THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL 
O F 
PHARMACY. 
JANUARY, 1837. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
ART. XLIII.— NOTICE OF A NEW SPECIES OF LYTTA. 
By Joseph Carson. M. D. 
As every addition to the resources of the medical art is im- 
portant and interesting, from whatever department of nature 
it may be derived, and whether foreign or indigenous, I am 
induced to lay before the public an account of a species of 
Lytta which has not hitherto attracted attention. Its introduc- 
tion will increase the number of individuals belonging to the 
tribe of insects known to possess vesicating properties, and 
although hardly to be considered important to the practition- 
ers of the United States — who are so plentifully supplied with 
its congeners, yet a knowledge of its existence and value may 
be useful to those who visit the country where it is a native. 
Lytta rufipes. 
Specific characters. Black with red feet. 
This species can be best compared with L. atrata of our 
own country, from which it diners in size, being rather 
larger and more elongated, elytra black and polished, smooth, 
without hair, feet rufous, antennae filiform, the length of head 
and thorax, second joint short, third elongated, as long as the 
first, rest nearly equal, thorax small. 
At the suggestion of my friend, Dr. C. Pickering, it has 
been named L. rufipes from the colour of its feet. 
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