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A DESCRIPTION
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CONTENTS OF VOL, II.
Preface,
Descriptions of several new species of North American
Insects, (from the Journal of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 1, No. 2, June, 1817;
pp. 19--23,)
Some account of the insect known by the name of Hessian
Fly, and of a parasitic insect that feeds on it, (ibid.
Vol. 1, No. 3; 1817, pp: 45—48,)
Descriptions of the Thysanoure of the United States, (ibid.
Vol. 2, 1821; pp. 11--14,)
An account of the Arachnides of the United States, (ibid.
Vol. 2, 1821 ; pp. 59—83,)
Descriptions of the Myriapode of the United States, (ibid.
Vol. 2, 1821; pp. 102—114,)
On a South American species of Oestrus which inhabits
the human body, (ibid. Vol. 2, part 2, 1822, pp. 353-—-
360, )
Descriptions of Dipterous Insects of the United States,
(ibid. Vol. 3, 1823, pp. 9--54,)
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 3, 1823, pp. 73--104,)
Descriptions of Coleopterous Insects collected in the late
Kixpedition to the Rocky Mountains, performed by
order of Mr. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the
command of Major Long, (ibid. vol. 3, 1823, pp. 139--
216,)
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 3, 1824, pp. 238——282,)
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 3, 1824, pp. 298—331,)
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 3, 1824, pp. 403—462,)
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 4, 1825, pp. 88-—99,)
Descriptions of new Hemipterous Insects, collected in the
Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, performed by
order of Mr. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under com-
mand of Major Long, (ibid. Vol. 4, 1825, pp. 307--345,)
67
ly. CONTENTS.
Descriptions of new species of Hister and Hololepta, in-
habiting the United States, (ibid. Vol. 5, 1825, pp. 32
—Ai7,)
Descriptions of new species of Coleopterous Insects, inhab-
iting the United States, (ibid. Vol. 5, Dec. 1825, pp.
160—204,)
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 5, Nov. 1826, pp. 237--284,)
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 5, 1826, pp. 293—304,)
Descriptions of North American Dipterous Insects, (ibid.
Vol. 6, 1829, pp. 149—178,)
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 6, 1830, pp. 183—188,)
Descriptions of new North American Hemipterous Insects,
belonging to the first family of the section Homoptera ~
of Latreille, (ibid. Vol. 6, 1830, pp. 235—244,)
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 6, 1831 ; pp. 299—314,)
Descriptions of new North American Neuropterous In-
sects, and observations on some already described,
(ibid. Vol. 8, 1839, pp. 9—46,)
A Monograph of North American Insects of the genus
Cicindela, (from the Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society, new series, Vol. 1, 1818, pp.
401—426,)
Descriptions of Insects of the families of Carabici and Hy-
drocanthari of Latreille, inhabiting North America,
(ibid. Vol. 2, No. 1, 1823; pp. 1—109,)
Descriptions of new North American Insects, and observa-
tions on some already described, (ibid. Vol. 4, 1834,
pp. 409—470,)
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 6, 1836; pp. 155—190,)
Descriptions of new North American Coleopterous Insects,
and observations on some already described, (from the
Boston Journal of Natural History, Vol. 1, No. 2,
May, 1835, pp. 151—203,)
Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera, and
observations on some already described, (ibid. Vol. 1,
N’o. 3, May, 1836, ; pp. 210—305.
continuation, (ibid. Vol. 1, No. 4, May, 1837 ; pp. 361
—416
Additions and Corrections,
Index,
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Phra CH.
While the index of the present volume was passing through
the press, I received, through the kindness of a friend, a copy of
the first edition of Say’s Entomology, a work of exteeme rarity,
and which I had never before seen.
It contains six plates used subsequently in the same work ;
but as they represent in part species not previously described,
the work must be cited, and I therefore stbjoin a list of the
figures. The date on the title page is 1817.
Papilio Philenor . é : oer Plates!
Geotrupes Tityus ie: 2
Nemognatha immaculata 3
Notoxus monodon : ; : 4
— bicolor . : : : 4
Berytus spinosus . : : : a
Cicindela formosa : : : 6
10-notata ° 4 4 6
Much to my regret the following error was discovered too late
for insertion in the corrections on page 790.
Page 328 line 10, for L. aurrata read L. 6-GurTara.
A typical specimen of this species in Dr. Melsheimer’s collec-
tion is the same as Leptostylus interruptus, (Ammiscus interrup-
tus Hald.)
A typical specimen of Hlater viridis (vol. 1, p. 890) in Dr.
Melsheimer’s cabinet, is the Corymbites afterwards described as
C. micans Germar. The other species of Say, mentioned by me
as not determined, do not exist in the collections either of Dr.
Melsheimer or of the late Dr. Harris.
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THOMAS Say:
[From the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 2;
June, 1817: pp. 19—23]
Descriptions of several New Species of North American Insects.
Order COLEOPTERA.
Genus CICINDELA Linn. Fab. Xe.
Antenne inserted into the anterior margin of the eye. Palpi
filiform, the intermediate and posterior ones nearly equal, penulti-
mate joint of the latter hairy. Thorax short. Elytra flat, rounded
at the tip. Clypeus shorter than the labrum.
1. C. Formosa, American Entomology, Plate VI.* [Plate
XVIII: ante, 1, 35.]
2. C. peceMNnoTaTA, American Entomology, Plate VI. [Plate
XVIII: ante, 1, 34.] [20]
3. C. DoRSALIS.—Brassy : elytra white ; two curved lines on
each, suture and curved branch near the base green: lip and tail pale.
Inhabits New Jersey.
Head brassy, naked, with green edges. Labrum, mandibles and
palpi white ; tips of the mandibles and terminal joint of the palpi
dusky. Thorax brassy, varied with green, margin and back longi-
tudinally hairy. Scutel green. Elytra white, irregularly pune-
tured ; suture green, a lunated branch on each elytron terminating
at the middle of the base; disk with two abbreviated lines, of
which the anterior is curved outwards and the posterior one in-
wards, respectively terminating at one of the ends opposite the cen-
*These reference are to the suppressed first edition of the American En-
tomology, which I have never seen. The first volume of the second
edition reprinted in this work was published in 1824.—Lxc.
2 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
tre of the other. Body beneath hairy on the sides; hair short,
prostrate, cinereous; last segment of the abdomen and tail yellow.
ish. On the sea beach of New Jersey; numerous.
[Afterwards described by Dejean as C. signata.—Lxc.]
4. C. nirticoLtis.—Dull brownish-cupreous, beneath green ;
trunk and head with cinereous hair ; lip white ; [21] outer margin of
each elytron white with two abbreviated bands, and an interme-
diate refracted one; trochanters purple.
Inhabits North America.
Head coppery, varied with green and blue. Labrum and base
of the mandibles white. Thorax very hairy, impressed lines blue.
Elytra punctured irregularly with green, a marginal lunale at base ,
the extremities of which are almost equally prominent; the'band is
diyaricated on the margin so as to join the anterior lunule, but it is
interrupted before the terminal lunule, abruptly refracted at the
centre of the elytron and curved near its termination, towards the
suture. Body beneath green, very hairy.
Length rather more than half an inch.
Common in Pennsylvania, very much resembles C. trifasciata,
for which itis probable it has generally been mistaken.
[This description is very indefinite, but the expressions ‘ thorax
very hairy,’ and ‘ band divaricated on the margin so as to join the
anterior lunule,’ lead me to refer it to our common sea shore spe-
cies afterwards described as C. albohirta Dej.; the figure given by
Say in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
(infra) represents perfectly that species. It does not live within
the limits of Pennsylvania, though on the banks of rivers beyond
the Mississippi it is occasionally seen—LEc. ]
5. C. pustrta.—Above black, obscure ; elytra with two lunules
and a recurved band, white. Body beneath black-blue, or green-
ish. Trochanters testaceous.
Inhabits with the first. [Kansas and Nebraska.]
Elytra with a marginal Junule at base and another at the tip,
both very narrow and white ; an intermediate band, divaricate on
the margin, recurved at the middle of the elytron and terminating
near the suture behind. Labrum and base of the mandibles
whitish ; the four basal joints of the antenne purple.
Length not quite half ofaninch. Found by Mr. Nuttall. The
band is often obsolete, or only detached portions of it are visible,
the enlarged marginal part is permanent. [22]
[ Vol. I.
OF PHILADELPHIA. 3
Genus NEMOGNATHA Illiger, Zonztis of Fabr. and Latr.
Maxillz very much elongated, inflected, filiform.
N. 1mMAcuLata.—Lemon yellow, immaculate. LElytra with
scattered punctures. Maxilla not longer than the thorax, and with
the antennz and palpi black.
N. rmmacunata, American Entomology, plate III. [Plate
VII.; ante, 1, 13.]
Inhabits the plains of the Missouri.
Antennz black, basal joint pale testaceous. Eyes, maxillze, pal-
pi, tips of the thighs and tarsi black. LElytra irregularly punc-
tured, naked, polished.
Comes near to the description of Zonitis pallida of Fabricius, but
that insect is said to be large, and may probably be a true Zonitis.
Our specimens are not more than half the size of NV. vittata.
Found on thistles (Cardui) by Mr. Nuttall: numerous.
Genus ZONITIS Fabricius and Latreille.
Maxillz not elongated. Antennee with the first and the third
joint of the same length, the second a little shorter, the third and
following cylindric, the last one fusiform, terminating abruptly in
a short point.
Z. BILINEATA.—Ferruginous. Elytra pale yellowish, with a
black fillet. Scutel black.
Inhabits with the preceding on thistles. Nuttall. [23]
Antennz black, the two basal joints ferruginous. Eyes black.
Elytra naked, punctured, the fillet occupies the middle of each
elytron and is abbreviated at the base and apex. Scutel black.
Tibia fuscous. Less than the preceding insect. In its color and
appearance, except as to size, it resembles NV. vittata.
Order DIPTERA.
Genus DIOPSIS Linn.
Head furnished with two inarticulate, immoveable horns. Eyes
situated at the extremit es of the horns. Antennz small, placed
beneath the eyes.
D. BREVICORNIS—Black, pedicels short, not so long as the in-
terval between the bases. [Ante vol. 1, p. 116.]
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head rufous; vertex brown, thorax blackish, a little blended
1817.]
4 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
with cinereous, a lunate impression on each side before, an impres-
sed band on the middle interrupted on the back ; and an impressed
angulated one behind. Lateral spines short, black ; posterior ones
longer, rufous. Wings fasciated with brown near the apex. Feet
rufous, thighs, and tibia towards the tips, blackish, anterior thighs
thickened. Poisers white. Abdomen black immaculate.
Length rather more than three-twentieths of an inch.
Extremely rare; I found but a single individual in May last
seated on a leaf of the Skunk Cabbage, (Pothos fetida) near the
Wissahickon Creek a few miles from this city. This insect will
be considered as a most interesting addition to the American Fauna.
(Achias Fab.)
The insects above described I believe to be new, at least they
are not noticed in any book to which I have access.
[From Vol. 1, No. 3: pp. 45—48.]
Some account of the insect known by the name of Hessian Fly, and ofa
parasitic insect that feeds on it,
Read June 24th, 1817.
Order DIPTERA.
Genus CECIDOMYIA.
Genus Tipula of Linné and Degeer. Chironomus of Fabr. Tri-
chocera of Lamarck. Cecidomyia of Latr. and Meigen.
Antenne filiform, joints subequal, globular, hairy. Proboscis
salient. Wings incumbent, horizontal.
C. prstRUcTOR.—Head and thorax black; wings black, ful-
vous at base; feet pale, covered with black hair.
Inhabits the Northern and Middle States.
Body clothed, with short black hairs; head black; antennz
shorter than the body, somewhat smaller toward the tip, verti-
cillate, joints moniliform, separated by a hyaline filament. Tho-
rax gibbous, black, glabrous, and polished. Scutel prominent,
color of the thorax rounded behind. Wings ciliate, rounded at
tip, blackish, the fulvous color of the base is sometimes ex-
tended upon the nerves of the wing, paler and gradully disap-
pearing before the middle ; longer than the abdomen. Feet long,
slender, [46] thighs fulvous at base, furnished at the tip with
[Vol. I.
OF PHILADELPHIA. 5
several very acute claws. Poisers, pale nearly as long as the
thorax, with a suboval capitulum. Breast sometimes fulvous.
Abdomen brownish.
Female.—Antennz longer than the thorax, the joints some-
what oval, not separated by filaments. Abdomen elongate-oval,
above rectilinear, beneath somewhat ventricose, fulvous, with a
dorsal and ventral black vitta widely interrupted by the sutures.
Tail more or less acute in the dead specimen in proportion as the
oviduct is exserted.
Length rather more than three-twentieths of an inch.
Eggs elongated, linear, pale fulvous.
Larva.—Body somewhat fusiform, whitish ; tail acute, rather
abruptly attenuated ; head incurved and attached by the mouth ;
above hyaline, exhibiting an internal, abbreviated, visceral, green
line ; beneath with opaque white clouds, which in the young ani-
mal are perfectly separate and about nine on each side, with an
intermediate series of smaller ones; as the larva advances to its
full stature, these unite so as to exhibit the appearance of regular
transverse segments ; near the anterior extremity are the rudiments
of feet resembling obsolete tubercules, or crenulz ; when taken from
the culm it is almost inert, exhibiting very little motion to the eye.
Length three-twentieths of an inch, breadth one-twentieth.
Pupa.—Resembles the mature larva, but is of a dark reddish-
brown color; and appears perfectly inert.
This well known destroyer of the wheat has received the name
of “ Hessian Fly,” in consequence of an erroneous supposition,
that it was imported in some straw with the Hessian troops dur-
ing the revolutionary war. But the truth is, it is absolutely un-
known in Europe, and is a species entirely new to the systems—
being now for the first time described. The insect described by
Mr. Kirby in the Trans. Lin. Soc. of Lond. vol. iv. p. 232, and
named by him Zipula Tritici, is without doubt of the same genius
with this, but specifically distinct. [47]
The history of the changes of this insect, is probably briefly
this :—The eggs are deposited by the female in different numbers
from one to eight, and perhaps more, upon a single plant of
wheat, and in so doing the parent exhibits another instance of
that provident care for the welfare of her offspring, which is so
strongly evinced by many of the insect race. The egg is not
placed at the axilla of either of the leaves indifferently, but display-
1817.]
6 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
ing some portion of botanical knowledge, the fly carefully insinuates
her elongated oviduct between the vagina of the inner leaf and
the culm nearest the root of the plant, where the larva when ex-
cluded from the egg will be in immediate contact with the culm,
from which alone its nourishment is derived. In this situation,
with the body inverted, the head being invariably towards the
roots, or if above, towards the first joint, the infant larva passes
the winter. The pressure and puncture of the insect in this
state of its being, upon the culm, produces a longitudinal groove
of sometimes sufficient depth to receive almost one-half of the
side of its body. When several of them are contiguous on the
same plant, the pressure on the body of the larva is un-
equal, and an inequality in the form of the body is the conse-
quence, as well as the destruction of the plant which is subjected
to their attack. The perfect fly appears early in June, lives but
a short time, deposits its eggs and dies; the insect from these
eggs complete the history by preparing for the winter brood.
Order HYMENOPTERA.
Genus CERAPHRON Latr.
Antenne infracted, moniliform, ten or twelve jointed, basal
joint long, cylindrical. Abdomen subovate. Inferior wings with-
out apparent nerves. Superior wings with a costal nerve, and a
single branch, forming an incomplete radial cellule.
C./ pEsTRUCTOR.—Black, granulated; abdomen glabrous,
polished ; feet, and base of the antenne, whitish. [ 48]
In the Larva of Cecidomyia destructor —Head black, opaque,
sometimes brassy, granulated over its entire surface; eyes not
prominent, rounded in compliance with the curve of the head,
and with the stemmata, red-brown; antenne pale brown, fur-
nished with short cinereous hairs, the two basal joints pale yel-
lowish ; the terminal ones in the male a little dilated and ap-
proximated so as to form an obvious ovate-acute mass. Thorax
with the granule equal to those of the head; black, usually
brassy before the line of the base of the wings; nerve of the
wings pale brownish ; feet whitish with black apophysis. Abdo-
men ovate-acute, perfectly black, highly polished and furnished
with a few short hairs; the segments of the base are sometimes
pale yellowish or testaceous. Length one-tenth of an inch.
[Yor
OF PHILADELPHIA. 7
This is often mistaken for the Hessian fly, in consequence of
being found in wheat fields in vast numbers during the devasta-
tion committed there by that insect, and many have been deceived
by the specious circumstance of its evolution from the pupa it-
self of the destroying larva, under their own observation. But
the truth is the Ceraphron belongs to that vast tribe of insects
included by Linné under the Genus Jchneumon. True to the
manners of its kind the parent deposits her eggs within the
bodies of the larve of the Cecidomyia destructor, through a
puncture made by her acute oviduct for the purpose; the
young, when disclosed from the egg, feeding securely within
the body of the larva, at length kills it, but not in general until
after its change into the pupastate. Protected by this indurated
covering, the parasite undergoes its change, and appears in the
perfect state, about the latter part of June. It seems probable
that this insect prevents the total loss of our wheat crops, by re-
straining the increase of the Cecidomyia within certain bounds.
The Jchneumon Tipule of Mr. Kirby is congeneric with this, but
is doubtless specifically distinct.
[From vol. 2, 1821: pp. 11—14.]
Descriptions of the Thysanoure of the United States.
Read Nov. 21st, 1820.
Genus MACHILIS Latr.
Eyes compound, occupying almost all the head; [12] abdo-
men beneath with an appendage for leaping: tail with three
styles, of which one is above the others.
M. VARIABILIS.—Superior caudal process more than double
the length of the others: false feet bisetous at tip: color cine-
reous or iridescent, varied with black.
Inhabits North America.
Cabinet of the Academy.
Body above cinereous, somewhat iridescent, varied with black ;
gibbous portion of the body not differently colored; a more or
less regular whitish vitta; false feet white, hirsute, setaceous at
1821.
8 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
tip : superior caudal process more than double the length of the
inferior ones.
Var. a. Body above unicolor, destitute of the white dorsal
yitta.
Var. b. Body ferruginous, with dusky lateral spots.
Var. c. Body with several snowy spots each side.
A common insect in many humid places, probably in almost
every temperate part of North America. We observed it as far
south as East Florida. It is subject to a great many variations.
Genus PODURA.
Antenne four jointed, filiform, terminal joint entire; body
cylindrical: trunk distinct.
1. P. rascrata.—Body yellowish-white with four distant
black bands; tail black; bands [13] paler beneath; spring
white ; antennz blackish; eyes black.
Length one-twentieth of an inch.
Cabinet of the Academy.
In considerable numbers under the bark of decaying live oak,
&c., in Georgia and East Florida.
2. P. BicoLor.—Body plumbeous; feet with a few hairs,
rather paler at base; nails small, acute: spring large, white ;
eyes deep black.
Length from one tenth to three-twentieths of an inch.
Cabinet of the Academy.
Our most common species, under stones, &c.
3. P. mr1coLor.—Body blackish iridescent; thorax with long
hairs before ; abdomen hairy at tip; feet hairy, whitish; head
beneath and antennz hairy.
Length nearly one fifth of an inch.
Cabinet of the Academy.
Inhabits Pennsylvania, common.
Genus SMYNTHURUS Latr.
Antenne attenuated towards the tip, four-jointed, ultimate
joint composed of many smaller ones ; trunk and abdomen united
into a rounded mass.
S. eurrarus.—Body yellowish white, with numerous reddish-
brown, irregular spots, disposed in bands; numerous, sparse,
[Vol. II.
OF PHILADELPHIA. 95
white hairs, and two tubercles each side of the middle, which are
truncated at tip; beneath white ; antenne reddish-brown, hairy ;
face maculated, a line of irregular spots [14] behind the eyes;
eyes black ; spring flesh-colored.
Length rather more than one-twentieth of an inch.
Cabinet of the Academy.
Found under the bark of the long leaved Pine (P. palustris)
in Georgia.
[From Vol. 2, 1821; pp. 59—83.]
An account of the ARACHNIDES of the United States.
The following descriptions of the Arachnides of this country,
which respire by means of trachez in the manner of insects, may
be regarded as the continuation of a series of essays, of which the
“account of the Crustacea,” &c., is the first, on the vast orders of
articulated animals with articulated feet, (Annulosa of Cuvier)
natives of this country. As the nature of this journal precludes
the introduction of old matter or known facts, I shall confine
myself in its pages, to the description of such of these animals
only, as appear to be unknown to naturalists, or to the elucidation
of such, as from their obscurity, are not understood.
Subclass I. CHPHALOSTOMATA.
Order Ist, PODOSOMATA.
Genus *ANAPHIA.+
Pl. 5. fig. 7.—a, Trophi.
Artificial Character—Mandibles longer than the rostrum,
first joint longer than the second; palpi none; nails single.
Natural Character —Body very slender, composed of four seg-
ments bearing feet, and a small suboval caudal process; head
prominent, not perceptibly contracted behind, and consisting of a
prolongation of the anterior segment of the body : eyes four, [60]
inserted on a common tubercle, upon the top of the head : mandi-
bles robust, didactyle, inserted at the extremity of the head, por-
rected, parallel, two-jointed, longer than the rostrum, first joint
*From a, without, and agi, tactus the touch.
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elongated attaining the tip of the rostrum ; hand abruptly inflect-
ed upon the tip of the rostrum: rostrum porrected, cylindrical,
truncated at tip, shorter than the body, and inserted beneath the
first segment ; palpi none; feet eight, filiform elongated, slender :
cox three-jointed, the middle one longest: thighs one-jointed ;
tibie, two-jointed : tarsi two-jointed, the first very short; nails
single, arcuated, capable of being inflected.
A. PALLIDA.—Body whitish : ocular tubercle acute at tip;
eyes sanguineous ; hands suboval, slightly hairy, not dilated, in-
flected vertically, and with the fingers, hardly more than two-thirds
the length of the preceding joint ; fingers arcuated, crossing each
other near the tip; a small, rather acute tubercle at the base of
the anterior feet (probably the rudiment of the egg-bearing organ ;)
coxee second joint clavate ; tibie first jomt rather shorter than
the second.
Length of the body one fourth of an inch.
Span of the feet one and one half an inch.
Inhabits the coast of South Carolina.
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Of this new genus I found two specimens in the bay of Charles-
ton, 8. C., upon the branches of the Gorgonia virgulata, and as
they have not the egg-bearing organs, I suppose them to be males.
This [61] animal resembles Phowichilus in being destitute of palpi,
but differs from it in having didactyle mandibles and simple nails.
In the form of the mandibles it resembles Nymphon and Am-
mothea but the want of palpi distinguishes it from those genera,
its proper situation is probably next to the genus Phoxichilus. It
unquestionably, is generically the same with Phalangium aculea-
tum of Montague, (Trans. Lin. Soc. vol. 9, tab. 5,) which Dr.
Leach, in the article Crustaceology of Brewster's Encyclopeedia,
refers to the genus Nymphon, but which, as far as I can discover,
he has omitted in his subsequent works. It will of course be a
second species of this new genus.
Order JT. POL YMEROSOMATA.
Family 2. SCORPIONIDEZ..
Genus BUTHUS Leach. Scorpio Latr.
Palpi brachiform, didactyle ; eyes eight; abdomen terminated
by a caudal process of six articulations, of which the terminal one
is armed with a venomous aculeus.
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B. virratus.—Fuscous, with three fulvous vitte ; sides
black.
Inhabits Georgia and Florida.
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Body above granulated, granules irregular, distant, three ful-
vous equal vitta, and an elevated, interrupted vertebral line ;
sides black, rugose, beneath white ; thorax reddish-brown, more
seabrous before [62] and behind, hardly marked by the vitta, sube-
marginate before, and divided by a longitudinal impressed line,
region of the dorsal eyes blackish ; palpi longer than the body,
with granulated lines, carpus with three or four of the granules
more conspicuous ; hand subovate, greatest diameter about equal
to that of the preceding joint ; fingers filiform, incurved, longer
than the hand, reddish brown, furnished with numerous minute
teeth feet paler than the palpi, minutely granulated above and
beneath ; caudal process color of the palpi, longer than the body,
with granulated costa, those of the penultimate segment not more
conspicuous; terminal segment subovate, slightly mucronate
beneath the aculeus, the costal granule minute.
Length from tip of the palpi to tip of the caudal process, one
inch and seven-tenths.
I found numerous specimens of this species on the sea islands
of Georgia and in East Florida, hybernating beneath the bark of
trees.
The wound inflicted by the puncture of their aculeus, causes
much pain and intumescence, but is readily cured by the topical
application of the volatile alkali.
The species to which vittatus is allied, are the punctatus of
Degeer and americanus of Linné, but according to Latreille (v.
Sonnini’s Buffon) these are both spotted with brown, the caudal
process of punctatus being of the length of the body and that of
americanus three times the length of the body. [63] It is how-
ever very possible that our species may be a variety of punctatus.
Genus CHELIFER Geoff, Leach.
Palpi brachiform, didactyle ; thorax with the first segment divi-
ded by a transverse indented iine ; eyes two; mandibles short.
1. C. muricatus.—Third joint of the palpi nearly three times
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as long as the second, linear, gradually a little attenuated to the
base ; thorax muricated.
Inhabits North America.
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Body ovate, narrowed before, rounded behind ; thorax black-
brown opake, gradually narrowed from the base to the tip of the
mandibles, armed with numerous short, robust spines; feet rufo-
testaceous ; palpi rufous basal joints subglobular, gibbous behind
third joint cylindrical, nearly three times longer than the second,
armed with short rigid hairs, and gradually attenuated to the base,
fourth joint shorter but somewhat larger than the preceding one,
and gradually much attenuated to its base; hand black-brown,
above oblong subovate, laterally linear, fingers as long as the hand
paler, incurved and furnished with a few elongated, flexible hairs ;
abdomen above black-brown, and with the feet furnished with
minute, spine-like hairs, segments margined with obsolete pale
testaceous.
Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch. [ 64 j
Common in decaying wood, under bark, in houses, under stones,
&e. Ifound a variety on the river St. John, in East Florida, of
which the anterior portion of the abdomen and posterior part of
the thorax is rufous. This species considerably resembles C.
Hermanni of Leach, (Zool. Mise. vol. 3, p. 49.)
2. ©. oBLoNGus.—Second joint of the anterior feet hardly
twice as long as the first, rather larger towards the base; thorax
polished.
Inhabits North America.
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Body oblong, sublinear: thorax reddish-brown, polished; tes-
taceous at base, rather abruptly attenuated from the middle to the
tip, and with abbreviated flexible hairs, instead of spinules : feet
pale, testaceous ; palpi reddish-brown, with dilated, short joints,
and furnished with numerous flexible hairs, second and third
joints subequal, the latter rather shorter and dilated in the mid-
dle : hands ovate, almost truncated at base; fingers shorter than
the hand, and with a few longer hairs ; abdomen above brownish,
slightly hairy, polished, margins of the incisures testaceous.
Smaller than the last.
Occupies the same situations as the preceding. It bears con-
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siderable resemblance, in the form of the palpi, to the C. Geoffroyi
of Leach, (Zool. Misc. p. 50.) This species, as well as the pre-
ceding, are readily distinguishable from the Phalangium aca-
roides of Linné, by the mutic antepenultimate segment of the
palpi.
Order 3. DUOMEROSOMATA.
Family 2. PHALANGIDE.
Genus PHALANGIUM.
Body rounded; feet elongated ; tarsi with numerous joints;
mandibles salient much shorter than the body: eyes two, sup-
ported on a common tubercle.
1. P. virratum.—Whitish, with a dorsal fuscous vitta ; termi-
nal joint of the palpi not pectinated with spines.
Inhabits the Southern States.
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Body whitish, truncated and fuscous behind, a dorsal fuscous
vitta from the clypeus to the cloaca and lateral fuscous line, above
with dense, obtuse granules, beneath with distant ones; three
profoundly impressed lines before the middle, of which the an-
terior one is semicircular including the ocular tubercle, the inter-
mediate one transverse, and the posterior one recurved; ocular
tubercle prominent, slightly contracted at base, crowned with from
four to six more conspicuous, acute spines: clypeus not elevated,
concave beneath the obtuse tip; feet, second pair about fifteen
times as long as the body; tarsi capillary, articulations not con-
tracted.
Length, female nearly one-fifth of an inch. Male much smaller.
The armature of the ocular tubercle is obsolete in the male,
and in this sex there are generally two whitish [66] lines, drawn
from the base of the occular tubercle to the tip of the clypeus,
which are also sometimes visible in the female.
I have not found these in coitu, but have considered them
of the same species, from their being associated and somewhat
similar in form and markings.
2. P. DoRsATUM.—Whitish with a dorsal fuscous vitta, joints
of the palpi armed with a series of spines.
Inhabits the United States.
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Body rounded behind, whitish, a dorsal fuscous vitta continued
from the clypeus to the cloaca, and obsoletely punctured with
whitish, a few submarginal, obsolete, irregular lines or spots ;
granules dense, obtuse, not prominent; ocular peduncle promi-
nent, contracted at base, slightly muricated before, obsoletely
granulated ; clypeus not elevated ; palpi rather long, robust ;
second, third, and fourth joints pectinated on the exterior edge
with acute, distant spines; fifth joint more densely pectinated
on the inner edge: feet armed with minute distant spines; coxe
blackish ; pectus with distant very distinct, obtuse granules ;
radical supports of the feet with a moniliform line each side in
the incisures ; venter nearly glabrous, granules indistinct: ter-
gum not deflected.
Length of the female one-fifth of an inch.
Very similar in color to the preceding, but sufficiently distinet
by the spinulose palpi, &c.
3. P. nraruM.—Body ovate, blackish: clypeus [67] prom-
inent; radical joint of the three anterior pairs of feet armed with
a spine ; pectus and base of the feet white.
Inhabits the Southern States.
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Body ovate, a little dilated each side behind the posterior feet,
blackish, with a few obsolete paler spots, above and beneath
above granulated, granules spherical, irregularly placed in some-
what reticulated lines; ocular tubercle destitute of spines, with
obtuse granules; clypeus prominent, somewhat elevated; feet
short, fuscous, whitish at base; second pair hardly four times as
long as the body, and, with the first pair, armed with a prominent,
cylindric, obtuse spine behind the basal joint; third pair with a
similar spine before; pectus whitish; venter blackish.
Length, female nearly one-fifth of an inch.
A very distinct species, and not uncommon in the Carolina’s
and Georgia.
4. P. GRANDIS [GRANDE].—Body oval, covered with short
spines; ocular tubercle spinous; feet rather short.
Inhabits the Southern States.
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Body oblong-oval, scabrous, with approximated, robust, short,
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acute, spinules ; rufo-ferruginous, two impressed transverse lines
before the middle ; ocular tubercle prominent, slightly contracted
at base, crowned with numerous, robust, acute spinules ; clypeus
hardly elevated ; feet rather short ; pectus with numerous, minute
acute granules; venter with but few. [68 |
Length, female nearly-seven-twentieths of an inch.
Much the largest species I have seen.
Genus GONYLEPTES Kirby.
Feet moderate ; tarsi from six to ten-jointed ; mandibles chel-
ate; maxille none; palpi unguiculated.
G. ORNATUM.—Ocular tubercle hardly elevated, unarmed ;
hind feet remote; two erect spines behind.
Inhabits Georgia and Florida.
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Body ovate reddish-ferruginous, destitute of granules, edge
slightly contracted over the insertion of the fourth and fifth pairs
of feet, two small acute tubercles on the middle of the disk, and
two large, prominent, erect, acute spines on the hind margin, no
impressed line before the middle, an anterior arcuated yellow
transverse line connected to a posterior undulated one by a yellow
line which is crossed near the middle by two obsolete yellow bands ;
ocular tubercle slightly raised, unarmed ; distance between the
eyes much greater than their diameters, orbits black ; clypeus
abruptly somewhat acute in the middle of the tip: mandibles
rather small, the fingers subequal, and crossing each other at tip ;
palpi robust, and when at rest concealing the mandibles ; penul-
timate articulation dilated on the exterior side and elongated and
depressed : terminal joint half as long as the preceding, cylindrical ;
terminal nail elongated, moveable capable of being inflected ; [69]
feet short, not three times as long as the body, three anterior
pairs before the middle, posterior ones behind the middle and re-
mote from the others; fourth and fifth pairs with double nails :
abdomen, segments with a series of equidistant, minute tuber-
cles.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
This remarkably distinct species, we first discovered on Cum-
berland island Georgia, and subsequently many specimens occurred
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in East Florida, where it appears to becommon. It is not an in-
habitant of the Northern States.
Family 3. ARANEIDEZ.
Although I have a considerable number of descriptions of
Araneides, which I think are new, yet, as I am not sufficiently
well acquainted with the species of this family, in their different
ages, prudential motives induce me to refrain from publishing
them until further investigation shall qualify me for the task.
Order 4. MONOMEROSOMATA.
Genus TROMBIDIUM.
Body consisting of a thorax and head united and distinct from
the abdomen; two anterior pairs of feet distant from the others ;
eyes pedunculated, lateral; palpi with a moveable appendice be-
neath their tips.
1. T. scapruM.—Body ovate, broadest and very obtusely
rounded before, pale reddish, minutely scabrous, surface unequal,
with numerous [70] indentations, and with hardly percepti-
ble hairs; thorax obtriangular, short: eyes white ; feet whitish.
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In forests, on trees, &c.; not uncommon.
2. T. SERICEUM.—Body oblong-subovate, broadest before,
narrowing behind, densely covered with short silken hair; thorax
elongated, sublinear, slightly contracted before the middle, and
with a darker, central line above: eyes white, placed in a trans-
verse line ; feet paler, whitish.
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Inhabits trees, in forests, under stones, &c., and is more com-
mon than the preceding.
Genus ERYTHRAUS Latr.
Body without division, the two anterior pairs of feet not dis-
tant from the others ; eyes two, sessile ; palpi conic, chelate.
KE. MAMILLATUS.—Body ovate, granulated, reddish-yellow,
with a marginal impressed line, edge thickened, a robust,
obtusely conic, granulated spine on the anterior lateral edge,
before the middle of the disk two indented punctures, a
few distant hairs ; eyes approximated, whitish ; mandibles granu-
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lated, a rounded tubercle on each of the middle above ; feet paler
than the body, yellowish, with scattered hairs.
Less than one-twentieth of an inch.
Under bark of trees, &e. Georgia and East Florida. [71]
Genus GAMASUS Latr.
Mouth with mandibles; palpi prominent, very distinct, fili-
form ; pulvilli at the apex of the tarsi.
1. G. ANTENN/PES.—Body ovate, rufous, somewhat nar-
rowed before, hairy and coriaceous; edge of the abdomen
membranaceous, white; feet, anterior pair filiform, antenneform,
longer than the body, remaining pairs much more robust, sub-
equal, posterior thighs tridentate near the inferior tip; origin of
of the palpi with five or six acute spines above.
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I have frequently observed this species, inhabiting, in con-
siderable numbers, the body of Passalus cornutus. The fore feet
are, as their slender appearance indicates, used as antenna to feel
the way, and not as feet to support the body. ‘
2. G. SPINIPES.—Body suboval, hirsute, rufous; feet with
rather longer distant hairs, second pair very robust, third joint
armed beneath with a large, prominent, acute, spine, which js
nearly as long as the transverse diameter of the joint, compressed,
slightly serrated on its anterior edge, and with an accessory
tooth or two at its base: fourth joint with an obtuse tooth be-
neath, sixth joint with a robust spine before its inferior middle,
first and third pairs unarmed, fourth pair dentate beneath the
third and fourth joints.
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Inhabits [72]
Remarkable by the prominent spine of the second pair of feet.
3. G. MuSCULUS.—Body pale, oval, with scattered hairs more
numerous each side; feet paler, with a few hairs above, two an-
terior pairs distant from the others, anterior pair longest, second
pair rather more robust.
An active little animal, found in great numbers on an anony-
mous species of Mus, which inhabits East Florida.
5. G. NIDULARIUS.—Body oblong-oval, somewhat depressed,
with a slightly elevated margin, and with scattered hairs, whitish
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with internal blackish clouds, and two impressed points in the
middle of the back; feet paler, with a few hairs.
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Less than one-fortieth of an inch.
Inhabits Hirundo viridis, their nests and young. I am in-
debted for specimens to Mr. Reynall Coates.
5. G. JULOIDES.—Body oval, pale brownish, depressed, be-
hind vesicular and whitish, the coriaceous epidermis of the ter-
gum terminating before the vesicular posterior margin in an emar-
gination ; feet short and very robust; pulvilli dilated, very short.
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I obtained several specimens from the body of Julus margi-
natus. 1 have also observed it on Polydesmus virginiensis. ['I3]
Genus ORIBITA Lat.
Body coriaceous, capitate or rostrated before, palpi and mandi-
bles concealed within the mouth ; feet terminated generally by
three nails, without pulvillus.
1. O. concenTRICA.—Black, opake; tergum concentrically
lineated; venter plain.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
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Body spheroidal, black, opake, rounded before and carinated
behind, invested with a brown epidermis ; disk with about four
elevated concentric circles, connected by numerous interstitial
elevated lines ; posterior carina crenate in compliance with the
concentric lines; head, subtriangular, rugose ; oral aperture oval,
closed by a valvular mentum; eyes two, minute, brownish, ele-
vated on an elongated, slender filiform peduncle ; orbits elevated,
rather large, placed near the base of the head above ; feet rather
short, deep black, minutely granulated, terminated by three in-
curved nails ; venter plain, granulated, valves of the cloaca some-
what lineated.
A rather common insect, it moves very slowly, and inhabits
beneath the bark of trees. I have found it, most frequently,
beneath the bark of the common Carya (Nuttall) tomentosa.
2. O. aLABRATA.—Body glabrous, polished, globular-oval
black.
Inhabits Georgia and Kast Florida. ; [74]
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Body spheroidal, somewhat oval, glabrous, polished, black ;
head longitudinally semi-ovai ; eyes sessile, near the base of the
head each side, remote; feet hairy, pale testaceous, subequal,
shorter than the body.
I found this species several times under stones, &c. It is
sluggish in its movements, like other species of this genus ;
when alarmed or in danger the feet are thrown forward together
over the mouth, and the whole of the thorax is then deflected
upon the anterior part of the body ; in this state the general form
is a solid oval.
Genus BDELLA Latr.
Palpi elongated, terminated by setze; rostrum conic; eyes four ;
posterior feet longest.
B. opLoNGA.—Body oblong-oval, bright red, paler in the
middle and beneath, with a few scattered hairs; rostrum nearly
half as long as the body, with two or three pairs of stouter
hairs; palpi four jointed, resembling arms; first joint destitute
of hairs and longer than the others conjunctly ; second and third
joints very short; fourth joint longer than the two preceding
ones, attenuated towards the base and truncated at tip, with
several short hairs and two terminal setz longer than itself, of
which the inner one is rather shorter; feet hairy, subequal, pale,
the posterior ones rather longer. [ 75]
Length rather more than one-twentieth of an inch.
Found in Georgia, under stones, under bark of decaying trees,
&c., in rather moist situations.
Genus IXODES Latr.
Palpi short, simple, valvular, forming with the haustellum a
short rostrum; mandibles none; feet with a pedunculated pul-
villus and two nails; eyes obsolete or wanting.
1. I. annuLatus.—Body oval, pale reddish-brown, tinged
with sanguineous, particularly behind, and with several longi-
tudinal and oblique, black, abbreviated lines, scattered punc-
tures, and three abbreviated, longitudinal impressed lines behind ;
rostrum, with the palpi dilated, rather suddenly contracted at
base, and annulated more prominently beneath with about two
elevated lines, which on the sides produce an angulated appear-
1821.]
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ance, much shorter than the haustellum, rounded at tip ; haustel-
lum, the two superior organs emarginate at tip, exterior division
dentate beneath, inferior organ with numerous resupinate teeth
resembling fenestrate punctures ; posterior to the origin of the
palpi above is an orbicular, obscure assemblage of punctures re-
sembling eyes; black dorsal lines of the male somewhat regular,
consisting usually of a dorsal line divaricating before, and behind,
the middle, furnishing a branch each side, which at the tip of
the abdomen [76] is confluent with a lateral line, which also
branches off in two or three short lines towards the feet; feet
with a short robust nail, and a reclivate pedunculated pulvillus
and nails.
Found in considerable numbers on a Cervus virginianus, in
Kast Florida.
2. I. oRBICULATUS.—Body nearly orbicular, slightly narrower
before, punctured, ten or twelve longitudinal, abbreviated im-
pressed line on the posterior margin, marginal impressed line
none, two longitudinal indented lines before the middle; head
transverse subquadrate, posterior edge very obtasely rounded, the
posterior angles complying with the general curve ; palpi oblong,
sublinear.
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Found inhabiting Scturus capistratus of the Southern States.
3. I. orENATUS.—Body ovate, with distant deeply impressed
punctures, posterior margin lobated by ten or twelve profoundly
indented lines, which are abbreviated by an impressed submar-
ginal line, which becomes gradually obsolete before the lateral
middle; posterior edge crenulated ; thorax none, distinct; head,
posterior edge transversely rectilinear, angles slightly arquated
backward and rounded at tip; palpi oblong, sublinear and regu-
larly rounded at tip.
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Found in the Southern States, the color is reddish, [ 77] some-
times slightly varied with whitish, particularly behind, and the
lobate divisions of the posterior margin are sometimes whitish
above, and the disk is obsoletely lineated with black.
4. I. ERRATICUS.—Body oblong-ovate, gradually narrowed
before, sides hardly arquated, with distant punctures, those be-
hind more deeply impressed, posterior margin with ten or twelve
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impressed lines which are abbreviated by a submarginal im-
pressed line, two abbreviated lines before; head, posterior edge
transversely rectilinear, angles extended backward abruptly, and
subacute; rostrum rather short; palpi oval-orbicular.
Found in the Southern States; the color is reddish or ferru-
ginous, with acute black lines.
5. I. varrasitis.—Body oblong-ovate, gradually attenuated
before; sides hardly arquated ; a few remote, deeply impressed
punctures not more numerous behind; posterior margin with
about twelve impressed, abbreviated lines; a lateral, impressed,
punctured, submarginal line, obsolete behind; two deeply in-
dented, abbreviated lines before; head, hind edge rectilinear,
angles abruptly a little extended backwards, acute; rostrum
rather short; palpi ovate; color reddish or ferruginous varied
with white, incisures of the feet white.
Very much resembles the preceding in form ; the white of the
back is more or less reticulated, and the [78] feet are white
above, or only their joints. May not this be J lineatus, if so,
my name must of course be rejected.
6. I. puNcruLATUS.—Body oblong-ovate, gradually attenuated
before, sides hardly arquated, crowded with impressed confluent
punctures ; thorax destitute of punctures, but with two impressed
undulated lines; abbreviated lines of the posterior margin not
deeply impressed, almost obsolete; lateral submarginal line
deeply impressed, obsolete behind; head, hind edge rectilinear,
angles abruptly a little projected backward, acute ; rostrum rather
short; palpi oval; eyes distinct, impressed: color ferruginous,
thorax white lineated or varied with ferruginous, incisures of the
feet white.
Considerably like the preceding.
7. I. scapULARIS.—Body red, with a few short whitish hairs ;
thorax blackish-oval, well defined, with numerous punctures ; ter-
gum, punctures sparsate, and four or five blackish, obsolete, di-
lated radii on the disk; a deeply indented submarginal line ; no
abbreviated marginal lines behind; edge rounded ; head beneath
and above blackish, posterior edge rectilinear, angles abruptly
projected backward, very short, acute ; eyes distinct, deeply im-
pressed; rostrum slightly canaliculate above, paler than the
head ; feet blackish-red, ciliate beneath, terminal joint reclivate
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near the tip on the anterior edge; origin [79] of the anterior
ones, armed behind with a large acute spine.
Rather common in forests, and frequently found attached to
different animals.
8. I. ruscous [Fuscus].—Body fuscous, ovate, punctured ;
tergum with a few black, obsolete lines, and a profoundly in-
dented submarginal line, posterior marginal impressed line none ;
no distinct thorax ; edge rounded; head, posterior edge recti-
linear, angles not prominent beyond the rectilinear edge; eyes
not visible; palpi suboval, terminal joint rather longer than
the preceding one.
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A common species.
Genus HYDRACHNA Mill. Latr.
Rostrum advanced, conic; mandibles none; palpi projecting,
terminated by a moveable appendage: body subglobular; feet
natatory.
H. TRIANGULARIS.—Body white; eyes two, sanguineous ;
tergum with a black triangular spot near the eyes, posterior por-
tion black, with a white dorsal line terminating in the cloaca.
The specimen, from which this portion of a description was
taken, I found in Unio cariosus, in which, possibly, it had ad-
ventitiously effected a lodgement. [ 80]
Genus LIMNOCHARES Latr.
Rostrum hardly prominent; palpi incurved, simple ; mandibles
none; feet natatory.
LL. EXTENDENS.—Body ovate, red, minutely lineated; tergum
with a few indented points ; beneath, origin of the feet paler red ;
feet, second and third pair ciliate with very fine and long hairs,
posterior pair destitute of cilia.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch.
A common species, inhabiting stagnant pools, &e., in forests,
and shady places. The posterior feet being destitute of cilie,
are only useful in walking; when the animal is swimming, they
are extended behind, without distinct motion. The eggs are
globular, surrounded by a white gluten, and are deposited on
almost any object indifferently, from two hundred to three hun-
dred in number, arranged somewhat symmetrically in parallel,
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rectilinear, or undulated series. I have found them about the
middle of May.
Genus LEPTUS Latr.
Feet six; trophi forming a capitate body; palpi conic, quadri-
articulate ; an obtuse tube, subconic, advanced ; body soft.
1. L. arAnEn [ARANE&®].—Body oval, red, with short, dis-
tant hairs; head whitish, somewhat rounded, [81] contracted,
at base aid acute at tip; palpi white, a little hairy, rather sur-
passing the tip of the head; tergum with a deeper red eye on
each side over the interval between the anterior and second pairs
of feet, anteriorly indented, and with two lines each of four or
five indented points.
Length one-thirtieth of an inch.
Cabinet of the Academy.
Of this species, I have found a yee adhering near the base
of the palpi of an Aranea.
The head-like process, is sometimes retracted so as to be not
prominent, but is not long withheld in this position. The body
is somewhat contractile, not perceptibly as regard its length, but
in its breadth, by an irregularly undulated motion of the edge.
2. LL. HIsprIpus.—Body suboval; head with a distinct neck ;
palpi more robust at base; feet elongated, much longer than the
body, filiform and furnished with numerous robust, incumbent,
flexible sete, about twice the diameter of the leg in length.
My Cabinet.
1 took no less than ten of these animals from a Phalangium, to
which they adhered very strongly ; when feeding, they often are
supported only by the rostrum and palpi, the body and feet being
elevated so as to be sometimes perpendicular to the supporting
surface. [82]
Genus OCYPETE Leach.
Feet six; mouth rostrated, porrected, with mandibles; palpi
elongate-conic, with a moveable appendage at base; body soft ;
eyes two.
O. comata.—Body subtriangular, very obtusely rounded
behind, hirsute, and narrowed by an arquated line to the rostrum :
rostrum short, narrowed and emarginated at tip; posterior feet
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longer than the body, and with much longer hairs than those of
the body.
Inhabits several species of Tipula.
This is readily distinguishable from the O. rubra Leach, by
the elongated hairs of the feet. The specimens in my possession,
are so disposed that the trophi cannot be examined, I therefore
refer them to this genus by analogy, drawn from habit, &e.
[From Vol. 2, 1821, pp. 102—114.]
Descriptions of the MYRIAPODZ of the United States.
Read November 21st, 1820.
Class MYRIAPODA.
Order 1. CHILOGNATHA.
Genus JULUS.
Body serpentiform, cylindrical ; antennze inserted on the ante-
rior margin of the head, second joint longest, terminal one mi-
nute ; eyes distinct ; feet many.
1. J. 1mprEessus.—Brown, a series of lateral - black dots,
beneath yellowish-white ; ultimate segment mucronate.
My Cabinet.
Body cylindrical, immarginate, above brownish, beneath yel-
lowish-white appearing glabrous: segments each with a lateral
black spot, whitish lines and dots sometimes obsolete, a trans-
verse series of longitudinal abbreviated obsolete impressed lines,
and beneath the stigmata with impressed, more distinct ones, ulti-
mate segment mucronate, spiracles not prominent; eyes rather
large, conspicuous, black; labrum yellowish white; antennz
brownish.
A common species inhabiting under stones, and in humid sit-
uations, a variety occurs with a very distinct, acute, longitudinal,
dorsal line, and variegated head.
2. J. puNcraTus.—Body brownish, with an impressed dorsal
line, impressed white dots and spots, ultimate segment unarmed.
My Cabinet. [103]
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Body cylindrical, immarginate, above dark brown, glabrous, an
obsolete, dorsal, whitish, slightly impressed, acute line ; segments
each with a white dot on either side above, snd a larger trans-
versely oblong lateral one, which is more completely bisected on
the posterior segments into two distinct dots, which on the ter-
minal segments resemble the dorsal ones, ultimate one abruptly
narrower than the preceding and truncated, anterior segments
attenuated to the head, which is wider than the anterior one, an-
terior segment as long as the second and third ones conjunctly ;
spiracles somewhat prominent; eyes very distinctly granulated,
subtriangular, black ; head dark-brown, labrum white.
Inhabits the same situations, and is similar in general form to
the preceding species, but is less common and rather smaller.
The dots, spots and lines are for the most part slightly impres-
sed.
3. J. ANNULATUS.—Body with numerous, elevated, obtuse
lines; of which four are above the stigmata; ultimate segment
glabrous, unarmed.
Inhabits the Southern States.
My Cabinet.
Body cylindrical, immarginate, above brownish with a slight
tint of red, immaculate, beneath yellowish white ; segments each
with about fifteen elevated obtuse lines, of which four are equal
dorsal, a pyriform, larger, oblique one on the stigmata, and about
ten decreasing in size to the feet, anterior segment [104] as long
as the three succeeding ones conjunctly and glabrous, posterior
one glabrous reddish-brown, as long as the two preceding ones,
united and obtusely rounded at tip; head whitish before ; an-
tenne white; eyes transverse linear, black : vertex not distinctly
impressed.
A rather common species in the Southern States, inhabiting
with the preceding and in decaying wood.
4. J. LAcTARius.—Body fuscous with a rufous dorsal line,
numerous elevated lines, of which about fifteen are above the
stigmata, ultimate segment unarmed.
My Cabinet.
Body cylindrical, above fuscous, with a dorsal rufous vitta and
an obsolete one each side; beneath yellowish white ; segments
each with numerous, elevated, longitudinal lines, of which about
1821.]
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fourteen are above the stigmata and about fourteen below, becom-
ing smaller to the origin of the feet, line of the stigmata geminate,
anterior segment as long as the second and third eonjunctly, and
glabrous on the anterior half, posterior segment not so long as the
two preceding ones united, widely roundedat tip ; head glabrous ;
antenne reddish-brown: eyes triangular, granulated, deep black.
Not uncommon under stones, &c., and when irritated discharges
a lacteous globule from the lateral portion of each segment, diffu-
sing a strong and disagreeable odor. [105)
5. J. MARGINATUS.—Body cylindric glabrous, blackish, seg-
ments with a rufous margin; ultimate segment unarmed.
My Cabinet.
Body cylindric, glabrous, polished, blackish, beneath pale red-
dish ; segments margined behind with rufous, anterior segment
as long as the three succeeding ones, conjunctly and entirely mar-
gined with rufous, second segment slightly, and obtusely angula-
ted at the lateral tip of the anterior one, ultimate segment as long
as the two preceding ones united narrowed to the tip which is
rounded: head with an impressed line which is*obsolete on the
front; labrum pale, deeply and widely emarginated at the tip,
with a submarginal, infracted series of ten or twelve punctures
furnishing hairs, tip ciliated, reddish, obsoletely dentate.
Length more than three inches.
A very large species inhabiting decaying wood, &c.; when ir-
ritated it diffuses an odor like that of muriatic acid, and is infest-
ed by Gamasus Juloides. It varies in color; the margin of the
segments and all beneath are sometimes white, the ultimate seg-
ment is sometimes almost acutely angled at tip, and there isa
distinct lateral series of black dots.
6. J. pusttLus.—Body witha lateral series of black spots,
terminal segment unarmed.
Inhabits the middle States.
My Cabinet. [106]
Body cylindrical, immarginate, above pale, obsoletely reticu-
late, and varied with reddish; a lateral series of large black
spots, numerous longitudinal, parallel, impressed, acute lines be-
neath the stigmata becoming gradually shorter to the origin of the
feet; beneath whitish ; head white beneath the antenne ; antennze
two joints preceeding the last somewhat dilated, not attenuated
[Vol. IT.
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at their bases, nor separated by a contraction; eyes black, lon-
gitudinally sublunate ; ultimate segment unarmed, longer than the
penultimate one, rounded at tip and blackish.
Length nearly half an inch.
Resembles J. impressus in the character of lateral impressed
lines, but is distinct by the unarmed terminal segment; I found
it rather common on the Eastern shore of Virginia under the
bark of Pinus variabilis.
Genus POLYDESMUS Latr.
Body elongated, linear depressed. segments with a prominent
margin ; eyes obolete; feet many; antennz, second joint shorter
than the third.
1. P. serRATUS.—Segments with a double transverse series
of slightly raised squamiform elevations.
My Cabinet.
Segments depressed above, with four minute serratures each
side, first segment transversely oblong oval, somewhat angulated
on each side behind, second, third and fourth segments with but
three serratures [107] first rather longer than the second, and with
a single obsolete serrature near the posterior angle, each segment
with a double transverse series of twelve slightly elevated, squami-
form divisions, anterior segment with but a single series; head
glabrous, an impressed longitudinal line on the vertex ; antennae,
feet and terminal segment hairy; color, above reddish-brown,
beneath yellowish white.
Common in similar situations with the preceding.
Julus virginiensis of Drury, is also rather common ; it appears to
be synonymous with J. tridentata of authors. I have found spe-
cimens double the usual size in the Southern States. It seems
also to vary in having only the second joint of the feet mucro-
nate, and in being destitute of the robust ventral spines between
the feet.
2. P. GRANULATUS.—Segments granulated, granules subequal,
arranged in four series.
My Cabinet.
Body with short hair, pale tinged with red beneath, and feet
paler ; head dusky, with short dense hairs; labrum whitish ; seg-
ments somewhat convex, granulated, granules rounded, or longi-
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tudinally oblong-oval, elevated, obtuse, approximate and arranged
transversely in about four nearly regular series, anterior segment
transversely oval, narrower than the head or second segment;
stigmata elevated.
Found in Pennsylvania. [108 ]
Genus POLLYXENUS Latr.
Body membranaceous, pennicillate with sete at tip; antenna
inserted under the anterior margin of the head.
P. FASCICULATUS.—Body pale brown, linear, incisures ciliated
fasciculated each side; head deeply ciliated before.
Inhabits the Southern States.
Segments smooth, ciliate at the incisures, and fasciculate with
brown setze each side, terminal pencil cinereous; head semior-
bicular, depressed, deeply and densely ciliated on the edge with
sete: eyes small, oval, prominent, placed obliquely in the middle
of the lateral margin ; antenne very short, thick reddish-brown ;
feet white.
Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch.
Beneath stones, &c., in humid situations ; not very common.
Order 2. SYNGNATHA.
Genus LITHOBIUS Leach.
Antenne conico-setaceous: dorsal scuta alternately much
shorter and concealed.
L. sprntpes.—Joints of the feet with short spines at tip, and
a single much longer one beneath the tips. [ 109}
My Cabinet.
Body chestnut brown, polished, impunctate, with short sparse
hairs; segments with reflected lateral edges, first one shortest,
transverse, the second quadrate with narrowed angles, five or six
posterior ones, each narrowed behind and emarginate on the hind
~ edge, the posterior angles of those near the caudal segment more
acute, caudal segment truncate conico-cylindric; antennz pale
testaceous, with dense, very short, rigid hair; terminal joint as
long as the two preceding ones conjunctly ; feet pale testaceous,
joints spinous at tip, an elongated spine at the tip of each be-
[Vol. II.
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neath, anterior pair shortest, posterior longest and more robust ;
labium longitudinally indented, impunctate, teeth of the tip black.
Length more than one inch.
Very common under stones, &c. The specimen from which
this description was taken has but thirty joints to the antennex.
Genus CERMATIA.
C. coLEopTRATA Villiers. Is an inhabitant of the Southern
States; we observed it both in Georgia and Hast Florida. It is
probable, that, like a vast number of the insects now common in
our country, it has been introduced by our shipping from abroad.
Genus SCOLOPENDRA.
Antenuz conico-setaceous; dorsal scuta subequal; eyes, four
each side, hemispherical. [110]
1. S. mancrnATA.—Body obscure olivaceous green ; segments
margined with dark green ; head castaneous.
Inhabits the Southern States.
My Cabinet.
Body obscure olivaceous green, beneath whitish or fulvous;
segments impunctured, margined each side and behind with
black-green ; first, third, and fourth shortest, five or six terminal
ones more distinctly margined; head chestnut color; antennze
green; feet pale, tipped with bluish green, nails blackish ; _pos-
terior feet hardly longer than the three terminal segments of the
body conjunctly ; length of the joints hardly equal to double
their breadth ; first joint spinous beneath and within, and armed
with an acute, strong, projecting angle at the tip.
Length more than two and a half inches.
Rather common in Georgia and Hast Florida; it is also found
in the West Indies, but does not occur so far north as Pennsyl-
vania.
2. S. vinip1s.—Body bluish green; base of the feet and all
beneath whitish.
Inhabits Georgia and Kast Florida.
My Cabinet.
Body above bluish green, immaculate; posterior segments
margined with pale yellowish; mandibles yellowish-white ; feet
whitish at base, terminal joints pale bluish-green, posterior pair
pale yellow.
1821.]
