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North American Coleopterous Insects. 



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dusky towards the tip : thorax with two slightly in- 

 dented dots a little behind the middle : elytra with a 

 yellow-cinereous band a little behind the middle, inter- 

 rupted at the suture and contracted on each side, and a 

 much larger basal band extending posteriorly on each 

 elytron in a point, nearly to the middle, and having a 

 sub-basal obvious, definite, black dot each side of the 

 suture : tibicB and tarsi dull rufous. 



Length over three tenths of an inch. 



The two black dots in the basal band of the elytra are 

 very obvious, and serve to distinguish it from M. fascidta, 

 Fabr., which it certainly resembles, and to which it has 



been referred. 

 3. M. serve 



Blackish, spotted with yellowish. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



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thorax 



hairs 



: elytra with numerous subequal spots of short, 



yellowish hairs, a dentated band behind the middle, and 

 narrow terminal margin : beneath sericeous : venter each 

 side with obsolete oblique, brown lines : tarsi, color ot 



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the antennae. 



Lenoth three twentieths of an inch. 



A very pretty species. 



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Apate, Fabr. 



A. bkauddta, Tioh. A variety 



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of this country. 



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