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Body deep black, polished, obsoletely punctured : labrum at 

 tip, and antennae at base, pale : elytra with striae of large profound 

 punctures; a large, red, humeral spot extending along the base 

 to the scutel, and along the exterior margin nearly to the middle : 

 a large, orbicular, red spot near the tip of each elytron. [442] 



Var. a. Humeral spot not extending along the base, but oblong- 

 oval. 



Var. b. Humeral and terminal spots elongated so as to unite 

 on the margin. 



Length one-fifth of an inch. 



Very similar in color and appearance to Clythra 4i-(/uttata. 



COLASPTS Fabr. Latr. 



1. C. PRETEXTA. — Metallic ; thorax and elytra edged with 

 green ; antennae and feet pale. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Eumolpus metaUicus Knoch in Melsh. Catal. 



Body dull reddish or dusky, tinged with cupreous; polished, 

 punctured ; head, punctures remote ; a profoundly impressed, 

 frontal line : antennse and palpi pale, whitish : labrum and tip of 

 the clypeus somewhat piceous : thorax, punctures profound, sub- 

 equally distributed ; lateral, reflected edge green : scutel, punc- 

 tures obsolete : elytra, pimctures, rather large, scattered irregu- 

 larly at base ; near the tip smaller, and approaching regular se- 

 ries ; beneath piceous : feet pale. 



Length more than one-fifth of an inch. 



It is not uncommon on the myrtle. The name mctaUicus is 

 pre-occupied. 



[This is C. picipes 01.; it is placed in Dej can's Catalogue in 

 Chalcophana, a genus of which I have not seen any description. 

 — Lec] 



2. C. OvATA. — Blackish-coppery, convex ; antennae and feet 

 pale rufous. 



Inhabits the United States. [443] 



Euniolpus ovatus Knoch in Melsh. Catal. 



Body blackish, with a cupreous tinge, punctured : head densely 

 punctured : antennae and palpi entirely pale rufous or yellowish : 

 labrum piceous : thorax with dense, somewhat equally distributed 

 punctures : elytra, punctures longer, and irregularly disposed at 

 1824.] 