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Length about two inches and a half. [111]
I have not known this species to inhabit so far north as Penn-
sylvania.
Genus CRYPTOPS Leach.
Anterior edge of the labium not denticulated, hardly emar-
ginate ; eyes obsolete ; posterior pair of feet longest; basal joint
unarmed.
1. C. HyALINA.—Body much depressed, white, with a double
blackish internal line; hind feet with third joint five toothed.
Inhabits Georgia and Hast Florida.
My Cabinet.
Head reddish-brown, polished, impunctured, with scattered
hairs, no impressed clypeal line ; antennze reddish-brown hirsute,
joints sessile, cylindric, terminal ones rounded: body white,
polished, two black internal lines, a few sparse hairs, impune-
tured; feet with a few hairs; posterior feet reddish-brown, first
joint not so long as double its breadth, and with the second joint
armed with numerous short, rigid sete, with an indented line
above; third joint four or five toothed within, fourth joint about
two toothed.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Numerous specimens of this species occurred beneath the de-
caying bark of a live oak (Q. virens) on the River St. John, East
Florida. The appearance of the posterior feet approximates it
to Scolopendra ; [112] but the eyes exclude it from that genus,
as the number of the feet does from Lithobius.
2. C. SEXSPINOSA.—First joint of the posterior feet two spined.
My Cabinet.
Body reddish-ferruginous, punctured ; second segment shortest,
then the fourth and sixth, terminal one indented at tip, and
armed beneath,with a double, prominent, robust spine ; antenne
with very short dense hair, joints oval, separated by a very short
peduncle ; feet, two moveable short spines at the exterior tip of
the fourth joint; fifth joint with one beyond the middle and one
at tip; posterior feet, the base beneath a conspicuous, elevated,
compressed, acute, sub-triangular spine, and a smaller one on
the inner side above, near the middle.
Not uncommon in decaying wood. It varies in being impunc-
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tured beneath. I have a fortuitous variety, of which the antennze
are clavate and five jointed.
3. C. posticA.—Terminal segment of the body longest; pos-
terior feet very short and robust.
Inhabits Georgia and East Florida.
My Cabinet.
Body rufous, paler beneath, punctured ; segment with two im-
pressed, longitudinal lines above, and a deeply impressed one
beneath ; ultimate segment longer than the two preceding ones
conjunctly, with two [113] obsolete, impressed, abbreviated
lines at base, and an intermediate more distinct, continued one ;
posterior feet remarkably robust, hardly longer than the ultimate
segment ; nail very robust, as long as the two preceding joints
conjunctly.
A very remarkable species, distinguished at once from al!
others, by the very thick and short posterior pair of feet, the
nails of which cross each other, and are much used by the animal
in its defence.
Genus GEOPHILUS.
Posterior pair of feet not remarkably longer than the others ;
eyes obsolete.
1. G. RUBENS.—Body attenuated before and behind ; terminal
pair of feet hardly longer than the preceding pair.
My Cabinet.
Body broadest in the middle, impunctured, red, with short
hairs, more numerous on the antennz and feet; segments with
two longitudinal impressed lines, and a transverse acute one near
the base of each; ultimate segment somewhat longer than the
preceding, narrowed and rounded at tip; head beneath, witha
blackish spot each side at the base of the mandibles, and another
at base of the terminal joint ; labium with a profound fissure, not
dentated ; antenne, terminal joint longer than the preceding
ones, and of equal diameter, not attenuated ; feet subequal.
Very common in decaying wood, under stones, &c. [114]
2. G. ATTENUATUS.—Body attenuated from the head; posterior
feet longer than the others.
Inhabits the Southern States.
Body broadest before and gradually attenuated to the tail ;
reddish-brown, with a few hairs ; head and base of the mandibles
1821.]}
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above punctured: antenne setaceo-filiform, with numerous short
hairs; feet paler than the body; posterior ones longer than the
others.
Found under stones, &e.
[From Vol. 2, part 2, 1822.]
On a South American species of Estrus which inhabits the human body.
Read November 26th, 1822.
Many of the objects of natural history described by Linné are
at present, entirely unknown, notwithstanding the laborious and
ardent researches that have been made, by a multitude of ob-
servers, since the time of the great reformer. This may be in part
attributed to the great rarity of some of those objects, but it may
be supposed to be more particularly due to his habitual manner
of attempting to concentrate all the characters of a being, in the
comprehensive significancy of a few words. This excessive con-
ciseness, appears to have been intended to check or discountenance
a continuation of the habit of voluminous description, so freely
used by his predecessors; but with due deference to his vast
and deserved reputation, be it said, that, in the attempt to intro-
duce a necessary reformation in this respect, that great naturalist
passed to the opposite extreme.
In common with the greater number of naturalists of the present
day, I have very often felt the inconvenience of this imaginary
improvement and real detriment in zoology, and heartily wish
that brevity may be sacrificed to accuracy, as I am convinced
that however desirable every describer may, and, indeed, ought
to be, to represent the object before him in as few words as possi-
ble, he should, nevertheless, not hesitate to avail himself of as
many expletives as will in all probability obviously distinguish
his object [354] from others, regardless of the number of words
that may be required for this purpose.
It is to be regretted that some very distinguished zoologists,
perceiving as they must this grand impediment to the determina-
tion of species, still, by their example, perpetuate and in-
crease this grievance, considering it sufficient for them to add to
a very laconic description, a reference to a cabinet in which the
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 33
specimen may be inspected, by the comparatively few persons
who have the opportunity.
Now, although a reference to a cabinet specimen ought to be
considered as the duty of the describer of every animal, plant or
mineral, whenever such reference is at all possible, yet it never-
theless seems also indispensable, that a detailed description, in-
cluding many characters, should at the same time be given for
the information of the distant naturalist or traveller, in order
that its utility may not be limited exclusively to our compatriots.
Amongst a multitude of short and insufficient descriptions, or
rather indications, we find in Turton’s edition of the Systema
Nature, the following notice, translated from Gmelin, of the
existence of a very remarkable insect.
“‘ (istRUS HOMINIS.—Body entirely brown. Inhabits South
America. Linné ap. Pall. nord. Beytr. p. 157. Deposits its eggs
under the skin, on the bellies of the natives; the larva, if it be
disturbed, penetrates deeper and produces an ulcer which fre-
quently becomes fatal.”
This insect, for the identifying of which we have [ 355 | mani-
festly to depend almost entirely on the habitat, does not appear
to have been observed by any succeeding writers since it was
mentioned by its discoverer. Humboldt, however, when occu-
pied with his highly interesting travels in South America, was
struck with certain tumors that he sometimes observed to exist
on the bodies of the natives of that country, and which he attri-
buted to the concealed operations of the larva of an Gstrus ; but
as he had no opportunity of verifying this conjecture by satis-
factory examination, he relied upon the form and appearance of
the tumors, with a recollection, probably, of the description
above quoted.
Clarke, the best writer on this genus of insects, observes that
the hominis is probably a spurious species, and he further states
that it “is, perhaps, merely an accidental deposit of G. bovis, in
the human body, of which there are numerous instances.”’*
So perfectly satisfied was Fabricius of the non-existence of the
hominis as a distinct species, that in his Systema Antliatorum he
has taken no notice whatever of this name and description.
* Rees’ Cyclopedia, article Bots.
1822.] 3
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The most eminent of living entomologists, Mr. Latreille, ob-
serves* that neither of the authors who have mentioned this in-
sect, saw it in its perfect state; he therefore thinks it probable,
that the larve to which they had reference, were those of the
Musca carnaria [356] of Linnzeus, or some other analogous spe-
cies; for, he adds, all the larve of Cstrus known, live on quad-
rupeds of the order Herbivora and Rodentia.
Now, although I have not seen the perfect insect, in question,
yet my object in this paper is to show, by the aid I think of
sufficient data, that there is an (strus of South America which
must be added to the catalogue of the foes of our kind, fully
capable of a notable agency in augmenting the afflictions of
humanity, and to prove that this species is altogether distinct
from bovis, to which the ingenious Clark was disposed to refer it.
A few days since, Dr. Harlan presented to me for examination,
a small animal preserved in alcohol, that resembled, at first view,
a parasitic worm, but, on a slight inspection, it became. evident
that it was no other than the larva of a species of Mstrus ; he
informed me that he had received it from Dr. Brick, who had
extracted it from his own leg, during a journey in South
America.
Desc. The form of this larva is clavate, the posterior [anterior.
—Lxc.] moiety of the whole length being dilated and somewhat de-
pressed ; the segments of this portion are armed with transverse
series of small, black, horny tubercles, dilated at their bases, near
their tips rather suddenly diminishing to a filiform curved hook,
pointing forwards with an acute termination ; these series are six
in number on the back and sides, placed in pairs, and three in
number on the abdomen; near the posterior [anterior] termina-
tion of the body are [857] numerous minute tubercles of the same
character with the others, excepting that they conform to no regu-
lar series ; the anterior [posterior—LeEc.] moiety of the body is
entirely glabrous, cylindrical, or rather elongate conic, of a much
smaller diameter than the posterior [anterior] portion, and trun-
cate at the tip; the lipsatthe posterior [anterior] termination of
the body are short, and the intervening fissure of but little width.
Total length eleven-twentieths ; greatest width more than three-
twentieths of an inch.
* Nouveau Dict. d’Hist. Nat. article Mstre.
[Vol. UT.
isi)
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OF PHILADELPHIA.
Cabinet of the Academy.
Obs. From this description we may gather the facts, that the
larva in question corresponds with that of CM. bovis in being
destitute of hooks or holders at the mouth, but it widely differs in
general form, as the larva of bovis is oblong-oval, hardly more
narrowed at one end than at the other. The appearance of the
series of minute hooks which subserve the functions of feet, in
the latter species; also are very different from that of the cor-
responding armature of this larva, the superior line of each
double series being narrow, and seemingly composed of but a
row of hooks, whilst the inferior line is much more dilated, and
the hooks far more numerous than in the superior line ; indeed, the
series of hooks of the South American larva are more like those
of the larve of @. equi and hemorrhoidalis, than those of the im-
perfect bovis or ovis. But independently of those considerations,
the single character of the much attenuated form of the anterior
[posterior] part of the body of this larva, at once and eminently
distinguishes it from any [ 358] other yet known in this family ;
while at the same time, the above description, taken in conjunc-
tion with its habitat, forbids the supposition of its belonging to
any other group, and will, I think, justify the restoration to its
place in the system of the Linnean. @strus hominis. To which
of Latreille’s recently established genera it belongs, is at present
impossible to determine, though, for the present, it may, perhaps,
be not unsafe to refer it to the Cute[re]bra* of Clark. |
Since the above was read to the Academy, Dr. Harlan has
furnished me with the following interesting extract of a letter,
which he received from a gentleman from whose leg this larva
was extracted :—
“After avery sultry day’s march, and being very much fa-
tigued, I went to bathe in the Chama, a small stream emptying
in the lagoon of Maracaibo. Not long after coming out of the
water, I received a sting from some insect, in the left leg, over
the upper and fore part of the tibia; it was several days attended
with a considerable degree of itching, but without any pain, and
I continued on my journey some few days longer without ex-
periencing much inconvenience; except during several periods of
* Weidmann in a letter states to me his preference of the term Z7y-
poderma for this genus.
1822.)
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perhaps two or three minutes continuance, when an acute pain
came on suddenly, and was severe whilst it continued, and then
as suddenly subsided. On my arrival, and during my continu-
ance at Il. Rosaria de Cucuta, I walked [359] with difficulty ;
there was a considerable tumefaction over the tibia, which had
the appearance of ordinary bile (phlegmon ;) in the centre there
was a small black speck; the usual applications were used with-
out any success, and the tumor became more irritated and in-
flamed, and thus it remained for some days, attended at times
with a most acute pain, which for a few minutes was almost in-
tolerable.
“Tn returning to Maracaibo, I had to descend the Cottatumba
in an open boat, without any shelter, and being wet to the skin
by the cold rains which fell every night, [ suffered much, and
was almost constantly tormented by the tumor, which became
more painful at those particular periods than usual; during this
passage, which lasted for twelve days, I was induced to scarify
it, and had recourse to the usual topical applications, but without
success. At times I imagined that I felt something moving, and
suspected that there was something alive beneath the skin.
“After my return to Maracaibo I became scarcely able to walk,
and was, in a manner, confined to my quarters. In this situation
I continued two weeks longer, the tumor haying began to dis-
charge, and without any diminution of the painful periods.
“ Being now nearly worried out, it occurred to me to try a
poultice of tobacco, which was used for several nights, having
previously scarified the tumor; during the day I frequently
dusted it with ashes of segars: as an ingredient I used rum in-
stead of water [360] in making the poultice. On the fourth
morning after this remedy, I felt considerable relief, and on the
fifth, with a forceps, I drew out the worm which you have now
in your possession, and which was then dead.
“Tn a few days the sore assumed a healthy look, and in ten
days was perfectly healed up, although, at times, I yet experience
a heavy pain in the part from whence the worm has been taken.
It had travelled on the periosteum along the the tibia for at least
two inches. The severe pain which I experienced from those
periods, I attribute to the irritation of some of the branches of
the nerves distributed to the parts by the worm in its progress.
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Respecting this worm there are different opinions among the
Spaniards and Creoles. Ouche is the name it is called by some,
who say it is produced by a worm which crawls on the body, from
the ground, and penetrating the skin, increases in size. Others
maintain that they are produced from the sting of a winged insect
which they call Zancudo,* others again, call the insect Husano;
for my part, I am rather inclined to think that they are produced
from the sting of a winged insect, which deposits its egg.
“N. B. Should it even be proved that the form of the anterior
part of this larva is owing to the violence used in extracting it,
of which there is no appearance, still it will stand as distinct
from other known species.”
[The larva above described, is now supposed to be that of Cute-
rebra noxialis Goudot, for the characters of which see Annales de
la Société Entomologique de France, 2d series, 2, xli. For a de-
tailed discussion of all the facts known on the subject of Gstri
in the human body, consult Keferstein, tiber Gstrus hominis
Verh. Zool. Botan. Vereins in Wien, 1856, 637.
While travelling in Honduras, several of my companions were
very much afflicted with similar larvae; they seem to infest par-
ticular portions of the body not usually exposed; the pectoral,
dorgal and lumbar regions, the thighs and upper parts of the
arm. When the eggs were deposited, was entirely unknown to
the patients, none of them having ever observed a fly alight on
the body; but from the position of the parasite, it is most proba-
ble that the eggs were laid while the patients were bathing.
The effects of these intruders are very much exaggerated in the
text ; they produce a swelling, having the appearance of an ordi-
nary boil, in which, at times, is felt, for a few seconds, an acute
pain when the worm moves; the method of extraction is very
simple, and but moderately painful. The tumor is held be-
tween the thumb and forefinger, a lighted segar is approached
to the skin as near as the patient will permit, when the worm
becomes restless, and the point of his body will be seen at a very
minute orifice in the skin, not before obvious; the segar is im-
mediately dropped, and with both hands the tumor is com-
pressed violently; the worm is thus forced out, sometimes with
*The word Zancudo is used by the South American Spaniards to de-
note several species of Culex.—3s.
1822.]
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such velocity as to be projected several inches. No inflamma-
tion or discharge follows, but the sac immediately closes and heals.
Sometimes the worm is so small as to resist this mode of ex-
traction ; a piece of tobacco leaf is then gummed over the tumor,
(usually with an exudation from the skin of a plantain;) the
worm dies in a few hours, and is then readily removed by
squeezing the part. I have nothing to add to the description of
the larva in the text, as emended by me, except to say that my
specimens were regularly clavate, not at all depressed; the form
mentioned above was perhaps owing to contraction, produced by
the liquor in which the specimen was preserved. The figures
given by Mr. Goudot are regularly oval, and not at all clavate.
The name Gusano del Monte is commonly applied to the worms
by the natives, while the insect is called Zancudo gusano; the
word Zancudo means simply long legged, and it is difficult to
understand how it could be applied to a species of Cuterebra.
The natives assured me that the fly was frequently seen, that
it was of a grey color, and resembled an ordinary mosquito, ex-
cept in being larger. I imagine that some species of Tipula
was meant. A similar superstition in the United States has con-
ferred upon those harmless insects the fearful title of Gallinip-
pers.—LEC. ]
[From Vol. 3, 1823.]
Descriptions of Dipterous Insects of the United States.
Read Dec. 24th, 1822,
The dipterous insects, from which the following descriptions
are drawn out, were chiefly collected by myself, during the late
expedition to the Rocky Mountains under the command of Major
Long, and patronage of Mr. Calhoun, the present Secretary of
War.
Of these insects, many appear to be common inhabitants of
the United States, throughout the immense region included by
the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic ocean, between the parallels
of latitude 35° and 41° north; others are probably restricted to
the Western States, and some were seen only in the vicinity of
the Missouri river; along the base of the great northern Andes,
where numbers of new and highly interesting animals and plants
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were for the first time detected by the party, interesting animals
of the order under consideration were also collected. The speci-
mens are in my cabinet.
CULEX Linn.
1. C. PUNCTIPENNIS.—Body dark rufous, covered with cinereo-
ferruginous hair; feet elongated ; wings maculated.
Inhabits the United States.
Orbits, bright cinereous; eyes deep black; antennz and pro-
boscis deep fuscous or blackish immaculate ; thorax dark rufous,
with obsolete blackish lines, and covered with cinereo-ferrugin-
ous hair; wings hairy, dusky, with a hardly perceptible pale
band beyond the middle, and obsolete dusky spots; scutel gla-
brous, dark rufous, with a longitudinal bluish vitta; halteres
yellow at base; feet elongated, deep fuscous or blackish; pectus
each side above the posterior feet plumbeous.
It is probable this is the species which Fabr. considers as the
same with the pulicaris of Europe; it is common on the Missis-
sippi, and troublesome to travellers. When the insect is at rest,
the wings being incumbent, one on the other, the pale band is
very distinct; when recent, the eyes are greenish-blue. I ob-
served this species in considerable numbers on the Eastern shore
of Maryland. The dusky spots on the wings of this species, are
occasioned by the thicker growth of hair in those parts.
[Belongs to Anopheles: Wiedemann has changed the name to
A. crucians.—SACKEN. |
2. C. 5-rasctaTus.—Body clothed with cinereous hair ; abdo-
men annulate with blackish.
Inhabits the Western States.
Eyes deep black; antenne: fuscous, region of the base paler ;
proboscis black ; thorax with a dilated dorsal fuscous vitta ; pectus
each side varied with blackish ; halteres entirely whitish ; scutel
glabrous; wings with dusky nervures, immaculate; feet mode-
rate, fuscous ; thighs whitish ; abdomen cinereous; tergum with
five black, broad fascie ; tail black above. [11]
Length about one-fifth of an inch; proboscis one-tenth of an
inch.
This is an exceedingly numerous and troublesome species
We found them in great numbers on the Mississippi in May and
1823.]
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June. The hairy covering is very deciduous, and when an in-
dividual is caught by hand, the back of the thorax, in conse-
quence of being denuded by the touch, exhibits the dorsal vitte
of a blackish color confluent at the base, with an oval black spot
on each side. The abdominal annuli are sometimes fuscous or
even light brown.
Legs much shorter than those of the preceding species, but
like them in not being annulated.
[Also an Anopheles: Wiedemann has named it A. ferrugi-
nosus.—SACKEN. |
2. C. pAMNOSUS.—Rostrum and tarsi annulate with white.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head above with rather long yellow-ferruginous hair ; antennee
pale-brownish ; rostrum blackish; with a broad white band on
the middle ; thorax black, with three cinereous lines, and clothed
with yellow-ferruginous short hair ; scutel dull testaceous ; pleura
grayish ; feet pale, covered with blackish hairs; joints of the
tarsi, excepting the first, whitish at their bases ; tergum brown,
basal margins of the segments cinereous-whitish.
Length a quarter of an inch.
This is one of the most common and troublesome of our mos-
quitoes. It seems to correspond in some degree with the cingu-
latus Fabr., although we must infer from his description, that
the posterior tarsi [12] only are annulated. Wiedemann con-
siders the cingulatus as the male of his molestus, of which all the
tarsi are annulated, like those of our species. I feel, however,
perfect confidence in the description of Wiedemann, and there-
fore must consider our species distinct, inasmuch as the thorax is
not “ lateribusque niveis ;’ and from the laudable accuracy of
that author, I cannot suppose that he would have overlooked
the annulation of the proboscis, which certainly exists in this
species.
[Wiedemann has changed the name to C. teniorhynchus.—
SACKEN. |
4, C. TRISERIATUS.—Anterior margin of the wings fuscous ;
tergum with white spots on each side.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body brown ; stethidium livid-brown ; thorax with white hair
each side; pleura with two spots of white hair ; feet pale, covered
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with dusky hair; thighs naked, blackish above near the tip ;
tergum with a triangular white spot at the base of each segment
on each side; each of these spots extends upon the venter in the
form of a band, interrupted each side of the middle; thus form-
ing three spots on each series upon that part, the middle ones of
which are almost connected into a longitudinal line.
Length one-fifth of an inch. 9.
The white spots contrast strongly with the brown color of the
abdomen.
CHIRONOMUS Meig. Wied.
1. C. LopirERUS.—Segments of the abdomen with a lobe at
their bases. [13]
Inhabits the United States.
Antenne yellowish-brown; thorax pale-cinereous, the three
lines testaceous ; scutel and metathorax testaceous ; wings white,
with a brownish obsolete point near the middle; pectus testace-
ous; feet pale yellowish; tergum somewhat glaucous, the seg-
ments with their bases and obsolete longitudinal line black; on
the middle of the base of the second, third, fourth and fifth seg-
ments is a small longitudinally oval, slightly elevated lobe, ex-
tending nearly one-third the length of the segment.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
[ Wiedemann has altered the name to C. lobi/er.—SACKEN. ]
2. C. FESTIVUS.—Body pale, when recent light green ; pectus,
three thoracic lines and scutel testaceous ; wings white.
Inhabits the United States.
Body pale yellowish-brown, when recent, pale-green; head at
base of the antennz testaceous ; antennee light brown; eyes deep
black ; thorax trilineate with testaceous ; scutel testaceous ; wings
white, immaculate ; pectus testaceous between the two anterior
pairs of feet; feet pale, hairy; thighs green; tarsi dusky at the
incisures; anteriors nearly naked, with hairy tarsi; abdomen,
second, third, fourth and fifth segments tipped with blackish
above.
Length of female, seven-twentieths of an inch.
Observed particularly in the State of Illinois.
3. C. MopEsTus.—Stethidium yellowish, abdomen pea-green.
Inhabits Pennsylvania. [14]
1823.]
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Hyes black ; antennze, shaft brown, whitish at base ; humerus,
scutel, and intervals between the dilated lines of the thorax pale;
wings immaculate, costal edge near the tip somewhat dusky ; feet
ereenish-white, anterior tibia and the tarsi dusky.
Length one-fifth of an inch. %.
4. CO. GemInAtTuSs.—Thorax fuscous; pleura gray; abdomen
white, annulate with black.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Humerus gray, the color being a continuation of that of the
pleura; pectus livid; feet white; thighs blackish, pale at base;
tibia at base and tip, and tarsi at tip fuscous ; abdomen with three
broad double bands, formed thus: second segment fuscous with
the exception of the posterior margin, third segment fuscous on
the basal margin, fourth segment fuscous excepting the posterior
edge, fifth segment fuscous on the basal half, sixth and seventh
segments entirely fuscous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
5. ©. LInEATUS.—Wings white ; stethidium yellowish testace-
ous, a fuscous longitudinal line on the anterior dilated line.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Thorax pale-greenish, the dilated lines yellowish testaceous, a
longitudinal narrow line very distinct and fuscous on the anterior
dilated line, and green rather obsolete behind; scutel pale ; wings
immaculate ; feet whitish, incisures of the knees of the inter-
mediate and posterior feet brown; tergum greenish, posterior
margins of the incisures dusky. [15]
Length ¢ nearly three-tenths of an inch.
{Wiedemann has changed this into C. lineola—SAcCKEN. |
©. STIGMATERUS.—Tergum pale, towards the tip glaucous.
Tnhabits the United States.
Antenne pale yellowish-brown; thorax pale cinereous, the
lines very pale testaceous, sometimes tinged with dusky; scutel
yellowish ; metathorax reddish-brown ; wings white with a fus-
cous sub-central stigma; pectus testaceous ; feet pale-yellowish ;
tergum, basal segments pale reddish-brown with whitish tips,
terminal segments somewhat glaucous.
Length three-tenths of an inch. %.
[This has been changed by Wiedemann into C. glaucurus.—
SACKEN. |
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TANYPUS Meig.
1. T. ANNULATUS.—Tergum annulate with dusky; wings
clouded with dusky and with three or four blackish points.
TInhabits Pennsylvania.
Head and stethidium red-brown ; thorax, the anterior dilated
line with a brown line along its middle; feet white, thighs
having an annulus near the tip, and tibia with one at base and
two near the tip fuscous; wings with large obsolete dusky spots
or clouds, and three or four black-brown points, of which two
are towards the middle of the wing, and the remainder on the
costal margin near the tip; tergum, segments with a dusky an-
nulus at their bases.
Length about three-twentieths of an inch. ¢.
2. T. TIBIALIS.—Thorax reddish-brown ; tibia white [16] at
base ; abdomen white, a double band on the middle and tip black.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Wings immaculate; poisers white ; feet fuscous, basal half of
the tibia white; tergum, second joint with a spot each side, two
middle segments with each a band, of which the anterior one is
much broader, and terminal segments deep fuscous ; pleura yel-
lowish.
Length % more than one-twentieth of an inch.
CORETHRA Meig.
C. PUNCTIPENNIS.—Whitish ; wings and feet punctured with
fuscous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Hair of the antennze yellowish-white, the centres of the whorls
being fuscous, the shaft of the antenne has a decidedly annulated
appearance; eyes black; thorax with three pale yellowish-brown
abbreviated broad lines, the middle one originating before and
terminating at the centre of the disk, the lateral ones originating
rather before the middle ; feet with numerous small brown punc-
tures ; wings with many very obvious brown spots.
Size of C. culiciformis Degeer, Meig.
MYCETOPHILA Meig.
M. 1cHNEUMONEA.—Pale yellowish-brown ; wings with a fus-
cous spot ; tergum dusky above. [17]
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
1823.]
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Head tinged with rufous; eyes black; thorax a little hairy,
immaculate ; feet whitish; tarsi dusky; wings pellucid, nervures
pale brown, a fuscous spot on the connecting nervures ; abdomen
fusiform, somewhat compressed, second, third and fourth seg-
ments, particularly the former, reddish-brown above.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
This belongs to Meigen’s first division of the genus.
CAMPYLOMYZA Meig. Wied.
C. scUTELLATA.—Black, scutel testaceous; feet yellowish ;
wings hyaline, nervures at the base, pale-yellowish ; poisers yel-
lowish.
Inhabits Missouri.
Length nearly one-twentieth of an inch.
ERIOPTERA Meig.
K. CALIPTERA.—Wings fuscous spotted with white: interme-
diate and posterior thighs biannulate with black.
Inhabits Missouri. -
Body pale yellowish ; thorax with two fuscous lines above, and
one on each side before the wings ; wings dark brown, about thir-
teen spots arranged along the margins, and numerous somewhat
smaller ones on the disk, white; nervures hairy; anterior [18]
thighs with a blackish line near the tip; intermediate and posterior
thighs with an annulus on the middle and another near the tip,
blackish ; abdomen tinged with brownish, a darker dorsal line and
longitudinal incisures.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
[Wiedemann has altered this to 2. caloptera—SackEn. |
CTENOPHORA Meig.
1. C. ruLiciInosA.—Dusky, wings spotted with white; abdo-
men lineate with yellow.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body dark brown ; thorax lineate with yellowish before ; wings
fuliginous, with about three white spots on the anterior margin,
and a transverse oblique one on the disk attaining the thinner
margin ; feet short, pale testaceous, tips of the thighs and of the
tibia and tarsi blackish ; tergum fuscous, with two dilated yellow
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lines; venter yellow, obsolete central vitta and posterior margins
of the segments, blackish.
Length about seyen-tenths of an inch.
2. C. ABDOMINALIS.—Abdomen bright fulvous, margined with
black ; wings spotted with fuscous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head dull yellowish; rostrum, palpi, and antennz, dark fus-
cous: front with a transverse black line at the base of the an-
tennze, and another each side from the antenne to the rostrum ;
occiput dusky ; thorax cinereous, a double black longitudinal line
abbreviated behind, and three black spots on each [19] side,
whereof two are oblong, and the intermediate one subquadrate;
collar pale, with three black spots; scutel dirty yellowish, an oblique
black spot on cach side of it; pleura gray, with a longitudinal
vitta from the head to the abdomen; wings with four fuscous
spots on the costal margin, and a minute one beyond the carpus ;
nervures fuscous, slightly margined, the middle furcate one sub-
margined with white, costal margin between the spots white, pos-
terior margin from the ultimate nervure to the apex with alter-
nate fuscous and white spots; tergum bright fulvous, basal and
apical segments, and a wide lateral vitta, black; venter paler
fulvous, posterior segments shaded with dusky, and with a longi-
tudinal black line; feet black, a white annulus at base of the
tibia; thighs pale with a black annulus at tip.
Length one and a half inches.
This is one of our largest and finest species of Linnean Tipula.
LIMNOBIA Meig.
1. L. FASCIAPENNIS.—Wings white, with four fuscous mar-
bled bands; feet pale, blackish at the tips of the thighs.
Inhabits the United States.
Body above rufo-cinereous ; eyes deep black; antennz fuscous,
first and second joints black, third and fourth, yellowish; palpi
black; wings white, [20] with about four, much dilated, mar-
bled, dark brown bands, of which one is terminal, and one elon-
gated to the base, a small costal spot between the second and
third bands ; halteres dusky, capitulum white ; feet pale rufous,
thighs tipped with fuscous ; abdomen, segments with an obsolete,
1823.)
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brown, cruciate mark on each, of which the transverse line is
black.
Length of female, three-fifths of an inch, male rather shorter.
This species occurs not unfrequently on the banks of the Mis-
sissippi. The nervures of the wings correspond with those of the
wing represented on tab. 6, fig. 4, of Meigen’s descriptions of
European Diptera.
2. I. MACROCERA.—Blackish-piceous, polished; wing tliree-
spotted ; antennze longer than the body.
Inhabits East Florida.
Rostrum, first and second joints of the antennz, and the in-
ferior portion of the front, yellowish ; vertex piceous; antennz
hairy on all their length, third and fourth joints with a small
vertical spine at tip; halteres and feet yellowish-white ; thighs
and tibia at tip dusky; wings with three large fuscous spots, of
which one is near the base, the second on the middle of the cos-
tal margin not attaining to the edge, and the third forms nearly
a band across on the connecting nervures : abdomen less intensely
colored than the thorax, the three or four middle segments
pale-yellowish at base.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The disposition of the wing nervures differs from [21 ] any of
those represented by Meigen, but they are more like those of fig.
7, pl. 5, than any of the others.
3. L. TENurPES.—Thorax livid; humerus yellowish; wings
dusky.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Antenne long, blackish; vertex fuscous; thorax livid; hu-
merus reddish-yellow ; nervures arranged as in Meigen’s fig. 2,
pl. 6; pleure and pectus reddish-yellow ; feet long and slender,
blackish, pale at base; tergum brownish-livid, segments on their
posterior margins somewhat darker; abdomen whitish.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
This species may be found in plenty during the autumn at
Harrowgate, in humid situations, in company with 7. flavicans
Fabr.
[This species is united with L. humeralis, below, by Wiede-
mann, as one species, under the name L. humeralis.—SAcKEN. }
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4, L. crnctrprs.—Yellowish; wings varied with dusky; thighs
bifasciate beyond the middle.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body pale-yellowish ; thorax trilineate with black, intermediate
line double, terminating at the central incisure ; lateral lines in-
terrupted before, and continued posteriorly to their union at the
base of the tergum ; wings varied with blackish ; four distant
spots on the costal ree of which the terminal one is semi-cir-
cular and the penultimate one is continued in a very irregular
band towards the thinner margin; thinner margin with about
four much diluted spots, the terminal one being continued as a
band across the tip; abdomen yellow, somewhat varied with [ 22 |
black: thighs with two black annulations beyond the middle.
Length about half an inch.
The nervures of the wings agree with those of Meigen’s fig. 5
of tab. 6, excepting that there are three nervures on the costal
margin as in his figures 5, 7 and 8 of tab. 5.
5. L. HUMERALIS.—Dusky, beneath pale; wings hyaline im-
maculate.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Antenne fuscous, first joint and rostrum dull-yellowish ; front
and vertex dull cinereous; thorax dark livid ; humerus, two ob-
solete lines, and lateral margin as far as the wings, yellowish;
pleura and pectus pale yellow; scutel and metathorax color of the
thorax ; nervures dark brown, corresponding in arrangement with
Meigen’s fig. 2, pl. 6; feet dark brown; tergum dull-yellowish,
with a black line ; venter white.
Length two-fifths of an inch..
6. L. RostrRaATA.—Feet elongated; wings spotted; rostrum
nearly three times as long as the head.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Antenne, rostrum and vertex fuscous ; thorax cinereous, tri-
lineate with fuscous, the intermediate line abbreviated behind,
and the lateral ones abbreviated before ; wings with five fuscous
sub-equal spots on the costal margin, the penultimate one rather
largest, and a spot at each termination of a nervure at the inner
[ 23 ] margin and apex, the connecting nervures also are margined
with fuscous ; feet pale.
Length one quarter of an inch. 2.
1823.]
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On flowers: this species resembles L. longirostris Wied. in the
form of the rostrum and the arrangement of the nervures, and
with that insect it seems entitled to be separated from Limnobia
as a distinct genus.
[Belongs to Aporosa Macq.—SAcKEN. ]
TIPULA Linn. Meig.
1. T. cunoTans.—Wings with a fuscous costal margin : ter-
gum with a dusky line.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Rostrum, mouth and base of the antennz pale reddish-yellow,
flagellum dusky ; front and vertex cinereous ; collar pale, with a
dusky line; thorax brown, two pale distant lines on the disk,
confluent behind, and another on each side passing over the wings ;
wings dusky ; nervures fuscous; the fuscous costal margin is in-
terrupted near the stigma, by an obsolete, pale spot; poisers
dusky, stipes yellowish; feet blackish; thighs and tibia, paler at
base ; pleura gray ; abdomen, pale brownish-yellow, with a dis-
tinct dusky line on the tergum, the segments of which are also
margined behind with dusky.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
Arrangement of the nervures like that of the preceding species:
2. T. cosraLis.—Wings with a fuscous costal margin; [24]
antenne annulate ; segments of the tergum with an interrupted
transverse line.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Head cinereous ; rostrum and antenne yellowish, segments of
the latter, excepting the three basal ones, fuscous at base ; tho-
rax yellowish brown, with a darker line ; scutel and metathorax
pale ; pleura whitish ; feet dull yellowish-brown ; wings with a
brown costal margin extending to the extremity of the carpus ;
tergum light yellow-brown, segments with a fuscous posterior
margin, and two linear spots placed in a line transversely.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
The arrangement of the nervures of the wings is nearly simi-
lar to that of Meigen’s fig. 9 of pl. 6.
3. T. MAtRocERA.—Pale-yellowish ; antenne elongated.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Inferior longitudinal half of the rostrum, reddish-brown ; palpi
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dusky ; antennze twice the length of the head and thorax, second
joint very small, third joint as long as as the fourth and fifth
taken together, the remaining joints a little dusky, dilated at their
bases, and somewhat excavated in their middles; wings immac-
ulate ; nervures, stigma and interstice of the first and second ner-
vures, dull-yellowish ; feet pale-brownish ; abdomen somewhat
darker than the thorax, with three series of black dots, one lateral,
and one ventral; pleura and pectus whitish yellow. [25]
Length half an inch.
The antennz by their length, the second and third joints, and
the form of those of the flagellum, show an alliance with the genus
Nephrotoma, but as they have but thirteen joints, the insect must
be regarded as a Tiipula.
4. T. conuaris.—Thorax blued-black, lineate with yellow;
tergum yellow with blackish bands.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head fulvous; antenne, first and second joints, rather paler
than the head; palpi fuscous, pale at base; occiput black: tho-
rax blued-black, the collar, two lines each side confluent before
and behind, scutel and metathorax, bright yellow, the latter with
two confluent blued-black spots at tip; poisers brown, tip of the
capitulum yellowish; wings with a brown stigma, nervures
brown, differing in arrangement from those of the preceding
species and from those figured by Meigen: feet brown, basal portion
of the thighs pale ; tergum yellow, segments black-brown on their
posterior half; venter pale-yellow, segments dusky on their pos-
terior half with a silvery reflection.
Length alittle less than half an inch.
5. T. ANNULATA.—A dark brown stigma ; abdomen pale, an-
nulate with black. .
Tnhabits Pennsylvania.
Antennze fuscous, first and second joints whitish ; rostrum, and
lower portion of the front whitish ; vertex and’ occiput dusky ;
palpi fuscous; thorax yellowish-brown, [26] the indented lines
paler ; metathorax light livid; wings with a brown stigmata,
neryures brown, arranged like those of Meigen’s fig. 9, pl. 6 ; feet
dusky-brownish ; abdomen yellowish-white, incisures and their
margins black, forming annulations complete.
— 1823.) 3
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Length two-fifths of an inch.
6. T. rRivirraATa.—Wings four-banded with fuscous ; tergum
yellow with a dorsal and lateral fuscous vitta.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head dusky ; front, rostrum, and base of the antenne pale ;
thorax whitish-cinereous, lineate with light brown, the lines
double ; collar with a brown line, and lateral dusky spot; scutel
and metathorax with a brown line; pleura and pectus gray ;
poisers whitish, capitulum brown ; wings with fuscous margined
nervures, fuscous bands and white areolz, between the first and
second band is a semi-band on the thinner margin, second band
enclosing a white spot on the costal margin ; feet dusky ; tergum
with a longitudinal fuscous line, segments with lateral fuscous
triangles and a dorsal transverse abbreviated dorsal line near the
middle of each.
Length one inch.
Nervures resembling those of the preceding species.
SCIOPHILA Hoff.
S. FASCIATA.—Pale-yellowish ; thorax trilineate ; tergum fas-
ciate with fuscous. [27]
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Antenne at tip, and vertex fuscous; thorax with a double
light-brown middle line attenuated and abbreviated behind, a
dark chestnut dilated line on each side abbreviated before, and a
small obsolete one above the origin of the wings; pleura with a
dusky spot over the insertion of each foot, placed triangularly,
the inferior one itself triangular ; tibie and tarsi a little dusky ;
segments of the tergum fuscous on their posterior margins.
Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch.
RYPHUS Matr. Meig.
1. R. MARGINATUS.—Wings spotted ; thorax trilineate with
rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head dull reddish-brown ; vertex blackish ; thorax cinereous,
with three rufous lines, of which the middle one is abbreviated
behind, and the lateral ones are abbreviated before; wings with
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three brownish spots on the costal margin ; feet whitish, joints a
little dusky ; tergum blackish at tip, pale at base.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
The number, form and position of the wing spots, are similar
to those of Sciara punctata, Fabr., it differs, however, from that
insect, in addition to other peculiarities, by the color of the tho-
racic lineations.
2. R. ALTERNATUS.—Costal margin of the w ing beyond [28 ]
the middle with three fuscous spots alternating with white ones.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body blackish-fuscous ; thorax with three black lines, of which
the intermediate one is double; feet short; wings hyaline, con-
necting nervures slightly margined with fuscous spots on the cos-
tal margin, placed one on the middle of the length, then a white
one which is very conspicuous on the edge of the wing, then a
brown one, then another white one divided into two compartments
by a nervure, then a third brown one terminated at the tip of the
wing by a third white spot.
2 Length to the tip of the wings a quarter of an inch.
The habit differs from that of the other species I have seen.
SIMULIUM Latr.
S. vENustuM.—Black ; thorax, two perlaceous spots before,
and a larger one behind; poisers black,-capitulum bright yellow,
dilated.
Inhabits Shippingsport.
Body black ; wings whitish, with yellow, andiridescent reflex.
ions.
Male, eyes very large, separated only by a simple line, dull
reddish yellow, inferior half black ; thorax velvet-black, a bright
oblique, perlaceous, dilated line each side before, and a large per-
laceous [29] spot or band behind ; sides beneath varied with per-
laceous ; feet, tibia above, and first joint of the four posterior
tarsi, white ; abdomen with an oblique perlaceous line at base,
and two approximate, lateral, perlaceous ones near the tip.
Female.—Kyes moderate ; thorax plumbeous-black, immacu-
late ; scutel black : abdomen whitish beneath.
This very pfetty species, perched in considerable numbers on
our boat at Shippingsport, Falls of the Ohio. It ran with con-
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siderable rapidity, constantly advancing its long anterior feet.
_ Its bite is pungent.
BERIS Latr. Meig.
B. Fuscrrarsis.—Thorax piceous-black, polished; tergum
reddish-brown, inclining to yellowish on the disk, and with brown
incisures.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Wing hyaline with a pale-brown stigma and nervures, origin
yellowish-white ; thorax with the posterior angles piceous; feet,
anterior and intermediate pairs yellowish-white ; tarsi, excepting
the base of the first joint, fuscous, posterior pair reddish-brown,
first joint of the tarsi yellowish-white.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
The scutel of my specimen is wanting; I cannot, therefore,
ascertain its number of spines.
NEMOLETUS Geoff. Latr. Meig.
N. PALLIPES.—Greenish-black, thorax tinged with green ; ner-
yures whitish. [30]
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Rostelliform process blued-black, polished; antennz: brown,
situate at the base of the rostelliform process; front with a tri-
angular white spot above the antennz; thorax punctured, a tes-
taceous line before the wings, and another each side on the basal
edge; poisers and scale pure yellow-white; costal nervures
whitish ; feet yellowish, base of the thighs and middle of the pos-
terior edges of the segments ofthe venter rufous. .
Length three-twentieths of an inch. %.
XYLOPHAGUS Meig.
X. TRIANGULARIS.—Black, sub-glabrous ; thorax plumbeous
with a black line; feet testaceous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black; head pale plumbeous ; antennz and palpi black ;
proboscis pale rufous; trunk black polished; thorax, disk pale
plumbeous, with a longitudinal polished black line, gradually
and slightly dilating behind; nervures fuscous; halteres white .
feet testaceous, tips of the tarsi and of the posterior thighs and
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tibia dusky ; tergum polished, with a large opaque triangle at the
base of each segment excepting the first.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
The nervures of the wings are arranged in a similar manner
with those of X. ater Fab. Meig. [31 ]
PANGONIA Latr.
P. INCISURALIS. [Ante vol. 1, p. 75.]
TABANUS L. Latr.
T. MOLESTUS.—Thorax cinereous, lineate with fuscous ; scutel
cinereous ; abdomen black-brown, a dilated dorsal vitta.
Inhabits Missouri.
A frontal, blackish-brown, glabrous, oblong callus, with a di-
lated obscurely rufous glabrous line above, terminating in a
smaller dilatation ; antennz black ; proboscis black ; palpi testa-
ceous ; thorax [32] cinereous, with four reddish-brown lines;
wings dusky, nervures dark-brown, blackish towards the tip, a
black carpal line, and a slight anastomosis ; scutel cinereous ;
pectus pubescent, cinereous; feet black, tibia obscure ferrugi-
nous; tergum black, a dilated, cinereous, dorsal vitta, consisting
of dilated triangular spots on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth
segments, the larger ones before ; incisures cinereous. |
Length less than four-fifths of an inch.
This is one of the species which are called prairie flies ; it is
numerous in the prairies of the State of Missouri, and is very
troublesome to the cattle. I have seen cattle in the forests
which margin the prairies, when attacked by these insects, start
suddenly and plunge into the thickets, that the branches may
divest them of their enemies. Travellers are much incommoded
by them; many cover their horses with canvas, Xc., to shield
them from their attacks, or rest in some shaded or secluded situ-
ation, during that part of the day when they are most abundant.
2. 'T. ANNULATUS.—Thorax cinereous-plumbeous ; wings im-
maculate ; tergum blackish ; incisures cinereous ; tibia white.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body somewhat pubescent; head beneath cinereous downy;
antenne rufous ; palpi white; proboscis black at tip; thorax ci-
nereo-plumbeous, testaceous in the middle, and clothed with
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short prostrate hairs; pectus color of the thorax, downy ; feet
dusky ; tibia white with the exception of the [33 ] tips; wings
slightly dusky, immaculate, nervures brownish, immarginate; ab-
domen blackish-brown, incisures cinereous.
Length of the body more than two-fifths of an inch.
Smaller than 7. lineola.
5. T. styarus.—Violet-black ; thorax pale chestnut.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Hypostoma and front dirty yellowish; antennz and _ palpi
black, callous of the front quadrate, chestnut, with a simple
slightly dilated line above ; thorax with five cinereous lines ; seu-
tel pale chestnut ; wings ferruginous, with three fuscous spots,
abdomen immaculate ; tibia dull chestnut at base.
Length nearly nine-tenths of an inch.
CHRYSOPS Meig. Latr.
©. QUADRIVITTATUS.—Cinereous ; tergum with four series of
brown lines.
Tnhabits near the Rocky Mountains.
Length to the tip of the abdomen nearly two-fifths of an inch.
Body cinereous ; head with three black frontal spots placed in
a transverse series, the intermediate one smallest, and a larger
black spot above the antennze; antenne dark reddish-brown, ter-
minal joint black at tip ; thorax blackish, with five narrow, cine-
reous lines; wings with a large costal spot, anastomosis and ob-
solete spots fuscous ; feet yellowish-brown, [ 34] tips of the tibia
and of the tarsal joints black; tergum with four series of fus-
cous abbreviated lines, the two dorsal series approximate, the
lateral ones distant, between the dorsal series tinged with yellow-
ish-brown.
LEPTIS Fab. Meig.
1. L. onnata. [Ante vol. 1, p. 26.]
Length % nine-twentieths of an inch.
This species resembles L. thoracica Fabr., but the wings are
not obscure as those of that species; the thighs as well as the
tibia are pale, the bands of the tergum are much broader, the
thoracic hair differently colored, and the hypostoma and front
are covered with silvery hair.
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2. L. PUNCTIPENNIS.—Blackish ; wings spotted ; abdomen pale
at base. [35 |
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Hypostoma dark cinereous, with a fringe of long hair each
side ; antennx, palpi and rostrum black ; vertex blackish-fuscous ;
stethidium black; thorax varied with cinereous lines; pleura,
pectus and coxee dark cinereous; feet pale brownish, thighs more
dusky ; poisers yellowish white ; wings hyaline, tip margin, con-
necting nervures, margin of the nervures near the thinner edge
of the wing, costal margin ending in a carpal spot, fuscous; ter-
gum, four basal segments pale-yellowish, with a dusky basal
margin and triangular spot, remaining segments black.
Length % more than one-fifth of an inch.
3. L. QUADRATA.—Pale yellowish; thorax lineated ; abdomen
fasciated ; wings with a large spot.
Inhabits the United States.
Body pale-yellowish ; head very slightly tinged with plumbe-
ous, excepting the antennze and mouth ; thorax with three dilated
longitudinal brown lines, of which the lateral ones are interrupted ;
scutel immaculate; wings whitish, with a brown subquadrate
spot, extending from the margin to the centre of the wing, and
from near the anterior inner angle of the spot an oblique brown
line extends to the thinner margin, nervures brown, white at
base ; pectus and feet immaculate ; tergum with a black band at
the base of each segment; halteres with a dusky capitulum.
Length to the tip of the wings more than seven-twentieths of
an inch. [36]
This insect is most closely allied to the Atherix oculata Fab.
It occurs in Pennsylvania as well as in the State of Missouri.
4, L. BAsSILARIS.—Blackish-fuscous ; wings hyaline, base or
neck only fuscous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Hypostoma in a particular light cinereous; antenne dark tes-
taceous ; thorax and scutel with scattering golden-yellow hairs ;
pectus and pleura brown; feet white, thighs at base and tips of
the tarsi brown; tergum on the posterior margins of the
basal segments with yellow hair; venter immaculate, paler at
base; @ head cinereous, vertex and occiput spotted with black.
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Length @ one-fifth of an inch. $% rather less.
The nervures of the wings are disposed as in Meigen’s second
division.
5. L. RUFITHORAX.—Yellowish-testaceous ; wings dusky ; ter-
gum with a series of black spots.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Antenne dull testaceous, terminal joint black; labia fuscous ;
thorax in a particular light with twodusky obsolete lines ; poisers
fuscous ; wings fuliginous, particularly on the costal edge, the
antepenultimate nervure uniting with the preceding one before it
attains to the inner edge of the wing ; tibia and tarsi dusky, hind
feet elongated, tibia and tip of the thighs above blackish, the
tarsi paler; tergum [37] with a longitudinal fusiform black line
on each segment, those on the two basal segments rounded and
central, posterior segments blackish on their basal margins.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Belongs to Meigen’s first division.
6. L. FUMIPENNIS.—Wings dusky; tergum brown, annulate
with pale testaceous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Hypostoma cinereous ; globular prominence, proboscis and an-
tenne yellowish ; thorax fuscous, posterior edge dull testaceous ;
scutel pale testaceous, fuscous at base ; wings, inner and terminal
margins hyaline; poisers brown; scapus whitish; feet white}
pleura and pectus yellowish-testaceous ; tergum fuscous, segments
yellowish testaceous on their posterior margins; venter yel-
lowish.
Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch.
Belongs to Meigen’s second tribe.
7. L. Fascrata. [Ante, vol. 1, p. 28.]
8. L. VERTEBATA. [Ante, vol. 1, p. 27.] | [38]
9. L. ALBICORNIS. [Ante, vol. 1, p. 27.] [39]
10. L. pLuMBEA.—Blackish-plumbeous ; wings clouded ; poisers
pale-yellow.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Thorax brown, with five obsolete cinereous lines; wings with
a fuscous costal margin, and four dusky arquated bands which
do not attain the inner margin, the terminal one is obsolete and
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the basal one very short and also obsolete; feet reddish-brown,
tibia pale.
Length a quarter of an inch nearly.
Nervures of the wings as in albicornis.
THEREVA Meig.
1. T. rerais[sa].—Wings spotted ; tergum ‘alice pruinose.
Inhabits East Florida.
Body blackish ; head blackish oe with white hair beneath ;
antenne, basal joint cinereous with black hair; palpi pale; pro-
boscis dusky; thorax [40] blackish-brown ; wings slightly tinged
with brownish, and with several brown spots, and brown stigma ;
feet pale, dusky at the joints; tergum dull testaceous, darker ati
base, and with a bright silvery reflection in a certain position,
posterior margins of the segments white.
Length more than seven-twentieths of an inch.
The reflected color of the tergum is very similar to that of
Musca anilis Linn. It seems to be closely allied to 7. pictipennis
Wied., but is larger, destitute of bands on the wings, and the
color of the antenne, feet, &c. is different. £
[Changed to 7. corrusca by Wiedemann.—SackENn. |
2. T. niGRA.—Black ; incisures of the tergum and lateral spot
on the fifth segment gray.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head glabrous, polished ; hypostoma and all beneath, with gray
minute hair; antennze with minute gray hair, and longer sparse
black hair on the basal joint; occiput velvet black; wings pel-
lucid, stigmata and nervures brown, costal edge beyond the stig-
mata pale, each of the two ultimate pairs of nervures uniting
before they attain the edge of the wing; poisers brown; scapus
pale; pleura, pectus and coxe somewhat glaucous; feet blackish,
tibia and tarsi excepting at tip pale, anterior tibia at tip and tarsi
blackish ; tergum polished, posterior edges of the third or fourth
basal segments gray, spot each side of the fifth segment oblong-
oval oblique.
Length three-tenths of an inch. [Al |
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STYGIA Meig.
8. ELONGATA.—Blackish, polished; abdomen elongated, in-
cisures yellowish.
Tnhabits Pennsylvania.
Antenne yellowish-white, the third joint dark fuscous, not
longer than the preceding joint, but terminated by an elongated
style, the second joint is somewhat more robust than the first,
which last is not remarkably dilated at tip, neither is it percep-
tibly obliquely truncated; occiput plumbeous ; thorax piceous-
black ; humerus with a dull rufous spot, which is continued by a
curved line to the origin of the wings; pleura with a silvery
line; wings hyaline, nervures brown; poisers yellowish-white ;
feet including the coxee white, tarsi dusky; abdomen elongated,
depressed ; tergum blackish-brown, darker towards the tip, first
segment yellowish at base and tip, second segment yellow-
ish on the posterior margin, the two succeeding segments with a
spot on each side at tip, terminal segments immaculate ; venter
with more of the yellowish color than the black.
Length rather more than three-tenths of an inch.
The third nervure of the costal margin is much less distant
from the second, than the corresponding nervures of S. sabxa
Meig., and the first basal cellule is much less elongated, and the
superior branch of the apical fork is much less arquated than in
that insect.
[Wiedemann removes this species to Lomatia, adding at the
same time that it probably belongs to some other genus.
—SACKEN. ] [42]
ANTHRAX Latr.
1. A. MortoripEs.—Black, with numerous ferruginous hairs ;
wings deep black with white at tip.
Inhabits the United States.
Body black, covered with short prostrate ferruginous hair on
the sides of the stethidium; eyes chestnut-brown, widely emar-
ginate behind; wings deep black, opaque, posterior margin from
near the tip to the inner angle hyaline white, black portion oceu-
pying nearly two-thirds of the wing, and deeply dentate at tip,
an obsolete hyaline spot near the base, about three in the middle
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placed transversely, and one near the tip of the opaque portion ;
poisers pale ; capitulum black beneath, and near the tip above ;
feet pale, tarsi and anterior thighs dusky: tergum with silvery
hairs each side at base, and each side near the tip.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Very closely allied to A. morio Fab. I observed this species
in considerable numbers near Merrimac river, Missouri. The
terminal joint of the antenne is rather short, by which character
it may be distinguished from A. fulvohirta Wied. It is referable
to the fifth tribe of the genus Anthrax, agreeably to Wiedmann’s
divisions.
2. A. LATERALIS.—Black ; wings hyaline ; sides with fulvous
hair ; tergum banded.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Maryland. [43 ]
Hypostoma and occipital orbits wlth white hair: stethidium
with fulvous hair, particularly on the sides of the thorax, on the
pleura and collar; wings as far as the basal transverse nervure
fuscous, costal nervures fuscous, the included areola yellowish-
brown, feet, the hair with a whitish reflexion; tergum with a
band of prostrate yellowish hair at the base of each segment, and
with long fulvous hair each side as far as the middle of the
length.
Length nearly one-fourth of an inch.
It belongs to Wiedemann’s fifth tribe.
3. A. scrrpTA.— Wings varied with black and hyaline ; tergum
with four series of silvery points.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head reddish-brown, obscure covered by yellow ferruginous
hair, intermixed with longer black hairs, a black band on the
hypostoma, a black spot on each frontal orbit, and vertex black ;
thorax dusky, or blackish, with three black vittee, sides before
the wings dull cinereous, bounded beneath by another black line,
beneath the posterior angles is a fascicle of gray hairs, above
which are a few ferruginous hairs; scutel reddish-brown, with
short black hair, and a small white spot at the subangulated tip ;
pleura and pectus reddish-brown; feet reddish-brown, tarsi
blackish ; wings, costal areola with a small hyaline spot, which is
the termination of a band extending in a slightly arquated di-
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rection to the inner angle of the wing, and interrupted by the
nervures into five compartments; the three larger [44] cellules
of the hinder margin, with the exception of the margins of the
nervures, hyaline ; a hyaline rounded spot occupying the exterior
half of the central cellule, with a smaller spot on each side of
it ; sometimes obsolete or double; above this central cellule, and
near the costal nervures, are two double distant small hyaline
spots; tip of the wing hyaline, the two nervures margined with
blackish, the margin of the superior one is generally interrupted
in the middle; tergum reddish-brown, covered with black hair,
first segment with cinereous hair each side of the scutel; second
and third segments with each four small white spots on the pos-
terior edge, the lateral ones on the former linear ; fourth with but
two, the lateral being obsolete; fifth with a transverse line each
side, sometimes crossed by a longitudinal line extending on the
posterior segments, and exhibiting a cruciform mark, these marks
and dots have a silvery brilliancy.
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
This species seems to come nearest to Meigen’s second tribe,
but it differs by having an additional cellule under the large
central cellule of the wing. I labelled it in my cabinet with the
Fabrician name of capucina, but I cannot identify it with the
somewhat detailed description which Meigen quotes from Fabri_
cius, nor yet with Pallas’s description of the caloptera, that both
Meigen and Wiedemann quote, and regard as synonymous with
the capucina, which they believe to be a native of Europe. [45]
That our insect is totally different from the caloptera no one
will fora moment doubt, for the latter is no larger than the
morio, whereas our insect is nearly equal to the cerberus in size.
In deference therefore to the opinion of the authorities above
referred, I describe this species as distinct, though it seems pro-
bable that Fabricius had this species in view when he referred to
North America as the native country of the capucina.
[This is A. Simson Fabr.—Sacken.]
4. A. ANALIS.—Black ; wings hyaline at tip ; tail silvery.
Inhabits Georgia.
Body deep black; wings brown-black opaque, posterior third
hyaline ; anterior and intermediate tibia piceous on the upper
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edge; terguin brilliant silvery at tip, and with a white fascicle
each side at base.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
I am indebted to Mr. August G. Oemler, of Savannah, for this
fine species. It belongs to Wiedemann’s fifth division.
5, A. ALTERNATA.—Body villous, above black, beneath and
sides cinereous; tergum fasciate with cinereous. ,
Inhabits the United States.
Head black; eyes chestnut ; front, beneath the antennz bright
cinereous ; proboscis concealed in a groove to the tip; palpi dis-
tinct, exterior ; thorax cinereous, tinged with fulyous each side,
and at the scutellar suture ; wings dusky, pellucid, nervures [46 ]
bleckish-brown ; base to the first transverse nervures brown opa-
que ; pectus cinereous; feet blackish ; scutel edged with cinereous ;
abdomen each side with dense long hair, which is cinereous on
the first and second segments, but on the remaining segments
alternating with black; tergum with six or seven cinereous
lineolar bands; venter cinereous ; segments, particularly the third,
black at base.
