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154 ^ Sa^s Descriptions of new 



The insect was lost before the measure of its length 



was taken. 



% L. obliquus. Black; margin of the thorax and 



basal margin of the elytra fulvous. 



Inhab. Mexico. 

 • Body rather slender^ black ; anfenncB compressed, 



serrate : jpalpi white, terminal joint black: thorax with a 

 wide lateral fulvous margin and an elevated fulvous line 

 in the middle, posterior angles rather prominent and 

 acute; elytra with elevated longitudinal lines and trans- 

 verse ones in the intervening spaces, forming large sub- 

 quadrate punctures ; a dilated fulvous margin at base, 

 occupying the surface to the sutural stria, before the 

 middle becoming narrower until it terminates on the 

 costal edge beyond the middle : cox<e white. . 



Length seven twentieths of an inch. 



Allied to dimidiatusy Fabr. but the antennae are not 



flabellate. 



S. L. canaliculatus . Black; thorax with a yellowish 



margin and an impressed line on the basal margin. 

 Inhab. Missouri. 



Mand 



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shorter than the fourth ; thorax yellowish-rufous, a large, 



black, subquadrate spot on the disk, anterior edge very 



prominently arcuated ; basal margin with an abbreviated 



impressed longitudinal groove : elytra with elevated lon- 

 gitudinal lines and intermediate transverse ones. 

 Lensrth one fourth of an inch. 



Oma.lis0s, Geoffr. F. 



I. O. marginellusy Fabr. (Lycus) Syst, Eleuth 

 Inhab. Pennsylvania; Massachusetts, Harris. 



