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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. nofatus in so few words that it admits of 
some doubt whether his insect is synonymous with Dr. Bigsbys here 
characterized. The spots at the apex can scarcely be denominated 
puncta, but as he occasionally designates a large spot by this term, and 
both insects are from North America, for the present it may be allowed 
to stand under the above name. [Haldeman states that “C. nofatus 
Fab. is southern. The northern species, described by Kirby under the 
same name, has been called C. se//atus by Suffrian.” Common in Toronto 
and other parts of Ontario. | 
[209.] 279. Eumorpus (Apoxus) viris Fabr.—Length of body 234 
lines. Several taken in the journey from New York, in lat. 54° and 65°. 
[210.| Body black, a little glossy, hairy with cinerascent haïrs, 
minutely punctured. Palpi rufous, last joint black ; five first jomts of 
the antennae rufous, the rest black: elytra and tibiae rufous. 
Both Geoffroy 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. | 
FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDX. 
280. CHRYSOMELA PHILADELPHIA Zinm.—Length of body. 3 %—4— 
434 lines. The type and variety 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 
those on the ‘disk: elytra pallid, with a longitudinal stripe at the suture 
with three diverging obsolete branches, and several irregular spots ; one 
at the shoulders larger than the rest and as it were broken, or obtus- 
angular, all of a dark green: the elytra are grossly punctured with scat- 
tered punctures, but next the suture the punctures are disposed in two 
rows, the sutural one [211] extending from the base to near the apex, 
where.it becomes confluent with the second, both diverging towards the 
base and surrounding the upper branch of the sutural stripe; there is a 
