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Body pale yellowish-white : head with two or three obsolete 

 dull sanguineous spots on the vertex in the form of curves or 

 circles : eyes dusky : thorax, a sanguineous line abbreviated be- 

 fore, and an obsolete curve at the anterior angle : hemelytra 

 whitish, irrorate with sanguineous ; a dilated, brownish, inter- 

 rupted, subbasal band ; an obsolete interrupted band behind the 

 middle, upon the posterior costal termination of which is an ab- 

 breviated sanguineous line, and an oblique blackish band near 

 the tip ; a large quadrate white immaculate spot on the middle 

 of the costal margin ; humeral base white, immaculate : tergura 

 dusky at base : feet white. 



Length to the tip of the hemelytra one-eighth of an inch. 



The spots of the head and thorax are sometimes hardly dis- 

 (•ernible, and the intermediate band is often so faint and inter- 

 rupted as to be overlooked. 



7. T. BASiLARis. — Pale yellowish, varied with sanguineous ; 

 elytra reddi.>?h-brown at base. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body pale yellowish : head obsoletely varied with sanguine- 

 ous : eyes dusky or black : thorax dusky behind : anterior mar- 

 gin with four or five obsolete sanguineous spots : scutel dusky 

 reddish-brown or sanguineous at tip : hemelytra with a broad 

 band of reddish-brown at base ; a spot on the middle of the 

 thinner margin, then an oblique line, and another oblique line 

 towards the tip, sanguineous; at the inner extremity of the latter 

 is a very minute black point. 



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



[From Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, Vol. .5, 1825, pp. 32 — 47.] 



Bescriptions of New Species of HISTEB and HOIOLEPTA, inhabiting 

 the United States. 



Read May 10, 1825. 



HISTER. 

 Famili/1. — Head with a transverse stria; thorax with one or 

 two striae ; tibiae dentated. 



A. Thorax with two lateral striae, entire or one abbreviated. 

 ■\ Elytra with the marginal stria. 



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