DONACIAD.E. 223 



CXX. Genus DONA CIA. Fab. Hoppe. 



* Elytra rounded at the apex, 

 a Posterior thighs unarmed. 



b armed with one tooth. 



e — — ■ two teeth, 



** Elytra truncated ut the apex. 



(300) 1. * Dona ci a femoralis. Femoral Donacia. 



D. (femoralis) viridi-anea, aurala ; antennis, tibiis, tarsis, femoribusque basi, tcstaceis ; prothorace punctulatissimo, postice 



impresso, antice prominentias tuberc.nlalo . 

 Femoral Donacia, green-bronzed, gilded ; antenme, tibiae, tarsi, and base of the thighs testaceous, very minutely and thickly 



punctured, impressed posteriorly, anteriorly more prominently tuberculated. 



Length of the body 3\ lines. 



Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. Mac Culloch. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body bronzed, gilded, with a greenish tint, very minutely and thickly punctured, not conspicu- 

 ously hairy underneath. Frontal channel slight; antennae, except the scape which is bronzed, and 

 mouth rufous : prothorax with an impression above the seutellum ; anterior tubercles more than 

 usually prominent : seutellum rather large : elytra with single slight anterior impression adjoining the 

 suture : legs rufous, but the thighs, which are much incrassated, except the base and summit, are 

 green-bronzed ; posterior thigh without any tooth : abdomen as in the preceding species. 



This species seems nearly related to Donacia pusilla Say. 1 



b. 

 (301) 2. * Donacia flavipes. Yellow-legged Donacia. 



D. (flavipes) cupreo-aurata ; antennis pedibusque testaceis ; prothorace subelonaato, subtuberculato, latins canaliadatu, varie et 



confertim ruguloso. 

 Yellow-legged Donacia, copper-gilded: antenna? and legs testaceous; prothorax subelongated, subttiberculated, rather 



widely channelled ; variously, thickly, and minutely wrinkled. 



.Length of the body 4 lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65. 



1 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. v, 293, 4. 



