•20 NEW SPECIES OF INSECTS. 



Lip three-toothed, white; mandibles black, white at 

 the base. Elytra with a white spot on the shoulder; a se- 

 cond one equidistant from the first and the band, which 

 is broad, arising from the middle of the margin, refracted 

 at the centre of the elytron and terminated near the suture 

 in a line with the tip of the third spot ; third spot large, 

 orbicular, and placed near the external tip of the terminal 

 one which is transverse and triangular. Body beneath 

 green : fail and trochanters purple. — Length three-fifths 

 of an inch nearly. 



The specimen from which this description was taken 

 is a female, it was found by Mr. T. Nuttall. 



3. C. dor sails. Brassy : Elytra white; two curvied 

 lines on each, suture and curved branch near the base 

 green : lip and tail pale. 



Inhabits New Jersey. 



Head brassy, naked, with green edges. Labrum, man- 

 dibles and palpi white ; tips of the mandibles and terminal 

 joint of the palpi dusky. Thorax brassy, varied with 

 green, margin and back longitudinally hairy. Scutel 

 green. Elytra white, irregularly punctured; suture green, 

 a lunated branch on each elytron terminating at the middle 

 of the base ; disk with two abbreviated lines, of which 

 the anterior is curved outwards and the posterior one in- 

 wards, respectively terminating at one of the euds-^:)po- 

 site the centre of the other. Body beneath hairy on the 

 sdes; hair short, prostrate, cinereous; last segment of the 

 abdomen and tail yellowish. On the sea beach of New 

 Jersey; numerous. 



4- C. hirticollis. Dull brownish-cupreous, beneath 

 green ; trunk and head with cinereous hair ; lip white ; 



