24 Randall’s New Species of 
thorax brassy, densely and profoundly punctured: elytra 
greenish brassy, with profound punctures, disposed in ir- 
regular lines ; feet inclining to piceous. 
Length about three twentieths of an inch. 
Occurred at Augusta, June. 
Perhaps allied to the R. eratus of Say ; but the ely- 
tra of that insect are described as “ crenato-striate." 
31. PissopES AFFINIS. 
P. corpore piceo, villis luteis asperso; thorace obsolete luteo-bi-ma- 
culato; elytris punctulatis, singulis decem-costatis; stris cirris fer- 
rugineis fasciculatis, guttà parvà luteà ante, et post medium eim 
magná transversi. 
Body dark pitchy, slightly ferruginous, and besprin- 
kled with short yellow hairs : thorax with two very mi- 
nute yellow spots: scutel yellow: elytra each with about 
ten equally elevated lines ; strie with tufts of short, dark 
ferruginous hair, a small round yellow spot before, ‘and 
a large transverse one, composed of short yellow hair, and 
interrupted by the elytral strie, behind the middle. 
Length less than four tenths of an inch. 
Pine woods, Maine, rare. 
Two specimens formerly occurred in the vicinity of 
Boston. It is closely allied to the P. strobi, Peck, (P 
nemoralis, Germ. et Schoen.) but the spots are yellow in- 
stead of white, and it has not two brown spots on each 
elytron, like that insect. It is more hairy, and the ely- 
tral ribs are more equally elevated. 
38. PrssopEs puBrUs. 
P. affini similis, sed certé duplo minor; maculis cinereis, ND 
prope obsoletis ; corpore leyiter pruinoso. 
