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Length nearly seven-tenths of an inch. 

 This species is very distinct from any other that I have 

 seen and very readily recognized. 



PHALERIA, Latr. 



1. P. testacea. Pale testaceous, beneath black; thorax 

 impunctured; elytra striate, and with a blackish spot on 

 each near the tip. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body oblong-oval, polished; head hardly perceptibly 

 punctured; a transverse indented line before the eyes; an- 

 tennsB sensibly dilated towards the tip; joints from the 

 sixth to the tenth inclusive, transverse, hemispheric-com- 

 pressed, perfoliate; eleventh nearly globose; thorax trans- 

 verse-quadrate, impunctured, rather wider behind ; an im- 

 pressed puncture each side on the basal margin, anterior 

 angles rounded; scutel blackish; elytra striated, striae 

 slightly punctured, more deeply impressed behind, abbre- 

 viated at the humeral angle; a blackish-brown spot on each 

 near the tip; tergum blackish; beneath black; feet pale 

 testaceous; anterior tibia serrate with short spines, tip 

 rather abruptly dilated, forming almost a lobe on the ex- 

 terior side; intermediate and posterior pairs spinulose-ser- 

 rated, gradually dilating towards the tip. 



Length more than one-fourth of an inch. 



This insect is not uncommon. It occurs in Pennsylva- 

 nia, and under dead marine animals on the sea-beach, from 

 New Jersey to Florida. 



2. ^. picipes. Black; antennae, mouth and feet piceous. 

 Inhabits the southern states. 



Head destitute of an impressed line before the eyes; 

 antenJise and thorax formed as in the preceding species, 



