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Body deep black, polished ; head with rather distant, 

 profound punctures ; region of the antennae a little elevated 

 and dull rufous ; antennx pale, dusky at base and tip ; 

 thorax punctured ; punctures rather large and profound, 

 but not very dense ; no impressed line ; posterior angles 

 with a minute abrupt excurvature, acute ; elytra punctured 

 like the thorax, with a longitudinal white vitta on the mid- 

 dle of each, commencing at the middle of the base and ex- 

 tending rectilinearly, with a slight degree of attenuation 

 near to the tip, and occupying about the sixth part of the 

 surface ; feet pale, posterior thighs dusky towards the tip. 



Length three-twentieths of an inch. 



This species resembles A. striolata, Schoenh. (which 

 seems to be the Crioceres vittata and Galleruca elon- 

 gata of Fabr., and Mr. J. F. Melsheimer quotes also as sy- 

 nonymous the A. Jlexuosa, Panzer,) but it is larger, of a 

 more elongated form, and the vitta of the elytra is not 

 flexuous as in that common and profusely named insect. 1 

 have not met with it in the Atlantic states. 



EUMOLPUS, KugelL Lair. 



1. E. flavidus. Pale yellowish j elytra striate with 

 4ouble series of punctures. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body densely punctured ; punctures rather large and 

 profound ; head with two slightly elevated tubercles be- 

 tween the antennse ; thorax tinged with rufous j elytra 

 with elevated lines, of which the inner one curves round 

 at base and descends a short distance to unite with the su- 

 tural line ; interstitial spaces, excepting the subsutural one 

 and the two exterior ones, with double ^erif^s of rather 