Length of body more than eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Found in Pennsylvania, and also in Missouri. It belongs to
Wiedemann’s fifth tribe.
6. A. tRRORATUS.—Black; wings hyaline, with numerous
black punctures.
Inhabits the Rocky Mountains.
Body deep black, hairy; eyes reddish-brown, tinged with
golden; wings hyaline, with numerous irregular, unequal, dark
fuscous spots, of which those near the costal margin are larger
than those near the posterior margin and tip, the spots along the
costal margin are quadrate and alternate somewhat regularly with
their hyaline intervals.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
The nervures of the wings are nearly similar to those of the
wing, fig. 22, pl. 17 of Meigen’s Diptera Europea.—(Huropiis-
chen zweifliigeligen.)
[This is A. edipus Fabr.; A. irrorata Macq., is a different in-
sect.—SACKEN. ]
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7. A. CALIPTERA.—Fundamental color brown; wings with
three-brown bands, and a silvery spot on the costal base.
Inhabits Arkansa. [47]
Thorax black-brown, with very short yellowish hair, and longer
hair on the anterior edge, a pale fundamental spot on the poste-
rior angle; feet pale reddish-brown; poisers yellowish; scutel
reddish-brown; wings brown at base, then a hyaline arquated
equal band divided by nervures into five compartments, then a
brown band bifid on each margin, and rather narrower in the
middle, then an irregular hyaline band very narrow towards the
costal margin, abruptly produced in the middle to the tip of the
central cellule, then an irregular brown band including a hyaline
triangular spot on the inner margin of the wing, and another at
the costal margin which almost separates a portion of the band
into a distinct triangular spot, lastly an irregular hyaline spot at
tip, costal margin, excepting where it is crossed by the first hya-
line band, brown; tergum, fundamental color yellowish-brown,
with very short black hair, first segment black, second with white
hair on the basal half, and a large black spot on the middle,
third with a black spot on the middle, and a white hairy spot on
the posterior angle, fourth with a black spot.
Length nearly seven-twentieths of an inch.
Belongs to Wiedemann’s third tribe.
ASILUS Lin. Meig.
1. A. VERTEBRATUS.—Tergum pale cinereous; segments
blackish at base; tibia testaceous. [48]
Inhabits Missouri.
Head yellow ; proboscis and antennz black ; thorax yellowish-
cinereous, the dusky line divided by a cinereous one; wings red-
dish-brown; feet black, with cinereous hair, tibia and tarsi above
testaceous ; tergum whitish-cinereous, with a large transverse
blackish subtriangular spot at the base of each segment, terminal
anal segments black ; venter immaculate.
Length to the tip of the wings one inch and two-twentieths.
This species belongs to the second tribe in Wiedemann’s di-
vision of this genus.
[This is probably a Promachus Loew. SAckENn. ]
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2. A. seRIcEUS.—Sericeous, somewhat golden ; thorax with a
dilated brown vitta ; colors of the tergum changeable.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Antenne dull yellowish ; thorax, vitta attaining the scutel, and
in a particular light changing to bright yellow; wings ferru-
ginous, areole of the thinner margin, and of the tip dusky ; feet
light chestnut, somewhat sericeous; tergum dark-brown, with
bright yellow posterior margins to the segments when viewed
from behind or above, bright yellow or golden, with brown pos-
terior margins to the segments when viewed from before ; venter
blackish-brown, in a particular light ferruginous.
Length rather more than one and one-tenth inches.
This beautiful species is referable to Meigen’s first tribe. [49]
OGOMMATUS Wied.
QO. TrBrALis.—Black-brown ; abdomen black ; tibia white.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Front and hypostoma golden-yellowish ; vibrissee gray, near the
antennz black; occiput silvery, nearly glabrous; thorax dark-
brown, approaching black, with an obsolete narrow brown line on
the middle ; scutel, metathorax, pleure, pectus, and coxe silvery ;
wings pellucid, with black nervures; thighs dark chestnut; tibia
white, intermediate and posterior ones near the tip, and tarsi brown.
Length eleven-twentieths of an inch.
DIOCTRIA Meig.
1. D. 8-puncraTa.—Subglabrous, black; abdomen with four
white spots on each side.
Inhabits the United States.
Body black, nearly glabrous, polished; front yellowish ; thorax
with three yellow lines, of which the exterior ones are dilated
before, and include a dusky spot; feet testaceous, tibia and tarsal
joints tipped with blackish ; tergum punctured, and with a white
spot at the lateral tip of the second, third, fourth and fifth segments.
Length three-tenths ofan inch.
This species is an inhabitant both of the western and eastern
States. The first joint of the antennz is [50] considerably longer
than the second, though not double its length, and the terminal
joint is elongated, subcylindrico-compressed, obtuse at tip, with a
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short spine on the superior surface rather beyond the middle, and
a small oblong-ovate denuded space on the inner surface. The
wing nervures are arranged as in Dioctria and Dasypogon.
Genus DASYPOGON Meig.
1. D. 6-rAscraTus.—Cinereous ; abdomen black, with a white
band on each segment.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, densely covered with short cinereous hair; head
with longer silvery hair; antennz black ; nervures fuscous; ter-
gum black, polished, each segment with a white band at tip, a
little dilated in the middle, and occupying about one-third of its
proper segment ; thighs and tibia testaceous at base ; halteres pale.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
[The genus Dasypogen formed of the most heterogeneous ele-
ments, has been subdivided by Prof. Loew, into seventeen groups
or subgenera, comprising the European species only. The Amer-
ican species for the most part belong to new groups, as yet unde-
fined. Those of Say’s species which [ know to belong to one of
Loew’s groups, I refer to them, leaving the others in the genus
Dasypogon in Meigen’s acceptation—SACKEN. |
2. D. ABDOMINALIS.—Yellow ; thorax cinereous ; wings dusky.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body cinereous; head with an impressed line between the an-
tenne ; antenne and rostrum black; thorax with an abbreviated,
brown line before and a lateral interrupted one ; wings dark brown
immaculate ; abdomen bright-yellow, very slightly tinged with ru-
fous, immaculate ; feet pale rufous, tibia [51] dusky at tip, tip of
the posterior ones dilated, and first joint of the posterior tarsi also
dilated and as long as the three following segments united.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
The head is very wide, the eyes being proportionally very large,
the vertex deeply concave, and the stemmata placed on a common
elevation.
[This is a Discocephala Macq. Synonymous with D. rufiven-
tris Macq.—SackEn. |
3. D. TRrirascratus.—Cinereous; tergum black, trifasciate
with whitish.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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Antenne black, first joint°of the style longer than the second ;
wings dusky, hyaline, nervures as in Meigen’s fig. 10, pl. 20, ex-
cepting that the central cellule is rather more elongated ; tergum
velvet-black, a cinereous band at base, a linear one near the mid-
dle, and a dilated silvery one on the middle, tip of the tergum
cinereous ; venter somewhat livid, immaculate.
Length % two-fifths of an inch; 9 half an inch.
Found sometimes in sandy districts. The ground-color of the
body is black, but this color is concealed by a pruinose covering.
[This and the next species belong to Stichopogon Loew.—
SACKEN. ]
4, D, ARGENTEUS.—Cinereous, immaculate ; poisers paler yel-
lowish.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Antennz black, second joint as long, or slightly longer than the
first ; first joint of the style longer than the second, which is aci-
cular and minute; mystax and hair of the gens, pure white;
vibrissee [52] none; wings hyaline, nervures light brown, ar-
ranged as in Meigen’s fig. 11, pl. 20.
Length from three-tenths to seven-twentieths of an inch.
Like the preceding insect, the ground color is black, but this
color is concealed by a universal pruinose covering, which has
almost a silvery brightness when the animal is living and under
the influence of the sun’s rays.
5. D. potirus.—Tergum blackish-blue; posterior half of the
wings fuscous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Hypostoma and front golden-brown, mystax and yibriss yel-
lowish-brown; vertex brown; gene pure white; antenne black,
first joint of the style longer than the second, which is acicular and
minute ; thorax golden-brown, a double black line abbreviated be-
hind, and a lateral broad dusky line approaching behind near to
the scutel ; feet rufous, thighs black ; wings, basal half hyaline, a
hyaline spot on the carpus, and a smaller obsolete one near the
apex; nervures arranged nearly as in Meigen’s fig. 11, pl. 20;
tergum fine blackish-blue, the segments with lateral marginal cine-
reous triangles.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
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6. D. cructatus.—Thorax margined and spotted with yellow,
abdomen black, annulate with yellow.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Hypostoma yellow; stethidium black ; thorax broadly margined
with yellow, a humeral triangular [53] spot and a spot each side
of the middle connected by a line with the margin, yellow; wings
ferruginous, nervures like those of the preceding species ; feet fer-
ruginous; pleura spotted with yellow; abdomen black, segments
with a broad yellow posterior margin.
Length nine-tenths of an inch.
A large and fine species, very readily distinguished from others.
Genus LAPHRIA Fab. Latr.
1. L. Futvicaupa. [Ante, 1, 12.]
2. L. GLABRATA.—Black, polished; posterior edges of the seg-
ments of the tergum white. [54]
Inhabits the United States.
Body with very short prostrate, indistinct hair, punctured ;
hypostoma silvery ; tubercle of the vertex brown; occiput plum-
beous ; collar and line upon the thorax each side before the wings
cinereous; pleura and pectus with a cinereous reflexion; wings
immaculate, nervures brown, nearly resembling in their arrange-
ment Meigen’s fig. 20, pl. 20 ; poisers whitish ; feet reddish-brown,
the middle of the thighs, tips of the tibia and tarsi darker, pos-
terior feet beneath densely hairy; the basal and terminal segments
destitute of the white edge.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Var. a. Feet pale.
I have a specimen in which the external branch of the termi-
minal furcate nervure is continued a short distance beyond its
connexion, as in Meigen’s fig. 23. The antennz of this species
are like those of Dioctria 8-punctata, excepting that they are
acute at tip, and the arrangement of the nervures, decides the ge-
neric affinity of this insect. ,
[Belongs to Atomosia Macq—SackEn.]
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[Continuation, from Vol. 3, pp. 73—104. ]
3. LAPHRIA MACROCERA.—First joint of the antenne elonga-
ted; body black.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body somewhat polished, with short, prostrate, grayish hair,
punctured ; antenna, first joint more than four times as long as
the second ; wings a little dusky, nervures nearly as in the prece-
ding species: poisers pale-yellowish ; feet black, tibia and base of
the tarsi pale testaceous ; tergum on each side and at tip margined
with testaceous.
Length one-quarter of an inch.
This insect closely resembles the preceding species, [74] but
the elongated first joint ofthe antennz, the want of white poste-
rior edges to the abdominal segments, together with the color of
the lateral margin and tip of the abdomen, prove it distinct. I
had formerly placed both this insect and the preceding under the
genus Dioctria, but the disposition of their wing neryures is pre-
cisely as in L. ephippium.
4, L. sericea. [Ante 1, 12.]
5. L. TeraissA.—Thorax and three middle segments of the
tergum with yellowish hair. [75]
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head black, vibrissxe and long hair of the cheek pale yellowish ;
thorax dark blue, slightly tinged by cupreous, and covered by
pale yellowish hair, which, on the anterior part, and on the lat-
eral edge is tinged with ferruginous; pleura blackish-piceous, with
two fascicles of ferruginous hair; wing nervures brown, margined ;
scutel blackish, ciliated with dusky hair; feet blued-black, two
anterior pairs of tibia with yellowish hair, posterior thighs cla-
yate, anterior pair of coxze concealed by yellowish hair; tergum
blackish, the three intermediate segments with dense pale yel-
lowish hair, which is interrupted in the middle, and does not oc-
cupy the basal edge.
Length one inch and one-tenth.
This is a large robust species, and the nervures of its wings are
arranged like those of L. ephippium Fab.
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LEPTOGASTER Meig.
L. ANNULATUS.—Feet whitish, annulate with rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Antennee and trophi whitish ; thorax pale cinereous, with three
dilated pale brown lines; wings hyaline, immaculate ; anterior
and intermediate feet white, extremities of the joints tinged with
rufous or yellow, posterior feet more robust and elongated, joints
yellow, white at base, thighs clavate, bifasciate with rufous near
the tip, tibia trifasciate with [76] rufous; abdomen cylindric,
elongated, dilated at tip, segments yellow-brown, dark reddish-
brown at base and on the terminal submargin, terminal margins
white.
Length two-fifths of an inch nearly.
The neryures of the wings of this insect, do not perfectly cor-
respond with those of L. tipuloides, which circumstance, com-
bined with another highly important difference that this insect
exhibits, in having but two nails to the tarsi, would justify the
generic separation of the annulatus from the tipuloides, and its
reference to a distinct genus.
It is not a Phthiria of Wiedemann ?
[Name changed to L. histrio, by Wiedemann.—SackEn. ]
HYBOS Meig.
H. ruoracicus.—Thorax ferruginous, trilineate; abdomen
piceous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Antenne and rostrum yellow, pale; thorax ferruginous, with
three dilated black lines: wings obscure, a dark red-brown stig-
ma; feet reddish-brown, the posterior pair darker than the
others, tarsi yellowish ; abdomen dull-piceous.
Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch.
BIBIO Latr. Meig.
1. B. patiires.—Black; tergum with a yellowish-piceous
lateral margin.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body hairy; wings hyaline, a large fuscous stigma, [77] inter-
atice of the first and second nervures yellowish; feet whitish-
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yellow, spines of the anterior tibia equal ; posterior tibia some-
what dilated.
Length one-quarter of an inch. 4.
2. B. HETEROPTERUS.—Black ; wings with a fuscous anterior
margin and nervures.
Inhabits Maryland.
Body immaculate with dusky hair, feet rather long, posterior
tibia at tip, and first and second joints of the tarsi dilated ; wings
brown, the costal margin fuscous, nervures differing somewhat in
their arrangements, and the inferior branch of the lower furcate
nervure curves backwards at the inner margin so as almost to
meet the succeeding nervure at the edge of the wing.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch. 4%.
3. B. ALBIPENNIS.—Black ; wings white, with a fuscous stigma.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body with cinereous hair ; head above with black hair ; halteres
uscous, scapus brown; nervures brown; tarsi black-brown, ex-
terior spine of the anterior tibia much larger than the interior
one.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
This is a very common insect. The wings have a white ap-
pearance, and are strongly contrasted with the color of the
body, and the brown and definite stigma. The posterior tibia of
the male are much more dilated towards the tip than those of
the female.
4. B. articuLatus.—Black, thorax and feet rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania. [ 78 |
Wings brownish, more particularly at the costal margin, and
with a very distinct stigma; poisers pale, dusky at tip ; feet pale
rufous, joints and anterior tibia reddish-brown, tarsi dusky at tip,
spines of the anterior tibia subequal.
Length 9 rather more than one-quarter of an inch.
5. B. onBpATUS.—Black, immaculate ; wings fuscous, the cen-
tral connecting nervure wanting.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Feet and coxe piceous; humeral tubercle piceous; wings
dusky, the costal margin particularly ; the transverse nervure of
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the disk, that in other species connects the inner branches of the
two bifurcated nervures together, is entirely wanting.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
[Wiedemann who had specimens communicated by Say before
him, describes this species as Dilophus orbatus Say. I coilected
a Dilophus in Florida which agrees very well with both descrip-
tions. The absence of the central cross nervure is not a constant
character ; although it is not seen in many specimens, some show
the cross neryure distinctly, others have it very faint, and others
again show a beginning of it. This cross nervyure, when ap-
parent, is situated about half way between the upper cross ner-
vure and the fork. Wiedemann describes the female ; the sex is
not mentioned by Say, but he evidently refers to the same sex.
As I have several males in my possession, and they differ con-
siderably from the female, I take occasion to give the descrip-
tion.
D. orpatus. $—Black, shining: feet black, with black hairs-
Wings pale yellowish, tinged with pale brownish along the ante-
rior border ; stigma fuscous ; nervures near the anterior border
brown; the others very pale; central cross nervure sometimes
wanting, sometimes distinct, and then situated as in the female.
The color of the hairs on the feet, and the position of the
cross nervure distinguish the male of this species from the male
of another American Délophus, (D. serraticollis Walker 7), which
is, besides, a little smaller. The females of the two species are
entirely different, and cannot be easily mistaken.—SACKEN. ]
SCIARA Meig. Wied.
S. remoratTa.—Black ; thighs pale.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Wings hyaline, nervures fuscous; poisers large; coxz and
thighs pale, or yellowish-white ; abdomen dirty yellowish obscure,
lateral margin and posterior margins of the segments blackish.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
DILOPHUS Meig. Wied.
1. D. stiaMATERUS.—Black ; stethidium and thighs rufous ;
two series of spines on the thorax, wings whitish with a dusky
costal spot. [ 79 |
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OF PHILADELPHIA. vi
Inhabits Missouri.
Body deep black ; head elongated ; antennz black, basal joint
pale; eyes oblong-oval; thorax pale rufous, a transverse, unin-
terrupted series of approximate acute spines on the collar, and a
series of rather smaller ones over the insertion of the anterior
feet; wings whitish with a distinct black spot on the middle of
the costal margin; feet black, trochanters and middle of the
thighs pale rufous; anterior tibia with a series of prominent
acute spines, on the anterior middle and tip, spines piceous at
tip.
Length one-quarter of an inch nearly.
Taken at Engineer Cantonment.
2. D. sprntees.—Black ; stcthidium and thighs rufous; two
series of spines on the thorax of which the anterior one is inter-
rupted in the middle; wings fuscous.
Tnhabits Missouri.
Body black ; head elongated ; thorax pale rufous, a transverse
series of approximate spines on the collar interrupted in the
middle, and a series of smaller ones over the insertion of the an-
terior feet; wings blackish, costal margin darker; feet black,
thighs and basal joints of the anterior pairs pale rufous ; anterior
tibia with a series of acute prominent spines near the base, mid-
dle and at tip.
Length from the eyes to tip of the wings three-tenths of an
inch.
Found near Fort Osage.
Differs from the preceding species in being much larger, in
having the anterior series of thoracic spines [80 ] interrupted in
the middle, and in having a triple series of spines on the ante-
rior tibia.
5. D. tHorActcus.—Black; stethidium, and two anterior pairs
of thighs pale rufous; anterior series of thoracic spines uninter-
rupted.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Thoracic spines, scutel and metathorax black; pleura and
pectus, excepting the incisures, black; wings fuscous, stigma
darker; poisers black; anterior coxa and thighs, excepting the
basal and apical incisures, pale rufous; intermediate thighs, ex-
1823.]
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cepting the base and tip, also very pale rufous; anterior tibia
spinous before, and beyond the middle and at tip.
Length to the tip of the wings nearly one-quarter of an inch.
Distinguishable from spinipes by its inferiority in size, and from
stigmaterus by its dark colored wings, &c.
MYOPA Fab. Latr.
1. M. vestcuLosa.—Head beneath vesicular and white; wings
whitish at base.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body rather robust ; rostrum dark reddish-brown; hypostoma
and cheeks vesicular, white, slightly tinged with yellow; front
and occiput yellowish-brown, the former with two dilated dark
lines ; antenne reddish-brown, third joint yellowish-white ; tho-
rax reddish-brown, obscure, varied with blackish, beneath the
seutel deep black ; poisers pale yellow; [81 ] wings a little dusky,
slightly darker on the middle of the costal margin, base whitish ;
pleura and pectus reddish-brown ; feet dark reddish-brown, knees,
base of the tibia and tarsi, excepting the points of the articula-
tions, yellowish-white; tergum blackish-brown, paler on the
margin; % 9°.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
2. M. LoNGIcorNIs.—Body black, hairy ; wings dusky, pale at
base : antennze as long as the head.
Tnhabits Missouri.
Antenne pale on the inner side and beneath ; hypostoma pale
with a silvery reflexion; front and vertex dusky; proboscis
black ; thorax with two obsolete pale lines ; wings blackish, pale
towards the base; poisers whitish ; anterior pairs of feet with
the thigh beneath, at base and leg, pale; anterior pair of tro-
chanters pale, with a silvery reflexion ; posterior feet, thighs pale
on the basal moiety ; abdomen clavate and hamate at tip.
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
3. M. BIANNULATA.—Thorax dark-brown; tergum pale tes-
taceous, annulate with dusky ; hind thighs biannulate with brown.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Hypostoma pure silvery; front yellowish rufous; vertex black-
ish-brown, obscure in the middle; antenne white at base, third
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joint yellowish-rufons, the extreme point dusky, style situate near
the tip, porrect, black; rostrum nearly as long as the body, black-
ish, at base white; thorax margined with white; pleura, pecius,
and anterior pairs of feet [82] white; poisers fuscous ; posterior
thighs tinged with rufous on the middle, and with a brown an-
nulus each side of the middle, posterior tibia at tip, together
with their tarsi, fuscous ; tergum reddish-yellow, posterior mar-
gins of the segments brown; venter narrow, white; 2 oviduct
fuscous on its posterior half.
Length nearly 5 three-tenths, 9 more than seven-twentieths
of an inch.
The habitus of this insect is entirely different from others of
the genus. The body is slender, and not incurved, the rostrum
much elongated, and the oviduct of the female resembles an at-
tenuated continuation of the abdomen.
[According to Wiedemann, who compared typical specimens,
this is M. stylata Faby —SackeEn.]
CONOPS Fabr. Latr.
1. C. Marcinata.—Black, slightly hairy ; an interrupted line
upon the thorax before, and abdominal sutures yellow; costal
moiety of the wings fuscous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, with fine hairs; head yellowish-white; vertex
black, a longitudinal line bifarious at the antennze, and trans-
verse above; hypostoma with an impressed black sagittate spot,
near the inferior tip of which, on each side, is a small black tri-
angular spot; eyes chestnut; proboscis black; antennz black,
basal and terminal joints pale beneath ; vertex black, hardly ele-
vated above the eyes; thorax, a yellow, anterior, transverse line
interrupted in the middle; scutel ferruginous; wings, costal
moiety black; halteres [83] whitish; feet pale reddish-brown :
abdomen clavate, incurved at tip, segments, excepting the ulti-
mate one, margined at tip with yellow; central connecting ner-
vure of the wing minute.
Length more than two-fifths of an inch.
2. C. sacitraRIA.—Black, slightly hairy; humeral tubercle
ferruginous ; nearly two-thirds of the wing fuscous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
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Body with short hairs; head yellowish white; vertex in one
sex black, in the other dirty whitish ; front with a longitudinal
black line bifarious at the base of the antennz, and a transverse
one above; hypostoma with an impressed sagittate spot, on each
side, near the base of which is a black spot; proboscis testaceous,
blackish at tip; antennze dusky above, beneath terminal joint
rufous; scutel dirty rufous; feet rufous; abdomen, segments ob-
soletely edged with yellowish, that of the petiole with dull cine-
reous ; central connecting nervure of the wings very obvious.
Length eleven-twentieths of an inch.
This is a larger species than the preceding, with a much more
considerable portion of the wings obscured, no interrupted tho-
racic fascia, and a much longer connecting nervure on the cen-
tre of the wing.
[Name changed by Wiedemann to C. nigricornis—SAcxKENn. |
ZODION Latr.
Z. FULVIFRONS.—Cinereous, front fulvous; thorax with two
distant. brown lines. [ 84]
Inhabits Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Head beneath, mouth, hypostoma and orbital line, pure white ;
proboscis black ; antennz fulvous, first joint ferruginous, second
with adusky line on the superior edge ; occiput blackish ; poisers
pale yellowish, style rufous, feet dull rufous, tibia white on the
exterior edge ; tergum with two irregular blackish lines, terminal
segments testaceous.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch.
On flowers.
2. Z. ABDOMINALIS.—Testaceous; thorax dusky; proboscis
black.
Inhabits near the Rocky Mountains.
Body with numerous short hairs; head silvery; vertex testa-
ceous ; antenne pale rufous ; eyes and stemmata reddish-brown ;
proboscis black ; thorax dusky cinereous, with two dorsal abbre-
viated fuscous lines, and an obsolete intermediate one ; wings hy-
aline, immaculate, nervures at base testaceous, towards the tip
fuscous ; abdomen and feet testaceous.
Length to the tip of the abdomen rather more than one-fourth
of an inch.
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I obtained an individual at Engineer Cantonment, less than
half the above mentioned size.
DOLICHOPUS Fab.
D. srpHo.—Green ; wings bifasciate ; feet whitish.
Inhabits the United States.
Body green brilliant; hypostoma pruinose; front blue; an-
tenne and palpi black; proboscis yellowish; thorax tinged with
blue ; scutel blue; wings with two brown or fuliginous, somewhat
oblique bands beyond the middle, which do not attain the thinner
margin, and are connected on the costal margin by a dilated line
of the same color, forming a siphon-like mark; pectus on each
side with a somewhat silvery reflection ; feet whitish ; tarsi dusky.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Not uncommon; the terminal segments of the tergum of the
male are tinged with golden, but the ultimate segments in each
sex is blue. Central nervure furcate, the exterior branch widely
angulated and terminating near the tip of the preceding ner-
vure.
[Belongs to Psilopus Meig.—SAckEN. ]
2. D. uNIFASCIATUS.—Bluish-green ; a white band at the base
of the abdomen.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body bluish-green, polished, slender : antennz, palpi and pro-
boscis whitish; scutel blue; wings immaculate; feet whitish ;
tergum, first segment and half of the second whitish, posterior
half of the second segment and third segment much tinged with
blue, remaining segments green.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
_ Central nervure of the wing furcate, the exterior branch
widely angulated and terminating near the tip of the preceding
nervure, which is curved very considerably inwards, towards its
tip.
[Also a Psilopus ; the name is changed to P. Sayi by Wiede-
mann.—SACcKEN. |
4. D. opscurus.—Blackish-brassy ; wings dusky ; feet pale.
Inhabits Pennsylvania. [ 86 |
Head dark-silvery; antenne black-brown; mouth blackish ;
thorax and scutel dark-brassy ; wings dusky ; feet white, a little
1823.]
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dusky on the tarsi ; poisers white ; tergum rather darker than the
thorax.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
The central nervure of the wing is nearly rectilinear, being
hardly perceptibly reflected.
5. D. reMorATUS.—Green ; tibia and tarsi whitish.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body brilliant green, with bluish reflexions ; front pruinose ;
antenne blackish ; proboscis yellowish; wings hyaline; scutel
blue ; thighs green, and excepting the posterior ones, whitish at
tip, tibia white, tarsi dusky ; tergum, ultimate joints cupreous at
their bases.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
The brilliancy and shade of green in this insect are similar to
D. sipho ; when living, and in the sun’s rays, it resembles bur-
nished gold, nervures nearly as in sipho.
[Belongs to Psilopus.—SAcKkEN. |
6. D. cupreus.—Green, varied with cupreous ; feet whitish,
tipped with dusky.
Inhabits Maryland.
Front pale, with minute silvery hairs; vertex purple-blue ;
antennee pale, yellowish, black on the upper edge and at tip;
palpi and proboscis pale-yellowish; thorax cupreous; scutel
greenish-brassy ; feet whitish, dusky at tip; tergum green, varied
with cupreous, posterior margins of the segments cupreous.
Length one-fourth of an inch. [ 87 ]
This species is more robust than the preceding ones. I ob-
tained several specimens on the eastern shores of Maryland and
Virginia. Central nervure abbreviated, but angularly connected
near its tip to its parallel branch, by a short neryure, which in-
clines a little towards the base of the wing.
[Name changed by Wiedemann to D. cuprinus, as there was
previously a European D. cupreus Fall.—SackEn. ]
7. D. pPATIBULATUS.—Green ; wings bifasciate ; feet black.
Inhabits E. Florida.
Body green, brilliant ; hypostoma pruinose ; antennz and palpi
black; proboscis piceous-black ; wings with two brown or fuligi-
ginous bands beyond the middle, perpendicular to the costal
edge, not attaining to the inner margin, and connected on the
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costal margin by a dilated line of the same color; feet black ;
thighs and cox blackish-blue.
Length rather more than three-twentieths of an inch. %.
This species closely resembles D. sipho, but it is much smaller,
the bands of the wings without any obliquity, and the feet en-
tirely colored.
[Belongs to Psilopus—SAcKEN. |
SARGUS Latr. Meig.
S. vir1pIs.—Body green, polished ; wings dusky ; eyes above
brassy.
Inhabits the United States.
Body green, polished, varied with brassy, and in a certain
light purplish, and covered by very short hair; eyes very large,
brown, when recent deep green, polished beneath, above tinged
with brassy, sub-opaque, [88] and separated from the green of
the inferior portion, by a red line; antennz black; labia pale;
tibia blackish.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Bluish-purple.
Var. b. Bluish-purple ; abdomen green.
A very pretty species; I found it near Cincinnati, perched
upon a leaf; it is also an inhabitant of the Atlantic States. It
has a bright-green appearance, although covered with very short
hairs, but these are hardly discernible to the unassisted eye. It is
closely allied to S. wanthopterus Fab., but the joints of its feet
are not yellowish, as those of that species are.
SCAAVA Fabr. Latr.*
1. 8. ponira.—Thorax with a yellow line each side, and a
cinereous dorsal one; tergum with band and quadrate spots
yellow.
Inhabits the United States.
Head yellow, above the antenne dusky silvery; thorax some-
what olivaceous, a yellow line above the wings, and a dorsal
cinereous one: scutel dusky yellowish, with a paler margin; feet
whitish ; tergum black, basal segment with a basal lateral edge;
1823.]
*The name now adopted for this genus is Syrphus Linn.—SackeEn.
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second segment with a transverse yellow band on the middle;
third and fourth segments with a band and longitudinal line,
each side of which latter is a large transverse subtriangular spot,
yellow ; fifth segment with the yellow spots and base, but destitute
of the longitudinal line.
Length about three-tenths of an inch. [89]
2. S. optiquA.—Thorax greenish bronze, with a yellow dot
before the wings; tergum banded and spotted with yellow.
Inhabits the United States.
Head yellow, a dusky line above the antenne; orbits yellow
to the vertex ; antennz blackish on the superior edge; thorax
dark green-bronze, a large yellow spot before the wings; scutel
bright-yellow ; feet whitish, anterior tibia and tarsi a little di-
lated, the latter with short joints, posterior thighs with one ob-
solete band and tibia two banded, extremity of all the tarsi
dusky ; tergum black, first segment with a yellow basal edge ;
second segment with a band at the base, interrupted into two ob-
long triangles, a broader one on its middle, yellow; third seg-
ment with one band which is sometimes double ; fourth and fifth
segments each with an oblique oblong oval spot each side, and
two longitudinal lines on the middle, yellow.
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but there is no line upon the thorax,
and the markings of the tergum are different.
3 8. concavA.—Thorax bluish-green, tergum with four yel-
low bands.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head whitish, sericeous ; antenne pale testaceous; margin of
the mouth dusky; thorax bluish-green, with pale cinereous hairs ;
scutel dusky, somewhat livid; feet whitish, dull rufous at base ;
pectus dark glaucous, tergum black, quadrifasciate with yellow;
[ 90] first band interrupted, triangular each side, the others con-
cave behind, terminal one narrow.
Length more than seyen-twentieths of an inch.
Very much resembles S. ribesi? of authors, but the second and
third bands of the tergum are widely concave behind, instead
of being almost acutely notched, as in the common European
species. I obtained several pupe of this insect, adhering by the
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inferior part of the abdomen to the rails of a fence. This in-
cluded insect was evolved on the 22d of April.
4. §. quapRATA.—Thorax bluish-bronzed ; abdomen with
eight very large quadrate yellowish spots.
Inhabits the United States.
Head bluish-bronze, with short cinereous hair; frontal eleva-
tion dusky; antenne dark reddish-brown; thorax and scutel
bluish-bronze, polished, immaculate; feet testaceous; anterior
tibia and tarsi of the male dilated, the joints of the latter much
shortened ; first and last joints of the posterior tarsi blackish ;
tergum with eight very large, quadrate, fulvous spots, occupy-
ing nearly all the surface, leaving only a dorsal line and inci-
sures black, the two spots of the penultimate segments are hardly
separated, sometimes united into a continuous band, and the ul-
timate or anal segment is immaculate, somewhat livid; venter
yellow, whitish at base.
Length one-third of an inch nearly.
This insect is very nearly related both in form and colors to
S. mellina Fab., but the spots of the tergum occupy a far greater
portion of that part. [91]
5. S. EMARGINATA.—Thorax dark green, with a yellow mar-
gin; tergum banded with yellow.
Inhabits East Florida.
Front yellow; antennz on the superior margin fuscous; a
double blackish spot above the base of the antennz; thorax
dark-green, a yellow line each side; scutel yellow; feet yellow,
posterior thighs and tibia dusky in the middle; tergum black;
first segment yellow on the exterior edge ; second segment with
a transversely oblong-oval spot on each side, attaining the exterior
edge; third segment with the edge of the basal angles, emargin-
ate band on the middle, not attaining the lateral edge, and posterior
edge yellow; fourth segment with the edge of the lateral angles
(which joins the tip of the preceding segment to form a narrow
band,) band on the middle not attaining the lateral edges, and
most profoundly emarginate behind, and posterior edge yellow ;
fifth segment with a triangular basal spot each side, and tip,
yellow.
Length to the tip of the wings half an inch.
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It requires some examination to perceive the difference be-
tween this insect and the S. corolle of Fabr., but on inspecting
the third and fourth segments of the tergum, it will be observed,
that there are at least two more bands on our species; these bands
are narrow and are formed by the confluence of the yellow and
posterior edges of those segments with the yellow basal angles of
the succeeding segments.
It is highly probable that the band on the middle [92] of the
fourth segment, and perhaps also that on the third are sometimes
entirely separated by their posterior emargination, each into two
oval spots.
6. S. MARGINATA.—Thorax blackish, with a yellow margin ;
tergum spotted, banded and edged with yellow.
Inhabits the United States.
Head yellow, a blackish line above the antenee ; thorax black-
ish, tinged with olivaceous or glaucous, a lateral yellow line con-
tinued to the scutel and an obsolete dorsal cinereous one ; scutel
yellow; feet pale, posterior tarsi a little dusky at tip; tergum
blackish, edged with yellow; first segment with a yellow basal
edge ; second segment with a yellow band on the middle; third
and fourth segments each with a dorsal line and somewhat ob-
lique spot each side confluent with the base yellow, sometimes
tinged with rufous ; fifth segment with two oblique yellow spots
confluent at tip.
Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch.
This insect is smaller ‘than the preceding ones, and may be
readily distinguished from them by the yellow abdominal edge,
as well as by the different arrangement of its spots. It is sub-
ject to vary in the character of its tergum, in having the spots
sometimes almost confluent with each other, or in being colored
with rufous.
7. S. Gemrnata.—Thorax with a yellow margin; tergum
spotted and banded with yellow.
Inhabits the United States.
Head yellow silvery, at its junction with the thorax [93]
glaucous ; antenne yellow; thorax bronze-blackish, a yellow line
each side, and an obsolete cinereous dorsal one ; scutel color of
the thorax, with a yellow margin: feet pale, posterior pair with
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the thighs and tibia arquated, the former blackish at tip, the
latter sub-bifasciate with brown; tergum black; first segments
yellow on the basal edge ; second segment with a yellow band on
the middle ; third and fourth segments with each a central longi-
tudinal line, and two triangular spots on each side ; fifth segment
four spotted.
Length about one-fifth of an inch.
About equal in size to S. marginata 8., from which it may be
known by its double lateral spots of the tergum, as well as by
the absence of a yellow edging upon this part of the body.
[Macquart has placed this as a new genus Zoxomerus, describ-
ing it also as a new species, 7’ notatus Macq., Dipt. Exot. 5th
Supple. 93; tab. 5, fig. 4—SackEn. ]
9. S. Arrints.—Thorax blued-black ; tergum black with three
yellow lunules on each side.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Head whitish, between the superior angles of the eyes black ;
antennee fuscous ; ‘frontal elevation, superior oral angle, and pro-
boscis black ; thorax and pectus blued-black, with long dense
whitish hair each side; nervures testaceous; scutel pale testace-
ous ; feet whitish, dusky at base ; tergum black, with three lunules
on each side, and the two terminal segments edged with yellow;
venter yellowish, exterior edge and disks of the segments black.
Length to the tip of the wings three-fifths of an inch.
Size of S. transfuga Fabr., which it very closely [ 94] resem-
bles, and is to be distinguished by the somewhat darker coloring.
Ts it not a variety of that species?
RHINGIA Fab.
R. nastcaA. $.—Tergum yellow, incisures and dorsal line
black.
Inhabits the United States.
Front yellow, beneath the mouth dusky; nasus prominent ;
thorax bronze, with two obsolete cinereous lines on the anterior
margin; scutel pale testaceous, a large brown spot on each side ;
feet pale yellowish, thighs dull red-brown at base, posterior tibia
in the middle and first joint of the tarsi dusky ; tergum black, a
large transversely oblong quadrate yellow spot occupies each
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side of the disk, and extends to the lateral edge of each of the
three basal segments.
Size of S. rostrata Fab., to which it is very closely allied, but
it has a larger portion of black upon the tergum, the incisural
lines and the dorsal line being wider, and of a much more in-
tense color; the fourth segment also is much darker than in that
insect. Ihave a female still more like the rostrata; the color
and markings of the head, thorax and scutel being similar, and
the fourth segment of the tergum is much tinged with yellow,
but still the above remark respecting the intensity of the color
of the sutures and dorsal lines apply to this specimen. [ 95]
SICUS Meig.
S. reNesTRATUS.—Blackish ; feet pale, thighs with a black
line.
Inhabits the Middle States.
Antenne yellowish-white ; palpi pure white ; proboscis color
of the antenne ; thorax piceous-black ; scutel bi-spinous ; wings
a little dusky; feet whitish, anterior thighs dilated, with gener-
ally a black serrated curved line on the inner side, anterior tibia
and posterior thighs and tibia with a blackish line on each side,
a black spot generally on the first joint of the anterior coxe ;
tergum brown, last joint black.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
[This genus is Zachydromia Meig.—SackEn. |
EMPIS Fab. Lat.
1. KE. 5-nrvnata.—Body blackish-cinereous ; thorax five-lined ;
feet dull testaceous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Eyes sanguineous; front beneath the antennz cinereous ; pro-
boscis dark-brown ; thorax with three longitudinal, hairy, brown,
dorsal lines, obsolete behind, and a lateral one each side; wings
brown, somewhat paler at base; feet brown-testaceous; tarsi
black.
Length to tip of wings nearly half an inch.
The nervures of the wings are like those of Tachydromia
nigripennis Fab.
[ Belongs to Rhamphomyia Meig.—SackEn. ]
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2. H. cinrpes—Body cinereous; thorax quadrilineate with
black ; wings brown, paler at base. [96]
Inhabits Ohio.
Body blackish-cinereous ; eyes red-brown, those of the male
occupying nearly all the head; stemmata black; antenne black,
first and second joints with short cinereous hairs; proboscis
corneous, black, polished; thorax hairy, two longitudinal, dorsal
black lines, obsolete behind, and a lateral one each side; wings
brown, paler at base; nervures dark brown; feet black; poste-
rior tibia in the male, dilated towards the tip and deeply hairy
above, hairs cinereous; abdomen black, densely ciliated with
cinereous hair, attenuated to an acute tip in the female, and in
the male the tip is dilated, and abruptly reflected.
Length of the body three-tenths of an inch.
A rather common insect, about the 16th of May, near Cincin-
nati. The nervures of the wings are like those of the preceding
species, from which it may be distinguished by being smaller and
having one line less on the thorax, &e.
[Also a Rhamphomyia.—SackEn. |
3. E. scoLopacEA.—Cinereous, with a silvery reflection ; feet
reddish-brown.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Head black ; antennze dark reddish-brown ; proboscis yellow-
ish; thorax slightly trilineate; tergum immaculate silvery, re-
flexion brighter than that of the thorax ; wings immaculate, ner-
vures pale; feet dull reddish-brown.
Length rather more than three-twentieths of an inch.
On flowers. [97]
CALOBATA Latr. Meig.
1. C. ANTENN&PES.—Black ; feet pale, anterior tarsi white,
posterior tarsi white at base.
Inhabits the United States.
Body elongated, slender, deep black, immaculate; eyes chest-
nut brown; antenne, terminal joint white; thorax deep-black,
with a plumbeous tinge ; feet elongated, anterior pair moderate,
shorter than the body, black, pale at base, tarsi pure white, in-
termediate and posterior pairs much longer than the body, pale,
1823.]
84 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
thighs beyond the middle, and near the tip annulate with black,
tibia black, somewhat pale towards the tip, tarsi black, of the in-
termediate ones pale on the terminal joint, of the posterior ones,
basal joint pure white ; abdomen deep black, polished, yenter pale
beneath on the middle segments. ;
Length’ of the body three-tenths, of the posterior feet less than
three-fifths of an inch.
The anterior pair of feet, when compared with the others, are
very short, and being extended before the head, considerably ele-
vated above the plane on which the insect moves, and also being
constantly vibrated, they assume the appearance of antennee. The
whiteness of the anterior tarsi is very distinct and characteristic.
This species occurred in the State of Illinois, it is also found
in Philadelphia.
2. C. PALLIPES.—Black ; mouth, antenne and feet yellowish-
white. [98]
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, elongated, slender; front, antennae and mouth
yellowish-white ; vertex velvet black, opaque, margined each side
by a silvery line: thorax with a whitish line each side before the
wings: nervures pale ; feet including the cox yellowish-white.
Length to the tip of the abdomen, more than one-fourth of an
inch.
A much smaller species than the preceding.
[This species is a Micropeza Meig.—SAcKEN. ]
LOXMOCERA Latr.
L. cyLinpRicA.—Yellowish-rufous ; feet paler.
Tnhabits Pennsylvania.
Body yellowish-rufous ; head obsoletely varied with dusky be-
hind the vertex ; antennz fuscous, pale at base, beneath the head
whitish; thorax with an undulated band on the anterior margin,
dorsal line and an obsolete line before the wing, black ; wings a
little dusky, particularly at tip ; feet whitish; abdomen immac-
ulate.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
Var. a. Lineations of the thorax obsolete or wanting.
About the size of DL. ichnewnonea Fab., but it differs from that
insect in many characters,
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PYROPA TIllig.
P. ruRcATA.—Yellowish, hairy; below the scutel pale plum-
beous ; wings with two dusky anastomoses. [ 99}
Inhabits Missouri. '
Body pale yellowish-brown, hairy ; head beneath the antennz
and narrow orbits yellowish-white, a little polished ; antennz and
large spot above bifurcated at tip, rufous ; proboscis piceous;
thorax lineated obsoletely with brown ; wings with two blackish
anastomoses ; beneath the scutel tinged with pale plumbeous ex-
tending downward to the origin of the posterior feet; tergum
densely hairy: feet hairy, particularly the anterior pair, the thighs
of which are marked by a dilated dusky line above.
Length to the wing tips from two-fifths to nine-twentieths of
an inch.
Rather less than P. lutaria which it very strongly resembles,
but may be distinguished by the dusky mark on the anterior
thighs.
[This genus is Scatophaga Latr.—SAckEn. |
OCHTHERA Latr.
O. EMPIFORMIS.—Whitish ; tergum black; head cinereous,
eyes very large, black.
Inhabits Illinois.
Body whitish; head cinereous, sub-globular; eyes oval, very
large, approximating beneath the origin of the antenne black ;
antenne whitish, abruptly broken outwards at the third joint ;
rostrum pale ; thorax dusky above; feet white, anteriors, thighs
dilated, robust, emarginate behind the inferior middle, for the
reception of the tips of the tibia, and armed beneath with dis-
tant equidistant, rather long seta, tibia incurved at tip and mu-
cronate, armed beneath with [100] approximate, short, sete, in-
termediate and posterior feet white, tips of the tarsi blackish ;
abdomen deep black, immaculate.
Length of the body one-tenth of an inch.
[Wiedemann has changed the name to O. empidiformis.—
SACKEN. |
1823.]
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SCENOPINUS Latr. Fabr.
8. pALLIPES.—Thorax black, a little metallic, a small rufous
tubercle on the edge near the humerus; feet pale.
Inhabits Pennsylvania. ‘
Head black, slightly metallic, with numerous short hairs, giving
it a granulated appearance, a glabrous polished frontal and or-
bital Hne ; thorax with numerous short hairs and with the scutel
appearing granulated, an obsolete rufous tubercle on the lateral
edge near the humerus; wings a little dusky, nervures brown ;
poisers yellowish, on the superior surface dark brownish ; feet
pale-yellowish, tarsi dusky ; tergum black, transversely grooved,
polished ; venter black, with a metallic tinge.
Length 9 less than one-fifth of an inch.
This species is very closely allied to S fenestratus Fab.
BACCHA Meig.
B. FUSCIPENNIS.—Bronzed ; wings dusky, witha whitish spot
at the extremity.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body dark bronzed : head yellowish, above the [101] antennz
bronzed ; wings dark fuliginous, with a hyaline marginal on the
thinner margin near the tip and near the base; feet dull testa-
ceous, posterior pair much the longest: abdomen elongated cyl-
indric, tinged with rufous.
HELEOMYZA Fall.
H. 5-puncrata.—Light reddish-brown ; wings with a few fus-
cous spots; tergum fasciate with black.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body pale reddish-brown; vertex tinged with fulvous; eyes
dull sanguineous; antennz reddish-brown, seta black, plumose,
at base separated bya slightly elevated, obtuse, abbreviated
carina; front yellowish-testaceous; gula and jugulum, whitish ;
thorax with numerous black points, and two* dorsal series of
sete; wings dusky, five blackish spots, of which two are on the
anastomoses and three at the tip, costal edge with short rigid
sete ; pectus, venter and feet whitish-testaceous, three terminal
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tarsal joints black ; tergum paler than the thorax, posterior mar-
gins of the segments with a definite black band.
Length to the tip of the wings seven-twentieths of an inch.
Very common on the Missouri; I observed it particularly
above Cow Island.
[The genus is called Helomyza Fall.—SAckEn. ]
OLFERSIA Leach.
O. ALBIPENNIS.—Blackish-brown ; wings whitish. [102]
Inhabits Ardea herodias. 4
Mentum white; thorax with the cruciate lines distinct, the
longitudinal line tinged with yellow, humeral tubercle prominent,
pale, obtuse; scutel with an impressed line; nervures brown,
inner cellule Jess than half as long as the preceding one which ex-
tends to the base of the wing; pectus with a prominent angle
each side between the anterior pairs of feet; tergum pale brown-
ish, with a black base, disk and tip.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
ORNITHOMYIA Latr. Leach.
1. O. NeBuLOsA.—Head yellow; feet pale; tibia with two
reddish-brown lines.
Inhabits Strix nebulosa.
Kyes blackish-brown ; vagina and hypostoma pale; thorax
reddish-brown, with a large yellowish humeral spot and three
longitudinal lines, of which the intermediate one includes an
impressed line, which interrupts a transverse impressed line;
humeral angle prominent, subacute; spiracle white; marginal
nervures blackish-brown, those of the disk brown; scutel red-
dish-brown, varied with yellow at base; pectus yellow-white, an-
terior margin bifurcated; tarsi dark reddish-brown, nails black ;
abdomen pale-brownish, with black hair, first segment on its an-
terior face pale-yellow.
Length three-tenths of an inch. [103 ]
2. O. PALLIDA.—Pale; intermediate cellule of the wing ex-
tending nearly to the tip of the outer cellule.
Inhabits Sylvia sialis.
Eyes blackish-chestnut ; antenne chestnut, tip white ; labrum
bifurcated, white; hypostoma whitish; front yellow-white, a
1823.]
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brown lunule above the hypostoma and spot on the vertex;
chroat and cheeks white; thorax varied with pale-yellowish and
pale honey-yellow, impressed cruciform lines distinct ; scutel pale
honey-yellow, edged with pale-yellow; costal nervures dark-
brown at base, and those of the disk brown, the transverse ner-
yure of the intermediate cellule is in contact with that of the
preceding cellule ; pectus and feet white, tibia with a brown line,
tarsi tinged with green ; nails black ; abdomen yellowish-white.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
3. O. CONFLUENTA.—Reddish-brown ; costal nervures of the
wing confluent before their termination.
TInhabits Ardea candidissima.
Vertex with a deeper brown spot; occiput pale yellowish ;
humerus with a pale spot, the angles not all produced, obtuse ;
costal nervures fuscous ; feet yellow-brown, tibia with a dark-
brown line, nails black.
Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch.
The remarkable character of the costal nervures of this spe-
cies sufficiently distinguish it from others; these nervures are
confluent about half the length from the termination of the first
cellule to their tip.
[ Wiedemann observes that the name should be O. confluens.—
SACKEN. ] [104]
MELOPHAGUS Latr. Leach.
M. pEPREsSUS.—Pale-testaceous ; eyes subovate.
Inhabits Cervus Virginianus.
Body polished, a little hairy, but appearing perfectly glabrous
to the eye: hypostoma yellow, with two brown lines; vertex
dusky, with three indented punctures; thorax unequal, with an
impressed line in the middle, with a dark reddish-brown poste-
rior and lateral edge; feet slightly hairy, claws black; pectus
with transverse rows of very short black spines; tergum depressed,
punctured, two impressed lines diverge from near the base to
the margin, beyond the middle; venter paler than the tergum,
with short prostrate black hair-like spines, and an arquated series
of spines near the base.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 89
This appears to be a much smaller species than the Hippobosca
cervt of Oliv., to which it is very probably allied, though on com-
parison with Oliver's description I conclude it is very sufficiently
distinct. It has, like that insect, slight rudiments of wings.
[From Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, Vol. 3, 1823, pp. 139—216.]
Descriptions of Coleopterous Insects collected in the late Expedition to
the Rocky Mountains, performed by order of Mr. Calhoun, Secretary cf
War, under the command of Major Long.
Read Oct. 22, 1823.
MANTICORA Fab.
M. cyLinpRrirorMis.—Dark chestnut-brown ; elytra irregularly
punctured. [ 140]
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body dark chestnut-brown, impunctured: head blackish: la-
brum bidentate: mandibles very strongly toothed: thorax nar-
rowed behind, not elevated ; a longitudina' impressed acute line,
a transverse obsolete arquated indented line before originating
at the anterior angles, and a still more obsolete line also originating
at the anterior angles and forming an angle behind the middle ;
base not sinuated, with a marginal and obsolete submarginal in-
dented line: scutel none: elytra joined at the suture, rather
paler than the thorax; irregularly marked with unequal punc-
tures, many of which are preceded by a slightly elevated point ;
a submarginal and marginal elevated line, line of the edge acute,
not more elevated than the others: epipleura with larger and
more distinctly scabrous punctures.
Length more than one inch.
Found at the base of the Rocky Mountains. The abdomen is
much less dilated than that of M. mazillosa.
[Afterwards the type of Amblychila Say.—Lec.]
CICINDELA Lin. Latr.
1. C. scUTELLARIS.—Green ; elytra, excepting the anterior
portion of the suture, reddish-brassy polished.
Inhabits Arkansa.
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Head and thorax green, a little varied with violaceous: an-
tennz black at tip: labrum and mandibles at base above, white:
elytra abruptly rounded at tip, punctured, a few larger punctures
at base ; brilliant [141] reddish-brassy; region of the scutel from
‘the middle of the base to beyond the middle of the suture, green :
beneath blue varied with violaceous.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
A rather small, but very pretty species; it was brought from
the Arkansa by Mr. Thomas Nuttall.
2. C. FULGIDA.—Above red-cupreous, brilliant ; elytra with two
lunules and an intermediate refracted band.
Inhabits Missouri Territory. :
Body, above red-cupreous, highly polished: head hairy before,
varied with green and blue each side and before: labrum and ex-
terior base of the mandibles white : antenne black at tip : thorax,
impressed lines blue: elytra densely punctured ; a dilated lunule
at the basal margin, a dilated refracted band behind the middle,
and a dilated lunule at the tip, white: beneath, hairy green.
Length less than half an inch.
In the dilated appearance of its lunules and band, this species
very much resembles C. formosa, but it is a much smaller insect,
much more highly polished, and not margined with white as in
that insect. It inhabits near the mountains on the Nebraska
(Platte) and Arkansa rivers.
3. C. LiMBATA.—Elytra white, suture, oblique line and dot
green, exterior and basal edge bluish.
Body green, varied with blue and purple, and with cinereous
hair: antenne black at tip: labrum, and exterior and superior
base of the mandibles, white: thorax hairy each side; indented
lines violaceous: [142] elytra white, a green sutural vitta nar-
rowed behind, an oblique irregular line behind the middle, and a
small triangular dot before the middle, green; exterior edge and
basal edge bluish-green or violaceous: beneath hairy: venter
purplish.
Length less than half an inch.
This species, at first sight, resembles C. dorsalis, but is very
distinct in its markings and in the form of its thorax. Found on
the Nebraska (Platte) and Arkansa rivers.
[Unknown to me.—LEc. ]
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4. C. putcHRA.—Elytra red-cupreous, highly polished, exte-
rior margin purple, with two white dots.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
Body greenish-purpurescent: vertex with a large cupreous
spot: front very hairy: antenne, terminal joints black: labrum
short, wide, hardly longer in the middle than each side; slightly
3-toothed : mandibles white ; teeth, extremity and inferior sur-
face, black: thorax, disk with a larger double purplish-cupreous
spot: elytra reddish-cupreous very brilliant; exterior margin
purplish-blue, with a humeral white dot and an angular white
dot near the middle; punctures numerous, larger, and more pro-
found towards the base, obsolete at tip: aguts hairy each side ;
postpectus and feet hairy.
Var. a. Spot upon the humerus, none.
Length less than seven-tenths of an inch.
A remarkably splendid insect, and is a large species. It occurs
in the country bordering the Platte and Arkansa rivers near the
mountains. [143 ]
5. C. oBsoLeTA.—Black ; labrum and point on the elytra
white ; venter purple-black.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
Body deep black, opaque: cheeks tinged with purplish,
polished : antennz four basal joints dark purplish: labrum and
exterior base of the mandibles white : thorax with two transverse
indented lines connected by a longitudinal one; lateral margin
with cinereous hair: elytra with minute profound punctures to-
wards the base, impunctured towards the tip; a transverse white
abbreviated line on the middle of the submargin, and an obsolete
apical dusky-yellowish dot: venter tinged with purplish.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
Var. a. Black, immaculate.
This large and fine species we observed to be not uncommon
on the banks of the Arkansa river, near the mountains. It
seems to be closely related to C. tristis Fab. The elytra exhibit
in some lights a silky appearance.
BRACHINUS Weber, Latr.
B. CYANIPENNIS. ee elytra blackish-blue ; venter
dark reddish-brown.
Length near seven-twentieths of an inch.
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Body pale testaceous, with numerous minute hairs, which on
the elytra are yellowish: head with a slight irregular frontal im-
pressed line each side: antenne brown at tip: thorax witha
longitudinal impressed line from the head to the scutel: elytra
black-blue, [144] with very obtuse hardly impressed grooves :
venter testaceous or blackish-piceous.
This species was found by Mr. Nuttall in Missouri, and I have
since observed great numbers of them near Engineer Canton-
ment. These chiefly occurred during the winter, in a quarry
from which building stone had been taken for the use of Camp
Missouri. They were found hybernating in the fissures of the
rocks.
It differs from the 6. fumans in being much inferior in point
of size, in this respect approaching nearer to B. crepitans of
Europe. The greatest width of the thorax is much more con-
siderable in proportion to the shortest diameter, than that of the
Jumans, and of course the thorax appears proportionally wider
before. The color, also, of the head and thorax is different, and
the elytra are far more slightly grooved. It possesses the singu-
lar power of crepitating common to its congeners.
FERONIA ILatr.
1. F. surercriiosA.—Apterous; black, impunctured ; elytra
tinged with purplish ; basal thoracic lines dilated.
Length nearly two-thirds of an inch.
Body black, impunctured, glabrous: antennee surpassing the
base of the thorax, with brownish hair towards the tip; frontal
groove much dilated: labrum and palpi piceous, the former
emarginate ; thorax wide before, much marrowed behind ; dorsal
[ 145 ] line distinct, basal lines dilated; a very distinct anterior
transverse line; lateral edge rectilinear from near the middle to
the posterior angles ; posterior angles rounded ; base wider than
the petiole: elytra tinged with purple ; striz profound, impune-
tured ; interstitial lines convex : beneath tinged with piceous.
This species, which seems to belong to the genus Pterostichus
of Bonelli, is closely allied to that which I have described under
the name of stygicus, but the thorax is differently formed, being
much wider before, the antennz longer, frontal grooves more
dilated, the elytra of a different color and more obtuse.
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[This is the same as F. moesta Say, Trans. Am. Phil. Soe.
2, 42.—Lec.]
2. F. weros.—Apterous, black ; mandible striated; thorax
contracted abruptly at base, posterior angles acute; elytral strize
slightly impressed, punctured.
Length rather more than nine-tenths of an inch.
Body black and glabrous : mandibles much and deeply striated :
thorax large, convex, rather abruptly contracted at the basal
margin ; dorsal and anterior and basal lines distinct, basal mar-
gin depressed, near the angles rugose; an elevated line on the
basal margin near to, and parallel with, the lateral edge ; basal
angles rectangular: elytra very slightly striated; strix acute,
punctured, punctures obsolete towards the tip; interstitial lines
flat: beneath black.
Brought from the Arkansa by Mr. Thomas Nuttall. It is the
largest native species I have seen of this genus, and is probably
referable to the genus Prerostichus of Bonelli.
[Belongs to Evarthrus Lec.—Lxc. [ 146]
3. F. MACULIFRONS.—Black ; thorax narrower than the elytra ;
vertex with two obsolete piceous spots; elytra with acute im-
punctured striz.
Length more than two-fifths of an inch.
