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2. L. ASPERSA. — Covered with cinereous hair; elytra with 

 numerous black dots. 



Inhabits Mississippi and Missouri. 



Body reddish-brown or blackish, covered with cinereous hair : 

 head black : antennae longer than the body : thorax with a small, 

 acute, reflected spine behind the middle each side, and with two 

 or four black dots above placed in a transverse series, the two 

 intermediate ones larger : elytra reddish-brown, with numerous 

 black dots ; tip emarginate, bidentate : beneath black, covei'ed 

 with cinereous hair : thighs clavate, pale reddish-brown at base. 



Length less than one-fourth of an inch. [331] 



This insect is not uncommon in the western regions. It varies 

 a little in having the black elytral spots smaller, or in having 

 some of them which are situated behind the midde, confluent 

 into a band. I have taken a specimen of this insect near Phila- 

 delphia, at Harrowgate, the seat of my friend Mr. J. Gilliams, 

 in a rye field. 



[Belongs to Liopus. — Leg.] [403] 



MONEILEMA* Say. 



Essential character. — Elytra undivided ; wings none. 



Natural character. — Body convex : head vertical : antennae 

 eleven-jointed, [404] setaceous, inserted into a profound emargi- 

 nation of the eye ; first joint elongated, robust ; second joint very 

 short, third nearly as long as the first; remaining joints gradu- 

 ally diminishing in length to the tip : eyes rather small, pro- 

 foundly emarginate : labrum prominent, rounded : mandibles ro- 

 bust, emarginate at tip : palpi, terminal articulation as robust as 

 the preceding one, rounded at tip : labiales inserted near the base 

 of the labium: labium prominent, bifid; lobes rounded: elytra 

 consisting of one piece, convex, subovate, narrowed behind, sub- 

 truncate at tip, and rather shorter than the abdomen : epipleura 

 dilated, encasing the abdomen each side : feet robust : thighs 

 clavate. 



M. ANNULATA [annulatum.] — Thorax with a very short 

 tubercle ; antennae annulate. 



Inhabits Missouri Territory. 



* Signifying one covering. 

 1824.] 



