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Body white : eyes fuscous ; a small spot on the vertex, and 

 another behind each eye, light brown : antennae moderate, 

 slightly tinged with bluish : thorax light brown, with two broad, 

 white lines approaching before : elytra light brown, irregularly 

 punctured ; a broad, white, longitudinal line on each, nearer to 

 the suture than to the outer edge. 



Length from one-half to seven-tenths of an inch. 



A very pretty insect. In the larvae state it is very injurious to 

 the apple tree; boring into the wood. 



[^Previously described by Fabricius as S. Candida. — Leg.] 



8. S. MUTiCA. — Reddish-brown, covered with cinereous and 

 ferruginous hair ; elytra mutic ; antennae annulated. 



Inhabits Missouri Territory. 



Body dark reddish-brown, partially covered with cinereous- 

 yellow, prostrate hair, varied with ferruginous hair : front, and a 

 geminate line on the vertex, ferruginous : antennae annulate, with 

 cinereous and blackish ; shorter than the body : thorax trilineate, 

 with ferruginous : scutel yellow, subemarginate behind : elytra 

 with yellowish-cinereous hair, varied with ferruginous spots ; 

 numerous glabrous punctures ; tip mutic, obtusely sublanceolate. 



Length half an inch. [410] 



Very much resembles S. calcarata, and may possibly prove to 



be a sexual variety, nevertheless the differences are remarkable ; 



in the present insect the antennae are shorter than the body, and 



annulated, and the elytra are destitute of a spinose point at tip, 



[A very distinct species. — Lec] 



CERAMBYX Fabr. 



C. SOLITARIUS. — Black; thorax bituberculate each side ; elytra 

 destitute of elevated lines. 



Inhabits LTpper Arkansa. 



Body deep black, immaculate, punctured : head with a longi- 

 tudinal, impressed line between the eyes ; front transversely in- 

 dented, and with one or two small, abbreviated, elevated, trans- 

 verse lines ; a slight tubercle at the inner base of the antennae : 

 antennae long ; basal joints a little hispid beneath : labrum 

 piceous : thorax, with three very obtuse, hardly elevated tubercles 

 behind, placed transversely ; lateral edge with two tubercles, of 

 which the anterior one is more obtuse, and the posterior one is 

 1824.] 