Body black, glabrous : vertex with two obsolete piceous spots,
placed near the eyes, and very distinct in a particular exposure
to the light: antennze piceous, the joints paler at their bases, to-
wards the tip with light brownish hair: palpi, tip of the mandi-
bles and of the labrum piceous, the former tipped with pale yel-
lowish: thorax narrower than the elytra, longitudinally suborbi-
cular ; lateral edge a little recurved, particularly at the hind
angles, which are not excurved, but obtusely rounded; dorsal
line and anterior transverse line impressed, basal lines almost
obsolete in the concavity of the lateral base, which is not rugose :
elytra with a very slight cupreous reflection ; striae acute, im-
punctured, interstitial lines flat : all beneath piceous.
This insect was found in the Arkansa Territory by Mr. Thomas
Nuttall. It is so closely allied to the species which I have named
placida, as not to be, at first sight, distinguished from it ; never-
theless, on comparing it with that species, it will be discovered
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to be distinct by the spots on the vertex, the somewhat differently
formed thorax, and by the perfect smoothness of the cavities of
the lateral angles,;which have not the slightest appearance of
rugosity.
[A Platynus of the division Agonum, which I have thus far
failed to identify.— LEc. ]
4, F. scurELLARIS.—Black ; posterior thoracic angles rounded ;
region of the scutel much impressed.
Length two-fifths of an inch. [147]
Body depressed, black, immaculate; antennz black ; thorax
with a narrow margin; dorsal line distinct; basal lines dilated,
so as to resemble large impressed spots; lateral edge regularly
arquated, not excurved behind; basal angles rounded: elytra,
obsoletely punctured ; interstitial lines a little convex ; region
of the scutel much impressed ; humerus gibbous; coxe and tarsi
piceous.
5. F. ERRANS.—Green, polished; beneath black : feet, base of
the antennze, of the palpi rufous.
Body above polished green: labrum dark reddish-purple: an-
tennz fuscous, basal joint rufous; palpi fuscous; thorax obvi-
ously wider than long; dorsal line distinct; basal lines much di-
lated and with a few punctures: an obvious narrow margin, and
reflected edge; lateral edge not excurved behind ; posterior an-
gles rounded ; base much wider than the petiole: elytra with a
very slight reddish reflection ; strie very narrow, impunctured ;
interstitial lines flat: beneath black: feet rufous.
This species rembles F’. nutans Say, but may be distinguished
by a shorter thorax, which is margined and at base wider.
[Also a Platynus.—L«c. |
6. F. consrricra.—Apterous, blaek ; thorax much contracted
behind ; elytra with punctured striz.
Length half an inch.
Body apterous, black ; antenne fuscous, piceous at base; la-
brum and palpi piceous: mandibles striated obliquely: thorax
convex, wider than long, rather abruptly contracted at the pos-
terior margin, [148] which is depressed ; dorsal, basal, and ante-
rior lines distinct, impunctured, the former attaining the base;
basal lines double ; lateral edge much rounded, abruptly excurved
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at the posterior margin; basal angles rectangular, acute; base
much narrower than the elytra: elytra with punctured striz,
punctures small; interstitial lines slightly convex; beneath dark
piceous or blackish.
The form of the body and the curvature of the thorax are very
similar to those of F’. unicolor Say, nevertheless it is a much
smaller insect, the thoracic base is depressed and the posterior
angles are acute, and the striz of the elytra are more deeply im-
pressed than in that insect. It was found on the Arkansa river
near the Rocky Mountains. It belongs to the genus Pterostichus
of Bonelli.
[Belongs to EHvarthrus.—LkEc. ]
ZABRUS Clairv.
Z. Avripus.—Black ; feet rufous; base of the thorax and strize
of the elytra punctured.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Body deep black: labrum deep piceous: antenne and palpi
rufous: thorax short and wide, with a few punctures before, and
numerous ones on the posterior depressed margin ; dorsal line very
distinct ; elytra punctured ; interstitial lines depressed, a little
convex ; beneath black: venter deep piceous at tip: feet rufous.
[An Amara of the division Liocnemis, afterwards described as
A. confinis Dej.—LeEc.] [149]
CALOSOMA Linn. Latr.
I. C. opsoLera.—Brownish-black ; elytrareticulated and with
three series of impressed bluish spots.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body brownish black : mandibles rugose and convex on the
superior surface: thorax obtusely and minutely rugose, impunc-
tured ; region of the posterior angles indented ; an abbreviated
impressed dorsal line; posterior angles rounded, extended back-
ward a little beyond the basal line : elytra reticulate ; longitudi-
nal lines slightly impressed, not more dilated than the transverse
ones, which are mostly continuous, their points of intersection
marked by a puncture; three series of impressed bluish or viola-
ceous obscure spots on each elytron ; lateral margin in a certain
light very obscurely purplish.
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Length seven-tenths of an inch.
Found near the Rocky Mountains. :
[ Afterwards described by Dejean as C. luxatum.—LEc.]
2. CO. Luxata.—Brownish-black ; elytra reticulate ; head and
thorax minutely punctured.
Tnhabits Arkansa.
Mandibles flattened above, rugose, with oblique lines: head
punctured: antennze, second joint half as long as the third: tho-
rax minutely punctured, punctures larger and confluent on the
lateral margin; posterior angles rounded, extending backwards a
little beyond the basal line; an impressed longitudinal line :
elytra suborbicular, reticulate ; longitudinal lines not more dila-
ted or profoundly impressed than [150] the transverse ones, which
are not continuous, the points of intersection not distinguished by
a puncture ; the three punctured strie obsolete, their traces hard-
ly discernible in a certain light and not differently colored.
Length more than three-fifths of an inch.
This insect has the short, transverse thorax of Calosoma, but
the proportions which the joints of the antennze bear to each
other are similar to those of many Carabi: the transverse lines
are dislocated by the longitudinal ones.
[Belongs to Calisthenes: which however is not now adopted by
many entomologists.—LEc. ]
CARABUS Linn. Latr.
©. EXTERNUS.—Winged, black, margined with purplish ;
elytra with three series of obsolete punctures.
Length one inch and three-twentieths.
Body elongated, deep black : antenne brown at tip; thorax
punctured, margined with bluish-purple; lateral edge regularly
curved to the base : dorsal and basal lines distinct ; basal angles
obtusely rounded ; elytra striate ; strie well impressed, much nar-
rower than the interstitial lines, and with conspicuous, definite
punctures; interstitial lines convex, equal, the fourth, eighth,
and twelfth each with a series of obsolete small punctures, which
do not interrupt them ; exterior margin bluish-purple.
A large species, brought from Arkansa by Mr. Thomas Nut-
tall. It somewhat resembles C. sylvosus, but is larger, the strize of
the elytra are much more regular, exhibiting nothing of the gran-
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ulated appearance [151] of those of that insect, and the curve of
the exterior edge of the thorax is regular, or without any ten-
dency to excurvature near the base.
[Belongs to Calosoma, and subsequently described as C. longi-
penne Dej.—Lxc. ]
BEMBIDIUM Latr.
1. B. coxenp1x.—Greenish-brassy, beneath green; tibia and
anterior trochanters, testaceous; thorax, basal line oblique each
side. ;
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Body greenish-brassy, polished: labrum green: antenne dull
green, covered with light brownish hair; basal joint testaceous
before and greenish behind : palpi greenish, hairy, testaceous on
the inferior base: thorax with a green exterior margin ; exterior
edge excurved at base; dorsal line slightly impressed, narrow;
transverse basal line very distinct ; basal margin a little rugose,
particularly near the angles; angles acute: elytra with a green
margin; striz with rather large punctures; beneath dark green:
coxze tibize, and knees beneath, testaceous.
Var. a. Feet entirely pale rufous.
2, B. inmquatis.—Bronzed ; elytra of unequal surface, and
two impressed spots on each elytron.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
Body bronzed above ; beneath blackish-green : base of the an-
tennze and of the palpi pale rufous: thorax, dorsal impressed
line, and anterior and posterior lines very distinct: elytra, sur-
face uneven, with two very obvious dilated impressed spots on
the third interstitial line; strie widely and profoundly [152]
punctured, the fourth stria undulated: feet blackish-green, rufous
at base.
This is a very distinct species; it occurred near Engineer
Cantonment.
OMOPHRON Latr.
O. rEssELATUS.—Pale, varied with green; elytra somewhat
tessellate with green.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body rufous, punctured ; head green behind, between the eyes
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a longitudinal and oblique dilated line united in the form of a
W ; labrum white: thorax with a green disk and longitudinal
impressed line: elytra with punctured striz, green; margin, two
undulated bands and tip, pale rufous; pectus and postpectus
darker rufous: feet whitish.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
I observed this species in plenty on Elk-horn Creek. The
elytra have a tessellated appearance in consequence of the un-
dulations of the bands being subquadrate, particularly the two
nearest to the disk.
[Afterwards described by Dejean as O. Lecontei—LeEc.]
COLYMBETES Clairv. ‘
C. veNusTUS.—Reddish-yellow ; thorax at tip and base black ;
elytra dusky olivaceous with a pale external margin, ais i
base and abbreviated subsutural line.
' Body reddish-yellow: vertex dusky: thorax, anterior [153]
margin to the eyes on each side, and posterior margin as far as
the middle of the base of each elytron, black: elytra dusky oli-
yvaceous or blackish; a yellowish exterior margin attenuated to-
wards the humerus, and a whitish external submargin composed
of three somewhat oblique approximate lines, of which the inner
one is abbreviated before the middle; a dilated, subtriangular
white line from the humerus to the middle of the base, where it
abruptly terminates ; a subsutural white line from near the base
is attenuated and terminated before the middle; disk with two
obsolete interrupted lines : venter each side dusky.
Length one-third of an inch.
Found many specimens in a pond near Bowyer Creek, Mis-
souri. It is also an inhabitant of the Atlantic States. I think
it probable that this is the Dytiscus interrogatus of Fabricius.
[This was afterwards made the type of Copdotomus Say ; it does
not appear to differ from D. interrogatus.—Lxc.]
HYDROPORUS Clairv.
H. PARALLELUS.—Black ; elytra lineate with yellowish.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black: head before and a small obsolete spot on the yer-
tex, rufous: antenz pale at base, dusky at tip: palpi pale, tip
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black, thorax varied with reddish-yellow: elytra with several
longitudinal reddish-yellow lines, the exterior and interior ones
interrupted: feet pale testaceous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch. [154]
This species, like many other species of this genus, varies in
the number of visible lines of the elytra and in their being more
or less interrupted, but the abbreviated lines into which they are
sometimes interrupted do not form hands, and at least one line is
continuous to near the tip, a character which distinguishes it
from the following species.
[Previously described as HH. catascopium Say, Trans. Am.
Phil. Soc. 2, 103, and subsequently as H. interruptus Say, ib.,
4, 445.— Lec. ]
2. H. unpuLATUS.—Rufo-testaceous ; elytra blackish-oliva-
ceous, literate with testaceous.
Inhabits Upper Missouri.
Dytiscus undulatus Melsh. Catal.
Body rufo-testaceous ; thorax, anterior margin black on the
middle, posterior margin black in the middle as far as opposite
the middle of the base of each elytron: elytra blackish, an irre-
gular marginal spot extends from the humerus to nearly one-
third of the length of the elytron, and obsoletely communicates
at its dilated middle with a band composed of two or three longi-
tudinal abbreviated lines, of which the inner one is subsutural ;
a smaller, marginal, irregular literate band behind the middle,
and an irregular spot at tip.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
Found in a pond near Bowyer Creek, Upper Missouri. It is
not uncommon in Pennsylvania.
PASDERUS Fabr.
P. BrnoTatus.—Reddish-yellow ; head, a part of each elytron
and the tail, black ; feet pale.
Body pale yellowish-red, with numerous very short [155]
hairs; punctured: head black, larger than the thorax: antenne
and trophi pale ; thorax longitudinally subovate, punctures dense :
elytra each with a large black spot on the exterior side towards
the tip: abdomen, terminal segment and tail black : feet whitish.
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Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Found near the Missouri above the confluence of the Platte.
It is also an inhabitant of the Eastern States.
[I do not know this insect. richson, Staphyl. 645, supposes
it to belong to Sunius.—LEc.]
‘ OXYTELUS Gravenh.
1. O. PALLIPENNIS.—Testaceous ; head black; tip of the ely-
peus elevated and bidentate ; thorax wider than than long, with
an impressed line.
Body pale testaceous, punctured, with very short hairs: head
black, punetures sparse before: eyes black, with a golden re-
flection: clypeus at the middle of the tip, elevated, prominent
and bidentated : antenne and carina at base, rufous pale: man-
dibles porrected, piceous, bifid to the middle; superior segment
or tooth rather shorter than the other: palpi pale: thorax wider
than long, reddish-brown with an impressed dorsal line: elytra
dusky at tip and on the sutural edge: feet whitish.
Length about seven-twentieths of an inch.
On the banks of the Missouri below the confluence of the
Platte river.
[This and the three following belong to Bledius.—Lxc.]
2. O. ARMATUS.—Pale reddish-brown ; head black ; carina at
base of the antenne piceous at tip. [156]
Female.—Body light reddish-brown, punctured, a little hairy :
head black, punctures obsolete ; an abbreviated, vertical carina
over the anterior portion of the eye, terminating abruptly at the
origin of the antenne, and piceous at tip; anterior angles of the
clypeus reflected: antenne and palpi pale rufous: mandibles
piceous: thorax length and breadth subequal, with a longitudinal
impressed line; punctures sparse ; edge blackish: elytra, punc-
tures distinct, numerous; sutural edge blackish: thighs testa-
ceous.
Length from one-fifth to one-fourth of an inch.
Male.—Rather paler than the female; a tubercle between the
eyes: thorax witha longitudinal impunctured, dorsal line : tergum
darker at tip.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
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3. O. MELANOCEPHALUS.—Pale testaceous; head and post-
pectus black; suture dusky.
Body pale testaceous, or whitish: head deep black: antenne
and mouth pale testaceous: mandibles unarmed: elytra, suture
blackish : postpectus black.
Length nearly one-tenth of an inch.
Var. a. Abdomen reddish-brown.
On the banks of the Missouri above the confluence of the Platte
river.
4. Q. rascratus.—Blackish ; elytra pale yellowish ; abdomen
reddish-yellow, obsoletely fasciate with dusky.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body blackish, punctured, hairy: head black, impunctured,
covered with very minute granules: antennae and mouth testa-
ceous ; mandibles piceous: thorax piceous-black; rather large
distinct punctures; posterior edge rounded without angles, and
distinct from the elytra: elytra, pale yellowish, dusky at the in-
terior base and suture; numerous rather large distinct punctures ;
tip obtusely rounded: beneath reddish-brown: feet rather paler :
tergum reddish; segments each with a definite, dusky band at
tip: venter, each segment with an obsolete blackish transverse
line on the middle.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
Found near Engineer Cantonment.
ALEOCHARA Gravenh.
A. BIMACULATA.—Black ; elytra each with an obsolete, yel-
lowish, subsutural spot behind.
A. bimaculata Knoch in Melsheimer’s Catalogue.
Body black, slightly punctured, hairy: front each side exca-
vated from the insertion of the antennz to the mouth: palpi pale,
maxillaries dusky above: thorax each side and angles regularly
rounded, slightly hairy; two longitudinal, dilated, hardly im-
pressed, punctured lines behind: scutel transversely triangular:
elytra not covering half of the tergum, with very numerous, pros-
trate hairs; a large obsolete, yellowish, subsutural spot at the tip
of each : feet dark piceous towards the tips.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Found above Fort Osage. [158]
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TACHINUS Gravenh.
T. ATRICAUDATUS.—Rufous, impunctured ; head and middle
of the antennz and postpectus black; elytra behind, and tip of
the abdomen, dark blue.
Body yellowish-rufous, impunctured, with few hairs ; polished :
head black : labrum and mouth testaceous: antenne testaceous ;
from the fifth to the tenth joints inclusive, black: thorax with a
few indistinct hairs: elytra with a large deep blue spot on each,
the anterior edge of which curves from behind the humerus, to
behind the middle of the sutural margin ; a subsutural series of
remote punctures, and a series exterior to the middle : postpectus
black, with large, slightly impressed punetures: feet pale testa-
ceous: abdomen with a few hairs, and distant, larger black ones
on the posterior margins of the segments; terminal and anal seg-
ments deep blue.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
Found on the Konza river.
[Belongs to Boletobius; previously described as 7. cinctus
Grav.—Lec.] .
ANTHOPHAGUS Gravenh.
A. BRUNNEUS.—-Reddish-brown ; feet and abdomen paler ; an
impressed thoracic line and dot at base.
Body reddish-brown, punctured, with numerous short hairs:
head inequal, indented between the eyes and between the anten-
ne: antennee, palpi, and feet testaceous: mandibles piceous at
tip : thorax [159] densely punctured, subrotund; posterior an-
gles rectangular ; a dorsal impressed line, terminated on the pos-
terior submargin by an impressed dot: elytra densely punctured,
posterior lateral angles rounded, sutural tip acute: abdomen pale
reddish-brown, segments margined round with dusky, a dusky
spot near the tip of the tergum.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
On the banks of the Missouri above the confluence of the Platte
river.
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BUPRESTIS Linn Latr.
1. B. conriventa.----[ Ante, 1, 60.]
2. B. LATERALIS.—Black ; head and thorax dull brassy, the
former canaliculate, the latter with a posterior dorsal and anterior
lateral indentation.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body elongated, black, scabrous : head dull brassy, superficially
punctured ; a profoundly impressed line abbreviated before : an-
tenn blackish : thorax dull brassy, somewhat scabrous ; a round
indented spot behind the middle, and an oblique profound oblong
one each side, at the anterior termination of which the thoracic
edge is dilated ; basal edge sinuous: scutel black, subtriangnlar :
elytra scabrous, entire, slightly indented at base: tail rounded.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Distinguishable by the dilatation of the lateral thoracic edge.
[Belongs to Agrilus.—LEc.]
3. B. ATROPURPUREUS.—Black, slightly tinged with bronze
or purplish ; elytra serrate and mucronate.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body punctured : antenne black : labrum piceous : thorax with
elevated obtuse punctures and slightly impressed dilated ones each
side ; an indented spot on the middle of the basal margin : elytra
scabrous with minute reflected and depressed points; lateral edge
regularly serrated ; tip mucronate: beneath dark purplish.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
Taken near the Rocky Mountains. The color to the eye is black,
but upon attentive observation it will be perceived to be tinged
with purplish.
[Belongs to Melanophila.—L«Ec.] [160]
4. B. 6-currata.—Black-brassy ; elytra each with three in-
dented cupreous spots.
_Inhabits the United States.
Buprestis 4-maculata Melsh. Catal.
Body blackish with a strong brassy tinge: head punctured ; a
profound sinus each side for the reception of the antenne ; tip
emarginate : labrum green: antenne brassy-green: thorax short,
transverse, densely punctured ; not wider behind, angles rounded :
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scutel triangular, green: elytra with three or four elevated longi-
tudinal lines on each, and three impressed reddish-cupreous spots
placed one at the base, one rather before the middle, and the
third behind the middle ; edge minutely serrate.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
I have been under the necessity of applying another name to
this insect, as that given by Mr. Melsheimer is preoccupied by
a different species. We found this during our expedition to the
Missouri, and it is also an inhabitant of the Atlantic States.
[Belongs to Chrysobothris—Lxc. ]
5. B. Grpprcotiis.—Black ; elytra each with two large yel-
low spots.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body black, with a slight violaceous tinge, and with very nu-
merous very short hairs ; punctured: thorax gibbous, arising into
a very obtuse obsolete tubercle each side above; covered with
dense hair; posterior edge rectilinear, angles rounded: scutel
orbicular: elytra punctured, destitute of striz ; posterior edge
finely serrated; tip entire; a very large [162] elongated spot
extending from the base to the middle, and a smaller orbicular
one towards the tip: venter violaceous.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
A very pretty insect; but a single specimen was procured.
Can this be the B. volvulus Fab. ?
[A species of Ptosima subsequently described as P. luctuosa
Gory.—LEc. ]
6. B. GRANULATA.—Green, granulated; elytra with an ele-
vated line, and serrodentate at tip.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body cylindrical, olive-green, granulated: head punctured,
with a profound sinus each side for the reception of the antenna ;
tip rounded: eyes whitish, with a black oblong moveable pupil:
thorax with an oblique indented line each side, and a longitudinal
dorsal one ; basal edge sinuated ; scutel transversely elongated,
with an impressed transverse line behind: elytra scabrous or
granulated, without striee or punctures ; an elevated longitudinal
line, and an indented large spot at base ; tip serrodentate.
Length two-fifths of an inch nearly.
Belongs to Agrilus.—L«c.
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7. B. virrpicorNis.—Head and thorax red-coppery ; antenne
green; elytra obscure, entire.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body somewhat depressed : head reticulate, red-coppery : eyes
rather large ; antennz green: thorax transversely indented each
side behind the middle; red-cupreous, reticulated; posterior
edge rectilinear: scutel triangular: elytra obscure or slightly
brassy, slightly rugose, destitute of strie, rounded at tip, entire
or obsoletely serrated: beneath dark brassy, brilliant; tail
rounded, entire.
Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch.
[Belongs to Anthaxia.—LEc. ] [163]
8. B. GEMINATA.—Greenish, scabrous; thorax sub-inequal ;
elytra entire, indented at base.
Inhabits Missouri.
Buprestis viridis Melsh. Catal.
Body greenish or dull cupreous, scabrous : head densely pune-
tured ; an indented line on the vertex : antenne blackish-green :
thorax sub-inequal; a double obsolete indented spot placed longi-
tudinally on the back, and a lateral oblique one ; a carinate line
at base near the posterior angles, which are acute ; posterior edge
sinuate; surface with numerous, somewhat irregular, transverse
slightly elevated, abbreviated, confluent lines: elytra scabrous,
greenish, tinged with violaceous.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
The B. viridis of Melsheimer is the same with this or a mere
variety. I have been under the necessity of changing the name,
his being already occupied.
[A species of Agrilus.—Lec.]
9. B. pIvaRicaTA.—Greenish-cnpreous above, beneath cu-
preous ; elytra attenuated and divergent at tip.
Inhabits the United States.
Head numerously and confluently punctured : mandibles black :
eyes pale yellow, or brownish, with a black orbit, oval: thorax
confluently punctured, subinequal, indented before the scutel :
scutel orbicular, disk impressed ; elytra striate, confluently punc-
tured, and with some elevated blackish, abbreviated lines: tips
narrowed, elongated, divergent ; at the termination truncate, and
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106 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
submucronate on [164] the inner side; beneath, excepting the
venter, canaliculate.
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
Remarkable by the divarication of the tip of the elytra. It
yery much resembles B. lurida Fab., in general appearance.
[Belongs to Dicerca.—L«c. |
10. B. tonarprs.—Black; immaculate, surface granulated ;
elytra terminating in an abrupt short point.
Inhabits the United States. |
Body deep black, immaculate; thorax with an obsolete in-
dented line: scutel small, subangulated : elytra finely granulated :
an obtuse, obsolete, elevated line from the shoulder to the tip;
tip abruptly terminated by a small spine in the centre: beneath
polished, slightly tinged with violaceous: tarsi of the interme-
diate and posterior feet elongated, as long or longer than the
tibia ; first joint equal to the three following ones conjunctly ;
fourth joint bilobate, very short.
Length half an inch nearly.
Found in Pennsylvania and the Western States.
[A species of Melanophila, closely allied to M. atropurpurea
(ante p. 108,) and considered by some as the European M. ap-
pendiculata.—Lxc. ]
11. B. cyantpes.—Elytra at tip narrowed, entire and divari-
cated ; scutel transverse.
TInhabits Missouri.
Body dark cupreous, tinged with greenish: head, before the
antennee, green: antenne dark green: thorax confluently punc-
tured: scutel large, angulated each side behind, and excavated
in the middle: elytra with darker abbreviated, elevated irregular
lines ; tips very slightly recurved, divaricated, entire or obsoletely
[165] truncate: beneath bright cupreous, not canaliculate ; tail
deeply emarginate: tarsi blue.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
This specimen was brought from the Missouri by Mr. Thomas
Nuttall. It resembles the divaricata in the manner of termi-
nating of the elytra.
[Belongs to Poecilonota.—LEc. ]
12. B. campestris. [Ante 1, 60.]
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MELASIS Oliv.
1. M. niaricornis.—Black, cylindrical, punctured; thorax
with indented transverse and longitudinal lines.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
Body deep black, opaque, immaculate, scabrous : [166] head
with an impressed longitudinal line: clypeus with a very pro-
found sinus over the insertion of the antennz, before which it is
triangular: antenne, first and second joints simple; remaining
ones dilated cordate, the inner lobe more prominent; terminal
joint simple, oval, acute: palpi, terminal joint, oval: thorax con-
vex, transversely quadrate, not narrowed before; a longitudinal
indented line; two abbreviated somewhat oblique ones at base,
and a transverse one on each side of the middle; anterior margin
obsoletely tinged with reddish; an impressed point each side of
the middle of the posterior margin: elytra striate, striae acute ;
interstitial lines convex, densely punctured: tibia piceous: tarsi
rufous; the penultimate one a little dilated, hairy beneath, and
extended beneath the base of the terminal one, but not bilobate.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
Of this species I found but a single specimen. It seems to
approach nearest to Fabricius’s description of Hlater lacunosus,
but it cannot be referred to that genus, as it is totally destitute
of the pectoral spine and recipient cavity. The position of the
head with respect to the thorax, is precisely as in Buprestis.
[A species of Hylochares.—Lxc. |
2. M. RuFICORNIS.—Black ; antennze, feet, and base of the
elytra rufous.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body cylindrical, deep brownish-black, with very short hairs ;
punctures very dense, appearing granulated: antennz robust,
subfusiform; joints cordate, rufous ; inserted into a very profound
sinus of the [167] clypeus, which is somewhat dilated before:
palpi yellowish: thorax with an impressed longitudinal line:
lateral edges rectilinear from the middle to the tip of the poste-
rior angles: scutel black: elytra striate punctured ; basal half
rufous : feet rufous: thighs dark piceous: tarsi, penultimate joint
a little dilated, and extended beneath the base of the terminal
one, but not bilobate.
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108 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
A very distinct species from the preceding. Mr. Nuttall
brought two specimens from the Arkansa.
[A species of Tharops.—L«c.]
ELATER Lin.
1. E. AREOLATUS.—Rufo-testaceous ; head, scutel and elytral
band black.
Inhabits Mississippi.
Body rufo-testaceous, hairy: head black: clypeus very short,
obtusely rounded : antenne longer than the thorax : thorax short,
somewhat transverse: scutel black: elytra striate, punctured ;
region of the scutel and dilated band on the middle black : feet
pale.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
2. KE. porsALis.—Rufous ; a thoracic fusiform line, two spots
and a band on the elytra, black.
Inhabits the United States.
Body rufous, hairy, punctured : head deep black : clypeus pro-
minent, rounded: antenne pale testaceous: thorax longitudi-
nally oblong; a dilated, fusiform black dorsal line; posterior
angles prominent: [168 ] scutel black : elytra striate punctured ;
an oblong spot before the middle of each, and a common band
behind the middle dilated near the suture, black: feet pale.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
[I consider this as a Monocrepidius without tarsal lobes. Ger-
mar and Lacordaire place it in Oryptohypnus—Lxc.]
3. E. peLitus.—Black ; thorax with a rufous line; elytra ru-
fous varied with black.
Inhabits the United States.
Elater bellus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body black, hairy, punctured: clypeus rounded before: an-
tenn pale testaceous: thorax with a longitudinal vitta and pos-
terior angles rufous ; carinated ; elytra rufous, varied with black
abbreviated lines; tip black, enclosing a rufous spot ; feet whitish.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Anterior thoracic angles rufous.
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This insect is not uncommon in the Atlantic States, and is also
found west of the Alleghany Mountains.
[A true Monocrepidius.—LEc.]
4. EK. RECTICOLLIS.—Pale testaceous, hairy; head blackish ;
lateral thoracic edge rectilinear.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body pale testaceous, with short dense hair: head blackish-
piceous: antennze pale: clypeus rounded: thorax lateral edge
rectilinear from near the anterior angles to the tip of the poste-
rior ones: elytra profoundly striate, punctured: feet whitish.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
[Belongs to Adrastus—Lxc.] .
5. E. opEesus.—Brown, with yellow hair ; thorax convex; body
short, somewhat dilated.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body reddish-brown, with yellowish hair and [169] very
minute punctures: head and thorax with polished yellow hair,
and numerous exceedingly minute punctures; posterior angles
prominent, excurved : scutel rounded hairy: elytra with scattered
hairs, and obsoletely punctured striz ; interstitial spaces slightly
convex and with minute punctures: feet rufous.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
[Unknown to me; it is afterwards (Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 6,
168,) stated to have the ungues strongly toothed. Cardiophori
with this character are known, but none have yet been found in
the United States.
6. E. eRyrRopus—Reddish-brown, or blackish, punctured,
hairy ; posterior thoracic angles carinated ; interstitial elytral
lines punctured.
Inhabits Missouri and Pennsylvania.
Elater erytropus Melsheimer’s Catalogue.
Body reddish-brown, or blackish, with numerous short prostrate
yellow hairs; punctured: head with large, profound, approxi-
mated punctures: antenne rufous: clypeus rounded, entire:
thorax with large confluent punctures on each side, and small
more distant ones on the posterior disk, much smaller than those
of the head; posterior angles not excurved, but nearly rectili-
near with the posterior half of the lateral edge of the thorax,
1823.]
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and carinated above; posterior edge slightly bidentate in the
middle: scutel "rounded at base: elytra with punctured striz,
interstitial lines punctured.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
A species not distinguished by any remarkable peculiarity.
[Belongs to Cardiophorus.—LkEc. }
7. E. convExA.—Thorax black, hairy ; posterior edge of the
thorax with a fissure each side, and tridentate [170] in the mid-
dle; elytra reddish-brown ; feet rufous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head and thorax not visibly punctured to an ordinary magni-
fier ; covered with dense prostrate yellow hair: antenne rufous :
clypeus rounded: thorax convex ; posterior angles very short,
carinated only on the exterior edge ; posterior edge tridentate in
the middle, and with a fissure on each side near the angle ; scutel
hairy, cordate, emargined at base: elytra reddish-brown, some-
what hairy, with punctured striz ; interstitial lines impunctured :
beneath reddish-brown, covered with prostrate hair: feet yellow-
ish-rufous.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch.
Var. a. Black; feet dark rufous. Length less than three-
tenths of an inch.
The interstitial lines of the elytra are totally destitute of pune-
tures, at least none are perceptible even with an ordinary magni-
fier; the thorax is very convex, and equally impunctured, and
marked by four fissures in the posterior edge.
| [Unknown to me; probably a Cardiophorus.—LEc.]
8. E. TRIANGULARIS.—Clypeus with a very profound sinus
each side, for the reception of the antennz; elytra not striate.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, slightly hairy, minutely punctured: head with
crowded minute punctures; a very profound sinus each side over
the insertion of the antennz, anterior to which the clypeus is
dilated ; triangular and truncated at tip: antenne dark piceous ;
[171] half as long as the body ; first joint cylindrical; second,
small piceous ; third as long as the fourth and fifth conjointly :
thorax convex ; punctures very minute and numerous; lateral
edges from near the anterior angles to the posterior ones, rectili-
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near; elytra not distinctly striated, but irregularly punctured :
feet pale rufous.
Length rather more than three-twentieths of an inch.
A small insect, remarkable for the very profound sinuses over
the insertion of the antennz. It varies in having the elytra
striated, and dull rufous at the base; the third joint of the an-
tenn also is not so long as the two following ones together.
[Belongs to Microrhagus.—Lxc. ]
9. E. MANcus.—Clypeus truncated ; body punctured; thorax
with an impressed line behind the middle; posterior angles
slightly excurved.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, punctured, with short hair: head with large, pro-
found dense punctures: clypeus elevated, emarginate each side
near the antenne, and truncated before: antenne and palpi
rufous : thorax with an impressed line behind the middle ; pune-
tures numerous, profound, equal to those of the head, but not
so dense; posterior angles prominent, very slightly excurved,
carinate above; posterior edge slightly bidentate near the mid-
dle; an elevated, abbreviated line on the posterior margin near
the lateral carina: scutel entire at base: elytra punctures of the
strie oblong and approximate; interstitial lines with minute
punctures furnishing hairs: feet rufous. [172]
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Reddish-brown ; thorax with a paler anterior margin.
An obscurely characterized species, equal in size to convex
and mendica, but differing from them, besides other characters,
in having the lateral elevated line on the posterior margin, and
from the former by the conspicuously punctured and less convex
thorax.
[A species of Agriotes, afterwards described as A. truncatus
and A. striatulus Mels.—LEc.]
10. HK. BAstZARIS.—Deep black; clypeus emarginate; first
and second joints of the antennez and feet pale.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body deep black, hairy, cylindrical, polished, punctured : head
subinequal: clypeus broad and subemarginate at tip: antenne,
first and second joints pale rufous; thorax convex, with minute
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equally distributed punctures, much more distant than the length
of their diameters ; lateral edge rectilinear from near the anterior
angles to the tip of the posterior angles, which are piceous and
rather short: scutel oval: elytra striate, the strize punctured :
feet pale rufous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
[Belongs to Limonius.—L«c. ]
11. E. aurreris.—Above with dense golden hair; clypeus
emarginate ; antennze black.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Head covered with golden hair: clypeus emarginate : antennze
black ; basal joint rufous: thorax convex, rather narrower at the
base, covered with golden hair; a dorsal indented line ; posterior
angles [173] very short, not excurved, but complying with the
curve of the lateral edge: elytra less densely covered with golden
hair, excepting at the base; with punctured strize: beneath
black, covered with very short prostrate somewhat silvery hair:
feet dull rufous.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
I have seen but a single specimen, which was brought from the
Arkansa by Mr. Thomas Nuttall. The hair is much more yellow
and less dense than that of H. pennatus Fab.
[Also a Limonius.—LeE¢.]
12. E. aspreviaTa.—Black, hairy, short; thorax convex,
with an impressed longitudinal line; clypeus rounded.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body short, thick, punctured, hairy: head with profound but
dilated punctures; clypeus regularly rounded at tip, and not
emarginate each side: antenne black, basal joint piceous : thorax
convex ; an impressed longitudinal line from base to tip ; punctures
numerous, profound, small; posterior angles slightly excurved,
carinated; posterior margin with a slight carina near the poste-
rior angle : elytra with profound striz not perceptibly punctured ;
interstitial lines hardly punctured: feet testaceous.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
A short, dilated species; the impressed line of the thorax ex-
tends the whole length of that part of the body; the antennz
are black.
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[A species of Cryptohypnus, afterwards described as ©. sila-
cetpes Germ.—LEC. |
13. KH. ptsecrus.—Testaceous ; head, thoracic line, and suture
black.
Inhabits Missouri. [174]
Body densely hairy; punctured ; rufo-testaceous : head black;
clypeus prominent; rounded: antennz pale: thorax with a
longitudinal, dorsal, black line ; posterior angles prominent, ex-
curved : scutel black, convex, rounded: elytra, striz indented ;
punctures rounded ; suture with a common black line, not attain-
ing the tip, dilated at the scutel and at its extremity: postpectus
and venter black: feet whitish.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
[A Monocrepidius, unknown to me.—LEc.]
14. E. corrictnus.—Reddish-brown, hairy, punctured ; cly-
peus prominént; rounded; lateral thoracic edge rectilinear.
Inhabits the United Seates.
Elater corticinus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body reddish-brown, hairy, punctured: clypeus prominent ;
rounded, or very obtusely subangulated before, and each side :
antennee longer than the thorax : thorax, hair each side behind
the middle prostrate inwards towards the middle; lateral edge
perfectly rectilinear from the anterior tip to the tip of the poste-
rior angles; basal margin with an obsolete indented line: elytra
striate, punctured: beneath covered with short, prostrate hair :
feet rather paler.
Length about three-fifths of an inch.
Remarkable for the perfectly rectilinear lateral edges of the
thorax, and by having the hair of the posterior part of the tho-
rax inclining inwards from each side towards the middle of the
width.
[A species of Cratonychus.—Lxc. |
15. HE. semivirratus.—Piceous-black; thorax obsoletely
testaceous each side: elytra whitish, with a dusky suture and
abbreviated line. [175]
Inhabits Missouri.
Body hairy, punctured, dark piceous or blackish brown : tho-
rax with an impressed dorsal line ; lateral margin as far as be-
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hind the middle, obsoletely testaceous ; posterior angles excurved :
elytra whitish ; suture and line from the humerus to the middle
of the disk, reddish-brown obscure: beneath piceous: feet
paler.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
This species, at first sight, resembles H. nigricollis of Melshei-
mer’s Catalogue; but it may be readily distinguished by the
bicolored thorax, and the abbreviated and sometimes interrupted
line on the elytra.
[Unknown to me.—LEc. ]
16. E. topatus.—Pale brownish, covered with short hair 5
feet whitish, penultimate tarsal joint elongated beneath the ter-
minal one.
Inhabits Mississippi.
Body brownish, covered with dense prostrate hair: clypeus
broad, rounded before: antenna pale rufous: thorax very
minutely punctured ; posterior angles prominent, acute, subcarinate
above: scutel convex: elytra with profound, punctured striz,
punctures oblong, approximate : feet pale, yellowish-white ; penul-
timate tarsal joint elongated and expanded beneath the terminal
joint, and very obtusely rounded at tip.
Length eleyen-twentieths of an inch.
This species is sufficiently remarkable by the singular expan-
sion of the penultimate tarsal joint. It [176] is an inhabitant
of Pennsylvania as well as of the Western States.
[Previously described as LZ. lividus Degeer, belongs to Monocre-
pidius.—LKxo. |
17. E. nrericoiiis.—Black ; elytra whitish.
E. nigricollis Melsh. Catal.
Inhabits the United States.
Head and thorax black, punctured, somewhat hairy ; posterior
angles carinate above: scutel black: elytra whitish or pale testa-
ceous, with punctured striz : feet rufous.
Length from two-fifths to nine-tenths of an inch.
Var. a. Suture and tip of the elytra black.
Specimens occurred on the Missouri.
[The variety is L. linteus Say.—Lxc.]
18. E. cyLInDRIFORMIS.—Obsoletely metallic; antennze com-
pressed; thorax with an impressed line.
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Inhabits the United States.
E. cylindriformis Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body subcylindric, slightly metallic, hairy, punctured: head
confluently punctured: a prominent edge above the antenne,
which disappears before; blackish-brasssy: antennz rufous,
compressed, longer than the thorax: thorax blackish, tinged
with brassy or violaceous; punctures profound, subequally dis-
tributed ; an indented longitudinal line obsolete on the anterior
margin ; posterior angles prominent, excurved, slightly carinated :
elytra with equally distributed hairs; dusky reddish-brown with
a slight brassy tinge, and with punctured striz ; interstitial lines
with minute punctures furnishing hairs : beneath black, polished :
feet and caudal margin rufous.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
This insect is not uncommon: it may be distinguished [177]
from L. metallicus of Melsheimer’s Catalogue by its much less
dilated form of body.
[Belongs to Limonius.—LEc. ]
19. EK. SANGUINIPENNIS.—Black; elytra sanguineous ; tarsi
piceous. ,
Inhabits the United States.
Elater sanguineus Melsh. Catal.
Body black, polished, punctured: antennze, second aud third
joints obscure rufous: elytra sanguineous, striate; interstitial
lines punctured : tarsi piceous.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
This species approaches ZH. sanguineus Lin. I found a speci-
men in the State of Illinois, and it occurs occasionally in Penn-
sylvania.
20. E. RUBRICOLLIS.—Black ; vertex and thorax rufous; ely-
tra striated.
Inhabits the United States.
Elater rubricollis Melsh. Catal.
Body black, punctured vertex obsoletely rufous: antenne,
second joint rufous: thorax rufous, edged with black: posterior
spines black ; a slightly impressed longitudinal dorsal line : elytra
striate ; interstitial lines convex, punctured: postpectus, disk
1823.]
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obsoletely rufous: venter, with an interrupted obsolete rufous
line on each side.
Length eleven-twentieths of an inch.
An inhabitant of Pennsylvania, which I also found in the
State of Illinois. [178]
LYCUS Fab.
1. L. rerMinatts.—[ Ante, 1, 45.]
2. L. SANGUINIPENNIS.—[ Ante, 1, 45.] [179]
LAMPYRIS Lin.
1. L. niaricans.—Brownish-black ; thorax with a rufous spot
each side within the margin.
Inhabits the United States.
Lampyris nigricans Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Mandibles piceous : antennze compressed, very slightly serrated :
thorax with a rufous oblong-oval spot each side, which does not
attain either the anterior or basal edges; margin uninterrupted ;
disk black, elytra minutely scabrous, with about two obsoletely
elevated lines: pectus with two rufous spots corresponding with
those of the thorax.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
Var. a. Larger and deeper black.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Differs from corrusca in being much more oblong, much
smaller, the thoracic spots never attaining the edge of the thorax
in any part. The variety is found on the Missouri.
[Belongs to Photinus as amended by Lacordaire, Gen. Coleop.
4, 321.—LEc. ]
CANTHARIS Lin. Fab.
1. C. MopEstus.—Black ; front, feet, and margin of the tho-
rax, yellowish ; elytral margin and suture pale; second joint of
the antennz as long as the third.
Inhabits Missouri. [ 180}
Body black ; face, first joint of the antennz, and base of the
palpi yellowish : clypeus at tip dusky: thorax quadrate ; anterior
angles rounded : posterior edge and dilated lateral margin yel-
lowish-rufous : elytra slightly and obtusely scabrous, somewhat
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polished; margin and suture whitish: wings black: feet and
pectus yellowish-rufous: venter, posterior edge of the segments
and lateral edge, yellowish: nails armed with a robust tooth be-
neath the tip.
Length three-eighths of an inch.
We have several species of this genus, which, in common with
the individual above described, have a very distinct and robust
tooth beneath the terminal nails of the tarsi. This character
will serve as the basis of a very convenient division of the
genus.
[A species of Podabrus—LxEc.]
2. C. ANGULATUS.—Black; thorax rufous on the lateral
margin.
Inhabits the United States.
Body black, not distinctly punctured: antennze, second joint
half as long as the third; thorax, anterior and posterior angles
equally rounded; lateral margin dull rufous: elytra obtusely
scabrous, or with dilated, confluent, slightly impressed punctures,
nails with a robust tooth, or angle beneath.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Var. a. Base of the antennz, mouth, and tibia, dirty rufous.
Differs from C. diadema Fab., which I suppose to be synony-
mous with C. angusticollis Hellw. in Melsh. Catal., in being
smaller in the proportions of the second and third joints of the
antenne, Xe.
[A true Telephorus.—Lxc. ] [181 ]
3. CO. BASILARIS.—Blackish ; thorax rufous, with a black spot;
elytra, margin, tip, and suture, yellowish.
Inhabits the United States.
Cantharis Pennsylvanica Knoch in Melsheimer’s Catalogue.
Head black, confluently punctured : before the antennz a pale
spot: antenne, joints pale at their bases: thorax short, trans-
verse, rufous; a large black spot on the middle, which often at-
tains the anterior and posterior edges ; anterior edge rectilinear,
not arquated : elytra minutely and confluently punctured ; a yel-
low exterior margin, suture, and tip: beneath brownish-black :
pectus and thighs pale: postpectus and venter generally with the
segments edged with pale.
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Length from two-fifths to more than half an inch.
One of our largest species. As it is very distinct from the
Pennsylvanicus of Degeer, I take the liberty of changing the
name given by Professor Knoch.
[Also a Podabrus.—LEc. ]
4. ©. FRAXINI.—Entirely brownish-black, immaculate.
Inhabits the United States.
Necydalis fraxini Melsh. Catal.
Body black: head, a spot before the eyes, and mandibles, yel-
lowish: palpi piceous: thorax with a minute angle at the basal
angles: elytra obtusely scabrous, or with dilated, confluent,
slightly impressed punctures, forming irregular transverse lines:
feet blackish-brown.
Length nearly one-fourth of an inch.
[A Telephorus, afterwards described by me as 1. nigrita.—
LEc.] [182]
5. C. RuFIpEs.—Black ; thorax margined with rufous ; elytra
with a pale margin and suture.
Inhabits the United States.
Cantharis rufipes Melsh. Catal.
Body black: head, spot before the eyes and mandibles yellow-
ish: palpi pale piceous-brown: thorax with a much dilated ru-
fous lateral margin: elytra with a pale yellowish exterior margin,
tip, and suture: feet pale yellowish: thighs in the middle black.
Length one-fourth of an inch nearly. |
Var. a. Exterior margin of the elytra only, yellowish.
[Also a Telephorus.—LxEc]
6. C. BILINEATUS.—Rufous; elytra black; thorax with two
black lines.
Inhabits the United States.
Cantharis marginalis Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body pale rufous: head a band between the eyes, antennz,
excepting the basal joint, and palpi, black: thorax with two
parallel abbreviated dilated black lines: elytra black ; exterior
basal margin pale: postpectus behind the intermediate feet
black: tibia and tarsi black.
Length seyen-twentieths of an inch.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 119
I change the name, as that of Knoch has been previously em-
ployed for a different species.
[Also a Telephorus.—LEc. ]
MALACHIUS Latr.
1. M. tRicoLtor-——[Ante, 1, 107.] [183]
2. M. niariceps.—[Ante, 1, 108.] [184]
3. M. nicRIpenNis.—[V. M. ofiosus, ante, 1, 109.]
4, M. virratrus.—[Ante, 1, 108.] [ 185}
5. M. crzrcumscriprus.—Black ; thorax rufous each side ;
elytra margined with yellow. ;
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black; region of the mouth and basal joints of the an-
tennz beneath pale; thorax rosaceous, with a dilated spot attain-
ing both extremities: elytra margined all around, excepting at
base, with yellow: thighs pale at base: venter, segments edged
with whitish.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
[Belongs to Anthocomus.—LEc. }
6. M. srpuncratus.—[Ante 1, 107.] [186]
PTILINUS Fabr. Latr.
1. P. ruFicorNts.—Black ; antenne, tibia, and tarsi, rufous ;
antenne with much elongated processes.
Inhabits Kentucky.
Body black, immaculate, rugose with minute, slightly elevated,
acute tubercles ; head with a very slightly elevated longitudinal
line on the vertex: eyes black-brown: antennz, the processes
very much elongated and the joints short ; rufous: tibia and tarsi
rufous: elytra with numerous impressed punctures, which are
irregular near the base, and hardly arranged into strize near the
tip : thorax convex, elevated.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
2. P. sERRICOLLIS.—Blackish ; elytra chestnut, sericeous ;
feet pale.
Inhabits Missouri.
Blackish-brown, sericeous, punctured: head with minute, tu-
bercles : eyes deep black : antenne pale rufous; seven secund an-
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120 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
terior processes, each one longer than its respective joint; palpi
whitish : thorax slightly convex, deflected at the anterior angles ;
basal edge sinuate, minutely dentate, and with three small salient
angles over the scutel; posterior lateral angles acute: scutel dis-
tinctly cordate: elytra rather pale chestnut-brown, with slightly
impressed punctured striz : beneath rufous: pectus each side black.
Length one-fourth of an inch. [187]
ANOBIUM Fab.
A. CARINATUM.—Brown; thorax carinate behind; elytra
punctate striate.
Inhabits Mississippi.
A. pertinax Melsheimer’s Catalogue.
Body brown: eyes black: antennz and palpi rufous: clypeus,
labrum, and base of the mandibles, piceous; the latter tipped
with black: thorax declivous towards each margin; carinate be-
hind, with an impressed line terminating at the carina; carina
dilated and bifid near the middle of the back; an oblique obso-
lete abbreviated line near the posterior angles; lateral edge
about half as long as the central diameter: scutel rounded at
tip: elytra profoundly striate ; striz obtuse, punctured : punctures
transverse, dense: beneath blackish-brown.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
Found on the Missisippi above the mouth of the Ohio. This
species approaches A. pertinax Fab., but (as Mr. J. F. Melshei-
mer, in a letter to me, remarks) it is longer, the thorax differently
formed, and always destitute of the fulvous spots sometimes so re-
markable in the European specimens.
ENOPLIUM Latr.
1. E. MARGINATUM. [Ante 1, 89.] [ 188}
2. E. rHoracicum. [Ante 1, 90.]
3. E. 4-puncratum. [Ante 1, 90.] [189]
TRICHODES Fab.
Cervus Latr. Leach.
1. T. onNATUS.—Brassy-blackish ; elytra with a humeral spot
and two bands pale yellow.
Inhabits Arkansa.
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Body dark brassy, slightly varied with a tinge of violaceous
and bluish ; hairy: antenne and palpi rufous: elytra somewhat
rugous, impunctured ; a large, somewhat irregular spot exterior
to the middle of the base, and including a humeral black oval spot ;
a small longitudinal oval spot before the middle; an oblique
band on the middle hardly attaining the suture, and another
oblique band before the tip also hardly attaining the suture, pale
yellow: tarsi dark rufous.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
_ Found near the Rocky Mountains. | [190]
CLERUS Fabr.
1. OC. RosmARUs.—Rufous; elytra with black and yellowish
bands; rufous at base; feet and abdomen black; head immacu-
culate.
Inhabits the United States.
Clerus rosmarum Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body rufous, punctured, hairy: head immaculate: eyes deep
black : antennz duskyat tip: elytra rufous at base; a black band,
before the middle, sometimes wanting or obsolete ; a yellowish-
white band on the middle, covered with whitish hair, and point-
ing backwards at the suture; a dilated black band behind the
middle; and a pale rufous tip, covered with pale rufous hair :
tibia and venter deep black.
‘Length one-fourth, of an inch nearly.
Observed in the State of Ohio. It also occurs in the Atlantic
States. The tip of the elytra, as well as the band of the middle
is of the same color with the hair which covers it.
2. C. NIGRIFRONS.—Rufous, elytra with black and cinereous
bands, and rufous base: postpectus, venter and frontal spot, black.
Inhabits the United States.
Body rufous, hairy; punctures indistinct: head with a black
spot between the eyes; eyes black: antennz and palpi blackish-
piceous: elytra with a rufous base, occupying more than one-
third of the length ; a very narrow black band before the mid-
dle; [191] a narrow whitish band on the middle covered with
cinereous hair, and curving backward at the suture; a dilated
black band behind the middle; tip black, covered with cinereous
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122 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
hair which conceals a whitish spot, sometimes wanting: feet, post-
pectus, and venter, deep black. .
Length about one-fourth of an inch.
It inhabits the Atlantic States, and I have also observed it on
the Ohio.
3. CO. niaRrpEs.—Rufous; head immaculate; feet black ; ely-
tra rufous at base, and with black and cinereous bands.
Inhabits the United States.
Body pale rufous : head immaculate; eyes, antenne, palpi, and
tips of the mandibles, black : elytra with a rufous base occupying
more than one-third of the length ; a very narrow black band be-
fore the middle, a narrow whitish band on the middle, covered
with cinereous hair, and curving backward at the suture; a di-
lated black band behind the middle; tip black, covered with
cinereous hair, which conceals a whitish spot which is sometimes
wanting: feet black.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
This species is very similar to the preceding, and differs in
having a rufous postpectus and venter, and immaculate front.
It also resembles Clerus dubius Fab., but differs from it, if I am
not mistaken in that species, by being much smaller; and besides
other differences, by the central band of the elytra curving back-
ward, and not towards the head, as in dubcus. [192]
4, C. HUMERALIs.—Black ; humerus with a large rufous spot.
Inhabits the United States.
Body black, hairy; head srrodiseh skate ; antennez pale, the
three terminal joints forming an oval mass: palpi pale: thorax
greenish-black, dilated each side before the middle into a very
obtuse tubercle: elytra violaceous black, with dilated confluent
punctures ; a large humeral rufous spot: anterior tibia either en-
tirely or only on the inner edge rufous.
Length from more than three-twentieths to one fifth of an inch.
From Missouri ; and is also an inhabitant of the Atlantic States.
[Belongs to Hydnocera.—LEc. ]
SILPHA Fab. Latr.
1. 8. cAupATA.—Black; with short cinereous hair; elytra
sinuate at tip, three elevated lines and intermediate series of tu-
bercles.
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Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, above opaque and covered with dense very short
prostrate cinereous hair: thorax with a few blackish dots which
are not elevated: scutel with two large obsolete dark spots,
lateral edge piceous: elytra with sparse shorter hairs than the
thorax ; three longitudinal elevated acute lines, on each of which
the exterior one is shortest, and the interior one is Sinuated at
tip; interstitial lines with a series of elevated tubercles; tip
sinuate.
Length more than half an inch. [193 |
Found by Mr. Thomas Nuttall on the Upper Missouri, and by
myself near the Rocky Mountains. It is closely allied to Sidpha
sinuata, but the thorax is destitute of elevations.
[Identical with the European S. lapponica.—LEc. ]
2. S. RAMOoSA.—Black ; elytra with three elevated branched
lines.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, confluently punctured, immaculate, dilated : thorax
destitute of elevations: elytra, with three longitudinal elevated
lines ; with numerous small lateral branches, which pass over the
interstitial spaces; interstitial spaces minutely scabrous, with
elevated points.
Length more than three-fifths of an inch.
Next in magnitude to americana Fabr., but more closely re-
lated to inequalis, from which it is at once distinguishable by the
branched lines of the elytra. Found by Mr. Thomas Nuttall on
the Upper Missouri.
3. 8S. rRuNCATA. Elytra smooth; truncate at tip.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body oblong, blackish-brown ; numerous minute punctures,
furnishing short black hairs: thorax plane ; an oblique impressed
line each side; basal edge profoundly sinuated: elytra dark
reddish-brown ; shorter than the abdomen ; transversely truncate
at tip ; the exterior angles rounded; surface entirely destitute of
elevated lines; a transverse slight elevation on the submargin
behind the middle.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
I found but a single specimen of this insect near [194] the
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124 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Rocky Mountains. Its elytra are truncated like those of the
Necrophagi [ Necrophori]. It belongs to Wilkins’ genus Necrodes.
CATOPS Payk.
©. BASILARIS.— Black, covered with very short, yellowish
hair; elytra, brown, paler at base.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, covered with numerous short yellowish hairs : eyes
fuscous: antenne blackish; two basal joints yellowish-white ;
eighth joint very small, transverse, shortest ; preceding and three
terminal joints largest, the latter somewhat piceous: thorax
transverse-quadrate, convex, rather narrower before ; lateral edge
regularly arquated; basal and anterior edge subrectilinear ;
angles rounded : scutel triangular: elytra brownish, paler at base ;
a distinct subsutural impressed line: labrum and palpi pale
piceous: beneath blackish piceous; feet dark piceous.
Length fourteen-hundredths of an inch.
Found under wood at Engineer Cantonment on the Missouri.
CERCUS Latr.
1. C. PALLIPENNIS.—Black ; elytra pale, testaceous.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body deep black, punctured ; numerous short yellowish hairs:
antenne, pale, rufous: elytra, pale, testaceous, immaculate, trans-
versely truncated at tip: [195] tergum,.two terminal joints
equal in length: feet and venter pale rufous.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch. Taken near the
Rocky Mountains.
[A species of Carpophilus, afterwards described as C. floralis
Kr. The size given is erroneous, it should be three-twentieths.
—Lec.]
2. C. NiaeR.—Black, punctured, hirsute ; mouth, antenna and
feet, yellowish red.
Inhabits the United States.
Titidula nigra Melsh. Catal.
Body short, oval, brownish-black, hirsute, punctured ; hairs
very short, yellowish; punctures dilated, dense: head con-
fluently punctured, punctures small: labrum piceous : antenne
piceous, third joint but little longer than the second; clava
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dusky with pale hair: thorax much wider at base; anterior
angles rounded, posterior ones acutely and prominently angu-
lated, with an indented oblique line above; punctures dilated:
scutel rounded at tip, base punctured, tip impunctured: elytra
covering half of the abdomen, truncate or yery obtusely rounded
at tip; punctures dilated, distinct, forming regular, approximate
series: feet yellowish-red, ciliate.
Length about three-twentieths of an inch.
Inhabits Missouri and Pennsylvania.
[Also a Carpophilus—L«xc. ]
ENGIS Fabr.
1. E. CONFLUENTA [CONFLUENS].—Black; elytra testaceous,
apex and about three spots on each black; margin black.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head, thorax and scutel black, punctured ; elytra yellowish or
testaceous ; apex black; exterior edge undulated with black; a
common line at base about [196] one half the length of the
suture, with a small lateral spot ; humerus, and larger spot on the
middle of each elytron communicating with the margin, black.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
This species was found by Mr. Thomas Nuttall.
[A species of Jps, afterwards described as J. Dejeanii Kirby,
and I. sepulchralis Randall.—Lxc. ]
2. EK. HeERos.—Black ; elytra bifasciate with rufous, the ante-
rior band with an angular black spot.
Length three-fourths of an inch.
Body black ; thorax slightly punctured at the anterior angles,
and with dilated confluent punctures in the indented basal lines:
elytra impunctured with two broad rufous undulated bands, in-
terrupted at the suture; basal band broadest, with an angular
black spot near the humerus, and a common transversely oblong-
quadrate black spot behind the scutel.
It occurs on the Missouri, and is a fine insect, probably one
of the largest of the genus. In the colors and form of body it
most strikingly resembles H. fasciata Fabr., but it is much larger,
and there is not the slightest oppearance of punctures on the
elytra ;. the humeral black spot is angular, and its anterior angle
is extended towards the humeral angle ; the basal portion of the
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126 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
basal band is extended very near to the scutel, so as the more
completely to inclose the transverse black spot. In the /asciatu
the elytra are distinctly punctured in striz, the humeral spot is
orbicular, and the basal portion of the basal band does not extend
towards the scutel further than the middle of the base. In the
Philadelphia Museum is a fine specimen of this insect, which was
probably caught in Pennsylvania.
[Belongs to Dacne.—Lxc. ] [197]
BYTURUS Latr.
