MYLA.BRIS CICHOREI. 201 



CANTHARIS VITTATA.— Riband Blister-Fly . 



Spec. Char. Brown ; thorax with three yellow lines ; 

 elytra black, with the margin of the suture and a lon- 

 gitudinal line yellow ; legs black. 



Lytta vittata; Fabr.Syst. Ent. p. 260, n. 3; Pallas, I?is. Sib. t.i?.f.33; Oliv.Ent. 

 iii.n. 46, f. 3. 



Common in many parts of America, where, like the foregoing 

 species, it is used for exciting vesications, in place of the Cantharis 

 vesicatoria. These insects are said to blister more speedily and 

 with less pain, at the same time that they cause no strangury.* 



MYLABRIS CICHOREI, 



Banded Mylabris. 



Pl. XXVI. fig. 5. 



Gen. Char. Antenna composed of eleven joints, inserted 

 before the eyes on the rostrum, thickening towards 

 their points ; third joint elongate, cylindrical ; fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth, subcylindrical ; the others broader 

 and gradually thicker, obconic ; the last larger, ovate 

 acute ; rostrum elongate, narrow ; eyes globose, pro- 

 minent ; thorax small ; body oblong; elytra elongate, 

 soft ; palpi villose, sub-filiform, with the last joint 

 compressed. 



Spec. Char. Black ; elytra yellow, with three trans- 

 verse toothed black bands. 



* IHig-cr, Mag. i.\>. 256. 



