OF PHILADELPHIA. 195 



approactes the description of Geramhjx r.bulmus of Fab., but, 

 accordino- to Olivier, that insect, which he names Stenocorus tcs- 

 Cace^fs, has the antenucC only a little more than half the length of 

 the body. 



[Belongs to Tragidion, and seems to be a variety of T. coquus. 

 — Leg.] 



8. C 6-FASCiATUM. — Black, varied with short, dense, pros- 

 trate, yellow hair ; margin of the thoi-ax, scutel, and four elytra! 

 fasciae yellow. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body black, punctured, with a few long hairs : head, beneath 

 rufous, above with yellow hair : antennae ferruginous, nearly as 

 long again as the body, and hairy beneath and towards the base ; 

 basal joint dilated, punctured ; mandibles black at tip : thorax 

 deeply margined, with dense yellow hair; transverse disk black, 

 with two hardly elevated, obtuse tubercles, and an intermediate, 

 longitudinal line, and a lateral, very obtuse, hardly elevated tu- 

 bercle each side behind the middle; a transverse, anterior and 

 posterior groove : scutel yellow : elytra, each 4-fasciate ; fasciae 

 yellow, equidistant, subequal ; two anterior ones bent obliquely 

 forward from the suture ; the two posterior ones retrofracted, the 

 last one terminal ; apex of each elytron emarginate : pectus and 

 postpectus with yellow hair and black incisures : feet rufous : 

 thighs dilated, compressed : abdomen fasciate with yellow. [416] 



Length, male three-fourths ; female seven-eighths of an in .^h 



Found under the bark of a decaying elm, on Loutre island, 

 Missouri river. 



[This is the type of Drt/ohius Lee. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 Phila., 2d ser. 2, 23.— Leg.] 



LEPTURA Latr. 



1. L. BlViTTATA. — Elytra pale yellowish-white, with two black 

 vitta on each. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Head black, with much crowded punctures ; an impressed line 

 between the antennae : antennae as long as the body : thorax 

 slightly punctured ; two longitudinal black spots, and an anterior 

 posterior submarginal, impressed line, and an obsolete, dorsal, 

 longitudinal one ; an obtuse, slightly elevated, lateral tubercle : 

 1824.] 



