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short, prostrate hair, tip unarmed ; beneath blackish with 

 a purplish or slight cupreous tinge j a little hairy, parti- 

 cularly on the postpectus. 

 Length nine-tenths of an inch. 



SAPERDA, Fahr. 



S. vestita. Body entirely covered with a very short 

 greenish-yellow hair; elytra with three small dots. 



Inhabits near the southern extremity of Lake Michigan. 



Jintennx about the length of the body ; eyes dark ches- 

 nut ; thorax with an obsolete dorsal line ; elytra unarmed 

 at tip ; dots black, small, three on each elytrum, placed one 

 before and near the middle, largest, one a little nearer the 

 base and more distant from the suture than the other, and 

 one behind the middle, distant from the preceding in a 

 line with the anterior one. 



Length three-fourths of an inch. 



A very fine insect. It is also sometimes found in Penn- 

 sylvania. 



CLYTUS, Fahr. 



1. C. speciosus. Black ; thorax dilated ; elytra about five- 

 banded ; feet yellow. 



Inhabits near Prairie du Chien. 



Body deep black ; head with a band passing from 

 the vertex round behind the eyes and meeting a band 

 which is round the mouth above, yellow ; a yellow band 

 on the front immediately above the antennai, terminating 

 in the sinus of the eyes ; mandibles yellow ; nasus and 

 labrum pale yellowish, glabrous ; antennse all black ; 

 f Horace subglobular, depressed ; an oblique spot each side 



