128 ORDER COLEOPTERA. 



Pachyta cordifera ( Oliv.). (Plate viii, fig. 12.) 



' Front clothed with yellow hair ; frontal line impressed. Prothorax much widened and 



biarcuate posteriorly, covered with yellow hair, and having the median line obsolete. 



Elytra divaricate, and separately pointed at the tip : a minute black spot at the basal 



angle, and another ( sometimes double ) between it and the large median macula. 



Length nearly half an inch ' ( Haldeman, Longicomia, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. x, 59). 



A variety, lunaris, also described in the same work, is black, tomentose : venter didl 



rufous ; elytra yellow ; apex, and a semicircular macula behind the middle on the anterior 



margin, black. 



Grammoptera . ( Plate xxvi, fig. 3.) 



Body- black : eyes black, and slightly emarginate on the inner side ; color of the upper 

 side luteous. Apex of the elytra black, and the spot toothed on the basal side. Length 

 half an inch. 