B. untcoLtor.—Reddish-yellow, hairy ; thorax each side de-
pressed ; tergum dusky.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Eyes black; thorax, posterior angles broadly depressed and
slightly reflected, the depression continued on the side, but nar-
rowed towards the anterior angles; wings dusky.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
This species is most closely allied to B. tomentosus of authors
A single specimen was brought from the Arkansa by Mr. Nuttall.
DERMESTES Linn. Latr.
D. MARMORATUS.—Marbled with blackish-brown, and cine-
reous or ferruginous hair, with a large cinereous humeral spot.
Inhabits the United States.
Antennz reddish-brown: thorax indented before the scutel :
pectus blackish: postpectus and coxe with dense white hair:
feet blackish; intermediate and posterior thighs with a white
band before ; spot on the lateral basal margin of the elytra, large,
angular : venter with dense white hair; anal segment and lateral
spots black-brown.
Length from three-tenths to nine-twentieths of an inch.
This insect is of frequent occurrence in Missouri and Arkansa,
and is a large species. [198]
SCAPHIDIUM Fabr.
1. 8. 4-eurraruM.—Black ; thorax with an undulated series
of large punctures; elytra with four rufous spots, anterior one
panduriform.
Inhabits the United States.
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Scaphidium 4-guttatum Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body black: head with minute obsolete punctures ; mouth and
base of the antennze piceous: thorax cbsoletely punctured : an
indented undulated transverse line of large profound puncturesat
base ; elytra with a series of dilated profound punctures at base,
abbreviated at the humerus; an impressed subsutural slightly
crenated stria; two or three obsolete much abbreviated series of
punctures near the middle, and two rufous spots, of which one is
subbasal, transverse, panduriform, originating at the exterior
edge and extending more than half across the elytron ; the other
spot subterminal, obtusely lunate.
Length one-fifth of an inch nearly.
Var. a. Elytra spots obsolete.
2. S. 4-pustuLatuM.—Black; thorax with an undulated
series of large punctures; elytra with four rufous obtusely lunate
spots.
Inhabits the United States.
Scaphidium 4-pustulatum ? Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
This species is similar to the preceding, excepting that the an-
terior elytral spot is very obtusely lunate, being emarginate only
on the anterior side, a character [199] which, as far as my ob-
servation has extended, is invariable.
HETEROCERUS Bose. Fabr.
1. H. pAtiipus.—Thorax livid-brown, margin whitish ; elytra
whitish, lineate, and spotted with dusky.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head dark livid: clypeus paler, transverse-quadrate, truncate
before: labrum prominent: eyes black: antenne whitish : man-
dibles elongated, slightly arquated ; exterior base deeply ciliated ;
a slight tooth and emargination before the middle; inner edge
bidentate near the tip; posterior tooth small: scutel long, tri-
angular, minute : elytra whitish, slightly striated ; striae near the
suture obsoletely dusky ; three undulated, dilated, obsolete, dusky
bands: feet white; anterior pair dilated, compressed, and fur-
nished on the exterior and rounded tip with about thirteen pro-
minent spines; spines of the posterior pairs of feet less robust:
pectus and venter pale yellowish or whitish.
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128 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Var. a. Dusky; the bands occupy nearly the whole surface of
the elytra, leaving only a few obsolete whitish spots.
Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch.
Very common on the Missouri. Near Engineer Cantonment I
observed a great number of this species in October, flying in the
evening, near a sand bar. I obtained a different species, a few
years since, on Senipuxten, eastern shore of Maryland. [200]
2. H. pusrntus.—Dark reddish-brown impunctured, hairy,
hairs short, rather rigid, reflected, whitish: eyes pale reddish-
brown: beneath blackish; carina of the pectus piceous: thighs
reddish-brown.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
This species was obtained on the shores of the Missouri river
below the entrance of the Platte.
[HJELOPHORUS.
K. LINEATUS.—Greenish ; thorax with five longitudinal im-
pressed lines; elytra grayish.
Elophorus griseus 2? Herbst in Melsh. Catal.
Head rugose with approximate clevated punctures, and tinged
with bright green: eyes black: antenne pale testaceous; clava
dusky pubescent: palpi pale testaceous, dusky at tip: mandibles
varied with purple and green above: thorax greenish, sometimes
varied with cupreous ; rugose, with approximate elevated punc-
tures; transverse-quadrate ; anterior angles advanced, posterior
ones acute ; lateral edge excurved near the base; disk with five,
equidistant, longitudinal, strongly impressed lines; scutel minute
suborbicular, cupreous: elytra yellowish-gray or whitish-testa-
ceous ; striate, striz with dilated, transverse punctures; pectus
reddish yellow: postpectus and venter dusky: feet pale testa-
ceous.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
Found in the river near Engineer Cantonment.
The name of griseus has been applied to another species. It
is a native also of the Atlantic States. [201]
HYDROPHILUS Fab.
1. H. TRIANGULARIS.—Olivaceous-black ; postpectus and sides
of the venter with dull yellowish hair.
Inhabits the United States.
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Hydrophilus ater 2 Melsh. Catal.
Body elongate-oval, black, tinged with olivaceous: head with
two diverging frontal series of impressed punctures; punctures
before the eyes and on the orbits: antenne, palpi and suture of
the clypeus yellowish: thorax with a few punctures each side,
and an abbreviated oblique series of punctures each side before
the middle: elytra, each with four series of punctures, the ex-
terior one double: beneath black: pectus with very short dense
yellowish hair before ; a bifid prominence for the reception of the
anterior tip of the sternum: postpectus covered by short dense
yellowish hair: sternum grooved before, rounded at the anterior
tip, and elongated, subulate, perfectly rectilinear behind : abdo-
men glabrous, with a triangular marginal spot of short yellowish
hair on each segment.
Length from one and one-fifth to one and two-fifths of an inch.
I think this a different species from the H. ater of Oliv., inas-
much as no notice is taken, in the description of that insect, of
lateral ventral triangles which are so conspicuous in our speci-
mens. It is also a more elongated insect than Olivier’s figure
represents the ater to be; in this respect approaching [201] much
nearer to his figure of ob/ongus, which, however, is said to have
ferruginous thighs, and a but slightly canaliculated sternum.
In a certain light, the elytra appear, under a lens, to be marked
by seven or eight capillary reddish lines. It is rather rare in
Pennsylvania, but I obtained several specimens near the Rocky
Mountains.
2. H. oprusatus.—Black, convex, rounded behind ; sternum
with a slight prominence at the anterior tip.
Inhabits the United States.
Hydrophilus carabxoides Melsh. Catal.
Body oblong-oval, convex, black: head, a lunate indented line of
confluent punctures before the eyes on each side; orbits punctured :
palpi and base of the antennz, dark rufous: thorax with a very
much abbreviated line of impressed punctures each side before the
middle, and a few lateral punctures: elytra very obtusely rounded
behind ; four series of punctures furnishing minute hairs, the outer
one double: beneath sericeous, with minute yellowish hairs: pectus,
prominence not bifid ; sternum narrow and not canaliculate before,
1823.] 9
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130 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
slightly emarginate near the anterior tip; posterior moiety a little
flattened, with an impressed line; posterior tip rounded and hard-
ly extending beyond the base of the postpectus : feet dark piceous.
Length from three-fifths to thirteen-twentieths of an inch.
This species, which is found equally in Pennsylvania and on
the Missouri, is certainly very closely allied to the H. caraboides
of Fabr. The venter as [2062] well as the postpectus of this
species has a silky appearance in a certain light, occasioned by its
minute dense hairs. The posterior termination of the body is
more obtusely rounded than the head.
[Belongs to Hydrochares.—LeEc.] [203]
3. H. nrimpatus.—Black ; head, thorax and elytra margined
with yellowish.
Inhabits the United States.
Hydroph. nimbatus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Head, two diverging punctured lines; margin yellowish; la-
brum, margin yellowish : palpi and base of the antenne yellow-
ish: thorax, a much abbreviated impressed oblique line each
side before the middle, and another rather longer one on the mid-
dle of the lateral submargin ; lateral margin and anterior edge
yellowish-white : elytra minutely punctured ; lateral margin yel-
lowish-white ; beneath black, sericeous with dull yellowish hairs ;
feet pale: thighs black at base: tarsi dusky : pectus with a bifid
prominence : sternum pale, a little dilated before the intermediate
feet ; punctured ; somewhat scabrous near the anterior tip; be-
hind the intermediate feet attenuated, with a slightly impressed
line; posterior tip elongated, acute: venter, terminal segments
with a rufous spot each side.
Length about two-fifths of an inch.
A very pretty species and not uncommon.
[ Hydrophilus lateralis Fab., is an older name of this species.
—Lxe.]
SPARIDIUM Fab.
S. APICIALIS [APICALE].—Obscure, piceous; head black ;
elytra pale at tip. [204 |
Body blackish-piceous, punctured, glabrous, oval: head equal,
deep black ; punctures minute, distinct, dense : antenne piceous ;
claya obconical, black; maxillary palpi pale piceous, blackish at
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OF PHILADELPHIA. Tor
tip; thorax angles acute ; punctures minute, subequidistant: scu-
tel oblong-triangular, acute: elytra with nine punctured stria ;
exterior stria abbreviated at the middle; punctures equal, equi-
distant ; tip and posterior outer margin pale reddish-yellow: feet
piceous, blackish at base ; anterior tibia with two robust spines
at tip, and spinose cilz on the exterior edge.
Length three-fortieths of an inch.
Found at Engineer Cantonment.
[Belongs to Cercyon.—LEc. |
COPRIS Geoff. Latr.
1. C. ANAGLYPTIcUS.—Thorax trituberculate; head horned.
Inhabits the United States.
Scarab. anaglypticus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body black, punctured: clypeus emarginate at tip; horn as
long as the clypeus, slightly recurved, simple; punctures con-
fluent: thorax three tuberculate, densely punctured on every
part; tubercles placed in a transverse series, the intermediate
one transyerse and profoundly emarginate ; a longitudinal obso-
lete impressed line above; a transverse indented cavity or punc-
ture each side, beneath which is an oblique elevated line con-
fluent anteriorly with the edge of the thorax; anterior angles
emarginate: elytra with profound, [205] indented, crenate, di-
lated strie ; interstitial spaces, punctured.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
This insect appears to be a general inhabitant of the United
States; itis not unfrequent on the Upper Missouri and on the
Arkansa.
It is closely allied to Copris lunaris and emarginatus, but may
be distinguished from either by the punctured interstitial spaces
ef the elytra. It seems also related to C. Ammon, but Olivier
attributes to that insect the size only of Sinodendron cylindricum
which is certainly less than half the magnitude of our insect. It
also resembles the Janus of Panzer, but is much larger.
The thoracic tubercles of the female are almost obsolete, and
the horn of the head is transverse and much shorter than the
head, but the other external characters are the same as those of
the male.
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132 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
2. C. HISTEROIDES.—Dark cupreous ; clypeus emarginate; an-
tennz yellowish.
Inhabits the United States.
Scarbeeus histeroides Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body punctured; above dark cupreous; beneath blackish-cu-
preous: clypeus with the punctures obsolete behind, and more
distinct before; an impressed line from the anterior canthus of
the eye to the lateral edge; anterior edge bidentate, teeth
slightly elevated and separated by an emargination: antenne
yellow: thorax with an abbreviated impressed line from the
middle nearly to the base, nearly obsolete on the disk and [206]
anteriorly ; lateral submargin with an impressed dot; lateral
edge not angulated; elytra striate; strie profound, slightly pune-
tured ; interstitial lines flat and impunctured; anterior tibia
with series of yellowish cil; exterior edge four-toothed, the
posterior tooth minute or obsolete ; terminal spine acute.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
This insect, which occurs in Pennsylvania, [ also obtained on
the Mississippi near Cape Gerardeau.
[Belongs to Cheridium and is the same as Ateuchus capistra-
tus Fab.—LEc. ]
3. C. TRIANGULARIS.—Cupreous ; head horned; thorax angu-
lated; elytra striated and punctured.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body dark reddish-cupreous: clypeus reticulate, margined with
black; horn as long as the thorax, recurved, black: thorax
minutely scabrous, with a depressed triangular plane upon the
surface ; the lateral angles very prominent; a large submarginal
lateral puncture : elytra regularly striate, with impressed slightly
punctured lines; interstitial spaces punctured.
Length less than four-fifths of an inch.
This species is somewhat larger than C. carnifex, to which it
is closely allied, but differs in color, in haying an impressed strie
upon the elytra, and punctured interstitial spaces; whereas in car-
nifex the sides of thorax and the elytra are green, and the latter
have elevated striz, and irregular elevated abbreviated lines on
the interstitial spaces.
[A species of Phanaeus ; a variety of it was afterwards de-
scribed by me as P. torrens.—LEc. } [207]
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ATEUCHUS Fabr.
1. A. nIGRIcoRNIS.—Black, minutely scabrous; clypeus six-
toothed, incisure of the posterior tooth much less profound than
that of the preceding one; anterior tibia three-toothed.
Inhabits the United States.
Body deep black, immaculate, slightly scabrous with elevated
points or minute lines; head with cupreous reflexions: clypeus
six-toothed ; the two anterior teeth more prominent, flattened,
conic, slightly recurved; lateral ones smaller, more like serratures ;
the exterior one much the smallest, and separated from the pre-
ceding tooth by a slight incisure : antennz black; thorax con-
vex, with cupreous reflexions ; an obsolete, indented, longitudinal,
obtuse line, near the base; posterior edge regularly arquated ;
lateral edge angulated in the middle ; anterior margin profoundly
emarginate for the reception of the head; elytra with numerous
elevated points, and with obsolete impunctured striz: anterior
tibia dentate upon the exterior edge, the three terminal teeth
large.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
I observed this species near Cape Gerardeau, and in the inter-
mediate country between that town and the Rocky Mountains ;
and as I formerly obtained two specimens in New Jersey, I think
it probable that it inhabits a principal portion of our country ;
but it does not seem to be common anywhere. Those I ob-
served in New Jersey were busily engaged in [208] rolling a
small pellet of hog dung, which, however, was not shaped in the
spherical form.
[This and the two following belong to Canthon Ill. ( Coprobius
Latr.)—LEc. ]
2. A. opsoLETUS.—Cupreous polished; clypeus bidentate
before ; elytra obsoletely striated.
Inhabits near the Rocky Mountains.
Body entirely cupreous, polished, immaculate, with very
minute punctures: clypeus slightly margined anteriorly with
dull green ; an oblique, slightly impressed, glabrous line before
the eye; edge bidentate before, and with an obsolete remote
tooth each side before the eyes: antennz blackish: thorax a
little angulated each side on the edge: elytra obsoletely striated.
1823.]
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Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
This species was obtained on the river Platte near the Moun-
tains. The punctures are so minute as not to be visible, but
with the aid of a strong magnifier. ;
3. A. EBENEUS [EBENUS].—Black ; clypeus six-toothed ; inci-
sure of the posterior tooth as profound as that of the preceding one.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body deep black, immaculate, scabrous, with slightly elevated,
very numerous points: clypeus six-toothed; the two anterior
teeth hardly more prominent; the fissure separating the poste-
rior tooth more acute, and as profound as that of the preceding
tooth: thorax convex; an obsolete, indented, longitudinal, ob-
tuse line towards the base ; posterior edge perceptibly projecting
into a slight angle in the middle, lateral edge angulated in the
middle, and with irregular denticles behind the middle: elytra
with [209] obsolete impunctured strive: anterior tibia with three
large teeth.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
This species very much resembles the preceding, from which
it is, however, distinguishable by its superior magnitude, by the
much more numerous small tubercles with which its surface is
overspread, and by the much more profound fissure which sepa-
rates the two posterior teeth of the clypeus from each other;
from this fissure a distinct line passes upwards and intersects a
similar transverse line drawn from the inner canthus of the eye,
as in many species of this genus.
SCARABASUS Latr.
S. TRIDENTATUS.—Clypeus with an elevated tridentate line
on the anterior submargin.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body black, punctured: clypeus scabrous; an obsolete elevated
abbreviated line in the middle; an elevated transverse tridentate
line on the anterior submargin, confluent each side with the
lateral reflected edge ; tip much narrowed, emarginate, reflected :
thorax, punctures generally diffused: scutel impunctured : elytra
with punctured striz: beneath reddish-brown.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
The maxillz of this insect are horny, and dentated at tip, but
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the mandibles are short, unarmed, ciliated on the interior and
exterior sides, and not [210] prominent; the labrum also is con-
cealed; the labium is conical and prominent, and the tongue is
concealed. The extremity of the clypeus has very much the ap-
pearance of the labrum, as the elevated and dentated line resem-
bles a reflected termination of the head.
A single specimen was brought from the Arkansa by Mr.
Thomas Nuttall.
[Belongs to Aphonus Lec. Proc. Acad. Nat. Se., 8, 21—Lec.]
GEOTRUPES Latr.
1. G. EXCREMENTI.—Black-bronzed, mutic; an impressed rec-
tangular line on the clypeus.
Inhabits the United States.
Scarabzus excrementi Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body above black bronzed, punctured; beneath dark violace-
ous: clypeus confluently punctured; summit destitute of punc-
tures ; three very obtuse slightly elevated tubercles, of which one
is above each eye, and consists of a more elevated portion of a
raised line, which passes from above the eye to the edge of the
elypeus, another tubercle is situated upon the middle; a pro-
foundly impressed, abbreviated, longitudinal line between the
eyes, which divaricates anteriorly into two lines that terminate at
the tip of the elevated lateral line: thorax densely punctured
each side, punctures rare on the dish; an impressed longitudinal
obsolete line, from the base to the middle; an indented, obsolete
spot on the lateral submargin, distinguished by more dense punc-
tures; elytra profoundly striate, striz slightly crenate on the
inner sides. [211]
Length about eleven-twentieths of an inch.
This species is common in various parts of the United States.
It is found in Pennsylvania, and I obtained specimens at Engineer
Cantonment, and at Cape Gerardeau.
The tubercles of the head are not more distinct than those of
S. stercorarius.
It strongly resembles S. splendidus of Fabr., miarophagus of
Knoch, but differs from both in color, and from the latter, which
it more closely resembles, by having the thoracic punctures less
numerous, not so much dilated or so profoundly impressed; the
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136 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
color of the miarophagus is dark piceous above and beneath, the
legs are slightly violaceous.
It is very probable that the excrementi is allied to the Black-
burntii of Fab., if not the same.
2. G. FILICORNIS.—Rufous; thorax tridentate; clypeus with
an elongated horn.
Inhabits Upper Missouri.
Body pale brownish-rufous: clypeus, anterior and lateral mar-
gins punctured, entire; horn elongated, linear, slightly recurved
and compressed, longer than the greatest breadth of the head:
thorax unequal ; three tubercles, placed in a transverse series, the
exterior ones compressed and longitudinal ; intermediate tubercle
transverse subemarginate; an indented line behind the middle
tubercle, and a concavity each side: scutel triangular: elytra
with punctured strize.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
I obtained it near the Council Bluff on the Missouri. Mr. T.
Nuttall obtained specimens on the Arkansa. Belongs to the
genus Odonteus Megerle. [212]
APHODIUS Illig.
1. A. BicoLor.—Above black; beneath rufous; clypeus widely
emarginate.
Inhabits the United’ States.
Scarabzus bicolor. Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body above deep black immaculate, punctured: clypeus densely
punctured, with a very slightly elevated, obtuse, obsolete, central
tubercle; anterior edge very obtusely and widely emarginated :
thorax densely punctured in every part, excepting upon the ante-
rior edge which is of a pale color: elytra profoundly striated,
striz crenated; interstitial lines minutely punctured: beneath
pale reddish-brown : pectus and antenne blackish: postpectus and
venter punctured.
Var.a. Elytra with a few obsolete hardly perceptible rufous
spots.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
This insect is not uncommon in various parts of the United
States. I have found it in Pennsylvania and near Cape Gerardeau
on the Mississippi.
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2. A. sTRIGATUS.—Black, clypeus convex on the disk; feet
dark piceous.
Inhabits the United States.
Scarab. strigatus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body deep black, immaculate: clypeus with very minute punc-
tures and larger ones at the base; anteriorly emarginate ; middle
of the disk convex: thorax with rather large punctures, which
are remote on the disk and more numerous each side ;. posterior
angles very obtusely rounded: elytra profoundly [213] striated,
striz punctured ; interstitial spaces convex: beneath black: feet
piceous towards their extremities.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
Rather a common species; it is found in Pennsylvania and as
far west as the Rocky Mountains. It is longer in proportion to
its width than A. terminalis.
[A species of Huparia.—Lrc. ]
3. A. TERMINALIS.—Black, tip of the elytra and feet rufous ;
celypeus trituberculate.
Inhabits the United States.
Scarabzus stercoreus Melsh. Catal.
Body black: clypeus with numerous distinct approximate
punctures ; three small tuberculi, placed in a transverse line, the
intermediate one rather largest ; anteriorly emarginate : thorax
punctured, punctures subequal and equally distributed ; posterior
angles subangulated, not obtusely rounded: scutel slightly ele-
vated into a longitudinal line on the posterior disk: elytra with
punctured striz; interstitial spaces perfectly flat; tip with a
large, common, obscure, rufous spot, sometimes obsolete, or di-
vided into two distant ones : beneath blackish : feet rufous black-
ish at base.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
The term ‘stercoreus of Melsh. being preoccupied, I have ap-
plied to this species that of terminalis. It is readily distinguish-
able from our other species by the trituberculate clypeus, and the
uniformly distributed punctures of the thorax.
4. A. TENELLA.—Black ; elytra and feet rufous.
Inhabits the United States. «
Scarabeeus fimetarius Melsh. Catal. [ 214 ]
1823.]
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Body black: clypeus truncate or slightly emarginate at tip:
thorax punctured, lateral margins rufous, posterior angles obtusely
rounded : scutel blackish : elytra rufous, immaculate, striate, the
strie punctured : interstitial spaces very minutely punctured and
but slightly convex: beneath blackish-piceous : feet rufous.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Anterior and lateral margins of the clypeus rufous.
This species is an inhabitant of Pennsylvania, I also obtained
specimens of it in the vicinity of Engineer Cantonment on the
Missouri. It is certainly not the same with the insect which
Fabricius described under the name of fimetarius, as it is much
smaller and the clypeus is not tuberculated. I have therefore
adopted a new name for this species
5. A. concAvUS.—Thorax impunctured on the disk.
Inhabits near the Rocky Mountains.
Body black or rufous ; beneath piceous : clypeus very obtusely
emarginate before: thorax with rather large distant punctures
each side; disk, impunctured; posterior angles very obtusely
rounded : elytra, strie punctured ; interstitial spaces impunctured,
flat: anterior tibia strongly tridentate.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
This species occurred on the Arkansa river near the moun-
tains. It is about equal in size to “A. oblongus, but will not be
readily confounded with that insect, as the disk of the thorax
is impunctured, and the edge of the clypeus is unarmed. The
lateral thoracic punctures in one specimen are obsolete. [215]
6. A. oBLonauS.—Black punctured ; clypeus with two tuber-
cles in the anterior emargination.
Inhabits the United States.
Scarabzus oblongus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body black; beneath blackish-piceous: clypeus punctured,
punctures confluent before; anterior edge emarginate and with a
prominent acute tooth each side of the emargination; a trans-
verse impressed line between the eyes, which is angulated in the
middle: thorax punctured: elytra with punctured striz, and
very minute punctures in the interstitial spaces.
Length three-tenths of an ich.
This species appears to be common to most parts of the United
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States. I have found it in Pennsylvania and near the Rocky
Mountains. It is readily distinguished from our other species of
the genus by the bidentate anterior edge of the clypeus and
striate elytra.
7. A. FEMORALIS.—Blackish ; margins of the elytra and of
the thorax pale.
Inhabits Missouri.
Clypeus blackish-brown, minutely punctured, anteriorly emar-
ginate: thorax with small punctures, which are rather more nu-
merous each side; lateral margins dull yellowish-white, with a
dusky dot: scutel black : elytra profoundly striated ; strize dilated
and transversely punctured ; interstitial spaces convex, narrow ;
color dirty yellowish-white, with a dusky, common disk : beneath
dark piceous: thighs pale, yellowish-white.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch. [216]
Var. a. Pale margin of the thorax narrow and destitute of the
dusky spot.
Found in considerable numbers on human excrement, at the
Pawnee villages.
s
[Continuation, pp. 238—282. ]
TROX Fab.
1. T. caprnnaRis.—Clypeus rounded at tip, not reflected, ely-
tra tuberculated.
Inhabits Upper Missouri.
Body cinereous-fuscous: clypeus with two elevated, obtuse
tubercles; tip rounded; edge not reflected: thorax inequal,
canaliculate, minutely hispid ; posterior angles acute: scutel not
contracted at base or middle: elytra with elevated, subacute, re-
flected tubercles placed in regular series, which are alternately
smaller and separated by elevated capillary lines: punctures ob-
solete: beneath black: anterior tibia two-toothed, the terminal
one emarginated.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
The clypeus of this insect is not angulated, nor reflected be-
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140 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
fore ; and the slightly elevated, acute or capillary, longitudinal,
interstitial lines distinguish it from other species.
2. T. scUTELLARIS.—Thorax inequal, posterior [239] angles
rounded; elytra with elevated polished and impressed lines.
Inhabits Upper Platte.
Body black, the depressions dusky cinereous: clypeus pune-
tured, and with two distinct rounded tubercles ; anterior tip an-
culated ; edge reflected; thorax very unequal, punctured ; lateral
edge entire; posterior angles very obtusely rounded: scutel an-
gularly contracted in the middle, acute at tip: elytra with some-
what capillary impressed striz, and transverse irregular im-
pressed lines, dividing the surface into irregular longitudinally-
quadrate, equally elevated, polished spaces ; a few remote punc-
tures : feet profoundly punctured; anterior tibia with a very ob-
tuse crenation on the exterior edge.
Length thirteen-twentieths of an inch.
This I believe to be our largest species; like its kindred, it
feeds upon decomposing animal bodies, and is an inhabitant of
the superior portion of the extensive region through which the
rivers Platte and Arkansa flow. It may be distinguished from
its neighboring large species, by the entire lateral thoracic edge,
and by the equally elevated polished spaces of the elytra.
[Belongs to Omorgus Er.; which is not received as a distinct
genus by many entomologists.—LEc. ]
CETONIA Fab.
C. BARBATA.—Hairy, scutellate ; elytra glabrous, pale reddish-
yellow, spotted with black. [ 240 ]
Inhabits the United States.
C. lanius Fab.
N Ware J al,
tonkzea Herbst. Of Melsh. Catal
Body with-long yellowish-cinereous hair; clypeus entire, con-
cealed by the hair; margin reflected: thorax covered with hair,
beneath which it is cupreous, varied with blackish ; anterior and
posterior margin reddish-yellow, the latter emarginate for the re-
ception of the scutel: scutel reddish-yellow varied with black,
oblong-triangular, acute : elytra reddish-yellow, with numerous,
irregular, black-brown points, and a few obsolete, remote, short
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hairs: beneath blackish-cupreous, very hairy: venter glabrous ;
segments margined with reddish-brown.
Length rather more thau half an inch.
Not uncommon in various parts of our country, and is found
at Council Bluff, on the Missouri, and upon the Arkansa. Mr.
Melsheimer, in his catalogue, refers to danius and tonkxa ; but
it disagrees with the descriptions of each of these insects, by
having a very distinct and rather large scutel, inserted at the base
into a thoracic emargination. Neither does it agree with the de-
scription of C. carnifex, to which it has also been referred.
[This is Cetonia inda, described by Linnzeus and Fabricius.—
LEc. ]
TRICHIUS Fab.
'T’. EREMICOLA.—Chestnut color; thorax darker, with an ex-
cayation and an anterior elevated line. [241 ]
Inhabits the United States.
Trichius eremicola Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Head excavated between the eyes ; edge elevated into a tuber-
cle over the insertion of the antenne: anterior edge reflected :
thorax with a transverse dilated excavation before the middle,
anterior to which is a transverse, elevated, abbreviated line;
punctures numerous and dense before, sparse behind: elytra
smooth, simply punctured.
Length one inch to one inch and a quarter.
A rare insect, but occasionally occurring in various parts of
the country. Mr. Nuttall brought a specimen from the Missouri.
It is allied to 7. eremita, but differs from it in many respects,
particularly in the sculpture of the thorax and elytra.
[A species of Osmoderma.—Lkxc. ]
MELOLONTHA Fab.
1. M. tonarrarsa.—Pale, cinereous-testacous ; clypeus pro-
foundly emarginate; tarsi elongated.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body pale, punctured, nearly glabrous: clypeus very densely
punctured above, and sparsely so before ; anterior edge very pro-
foundly emarginate, the lobes concave above: thorax with nu-
merous, slightly indented, irregular punctures; posterior angles
subacute : scutel rounded at tip: elytra with irregular punctures:
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142 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
beneath subglabrous: [242] tarsi elongated, anterior ones as
long as the femora and tibia conjunctly: nails armed with a
strong tooth near the base.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
It is probably rather rare. The form of the body is cylindri-
cal and elongated; the tarsi are remarkably elongated.
[A Lachnosterna.—LEc. ]
2. M. LANCEOLATA.—Above with small lanceolate hairs or
scales: beneath hairy.
Inhabits Missouri and Arkansa.
Body short, suboval, black or reddish-brown; nearly covered
above with small lanceolate cinereous scales, which arise from
impressed punctures : clypeus slightly emarginate, edge reflected:
thorax a little dilated each side before the middle into a rounded
angle; posterior angles acute; lateral edge slightly crenated:
scutel rounded at tip: elytrawith minute elevated points between
the scale-like processes; from two to four obsolete, subglabrous
lines: pectus and postpectus downy: venter in the male, having
a compressed tubercle on the centre of each of the three middle
segments, and the penultimate segment much indented: nails
one-toothed near the base.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
This insect is very short in proportion to its thickness; and
the remarkable character of the compressed tubercles on the
venter of the male readily distinguish it from other species. I
found this species near the Rocky Mountains. [243 ]
[Belongs to Lachnosterna ; was made the type of a distinet
genus, Tostegoptera Blanchard-——LEc. ]
3. M. nirnsura.—Castaneous, hairy ; hair disposed in lines on
the elytra.
Inhabits the United States.
M. hirsuta Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Head hairy; punctures dilated, crowded, confluent; anterior
edge emarginate, slightly reflected: thorax hairy: punctures di-
lated large, irregular, confluent, with slightly elevated centres,
each furnishing a rigid hair: lateral edge minutely crenate, di-
lated in the middle: scutel punctured each side, rounded at tip:
elytra minutely rugose ; hair disposed in five or six longitudinal
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series on each elytron; breast with short cinereous, prostrate
hair.
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
Readily distinguishable by the regular series of hair on the
elytra. Inhabits Pennsylvania; and I observed it on the Missouri.
Mr. Nuttall brought specimens from Arkansa.
[A Lachnosterna, previously described as M. hirticula Knoch.
—Lec. |
4. M. prnostcotiis.—Pale reddish-brown, hairy; thorax and
base of the elytra with longer hair.
Inhabits the United States.
M. pilosicollis Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body reddish-brown, covered with dense yellowish cinereous
hair: head with elongated hair; anterior edge entire, rounded,
reflected: punctures dilated, shallow, dense: antenne with scat-
tered hairs; thorax with elongated hair and dilated, shallow,
dense punctures: lateral edge dilated in the middle, subangu-
lated; striz none; scutel punctured, [244] hairy, rounded at
tip: elytra pale testaceous, densely and equally punctured, and
covered with short, reflected, dense hair, and with longer hair at
base: pectus and postpectus with long hair.
Length half an inch.
An inhabitant of various parts of the United States. I ob-
served it on the Missouri and Arkansa. It may be readily dis-
tinguished from our other species by the remarkably hairy ap-
pearance of the body, and particularly of the head, thorax, base
of the elytra and breast. I can hardly suppose this species to
be the frist’s of Fab., although the hairy appearance of the tho-
rax corresponds with the description of that insect; but the
elytra are punctured and hairy, and the scutel is not white;
whereas the elytra of ¢rist/s are said to be glabrous, and the scu-
tel white.
[Also a Lachnosterna, but is M. tristis Fabr.—Lxc.]
5. M. VESPERTINA:—Chestnut-brown; clypeus truncate,
acutely emarginate each side; elytra sulcated, grooves pune-
tured.
Inhabits the United States.
M. vespertina Melsh. Catal.
' Head truncate before, margin a little reflected, punctures
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dense, a minute acute emargination each side near the tip: tho-
rax with dense profound and subequally distributed punctures :
scutel punctured, rounded at tip: elytra with dilated, shallow,
confluently and irregularly punctured grooves ; interstitial lines
narrower than the groove, elevated, convex : beneath subglabrous,
punctured. [245 ]
Length nearly two-fifths of an inch.
Mr. Nuttall obtained several species on the Missouri ; it is also
found in the Atlantic States. It varies in color, being perhaps
generally light chestnut-brown; but it is sometimes dark chest-
nut, and I have a specimen that is nearly black.
[Belongs to Serica of the division Camptorhina, and identical
with C. atricapilla Kirby.—L«c. ]
6. M. sertceA.—Dusky, iridescent; elytra concavely striated.
Inhabits the United States.
M. sericea Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body light reddish-brown, castaneous, dark-brown, or blackish,
strongly iridescent: clypeus densely punctured; with sparse
hairs ; edge very slightly reflected, anteriorly emarginate : thorax
with numerous small, nearly equal, and subequally distributed
punctures ; lateral edge not dilated in the middle: scutel longer
than wide, densely punctured each side nearly to the tip; a
longitudinal elevated line; elytra concavely striated, strize con-
fluently punctured: anterior tibia bidentate.
Length about seven-twentieths of an inch.
This insect is beautifully iridescent, and by this character is
readily distinguishable from all other North American insects of
this genus that I have seen, with the exception of the M. ricolor
nob., which is much smaller, black, and hairy on the head and
thorax.
It is an inhabitant of Pennsylvania, and we obtained specimens
near Council Bluff on the Missouri river.
[Also a Serica.—L«c. ] [ 246 |
7. M. rirtcotor.—Blackish-brown, iridescent; with short
hair.
Inhabits the United States.
M. micans Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body blackish, distinctly iridescent: head hairy, punctured :
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clypeus on the anterior margin reflected and emarginate at tip :
antenne bright yellow: thorax punctured, with short, numerous,
yellowish hairs ; a longitudinal, dilated, slightly indented line:
elytra finely iridescent, with dilated, punctured, impressed striae:
posterior feet robust.
Length less than one-quarter of an inch.
Knoch’s name micans is pre-occupied. My excellent and in-
genious friend Mr. John F. Melsheimer, makes the following re-
marks on this insect in a letter to me: “ This insect is very nearly
related to ©. sericea, but it is still sufficiently distinct, to entitle
it to the rank of a peculiar species. It abounds in hilly and
mountainous situations, where, in the month of May, the time of
the sexual union of the species, it may be seen flying about
amongst the whortle-berry bushes, in such profusion, that in a
very short time any number desired might be collected : whenever
a female alights upon the surface of the ground, she is imme-
diately surrounded by a number of males.”
[Also a Serica.—Lec. ]
8. M. 10-r1nEATA.—Above covered with a yellowish down ;
thorax trilineate, and elytra quadrilineate with white.
Inhabits Missouri. [ 247 |
Body reddish-brown, covered with a very short spiniforn.
down: clypeus quadrate, slightly wider at tip and truncate,
emarginate in the middle; down yellowish, dusky on the tip, and
whitish above the eyes: antenne pule yellowish-brown, glabrous :
clava elongated, and composed of seven lamina: thorax wit):
yellowish-brown, and three longitudinal lines of white down, o/
which the lateral ones are interrupted near the anterior tip:
scutel with white down, and glabrous margin: elytra with yel-
lowish down ; a common gutural line, and three others upon the
disk of each elytron of white down ; an abbreviated oblique white
line from the humerus: pectus and postpectus hairy: feet cas-
taneous, with white down; thighs and intermediate and pos-
terior tibia, hairy behind; venter with white down, more dense
upon the margins of the segments and in triangular spots each
side.
Length nearly one inch.
A large and beautiful insect, which I first saw above the Paw-
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nee villages on the Platte; several other specimens, however,
occurred during our journey to the mountains. Its color varies
from a light chestnut to a black; but the downy or spiny vesture
is immutable, though it is very deciduous.
It seems to be closely allied to the M. occidentalis; but if
Oliver’s description of that insect be correct, it is sufficiently
distinct. According to him, that species has sometimes only
“une ligne [248] longitudinale, blanche, au milieu du corcelet,”
and the scutel is “ marqué de deux taches blanchatres ;’”’ whereas
our insect has always three thoracic lines, and but a single scu-
tellar spot.
Mr. Nuttall also obtained specimens of this insect on the Ar-
kansas.
[A species of Polyphylla.—Lxc. ]
LUCANUS Lin.
L. PARALLELUS.—Mandibles one-toothed ; elytrastriate, punc-
tured.
Inhabits the United States.
L. parallelus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body dark reddish-brown, with dilated punctures: mandibles
with an elevated conic tooth arquated inwards, situated on the
middle of the superior inner edge, and a smaller tooth on the
middle of the inferior inner edge ; elytra punctured, striate, striz
with much dilated punctures; humeral angle mucronate ; tibiee,
anteriors from four to seven-toothed, interior and posterior ones
one-spined on the middle.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
Female destitute of the tooth of the mandibles.
Very distinct from LZ. parallellipedus by the striated elytra. It
is not uncommon in the Atlantic States, and as far west as the
Rocky Mountains.
[ Belongs to Dorcus.—Lxc. ] [249]
PLATYCERUS Latr.
P. SECURIDENS.—Mandibles at tip securiform, and about six-
toothed ; elytra striate.
Inhabits the United States.
Lucanus platycerus Melsh. Catal.
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Body blackish or dark reddish-brown, tinged with brassy, punc-
tured: mandibles as long as the head; inner side with a robust
emarginate tooth at base; an unarmed excavated interval in the
middle, and a dilated somewhat securiform tip, armed with about
six small teeth; exterior edge with a rounded lobe at base, and
eleyated angle near the tip: thorax margined, not distinctly sinu-
ous before the posterior angles: elytra punctured ; striz almost
obsolete and punctured: anterior tibia with more than ten inequal
very acute teeth.
Leneth two-fifths of an inch.
Very closely allied to Lucanus caraboides, and may possibly
prove to be only a variety of that species; but as far as I have
had an opportunity of comparing specimens, it differs from cara-
boides in color, in being rather more robust, and in being desti-
tute of the obtuse sinus or truncation near the posterior angles
of the thorax, which is observable in that species. The mandi-
bles of the female are shorter than those of the male, the inner
edge sometimes merely dilated and rectilinear, [250] terminating
in an angle near the tip; the lobe on the exterior edge, also, is
not apparent.
It inhabits as far west as the Rocky Mountains.
[Previously described by Weber as P. quercus.—Lxc.]
ZOPHOSIS Latr.
Z. RETICULATA.—Black ; posterior angles of the thorax elon-
gated; elytra irregularly reticulate.
Inhabits near the Rocky Mountains.
Clypeus emarginate before : antenn@ a little larger towards the
three exterior joints not rounded but truncated at tip, the ulti-
mate one subacute at tip, precisely resembling the corresponding
joint of Hurychora as represented by Herbst, (pl. 5.) and not
larger than the preceding joint: palpi, terminal joint a little
larger than the preceding one: mentum widely emarginate, nar-
rower at base, not concealing the base of the maxille so much as
that of Pimelia bipunctata: thorax curvilinearly emarginated
before for the reception of the head; punctures very minute,
distant ; anterior angles obtuse, somewhat prominent; margined
each side; posterior angles elongated, acute, closely embracing
the humeral angles: scutel none: elytra with obtuse, elevated,
irregular, somewhat reticulated lines.
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Length nearly three-fifths of an inch.
Several specimens of this interesting insect occurred under
dried bison dung near the Rocky [251] Mountains. They were
generally pruinose, or more or less covered with a whitish powder.
in form they agree perfectly with the present genus, but the
mentum is rather too narrow, and the terminal joint of the palpi
is rather too much dilated to correspond perfectly with Mr. La-
treille’s character of the genus.
[Belongs to Husattus Lec.; a genus closely allied to Praocis
Esch.—LEec. ]
PIMELIA Lat.
P. rorunpdA.—Black, with a few white hairs; anterior thora-
cic angles prominent, acute.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body rounded, black, immaculate, with numerous white hairs
arising from excavated punctures: head, anterior termination
truncate, and much narrowed by the concavity of the lateral edge;
over the insertion of the antennze, a prominent acute angle: an-
tennze blackish-piceous; second, fourth, fifth, and sixth joints,
equal ; third slightly longer, obconic-cylindric ; remaining joints
more ovate, two or three terminal ones rather larger, the last
ucute at tip: palpi dark piceous, terminal joint truncate at tip:
thorax very short and wide; anterior angles prominent, acute ;
punctures of the lateral margin much dilated, excavated, con-
fluent; those of the disk smaller and distinct; lateral edge rec-
tilinear: elytra with profound, excavated punctures at base, and
smaller and less indented ones towards the tip. [252]
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
This species we observed only within the distance of a hundred
miles from the Rocky Mountains. In the form of the body it
very closely resembles Olivier’s figure of his P. inflata, the P.
jlavicollis of Fabricius. This new species I believe to be the
first of this genus that has yet been found on this continent.
The mentum is proportionally much larger than that of P. bipunc-
tata, entirely concealing the mandibles even when viewed lateral-
ly, affording space only for a circumscribed play of the palpi.
But the antenne differ from those of the bipunctata, which have
che terminal joint smaller and shorter than the preceding, and
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partly included in it; this character, however, Latreille, in the
Régne Animal, does not state to be essential in this genus. The
proportion which the terminal joint of the palpi bears to the pre-
ceding joints, is very similar to that of the palpi figured by
Olivier, Vol. 3, No. 59, Pl. 1, and although this terminal joint is
proportionally larger than that of the dipunctata, yet it is not
more dilated than that of Tentyria glabra, which is admitted
into the same subdivision with Pimelia.
The anterior tibize are not dentated like those of Hrodius, but
are furnished with small spines on the anterior and posterior
edges; the form of the thorax and abdomen agree with Latreille’s
definition of Pimelia in the Régne Animal.
[Belongs to Ldrotes Lec.—Lec. ] [253 |
AKIS Fab.
A.? muricatsa.—Black; above with numerous small tuber-
cles and sete; thorax and elytra with widely reflected margins.
Inhabits Arkansa at the Rocky Mountains.
Body oblong-oval, black; superior surface armed with numer-
ous minute tubercles, from each of which arises a small, recurved,
ferruginous seta: clypeus not reflected: antenne, third joint
nearly equal to the two succeeding ones conjunctly ; fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh, eighth, joints, obconic-cylindric; ninth, tenth,
eleventh, rounded, the latter somewhat larger than the preceding
one, and subacute at its tip: thorax transverse, dilated, and
widely reflected each side, widest behind; anterior margin very
profoundly and abruptly emarginated, the emargination receiving
the head to the origin of the antenne, and rather too narrow to
admit the free motion of the head upward; lateral edge simply
arquated ; posterior edge rectilinear in the middle, excavated
each side; anterior and posterior angles subacute, the latter ex-
tending far backwards so as to cover the anterior angles of the
elytra: elytra inseparably united, widely reflected each side and
behind, the exterior edge continuing the course of the thoracic
edge, without any indentation between them: wings none: scutel
minute: tibia armed with minute spines. [254 J
Length thirteen-twentieths of an inch.
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Occurred under dried bison dung, &c., near the Rocky Monn-
tains. In addition to the above description of the antenne, I
may add that the four terminal joints are somewhat more dilated
than the others. The mentum, although broader than long and
emarginate at tip, is proportionally smaller than that of Scawrus
striatus, permitting a view of the mandibles to the base; the palpi
are decidedly more dilated at tip than those of Tentyria glabra ;
in this respect approaching the family of Blapside. In form it
seems to bear some resemblance to Hurychora, but the antenne
are eleven-jointed. As it does not entirely agree with any genus
the characters of which Latreille has noted, it may be proper to
remove it to the Blapsida, under a separate genus, which may
be named Embaphion. It is still more closely allied to Heleus
by its form, and indeed, if external characters only were to be
considered, we would certainly be justified in referring it to that
genus, but the fact of the maxilla being armed with a horny
nail, excludes it entirely and absolutely from the family of which
Heleus is a member.
[The genus HLmbaphion is well grounded, and is more nearly
allied to E/eodes than to A/is.—LEc. |
ASIDA Latr.
1. A. opaAcA.—Black, opaque, scabrous: thorax with acute
angles, and lateral reflected margin; elytra subinequal. [255 ]
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body black, opaque, scabrous with minute elevated points,
which furnish very minute polished hairs: antennee, terminal
joint as small as the second: thorax widely emarginate for the
reception of the head ; anterior angles prominent ; lateral margin
dilated, reflected ; lateral edge arquated, excuryed near the base :
posterior angle very prominent, acute ; posterior edge slightly de-
flected in the middle, recurved each side towards the angles:
scutel minute: elytra with a somewhat inequal surface, destitute
of distinct strize or punctures ; lateral edge acute, a little reflected
at base ; humeral angles acute.
Length three-fourths of an inch.
Found near the Rocky Mountains. The joints of the antenne
gradually become a little wider and shorter to the terminal one,
which is less than half the size of the preceding joint. The
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mentum is much dilated and at tip emarginate, concealing the
inferior portion of the maxilla, with the exception of a point
near their base. The form of the thorax agrees with Axis, but
agreeably to Latreille’s definition of that genus, it cannot have a
place there.
[Belongs to Euschides Lec.; Stenomorpha || Sol.—Lxc. ]
2. A. poritA.—Black, polished, glabrous ; thorax with acute
angles and reflected lateral margin.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body deep black, polished, glabrous; head rugose with con-
fluent punctures: labrum with [ 256] minute black hairs above
and rufous ones on the anterior edge: thorax with minute, dis-
tant punctures; anterior edge concave; anterior and posterior
angles acute, not prominent; lateral margin reflected, the edge
arquated, not excurved near the base; basal edge nearly recti-
linear: scutel minute: elytra slightly and irregularly rugose,
destitute of punctures or impressed lines; exterior edge promi-
nent and reflected near the base, rounded towards the tip ; hu-
meral angles acute.
Length more than half an inch.
Like the preceding species, and several of the Blaps, this spe-
cies occurs under dried bison dung in the extensive region bor-
dering the Rocky Mountains. The antennze and mentum are
similar to those of A. opaca.
[ Also a Huschides.—Lxc. ]
3. A. ANASTOMOSIS.—Black, covered with short whitish hairs ;
elytra profoundly grooved.
Tnhabits Arkansa.
Body black, clothed with short, dense yellowish-white hair : an-
tenne hardly attaining the base of the thorax, third joint hardly
longer than the fourth, penultimate joint largest, terminal one
smallest and rufous: thorax, angles subacute, anterior edge con-
cave; lateral margin hardly reflected; edge arquated, very
slightly excurved near the base: basal edge rectilinear: elytra
each with three profound and concave grooves at the base, of
which the sutural one extends to the tip, and the two others
terminate beyond the middle, [257] at the origin of two other
much abbreviated grooves, which are confluent before the tip :
‘humerus not rounded.
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Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
This very distinct species is much less robust than the pre-
ceding ones, and is considerably contracted at the junction of the
thorax and abdomen. Under bison dung with the foregoing
species.
The terminal joint of the maxillary palpi of these three species,
corresponding in its dilatation and form with the definition of
the Fabrician genus Blaps by Mr. Latreille, in the Regne Ani-
inal, I have referred them to the genus Asida, as that to which
they are most closely related, though the form of the body
perhaps better agrees with Axis.
[This is the type, and thus far, the only species of Pactostoma
Lec. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. 2d ser. 4, 19.—Lxc.]
BLAPS Fab. Latr.
1. B. sururais. [Ante 1, 30.] [258 ]
B acura. [Ante 1, 31.] [ 259 ]
3. B. opscura. [Ante 1, 32.]
4. B. uispruapris. [Ante 1, 32.] [ 260 ]
Length from three-fifths to nearly one inch.
It is very possible that under this specific denomination, I
have confounded two distinct species ; but it seems probable that
the three preceding species are subject to vary a little in the
form of the thorax, and in size. I forbear separating them for
the present.
[This and the three preceding belong to the genus Eleodes.
I donot consider thisas sufficiently distinct from 2. obscura.—LEc. ]
5. B. CARBONARIA.—Black ; elytra with five or six regular
xeries of punctures; impressed strie none.
Inhabits the margins of the Arkansa river.
Body obiong, deep black, immaculate, punctured: head acutely
punctured: labrum with black, rigid hairs: thorax subquadrate,
punctures smaller than those of the head, and much more dis-
tant; lateral edge regularly arquated: anterior edge very
slightly concave; posterior edge nearly rectilinear, a little ar-
quated each side near the angles, which are obtuse: scutel
slightly indented near the tip, impunctured: elytra with about
six regular series of punctures, which are more distant from
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each other than the length of their diameters ; impressed striz
none ; interstitial lines with a few { 261 ] remote, acute, minute
punctures; lateral margin irregularly punctured, rounded : thighs
robust, mutic.
Length seven-tenths to four-fifths of an inch.
This species occurred near the Rocky Mountains.
[Also an E/codes.-—Lxc.]
6. B. AxTRICATA.—Black ; elytra irregularly punctured, and
destitute of impressed strize.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body deep black, narrowed anteriorly, oblong-subovate, imma-
culate, punctured: head acutely punctured: labrum with rigid
hairs: thorax subquadrate, punctures smaller than those of the
head and more distant ; lateral edge regularly arquated ; anterior
edge very slightly concave; posterior edge nearly rectilinear, a
little arquated each side near the angles which are obtuse : scutel
convex, impunctured: elytra destitute of strie, or distinctly
regular series of punctures; scabrous with minute slightly ele-
vated points, each of which precedes a puncture; lateral margin
rounded.
Length about half an inch.
This species occurs in the country of the Arkansa and Platte,
near the mountains. Mr. Nuttall also obtained specimens on the
Upper Missouri. It is somewhat similar to the preceding species,
but is shorter, and the sculpture of the elytra sufficiently distin-
guish it.
{Also an L/eodes.—Lxc. ]
7. B. opsotera.—Black ; elytra striate, slightly scabrous;
suture obsoletely reddish-brown. [ 262 |
TInhabits Arkansa and Missouri.
Body oblong-subovate, deep black, punctured: head and thorax
similar to those of the preceding species: elytra with impressed
strie, which are slightly scabrous, with minute elevated points
and impressed punctures ; interstitial lines also punctured ; sutural
margin obsoletely reddish-brown.
Length from half an inch to more than three-fifths.
Like the preceding, this species inhabits the arid plains in the
vicinity of the Rocky Mountains. The strize of this insect are
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154 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
very obvious and impressed, and the sutural margin is reddish-
brown, but this color is sometimes so indistinct as not to be per-
ceptible but upon close inspection. As in the two preceding
species the thighs are unarmed.
[A species of Eleodes.—LxEc, |
8. B, rrtcostata.—Black, with minute hairs; elytra each
with three elevated lines.
Inhabits Missouri and Arkansa.
Body oblong-oyal, black, immaculate, with numerous minute
prostrate hairs :, thorax with numerous minute punctures, fur-
nishing hairs; transversely subquadrate ; anterior edge concave;
basal edge rectilinear, covering the base of the elytra; lateral
edge arquated, near the posterior angles excurvyed; angles
rounded: elytra scabrous, with small elevated points furnishing
hairs; three elevated lines above ; a common sutural one, and a
lateral one on the edge ; intermediate spaces broad, flat, not con-
cave, [ 263] and sometimes with the appearance of a slightly
elevated longitudinal line alternating with the others: epipleura
simply scabrous.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Not unfrequent beyond the Mississippi river. Very distinct.
[Also belongs to Lleodes,—LxEc. |
9. B, opAca.—Black, with minute hairs; elytra destitute of
stria or conspicuous punctures, lateral edge acute,
Inhabits Missouri and Arkansa.
Body black opaque, oval-acute, with very minute prostrate
polished whitish hairs: thorax with acute anterior, and obtusely
rounded posterior angles ; lateral edge not thickened or reflected,
sublinear or hardly arquated: elytra destitute of striae and of
conspicuous punctures; basal edge concave for the reception of
the base of the thorax; humeral angles acute; lateral edge
acute.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
The humeral angles so closely embrace the lateral base of the
thorax, as to present hardly an interruption to the regularity of
the lateral curve of the body.
[This species, as noted by me, (Proc. Acad. Nat. Se. 1858, p.
182,) has the first and second joints of the anterior tarsi of the
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male slightly dilated, and covered beneath with a dense brush of
hair, it therefore constitutes a new genus, to which the name
Promus, will belong. It differs altogether from L/eodes in its
form of body.—LEc. |
PEDINUS Latr.
P. suruRALIs.—Black ; head and thorax minutely punctured ;
elytra with punctured striz, and small prostrate hairs.
Inhabits Missouri. [ 264 ]
Head rounded ; anterior emargination small: labrum trans-
verse: thorax, punctures distinct, dense: scutel rather large :
elytra, striae impressed, punctured ; interstitial lines with very
minute indentations, furnishing small, pale prostrate hairs : wings
none: beneath piceous-black: venter slightly granulated, with
very short hairs.
Length half an inch.
I place this species in the present genus, from the circumstance
of its being altogether destitute of wings, although the elytra
are not united at the suture.
[Unknown to me.—LEc. |
OPATRUM Fab. Latr.
O. INTERRUPTUM.—Blackish, with an obscure tinge of bronze ;
elytra with interrupted, punctured striae.
Inhabits the United States.
Head black, finely punctured, punctures distinct ; an obsolete
indentation each side on the posterior margin: elytra brownish,
tinged with bronze, with impressed striz irregularly interrupted,
and with large impressed punctures; interstitial lines finely
punctured: beneath brownish-black.
Length nearly one-sixth of an inch.
I have found this species in Pennsylvania and Arkansa.
[Belongs to Blapstinus.—LEc. ] [ 265 |
CRYPTICUS Latr.
C. oBSOLETUS.—Glabrous, black ; beneath piceous.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body with very minute, hardly perceptible punctures: mouth
pale testaceous : antenna rufo-testaceous, the joints all subequal
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in length: thorax rather large; posterior angles nearly rectan-
gular, slightly rounded at tip; posterior edge not undulated ;
elytra with obsolete, hardly obvious punctured striz: beneath
piceous, more or less blackish: feet always pale piceous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
TENEBRIO Lin. Fab. Latr.
1. T. BAprus.—Blackish-brown, oblong-oval, minutely punc-
tured, thorax with larger punctures each side ; elytra striate.
Inhabits the United States. Ohio.
Tenebrio badius Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body black, with a reddish-brown tinge, and very minute dense
punctures: head, anterior canthus of the eyes indented ; a trans-
verse, indented abbreviated line between the antenne: antennz
black-brown, terminal joint dull ferruginous: thorax transverse-
quadrate ; anterior angles projecting, rounded ; posterior angles
acute, rectangular; lateral edge prominent, arquated: larger
punctures [ 266 | each side near the posterior angles : elytra with
indented punctures striz ; interstitial lines convex, with numer-
ous very minute punctures: beneath dark reddish-brown.
Var. a. Reddish-brown.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
It is not unfrequently found in various parts of. the country.
[A true Tenebrio, but previously described by Beauyois as
Helops tenebrioides.—Lxc.
2. T. INTERSTITIALIS.—Blackish-brown, elongated; thorax
with an indented spot behind, and somewhat dilated lateral
margin.
Inhabits the United States. Ohio.
Tenebrio depressus Melsh. Catal.
Body blackish-brown, elongated, punctured ; punctures rather
large, confluent : head, lateral margin reflected : thorax quadrate,
with an indented spot behind the middle; anterior angles promi-
nent, rounded at tip; lateral margin slightly reflected; lateral
edge very slightly arquated; posterior angles acute: scutel
rounded at tip: elytra with indented striae, in which are dilated
punctures ; interstitial lines narrow and with a few minute
tubercles.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
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The tubercles which are situated upon some of the interstitial
lines of the elytra, are very minute, and on some specimens
nearly obsolete. It is an insect of frequent occurrence. Mr. F.
V. Melsheimer named it depressus, but as it does not agree with
the description of the depressus as [267] given by Fabricius,
Olivier, and Herbst, I have appropriated to it a new designation,
3. T. TERMINATUS.—Blackish-brown ; terminal joint of the
antenne fulvous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body blackish-brown, punctured : palpi, antenne at base, and
labrum, piceous; terminal joint of the antennz fulvous: thorax
subinequal: a longitudinal impressed line; anterior edge con-
cave: elytra profoundly striated, the strie punctured: scutel
dark piceous.
Length half an inch.
The inferior part of the body varies in its depth of coloring, but
is reddish-brown. The fulvous joint of the antenne, impressed
thoracic line, and concave anterior thoracic edge, sufficiently dis-
tinguish this species from others of this country.
[Belongs to Stenochia.—LEc.]
DIAPERIS Geoff. Latr.
1. D. excavatTa.—Black: head excavated; and with two
horns on the vertex ; antenne rufous.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Head with two parallel, prominent, cylindrical, piceous horns,
which project forward in a line with the body, and originate be-
tween the eyes: front between the horns deeply excavated ; an
indentation each side before: antennz and palpi pale rufous:
mandibles black : thorax minutely punctured ; [268] lateral edge
nearly rectilinear, or but slightly curved: an indentation each
side of the middle on the posterior margin: elytra with impressed
punctured strix: beneath punctured: feet dusky rufous or
piceous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
The horns disappear in the female, and are supplied by two
short tubercles. This species differs from viridipennis Fab., in
color, in being destitute of the two small horns on the front of
the clypeus, and in the direction of the horns of the vertex, which
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in that species are nearly vertical. It was found by Mr. Thomas
Nuttall.
[Belongs to Platydema.—Lxc. |
2. D.? BrrasciATA.—Reddish-brown ; two bands on the elytra,
and region of the scutel black.
