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thickly covered with h.iirs glittering like silver , in luuing the throat pale 

 red ; the fifth joint of the antennae hmger than the fourth ; the punctures 

 of the elytra more numerous and scattered ; the yellow stripe ninnir.Li 

 nearer to the apex of the elytra, diluted at the base and not tlexuose : the 

 fore-breast also in the disk, the after-breast on ea<:h side, and the lose of 

 the thig'!^ are obscurely red : the tibia: are piceo\:s. 



*■ ft h. 



2.\.S. I,!.i'iTRA su!iAK<;i:M ATA A'/>/^.— Length of the body 4 hnes. 

 Taken in I -at. 05*^'. 



]>o:iv narrow, entirely black, very minutely and thickly puncturejd. 

 underneath giiitering. but less cons]ticuously with silver pile ; antenna- 

 shorter tlian the body, nearly filiform, fourth and fifth joints of equal 

 length ; prothorax perfectly bell-.haped. anteriorly not constricted, 

 posterior angles acute, di'.erging and covered with silver jiile : elytra 

 rounded at the apex. [1 aken in Canada and Lake Superior.] 



[185.] 249. Lr.i'fURA siMiLih. AVr/^/.-— Length of bodv 3^3 lines. .\ 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65*^. 



This may possibl)' be the other sex of the preceding species which it 

 resembles in every respect, e.xcept that the antennae are rather longer, the 

 .scape or first joint, all but the base on the upper side, is rufous, a- are 

 likewise the thighs and four anterior tibia; : the posterior thighs are 

 however black at the apex. 



250. Lei'TURa LOXGi'CORNis Kirhy. — lenuth c;f bod)' 5 b'nes. \ 

 .sii-.gle sj)e* imcn taken in i.at. 65'. 



.\\ first sight this species a good deal resembles L scnih-i/fata and 

 pa'osa of the forme- section, but its eyes are entire, and its antennae 

 much slenderer and of r. different type, more nearly resembling those of 

 Z. argeufaia and s/;;:i/is. Body black, minutely punctured, downy, 

 especially underneath, with silvery hairs. Head minutely, thickly, and 

 confluentjy punctured ; labruni and base of the mandibles rufous ; last 

 joint of the palpi securiform; antennae very slender nearly as long as the 

 body . scape incrassated, rufous, black at the ba.^e : prothorax a little 

 constricted anteriorly, very thickly ];unctureu ^^;th a longitudinal dorsal 

 impuncture'^ line or channel : scutellum longitudinally ccr :ave, rounded 

 at the apex ; elytra nearly linear, grossly punctured, glossy, nearly black, 

 with a pale stripe extending from the middle of tlie base to near the ajiex, 

 and gradually approaching the suture ; apex subtruncated : legs rufous at 

 the base. [Relongs to the genus Acmceofs Lee] 



