388 Forty- SIXTH Report on the State Museuji [48] 



^3*CARYN0TA. 



(Gr. xapa, roundish, vto-ro?, the back.) Head broad, triangular; thorax 

 in form of a half cone, not compressed above into a sharp or foliaceous 

 edge; elytra with five terminal cells, the apical triangular with its end 

 rounded; border broad, slightly wrinkled; nerves strong, elevated. 

 Allied to Gargara, from which genus, however, our species are excluded 

 by the form of the head and of the apical cellule. 



Butternut Carynota, C. mera, (Say.) Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi. 301. 

 On the butternut. No. 650, female. 



^^ Oak, or arch-striped Carynota, C. arquata, (Say.) Jour. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., vi. 302. On different species of oaks. No. 

 651, female; 652, male (?) 



SMILIA. Germar. 



" Unadorned Smilia, S. inor7iata, (Say.) Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 vi. 299. Common on oaks, chestnut, hicfliory, &g. No. 653,. 

 male (?); 654, female. 



Var. a. Edge of the keel not fuscous-black. No. 655. 



^® Unarmed Smilia, S. inermis, (Fab.) Ent. Syst., iv. 15. On 

 oaks. No. 656, male; 657, female. 



" V-MARKED Smilia, S. vau, (Say.) Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi. 299. 

 Abundant, particularly upon the white oak. No. 658, female. 



Yar. a. Elytra fuliginous throughout. No. 659. 



b. Elytra hyaline throughout. No. 660. 



c. The thoracic bands margined with black. No. 661. 



d. Front tinged with sanguineous. No. 662. 



e. Head white. No. 663. 



f. Head white, with sparse large black punctures. 



No. 664. 



g. Posterior thoracic band obsolete. No. 665. 



h. Bands obsolete; a fulvous spot above each eye. 



No. 666. 

 i. White; apex of the thorax and a spot above each 



eye fulvous. No. 667. 

 y. Apex of the thorax white. No. 668. 