Body reddish-brown, punctured: head reddish-black: eyes
black: palpi whitish: thorax with a dusky obsolete spot on the
middle, and another on each side; angles rounded; punctures
very minute, dense: elytra yellowish-fulvous, with punctured
striz: a broad band in the middle, another near the tip, and
scutellar region, black : feet pale reddish-brown.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
Found at Engineer Cantonment.
[Belongs to Alphitophagus.—Lxc. ]
CISTELA Fabr. Latr.
1. C. AM@NA.—Sanguineous; head, elytra, and feet, black.
Inhabits Arkansa. [269]
Body minutely punctured: head with a transverse indented
line between the antenne : mouth beneath, excepting the palpi,
pale sanguineous: elytra minutely rugose, and with punctured
strie. ,
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
[Probably belongs to Xystropus Sol., but I am not certain to
what genus it should be referred.—Lgc. ]
2. C. BREVIS.—Black ; antennee, palpi, and feet, rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Cistela rufipes Melsh. Catal.
Body somewhat dilated, wide, and rather short ; head indented
on the front and on the hypostoma; labrum piceous: antenne
and palpi rufous: thorax with a longitudinal, submarginal, ab-
breviated indentation each side; posterior angles acute: elytra
striate, the striz finely punctured ; interstitial lines convex : feet
entirely rufous.
Length more than seven-twentieths of an inch.
This species is not the same as the rufipes of Fabricius.
[A true Cistela ; a variety of this species with fulvous elytra
is C. erythroptera Ziegler, Pr. Acad. Nat. Se. 2, 46.—Lxc.]
3. C. BASILLARIS.—Dark chestnut-brown ; elytra striate, with
a pale rufous spot at the base of each.
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Inhabits Pennsylvania.
C. bipustulata Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Head punctured : base of the antenne, and mouth, dull rufous :
thorax hardly punctured, with three indefinite indented lines on
the posterior margin ; posterior angles rectangular: elytra with
punctured striz and interstitial lines: basal [270] spot oval,
oblique, extending from the humerus inwards’ and backwards
towards the suture ; beneath paler ; middle of the pectus blackish.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Altogether different from the bipustudata of Lliger.
[A species of Mycetochares—L«Ec. |
4. ©. FRATERNA—Dark chestnut brown; elytra punctured,
with a pale rufous spot at the base of each.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
C. axillaris Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Head punctured; a transverse impressed line between line be-
tween the antennze: antennz at base, and mouth dull yellow-
rufous : thorax punctured, with three indefinite indented lines on
the posterior margin; posterior angles nearly rectangular: elytra
punctured, destitute of striz, excepting one near the suture;
basal spot oval, oblique, extending from the humerus inwards
and backwards towards the suture: beneath much paler.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but is smaller, and the elytra are not
striated. The name axillaris has been employed by Paykull to
designate a species altogether different from this.
[Belongs to Mycetochares.—LEc. ]
5. C. sERICEA.—Pale testaceous, immaculate; elytra obso-
letely striated near the suture.
Inhabits the United States.
Eyes black: mandibles black at tip: antennze slightly darker
towards the tip: thorax as well as the head minutely punctured ;
posterior angles hardly acute: scutel quadrate: elytra minutely
punctured ; strize obsolete, more obvious near the suture : beneath
somewhat paler.
Length about one-fifth of an inch.
- This very common insect is readily distinguished by its pale
color.
[Belongs to Lsomira Muls.—Lec.]
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PYTHO Laitr.
P. PALLIDA.—Thorax with two impressed lines at base ; ely-
peus emarginate before.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body pale reddish-brown, very much depressed, flat above,
minutely punctured: clypeus on the anterior edge concave, the
angles acute, (more prominent in one sex :) thorax, anterior edge
very concave: anterior angles obtusely rounded; posterior edge
perfectly rectilinear; posterior angles acute; base with two im-
pressed lines abbreviated before: elytra with punctured strie,
lateral edge slightly elevated.
Length one-fifth of an inch nearly.
This curious species was found on the banks of the river Ar-
kansa by Mr. Thomas Nuttall.
It is found in various parts of the United Sates.
[Belongs to the genus Adelina Dej., of which, however, I have
not yet seen any description.—LEc. ]
(EDEMERA Latr.
1. CH. Ruriconiis.—Black; thorax rufous, with two pro-
foundly indented spots. [272]
Inhabits the United States.
Necydalis ruficollis Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body black, with minute hairs: mouth, excepting the palpi,
somewhat piceous; beneath yellow: thorax rufous, narrowed be-
hind : two profoundly indented spots placed one each side of the
base, a less profoundly indented one at base : elytra purple-black,
minutely granulated ; three remote elevated lines.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Found specimens on the Missouri and near the Rocky Moun-
tains. Mr. Nuttall also obtained them on the Arkansa.
[Belongs to Asclera ; afterwards described as Ichnomera cari-
nata Newman, Ent. Mag., 5, 878——Lec.]
2. CH. FRAXINI.—Black: thorax rufous, longitudinally ob-
long, narrowed behind.
Inhabits the United States.
Necydalis fraxini Melsh. Catal. :
Body blackish-brown, with minute hairs: mouth piceous an-
1824.]}
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tenne brown: thorax pale rufous, longitudinally oblong, nar-
rowed towards the base; two very slightly indented dots before
the middle, and a hardly perceptible one near the base: elytra
confluently and minutely punctured, pubescent: tibia pale.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The elytra have some faint appearances of impressed lines.
This may probably be the Necydalis thoracica of Fabr.; it is
certainly allied to his NV. sanguinicollis. [273]
[ Belongs to Asc/era, and is the Fabrician species first mentioned.
—Le«c.]
3. CH. vestiTA.—Black, hairy; elytra pale brownish; feet
testaceous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, punctured ; with dense cinereous hair : head with
a dilated, transverse, indented line between the antenne: basal
joint of the antennze very obscurely rufous: labrum obscure ru-
fous : maxillary palpi blackish ; terminal joint elongated, cylindri-
cal: thorax subcylindric, a little dilated each side before, and
gradually contracting to the base, the edge at base a little ex-
curved, an impressed dorsal line at base: scutel minute: elytra
pale brownish, not attenuated at tip: densely punctured, and
covered with short whitish hair: feet rufo-testaceous : tarsi dusky :
thighs simple.
Length from three-tenths to two-fifths of an inch.
[Unknown to me; perhaps an Asc/era, but more probably be-
longs to Stereopalpus.—LE0.]
4. CH. puNcTICOLLIS.—Black ; thorax rufous, with a black
spot.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black: antennz, two basal joints beneath pale: thorax
rufous, narrowed behind, disk somewhat impressed and with a
large rounded black spot: elytra minutely granulated, with three
remote elevated lines.
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
Very like @. rujicollis. [274]
[An Asclera.—LEc. ]
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DORTHESIA Latr.
1. D. FascraATaA.—Black ; elytra yellowish, ovate, black at
base ; wings with a blackish band.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body deep black, opaque, punctured: vertex elevated into a
carinated tubercle : antennze dilated, brown, paler at base of the |
processes, concave before; scapus very short, dusky; flabellate
processes elongated, robust: front plane : palpi obsoletely annu-
late with pale: thorax slightly emarginate over the scutel, an
impressed, abbreviated, dorsal line: elytra reddish-yellow, sub-
ovate; exterior margin from the base to the middle, and basal
margin, black ; wings white, an irregular fuscous band near the
tip: feet black; anterior pair pale rufous, thighs black behind ;
intermediate pair, tibia and tarsi pale rufous ; posterior tarsi pale
rufous.
Length three-tenths of an inch nearly.
[Dorthesia isa genus of Diptera; the two species here de-
scribed belong to Myodes.—Lxc. ]
2. D. FLAVICORNIS.—Black ; antenne bright yellow; elytra
dark piceous, with a common pale spot.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Mouth with whitish hairs; mandibles pale piceous: thorax
minutely granulated, with a polished oblique slightly elevated
spot each side of the middle: elytra rounded at tip: a common
dull [275] yellowish cinereous spot an tip: wings hyaline: feet
dull honey-yellow, posterior pair darker.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but is smaller, destitute of the band
of the wings, and of the impressed thoracic line.
RHIPIPHORUS Bose. Latr.
R. prcotor.—Black ; thorax dull rufous; elytra pale testa-
ceous ; head truncate above.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
R. bicolor Melsh. Catal.
Head punctured: vertex much elevated, truncated above, the
superior angles rounded: antenne : palpi piceous : thorax
dull rufous, punctured ; posterior edge black: elytra pale testa-
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ceous, edged with black, excepting the exterior edge near the
base ; extreme tip and spot on the anterior part of the humeral
tubercle, black: wings fuliginous.
Length about a quarter of an inch.
This species resembles the male of dimidiatus Fab., and hume-
ratus Fab., but the vertex of those two species, although con-
siderably elevated, is rounded at tip, and the former has a robust
spine over the middle lobe of the posterior margin of the thorax.
[I have proposed for this species the name R. Say,
(Journ. Acad. Nat. Se. 2nd ser. 4, 21), for the following reasons:
The name proposed by Say was pre-occupied by Olivier; Dr.
Melsheimer on this account substituted the name R. ambiguus,
but described under that name a variety of 2. pectinatus Fabr.,
(varicolor Gersteker). Although Gersteecker has placed R.
bicolor Ol. as a synonym of F. bimaculatus, this does not obviate
the necessity of changing the name imposed by Say under a
belief that the name was free. This species is cited by Gersteee-
ker asa synonym of his 2. varicolor, but it differs very much
from that species by the anterior face of the vertex being flat-
tened, and the posterior margin so broadly rounded as to appear
truncate, as above noted by Say.—Lec. ] [276 |
ANASPIS Geoff. Latr.
1. A. rrILoBpA.—Black, covered with dirty yellowish hair ;
elytra with three black bands, and two spots at base.
Inhabits Missouri and Pennsylvania.
Body deep black, covered by dense, short, dull yellowish hair :
antennze testaceous, black at tip: palpi testaceous: thorax trans-
versely quadrate ; angles rounded ; posterior margin lobed in the
middle, lobe truncate; disk with a trilobate black spot, confluent
before : scutel distinct : elytra each with a humeral and scutellar
black spot, and three subequal, equidistant black fascia, the last
terminal: pectus and postpectus with subargenteous hair: feet
black ; anteriores, tibia, and tarsi testaceous; posterior pair,
tibia and tarsi piceous.
Length about three-twentieths of an inch.
Considerably resembles Mordella trifasciata of Melsh. Catal.
but the species here described has three distinct bands of yel-
1824.]
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lowish hair, the last one of which is not terminal, and the ground
color of 3-fasciata is yellow.
[Not an Anaspis but a Mordella.—Lec. |
2. A. 4-punorata.—Black ; each elytron with two cinereous
points.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head and thorax densely covered with brownish-cinereous,
silky hair: elytra each with two cinereo-argenteous approximate
points, rather beyond the [277] middle of each elytron, the ex-
terior one somewhat linear, and a smaller obsolete subsutural one
near the base.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
[Belongs to Mordella.—Lxo. |
MORDELLA Linn. Latr.
1. M. BipentTata.—-Brown, varied with cinereous, scutel
bidentate.
TInhabits Missouri.
Body light brown, covered with short dense hair: head dusky,
with cinereous hair: palpi pale rufous: thorax with cinereous
lines somewhat radiating from the middle of the anterior margin :
scutel profoundly emarginate at tip, the angles dentiform, acute :
elytra brown varied with cinereous ; asutural line, a subterminal
arc, one or two abbreviated basal lines, and about three linear
spots rather beyond the middle placed 1, 2, of which the inner
one is confluent with the sutural line, cinereous, tip angulated
or slightly mucronate at the suture.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
The largest species that I have seen native of this country.
2. M. scapuLaris.—Black ; elytra with a large ferruginous
spot on the base of each.
Inhabits the United States.
Mordella bimaculata Melsh. Catal.
Head and thorax with obscure yellowish hair: [278] antennz
at base, labrum, and palpi rufous: elytra with black hairs, and
an oval spot of ferruginous hairs, situated near the base and ex-
tending obliquely from the humerus towards the suture: tarsi
1824.]
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and anterior tibize, and venter, particularly towards the tip,
rufous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Fabricius has applied the name bimaculata to a different spe-
cies ; I have therefore changed the name.
3. M. Mararnatis.—Black; head before and thorax dull
rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Hypostoma and inferior part of the front dull yellow-rufous :
antenne black: thorax dull yellow-rufous, with a black quadrate
oblong spot extending from the middle to the scutel, and another
at each lateral angle: elytra immaculate: beneath dull golden
sericeous.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
ANTHICUS Payk. Leach.
1. A. crnctus.—Dark rufous; elytra black, rufous at base, a
cinereous band before the middle.
Inhabits the United States.
Body dusky rufous: antenne dusky towards the tip: eyes
deep black: thorax subbilobate, contracted rather behind the
middle, anterior lobe suborbicular: elytra hirsute, punctured,
black, base [279] rufous ; a band before the middle and termi-
nal spot cinereous: feet blackish, rufous at base: venter black.
Length more than one-eighth of an inch.
Var. a. Destitute of the terminal cinereous spot.
2. A. BASILLARIS.—Rufous ; elytra black, rufous at base.
Inhabits the United States.
Notoxus melanocephalus ? Melsh. Catal.
Kyes deep black: thorax broadest before the middle, and nar-
rowed by an almost straight line to the posterior angles: elytra
punctured, blackish ; base somewhat gibbous and rufous: post-
pectus and venter piceous.
Var. a. Head blackish.
Size of the preceding nearly.
Resembles the preceding, but the thorax is not so much con-
tracted behind the middle.
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HORIA Fab. Oliv.
H. SANGUINIPENNIS.—Body black; elytra sanguineous, im-
maculate.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
~ Body short, robust, deep black, scabrous, with dense punctures:
head lobate at the basal angles, with a slightly elevated, longitu-
dinal, glabrous line on the front; antennz: impunetured ; third
joint as large or larger than the first; terminal joint [280]
acuminated from its middle: mandibles glabrous, and with the
palpi impunctured: thorax transverse-quadrate, very obtusely
rounded behind: scutel conspicuous, rounded behind, punctures
more minute than those of the thorax: elytra very flexible, san-
euineous, immaculate: feet punctured ; nails denticulated on the
middle, tip and base simple.
Length more than two-fifths of an inch.
This species is an interesting addition to the catalogue of
North American insects, as it is the only one of its very limited
genus, yet found here: It must be rare, only a single specimen
having yet occurred. It is very distinct from the three or four
species already known.
MELOE Linn. Latr.
1. M. AnGusticoLtuis.—Thorax narrower than the head;
elytra and abdomen violaceous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body dark violaceous, punctured: head with profound pun-
tures, an impressed, longitudinal, abbreviated, acute, frontal line ;
and a transverse, elevated, obtuse one connecting the bases of
the antenne: thorax slender, narrower than the head, profoundly
punctured, widest rather before the middle, and narrowed at tip
and base ; base emarginate, and slightly margined : elytra rugu-
lose, dark bluish-violaceous: feet slightly hairy, spines [281]
of the tibia, and nails ferruginous: abdomen slightly rugulose,
dark greenish, or violaceous: tergum each side black, opaque.
A rare species, very distinct from the JM. americana of Leach,
which is not uncommon, and is sometimes gregarious in great
numbers; the thorax of angusticollis is strikingly narrower pro-
portionally, as well as the head, than the body; and the colors of
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the insect are more violaceous. When taken, it diffused an odor
very similar to that of some Blatte.
2. M. conrerTA.—Black, with dense punctures; antenne
regular.
Inhabits Missouri and Arkansa.
Body black, opaque, punctured ; punctures crowded, concave,
equally distributed, confluent, furnishing short black hairs : head
with separated punctures on the anterior part of the front, distant
ones on the clypeus, and remote ones on the labrum: antenne
regular: thorax as wide as the head, emarginate at base; sides
very slightly arquated, hardly narrower at base ; a longitudinal,
dorsal, acute, impressed line: elytra scabrous, with minute
elevated points, and numerous short black hairs.
Length, male half, female four-fifths of an inch.
Perfectly distinct from the preceding species, and from the
americana, by the very dense and equally distributed punctures
of its head and thorax, [282] and by its minutely scabrous
elytra. Found in the vicinity of Council Bluff, and near the
Rocky Mountains.
[Differs from Meloe by the elytra not being imbricated : it forms
the genus Henous Hald., but was described by himas H. texanus.
—LEc.]
[Continuation from Vol. 3, pp. 298—331.]
LYTTA Fabr.
1. L. rerruGINEA.—Black, covered with short ferruginous
hair.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
Body above invested with crowded ferruginous, short, prostrate
hair; beneath darker in consequence of the more sparse hair :
eyes brown, oval: antenne hardly larger than the thorax, gla-
brous, black; basal joint hairy: labrum and palpi glabrous,
black : thorax suboval ; a longitudinal impressed line, and a basal
transverse one.
Length about two-fifths of an inch.
The antennz are rather short, and exactly filiform. Found on
the Missouri by Mr. Nuttall.
2. L. macuLata.—T[Ante, 1, 6.] [299]
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3. L. sPHHRICOLLIS.—[Ante, 1, 7.] [ 300 |
4. L. Nurratii.—[Ante, 1, 5.] [301 |
The antennz of this species in the proportional length of the
second and third joints, are similar to those of the genus Zonitis,
as defined by Latr., Régne Animal, and together with those of
the species aenea, polita, sphzricollis and reticulata, are consider-
ably different from those of many of the other species of this
genus, being somewhat thicker towards the tip, but are much
shorter than in Zonitis; these characters, combined with form of
the terminal joint, approach them to the genus J/ylabris; but
the antennz are not arquated at tip, and are of a more consider-
able length ; the habit also differs, the form of the body being
more elongated. These four species then, seem to have the
habit of Lytta, combined with a form of antennz approaching
somewhat to that of Mylabris. They cannot be referred to
Zonitis, as the palpi are not filiform, and the habit differs.
First observed by Mr. Thomas Nuttall on the Missouri. I
found them on one occasion near the Rocky Mountains in great
numbers; small bushes of various kinds were loaded with them.
5, L, AENEA.—Greenish-blue or brassy, hairy : elytra glabrous,
brassy or purplish; feet rufous, knees and trochanters black.
Lymexylon aeneum Melsheimer’s Catalogue.
Inhabits Pennsylvania. [302]
Body bluish-green or dark brassy, opaque: head punctured,
hairy ; eyes oval, not emarginate, fuscous : antennee black, longer
than the thorax, joints subturbinate, terminal one largest near
the middle, acute at tip: labrum prominent, punctured, divided
by a profound sinus into two divaricated lobes: palpi blackish :
thorax punctured, narrowed before, not wider near the middle
than at base; hairy: scutel hairy: elytra glabrous, somewhat
rugose, with two obsolete elevated lines: feet rufous, knees and
trochanters black,
Length rather more than half an inch,
Var, b. Tarsi black,
This is not a common insect. It was referred by Mr. F. Y.
Melsheimer to the genus Lymexylon, but it is not a Pentamerous
insect.
[Having failed to identify this species, it was described by me
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as Cantharis nigricornis, Jour. Acad. Nat. Se. Phil. ser. 2d, 1,
90. —LEc.]
6. L. potrrA.—Head and thorax glabrous, brassy, green,
polished ; elytra pale olivaceous; feet rufous, trochanters and
four anterior tibia bluish.
Inhabits Georgia.
Body above glabrous, punctured ; beneath hairy; head brassy,
polished, with distant punctures: eyes large, oval, entire, promi-
nent: antenne black, rather long; joints oblong-conic, terminal
one largest beyond the middle, abruptly narrowed so as to resem-
ble a twelfth joint; tip acute: labrum blue, bilolate, lobes divari-
cating : palpi black, not remarkably dilated at tip: thorax gla-
brous, brassy, polished, punctured each side, distinctly wider be-
fore the middle: scutel hairy: elytra pale olivaceous, [303]
tinged with brassy, slightly rugose: two slightly elevated, obso-
lete lines: feet rufous, knees and two anterior pairs of tibia
blue: tarsi fuscous.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Very much resembles the preceding species, but differs by
many characters, particularly in the form of the thorax, in the
color, polish, and hair of this part and the head, in the form of
the antenne, Xe.
In the bilobate form of the labrum, these two species differ
from the other species of this genus; their palpi are somewhat
similar to those of Zonitis and Nemognatha, but the second joint
of the antennz is minute, and the body is elongated.
7. L. sEGMENTA[TA].—Black ; beneath, segments edged with
cinereous.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body black, covered by very numerous, short, prostrate black
hairs: head with an obsolete, hardly perceptible, rufous, abbre-
viated, frontal line ; anterior edge of the clypeus somewhat pale ;
beneath, and each side before the eyes, covered with cinereous
hair; antenne, second joint two-thirds the length of the third
joint : thorax anterior and posterior edges cinereous ; an impressed
longitudinal line : beneath, incisures, excepting those of the feet,
margined with cinereous hair.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
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A fine large species, found in very considerable [304] num-
bers near Purgatory river of the Arkansa, called by Lieutenant
Pike the “ First Fork.” ;
8. L. IMMACULATA.—Black, with cinereous hair; second joint
of the antennz as long as the third.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body black, partially covered with short, prostrate, cinereous
hair : antenna, second joint as long as the third: palpi, beneath
the hair, reddish-brown: thorax with an impressed, longitudinal
line.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
9. L. ARTICULARIS.—Black with dense ferruginous hair; se-
cond joint of the antennze as long as the third.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body black, entirely concealed by dense, short, prostrate,
ferruginous hair : antennze subglabrous, half as long as the body ;
second joint equal to the third: palpi obscure reddish-brown ;
thorax with a longitudinal impressed line, not narrowed behind :
tibia with sparse hairs: tarsi with black hairs.
Size of the preceding, to which it is very similar in form, and
of which it may very possibly be a variety. Found near the
Rocky Mountains. The color of the hair, with which the body
is covered, is very similar to that of LZ. ferruginea, but that
insect is very different in the proportional length of the an-
tenn. [ 305]
10. L. auprpa.—[ Ante, 1, 6. Having failed to identify this
species, I described it as WL. luteicornis, Proc. Acad. Nat. Se.
Phil. 7, 84.—Lec.]
11. L. revicuLata.—Black ; elytra reticulate with elevated
nervures.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body black, obsoletely tinged with green, subglabrous, punc-
tured: head irregularly and confluently punctured: antenne
gradually more robust towards the tip: thorax somewhat rounded,
much narrowed before, punctures sparse before, confluent each
side and behind: elytra reticulate, with elevated nervures.
Length about seven-tenths of.an inch.
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A very remarkable and distinct species; the reticulated elytra
give it a very peculiar aspect. The antenne are similar to those
of L. Nuttalli, but the body is proportionally shorter. [306]
NEMOGNATHA ITllig.
1. N. arripennis. Testaceous; elytra black.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Testaceous, punctured: head with concave punctures, remote
on the vertex and confluent between the antenne: antenna,
mandibles, and palpi, black: labrum piceous: thorax, punctures
rather large, remote: elytra black, punctures profoundly impres-
sed, rather distant, more numerous on the margin and tip: post-
pectus, knees, tibia at tip, and tarsi, black.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
Found near the base of the Rocky Mountains, and between
the rivers Arkansa and Platte.
The genera Zonitis and Nemognatha are similar to the genus
Hloria in the form of the tarsi, which are bifid and pectinated,
in this respect widely differing from Lytta, &e., of which the
tarsi are simply bifid.
2. N. mintma.—Testaceous ; head and thorax elongated; post-
pectus black.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body somewhat elongated, testaceous, punctured, with numer-
ous hairs: head elongated : vertex obtusely and slightly indented:
antennz black, dusky, rufous at base: labrum blackish: palpi
dusky: maxille blackish, elongated: thorax conic, much nar-
rower than the elytra: elytra paler than [307] the head and
thorax, punctures confluent: postpectus, and venter at base,
black: feet varied with dusky: tarsi black.
Length from one-fourth to three-tenths of an inch.
This is the smallest species I have seen; it is proportionally
much narrower than others. I observed numbers of them near
the Rocky Mountains. It belongs to genus Gnatho of Kirby.
[Unknown to me.—LEc.]
BRUCHUS Fab.
B. piscorpEvs.—Black, with dense cinereous hair beneath; a
large rufous spot on each elytron; anus white, with four spots.
Inhabits Arkansa.
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Body black, covered with short, cinereous hair: head with a
carinated line between the eyes, and dilated, slightly impressed,
confluent punctures: thorax hardly hairy on the middle, with
dense, confluent, dilated, slightly impressed punctures, and a
longitudinal indented line: elytra with impressed striz and large
punctures : a large longitudinally oval rufous spot on each, which
attains the lateral edge: anus with four black spots, of which
two are triangular and near the middle, and two are semitriangu-
lar, marginal, and placed beyond the middle.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Taken near the mountains. It is closely allied [308] to Cur-
culio abbreviatus of Melsh. Catal. (which is a Bruchus,) but is
much larger, and further distinguished by the anal spots.
CRYPTORHYNCHUS Illig.
1. C. ocuLatus.—Dusky ferruginous, varied with black ; eyes
very large, approximate, acute before.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, punctured, partially covered by oblong, yellowish-
ferruginous scales: eyes very large, approximate, longitudinally
oblong, acute before, and separated by a narrow line: rostrum
punctured, black: base striate, with slightly elevated lines, and
with a few scales: tip piceous: antenne pale rufous: thorax
with dilated confluent punctures beneath the scales: elytra punc-
tured, and with punctured striz; interstitial lines more elevated
behind; tip obsoletely ferruginous: thighs with a black, denuded
band above, and a slightly projecting, obtuse angle beneath : tibia
pale piceous.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
[Belongs to Copturus.—LEc. ]
2. C. OPERCULATUS.—Black, varied with cinereous scales ;
eyes very large, approximate, acute before, separated by a narrow
line ; thorax with dilated approximate punctures, each closed by
an orbicular scale.
Curculio quercus ? Melsh. Catal.
Inhabits Arkansa. [309]
Length, exclusive of the rostrum, more than three-twentieths
of an inch.
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This species very much resembles the preceding, but is larger,
black, and the thoracic scales are orbicular, exactly closing the
dilated punctures like opercula.
[Belongs to Copturus—LkEc.]
FALCIGER Meg. Dej.
1. F. acepHatus.—Blackish, spotted with cinereous; thorax
with an impressed line, an obtuse tubercle on each side.
Inhabits the United States.
Body covered with short robust hairs or scales, brownish-black,
spotted and varied with cinereous, imbricate: head, when at rest,
completely retracted within the thorax, somewhat retuse between
the eyes: thorax, anterior margin abruptly contracted into a col-
lar; posterior edge minutely dentate; an impressed longitudinal
line becoming canaliculate towards the scutel; an obsolete, obtuse
tubercle each side of the middle: elytra striate; strice with
scales concealing the punctures; interstitial lines with elevated
and acute points partially concealed by the scales; tip rounded
and piceous on the edge; anal segment black: feet rufous:
thighs mutic.
Var. a. A common double abbreviated white line at the base
of the suture. .
Length more than one-tenth of an inch. [310]
The variety occurs in Pennsylvania. <A different species,
which I have named 4-spinosus, inhabits this State, remarkable
for its similarity to the acephalus, but it may be immediately dis-
tinguished by the armature of two upright spines on the anterior
edge of the thorax.
[Belongs to Caliodes.—Lxc. |
CURCULIO Fab. Latr.
1. C. acutrus.—Cinereous; clypeus profoundly emarginate;
a blackish band behind the middle of the elytra.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body brownish-cinereous, punctured, covered with minute
imbricate scales: head profoundly and acutely emarginate at tip,
a longitudinal, impressed line: eyes black: antennx, club black-
ish; elytra with punctured series somewhat in pairs; interstitial
lines convex, alternate ones rather more elevated ; a black-brown
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band rather behind the middle, abbreviated each side; tip a little
prominent, acute: thighs mutic ; a black, longitudinal, impressed
line beneath the head.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The dusky band of the elytra has a jagged anterior and pos-
terior outline.
[This is the type of Brachystylus—Lxc. ]
2. C. AURICEPHALUS.—Dull green; head and anterior side of
the feet golden.
Tnhabits Mississippi.
Body covered with minute scales: head golden-cupreous ;
[311] an impressed line and obsolete abbreviated one each side :
thorax green, depressed above, and obliquely depressed each side :
elytra green, with regular series of punctures; interstitial lines
minutely punctured; three alternate ones elevated: beneath
green: anterior tibia, and intermediate and posterior pairs of feet
on the anterior side golden-cupreous.
Length (total) half an inch.
A very fine species. Mr. Nuttall brought a specimen from
Missouri? and I obtained one on the Mississippi river above
Natchez.
[This is Platyomus auriceps Sch.—L«xc.]
R[H]JYNCHAENUS Fab.
1. R. cauparus.—Imbricate, dusky-cinereous, tinged with
golden ; elytra caudate.
Tnhabits Missouri.
Body dusky-cinereous, covered with minute scales, and obso-
letely tinged with golden, a paler lateral vitta: head obscurely
golden: eyes deep black: rostrum with a slightly elevated line:
beneath deep black: antenne blackish-brown; thorax obscurely
golden, with minute, elevated, black dots: seutel golden: elytra
with regular series of punctures; golden color more obscure than
that of the thorax; tip of each, elongated into an obtuse caudi-
form projection: beneath obscurely golden, varied with black :
feet fuscous, with short hair; [312] thighs dilated before the
tip; a cinereous fascia on the two posterior pairs.
Length, from the anterior part of the head to the tip of the
elytral processes, rather more than two-fifths of an inch.
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Found near Engineer Cantonment on the Missouri river. The
caudal processes are peculiar to one sex.
[Belongs to Listroderes.—Lkc. |
2. R. ARMICOLLIS.—Rufous ; anterior thoracic angles with
small spines.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body rufous, punctured; head punctured; an obsolete im-
pression between the eyes ; a dilated, impressed, abbreviated line
over the insertion of the antennz sometimes obsolete or wanting :
thorax with much dilated confluent punctures ; a polished longi-
tudinal line near the middle; anterior angles with small erect
spines, of which the anterior one is largest; posterior angles
slightly excurved, anterior and lateral margins dull rufous ; elytra
light rufous, profoundly striated ; striz with approximate pune-
tures : thighs with a robust spine beneath, near the tip.
Length from the eyes to tip of the elytra one-fifth of an inch.
Var. a. Thorax and beneath, excepting the feet, black.
Very closely allied to Curculio barbitus of Melsheimer’s
Catalogue, a species which is entirely black, whereas the elytra
of armicollis are always [313] rufous. I obtained it on the
banks of the Missouri, and Mr. T. Nuttall presented me with nu-
merous specimens from the same country.
[A species of Magdalinus.—L«c. ]
3. R. LINEATICOLLIS.—Thorax with longitudinal, confluent
lines; elytra with elevated, acute, alternate, interstitial lines and
double series of punctures.
Inhabits Arkansa.
* Body black: head with dense, robust, short, prostrate, yellow
hairs above ; a carinate line from between the eyes to the middle
of the rostrum: eyes approximate: rostrum from the base to the
middle marked by about six impressed lines: thorax with nu-
merous, elevated, longitudinal, confluent lines; a transverse, in-
dented, anterior submargin ; elytra with double series of large
profound punctures, the interstitial lines elevated and very
acutely edged: thighs one-toothed ; posterior tibia one-toothed
near the posterior tip, and ciliated between the tooth and tip.
Length (excepting the rostrum) nearly three-tenths of an inch.
Found near the Roeky Mountains.
[Belongs to Rhyssematus ; vide ante 1, 279, 295.—Lxc.]
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4. R. constrictus.—Blackish, with cinereous scales; an im-
pressed, transverse line between the eyes ; elytra reddish-brown ;
thighs mutic: rostrum long.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body blackish, punctured, covered with oblong scales, not im-
bricate ; vertex, punctures minute: [314] front, a profoundly
impressed, transverse line between the eyes: eyes black, distant
above, approximate beneath: rostrum cylindric, more than half
as long as the body, regularly but slightly arquated from the
base, impunctured; base above with depressed granules; tip pi-
ceous : antenne placed rather behind the middle, piceous, darker
in the middle: thorax densely punctured, punctures large, ap-
proximate ; anterior margin obsoletely piceous : elytra, strie pro-
foundly indented, straight, punctures obsolete; interstitial lines
dilated, depressed: feet obscure rufous; thighs mutic; tarsi
blackish.
Length, from base of rostrum to tip of elytra, three-twentieths
of an inch.
The impressed frontal line connects the eyes, and is very pro-
found.
[A species of Errhinus.—LEc.]
5. R. INTERSTITIALIS.—Black, punctured ; elytra striated, in-
terstitial lines with punctured series.
Inhabits Missouri.
Curculio striatus Melsh. Catal.
Body deep black, immaculate, nearly naked, punctured; pune-
tures orbicular, concave, polished within, distinct: vertex with
small, distant punctures: eyes remote above: front obtusely in-
dented between the eyes: rostrum punctured, arquated: thorax,
excepting at the anterior margin, as broad as the elytra ; a dorsal,
obsolete line destitute of punctures: scutel transverse, inequal :
elytra deep brownish-black; striee profoundly impressed, trans-
versely [315] punctured; interstitial lines superficially de-
pressed, each with one or two series of orbicular punctures, fur-
nishing short white hairs: tibie and tarsi piceous; terminal ar-
ticulation black: anus naked.
Length, base of rostrum to tip of elytra, from more than
three-twentieths to less than one-fourth of an inch. |
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This is also an inhabitant of Florida and Pennsylvania. The
name striatus is preoccupied in this genus.
[Belongs to Baridius.—Lec. ]
6. R. UNDULATUS.—Sanguineous, polished; elytra, abdomen,
and feet, black.
Inhabits Arkansa.
_ Body polished, punctured, sanguineous: rostrum black, ar-
quated, as long as the thorax : thorax dilated; punctures minute
and distant, on each side confluent into oblique lines; anterior
margin abruptly narrowed into a collar: elytra black, undulated,
immaculate; striz very narrow, profound, not distinctly punc-
tured : postpectus, venter, and feet black, the latter scabrous.
Var. a. Totally black. Pennsylvania.
Length exclusive of the rostrum, one-fifth of an inch.
The elytra of this species are remarkably undulated. For
specimens from Arkansa I am indebted to Mr. T. Nuttall. [316]
[Belongs to Madarus.—L«c.]
LIPARUS Oliv. Leach.
Cucuxio Linn.
1. L. virratus.—Cinereous ; rostrum trisulcated ; elytra, with
the suture and three lines, blackish.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body densely covered with minute, cinereous scales, with a very
slight tinge of carneous : head with a dusky, dilated, lateral line :
rostrum profoundly and widely sulcated in the middle, and on each
side over the interval between the eye and insertion of the antennx :
mouth black: antennee, club dusky: thorax somewhat inequal,
with distant, profoundly impressed punctures: three dusky, lon-
gitudinal lines: elytra with regular series of profound punctures;
dilated suture, and three slightly elevated lines on each elytron,
blackish: beneath immaculate.
Length more than half an inch.
Nut uncommon upon the arid and sterile country, included
within the distance of four or five hundred miles of the Rocky
Mountains. The anterior feet are the most robust, and each
alternate interstitial line of the elytra is a little elevated and
blackish.
[Belongs to Ophryastes.—Lxc. ]
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2. L. sutcrrostris.—Cinereous ; rostrum trisuleated, trans-
versely indented at base ; elytra striate.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body densely covered with minute, cinereous scales : head with
black punctures; transversely [317] indented or contracted at
the origin of the rostrum : rostrum trisulcated, grooves profound,
middle one dilated, wider before: mouth and club of the an-
tenne blackish: thorax inequal, with irregular ruge and pune-
tures; a longitudinal, impressed line: elytra acutely striated, and
with dilated, slightly indented punctures all covered with cine-
reous scales : beneath immaculate : anterior feet more robust.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch, exclusive of the rostrum.
Found in the same districts with the preceding species, which
it resembles, but is smaller; the elytra are destitute of blackish
lines, and the punctures and striz are altogether different.
[Also an Ophryastes.—Lxc. ]
3. L. IMBRICATUs.—Body covered with minute scales, punc-
tured ; a profound, frontal puncture.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body covered with dense, minute, somewhat imbricated scales,
without intervals; above dusky brassy or blackish, punctured :
head with a profound puncture between the eyes: rostrum with
a dusky line in the middle: thorax, a dorsal, slightly impressed,
punctured line, and several dilated, indented punctures covered
with scales; a dilated, cinereous, dorsal line: elytra with very
slightly impressed striz containing profoundly impressed pune-
tures; sides and tip white, the latter exhibiting an undulated
outline above; three subequidistant, equal, white spots each side
of the suture, [318] and another at the middle of the base; an
oblique line from behind the humerus terminates at the middle.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Near the Rocky Mountains, and on the Missouri. This species
varies in depth of coloring, and the cinereous, subsutural spots
are sometimes confluent with branches from the margin, so as to
form three cinereous bands, but I believe that the spots at base
are always insulated.
[Belongs to Lpicxerus—LEC.]
4, L. rEssELLATUS.—Imbricate, cinereous, varied with brown-
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ish ; head with a longitudinal, impressed line; elytra with punc-
tured striz.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body covered with imbricate scales; cinereous, obsoletely
varied with brownish or dull brassy, punctured; head brassy,
polished ; an impressed, longitudinal line: eyes black: antennz
piceous : thorax, longitudinal and transverse diameters subequal ;
a dilated, double, somewhat confluent, dorsal, brownish line, with
an undulated, lateral outline occupying nearly all the surface:
scutel very minute: elytra varied with cinereous and brownish,
with equidistant, indented, punctured striz; interstitial lines
equal, with whitish, distant, very short, filiform hairs: abdomen
blackish.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Found on the banks of the Mississippi and lower part of the
Missouri.
[Say, ante 1, 268, states that this belongs to Thylacites, sub-
genus Strophosomus.—L«c. ] : [319]
CALANDRA Clairy. Fab.
C. COMPRESSIROSTRA.—Castaneous ; rostrum compressed ; a
profound, frontal puncture ; thorax with two punctured lines con-
verging to the scutel.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body dark chestnut-brown passing to blackish: head with
small, distant punctures, larger ones on the base of the rostrum
which decrease in size to the tip; a profoundly, impressed, large
puncture between the eyes: rostrum very much compressed,
acutely carinate above : antennee at tip rufous : thorax with larger
punctures on the side, on the anterior impressed submargin, and
on two indented lines which originate each side of the middle,
and converge to the suture: elytra with crenate striz, interstitial
lines each with a series of punctures: tibia with a very robust,
obtuse spine, and setz below the interior middle.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
Near the Rocky Mountains.
[Ante, 1, 20.]
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APATE Fabr.
1. A. BrcornIs.—Dark brown, varied with cinereous: thorax
asperous, bicornute before ; posterior angles prominent.
Inhabits the United States.
Apate bicornis Melsh. Catal. [320]
Body blackish-brown varied with cinereous; with robust, scale-
like hairs: head equal: eyes prominent, reddish-brown: an-
tenne and palpi ferruginous: labrum fnlvous: thorax declivous
before and behind; anterior half and lateral margin armed with
numerous short spines; anterior angles projected over the head
in the form of parallel horns; posterior angles elongated back-
ward in the form of tubercles; two hardly elevated tubercles on
the middle of the base: scutel rounded, cinereous: elytra, each
with two elevated lines, of which the inner one is the most prom-
inent and acute, with the blackish-brown and cinereous colors
somewhat alternate ; tip near the sutural termination mucronate
or only angulated : beneath dark reddish-brown.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Found above the mouth of the Ohio. I have aspecimen inmy
cabinet which is rather smaller; the elevated lines of the elytra
hardly prominent. Seems to have some affinity with Apate cor-
nutus of Fabr.
[Belongs to Bostrichus, as restricted by Lacordaire, Gen. Col.
4, 539.—Lxc. ]
2. A. BicAUDATUS.—Dark reddish-brown; thorax asperous
aud bicornate before; a prominent, obtuse spine near the tip of
the elytra.
Inhabits the United States.
Apate cornutus Melsh. Catal.
Body dark reddish-brown : head with long pubescence: eyes
prominent: antenne and palpi ferruginous: labrum fulvous :
thorax declivous before [821] and behind, anterior moiety armed
with numerous short spines; anterior angles projecting over the
base of the head, armed with spines above; posterior angles
rounded, not prominent ; elytra near the tip, with a very promi-
nent, obtuse, slightly inflected spine on each ; edges at tip a little
reflected : wings whitish ; feet reddish-piceous.
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Female.—Anterior angles of the thorax slightly projecting
an oblique, hardly elevated line, instead of the elytral spine.
Length less than seven-twentieths of an inch.
Found above the mouth of the Ohio. Resembles the prece-
ding species, but is destitute of the prominent, posterior, thoracic
angles so conspicuous in that insect, and the male is armed
with a prominent, cylindrical, obtuse spine above the tip of the
elytra. The specific name cornutus has been given to an in-
habitant of Madagascar.
[Also a Bostrichus.—LEc. ]
3. A. BASILARIS.—Black; elytra rufous at base, retuse and
tridentate at tip: thorax asperous before.
Inhabits the United States.
Apate humeralis Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body black : head equal: eyes prominent, somewhat reflected :
antennze and palpi rufous: labrum fulvous: thorax declivous, and
armed with numerous short spines before; angles rounded : scutel
minute, orbicular; elytra with large dense punctures which are
more dilated towards the tip; a large rufous spot on the middle
of the base: tip [322] retuse, with a few large punctures ; lateral
edge tridentate: teeth triangular, acute; sutural and terminal
edges elevated : wings black: beneath impunctured: tibia and
tarsi blackish-rufous. ;
Length one-fifth of an inch.
On the Ohio, Mississippi, Arkansa. The name hnmeralis is
preoccupied.
[Belongs to Sinoxylon.—Lxc. |
HYLESINUS Latr.
H. AcULEATUS.—Varied with cinereous and fuscous; thorax
with three black lines; elytra aculeate.
Inhabits Missouri. :
Anobium maculatum ? Melsh. Catal.
Body varied with blackish-brown and yellowish-cinereous short
hair: head confluently punctured ; a slightly elevated, longitudi-
nal, frontal line: antennz pale rufous: thorax, punctures much
dilated, slightly impressed ; a dilated, longitudinal, fuscous line
each side, and a much dilated one in the middle: elytra some-
what trifasciate with yellowish-cinereous; an obsolete band at
base; the second beyond the middle oblique and abbreviated,
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182 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
and the third near the tip oblique and interrupted ; strize pro-
found, acute: interstitial lines armed with minute, elevated
points; basal edge somewhat elevated, acute.
Length three-twentieths of an inch. [323]
SCOLYTUS Latr.
1. 8. 4-sprnosus.—Black ; elytra brown ; venter four-spined.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head depressed above, lineated with minute, abbreviated, lon-
gitudinal lines; coronated with long, incurved, dull-yellowish
hairs on the margin; antennee pale rufous: thorax punctured,
black-brown: elytra reddish-brown, truncated, with impressed,
punctured strize, and an obsolete series of punctures on the in-
terstitial lines; tip denticulated: venter obliquely truncated,
deep black, opaque, four-spined ; spines conic-acute, placed 3, 1,
the latter smaller.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
2. 8. MuTIcus.—Black, hairy ; venter unarmed.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body deep brownish-black, punctured, hairy; head, above de-
pressed, plane, lineated with minute longitudinal. lines, and coro-
nated with incurved, yellowish hairs*on the margin: antennz
pale rufous: elytra with numerous long hairs, truncate, and
slightly denticulated at tip: numerous punctured, hardly im-
pressed strize: venter obliquely truncated, mutic, furnished with
long hairs : posterior tibia with long hairs behind.
Length from three-twentieths to one-fifth of an inch. [324]
Resembles the preceding, but is distinguished at once by the
mutic venter and the more numerous striations of the elytra.
PLATYPUS Herbst, Latr.
P. composirus.—Reddish-brown ; each elytron with a termi-
nal, tridentate elongation.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body reddish-brown : eyes dusky : antenne, terminal joint di-
lated, compressed, oval, nearly as large as the eye; elytra pro-
foundly striated; striz punctured; punctures subquadrate, ap-
proximate, slightly indented ; tip of each elytron with two small
longitudinal teeth and an elongated process, which is tridentate ;
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intermediate tooth emarginate: feet dilated, compressed ; ante-
rior thighs angulated in the middle beneath, and with a project-
ing lobe near the inferior tip; anterior tibia with five elevated,
dusky, transverse, obliquely arquated lines on the exterior side,
of which the fifth is nearly terminal and distant from the others :
tarsi elongated; basal joint very long, penultimate one very
short.
Length one‘fifth of an inch.
Resembles Scolytus flavicornis of Olivier, but is readily
distinguishable by the form of the terminal spine of the
elytra. [ 325 |
COLYDIUM Fabr. Latr.
C. prpuncTaTuM.—Blackish-brown ; anterior tibia angulated
before ; intermediate ones five or six spined.
Inhabits Upper Missouri.
Body elongated, linear, punctured; punctures minute, regular,
distant: antennz piceous: thorax longitudinally oblong, sub-
quadrate angles rounded : lateral edges slightly arquated : scutel
obtusely triangular: elytra with punctured strie; an obsolete,
subsutural, piceous spot on each before the tip: anal segment
naked: feet piceous; anterior tibia with a slightly projecting
angle on the anterior middle; intermediate tibia five or six
spined on the anterior edge ; posterior ones mutic.
Length one-ninth of an inch.
The spots on the elytra are hardly perceptible, excepting in a
particular light, and are even then obsolete.
[Belongs to Jps.—LEc. ]
LATRIDIUS Herbst.
L. 8-peNTATUS.—Dark reddish-brown ; thorax dentate each
side, and with an indented spot behind the middle.
Body dark reddish-brown: eyes’ black: thorax suborbicular,
seven or eight-toothed each side; a profoundly indented, large
spot on the basal submargin : [326] elytra with approximate
series of punctures: feet yellowish-piceous at base.
Length nearly three-fortieths of an inch.
Caught above the confluence of the Platte with the Missouri
river.
[A species of Corticaria.—LE¢.]
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PRIONUS Geoff. Fabr. Oliv. Latr.
1. P. pAsystomus.—Reddish-brown; head black; thorax
denticulate each side ; teeth small; labrum and mandibles within
with ferruginous hair.
Inhabits the lower part of the Missouri river.
Body reddish-brown, punctured : head black; punctures pro-
found ; a longitudinal, impressed line : eyes black-brown ; a small
tubercle over the insertion of the antenne, and a larger, com-
pressed, emarginate one at the outer base of the mandibles: an-
tennze compressed, punctured, mutic, short ; labrum and mandi-
bles within with dense, rufous hair: palpi piceous: thorax with
crowded, irregular, minute, profound punctures ; an impunctured
large spot each side of the middle; a transverse one on the mid-
dle of the base, and one or two oblique, abbreviated lines each
side; lateral edge dentated with from 5 to 14 small teeth; elytra
mucronate; punctures obsolete: beneath paler; region of the
mouth rugose with confluent punctures: postpectus with yellow-
ish hair: tarsi yellowish.
Length one inch and three-tenths. [327]
This species, in habit, approaches P. cylindricus and cilipes,
but is at once distinguished from both, besides other characters,
by the very hairy appearance of the labrum, and of the inner
side of the labrum [mandibles].
[Belongs to Mallodon.—Lxc. ]
2. P. EMARGINATUS.—Castaneous, hairy ; thorax one-toothed ;
antenne fourteen-jointed.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body castaneous: head, thorax and breast covered with long
yellowish-ferruginous hair: antennz fourteen-jointed, glabrous,
perfoliate, imbricate ; the imbrications emarginate beneath ; man-
dibles black at tip: thorax but slightly margined, one-toothed on
the middle of the lateral edge: angles obtusely rounded: elytra
somewhat inequal, punctured : feet and venter subglabrous.
Length nearly seven-tenths of an inch.
Female glabrous ; antenne simple.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
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This species exhibits the general form of brevicornis, but the
the thorax is proportionally much narrowed, and the characters
above detailed prove it to be very distinct from that species.
The lepaceous processes of the antennz are so profoundly emar-
ginate beneath as to appear each bilobate. I obtained it on the
Arkansa river near the Mountains.
3. P. pALPARIS.—Black ; thorax tridentate ; terminal joint of
the maxillary palpi longer than the preceding one. [ 328 ]
Inhabits the upper part of the Arkansa river.
Body black, immaculate, punctured; head confluently punc-
tured ; an impressed, longitudinal line: maxillary palpi with the
last joint longer than the penultimate one: thorax, punctures
rather more sparse on the disk; lateral margin not dilated ; edge
tridentate ; anterior tooth a slight prominence of the anterior
angle ; intermediate one acute, subconic, spiniform, not reflected ;
posterior tooth not prominent, and consisting only of the poste-
rior angle: elytra slightly punctured, nearly smooth; tip slightly
mucronate : pectus and postpectus of the male hairy; hair yel-
lowish.
Length, male one and one-fifth, female one and a half inches
nearly.
I observed several specimens of this species on the Arkansa
near the Mountains. It resembles at first sight P. brevicornis
Fab., but it differs from that insect in some important characters,
the elytra are much smoother, the thorax is not so broadly mar-
gined on each side, the intermediate thoracic tooth is more spini-
form ; but the most characteristic difference appears to reside in
the maxillary palpi the terminal joint of which is very conspicu-
ously longer than the preceding joint, whilst the corresponding
parts of imbricornis are nearly equal.
4. P. crn1pes.—Castaneous; thorax minutely dentate; tibia
ciliate on the inferior edge.
Inhabits Platte and Arkansa rivers.
Body castaneous, punctured ; head thorax and [329] extrem-
ities blackish : head with a longitudinal, impressed line ; punc-
tures sparse between the eyes, more dense before, upon the man-
dibles, basal joint of the antennz, and becoming scabrous on the
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vertex and behind the eyes : antenne, third joint rather shorter
than the first : mandibles strongly dentate within: thorax broad,
anterior lateral margin scabrous, with very crowded, minute
punctures ; punctures of the disk sparse ; lateral edge irregularly
dentated with very small, obtuse teeth; an obtuse angle behind
the middle: elytra punctured, destitute of elevated lines: post-
pectus with short yellowish hair: tibia densely ciliated with yel-
lowish hair on the inferior edge.
Length one inch and three-fifths.
The specimen, from which this description is taken, is a female ;
in general form it approaches P. cylindricus, but the thorax is
broader and destitute of spiniform teeth; the third joint of the
antennz is obviously shorter than the first, and the tibize are
densely ciliated on the inferior edge. It is probably somewhat
allied to the P. dentatus of Fabricius, judging from the descrip-
tion of that author.
[A species of Mallodon, afterwards described as M. simplici-
colle Hald.—LEc. ]
LAMIA.
1. L. AcuLIFERA.—Thorax unequal; elytra aculeate, with a
white band behind.
Inhabits Missouri. [330]
Body blackish-brown, covered with short, prostrate, cinereous
hair: head with a double slightly elevated line on the vertex :
antennee as long as the body, cinereous, spotted towards the base,
and annulated towards the tip with brown: thorax unequal; a
dorsal, rectilinear, elevated line, and two undulated or interrupted
ones ; lateral tubercle obtuse, little elevated: elytra unequal, with
numerous, elevated, acute points ; behind the middle a white fas-
cia broadest at the suture, and edged behind by a black line: tip
entire: thighs clavate, spotted, and tibia biannulate with black-
brown.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
This is a common species. I observed it on the banks of the
Mississippi; Missouri, Platte (Nebraska) and Arkansa.
[I have placed this and several other species in a genus Lep-
tostylus, Jour. Acad. Nat. Se. 2d ser., 2, 168.—LEc. ]
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2. L. aspersA.—Covered with cinereous hair; elytra with
numerous black dots.
Inhabits Mississippi and Missouri.
Body reddish-brown or blackish, covered with cinereous hair :
head black : antenne longer than the body: thorax with a small,
acute, reflected spine behind the middle each side, and with two
er four black dots above placed in a transverse series, the two
intermediate ones larger : elytra reddish-brown, with numerous
black dots; tip emarginate, bidentate: beneath black, covered
with cinereous hair: thighs clavate, pale reddish-brown at base.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch. [331]
This insect is not uncommon in the western regions. It varies
a little in having the black elytral spots smaller, or in having
some of them which are situated behind the midde, confluent
into a band. I have taken a specimen of this insect near Phila-
delphia, at Harrowgate, the seat of my friend Mr. J. Gilliams,
in a rye field.
[Belongs to Liopus.—Lxc. | [403 }
MONEILEMA* Say.
Essential character.—Hlytra undivided ; wings none.
Natural .character—Body convex: head vertical: antennz
eleven-jointed, [404 ] setaceous, inserted into a profound emargi-
nation of the eye; first joint elongated, robust ; second joint very
short, third nearly as long as the first; remaining joints gradu-
ally diminishing in length to the tip: eyes rather small, pro-
foundly emarginate: labrum prominent, rounded: mandibles ro-
bust, emarginate at tip: palpi, terminal articulation as robust as
the preceding one, rounded at tip: labiales inserted near the base
of the labium: labium prominent, bifid; lobes rounded : elytra
consisting of one piece, convex, subovate, narrowed behind, sub-
truncate at tip, and rather shorter than the abdomen: epipleura
dilated, encasing the abdomen each side: feet robust: thighs
clavate.
M. ANNULATA [ANNULATUM.]—Thorax with a very short
tubercle ; antennz annulate.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
* Signifying one covering.
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Body glabrous, black : antennz shorter than the body, obso-
letely annulated with cinereous: front impunctured: thorax
slightly punctured at base and each side; a lateral, small, sub-
acute tubercle: scutel rounded at tip; elytra with numerous, in-
dented, irregular, longitudinal, abbreviated, confluent lines; a
few distant punctures towards the base.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
This singular insect I found near the Rocky [405] Mountains,
and in the vicinity of the rivers Platte (Nebraska) and Arkansa.
Mr. Nuttall also obtained specimens on the Upper Missouri.
It is essentially distinct from the genus Lamia, (to which it is
most closely related,) by the total absence of wings, and by having
the elytra inseparably united into one piece. The epipleura em-
brace the sides of the abdomen, as in the genus Pimelia, Xe.
and its gibbous or convex form and somewhat pointed abdomen
give to it almost the habit of some species of that genus.
SAPERDA.
1. 8. AtreRNATA.—Blackish, with cinereous hair and ferru-
ginous spots; thorax long.
Inhabits the United States.
Body blackish-brown, with sparse, cinereous, prostrate hair,
varied with spots and lines of dense ferruginous hair: head, with
the edge around the antennz, much elevated, somewhat spinose
on the inner side; between the antenne profoundly indented :
antenne longer than the body, attenuated: thorax cylindric,
rather long, narrower than the elytra; with four ferruginous
lines ; elytra with three or four series of irregular, ferruginous
spots : tip rounded.
Length, male seven-twentieths, female nine-twentieths of an
inch.
The marginal and sutural series of elytral spots [406] more
regularly alternate with the intervening colors than the inter-
mediate series do.
It somewhat resembles Olivier’s figure of S. maculata, but
the thorax is much shorter, and the spot are differently disposed.
[ Belongs to Dorcaschema Lec.—Lzc. |
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2. S. punctrcotiis.—Yellow; beneath plumbeous; elytra
black, with a yellow margin and suture.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body covered with bright yellow, crowded, short, prostrate
hair: head with a black, frontal dot, and another upon the vertex:
antenne as long as the body, black: thorax with four black,
equal spots above, and one each side: elytra black and punctured
upon the disk; exterior margin, tip, and suture with an equal
line of dense yellow hair; tip entire: beneath plumbeous.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
A very pretty insect, of which but a single specimen was found
by Mr. T. Nuttall on the Arkansa.
[Afterwards described as S. trigeminata Randall.—L«c. }
3. S. ocuLATICOLLIS.—Black, covered with cinereous hair:
elytra truncate at tip.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, immaculate, cylindrical, covered with short pros-
trate hair, which partially conceals the punctures: palpi piceous ;
antenne rather shorter than the body : thorax cylindric, diameters
nearly equal; two small glabrous spots on the disk, and an obso-
lete, glabrous, longitudinal line; elytra truncate at tip.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
[Belongs to Oberea.—LeEc.]
4, S. rvornata.—Black, covered with cinereous hair; an-
tennz annulate; elytra entire.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, immaculate, cylindrical, covered with short, pros-
trate hair, which conceals the punctures: palpi black: antennx
rather shorter than the body, and, excepting the basal joints, an-
nulate, with cinereous and black: thorax cylindric, diameters
subequal : elytra entire and subacute at tip, which is equally at-
tenuated from the suture and exterior margins.
Length less than nine-twentieths of an inch.
The entire termination of the elytra sufficiently distinguishes
this species from the oculaticollis, and it is also a more robust
species ; it is, however, still more closely allied to the S. pergrata,
but in addition to the difference in the color of the femur, and
that of the margins of the elytra, the elytra are much less obtuse
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190 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
at tip, and the thorax is entirely destitute of glabrous spots. It
cannot be the cinerea Oliy., as the antenne of that insect are de-
scribed to be as long again as the body.
[I have not identified this insect.—Lxc.]
5. S. PERGRATA.—Black, covered with cinereous hair; an-
tenn annulate ; elytra entire ; thorax with small glabrous spots.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, covered with short, prostrate hair, which partially
conceals the punctures: antenne nearly as long as the body, an-
nulate, with cinereous and black: thorax slightly dilated in the
[408 | middle ; a transverse, arquated series of four glabrous
spots, and a longitudinal, abbreviated, glabrous line behind the
middle : scutel whitish: elytra with a narrow white margin and
suture; tip entire: thighs dull rufous.
Length about nine-twentieths of an inch.
Upon the middle of each elytron is a very indistinct, rufous
line, which is only visible upon close inspection, and is very
probably often wanting; a similar spot is upon the anterior por-
tion of the thorax; the white appearance of the margin of the
elytra is occasioned by the more dense disposition of the hairs on
* that part. We captured but a single specimen on the Platte
river (Nebraska) near the mountains.
