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4. T. OBLIQUA. — Body yellowish-white, with two sanguineous 

 lines, connivent upon the head and scutel; hemelytra white, with 

 two sanguineous lines. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Body pale yellowish-white : head with two dilated sanguineous 

 lines, connivent before : antennas, seta as long as the head and 

 thorax, dusky : thorax with two sanguineous lines : scutel with 

 two lines and tip sanguineous : hemelytra whitish, an oblique 

 line from the base slightly refracted on the thinner mai-gin, and 

 terminating behind the middle of the margin ; an oblique longi- 

 tudinal line on the disk, a more abbreviated, obsolete, subcostal 

 line, and a costal line from the base to the middle of the edge, 

 sanguineous : feet whitish : tail rosaceous. 



Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch. 



Found at Engineer Cantonment, and is also common in Penn- 

 sylvania. [343] 



5. T. COMES. — Pale yellowish, with sanguineous spots. 

 Inhabits Missouri. 



Body pale yellowish : head, a transverse sanguineous line, pro- 

 foundly arcuated in the middle, and a smaller transverse spot bC' 

 fore : eyes fuscous : thorax with three sanguineous spots, the 

 lateral ones smaller, and the intermrdiate one arcuated : scutel, a 

 sanguineous spot at tip : hemelytra yellowish-white, spotted with 

 sanguineous ; spots arranged two at base of which the outer 

 one is small, and the inner one elongated and abruptly dilated 

 on the inner side at tip ; two upon the middle, of which the out- 

 er one is elongated in a very oblique line ; two behind the mid- 

 dle, of which the inner one is obliquely elongated, and the outer 

 one smaller, and interrupted ; and a transverse linear one near 

 the tip, ramose upon the nervures : feet whitish. 



Length to the tip of the hemelytra, one-ninth of an inch. 



The Hue and spot on the head and the spots of the thorax are 

 sometimes obsolete, but always visible, and the latter are some- 

 times connected by curving towards the anterior edge of the tho- 

 rax. The spots of the hemelytra are also sometimes slightly in- 

 terrupted, or connected into four oblique bands. 



6. T. TRTFASCIATA. — Pale yellowish-white; elytra [344] ir- 

 rorate with reddish and somewhat trifasciate with dusky. 



Inhabits Missouri. 

 1825.] 



