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reaching the suture ; a broad band rather behind the middle, and 

 another at tip : feet ochreous. 



Length three-twentieths of an inch. 



I have found this pretty little species on the common Juniper, 

 early in July. 



[Also a lAopus. — Lec] 



6. L. SPINOSA. — Covered with short, prostrate gray hair ', an- 

 tennae gray and black. 



Saperda sjyinosa Melsh. Catal. 



Head deeply indented between the antennae : labrum piceous : 

 antenna longer than the body, black, each joint gray at base : 

 thorax cylindrical, immaculate ; an acute, slightly recurved spine 

 near the posterior angles ; elytra with numerous small impressed 

 [272] punctures, at tip truncated : venter with a series of almost 

 concealed black spots on each side. 



Length more than three-tenths of an inch. 



The general form is that of a Saperda ; but, agreeably to the 

 generic characters, the spines of the thorax determine the affinity. 



[I formed a special genus Dectes for this insect, but it seems 

 to be scarcely distinct from Liopus. — Leg.] 



SAPERDA Fabr. 



1. S. ciNGULATA. — Brownish-cinereous, with obsolete fulvous 

 dots ; elytra with a dull cinereous band. 



Saperda cingidata Melsh. Catal. 



Body robust, covered with short prostrate hairs : head varied 

 with fulvous, a slender fulvous line around the eye, a frontal in- 

 dented line : antennae much longer than the body, bnt not twice 

 as long : thorax obviously broader than long, slightly varied with 

 fulvous: elytra with numerous, obsolete, small fulvous dots; at 

 base and tip broadly reddish-brown ; a broad cinereous, somewhat 

 undulated band on the middle. 



Length eleven-twentieths of an inch. 



This is not common. Occurs on the Hickory. 



[Belongs to Oncideres. — Lec] 



2. S. NIGRA. — Entirely black, immaculate ; elytra irregularly 

 punctured. 



Saperda nigra Melsh. Catal. 



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