OF PHILADELPHIA. 207 



IMATIMUM Fabr. 



1. I. 17-PUNCTATUM. — Yellowish; thorax four-spotted; elytra 

 twelve-spotted. 

 Inhabits Arkansa. 



Body pale yellowish, punctured : antennse black at tip : front 

 with an impressed line : mouth dusky : thorax four-spotted in a 

 transverse series ; the two intermediate spots most distant: scutel 

 black : elytra each six-spotted ; spots subequal, placed obliquely 

 2, 2, 2, and an obsolete common one near the suture : beneath 

 yellow, or yellow varied with black : tarsi black. 

 Length two-fifths, breadth one-fourth of an inch. 

 The position of the black spots is as iu IS-punctafa, but their 

 number differs; the general color is different, and \l-punctata is 

 of a more slender form than its congener. Found near the 

 Ftocky Mountains. 



[This is C. crlhraria Fabr., and belongs to Chelymorplia. — 

 Lec] 



2. I. CYANEUM. — Suborbicular, blue, with dilated punctures; 

 antennae pale. 



Inhabits Georgia. 



Body deep blue, suborbicular, with profound, excavated punc- 

 tures ; head slightly punctured; a longitudinal, impressed line : 

 antennae, excepting the basal joint, pale yellow : thorax, poste- 

 rior edge forming nearly a semicircle, lobate at the scutel ; 

 lateral edge almost transverse ; anterior margin very profoundly 

 emarginate; punctures, each side [436] dilated, on the middle 

 obsolete : scutel purple, truncate at tip : elytra, humeral angle 

 advanced subacute ; punctures arranged in series, and each with 

 a minute, central, purplish tubercle ; tergum sanguineous : be- 

 neath black, impunctured. 

 Length one-fifth of an inch. 



A very beautiful species, commmon on the sea islands of 

 Georgia and Fiast Florida. 



[Belongs to Porjihi/raspis Boh., and is Cassida erytlirocera 

 Germ. The specific names both bear the date of 1824 ; the one 

 of Germar is adopted by Boheman and will therefore prevail. — 

 Lec] 

 1824.] 



