometimes confluent ; scutel black ; elytra, each with nine spots, 

 placed as follows : one, large subquadrate ; two small ; one large 

 oblong ; two small ; two, the exterior one elongated ; one small, 

 transverse ; beneath black ; feet yellowish-white. 



Length more than one-tenth of an inch. 



[Apparently the same as G. multiguttata Randall. Bost. Jour. 

 Nat. Hist. 2, 51, which belongs to Hippodamia. — Lec] 



ORDER OR1HOPTERA. 



SPECTRUM Stoll. Lam. 



S. femoratum. — Apterous ; intermediate thighs dilated, an- 

 gulated, and with the posterior thighs armed with a spine near 

 the tip. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body greenish-brown, without any rudiments of hemelytra; 

 head yellowish with three dilated fuscous vittao ; antenna', 

 elongated, brown ; anterior thighs unarmed, simple, bright green : 



