30 Randalls New Species of 
41. LEePTURA SEMI-MARGINATA. 
orpore brevi, punctulato, xem Tecra capite, an- 
non pedibusque nigris; thorace b sub-ovato, antice meas 
contracto; tuberculis lateralibus nollia; "riri iG RE vix 
attenuatis, vittà abbreviata marginali nigrà; apice truncato, obtusé 
sub-spinoso, 
Body short, rather broad at humerus, punctured ; be-. 
neath somewhat grayish-sericeous ; head, antenne, palpi 
and feet dusky black: thorax short ovate, abruptly con- 
tracted before ; margin without tubercles : elytra muddy- 
testaceous, hardly attenuated; margin with a black vitta, 
extending half way toward the apex, which is truncated, 
terminating in a very short, blunt spine, on the inner 
side. — > 
Length hardly three tenths of an inch. 
Occurred in the town of Abbott, between the Kennebec 
river and Penobscot county. 
48. Cassipa HELIANTHI. 
corpore ovato; antennis nigris, basi testaceis. horace testa- 
ceo, maculis tribus nigris ; veins nigris, vage punctulatis, maculis 
albis irroratis, margine testaceo; corpore subtus atro, nitido; femori- 
bus testaceis, ad medium nigris ; tibiis pedibusque testaceis 
Body obovate : antenne with the terminal joints black, 
the middle ones black above, paler beneath, and the ba- 
sal ones whitish ; region about the basal joints of the 
same color, as well as that about the eyes, which are 
black: labrum black: thorax testaceous, with three 
strongly marked black spots, disposed nearly in a curved 
line above the base: scutel equilaterally triangular: 
elytra blackish, irregularly spotted ied white ; a spot on 
each elytron above the tinis mdi near mi dos, 
