28 Randall's New Species of 
Body rather short and thick, tapering at both ends: 
antenne blackish piceous: head and thorax black, ap- 
pearing yellow with golden pubescence ; the latter ovate : 
elytra yellowish, each with five black spots placed, two 
very small above the middle, one large just below the 
middle, one above the apex, and one at apex, which is 
almost imperceptibly truncated: legs colored like the 
antenne : body beneath with very pale, hardly golden 
pubescence. 
Lensth from seven twentieths to more than nine 
twentieths of an inch. 
Var. «a. two anterior spots, blending with the one next 
below. 
Var. 6. inner anterior spots elongated downwards. 
The above are the most conspicuous varieties in my 
possession. 
Occurred abundantly in June, on the Saddleback 
Mountains, and in the vicinity of the Moosehead Lake. 
Allied to the L. velutina, Oliv. and to end other 
species both of Europe and America. 
45. LEPTURA PLEBEJA. 
L. corpore sub-conyexo, v vix attenuato, —— nigro; capite punc- 
tulato, nigro; antennis pedibusque nigris; thorace nigro, elongato- 
MO. anticé abrupté contracto; elytris gal coii a leviter attenua- 
tis, fusco-testaceis; apice obliqué emarginato, interdum sub-obscuro. 
Body sub-cylindric, punctured, beneath black; head 
antenne, and feet black: eyes very little prominent: 
thorax black, elongate-ovate, rather suddenly contracted 
anteriorly : elytra rather convex, only a little attenuated 
towards the extremities, muddy-testaceous, becoming 
usually a little darker at tip, where the inner margins 
slightly divaricate ; apex obliquely notched. 
