210 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, a little glossy, hairy with cinerascent hairs, minutely punctured. Palpi rufous, last 

 joint black ; five first joints of the antennae rufous, the rest black : elytra and tibia rufous. 



Both Geoffroy and Fabricius complain of the ravages committed by this little species upon the 

 vine in Europe, and probably it is equally destructive to those of America. 



Family CHRYSOMELID^. Chrysomelidans. 



This family, even as it stands in Latreille's last work, (Crustaces, Arachnides, 

 et Insectes) will admit of further subdivision, assuming for characters, the antennae, 

 palpi, eyes, and prosternum. If we take Chrysomela goettingensis for the type of 

 the genuine Chrysomelce, we may arrange under it all those of Latreille in which 

 the punctures of the elytra are scattered or not arranged in rows. 



CXIII. Genus CHRYSOMELA. Linn. 



(280) 1. Chrysomela Philadelphia. (Linne.) Philadelphia n Chrysomela. 



Chrysomela Philadelphia. Linn. Syst. Nut. ii, 592, 44. De Geer Ins. v, 353, 6, t. xvi, /. 13. Fab. Syst. Ent. 103, 49 ; 



Syst. Ekuth. i, 444, 135. Oliv. Ent. v, 91,525, 33, t. ii, / 22. Petiv. Gazoph. t. xxvi, f. 11. 

 decipiens. Web. Obs. Ent. i, 52, 1 ? 



Length of the body 3^ — 4 — 4| lines. 



The type and variety C taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Variety B in Nova 

 Scotia by Dr. Mac Culloch. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body oblong, black-green, naked, glossy, convex, punctured with scattered punctures. Palpi, 

 antennas, rhinarium, and legs rufous ; labrum hairy : prothorax with the punctures at the sides more 

 numerous than those on the disk : elytra pallid, with a longitudinal stripe at the suture with three 

 diverging obsolete branches, and several irregular spots; one at the shoulders larger than the rest and 

 as it were broken, or obtusangular, all of a dark green : the elytra are grossly punctured with 

 scattered punctures, but next the suture the punctures are disposed in two rows, the sutural one 



