LYTTA MACULATA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Black, covered with cinereous hair ; elytra 

 spotted with black. 



SYNONYM. 



L. maculata. Nobis. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci- 

 ences, vol. iii. p. 398. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, invested with cinereous, prostrate 

 hairs : head with an impressed, longitudinal line : 

 antennx, joints cylindrical, and, with the labrum 

 and palpi, glabrous : maxillary palpi much dilat- 

 ed at tip; eyes elongated, retuse behind the an- 

 tennae, and behind the insertion of the maxillae : 

 thorax subquadrate, narrower than the head, a 

 longitudinal impressed line, and a transverse 

 basal one : elytra with numerous, orbicular, 

 black dots, irregularly placed, sometimes con- 

 fluent, and are the effect of the absence in those 



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