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in that species are nearly vertical. It was found by Mr. Thomas 

 Nuttall. 



[Belongs to Platydema. — Lec] 



2. D.'r* BIFASCIATA. — Reddish-brown ; two bands on the elytra, 

 and region of the scutel black. 



Body reddish-brown, punctured : head reddish-black : eyes 

 black : palpi whitish : thorax with a dusky obsolete spot on the 

 middle, and another on each side ; angles rounded ; punctxires 

 very minute, dense : elytra yellowish-fulvous, with punctured 

 strife : a broad band in the middle, another near the tip, and 

 scutellar region, black : feet pale reddish-brown. 



Length less than one-tenth of an inch. 



Found at Engineer Cantonment. 



[Belongs to Afjjhifophoffus. — Lec] 



CISTELA Fabr. Latr. 



1. C. AMCENA. — Sanguineous; head, elytra, and feet, black. 

 Inhabits Arkansa. [269] 

 Body minutely punctured : head with a transverse indented 



line between the antennae : mouth beneath, excepting the palpi, 

 pale sanguineous : elytra minutely rugose, and with punctured 

 striae. 



Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 



[Probably belongs to Xi/strojms Sol., but I am not certain to 

 what genus it should be referred. — Lec] 



2. C. BREVis. — Black ; antennae, palpi, and feet, rufous. 

 Inhabits Pennsylvania. 



Clstela rujipcs Melsh. Catal. 



Body somewhat dilated, wide, and rather short; head indented 

 on the front and on the hypostoma ; labrum piceous : antennae 

 and palpi rufous : thorax with a longitudinal, submarginal, ab- 

 breviated indentation each side ; posterior angles acute : elytra 

 striate, the stride finely punctured ; interstitial lines convex : feet 

 entirely rufous. 



Length more than seven-twentieths of an inch. 



This species is not the same as the rvfipes of Fabricius. 



[A true Oistela ; a variety of this species with fulvous elytra 

 is G. erythroptera Ziegler, Pr. Acad. Nat. Se. 2, 46. — Lec] 



3. C. BASiLLARis. — Dark chestnut-brown ; elytra striate, with 

 a pale rufous spot at the base of each, 



[Vol. in. 



