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scarcely longer than the fourth: prothorax between bell-shaped and a 
truncated cone, a little constricted in the middle, fringed with yellow hairs 
anteriorly and posteriorly : scutellum triangular: elytra testaceous, yellow 
at the base, and with three yellow bands, the first interrupted ; oblique 
sinus at the apex not so deep as in the two preceding species: legs 
testaceous ; abdomen of a deeper colour ; and segments scarcely emargi- 
nate. This species differs in habit from the two preceding ones, it is. 
narrower in proportion, and comes nearer to Z. guadrifasciata, but the 
posterior angles of the prothorax, though acute, are not so prominent ; it 
belongs however to the same subdivision, with the last mentioned insect. 
[Considered by Newman to be synonymous with Strangalia fugax. | 
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244. LEPTURA BREVIS Kirby.—Length of body 5 lines. Taken in 
Canada by Dr. Bigsby. . 
Body shorter than usual in proportion to its width ; black, underneath 
minutely punctured and thinly covered with rather silvery decumbent 
hairs. Head thickly and confluently punctured, rather downy with erect © 
_ hoary hairs ; antennæ shorter than the body ; fourth, fifth, and sixth joints 
long and slenderer than the rest; six last short and pale at the base: 
prothorax between bell-shaped and globose, deeply and confluently punc- 
tured ; downy with some erect hoary hairs ; anteriorly constricted, poster- 
iorly depressed: scutellum linear covered with pale decumbent hairs: 
elytra very grossly and deeply punctured, shorter than the abdomen and 
rounded at the apex, with a lateral band bent a little inwards towards the 
base, which it does not reach, of the colour of the yolk of an egg; anus 
entire : down on the legs yellow. [A variety of Z. vagans Oliv. Taken 
in Canada, also in N. Y. and Penn. | 
245. LEPTURA SEXMACULATA Zinz.—-Length of body 5% lines. Two 
specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 
[183.] Body rather short, black, downy, minutely punctured. Head 
very thickly and minutely punctured, obsoletely channelled; antennæ 
slender, shorter than the body, fifth joint considerably longer than the 
fourth : prothorax shaped as in the preceding species but less depressed 
posteriorly ; very thickly as well as minutely punctured: scutellum tri- 
angular: elytra pale-yellow, with an arched black spot at the base, then 
follows an interrupted band consisting of three acute black spots placed 
in a triangle, beyond the middle is a dentated black band which reaches 
