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Body black, naked, glossy. Nose with a bilobed reddish-yellow spot 

 at the apex ; front with a yellow curvilinear spot adjoining the eyes on 

 their inner side ; between the eyes behind is a pair of round impressions, 

 and a longitudinal intermediate abbreviated channel ; antennje mutilated 

 in the specimen, but what remains of them is reddish yellow ; prothorax 

 levigated, but sprinkled with very minute and slight punctures, visible 

 only under a powerful magnifier ; behind with a slight sinus on each side : 

 scutellum levigated and elevated posteriorly : elytra deeply j)unrtured 

 with the punctures arranged in rows, the sixth row from the suture is 

 interrupted, and in the interstices on each side of it are some irregular 

 punctures, the intermediate rows do not reach the apex ; a luteous band, 

 abbreviated next the suture and growing gradually wider till it reaches 

 the lateral margin, and an irregular spot at the apex of the same colour, 

 distinguish the elytra. 



Fabricius describes his C. notatus in so few words that it admits of 

 some doubt whether his insect is synonymous with Dr. Bigsby's here 

 characterized. The spots at the apex can scarcely be denominated 

 punda, but as he occasionally designates a large spot by this term, and 

 both insects are fron) North America, for the present it may be allowed 

 to stand under the above name. [Haldeman states that •' C. notatus 

 Fab. is southern. The northern species, described by Kirby under the 

 same name, has been called C sellaius by SufiVian." Common in Toronto 

 and other parts of Ontario.] 



[209.] 279. EuMoi.PUS (;\d()XUs) vitis Fabf. — Length of body 2^ 

 lines. Several taken in the journey from New York, in lat. 54° and 65°. 



[210.J Body black, a Httle glossy, hairy with cinerascent hairs, 

 minutely punctured. Palpi rufous, last joint black ; five first joints of 

 the antennae rufous, the rest black : elytra and tibiae rufous. 



Both (jeoffroy and Fabricius complain of the ravages committed by 

 this little species upon the vine in Europe, and probably it is equally 

 destructive to those of America. [A very destructive insect in Europe, 

 but of doubtful occurrence in America.] 



FA\aLY CHRVSOMELID.*:. 



280. Chrysomela Philadelphia Z/««. — Length of body 3^ — 4 — 

 4^ lines. The type and viiriety C taken in Canada by Dr, Bigsby. 

 Variety B in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. 



Body oblong, black-green, naked, glossy, convex, punctured with 



scattered punctures. Palpi, antennae, rhinarium, and legs rufous ; labrum 

 hairy: prothorax with the punctures at the sides more numerous than 



