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blackish and rosaceous, sometimes a blackish vitta trilobate at 

 base, and a lateral marginal spot : seutel blackish : elytra gray- 

 brown, the edge and sometimes the margin all around, and two 

 or three lines on each elytron, yellowish : beneath blackish, 

 generally varied with rosaceous and yellowish. 



Length over half an inch. 



Var. a. An oblong-subquadrate, marginal, yellowish spot be- 

 hind the humerus. 



A large species, wider and shorter than L. versicolor Fabr., 

 which it somewhat resembles in the character of the elytra, as it 

 does L. angulata nob., in that of the thorax. 



2. L. BTFARIA. — Antennae with two processes from the base 

 of each joint. 



Inhabits North Carolina, Harris. 



Body black, densely punctured: head with a carinate [158] 

 line : antennae at the base of each joint, excepting the first, 

 second and ultimate ones, with two opposite processes at least as 

 long as the joint and nearly as thick : thorax fulvous, with a di- 

 lated black vitta not reaching the anterior edge ; an impressed 

 line ; elytra confluently punctured, appearing granulated. 



Length nearly seven-twentieths of an inch. 



Remarkable by the form of the antennae. 



[Afterwards described as Polladasis ovata Newman, and is 

 placed by Lacordaire in Galyptocephalus. — Leg.] 



CANTHARIS Lin. 



1. C. TRICOSTATUS. — Elytra widened and rounded laterally, 

 with three elevated lines. 



Inhabits Pennsylvania ; Massachusetts, Harris. 



Body black, with small dull yellowish hairs: head piceous at 

 base ; front yellow, oval margin blackish ; before the eyes and 

 base of the mandibles yellow : antennte, second joint nearly 

 equal to the third, which is obviously shorter than the following 

 ones : maxillary palpi much longer than the labials, black : tho- 

 rax transverse, yellow ; disk fuscous ; each side widely concave ; 

 anteriorly widely truncate ; posteriorly widely emarginate : elytra 

 laterally roundedly dilated; three prominent lines; humerus 

 prominent : feet dark piceous; knees paler. 

 1835.] 



