130 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ; 
307. DONACIA ÆQUALIS Say.—Length of body 4—-4% lines. Many 
taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house |also in On- 
tario. | 
] Body underneath covered with a thick coat of silver pile as in 
the preceding species. Head bronzed, hoary from cinereous down, 
minutely and confluently punctured, channelled between the eyes with a 
longitudinal obtuse ridge on each side the channel; antennae black, 
bronzed at the base, second and third joints equal in length; mouth 
piceous ; prothorax bronzed and gilded, rather longer than wide, thickly 
and confiuently punctured and wrinkled ; channelled; sides longitudinally 
subimpressed ; anterior tubercles obsolete ; scutellum hoary from down ; 
elytra bronzed, gilded, punctured in rows except at the apex where the 
punctures are confluent, two impressions adjoining the suture, and one in 
the middle of the base; apex truncated; ventral segments of the 
abdomen, the last excepted, with a bright orange margin ; posterior thighs 
with a stout short tooth. 
N.B. In the male the ventral segments are without the orange 
margin. 
VARIETY B. Prothorax bright copper, elytra black-bronzed. 
FAMILY HISPIDÆ, 
308. Hispa (Axoplitis) picoLor Oliv.—Length of body 334 lines. 
Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Mr. Francillon had specimens from 
Georgia. Oliv. 
[228.] Body linear,naked. Head black,smooth,channelled between 
the eyes ; antennae robust, scarcely longer than the prothorax, black; eyes 
large, dark-brown ; prothorax transverse, narrowest anteriorly, red, with 
four dusky spots placed transversely, grossly punctured, posterior angles 
producted, behind with a slight sinus on each side; space above the 
scutellum truncate; scutellum dull-red ; elytra linear, black, three-ridged, 
with an abbreviated ridge towards the apex between the second and 
third ; ridges elevated ; interstices with a double series of large and very 
close punctures ; between the second and third at the base and apex the 
series is quadruple, in the middle triple; lateral margin and apex serrulate; 
underside of the body blood-red ; legs black, base of the thighs red. 