[Belongs to Stenostola.—Lxc. ]
6. S. cALCARATA.— Reddish-brown, covered with cinereous
and yellow hair; elytra mucronate at tip.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
Body clothed with dense, prostrate, cinereous hair, varied with
yellow or somewhat ferruginous hair: front, a geminate line on
the vertex and lateral line, yellow: antennz cinereous, longer
than the body: thorax trilineate with yellow: scutel yellow,
sub-emarginate behind: elytra cinereous, varied with yellow-fer-
ruginous lines and spots; numerous small glabrous punctures ;
tip mucronate in the middle ; humerus rather prominent.
Length nearly nine-tenths of an inch.
Closely related to S. mutica. [409]
7. S. prvirraTta.—Hoary ; above light brown, with two broad
white fillets.
Inhabits the United States.
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Body white: eyes fuscous; a small spot on the vertex, and
another behind each eye, light brown: antennz moderate,
‘slightly tinged with bluish: thorax light brown, with two broad,
white lines approaching before: elytra light brown, irregularly
punctured ; a broad, white, longitudinal line on each, nearer to
the suture than to the outer edge.
Length from one-half to seven-tenths of an inch.
A very pretty insect. Inthe larve state it is very injurious to
the apple tree; boring into the wood.
[Previously described by Fabricius as S. candida.—LEc.]
8. 8S. murica.—Reddish-brown, covered with cinereous and
ferruginous hair; elytra mutic; antenne annulated.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
Body dark reddish-brown, partially covered with cinereous-
yellow, prostrate hair, varied with ferruginous hair: front, anda
geminate line on the vertex, ferruginous : antennz annulate, with
cinereous and blackish ; shorter than the body : thorax trilineate,
with ferruginous : scutel yellow, subemarginate behind: elytra
with yellowish-cinereous hair, varied with ferruginous spots;
numerous glabrous punctures ; tip mutic, obtusely sublanceolate.
Length half an inch. [410]
Very much resembles S. calcarata, and may possibly prove to
be a sexual variety, nevertheless the differences are remarkable ;
in the present insect the antenne are shorter than the body, and
annulated, and the elytra are destitute of a spinose point at tip.
[A very distinct species.—LEc. ]
CERAMBYX Fabr.
C. sorrrarius.—Black ; thorax bituberculate each side ; elytra
destitute of elevated lines.
Inhabits Upper Arkansa.
Body deep black, immaculate, punctured: head with a longi-
tudinal, impressed line between the eyes; front transversely in-
dented, and with one or two small, abbreviated, elevated, trans-
verse lines; a slight tubercle at the inner base of the antenne:
antenne long; basal joints a little hispid beneath: labrum
piceous : thorax, with three very obtuse, hardly elevated tubercles
behind, placed transversely ; lateral edge with two tubercles, of
which the anterior one is more obtuse, and the posterior one is
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192 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
slightly reflected : scutel acute: elytra destitute of any promi-
nent line; punctured; punctures enclosed by minute, irregular,
indented lines: pectus, punctures very minute : venter, posterior
margins of the segments highly polished.
Length one inch and three-tenths.
Appears to be a rare insect. I found but one specimen on the
Arkansa river near the mountains. [411] The elytra to the
eye have a smooth appearance, and, with the body, are totally
black.
[I described this species as a new genus Smileceras, but after-
wards recognized the identity of the genus with Stenaspis——LEc. ]
CALLIDIUM Fabr.
1. C. piscorp—EUM.— Rufous ; head, postpectus, feet, and
dilated sutural mark, black.
Inhabits Mississipi.
Body bright rufous, punctured : head black, confluently punc-
tured; an elevated line bétween the antenne: antenne tinged
with brownish, rather shorter than the body: thorax convex,
rounded ; punctures profound, equally disseminated; hairs erect:
scutel small, black: elytra with approximate, regular punctures,
and very short, obsolete hair; a large, sutural, black, common
mark, occupying more than half the superficies ; it is contracted
near the base, and still more dilated at tip; tip rounded, entire:
postpectus and feet black.
Length less than half an inch.
[Allied to Eriphus.—L«c. |
2. C. SUTURALE.—Rufo-sanguineous, hairy ; antenne, suture,
postpectus and feet, black.
Inhabits Mississippi.
Body bright rufo-sanguineous, hairy, punctured: antennz
rather shorter than the body, and with the orbits black : thorax
convex, with long black hairs; punctures sparse, obsolete on the
disk: scutel small, black: elytra with long black hairs, which
are erect at base, and prostrate at tip of the elytra ; punctures
rather distant, furnishing [412] hairs; suture with a black
common line; tip rounded, entire: postpectus black: anterior
and intermediate thighs black in the middle.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
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This species very much resembles C. discoideum, but is much
smaller; and besides other differences, the punctuations of the
head and thorax are very distinct both in point of form and posi-
tion, being crowded and rounded in discoideum, and comparatively
distant in the present species.
[Of the same genus as the preceding.—LEc. ]
3. C. 1@N1coLLE.—Black ; thorax bright rufous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, hairy, punctured : antenne shorter than the body;
the joints extending into a small angle on their anterior tips:
thorax rounded, convex, bright rufous, with upright, prominent
hair: scutel black: elytra punctured, hairy ; the hairs upright
at base, and prostrate near the tip of the elytra; tip entire.
Length rather more than nine-twentieths of an inch.
[Also of the same genus.—LEc.]
4. ©. pALLIpUM.—Whitish ; thoracic lineations and elytral
fascie brown.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body whitish, slightly tinged with yellow: eyes black : vertex
brown: antennz, joints tipped with brown: thorax contracted
behind; anterior margin brown; an obsolete, abbreviated line in
the middle, and a lateral one which is dilated before, or some-
what cruciate, brown; a very obtuse, hardly [413] elevated,
lateral tubercle: elytra four-banded, with brown; anterior band
transverse, abbreviated ; second very oblique and linear, third
dilated and undulated, fourth linear and placed near the tip;
thighs clavate.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
[Allied to Obrium: subsequently described as Phyton limum
Newman, and Diozodes pallida Hald.—Lxc.]
5. C. AMOENUM.—Rufous ; elytra violaceous, punctured.
Inhabits the United States.
C. bicolor Melsh. Catal.
Body rufous, with short hair, punctured: antennz black:
thorax subinequal, polished; punctures very numerous on each
side; less numerous on the disk; scutel rufous: elytra vio-
laceous, with confluent, excavated punctures, furnishing short,
black hairs; tip rounded : tibia and tarsi black.
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194 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Very much resembles C. foenicum, but is much smaller, and
the elytra are very obviously punctured. We obtained speci-
mens on the Arkansa river; it is also an inhabitant of Pennsyl-
vania. The name bicolor is preoccupied by an insect of South
America.
6. C. BREVILINEUM.—Black ; thorax bituberculate ; elytra vio-
laceous, with three abbreviated, white lines.
Inhabits the United Sates.
Body black, scabrous, with small, elevated points: head with
an impressed, longitudinal line: antenng nearly as long as the
body: palpi piceous: [414] thorax with dense, minute hairs ;
two elevated, obtuse tubercles behind the middle and an inter-
mediate, elevated line, obsolete before: scutel hairy, rounded :
elytra violaceous, scabrous, with minute, subequal, numerous
tubercles ; base dusky, with minute hairs; two or three longi-
tudinal, elevated, white lines on the middle, nearly parallel, and
placed in an obliquely transverse series; tip obtusely rounded :
thighs clavate.
Length, male nine-twentieths ; female seyen-tenths of an inch
nearly.
I found a specimen in Pennsylvania some time since, and re-
cently an individual occurred on the Arkansa river. The white
lines of the elytra are very short, and nearly parallel to each
other ; nearer to the base is sometimes another abbreviated white
line.
7
7. OC, FULVIPENNE.—Deep black, hairy; elytra fulvous.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body deep black, covered with dense black hair: antenne
rather longer than the body, somewhat hairy: palpi glabrous,
deep reddish-brown: thorax, above with four obsolete tubercles,
and an intermediate, abbreviated, glabrous, longitudinal line; a
slightly prominent, lateral spine: scutel hairy, black: elytra yel-
lowish-fulvous, covered with dense, very short, prostrate hair ;
four longitudinal, slightly elevated lines.
Length three-fifths of an inch. [415]
I obtained but a single specimen of this beautiful species. It
occurred at the Cherokee settlement on the Arkansa river. It
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approaches the description of Cerambyx ebulinus of Fab., but,
according to Olivier, that insect, which he names Stenocorus tes-
taceus, has the antenne only a little more than half the length of
the body.
[Belongs to 7ragidion, and seems to bea variety: of 7’. coquus.
—Lec.]
8. ©. 6-rAsctatuM.—Black, varied with short, dense, pros-
trate, yellow hair; margin of the thorax, scutel, and four elytral
fascie yellow.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, punctured, with a few long hairs: head, beneath
rufous, above with yellow hair: antennz ferruginous, nearly as
long again as the body, and hairy beneath and towards the base ;
basal joint dilated, punctured ; mandibles black at tip: thorax
deeply margined, with dense yellow hair; transverse disk black,
with two hardly elevated, obtuse eaercles: and an intermediate,
longitudinal line, and a lateral, very obtuse, hardly elevated tu-
bercle each side behind the middle; a transverse, anterior and
posterior groove : scutel yellow: elytra, each 4-fasciate ; fasciee
yellow, equidistant, subequal; two anterior ones bent obliquely
forward from the suture ; the two posterior ones retrofracted, the
last one terminal; apex of each elytron emarginate : pectus and
postpectus with yellow hair and black incisures: feet rufous:
thighs dilated, compressed : abdomen fasciate with yellow. [416]
Length, male three-fourths ; female seven-eighths of an inch
Found under the bark of a decaying elm, on Loutre island,
Missouri river.
[This is the type of Dryobius Lec. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci.,
Phila., 2d ser. 2, 23.—Lxc. ]
LEPTURA Latr.
1. L. Bivirrata.—tHlytra pale yellowish-white, with two black
yitta on each.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head black, with much crowded punctures ; an impressed line
between the antenne: antenne as long as the body: thorax
slightly punctured ; two longitudinal black spots, and an anterior
posterior submarginal, impressed line, and an obsolete, dorsal,
, longitudinal one; an obtuse, slightly elevated, lateral tubercle :
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scutel black: elytra densely punctured, rounded at tip, with two
longitudinal, blued-black lines on the disk of each: beneath
black ; sides of the pectus, margins of the ventral incisures, and
middle of the thighs, rufous.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
This insect, which is not very uncommon in the vicinity of
Council Bluff and the Pawnee villages, bears some resemblance
to the vittata of Swederus in Stockh. Trans. 1787, p. 198, and of
Hellwig in Melsh. Catal., but in that insect there is but a single
elytral vitta. In many other characters it is widely distinct,
and approaches somewhat in [417] character to the genus Rha-
gium. It varies in having an immaculate thorax and rufous
clypeus.
[Unknown to me.—L«c. ]
2. L. CYLINDRICOLLIS.—Sericeous, rufous; elytra, tibia, and
tarsi blackish.
Inhabits the United States.
Rhagium sericewm Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body sericeous, yellowish-rufous: head with a longitudinal,
indented line, and a transverse, elevated one between the antennex:
antenne rather longer than the body: palpi blackish: thorax
long, subcylindric, with a longitudinal, dorsal, and anterior and
posterior, impressed, submarginal lines: elytra blackish, attenu-
ated rectilinearly or somewhat concavely from the prominent
humerus to the obliquely emarginate or bidentate tip: feet ru-
fous: knees, tibia and tarsi, black.
Length, male more than half an inch; female more than
three-fifths.
In the male the head is often dusky, and the thorax, with the
exception of the more eleyated part, and the coxe, are blackish.
In the general appearance of the head and thorax of this
insect, it is closely allied to the genus Rhagium, and has been
referred to that genus by Mr. Melsheimer in his Catalogue ;
but as the thorax is destitute of armature, and the antennz are
longer than the body, I prefer giving it a place in the present
genus, agreeably to the generic characters of Latreille and Leach.
[ think it ought [418] to form a distinct genus, together with
Rhagium trivittatun.
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It is rather rare. The trivial name, applied by Mr. Knoch, is
pre-occupied in this genus.
[A species of Toxotus, afterwards described as 7. dives New-
man; a variety of it is 7. atratus Hald.—L«c. ]
3. L. BIcoLor.—Rufous, sericeous ; elytra black.
Inhabits the United States.
Leptura bicolor Melsh. Catal.
Body elongated, pale rufous, sericeous : head with an obsolete,
impressed line: antennz as long as the body: thorax conical ;
posterior angles acute: elytra black, attenuated; with numerous
short, prostrate, black hairs; tip very obliquely emarginate, ap-
pearing mucronate: wings black.
Length from half an inch to three-fifths.
This species is found in Pennsylvania, and on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers. It may be allied to the L. bicolor of Swede-
rus in Stockholm Trans. 1817, p. 197, but his insect is said to be
black on the upper part of the tail, a character which our insect
does not possess. In Turton’s translation of the Syst. Nat., the
name bicolor of Swederus is changed to bicolorata, so that Mr.
Melsheimer’s designation may be retained for the species here
described.
4. L. RusricA.—Black ; elytra and abdomen rufous.
Inhabits the United States.
Leptura rubrica Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body black, punctured, with numerous short hairs above, and
sericeous beneath: head obsoletely punctured: antennz as long
as the body; [419] six terminal joints fulvous at base: thorax
confluently punctured ; punctures dilated; a transverse groove
on the hind margin: scutel small, black: elytra rufous or dull
brick red; punctures numerous, becoming smaller to the tip,
which is emarginate, mutic: beneath black: abdomen rufous; of
the female, black.
Length about half an inch.
This insect occurs on the Missouri. It is found in Pennsyl-
vania, but I have not frequently observed it.
5. L. 8-norara.—Black, hairy; elytra each four-spotted.
Inhabits Mississippi.
Body deep black, with upright hairs: head rather large, with
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an impressed, longitudinal line: antenne not longer than the
body: thorax subcylindric: elytra polished; each elytron with
four subtriangular, equidistant, yellow spots; the basal one at
the base, and the terminal one near the tip; hair near the tip
shorter, and nearly prostrate ; tip truncate, mutic: posterior feet,
with the base and tarsi, yellowish.
Length less than half an inch.
But a single specimen of this species was taken by Mr. Nut-
tall on the Mississippi.
[Afterwards described as ZL. stictica Newman, and L. 4-pune-
tata Hald.—L«c. ]
6. L. LUGUBRIS.—Black ; sericeous beneath; antennz shorter
than the body.
Inhabits Lower Missouri.
L. scutellum-album ? Knoch in Melsh. Catal. [420]
Body deep black, immaculate, with short, prostrate hairs above,
and yellowish-sericeous ones beneath: head with an elevated line
between the antenne: antennz rather shorter than the body:
thorax conical ; posterior margin grooved ; posterior angles acute:
scutel with yellow hair: elytra attenuated; tip obliquely truncate,
subemarginate; the external angle acute and prominent, the inner
one rounded.
Length rather more than two-fifths of an inch.
Two specimens of this species were taken by Mr. T. Nuttall
on the banks of the lower part of the Missouri.
7. L. proxima.—Black ; elytra testaceous, with a black tip.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body deep black, hairy: antenne nearly as long as the body :
thorax rounded or subovate; a transverse groove on the posterior
margin, and an impressed line on the anterior margin: elytra
testaceous, with very short, yellowish hairs; tip black, truncate
on the edge: beneath, with long hair on the pectus, and short
hair a little sericeous on the postpectus and yenter: tail entire.
Length less than three-fifths of an inch.
Var. a. Elytra testaceous, destitute of the black tip.
I have not seen this insect in Pennsylvania. It seems to be
very closely allied to ZL. tomentosa Fab., but is larger, more
robust, and the tail is not [421] emarginate as that of tomentosa.
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The variety may prove to be a distinct species, bearing a similar
relation to proxima that the testacea of Linné does to the
tomentosa.
8. L. niInroLA.—Black ; elytra punctured ; suture, margin and
vitta, black.
Inhabits the United States.
Leptura lineola Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body black, sericeous: antennz, excepting the three basal
joints, annulate, with black and yellowish: trophi yellowish :
thorax, posterior angles prominent, acute: elytra punctured ;
suture, exterior margin, tip, and an abbreviated vitta, black ; tip
truncato-emarginate : feet pale testaceous : tarsi blackish: abdo-
men dark reddish-brown, sericeous.
Length two-fifths to nine-twentieths of an inch.
This is an inhabitant of various parts of the United States. It
is found in Pennsylvania, and on the Mississippi, though I have
not observed it to be common any where.
9. L. RuFIcoLLIs.—Black ; thorax rufous; labrum pale.
Inhabits Kentucky.
LD. collaris Melsh. Catal.
Body black, with very short hairs: antennze, basal joint dull
rufous: labrum and mouth pale rufous: thorax rufous, subglo-
bose in the middle, and with a flattened, anterior, and posterior
margin: elytra not tapering, confluently punctured, [422] black,
entire at tip: beneath sericeous: feet varied with testaceous.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
In the distribution of colors it approaches L. thoracica Fab., but
isa much smaller species. It is also very different from the co/-
laris Linn. of Europe, in being smaller and of a more slender
form.
RHAGIUM Fabr.
1. R. rrrvirrarum.—Black ; elytra with black suture, yel-
low vitta, black central line, and rufous margin.
Inhabits Mississippi.
Head black: clypeus, mouth and antenne rufous: thorax
uneven, very little narrowed before; an anterior and posterior
impressed band, and a dorsal, impressed line: scutel black: ely-
tra hardly emarginated; humerus prominent; suture black,
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broader near the base ; a broad, yellowish vitta hardly reaching
the tip; a black line from near the base separates the vitta from
the rufous margin : body, beneath black, with golden pubescence ;
feet and abdomen rufous.
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
The body is sometimes rufous. In the disposition of colers on
its elytra, this species probably bears some resemblance to R. cur-
sor. It is certainly generically distinct from R. lineatum, which
[423] is the only true Rhagium of this country that I have seen,
though it is highly probable that there is another species.
[Belongs to Toxotus.—Lxc.]
2. R. CYANIPENNE.—Black ; antenne and feet testaceous ;
elytra blue.
Inhabits the United States.
Body black, tinged with cupreous, punctured; head densely
punctured ; a longitudinal, obsolete, impressed line: antennz
rather shorter than the body, testaceous: trophi piceous-yellow :
thorax impunctured ; an obtuse tubercle each side: scutel black :
elytra violaceous-blue ; punctures numerous, small, profound ; tip
truncate ; humerus rather prominent: feet testaccous.
Length two-fifths of an inch nearly.
A rare insect. I obtained a specimen several years since near
Philadelphia, and recently Mr. Nuttall presented me with a speci-
men which he captured during his botanical expedition to the
Arkansa river,
In form of body, it very much resembles Leptura collaris and
L. virginea, as figured by Olivier, to which genus I would have
referred it, but for the small thoracic tubercles.
[The type of Gaurotes Lec. Journ. Acad. Nat. Se. 2d ser. 1,
325. Synonyms are Pachyta Serville’ Serv.; P. Jone Newman;
P. Leonardi Hald.—Lec.]
CLYTUS Fab. Latr.
1. C. wamMatus.—[Ante 1, 118.] [424]
2. C. capREA.—[Ante 1, 120.] [425]
3. C. SUPERNOTATUS.—Reddish-brown ; each elytron with a
large white spot behind on a larger black one.
Inhabits Missouri.
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Body cylindrical, reddish brown, punctured, partially covered
by very short, prostrate hair: head blackish; antennz reddish-
brown, shorter than the body; thorax in the middle blackish and
[426] more prominent: elytra entire; each elytron with an ele-
yated obtuse tubercle near the scutel: a black, longitudinal spot
from before the middle, where it is margined with a whit-
ish line, to near the tip; before its posterior termination it is in-
terrupted by a large white spot.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Found by Mr. Thomas Nuttall on the Missouri.
[The type of the Lamioid genus Psenocerus Lec. Journ. Acad.
Nat. Sc. Phila. 2d ser. 2, 158, but incorrectly considered by me
as identical with Cadlidium pini Ol., which is really a species of
Euderces Lec.—Lxc. ]
STENOCORUS.
1. S. toncrpes.—Black; thorax cylindrical, mutic, rufous;
thighs clavate ; elytra bidentate.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
Body elongated, black, punctured, subglabrous: head between
the antennz concave: antennz longer than the body: thorax
rufo-sanguineous, cylindrical, slightly dilated into a very obtuse
tubercle each side behind the middle; punctures obsolete: scu-
tel impunctured: elytra with large, rounded, deeply impressed,
numerous punctures ; apex truncato-sinuate, bidentate: thighs
clavate ; posterior ones elongated: postpectus and abdomen coy-
ered with dense, short, incumbent, cinereous hair.
Length five-sixteenths of an inch.
Found at Fort Kennedy, on Barek Creek, Missouri Territory.
It is an elongated insect, resembling a Necydalis. The posterior
thighs are much elongated, and, like the others, are clavated at
tip.
[Belongs to Rhopalophora : failing to recognize the genus, I
described it as Tinopus.—L«c. ]
2. S. MUcRONATUS.—Brown, with cinereous hair; antennz
three or four spined; thighs mucronate ; elytra bidentate.
Inhabits the United States.
Stenocorus marylandicus Melsh. Catal.
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Body reddish-brown, partially covered with short, prostrate’
cinereous hair, inequally distributed: trophi pale rufous: man-
dibles black at tip: antennze longer than the body ; third, fourth,
fifth and sixth joints terminated each by a spine, the first one
largest, two-thirds the length of the next joint: thorax with two
tubercles before the middle, two longitudinal ones at base, and a
longitudinal line, glabrous : seutel white, with dense hair, divided
into two lobes: elytra punctured; hair so disposed as to give the
surface an irregularly maculated appearance ; tip bispinose ; in-
termediate and posterior thighs bimucronate; the inner spine
longest.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
This species is not the S. marylandicus of Fabr., as described
and figured by Olivier, which is a much larger and more dilated
insect ; the thighs not mucronate, and the joints of the antennze
spinous to the tip. It is, perhaps, more closely related to S.
spinicornis Fab., but that insect is described as having the joints
of its antenne bispinous at tip.
It is a common insect in many sections of the United States
and is by no means rare in Pennsylvania; [428] we obtained
specimens on the Missouri, Platte, and Arkansa rivers.
[Belongs to Hlaphidion.—Lxc. |
MOLORCHUS Fabr.
M. BIMACULATUS.—Black, hairy; elytra testaceous on the
disk.
Inhabits the United States.
Molorchus bimaculatus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Antenne, palpi and feet rufous: thighs clavate: elytra testa-
ceous ; basal, exterior, and posterior margins black.
Length nearly one-fourth of an inch.
The feet vary in being sometimes fuscous.
DONACTA.
D. mQuaLis.—Brassy, with two dilated, indented, subsutural
spots on the elytra, and an indented, humeral line ; two elevated
lines between the eyes.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body eeneous, polished, punctured, glabrous: head with short,
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cinereous pubescence ; an obsolete, indented line; two elevated
tubercles between the eyes, extending in a depressed ridge to the
base of the antenne, where it is slightly more elevated: eyes
black : antennz clothed with cinereous pubescence; second and
third joints equal: palpi and mandibles black: thorax densely
punctured ; punctures sometimes confluent ; a longitudinal, [429]
indented line ; a lateral, dilated, hardly elevated tubercle before
the middle: scutel minutely punctured and rugulose: elytra
with regular series of punctures ; surface slightly rugulose ; two
subsutural, dilated, obsolete, indented spots near the middle, and
a subhumeral, impressed, dilated line at base: beneath argente-
ous-pruinose : feet cupreous, pubescent; a robust spine beneath
the posterior thighs near the tip.
Length rather less than seven-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Body above cupreous, polished.
Found near Engineer Cantonment.
LEMA Fabr.
1. L. rrtvitrata.—Rufous ; elytra pale; suture and margi-
nal vitta of the elytra black.
Inhabits the United States.
Crioceris trivittata Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body rufous, impunctured : antennz black; first joint rufous :
thorax contracted each side on the middle; two black spots
above, placed one on each side rather before the middle; some-
times obsolete : scutel black: elytra pale yellow; suture and ex-
terior submarginal line black; punctures arranged in series:
tibia, at tip, and tarsi, black.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
Var. a. Thorax entirely rufous, immaculate. [430 ]
I obtained specimens of this species from the vicinity of the
Rocky Mountains.
[This is L. trilineata Ol.—LEc.]
2. L. contarts.—Black; thorax rufous; elytra green, striate
with punctures.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black: head rugose, with an impressed, longitudinal
line; a slight tubercle above eachantenna: thorax bright rufous,
impunctured ; contracted each side behind the middle, and with
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an impressed, transverse line near the base above : scutel minute :
elytra bright bluish-green, with nine series of longitudinal pune-
tures: beneath black, polished, impunctured.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
Found on the Tradescantia virginica.
ORSODACNA Latr.
O. virrataA.—Black, punctured; elytra pale testaceous ;
suture and outer margin black; feet rufous.
TInhabits Missouri.
Body black, punctured : basal joints of the antenne, labrum
and palpi obscure reddish-yellow : thorax with dilated, confluent
punctures: elytra with dilated, confluent, dense punctures, pale
yellowish-white ; suture and exterior margin black: feet pale
rufous: tarsi dusky.
Length nearly one-fourth of an inch.
Found in Missouri. [431 ]
HISPA Linn. Latr.
1: H. LATERALIS.—Black ; thorax, each side, and humerus
yellowish.
Inhabits Illinois and Missouri.
Body black, punctured: head impunctured, rugose above
between the eyes: front with a prominent tubercle beneath the
antenne : antennz more robust towards the tip: thorax with a
dilated, reddish-yellow margin confluent before: pectus yellow-
ish ; each side behind black: postpectus posterior to the inter-
mediate feet, impunctured, polished: feet punctured; anterior
thighs annulate, with yellowish at base; intermediate and poste-
rior ones with a large yellowish spot near the base : elytra serrate,
each with three double and one quadruple series of large, rounded,
profoundly impressed punctures, separated by three elevated
lines, and a common sutural one ; a humeral, reddish-yellow spot
attenuated behind, and terminated over the origin of the poste-
rior feet: abdomen impunctured, polished.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Obtained on the bank of the Mississippi, above the confluence
of the Ohio river, and also near the Rocky Mountains. It is
destitute of the frontal dot of humeralis, but is probably more
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closely allied to sanguinicollis, and may prove to be scapularis
Oliy., [432] the description of which I have not seen.
[ Belongs to Anoplitis Kirby, and is Hispa scapularis Ol—
Lec. ]
2. H. pattipa.—Yellowish-white ; elytra with punctured
striz, elevated lines, and blackish, linear spots towards the tip.
Inhabits the United States.
Body pale testaceous, densely punctured: head with a longi-
tudinal, impressed line, and indented point each side near the
eyes: thorax quadrilineate, with black: elytra serrate; each
elytron with three obtuse elevated lines, and a common
one; a blackish spot before the tip of the common line, one or
two black spots behind the middle of the second line, and one
before the middle; two upon the next line, of which one is upon
the middle of it; two upon the next line, and two corresponding
ones upon the lateral edge; between each two of the elevated
lines are double series of profoundly impressed, large, transverse
punctures: feet pale testaceous : beneath black or pale yellowish,
varied with black: venter black or pale yellow, with four series
of brown spots.
Length about three-twentieths of an inch.
[Appears to be Hispa rosea Weber.—LkEc. |
3. H. opsoLteTA.—Blackish ; thorax with punctured striz,
elevated lines, and obsolete, yellowish spots.
Inhabits the United States.
Head dull rufous, black at base, and with a black line im-
pressed in the middle: antennz black: thorax dull yellowish,
with four equidistant [433] black lines: elytra black, serrate,
each with three elevated lines, and a common sutural one, sepa-
rated by double series of large, profoundly impressed, transverse
punctures ; several small dull yellowish or rufous spots on the
elevated lines, (placed similarly to the black elytral spots of the
preceding species) and a larger spot at tip; beneath black: feet
pale testaceous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Very similar to the preceding species, than which it is more
common ; as in that insect the spots on each elytron are arranged
in two oblique bands, of which the anterior one is much more
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oblique than the posterior one; but as several of these spots are
often obsolete or wanting, the bands are not alway to be traced.
[This is H. ineequalis Weber ; H. flavipes Germ. is a synonym.
—LEc.] ;
4. H. cyANEA.—Bluish-violaceous ; beneath black ; vertex ru-
gose.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body above bluish-violaceous: head dusky: vertex with three
longitudinal grooves, which attain the base of the antennae: an-
tenne black: thorax with confluent, dilated, excavated punctures ;
elytra with regular series of large, dilated, punctures : interstitial
lines slightly elevated ; serratures of the margin and tip obso-
lete ; beneath black.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch ; male much smaller.
5. H.connaris.—Thorax red; elytra blue; beneath black. [484]
Inhabits Arkansa.
Head black : antenne, five terminal joints clothed with minute,
cinereous hairs : thorax bright rufous, indented on the middle of
the base; punctures much dilated, profound: elytra blue, with
regular series of large, dilated punctures ; interstitial lines slightly
elevated; edge distinctly serrated; beneath black.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
I found but a single specimen near the Rocky Mountains.
[A Microrhopala unknown to me.—L«c. ]
CASSIDA
C. untpuncTaTA.—Yellow; margin whitish ; thorax with a
black spot.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body oval, yellow: head whitish: antenne black at tip: la-
brum black : thorax, anterior and lateral margin white : an ab-
breviated, black line on the middle: elytra irregularly punc-
tured; margin pale or whitish: beneath black, varied with
whitish : feet whitish.
Length two-fifths, breadth about one-fourth of an inch.
The form of this species is more oblong than any other of its
American congeners; it is also of a larger size than either of
them that I have seen. [ 335 ]
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IMATIDIUM Fabr.
1. I. 17-punctatumM.—Yellowish ; thorax four-spotted ; elytra
twelve-spotted.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body pale yellowish, punctured: antennz black at tip: front
with an impressed linc: mouth dusky: thorax four-spotted in a
transyerse series ; the two intermediate spots most distant: scutel
black : elytra each six-spotted ; spots subequal, placed obliquely
2, 2, 2, and an obsolete common one near the suture: beneath
yellow, or yellow varied with black: tarsi black.
Length two-fifths, breadth one-fourth of an inch.
The position of the black spots is as in 13-punctata, but their
number differs; the general color is different, and 17-punctata is
of amore slender form than its congener. Found near the
Rocky Mountains.
[This is C. cribraria Fabr., and belongs to Chelymorpha.—
Lec. ]
2. I. cYANEUM.—Suborbicular, blue, with dilated punctures ;
antennee pale.
Inhabits Georgia.
Body deep blue, suborbicular, with profound, excavated punc-
tures; head slightly punctured; a longitudinal, impressed line :
antennz, excepting the basal joint, pale yellow: thorax, poste-
rior edge forming nearly a semicircle, lobate at the scutel ;
lateral edge almost transverse ; anterior margin very profoundly
emarginate ; punctures, each side [ 436] dilated, on the middle
obsolete: scutel purple, truncate at tip: elytra, humeral angle
advanced subacute ; punctures arranged in series, and each with
a minute, central, purplish tubercle ; tergum sanguineous: be-
neath black, impunctured.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
A very beautiful species, commmon on the sea islands of
Georgia and Kast Florida.
[Belongs to Porphyraspis Boh., and is Cassida erythrocera
Germ. The specific names both bear the date of 1824; the one
of Germar is adopted by Boheman and will therefore prevail.
Lec. |
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CLYTHRA Laich, Latr.
C. 4-aurrata.—Black ; elytra, with a large, red, humeral
spot, and an orbicular terminal one.
Inhabits the United States.
Cryptocephalus 4-guttatus Oliv. in Melsh. Catal.
Body deep black, polished, punctured : head and thorax, punc-
tures minute, profound; elytra, punctures obsolete or very
slightly impressed ; a large red spot on the humerus, and another
orbicular one at the tip of each.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Very much resembles Cryptocephalus 4-maculatus.
[Previously described as C. laticlavis Forster, C. obsita Fabr.,
and C. nigripes Fabr. ; C. ephippium Germ. is also a synonym.—
Lec. ]
CRYPTOCEPHALUS.
1. C. ni@Ricornis.—Black; thorax and elytra obscurely
margined with rufous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, punctured: labrum and basal joints [437] of
the antennz, beneath rufous: thorax, lateral margin rufous;
edge black: elytra with regular series of punctures; exterior
margin, tip, base, and subsutural line obscure rufous; edge
black ; an obsolete, rufous spot each side of the tail.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
One or two of the interstitial lines of the elytra are sometimes
very obsoletely rufous, particularly in the larger females. In
some of the males the rufous margin is hardly perceptible.
[Belongs to Pachybrachys, according to Suffrian, Linn. Ent.
7, 161.—L«c. ]
2. C. ABDOMINALIS.—Gray-brown ; the punctures black ; be-
neath black ; feet and margin of the abdomen pale.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body gray-brown, punctured: head and thorax irregularly
clouded with markings composed of blackish, impressed punc-
tures: elytra striate with black punctures: beneath black : feet
pale, with a black femoral spot; edge of the venter pale: tail
whitish, with small, blackish dots.
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Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
[Also a Pachybrachys.—Lxc. |
3. C. rascratus.—Yellowish, varied with rufous: elytra with
three bands ; beneath rufous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body yellowish, punctured: head rufous; orbits yellowish ;
punctures crowded, irregular: eyes black, transverse: antennz
dusky at tip: labrum dusky at base: thorax varied with yellow-
ish and rufous ; punctures sometimes confluent ; posterior angles
a little produced backwards and acute: [438] scutel rounded at
tip : elytra striate, with large, deeply impressed punctures ; punc-
tures at tip irregularly disposed ; three dilated, somewhat undu-
lated, rufous fascize : beneath rufous: feet somewhat paler.
Length about three-twentieths of an inch.
Found near the Konza river. At first sight it might be taken
for a variety of C. congestus, of which the spots had become
confluent into bands, but the much punctured thorax is a dis-
tinguishing character that cannot in this instance be mistaken.
4. C. puncTIpES.—Black ; front two-spotted; thorax with
three spots, and margin rufous; elytra varied with whitish
spots.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body black, punctured : labrum each side, base of the antenne,
three or four small obsolete spots between the antenne, and two
larger ones between the eyes, dull rufous: thorax, anterior and
lateral margins, two oblique, dilated, abbreviated lines at base,
and one at tip dull rufous: elytra with punctured strie; basal
edge, three large marginal spots, of which one is terminal; a
smaller one on the middle, near the suture, and two or three
smaller ones near the base, yellowish: thighs with a white ob-
long spot near the anterior tip: tail with two dull rufous dots,
and a smaller one each side on the terminal ventral segment.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Corresponds in some respects with Olivier’s [439] descrip-
tion of his C. brunnipes, but besides some other differences, the
antennee are shorter than the body. It may possibly, however,
be the same.
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5. C. FEMORATUS.—Black ; labrum white ; thorax with three
rufous spots; elytra with a whitish, basal edge.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body black, punctured: antennze pale rufous at base: eyes
approaching above: labrum white: thorax with a dilated, longi-
tudinal, red spot on the lateral margin, and a line in the middle
much dilated on the basal margin and edge; elytra, punctures
irregularly disposed, and approximate at base, becoming in regu-
lar series towards the tip; basal edge white: anterior thighs more
robust than the others.
Size of the preceding.
The form of this species is very like that of punctipes. Varies
in having the thorax entirely red, slightly shaded with black;
with a few small whitish points on the posterior part of the ely-
tra, and obsolete white spots on the anterior femora.
[Belongs to Pachybrachys, and is the same with C. luridus
Fabr.—LEc. ] .
6. C. RECURVUS.—Black ; margins of the thorax and elytra
yellowish.
Inhabits the United States.
Body black : head impunctured : labrum dark piceous : thorax
yellowish-rufous, impunctured ; a large, dorsal, black spot which
attains the posterior but not the anterior edge ; a small round dot
each side sometimes obsolete or wanting : elytra with [440] punc-
tured striz ; exterior and terminal margins yellow; edge black :
beneath all black.
Length about one-ninth of an inch.
A pretty little species, and bears some resemblance to Chryso-
mela marginella of Donovan, and as in that species, the yellow of
the terminal margin is recurved for a short distance upon the
sutural margin. It is probably allied to the C. hituratus Fab.
[This is a variety of C. lituratus Fab—Lxc.]
7. C. conrFLUENTUS.—[ Ante 1, 64.]
8. C. Brvirrarus.—[Ante 1, 65.] [441]
9. C. 4-macuLATuS.—Black ; elytra with a large red spot on
the humeral base, and an orbicular terminal one.
Inhabits the United States.
Cryptocephalus 4-maculatus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
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Body deep black, polished, obsoletely punctured: labrum at
tip, and antennz at base, pale : elytra with strize of large profound
punctures; a large, red, humeral spot extending along the base
to the scutel, and along the exterior margin nearly to the middle :
a large, orbicular, red spot near the tip of each elytron. [442]
Var. a. Humeral spot not extending along the base, but oblong-
oval.
Var. b. Humeral and terminal spots elongated so as to unite
on the margin.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Very similar in color and appearance to Clythra 4-quttata.
COLASPIS Fabr. Latr.
1. C. prerexta.—Metallic; thorax and elytra edged with
green ; antenne and feet pale.
Inhabits the United States.
Eumolpus metallicus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body dull reddish or dusky, tinged with cupreous; polished,
punctured ; head, punctures remote; a profoundly impressed,
frontal line: antennz and palpi pale, whitish : labrum and tip of
the clypeus somewhat piceous: thorax, punctures profound, sub-
equally distributed ; lateral, reflected edge green: scutel, punc-
tures obsolete : elytra, punctures, rather large, scattered irregu-
larly at base; near the tip smaller, and approaching regular se-
ries ; beneath piceous: feet pale.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
It is not uncommon on the myrtle. The name mefallicus is
pre-occupied.
[This is C. pictpes Ol.; it is placed in Dejean’s Catalogue in
Chalcophana, a genus of which I have not seen any description.
—L«c. |
2. C. ovATA.—Blackish-coppery, convex; antennz and feet
pale rufous.
Inhabits the United States. [443]
Eumolpus ovatus Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body blackish, with a cupreous tinge, punctured : head densely
punctured: antennze and palpi entirely pale rufous or yellowish :
labrum piceous: thorax with dense, somewhat equally distributed
punctures: elytra, punctures longer, and irregularly disposed at
1824.]
212 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
base; near the tip smaller, and approaching regular series; be-
neath blackish : feet pale rufous.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
A much smaller and much more convex species than the pre-
ceding one. In the form of the terminal joint of the maxillary
palpi, this species closely approaches the genus Humolpus.
3. ©. CONVEXA.—Blackish ; labrum and base of the antenne
rufous ; an indented line on the vertex.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body convex, blackish, tinged with greenish or dull cupreous,
punctured : head minutely punctured; an indented, abbreviated
line near the vertex, which does not extend below a line drawn
between the middle of the eyes; space between the antenne
plain: antennz black; six basal joints pale rufous: labrum pice-
us: palpi pale at base; tip black: thorax densely and minutely
punctured : elytra with large and more distant punctures, some
of which become almost regular series near the tip: beneath
black, somewhat tinged with brassy : feet piceous-black : thighs
subclavate. [444]
Length less one-fifth of an inch. *
4. 0. spraTa.—Black; labrum, palpi, and ete of the antennx,
dull rufous; elytra striate, with punctures.
Tnhabits Missouri.
Body black, punctured, immaculate : head with obsolete, small
punctures ; an obsolete, indented abbreviated line near the vertex,
hardly attaining a line drawn between the middle of the eyes:
antenne, five or six basal joints dusky rufous: labrum piceous :
palpi pale at base: thorax, punctures minute, not deeply im-
pressed : elytra with regular series of large, profound punctures:
thighs dilated in the middle.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
[A species belonging to Paria Lec., Proc. Acad. Nat. Se.
Phil. 1858, 86; itis C. aterrima Oliv.—LeEc.]
5. OC. PUNCTICOLLIS.—Greenish or cupreous; thoracic punec-
tures oval; labrum and antenne at base rufous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head and thorax with crowded, longitudinally oval, profound
punctures: antennee black-brown ; six basal joints pale ; labrum
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and mandibles piceous: palpi pale at base: elytra, punctures
scattered, near the tip placed in obsolete series: feet dark pice-
ous: thighs black.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Very similar to C. convexa, but is smaller, and the thoracic punc-
tures are larger. The feet are sometimes entirely rufous. [ 445]
6. C. 10-norara.—Rufous-brown, hairy; elytra each with
about six obsolete, black spots.
Inhabits the United States.
Body dark reddish-brown, punctured, clothed with short cine-
reous hair: labrum and base of the antennz yellowish: thorax
emarginate: elytra with dilated, confluent punctures: humerus
prominent ; each with a black spot on the middle of the base,
one on the humerus, a linear, dorsal one near the suture, a fourth
near the margin, sometimes double, and a double one before the
tip: thighs with a projecting angle beneath.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
A very distinct species; it may perhaps, with almost equal
propriety, be referred to the genus Lumolpus.
[ Belongs to Pachnephorus.—Lxc. |
7. C. 6-norata.—Pale ; each elytron with three black spots.
Inhabits the United States.
Body pale punctured: front with an obsolete black spot: ely-
tra with regular series of punctures, which disappear towards the
tip; a black, linear spot near the base, and two others on the
middle, which are parallel and approximate, and of which the
interior one is placed rather further backward: beneath black:
pectus, feet, and posterior portion of the venter, pale: thighs
with a slight angle beneath.
Length about three-twentieths of an inch. [446]
Ihave found this specimen in considerable numbers on the
common Juniper in July.
[Belongs to Paria.—Lec. ]
8. 0. 4-noraTa.—Black ; head rufous ; elytra testaceous, with
two black spots.
Inhabits the United States.
Body black, punctured: head obscure rufous: antenne paler
at base: thorax black, immaculate ; punctures sparse, not pro-
1824.]
214 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
found: seutel pale reddish-brown: elytra pale testaceous, with
strie of punctures, which become obsolete before the tip; a
black, oblique spot near the base of each, and a larger obliquely,
quadrate one on the middle; exterior edge black: feet pale:
thighs with a minute angle beneath.
Length about three-twentieths of an inch.
It has considerable resemblance to the preceding.
[Also a Paria.—LEc. ]
9. C. PALLIDA.—Pale rufous: elytra pale testaceous, immacu-
late.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body very pale rufous ; head obsoletely punctured ; an indented,
abbreviated line or spot on the vertex: thorax, punctures small,
sometimes obsolete: elytra pale testaceous, with striz of pune-
tures which become obsolete before the tip: beneath pale.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Very similar to C. 6-notata, but is always destitute of spots
on the elytra.
[This and the next belong to Metachroma, as limited by me,
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila. 1858, 85. I consider them both as
varieties of M. quercatum.—Lxc. | [447 |
10. C. puBrosA.—Pale rufous; elytra pale testaceous, with a
black suture dilated at base.
Inhabits Arkansa.
This species seems to differ from the preceding, only by hay-
ing a black suture dilated at base, a black lateral edge on the an-
terior half, sometimes obsolete, and a black, basal ventral seg-
ment; the thorax is sometimes obsoletely dotted with black, and
in one specimen is a small black spot anterior to the middle of
each elytra; the 6-notata, 4-notata, pallida, and dubiosa may
possibly prove to be the same species, exhibiting remarkably dis-
tinct variations in the distributions of its colors. Found near
the Rocky Mountains. I think it possible that dubiosa may
prove to be a variety of Crytocephalus canellus Fabr.
11. C. FAvosA.—Greenish, with dilated, profound punctures :
antennez black, testaceous at base.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body greenish, with a coppery tinge, with numerous, approxi-
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mate, irregularly disposed, confluent, profound, dilated punctures :
eyes brown: antenne black, dark testaceous at ‘base : labrum
piceous, impunctured : edge of the thorax and elytra more ex-
clusively bluish or violaceous; punctures of the elytra larger
than the thoracic ones ; humeral prominence impunctured : pec-
tus with smaller punctures: postpectus with a few minute punc-
tures furnishing minute hairs, and with [448] the venter, which
is impunctured, bluish-violaceous: feet dark violaceous.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
12. C. pENTICOLLIS.—Lateral thoracic edge three-toothed ;
elytra serrate.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, slightly bronzed, covered with dense, robust,
cinereous hairs: antenne dull rufous at base: thorax with three
equal, equidistant teeth on the lateral edge: elytra, lateral edge
minutely dentated; tip simple: anterior tibia and posterior
thighs one-toothed.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
[Belongs to Myochrous Chevr., of which I have seen no descrip-
tion.— LEC. |
15. C. InteERRUPTA.—Rufous ; thorax with two spots; elytra,
suture, exterior edge, and abbreviated vitta, black.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body rufous, punctured : antennee black ; five basal joints pale
rufous : thorax with a large black spot on each side: scutel pice-
ous: elytra rather paler, with regular punctured striz, which are
nearly obsolete at tip; a black suiural line, exterior edge, and
oblique vitta, which originates upon the humerus, is interrupted
at the middle, and terminates before the tip: beneath blackish :
feet pale rufous.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Found near the Rocky Mountains.
[Belongs to Metachroma.—tL«c. ] [ 449 |
EUMOLPUS Fabr. Latr.
HK. crypricus.—Entirely covered with short, cincereous hair;
elytra very acute at tip.
Inhabits Missouri.
1824.]
216 "ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Body densely covered with short, robust, cinereous hair, be-
neath which the surface is dull reddish, inclining to cupreous ;
punctured: scutel dusky, sparsely hairy: elytra with very small,
profound punctures, which are more distant from each other than
the length of their diameters ; tip attenuated equally from the
suture and exterior edge; a little produced, and terminating
acutely.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
Very similar to a smaller species which Mr. F’. N. Melsheimer,
in his catalogue, names pilosus ; but the elytral punctures of that
insect are much more crowded.
CHRYSOMELA of Authors.
1. C. nyBripA.—Ferruginous ; elytra pale yellow ; suture and
three lines on each ferruginous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body oval, punctured, ferruginous: thorax irregularly pune-
tured, and with large, confluent punctures each side: scutel im-
punctured, rounded at tip: elytra, with the suture and three
lines, rufous ; the intermediate line undulated, and united [450]
to the exterior one at base, and abbreviated at tip: wings pink
red.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch.
Very much resembles C. exclamationis Fab., but, besides other
differences, the exterior elytral line is not interrupted; in the
color of the thorax it approaches Fabricius’ description of that
species. Brought from the Missouri by Mr. T. Nuttall.
2. C. MULTIPUNCTATA.—Ferruginous; thorax yellow, with a
ferruginous curve ; elytra yellow, with numerous green spots.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head and all beneath ferruginous ; thorax yellow, with a ferru-
ginous, irregular, arquated line and basal edge, including an ob-
solete dot: elytral with a sutural line, and numerous, irregular,
green dots and abbreviated lines, and immaculate, exterior mar-
gin: wings rosaceous.
Var, a. Suture with a common, ferruginous fillet.
Size of C. philadelphica, which it closely resembles; but, al-
though it varies much, it may always be distinguished from that
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species by the colors of the head and thorax, which, in the phila-
delphica, are always green, immaculate. Numerous specimens
were brought from Missouri by Mr. T. Nuttall.
3. C. pisstminis.—Dark purple or greenish ; antennze black 5
beneath blued-black. [451 |
Inhabits Missouri.
Body dark purple, violaceous or greenish, punctured ; punc-
tures profound, subequally distributed : head impressed between
the antennz: antennz and palpi black : thorax regularly convex ;
lateral edges regularly arquated; scutel impunctured: elytra
destitute of striz: beneath blued-black: venter, punctures
sparse.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
Varies in its colors. It is sometimes of a very dark purple
color, and sometimes of a bright green, more or less tinged, how-
ever, with violaceous, particularly about the suture.
4, C. ForMosA.—Green-gold, brilliant : antennze black ; suture
of the elytra purple; beneath violaceous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body golden-green, brilliant, punctured: antennz and palpi
black : labrum purplish : thorax somewhat inequal ; edges bluish :
scutel purple, impunctured: elytra slightly and irregularly ru-
gose, punctured ; suture purple; exterior edge blue: beneath
violaceous: tibia black.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
A brilliant little insect.
5. OC. BASILARIS.—Green ; antenne black ; basal joint rufous ;
thorax with a thickened margin.
TInhabits Arkansa. .
Body green, very slightly glossed with violaceous, punctured :
vertex with an impressed line: [452] antenne black; basal
joint rufous: thorax indistinctly punctured; punctures distant ;
lateral margin much thickened: elytra with irregularly scattered
punctures : venter dusky, with a greenish gloss.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
I obtained this species near the Rocky Mountains.
[Unknown to me.—LEc. ]
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6. C. AURIPENNIS.—Violaceous; margin of the thorax
thickened ; elytra golden.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body violaceous: antennze black, dark violaceous at base : tho-
rax with slight, distant punctures ; lateral margin much thickened :
seutel violaceous, rounded : elytra golden-cupreous, brilliant ; ex-
terior edge green, punctured; punctures placed in somewhat
regular series.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
A yery beautiful insect, of which I obtained but a single speci-
men near the Rocky Mountains.
7. C. FLAVOMARGINATA.—Black ;_ thoracic margin thickened ;
elytra margined with yellowish.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, punctured: thorax, punctures each side larger ;
lateral margin thickened : elytra with regular series of punctures,
and smaller irregularly disposed punctures: exterior margin and
tip yellowish ; beneath black.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
Collected in Missouri by Mr. T. Nuttall. [ 453]
HELODES Payk.
H. opsoLeta.—Black ; thorax and elytra margined with yel-
lowish.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body blackish, punctured; head and thorax tinged with green,
margin of the latter yellowish, thickened, with a black, insu-
lated point : elytra tinged with violaceous, irregularly punctured ;
margin, tip, and obsolete lines before and behind the middle, yel-
lowish : beneath black, immaculate.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Var. a. Obsolete lines none.
[ Belongs to Chrysomela, as at present received.—LEC. ]
DORYPHORA Tllig.
1. D. 10-t1nraTA.—Yellow ; thorax litterate, with black ; ely-
tra each with five black lines.
Inhabits Missouri and Arkansa.
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Body yellow: head with a triangular, black, frontal spot : tho-
rax, two abbreviated, black, approximate lines, divergent before ;
about six black dots on each side: elytra, suture, and five lines
on each, black; the interior line is confluent with the suture be-
hind ; exterior line marginal; three intermediate ones joined or
approximated at tip: beneath, incisures and three or four series
of ventral spots black.
Length two-fifths of an inch. [ 454 }
Var. a. Elytra white: the two outer intermediate lines are
united at base and tip.
This species seems to be not uncommon on the Upper Missouri,
where it was obtained by Mr. Nuttall and by myself. The
variety I found on the Arkansa.
2. D. 8-mAcuLATA.—Bluish-green ; elytra yellow, with a com-
mon band, and each with a triangular, black spot near the tip ;
feet purplish.
Inhabits the United States.
Chrysomela maculata Melsh. Catal.
#s trimaculata ? Fab. Syst. Eleut.
Bluish-green, punctured: antennze and palpi black: elytra
punctured in double lines, which become confused near the tip ;
a dilated, black band extending in breadth from near the base to
the middle, not attaining the lateral edge, and often interrupted
in the middle of each elytron; a large, triangular spot near the
tip of each elytron: beneath black-blue ; feet purplish.
Length two-fifth of an inch.
A common insect. Mr. Nuttall captured a specimen with the
band interrupted into small spots, and the triangular spot near
the tip entirely wanting.
This species is no doubt closely related to Chrysomela trimacu-
lata of Fabr., if not the same, which I believe it to be, although
that insect is said to be a native of South America, and the
tarsi are not rufous as those of that insect are described [455 ]
to be. The terminal joint of the maxillary palpi is very short
and transverse ; in this respect, corresponding in character with
the palpi of the genus Doryphora, as defined by Mr. Latreille,
and, although, as in the preceding species, the prosternum is not
remarkably advanced, I prefer arranging it here.
1824.]
220 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
GALLERUCA Geoff. Leach.
1. G. coryitI.—Pale yellowish, testaceous; elytra bifasciate
with blue.
Inhabits the United States. Illinois.
Galleruca coryli J. F. Melsheimer’s letter to me.
Body pale yellowish-testaceous: head with an impressed line
between the antennze: antenne blackish: labrum hirsute: man-
dibles black at tip: thorax transversely concave in the middle ;
anterior angles subacute ; posterior ones rounded : scutel rounded
at tip: elytra somewhat dilated behind the middle, with numerous,
minute punctures, a much dilated blue band at base, and a still
larger one at tip: wings black.
Var. a. Pale yellowish-testaceous, immaculate.
Length more than half an inch.
A very large species; it is considerably dilated behind, and
has probably considerable affinity with the genus Ador‘um, but
the terminal joint of the palpi is not truncated. It occurs in
Maryland [456] and Virginia, on the banks of the Missouri,
and J. F. Melsheimer informs me that it is so numerous in some
parts of Virginia, that it completely defoliates, in a short time,
the Hazel, (Corylus americanus) wpon which it feeds.
[A species of Celomera.—Lxc. ]
2. G. TUBERCULATA.—Dull reddish-brown ; a slight tubercle
at the anterior and posterior angles.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body dull reddish-brown, immaculate, with prostrate hairs :
antennz black, rufous at three basal incisures: thorax with a
much dilated, slightly indented spot each side, and an inconspicu-
ous, central line; edge slightly emarginated each side of the pos-
terior angles, which, with the anterior angles, are somewhat
elevated, and resemble slight tubercles: elytra irregularly pune-
tured: knees, tibia, and tarsi black.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
This species is remarkable by its dull, and, with the exception
of the antenne and feet, uniform reddish-brown color; the two
emarginations near the posterior thoracic angles are so obtuse as
to be little more than truncations ; the lateral one of which pro-
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duces an angle at its anterior termination on the middle of the
edge.
[Belongs to Adimonia,—Lec. ]
3. G. porsaTa.—Pale yellowish ; elytra blue, with a yellow
outer margin and tip.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body pale yellowish: head black on the vertex: antennz
black-brown: thorax immaculate; punctures [457] obsolete :
seutel blackish-bronze: elytra irregularly punctured, greenish-
blue; exterior margin and tip yellow ; an indented, abbreviated
line on the basal middle: feet with a blackish line above.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Found on the banks of the Arkansa above the Verdigris.
[ Unknown to me.—Lzc. ]
4. G. crrncumpATA.—Yellowish; antenne black; elytra pur-
plish-black, with a yellow border and suture.
Inhabits Arkansa and Missouri.
Body yellowish: head impunctured: antenne black: thorax
impunctured, transversely-quadrate ; edges nearly rectilinear ;
seutel yellow: elytra with minute, distant punctures, blackish-
purple; suture, exterior margin, and tip, yellow: beneath pale
yellow.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch,
The basal joint of the antennze is sometimes yellowish.
[Perhaps a Phyllobrotica described by Fabricius as G. dis-
coidea ; but that species has usually the first three joints of the
antenne yellow, and the thorax is bifoveate-——Lxo.]
5. G. TRICINCTA.—Yellowish ; head, three elytral bands, and
terminal dot, black.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Head black: thorax yellowish, subquadrate: scutel black:
elytra yellowish-white, with three equidistant, dilated, black
bands, the first of which is uninterrupted and basal, not attaining
the lateral edge, and at the suture extending in a common line
near to the second band ; second band nearly central, and with
the third, not attaining the exterior edge, and interrupted at the
1824.]
222 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
suture; a small black dot on each elytron at tip; stri# none;
punctures numerous, obsolete ; postpectus black: knees, tibia,
and tarsi black.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Observed near the mountains on the bank of the Arkansa
river.
[Belongs to Diabrotica.—LEc. ]
6: G. EXTERNA.—Blackish-brown, confluently punctured ;
margin of the elytra yellowish.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body blackish-brown, with dense, dilated, confluent pune-
tures: head with a longitudinal, indented line: thorax some-
what inequal, with a longitudinal, indented line, and lateral,
irregular ones: scutel rounded at tip: elytra confluently punc-
tured, with three or four elevated, impunctured lines; lateral
margin and tip slightly dilated, yellow: beneath black.
Length more than seven-twentieths of an inch.
It is much more robust than G. baccharidis.
[This is a species of Adimonia.—Lxc, ]
7. G. puNoTIcoLLIs.—Dull yellowish-brown ; thorax conilu-
ently punctured, unequal ; antennze and two fillets on each elytron
black.
Inhabits Mississippi and Arkansa.
Body with minute hairs: head, above confluently punctured :
clypeus and labrum glabrous: antenne black: thorax rough,
with excavated, confluent punctures; immaculate, inequal :
elytra with minute punctures; fillets obsolete, often wanting
[459] or hardly visible: thighs with a black spot: tibia and
tarsi black.
Length three-twentieths of and inch.
Captured by Mr. T. Nuttall on the Mississippi. I also found
specimens on the Arkansa near the Mountains. It considerably
resembles G. baccharidis Fab., but, besides its different mark-
ings, its thorax is very much punctured.
[Appears to be allied to G. notata and G. notulata Fabr: ;
I have not yet fully identified it—Lzc.]
8. G. ATTENUATA.—Yellowish-brown; thorax with three black
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spots; elytra greenish-blue, polished [punctured ?]; margin and
abbreviated fillet yellowish.
Inhabits Missisippi.
Body yellowish-brown: head with an impressed line on the
front : antenne and vertex black: thorax with a dorsal spot and
lateral one each side, black: elytra greenish-blue, with very
minute, crowded, and confluent punctures; fillet attenuated,
arising from the middle of the base, and terminating beyond the
middle of the elytron, and with the exterior margin and tip yel-
lowish-brown.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The fillet varies in length, and its breadth sometimes continues
undiminished to the tip. Captured by Mr. T. Nuttall.
