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TIPHIA. Fabr. Latr. 
T. transversa. Blue-black, somewhat hairy. 
Inhah. Indiana. 
Body black, with a slight bluish or purplish reflection; 
with numerous whitish hairs; immaculate, punctured; 
antennae black, opaque; mandibles piceous at tip; palpi 
fuscous; wings a little dusky, hyaline; nervures black; 
apicial line of the second cubital cellule transverse, recti- 
linear; metathorax each side striated., above with three 
slightly elevated longitudinal lines and a posterior trans- 
verse one; abdomen^ first segment narrower than the se- 
cond, somewhat gibbous above and flat beneath, the inci- 
sure indented; remaining segments more hairy, ciliated; 
libise and tarsi with silvery hairs. 
Length nearly half an inch. 
( To be continued, ) 
The Lyceum intends giving illustrations, as fine speci- 
mens ofier, of North American Reptiles, so that in time 
a complete monograph may be presented. Plate No. 5, 
is from a drawing very kindly made by Mr. Titian Peale 
from an individual taken by Mr. Jacob Gilliams last sum- 
mer, in Maryland, being rather farther north than usual. 
It is the Coluber getulus, Lin. Syst. Nat. idem Gmelin, 
Syst. Nat. p. 1106. La Chaine, Daub. En. Method, 
idem Lacepede, Hist, des Serpens in 12 tom. tom. ii. p. 
^9. La Couleuvre Chaine, Latr. Hist. Nat. des Serpens 
in 18 tom. torn., iv. p. 174. The Chain Snake, Catesby, 
Hist, of Carolina, pi. lii* La Couleuvre Gitule, Daud. 
pi. Ixxvii. fig. 1. 
