ENTOMOLOGICAL WRITINGS 



OF 



THOMAS SAY. 



[From the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 2 ; 

 June, 1817 : pp. 19—23] 



Descriptions of several New Species of North American Insects. 

 Order COLEOPTERA. 

 Genus CICTNDELA Linn. Fab. &c. 

 Antennse inserted into the anterior margin of the eye. Palpi 

 filiform, the intermediate and posterior ones nearly equal, penulti- 

 mate joint of the latter hairy. Thorax short. Elytra flat, rounded 

 at the tip. Clypeus shorter than the labrum. 



1. C. FORMOSA, American Entomology, Plate VI.* [Plate 

 XVIII : ante, 1, 35.] 



2. C. DECEMNOTATA, American Entomology, Plate VI. [Plate 

 XVIII : ante, 1, 34.] [20] 



8. C. DORSALis. — Brassy : elytra white ; two curved lines on 

 each, suture and curved branch near the base green: lip and tail pale. 



Inhabits New Jersey. 



Head brassy, naked, with green edges. Labrum, mandibles and 

 palpi white ; tips of the mandibles and terminal joint of the palpi 

 dusky. Thorax brassy, varied with green, margin and back longi- 

 tudinally hairy. Scutel green. Elytra white, irregularly punc- 

 tured ; suture green, a lunated branch on each elytron terminating 

 at the middle of the base ; disk with two abbreviated lines, of 

 which the anterior is curved outwards and the posterior one in- 

 wards, respectively terminating at one of the ends opposite the cen- 



*These reference are to the suppressed first edition of the American En- 

 tomology, which I have never seen. The first volume of the second 

 edition reprinted in this work was published in 1824. — Lec. 



