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CUPES Fabr. 



1. C. CINEREA. — Browuish-cinereous ; elytra with fuscous 

 spots ami uadulations. 



Inhabits ludiana, Ohio, and Louisiana. 



Body pale brownish-cinereous ; head on each side above the 

 eyes, with a series of three tubercles, of which the posterior one 

 is convex, the middle one is most prominent and acute, and the 

 anterior one is at the superior base of the antennae; eyes promi- 

 nent, black, polished; antennEe nearly as long as the body, robust : 

 thorax with a carinate line on the middle, widely impressed each 

 side and with four indentations on the anterior margin ; anterior 

 angles emarginate : elytra with elevated lines and intervening- 

 series of large regular punctures, several abbreviated dark red- 

 dish-brown lines and spots which form about three undulated 

 bands, of which one is near the base, one on the middle, and one 

 near the tip : venter paler, somewhat testaceous. 



Length over seven-twentieths of an inch. 



This is the second species of this rare genus that has yet been 

 discovered ; I obtained numerous specimens in the vicinity of 

 New Harmony, Indiana, and one near Springfield, Ohio, and the 

 specimen from 3Ir. Barabino proves that it inhabits a considerable 

 portion of the [ 163 ] Union. The species is widely different from 

 the cajji'tata, which I have not found in this region. 



[The following description of the foregoing species was found 

 among Mr. Say's papers, and, as it contains some particulars not 

 noticed above, we have thought proper to insert it in this place. — 

 Pith. Com.] 



C. CINEREA. — Cinereous; elytra with abbreviated blackish 

 lines. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body cinereous, covered with minute scales : head inequal : 

 thorax inequal, anterior angles not excurved : elytra with largely 

 punctured stria, the interstitial lines convex, subequal, the alter- 

 nate ones a little larger; numerous abbreviated fuscous or black- 

 ish lines, hardly to be traced into three or four very oblique 



bands. 



Length seven-twentieths to two-fifths of an inch. 



1835.] 



