52 ORDER COLEOI'TKRA. 



Caloso&u (\mimm. (Plate xxi, fig; l. r >.) 



Head and thorax black, finely punctured Elytra ornamented bj three rows of metallic 

 its placed upon thick linos, crossed by obscure punctures. Length nine-tenths of 

 mi inch. 

 Both -Heirs of Calosoma are abundant in the United States ; both feed upon other in- 

 sects, and are useful by diminishing the number of insects injurious to the farmer. Tbej 

 are furnished with wings, are found upon trees, and feed upon the larva? of lepidopterous 

 insects : their larva? also have the habits of the perfect insect. 



Sekvs tJOTIOPHILUS (Ik.v). Elaphri s ( Fabr.). 

 Head as broad as the thorax; eyes large; thorax quadrate, flattened; labrum large, 

 rounded ; palpi robust. 



Notiophilus POHRECTUS. ( (Mate x\, fig. 13.) 



Insect brown, with a uniform bronze hue. Length from two to three lines. 



This insect is wider in from" than posteriorly : the great size of the eyes makes the head 

 a> prominent .is the thorax. 



Gems HI, VIMIRl'S ( Fahu.). Cicindej \ (Lin.). 



\ itenns short; eyes very prominent; thorax convex; labrum slightly trilobed; palpi 

 ' slender* (Westwood). 



Elaphkis ruscarius (Lin.). (Plate xx, fig. 1.) 



Head, thorax and elytra bronze tinted with green, and singularly marked by dark round 

 spots encircled with green, which give the insect a tuberculate appearance ; beneath 

 green and metallic. 

 The insect's body is short, but it has the general appearance of a Cicindela. 



Omophron labiatum (Fab.). ( Plate xx, figs. 11, 12.) 



Head with a deeply notched patch of green at the base, and partially surrounding the 



eyes : thorax black, with green metallic hues bordered with light brown. Elytra 



variegated with black-green metallic hues, and bordered with light brown, traversed 



with many punctate lines; beneath brown. 



Far. teueUatut, Say (fig. 12). Obscurely banded; the elytra traversed on their inner 

 margins with black : the brown is more conspicuous, and occupies a larger portion 

 of the elytra. 

 Length about one-fourth of an inch. 



