446 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



This species is perhaps a Dromia, \^Dromms.'\ 

 [Afterwards described as C^mindis comjilanataDey; it belongs 

 to the genus Pinacodera Schaum, Ins. Deutschl. 1, 294. — Lec] 



GALEMTA Fabr. 



Anterior tibia emarginate ; elytra truncate at tip ; palpi secu- 

 riform; tongue exserted, coriaceous in the middle, membranace- 

 ous each side, and pointed at tip ; neck distinct ; penultimate 

 tirsal joint bilobate. 



G. AMERICANA. — Black ; thorax and feet ferruginous ; elytra 

 black-blue. 



G. americana black ; thorax ferruginous ; eljtra azure. Fab. [Syst. 

 Eleut. 2, p. 214. Latr. Regne Animal. 



Carahus Janus Fab. Syst. Eleut. 1. 136, 51. 



Carahus hicolor Drury Ent. 1, tab. 42, fig. 2. 



Zuphium americanum Lamarck, An. San. Vert., Vol. 4, p. 505. 



Antennae reddish, filiform, a little longer than half the body ; head 

 black, advanced ; thorax narrow, subcordate, reddish ; elytra black or 

 blueish black, striated ; beneath black ; feet reddish, long. N. Amer. 

 Cab. of M. Gigot d'Orcy, Oliv. 3, p. 63, t. 6, f. 72. 



Galerita americana Edinb. Encyc. 



Length three-fourths of an inch. [16] 



Body with very short dense hairs ; head black ; front with 

 two indented lines ; vertex with an obsolete rufous spot ; antennse 

 testaceous ; second, third, fourth, and tip of the first joints black ; 

 palpi testaceous ; thorax and feet ferruginous ; elytra black-blue 

 opake ; about eight distant, acute, impunctured stria?. 



Very common under stones, &c. in various parts of the United 

 States, and in Florida. Found also by Mr. Nuttall on the 

 Missouri. 



[G^. Janus is the name now adopted for this species. — Lec] 



ODACANTHA Fabr. 



Anterior tibiss emarginate ; elytra truncated at tip ; head at- 

 tenuated behind ; palpi filiform; tongue exserted, coriaceous in 

 the middle, and membranaceous each side. 



1. 0. PENSYLVANiCA. — Black; elytra rufous with punc- 

 tured striae at the base ; marginal spot, sutural spot and tip 

 black, 



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