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Body dark green^ somewhat metallic, punctured : head 

 with an impressed angular line between the antennas : 

 antennce honey-yellow, at tip fuscous : lahrum and paJ/pi 

 honey-yellow : ^Aorax irregularly, and in parts confluently, 

 punctured, particularly on the sides ; on the disk the punc- 

 tures are sparse : elytra with a cupreous tinge, and more 

 or less arcuated and abbreviated series of punctures, in- 

 cluding the whitish spots ; spots unequal, more or less 

 rounded, between twenty and thirty in number, yellowish- 

 white, the largest one on the humeral margin and bilobate, 

 two germinate ones at base, none on the sutural margin : 

 wings carneous : beneath tinged with cupreous on the 

 venter : feet honey-yellow. 



Length three tenths of an inch. 



A common species, easily distinguishable from others. 



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Galeruca, Fabr. 



1. G. le^ida. Sanguineous ; elytra blackish, bifasciate 

 with white. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Head sanguineous : antenna white : thorax narrow, 

 sanguineous, with a transverse, slightly indented line, 

 impunctured : elytra blue-black, obsoletely and irregularly 

 punctured ; a transverse, bilobate, abbreviated band be- 

 fore the middle, and a transverse, oval spot near the tip, 

 yellowish-white : feet yellowish- white. 



Length less than one fourth of an inch. 



Habit of G. 4-macuIata, Fabr., but not so much elon- 

 gated. At first sight, without Inspection of its generic 

 characters, it might be mistaken for a Lema. 



2. G. cava. Head with one, thorax with two impress- 

 ed dots. 



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