300 INSECTS OF LOUISIANA. 



New species of North American Insects, found by Joseph Barabiao, chiefly 

 in Louisiana. 



New Harmony, Indiana, January, 1832. 



COLEOPTERA. 



BUPBESTIS Linn. 



B. thureura. — Scutel transversely elongated. 



Inhabits Louisiana. 



Body brassy greenish, with dilated, unequal, impressed punc- 

 tures : vertex with an acute, longitudinal, impressed line : antennae 

 green : thorax with the punctures more confluent each side, and 

 a longitudinal, glabrous line : scutel transversely elongated, sub- 

 bilobate : elytra with punctured striae ; interstitial lines irregu- 

 larly punctured and with unequal and irregular glabrous spaces : 

 edge not obviously serrate; tip with a narrow subemarginate 

 truncation : beneath cupreous, anal segment emarginate. 



Length less than four-fifths of an inch. 



The breadth of the scutel is considerably more than double its 

 length. It resembles lurida F. (which is corrosa Dej.) but the 

 extraordinary latitude of the scutel distinguishes it ; that species 

 has also bidentate elytra, and a tridentate anal segment. 



[Belongs to Poecilonota. — Lec] 



DEBMESTES Fabr. 



D. nubilus. — Thorax with ferruginous hair and black-dots ; 

 elytra clouded with gray and black. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body black, with dense, short hair ; head, hair mixed ferrugin- 

 ous and gray: antennae rufous: thorax, hair mixed [4] ferru- 

 ginous and gray, with numerous, orbicular, black dots, rather 

 larger behind and less orbicular : elytra marbled with grayish 

 or cinereous hairs; beneath densely covered on the postpectus 

 and venter with prostrate white hair : a small black spot each 

 side of the former and a lateral one on each ventral segment : 

 feet dusky, an undulated whitish band on the thighs. 



Length about three-tenths of an inch. 



This is one of our two species that are referred to the murinus 

 F. My European specimens of that species are much mutilated. 