[I have a species which agrees with this except that the elytra
are not polished, nor do [ think that character will be found in
any species haying three thoracic spots.—LEc. ]
9. G. pEcoRATA.—Yellowish ; antennz, vertex, and two spots
on each elytron black.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body yellowish, immaculate, glabrous: vertex and antennae,
excepting'the three basal joints, black : edges linear ; the posterior
one slightly [460] sinuate: scutel black at base: elytra obso-
letely punctured, rounded at tip; each with an oval, black spot
at base, and a larger, oblong one extending from the middle to
near the tip: pectus and postpectus black.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
The second and third joints of the antennz are subequal, and
taken together are hardly longer than the fourth, as in the genus
Adimonia of Schrank.
[A spevies of Phyllobrotica, previously described by Olivier
as G. 4-maculata,a name already employed; subsequently by
Kirby as G. Olivieri—Lxc.]
10. G. LoNGIcorNIs.—Green, oblong; thorax with two im-
pressed spots; elytra with a black fillet and suture.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body pale greenish: eyes blackish: antenne as long as the
body ; second and third joints conjointed, shorter than the fourth :
thorax subquadrate ; two dilated, oval, impressed spots placed
1824.]
224 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
rather behind the middle: elytra irregularly punctured; three
or four obsolete, elevated lines, of which the exterior one is
largest, and colored by a brown fillet which does not attain the
tip: a brown common sutural line.
Var. a. Destitute of the fillet and sutural line.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
I obtained specimens near the Rocky Mountains. The length
of the antennze in some specimens would authorize the placing
of it in the genus Luperus, whilst the abbreviation of the third
and fourth joints resembles those of the genus Adimonia [461]
of Schrank. This insect varies in being more robust, with the
antennee shorter than the body, and the elytra, at first view, are
entirely olive-green ; but on inspection, vestiges of the fillet and
sutural line sometimes are visible near the base. It is very simi-
lar to Criaceris vittata of Fab.
[Belongs to Phyllobrotica.—L«xc. ]
11. G. ATRipeNNIs.—Black; thorax rufous, with two im-
pressed spots ; venter pale yellowish-rufous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Black, impunctured: head, an indented, frontal spot, and a
carinate line between the antennz: thorax pale rufous; two di-
lated, indented spots: elytra irregularly and confluently punc-
tured ; an elevated line from the humerus, parallel with the edge :
pectus and venter pale rufous.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
The second and third joints of the antenne are abbreviated
and equal, as in the preceding species.
[A species of Phyllobrotica, unknown to me, but closely allied
to G. (Adimonia) cristata Harris, Trans. Hartford Nat. Hist.
Soc., 90, which differs chiefly by the thorax having a wide black
vitta, and by the body being black.—Lec.]
12. G. ATRIVENTRIS.—Pale rufous; antennee, elytra, and ab-
domen, black.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body pale rufous: eyes black: antenne ten-jointed, black:
thorax with a dilated, black margin; interrupted before the scu-
tel: scutel pale rufous : elytra black, glabrous, immaculate : wings
black: feet, line above the femora, tibia and tarsi black: abdo-
men deep black.
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Var. a. Thorax destitute of the black margin.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
On the Amorpha fruticosa, the leaves of which [462] it
feeds upon. The antenne are as long as the body, as in the
genus Luperus, and have but ten distinct articulations.
[The ten-jointed antennz are seen only in the male; in the
female those organs have eleven joints. Otherwise this species
belongs to Phyllobrotica.—Lxc. ]
LANGURIA [atr.
1. L. punoticotuis. [Ante, 1, 86.]
2. L. 3-rascrata. [Ante, 1, 86.]
[Continuation from Vol. 4, 1824, pp. 88—89.]
ALTICA Geoff. Latr.
1. A. arpprITaARsA.—Rufous, antennz black; elytra green;
thorax spotted.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body rufous, glabrous, ovate: head with an impressed frontal
line : antennz blackish : thorax three-spotted ; dorsal spot double ;
lateral ones smaller and rounded: scutel-purplish-bronze : elytra
green, polished; punctures obsolete, irregular: beneath yellow-
ish-rufous: thighs rufous: tibia and tarsi blackish; terminal
joint of the posterior tarsi very gibbous, almost spherical near
the claws.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
[Belongs to Oedionychis.—LEc. |
2. A. viANS.—Thorax yellowish, with a transverse black
spot ; head and elytra black.
Inhabits the United States.
_ Altica vians Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Head black: thorax yellowish; a transverse, black spot, not
undulated, occupying nearly all the disk: elytra greenish-black,
with minute, equidistant punctures: beneath black: pectus, on
each [84] side, excepting a small black spot, yellowish: venter
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margined with rufous: terminal joint of the posterior tarsi gib-
bous near the claws.
Length nearly one-fourth of an inch.
[Belongs to Oedionychis, and previously described by Mliger
under the same name.—LEc. ]
3. A. scrIpTIcOoLLIs.—Black; thorax yellowish, with a trans-
verse, undulated spot ; venter yellow.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body oval, black, glabrous, minutely punctured: head with a
transverse, rufous, frontal spot, and another very small one at the
base of each antenna: thorax yellow; a transverse, undulated,
spot occupying more than two-thirds of the transverse diameter :
scutel impunctured, rounded at tip: elytra black, immaculate ;
pectus yellowish: venter pale yellowish; terminal joint of the
posterior tarsi gibbous near the claws.
Length nearly one-fourth of an inch.
Very like the preceding, but may be distinguished by the
frontal spot, and by the undulated, litterate form of the thoracic
spot.
[Belongs to Oedionychis—Lxc. ]
4, A. TRIANGULARIS.—Black ; thorax yellowish, with three
black points placed triangularly.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body oval, black, glabrous : thorax yellowish, with three black
points placed triangularly, the two anterior ones orbicular, the
posterior one linear, very short: elytra violaceous-black, and as
well as the thorax, minutely punctured: pectus, excepting the
origin of the feet, yellow ; terminal joint of the tarsi simple. [85]
Length about one-fourth of an inch.
Remarkable by the triangular position of the black thoracic
points. 4
5. A. BIMARGINATA.—Blue ; thorax with an impressed trans-
verse line; elytra with a much elevated line near the margin.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body oblong-oval, blue, minutely punctured: antennz black :
thorax with an impressed, transverse, rectilinear line behind the
middle, attaining the lateral margins, and another impressed
line before, which is interrupted in the middle and abbreviated
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each side: elytra with an elevated, submarginal line each side,
originating on the humerus, and nearly parallel with the ex-
terior edge.
The posterior thighs are much less dilated than those of col-
laris Fabr.
6. A. 5-virrara.—Yellowish; thorax four or five-spotted : ely-
tra five-lined.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body oblong-oval, yellowish, glabrous: antenne black ; three
basal joints rufous beneath: thorax with an abbreviated, black
line on the middle of the posterior submargin, and a semi-circu-
lar series of four equal, equidistant, suborbicular black spots :
posterior edge concave at the scutel: scutel black: elytra with a
common sutural fillet; each elytron with a fillet originating at
the humerus and terminating near the tip, and another marginal,
less [86] dilated filet, confluent with the sutural vitta at tip ;
region of the origin of the posterior feet black: thighs rufous:
tarsi, and a line on the superior edge of the two anterior pairs of
thighs, together with a line on the inferior edge of the tibia, black.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch.
The arrangement of the lines of the elytra are similar to those of
A. caroliniana Fabr. The head is sometimes black at base, and
the two intermediate thoracic dots are confluent.
Found in considerable numbers on the common elder (Sam-
bucus) and some other plants. On the evening of the 16th of
June, I observed great numbers of these flying in a south-east
direction from near St. Louis, obliquely across the Mississippi
towards an island, the wind at the same time blowing moderately
from the eastward; the subsequent evening, about the same
hour, they returned by the same route reversed, the wind di-
rectly opposing them; both of these days were very warm.
During our progress up the Missouri river, I observed, several
times, similar migrations of this species.
7. A. NANA.—Cupreous or brassy, polished; beneath black-
ish ; antennz and feet rufous ; elytra striate.
Inhabits the United States.
Body green, cupreous or golden, polished, punctured: head
impunctured: antenne rufous; second joint nearly as long as
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the third: eyes brown: thorax [87] with numerous irregular,
large punctures ; a transverse, impressed, conspicuous, rectilinear
line behind the middle, near the lateral margin abruptly re-
flected backwards, and terminating at the basal edge; edge blue:
scutel violaceous: elytra with impressed striz, in which are
large, profound, quadrate punctures: edge blue: beneath black:
feet rufous.
Length about one-tenth of an inch.
Seems to be closely allied to A. helxines, but the posterior
thighs are never black, as those of that insect are described to be.
8. A. prora.—Sanguineous; elytra blue ; postpectus and venter
black.
Inhabits the United States.
A. sanguinicollis ? Melsh. Catal.
Body ovate: head sanguineous: eyes brown: antennz fuscous,
pale at base : thorax sanguineous; posterior angles very obtusely
rounded: scutel dark violaceous, rounded at tip: elytra blue,
polished, with minute, distant punctures : postpectus and venter
deep black : feet pale rufous: posterior thighs piceous each side
and above.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
A beautiful little species.
9. A. SENILIS.—Pale yellow; elytra green; suture and ex-
terior edge yellowish.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body pale yellow, punctured: eyes fuscous: antennz a little
dusky at tip: thorax, punctures indistinct; [88] an indented,
transverse line near the tip: elytra green; a common sutural
fillet, exterior and terminal edges, and epipleura, yellowish;
punctures irregularly disposed : posterior thighs but little dilated.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
10. A. CENTRALIS.—Black ; thorax with a yellow lateral spot ;
elytra with a large common rufous spot.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
Body oval-orbicular, deep black, polished, with short dense
hairs : antennz and palpi pale yellowish: thorax, lateral margins
yellow : elytra with a large, oblong, common, rufous spot on the
middle : thighs at tip, tibia, and tarsi, pale rufous.
Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch.
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11. A. unteurTaTa.—Black ; thorax rufous, with a black
spot ; elytra black ; two vittee and margin yellow.
Inhabits the United States.
Body black, impunctured: front rufous: thorax rufous; a
large, black, central spot, sometimes connected with a smaller one
each side, yellowish or pale: elytra, with obselete punctures,
black ; two equal, yellowish vittee joining at the tip, of which
one is subsutural, and the other originating on the humerus;
exterior edge yellowish: pectus yellow: venter, margin rufous :
feet rufous: tarsi black.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
Var. a. Feet black; front black. [89]
The variety is from near the Rocky Mountains. ‘This species
is related to A. 5-vittata, to caroliniana Fabr., and also to horti-
cola, and probably to glabrata Fabr.
TRIPLAX Latr. (Regne Animal.)
1. T. rHorAcicA.—Pale rufous ; elytra black.
Inhabits the United States.
Ips bicolor Melsh. Catal.
Body pale rufous, punctured ; eyes and antennx, excepting
the basal joints, black: elytra with regular series of deeply im-
pressed punctures ; interstitial lines with a somewhat regular,
undulated series of smaller punctures.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
I change the name given by Mr. Melsheimer, as it is pre-occu-
pied in this genus.
[Subsequently described as 7. melanoptera Lac.—LEc. ]
2. T. SANGUINIPENNIS.—Black ; elytra and abdomen rufous.
Inhabits the United States.
Tritoma bicolor Melsh. Catal.
Body black, minutely and rather distantly punctured: an-
tenn, intermediate joints pale rufous: palpi whitish: elytra
pale rufous, with punctured striz: abdomen pale rufous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
The word bicolor is preoccupied in this genus.
3. T. siaurraTa.—Black, with a spot at the base of each
elytron ; beneath yellowish. [90]
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230 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Inhabits the United States.
Tritoma biguttatum Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Body punctured, black, yellowish beneath : head dull piceous,
darker on the disk: elytra with punctured, slightly impressed
striz, each with a large, basal, yellowish-rufous spot extending
from the scutel to the humeral angle, and hardly attaining the
middle of the elytron.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
A common species.
[Afterwards described as Tritoma basalis Lac.—L«c. ]
PHALACRUS Payk. Latr.
1. P. paALtipes.—Piceous-black, polished, antenne, palpi and
feet testaceous.
TInhabits Missouri.
Body deep piceous-black, highly polished, immaculate : an-
tennz and palpi pale testaceous; terminal joint of the former
much largest, abruptly narrowed at tip: thorax with minute,
obsolete punctures each side ; angles acute ; an obsolete, indented
spot at the posterior angle; base dilated somewhat in the region
of the scutel: elytra with obsolete, remote series of punctures,
rather more distinct near the external margin ; two impunctured
striz near the suture on each elytron: pectus and venter with a
few yellow hairs: feet pale testaceous, with scattered hairs.
Length not quite one-tenth of an inch.
In considerable numbers on plants near the [91] Konza
village. The elytra appear perfectly smooth and polished to the
eye, and to an ordinary magnifier.
[A species of Olibrus, unknown to me.—LEc. ]
2. P. PENICILLATUS.—Black, glabrous, oval; thighs ciliate at
tip.
Inhabits the United States.
Body oval, entirely deep black, glabrous, impunctured, polish-
ed: antennz piceous-black, with sparse, short sets; terminal
joints with cinereous, short pubescence: thorax minutely punc-
tured; angles subacute; elytra, humeral angle subacute, with
obsolete, distant series of punctures, and an impressed stria near
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the suture; thighs ciliate at the inferior tip; tibia piceous
black: venter with reflected hairs.
Rather larger than the preceding species.
Found near Engineer Cantonment.
It differs from padlipes in its differently colored feet, and ciliate
tip of the thighs. In many parts of the United States, this spe-
cies is found in the seed vessels of such plants of wheat as are
destroyed by the parasitic vegetable called smut.
AGATHIDIUM Illig. Latr.
A. PALLIDUM.—Body yellowish-testaceous; elytra with very
minute, transverse lines.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body oval, convex, yellowish-testaceous, glabrous: head with
a few hairs beneath the edge; [92] eyes prominent, hemisphe-
rical, black : palpi subulate: antennz hirsute, clavate; club ob-
long, perfoliate ; second joint of the club minute: thorax im-
punctured: scutel minute: elytra rugose in transverse very
minute lines: thighs with very minute spines above: tibia with
prominent, rigid spines.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
A single specimen occurred under wood, at Engineer Can-
tonment.
[This insect is unknown to me. It is perhaps an An/isotoma.
—Lec.]
COCCINELLA.
1. C. unpuLATA.—Black ; exterior margin of the thorax, and
undulated exterior margin and spot of the elytra, yellowish.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body deep black, punctured: head slightly hairy before:
punctured obsolete: antennze yellowish-testaceous: thorax with
acute punctures; lateral margin white: scutel triangular ; tip
acute : elytra, punctures dilated, slightly indented ; a large white
spot on the centre of each, and an undulated, white exterior mar-
gin: undulations three: feet yellowish-testaceous, piceous at
base.
Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch.
Var. a. Undulated margin interrupted into three spots.
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Var. b. Central spot of each elytron extended backward, and
confluent with the tip of the margin. [93]
[Belongs to Hyperaspis ; the name being preoccupied, was
changed to H. elegans by Mulsant. C. lugubris Randall, is per-
haps a variety of this species.—LEc. ]
2. C. MALI.—Elytra brownish red; each with seven black
spots ; and a common one on the scutel.
Inhabits North America.
C. mali Melsh. Catal,
Head black ; two white spots between the eyes: thorax black ;
two small white spots at the base, and a white lateral margin
including a black spot; anterior’ edge yellow; spots on the
elytra placed 1, 3, 8, and a common one at the base: beneath
black ; margin of the abdomen fulvous: feet testaceous: thighs
black.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Spots of the elytra surrounded with a whitish areola.
Varietas ocellata Melsh, Catal.
Var. b. Ground color of the elytra whitish.
C. ocellata Melsh. Catal.
[Belongs to Myzia as reformed by me, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc.
Phil. 6, 132, and is identical with the Kuropean J. 15-punctata,
C. labiculata Say, ante, 1, 192, is the same.—LEc. ]
3. C. PARENTHESIS.—Elytra pale yellowish, each with a spot;
posterior lunule and common spot at base.
Coccinella parenthesis Melsh. Catal.
es 5-notata Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Inhabits the United States.
Head black; labrum testaceous ; a white, abbreviated, frontal
line, and a spot near each eye: thorax black; a square spot at
base; anterior and lateral margin, and abbreviated, acute line
before, white : elytra with a humeral, black spot ; a common one
near the base connected with the scutel; [94] a large lunule,
occupying the posterior half of the elytron, sometimes interrupted
into two distinct spots: beneath black.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
[Belongs to Hippodamia, and was afterwards described as C.
tridens Kirby, and H. lunato-maculata Motsch.—LeEc. ]
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4. C. trpratis.—Elytra pale yellowish-red, with a common
spot near the base, and six black spots on each.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head black; frontal spot, and all before the eyes, white:
thorax black: anterior and lateral margins white, so branched as
almost to inclose a black spot on each side: elytra pale orange ;
spots placed 1, 2,2, 1: beneath black: venter margined with
pale orange: tibia and tarsi testaceous. _
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
[Belongs to Hippodamia, and is.the same as the Huropean
H. 13-punctata.—Lk«c. |
5. C. BlocuLaTA.—Elytra red ; each with a black spot on the
middle.
Inhabits the United States.
Head black; orbits white: thorax black; a large marginal
spot; anterior margin, and two spots at the base, white: elytra
reddish ; a transverse, oval, black spot on the middle of each,
sometimes included in an obsolete, white areola: beneath black :
venter margined with rufous.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
The anterior margin of the thorax is sometimes black like the
disk, and the basal spots are wanting.
[Mulsant considers this as identical with the European C. b¢-
punctata.—LkEc. ]
6. C. ALBIFRONS.—Elytra yellow; suture and two spots on
each, black ; head and anterior part of the thorax whitish. [ 95]
Inhabits Missouri.
Head yellowish: thorax black; anterior and lateral margins,
and abbreviated line before, white: elytra, with the suture, tip,
outer edge, and two spots, black; spots placed one near the
humerus, and the other behind the middle.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch,
Taken on the Missouri by Mr. T. Nuttall.
[Belongs to Brachiacantha.—Lxc. ]
7. C. ABDOMINALIS.—White ; thorax with seven, elytra each
with eight black spots.
Tnhabits Arkansa.
Yellowish-white: head immaculate: thorax with seven black
spots placed 2,5; the anterior ones, placed on the middle, ob-
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long, oblique, slightly undulated, and nearly confluent at tip with
the posterior intermediate one: elytra 8-spotted; spots small,
placed four near the base, three on the middle, and one near the
tip: postpectus dusky: venter testaceous: feet pale.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
8. C. HUMERALIS.—Black ; elytra with a humeral spot, and
one behind the middle, red.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body deep black: head, a white spot each side between the
eyes: antenne and palpi pale: thorax, an obsolete, whitish,
lateral margin and anterior angle : elytra, a large, oval, yellowish-
red, humeral spot, and an orbicular, red, subsutural one on each,
rather behind the middle.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch. [96]
Two specimens were obtained near the Rocky Mountains.
[Unknown to me.—Lec. ]
9. CO. 20-mMacuLaTa.—Whitish ; thorax with five, elytra each
with nine black spots.
Inhabits Missouri.
Coccinella 20-maculata Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Yellowish-white : thorax with four rather large, equal, black
dots placed in a semicircular series, and enclosing near the base
a smaller, obsolete dot: elytra, each with nine spots placed 2, 3,
3, 1, the two central ones confluent: postpectus and venter, ex-
cepting the terminal segment, black.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
[Belongs to Psyllobora.—Lxc.]
ENDOMYCHUS Fabr. Latr.
KE. pigurratus.—Black ; elytra sanguineous, with two black
spots.
Inhabits the United States.
Head, thorax, and scutel black, impunctured ; two impressed,
longitudinal, abbreviated lines, one on each side at the base of
the thorax : elytra sanguineous, with numerous small, irregular
punctures, and two orbicular, black spots, the smaller one placed
behind the humerus, and the other, large, placed behind the
middle, touching the margin.
Length near one-fifth of an inch. [97]
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PSELAPHUS Herbst. Latr.
1. P. cartnatus.—Reddish-brown ; elytra rectilinearly trun-
eated ; tergum tricarinate, and with an elevated edge; anterior
tibia arcuated.
Inhabits the United States.
Body with short hairs: head deeply indented on the front ;
vertex with two small indentations: maxillary palpi with the
three last joints dilated; the ultimate one triangular or cordate,
being widely emarginate at tip ; the inner lobe somewhat mucro-
nate ; penultimate joint also large and triangular, with a slender
spine or seta as long as the joint placed on the exterior angle ;
antepenultimate joint rounded, with a spine on the exterior side,
similar and equal to that of the other joint: thorax rounded,
somewhat angulated on the middle of the side, punctured : elytra
not quite half the length of the abdomen; minutely punctured,
with two obtuse, elevated lines on each, obsolete before the tip,
and with an impressed groove between them: tergum rather
darker than the elytra, carinated along the middle, and with an
abbreviated, carinate line each side at base; edge elevated: an-
terior tibia somewhat arcuated, gibbous before in the middle.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
This species is not uncommon, and is often found under the
loose bark of the yellow pine; it [98] is referrible to the genus
Otenistes Reich. The elytra are terminated by a straight line
like those of the dresdensis. It seems probable that the cordate,
terminal joint of the maxillary palpi, and the two elongated
spines of the preceding joints, may be peculiar to one sex, as a
specimen in my collection has but a single spine, and the termi-
nal joint is acute and not dilated.
[Belongs to T’mesiphorus.—Lxc. ]
2. P. RrpArius.—Reddish-brown ; elytra rectilinearly trunea-
ted, half the length of the tergum ; tergum simple ; anterior tibia
rectilinear.
Inhabits Missouri.
Vertex convex, with an impressed line each side: antenne,
joints from the third to the eighth, inclusive, subequal; ninth a
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little larger, but hardly longer; tenth transversely oval, double
the size of the preceding one; eleventh still wider, and nearly
double the length of the two preceding ones conjunctly: maxil-
lary palpi unarmed ; terminal joint conic-securiform: thorax nar-
rowed behind, not closely applied to the elytra; with a longitudi-
nal, impressed line; sides not angulated in the middle, but in-
dented on the margin: elytra half the length of the abdomen ;
humeral tubercle oblong: anterior tibia rectilinear: tergum con-
vex, simple.
Length more than one-twentieth of an inch.
A little smaller than the preceding. It probably belongs to the
genus Bryaxis of Leach.
[Belongs to Batrisus.—LEc. ] [99]
3. P. penTATUS.—Elytra nearly rectilinearly truncated, half
the length of the tergum; tergum simple; anterior tibia arcu-
ated.
Inhabits the United States.
Head blackish ; a small indentation above each antenna: an-
tennz rufous ; joints, from the third to the eighth, inclusive, sub-
equal ; ninth a little larger, but hardly longer; tenth transverse,
double the size of the preceding one; eleventh oval, wider than
the tenth, and as long as the 8th, 9th and 10th conjunctly : thorax
nearly orbicular, slightly prominent on the sides, blackish; an
oval indentation at base, and an orbicular one each side: elytra
reddish-brown, nearly half the length of the abdomen; humeral
tubercle oblong ; an impressed line on each elytron obsolete be-
hind : tergum convex, simple, blackish: anterior tibia a little ar-
cuated.
Length one-twentieth of an inch.
Var. a. Reddish-brown.
Smaller than either of the preceding species.
[A Bryaxis.—Lxc.]
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[From Vol. 4, 1825, pp. 307—345.]
Descriptions of new HEMIPTEROUS INSECTS collected in the Expedition
to the Rocky Mountains, performed by order of Mr. Calhoun, Secretary
of War, under command of Major Long.
Read June 1st, 1824,
GRYLLUS Fabr.
1. G. mQuALIs.—Hemelytra spotted with brown; wings pale
yellowish at base, with a black band and dusky tip.
Inhabits the United States. [308]
Head varied with brown and light gray: thorax varied with
brown and dullrufous, with a carinate line : hemelytradark cine-
reous, with numerous unequal small dark brown spots: wings
sulphurous at base, then a black band arcuated behind so as
nearly to reach the inner angle; tip dark cinereous, darker at
the angle, or with small fuscous spots on that part: feet pale
cinereous, spotted with fuscous: hind thighs within with four
black bands: posterior tibize sanguineous.
Length to the tip of the hemelytra, one inch and two-fifths.
Not an uncommon species. The thorax is not gradually raised
into a carina, but the line is abrupt and of little elevation.
2. G. NuBiLus.—Black ; wings glaucous.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Head with the frontal line not grooved ; thorax with a slightly
and equally elevated line; hemelytra rather short; feet dusky,
tinged with dull rufous: posterior pair black, the thighs with a
whitish annulation near the tip: beneath pale.
Found in abundanee near the base of the Rocky Mountains, in
company with the succeeding, and like it ascending into the
atmosphere in great numbers.
3. G. BIvirraTus.—A yellowish line each side above from
the front to the tip of the hemelytra.
Inhabits Arkansa. [ 309}
Mouth white ; superior orbits yellowish: thorax with an ele-
vated capillary line, and three transverse impressed ones, a yel-
lowish marginal line each side: hemelytra with small dusky spots
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each side, above margined with greenish yellow: wings pale
green: feet pale, anterior and intermediate thighs somewhat ar-
cuated, with a green line ; posterior thighs with a green line on
the exterior side and another above, which is faintly marked by
two pale spots near the middle, a dusky annulation near the tip ;
posterior tibia green, pale towards the tip, and on the anterior
side : abdomen pale with minute dusky spots; segments margined
with dusky.
Length to the tip of the hemelytra one inch and three-tenths.
This species, with several others, occurred in great numbers
near the mountains, and on one occasion we observed this species
in company with several others, ascending to a great height in
the air as if to commence a migration to a remote region.
[Belongs to Caloptenus, and is identical with C. femoratus
Burm. Handb. 2, part 2, 638. Acrydium flavovittatum Harris,
Ins. Injurious to Veg. 140, is a small variety, very common in
the Atlantic States, and occasionally mixed with the larger spe-
cimens which occur in the western part of the country. It is
very common on the salt marshes near Baltimore, and I have
once or twice seen itin company with C. femurrubrum (Degeer),
in considerable swarms in the air.
[Dr. Harris makes a very singular mistake in comparing this
species with Acridiwm olivaceum Serv.—UHLER. |
ACHETA Fabr. Leach.
A. Ex1gua.—Head and thorax testaceous; feet whitish ; ab-
domen black.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head testaceous, hairy, with obsolete dusky lines above, con-
tracted before the eyes into a [310] short, obtuse, conical process :
front vertical, trilineate, lines fuscous, convivant at the mouth :
antenne long, fuscous, pale at base : palpi white: thorax testaceous,
hairy: hemelytra yellowish-white, right one entirely concealing
the other: nervures (male) with but few anastomoses, at tip en-
closing a large, oval, rugose, but membraneous space: feet whitish ;
posterior thighs with a brown line on the exterior side ; posterior
tibia with three pairs of alternate spines, and larger ones at tip ;
abdomen black.
Length about a quarter of an inch. A male.
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Taken near the village of the Konza Indians. When dry, the
head and thorax assume a light ferruginous color.
TRIDACTYLUS Oliv.
T. APICALIS.—Black, varied with white; wings edged and
tipped with blackish.
Inhabits Southern and Western States.
Body deep black : head with a line each side, passing over the
eyes, two spots at the superior base, and a line on the vertex fur-
eate before, whitish : thorax margin and several abbreviated lines
on the disk, white ; feet banded and spotted with white, posterior
thighs trifasciate with white ; posterior tibia nearly rectilinear :
elytra, exterior margin and common spot behind the middle,
white: tergum fasciate with white. [311]
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
This species is numerous on St. John’s river, in Hast Florida
and on the Missouri, as far as Council Bluff. It is always found
on the moist shores not far distant from the water’s edge.
[This is Xya apicalis Burm. Handb. 2, 2, 741—UHLER. ]
PENTATOMA Oliv. Latr.
1. P. aArBorEA.—Brownish-cinereous, punctured ; clypeus
emarginate and bidentate ; thorax dentate and with a prominent
truncated spine behind each side ; feet annulate.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body brownish-cinereous, with numerous black punctures ;
head with a longitudinal obsolete elevated line, and an abbreviated
one each side of its middle: clypeus emarginate at tip, lateral
edge terminating in an angle near the tip: antenne, base of the
second joint pale: thorax unequal before, dentated each side ;
teeth irregular, unequal, acute; posterior angles extended into a
prominent, dilated, slightly reflected, truncated projection, which
has two or three small teeth : hemelytra with the central nervure
conspicuous ; nervures of the membranaceous tip black, and with
black arborescent lines in the interstitial spaces: wings dusky,
iridescent ; nervures black: feet black: thighs pale at base and
annulate with pale near the tip: tibia annulate with pale: tarsi
second joint pale : tergum deep purple, black impunctured ; [312]
margin brownish cinereous, punctured, varied with transverse
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240 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
abbreviated black lines placed triangularly, and pale: venter pale,
pruinous, with dusky points: stigmata each composed of three
distinct black points placed obliquely : pectus and pospectus pale,
dusky each side.
Length less than three-fifths of an inch.
A common species, and seems to approach Halys annulata
Fabr., but it does not, in all respects, agree with the description
of that species.
2. P cLhANDA.—Pale yellowish ; thorax with two spots, hemely-
tra and scutel with a line, black.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head densely punctured, rufous, blackish at base: antennze
rufous, blackish at tip: thorax pale yellow, with two large trans-
verse brown spots, posterior margin brown; posterior angles not
prominent: scutel pale yellow, with a broad brown line, bifid
before, hemelytra pale yellow on the basal portion with a brown
line and inner edge; tip blackish: beneath pale yellow: feet
rufous: tibize with a yellowish annulus: venter with two series of
black spots, and on each side a brown vitta; ultimate segment
with only three spots,
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Var. a. Spots and lines of the upper surface, black ; venter
with six series of black spots.
Var. b. Sanguineous ; head, two spots. and posterior margin of
the thorax, disk of the scutel, hemelytra, pectus and feet, black ;
* venter with six series of black spots.
Var. c. Sanguineous; head, two spots and posterior margin of
the thorax, disk of the scutel, hemelytra, pectus and feet, black ;
venter black on the disk.
A handsome species, subject to much variation.
3. P. pExApTA.—Saneuineous ; thorax with a black line; seutel
black with a yellow margin.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head at base and antenna, black: thorax with a transverse
black line before the middle; posterior angles rounded, not prom-
inent: scutel black, with a yellow margin, excepting at base:
tergum blackish, with a rufous margin: hemelytra black, exterior
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basal margin yellow: pectus more or less varied with black : tibise
blaek. ?
Length about a quarter of an inch.
4. P. puncripEs.—Pale olivaceous; thorax bilineate trans-
versely with white; scutel black, with a white margin.
Inhabits the United States.
Head biack: antennz pale at base, and somewhat biannulate
with whitish : proboscis white : thorax blackish before ; a slender,
transverse, abbreviated white line on the anterior submargin; an-
terior and lateral edges white, the former abbreviated ; posterior
angles rounded, not prominent: scutel, lateral and terminal nar-
row margins [314] white: hemelytra with the exterior basal nar-
row margin whitish: tergum black: beneath blackish-cupreous :
feet white, with black points ; venter, margined with white.
Length from one-fifth to one-fourth of an inch.
A common species, inhabiting almost all parts of the Union,
and may be frequently observed on the mullein.
5. P. punoTipES.—Greenish-yellow, punctured; thorax with
prominent angles each side, behind; membranaceous tip of the
hemelytra with brown dots; feet with black points.
Inhabits the United States.
Body greenish-yellow, punctured: clypeus slightly biemargi-
nate at tip, small spot above the eyes impunctured : antennz pale,
penultimate joint at tip and ultimate one black : rostellum nearly
attaining the base of the posterior feet, with a longitudinal black
line and tip: thorax, anterior lateral edge dentate ; teeth minute,
subequal ; behind the middle each side extending into a promi-
nent, subacute angle: scutel destitute of elevated lines, rather
paler at tip: hemelytra upon the membranaceous tip punctured
with brown, punctures orbicular, numerous: wings whitish, irides-
cent; brachial nervure fuscous, black towards the base, feet with
numerous black points: tergum deep black, margin greenish-yel-
low, with geminate, black, dilated lines, which unite with the
color of the disk, but do not attain the edge. [315]
Length half an inch.
Not uncommon in Missouri and in Pennsylvania, and resem-
bles P. ictericus Fabr.
[The specific name has been inadvertently repeated.—LEc. ]
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242 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
6. P. raceTa.—Green with a pale fulvous margin and longi-
tudinal line.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body oval, green: head entire before: antenna, excepting
the first joint, dusky : thorax with a pale fulvous lateral margin
and fulyous edge ; a longitudinal pale fulvous line in the middle ;
posterior angles rounded, not prominent: scutel not abruptly
contracted in any part, with a longitudinal pale fulvous line on
the middle: hemelytra with a pale fulvous lateral margin and
deep fulvous edge: tergum blackish, with a fulvous margin.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
CYDNUS Fabr.
1. C. Broteatus.—Black, polished, with sparse lateral hairs ;
tarsi dull testaceous.
Inhabits the United States.
Body deep black, polished : head with two longitudinal, paral- |
lel, approximate, indented lines, abbreviated at the vertex, the
intermediate space somewhat resembling a carina ; lateral margin
with sparse black hairs: clypeus subentire, or obsoletely emargi-
nate at tip: antennze and rostellum piceous: thorax a little nar-
rowed before by a slightly arcuated lateral edge: lateral margin
[316] sparsely hirsute ; an indented transverse line on the mid-
dle: posterior margin somewhat convex, edge slightly arcuated :
sceutel large, remotely punctured: hemelytra densely coriaceous
at base, membranaceous tip white or pale brownish: wings
pale: feet spinous, piceous-black : anterior tibize compressed,
ciliated with spines: posterior pairs irregularly spinous: tarsi
dark testaceous.
Length from three-tenths to two-fifths of an inch.
Not uncommon in Pennsylvania as well as in Missouri.
[Belongs to dthus Dallas —U HER. ]
2. C. SpINtFRONS.—Dark reddish-brown: clypeus ciliate with
spines ; anterior thighs with an CBee) linear, emarginate spine.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body dark reddish-brown, punctured : clypeus armed on the
edge with erect, equidistant, prominent spines: antenne pale
reddish-brown, second joint minute: thorax with dilated punc-
tures, obsolete on the anterior disk, a transverse indented line
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 243
on the middle, lateral edge with a few hairs: scutel nearly as
long as the thorax, punctures dilated, tip acute : hemelytra
reddish-brown, punctures approximate, membranaceous tip white :
feet pale reddish-brown : anterior thighs with an oblique, robust,
linear, emarginate process near the middle beneath, and a small,
robust spine near the tip; tibize with prominent rigid spines on
the exterior edge: intermediate thighs mutic, tibie armed with
[$17] moveable spines: posterior thighs with a slightly flexuose
spine near the tip beneath, and two or three small tubercles at
tip; tibiz armed with a few moveable spines: postpectus
blackish.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Found near Engineer Cantonment, common.
[Belongs to Amnestus Dallas —UHLER. |
COREUS Fabr.
1. C. ALTERNATUS.—Fuscous ; thighs spinous beneath ; mar-
gin of the abdomen black, with five white lineolar spots; head
mutic.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
& Body deep blackish-brown: eyes rufous, a moveable black
pupil: stemmata sanguineous: antenne blackish, robust, two
terminal joints rufous, equal: rostellum pale, tip black: thorax
punctured, gradually elevated behind, attenuated before, anterior
termination as wide as the base of the head, anterior lateral edge
' slightly dentate, posterior angles rounded: scutel of the male
tinged with rufous: hemelytra tinged with rufous, punctured :
feet black : tarsi rufous: thighs, a double series of hardly pro-
minent, robust spines beneath, of which the two opposite termi-
nal ones are much more prominent, distinct, and acute : abdomen,
margin black, alternating, with five, oblique, white lines : tergum,
disk sanguineous: male, posterior thighs much dilated, very ro-
bust, slightly tuberculated above, terminal spines not more pro-
minent than the [318] others, a large prominent spine on the
inferior middle: posterior tibia dentate towards the tip, refrac-
ted in the middle, and with a robust, prominent acute spine on
the angle.
Length of the male more than four-fifths of an inch; female
nearly three quarters.
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244 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Somewhat similar to C. galeatus Fabr., but is considerably
larger, the head is unarmed, and in other respects sufficiently
distinct. It belongs to the genus Mictis of Leach.
2. CO. orDINATUS.—Head fulvous, with two black lines; thorax
with the lateral edges fulvous.
Inhabits the United States.
Head dull fulvous, with two broad, black, longitudinal lines :
antennze fuscous: thorax dull fulvous, with numerous, irregular-
ly disposed black punctures, lateral narrow margin fulvous, and
with an obsolete interrupted or abbreviated dull fulvous line in
the middle ; posterior angles rounded, not promiuent ; posterior
margin a little depressed: scutel colored and punctured like the
thorax: hemelytra also dull fulvous, with numerous black punc-
tures irregularly disposed; membranaceous portion black : ter-
gum on the lateral margin black, the segments fulvous at base :
beneath pale fulvous, with a few black punctures : feet with nu-
merous black points.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
This is one of the most common of our species: when taken
it diffuses an odor which has been [819] compared to that of a
ripe pear. I have found it in Pennsylvania, Missouri, and
Florida.
3. C. ARMIGERUS [ARMIGER ].—Brown, feet white, spotted
with black: head spinous above the antennz; margin of the
tergum black, with five white lineolar spots.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
Body brown above, beneath pale: eyes prominent, rufous :
stemmata sanguineous; above the origin of each antenna, an
elevated, prominent, acute spine, half as long as the basal joint
of the antenna: antenne, first joint white, spotted with black,
second and third black, white at base and tip, terminal joint
rufous: thorax punctured, elevated behind, descending almost
vertically and attenuating to the head; anterior lateral edge
dentate, posterior angles dilated and terminated in an angle,
from whence the posterior margin descends sinuously and ob-
liquely, terminating in a short acute spine each side of the base :
base transversely rectilinear: scutel with three black spots at
base: hemelytra, a white oblique line in the middle on the mem-
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 245
branaceous portion; tip blackish: feet white, spotted with
black; thighs armed at the tip beneath, with two short acute
spines: tergum sanguineous, base, tip, and margin black, the
latter with five white oblique lines: venter pale, spotted with
black.
Length of ths female eleven-twentieths of an inch. [320]
I have not yet seen the male of this species, it bears a general
resemblance to C. galeatus Fabr. and is about equal to that
species in magnitude, but it may be at once distinguished by the
white transverse line at the base of the membranaceous portion
of the hemelytra.
4. C. LATERALIS.—Pale reddish-brown, punctured: hemely-
tra with spotted nervures; feet pale, spotted.
Inhabits the United States.
Body somewhat hairy, pale reddish-brown, with much dilated
approximate punctures: head somewhat unequal, two obsolete
impressed lines between the antennz, a blackish spot behind the
eye: eyes dusky, pale before: antennz brownish, with sparse
hairs; terminal joint as long as the preceding one, dilated, with
cinereous pubescence: thorax with three obsolete dusky spots
before, and an impunctured whitish line abbreviated before; scu-
tel with a longitudinal, impunctured whitish line: hemelytra,
nervures with black spots, interstitial spaces membranaceous ;
membranaceous tip immaculate, whitish : beneath with a distinct
lateral red line; feet hairy, pale; thighs spotted with reddish-
brown ; pectus rufous: venter yellowish or rufous.
Length more than a quarter of an inch.
Found near Engineer Cantonment, and is not uncommon in
Pennsylvania. [321]
LYGAUS Fabr. Latr.
1. L. rectivatus.—Black, spot on the vertex, three on the
thorax and reclivate line on the hemelytra, red; a geminate
white spot near the hemelytra.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, opaque, with a somewhat cinereous shade: head
with a rufous spot on the vertex: thorax unarmed, with an ob-
solete, indented, transverse, punctured line before; three rufous
spots behind the middle, inner spot not attaining the base, outer
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246 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
spot marginal extending from near the middle of the edge, to the
posterior angle, and separated from the intermediate spot by a
small velvet black one: scutel a little elevated on the basal disk :
hemelytra with a rufous, somewhat reclivate line from the nume-
ral angle to the tip of the coriaceous portion, a velvet black spot
on the middle, and a minute one at the the inner basal angle;
membranaceous portion deep black, polished; a large rounded
geminate spot in the middle edge, and two small subtriangular
enes at base, white: venter rosaceous, a double series of spots
beneath, and one series each side, black.
Length rather more than two-fifths of an inch.
Resembles L. turcicus Fabr., but is at once distinguishable by
the large white spot on the membraneous moiety of the hemely-
tra, which is precisely [ 322] similar to that on the corresponding
portion of the hemelytra of L. punctum Fabr.
3. L. rrrvirratus.—Black, thorax trilineate, and hemelytra
marginate with rufous.
Tnhabits Missouri.
Body black: eyes and stemmata sanguineous: thorax mutic ;
two indented transverse lines near the head, of which the ante-
rior one is curved in the middle; three bright rufous lines, of
which two are marginal; posterior edge obscurely rufous: hem-
elytra, coriaceous portion with a rufous exterior and posterior
margin,membranaceous tip immaculate: trochanters rufous: ter-
eum rufous with three lateral black punctures: venter, margin
and middle rufous.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
Taken at Engineer Cantonment.
3. L. Broructs.—Red ; head, feet, anterior part of the thorax
and tips of the hemelytra, black ; inner edges of the hemelytra
forming a yellow cruciate mark.
Inhabits the United States.
Body red: head black: stemmata remote, inserted near the
eyes ; projections for the reception of the haustellum, whitish :
thorax mutic, posterior angles rounded, not sallient, a large trans-
versely oblong-quadrate, black spot before the middle, not attain-
ing the anterior or lateral edges, partially interrupted in its mid-
dle by a reddish [ 323] subcruciate line ; posterior edge yellow-
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 247
ish ; scutel black, an mdented, large, triangular, paler spot each
side on the disk: hemelytra, membranaceous tip black with a
whitish edge; coriaceous portion red with a lineolar yellowish
margin, which on the costal edge becomes red towards the hume-
rus, inner submargin and edge with a black line: pectus and
postpectus black, segments broadly margined with pale: feet
black : stigmata and anus black.
Length about seven-twentieths of an inch.
Sometimes occurs in Missouri; I have also received a speci-
men from Mr. A. G. Oemler, of Savannah, Georgia.
4. L. 5-sprnosus:—Obscure rufous: posterior thighs five-
spined ; tergum red, margin lineate with black.
Inhabits the United States.
Body dull rufous, minutely and densely punctured: head tri-
angular: stemmata sanguineous: antennee, second and third
joints black at their extreme tip, fourth joint dusky, pale at
base : rostellum pale, black at tip ; setae black : thorax obsoletely
indented longitudinally in the middle and transversely before the
middle ; posterior angles salient, acute, blackish at tip: scutel
pale at tip: feet pale rufous, whitish at base: posterior thighs
more robust, rufous at tip, five-spined beneath: pectus, post-
pectus and head beneath, black in the [324] middle: tergum
red: margin with about four pale spots, and black lineolar edges
to its segments.
Length of the body more than half an inch.
5. L. rurtnus.—Blackish, hairy, punctured; tergum black,
disk rufous, margin with four yellowish spots; posterior thighs
three-spined.
Inhabits Missouri and Arkansa.
Body blackish, hairy, punctured : head triangular: eyes promi-
nent: antennz, second and third joints dull testaceous, blackish
at their tips: thorax densely punctured, mutic : hemelytra black-
brown: feet black: tibize and first joint of the tarsi, dull testa-
ceous, with black tips: posterior thighs three-spined beneath,
and one or two smaller spines at tip: abdomen, reflexed margin
with four yellowish spots: tergum rufous on the basal disk.
Length about half an inch.
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248 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
The body of this insect as well “as the preceding, is long and
narrow, the diameter of the head which passes through the eyes
is but little shorter than the breadth of the thorax.
ACANTHIA Latr.
A. INTERSTITIALIS.—Black, hemelytra with a few whitish
spots, tip whitish with black nervures and spots.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body leaping, black-brown, with short yellowish hairs: eyes
large, deep castaneous, whitish at [825] the anterior base:
stemmata reddish-yellow: clypeus and labrum whitish : hemely-
tra deep black, with distant, very short yellowish hairs at base,
four or five hyaline whitish spots on each hemelytron ; middle of
the tip of the coriaceous portion hyaline, membranaceous tip
hyaline, nervures deep black, with a blackish oblong-quadrate spot
between each pair; margin dusky, with a black spot at the ex-
terior tip: feet pale before and black behind: tibia somewhat
annulate : wings white.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
Not uncommon on the shore of the Missouri river, skipping
nimbly about.
TINGIS.
T. opLoncA.—Head with three elongated acute spines; ner-
vures brown; exterior margin of the hemelytra white.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body elongate, narrow, whitish: head with three elongate,
linear acute spines, of which two are above the antenne, and one
between them: eyes black: antenne testaceous, terminal joint
blackish: thorax and scutel conjunctly, black in the middle;
three elevated white lines and reflected margin ; a much elevated,
acute crest at the anterior termination of the intermediate line:
hemelytra, a double slightly elevated line, confluent at tip and at
base, and including a small blackish dot; [326] nervures of the
tip and inner margin black-brown ; exterior margin white imma-
culate : pectus, postpectus and venter black: feet pale testace-
ous.
Length nearly one-eight of an inch.
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ARADUS Fabr.
A. QUADRILINEATUS.—Brown ; antenne robust ; clypeus bifid;
thorax quadrilineate, edges irregularly and minutely dentate.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body dull light-brown, opaque: head with two longitudinal
indented lines, and two small indented black spots between the
eyes: clypeus trifid at tip, intermediate division longest, obtuse
at tip, exterior divisions acute at tip, hardly attaining the base
of the second joint of the antennze: eyes very prominent: an-
tenn robust, two terminal joints darker, ultimate one shorter
and less dilated than the preceding one: thorax transversely ob-
long-oval ; four elevated, parallel, equidistant, longitudinal lines,
and a lateral, abbreviated one; lateral edge slightly reflexed and
dentate, with numerous minute, irregular teeth : scutel large, im-
pressed each side of the middle, and near the tip: hemelytra
minutely dentate on the exterior basal edge: feet dusky, pale
near the incisures.
Length rather more than a quarter of an inch. [327]
REDUVIUS Fabr.
1. R. RApravToRIUs.—Obscure brownish ; head, thorax, and
anterior feet, spinous, the latter raptatory.
Inhabits the United States.
Body oblong, obscure brownish: head contracted above the
eyes, spinous ; six larger spines before the contraction, placed
two and two, and two or four larger ones behind the contraction :
stemmata sanguineous : eyes inserted in the lateral middle of the
head : antenn@ inserted near the tip of the clypeus, with dilated
annuli of dull rufous and pale: rostellum slightly arquated, pale:
thorax contracted in the middle, obsoletely canaliculate, with
short, numerous, obtuse spines before the contraction, and dense
granuli behind it ; posterior angles hardly prominent : feet some-
what pale, subannulate, granulated; anterior pair raptatory ;
thighs unequal, anterior pair robust, villous, dusky, armed with
an erect, prominent, obtuse spine near the tip above, and a double
series of ten equal, equidistant, acute spines beneath; anterior
tibize with a double series of six similar spines on the inner side:
tergum rufous on the disk, margin varied with black and pale:
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250 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
hemelytra, membranaceous tip with a longitudinal reddish-brown
line.
Length more than nine-twentieths of an inch. [328]
Observed to be not uncommon in Missouri, as well as in Penn-
sylvania.
2. R. spisstpes.—Thorax and hemelytra light reddish-brown,
edged behind with white ; venter black, incisures whitish ; feet
thick.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Head black, posterior lobe with two tubercles: thorax light
reddish-brown; anterior lobe with dilated, black, oblique, or
arcuated lines, of which some are confluent; posterior lobe hardly
more elevated than the preceding, with a black posterior submar-
gin and a white posterior margin: scutel black, margined with
white, and tipped by a few hairs: hemelytra, coriaceous portion
light reddish-brown, with a narrow whitish posterior margin,
membranaceous portion black or dark fuscous: feet thickened,
black, hairy : cox bright red : abdomen black, margin and band
on each segment, white.
Length thirteen-twentieths of an inch.
The feet resembles those of R. crassipes Fabr., but it is a
very distinct ‘species.
CORIXA Geoff.
1. C. mnrerRupTA.—With black and yellowish transverse
lineations ; feet pale; face pale green.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head pale green: eyes large, triangular, reddish-brown: tho-
rax transversely lineated with about twenty-two blackish and
pale yellowish, equal, [$29] alternate lines: hemelytra rounded
at tip, with alternate, numerous, abbreviated, transverse, black-
ish, and interrupted, pale yellowish lines; lines near the tip
much undulated and irregular ; margin with about four obsolete
blackish spots, which appear to be still more faintly prolonged
into fascize : epipleura pale, destitute of the transverse lines, but
the obsolete spots are visible upon it; edge blackish: wings
white: feet pale: tergum black, margin pale: pectus and post-
pectus testaceous ; a large black spot between the anterior pairs
of feet.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 251
Length of the body half an inch.
This species equals C. Geoffroyi Leach, in length, but is less
robust.
2. CO. ALTERNATA.—With black and pale transverse lineations;
face and feet pale whitish ; beneath black.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head pale greenish-white: eyes triangular, large, reddish-
brown, dark: thorax black, with about eight transverse, pale,
equal lines: elytra with very numerous, alternate, interrupted,
black and pale yellowish lines, which become more irregular and
undulated towards the tip: wings white: epipleura pale, imma-
culate, edge blackish : feet whitish : pectus and postpectus black:
tergum black, with a white margin: venter black, with a pale
margin and terminal incisures.
Length a quarter of an inch. [330]
Very much resembles the preceding, but is much smaller,
darker, and the prevailing color beneath is black.
CICADA Oliv. Latr.
1. C. prurNosA.—Body above varied with greenish and black,
beneath pruinose : abdomen with a white spot each side, at base,
one at the middle margin and another near the marginal tip.
Inhabits the United States.
Wings, nervures of the hemelytra green to the middle, inner
edge of the costal nervure brownish, nervures beyond the middle
brownish: anterior thighs varied with dusky; anterior pairs of
leos dusky at the exterior tip: tarsi varied with dusky: tergum
black : segments destitute of differently colored posterior margins,
basal segment with a white pruinose spot each side of the back,
another transversely elongated and attenuated one on the lateral
base of the third segment, and another upon the lateral base of
the caudal segment: venter dusky in the middle: caudal seg-
ments beneath testaceous, dusky near the middle tip.
Length two inches, to the tip of the hemelytra.
Found on the Missouri; it is also very common in Pennsyl-
vania, and much resembles C. tibicen of Fabr., but it differs in
being pruinose beneath, and in having white abdominal spots.
2. CO. MARGINATA.—Body above varied with [331] greenish
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and black, beneath pruinose; tergum black, the segments with
yellowish posterior margins.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head and thorax greenish-yellow, slightly varied with black :
seutel black, with the W and elevated x greenish-yellow : hem-
elytra with the nervures as far as the middle, green, beyond the
middle, brown: tergum black, the segments yellowish-brown on
their posterior margins; all beneath testaceous, covered with a
mealy white.
Length more than two inches and a quarter to the tip of the
hemelytra.
Differs from the preceding by being larger, by having the ab-
dominal segments margined, and by being destitute of the white
spots on the tergum. The basal spine of the anterior thighs is
much more oblique than in the preceding species. This cannot
be the costalis, if the descriptions of that species are correct.
3. C. porsata.—Scutel varied with blackish, greenish-yellow
and white; tergum black, a dorsal and lateral line of white spots.
Inhabits Missouri.
Head and thorax varied with greenish-yellow and black : scutel
blackish-chestnut, the W and 2 marks greenish-yellow, lateral
lines of the W white near the thorax, a white line from the
humerus is interrupped by the anterior lines of the x, and also
in the middle between these two lines, a white [332] spot be-
tween the two lateral lines of the x: tergum black, a dorsal line
of white spots and a marginal line of white spots which are con-
tinued over the terminal segment, the lateral spot of the first and
second segments is very much dilated and confluent, that of the
third segment is much elongated and attenuated towards the
back, a white oblique spot on the first segment each side of the
dorsal line; all these white marks are pruinose.
Length two inches to the tip of the hemelytra.
Found in the prairie near the Konza village, in which vicinity
it is rather common. Its note is harsher than that of our prui-
nosa, and is generally uttered when the animal rises in flight,
alarmed on the approach of the traveller.
4. C. AURIFERA.—Body covered with short golden pubescence ;
beneath hairy.
Inhabits Missouri.
[ Vol. 2,
OF PHILADELPHIA. 258
The nervures of the hemelytra are yellowish to the penultimate
anastomosis, beyond which they are brown; the two particular
anastomoses are strongly marked with blackish : head testaceous:
thorax but little varied with black: seutel black, with the usual
testaceous lines: tergum black, densely covered with the golden
hair: beneath pruinose.
Length one inch anda half nearly, to the tip of the hem-
elytra. ;
This species differs from the preceding in being [333 ] smaller,
and in having the golden pubescence, which is more dense on the
head and thorax.
Found near the Konza village.
5. C. PARVULA.—Anterior thighs with three parallel, subequi-
distant spines.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body dull testaceous: head with a dilated dusky line each
side on the front: stemmata reddish-yellow: antenne rather
large, longer than the head: labrum with dusky ruge and a
longitudinal impressed line, abbreviated at the termination of
the rugz : thorax indistinctly varied with black, the lateral edge
not prominent: scutel quadrilineate, lines dilated, abbreviated,
iutermediate ones very short, terminal x hardly elevated: hem-
elytra, with a reddish-yellow reflection: nervures blackish be-
yond the middle ; costal nervure very conspicuously so; no mar-
ginated anastomosis; segments of the tergum dusky at base:
thighs and trochanters varied with black: anterior thighs tri-
dentate; teeth prominent, subequidistant, parallel, posterior one
longest, anterior one shortest.
Length to the tip of the hemelytra seven-tenths of an inch.
A very small species. I have a specimen from near the Rocky
Mountains, which is entirely green, it is a female, and probably
of the same species with the above. Its length to the tip of the
hemelytra, is four-fifths of an inch. [334 ]
6. C. syNnopicA.—Black, varied with pale testaceous; tergum
annulate.
Inhabits the base of the Rocky Mountains.
Body above, black, varied with pale testaceous: head with a
transyerse line before the eyes, and about three triangular spots
1825. ]
254 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
at base, testaceous: clypeus above destitute of grooves: thorax
sinuous behind, the posterior transverse impressed line placed
very near the'posterior edge ; posterior angles prominent, rounded,
lateral edge obtusely emarginate before the posterior angles ;
margin, two oblique lateral lines and a longitudinal dorsal one
testaceous: scutel with a lateral marginal line, the elevated a
and two dorsal dilated lines, testaceous; the dorsal lines are
merely emarginate on the inner side, and do not form the W; at
the tip of each anterior line of the x is a conspicuous, black, im-
pressed puncture, and behind the «x the posterior edge of the
scutel is visible and testaceous: beneath, very pale testaceous ;
rostrum black each side of the grooved base, in the middle
and at tip: feet lineated with black ; anterior thighs bispinous:
tergum with narrow posterior reddish-brown margins; termina]
and anal segments testaceous, the latter with two black spots :
nervures of the wings testaceous, beyond the middle fuscous.
Length to the tip of the hemelytra less than one inch.
Dr. James and Mr. Peale observed this species in great num-
bers in one locality, at the base of [335] the Rocky Mountains:
but it did not occur elsewhere.
FULGORA.
F. sutcrpes.—Thorax with a few black punctures; neryures
of the hemelytra margined with black ; thighs with black grooves.
Body pale: head yellowish-green: rostrum elongated, as long
as the head and thorax, with an elevated line and edges, two
black points between the eyes, beneath between the eyes three
lines and edges elevated: thorax with a large black spot behind
each eye, and several distant black points, two conspicuous black
points between the larger ones: hemelytra with pale nervures,
which are margined with black : feet with black grooves; anterior
and intermediate tibiee with an annulus and tip and tarsi black ;
posterior tibize seven-spined, besides the terminal spinous semi-
fascia.
Length to the tip of the hemelytra more than three-tenths of
an inch.
A small species which I do not suppose to possess the power of
yielding light, It inhabits the Arkanga near the Rocky Moun-
tains.
[Vol. IV.
OF PHILADELPHIA. 25
on
FLATA Fabr.
1. F. prvirrata.—Greenish-yellow ; a lateral reddish-brown
line confluent on the hemelytra ; hemelytra vertical. [336]
Inhabits the United States.
Body pale green: head dusky, brownish before: eyes red: an-
tennz and stemmata yellowish-white ; seta black: thorax and
scutel glabrous, with a broad, lateral, dark reddish-brown vitta :
hemelytra vertical, much dilated, pale greenish-yellow, paler to-
wards the costal margin, inner margin dark reddish-brown :
wings white: pectus and caudal segments whitish : feet, anterior
pairs brownish: venter pale green.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Found near Engineer Cantonment on the Missouri river; it
also occurs in Pennsylvania; it is rather smaller than F. relicta
Fabr., and the hemelytra are more dilated.
2. F. striamata.—Black ; wings white, with a black stigma
and trarisverse spot at base.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black: vertex triangular, distinguished by an elevated
edge, and an abbreviated, carinate ‘line: thorax acutely emar-
ginate behind, and with an elevated edge and dorsal carina,
carina abbreviated before, a squamula covering the origin of the
hemelytra: scutel tricarinate, intermediate carina abbreviated
behind: hemelytra white, a common black band near the base,
becoming brown towards the suture, a black stigma, which is
margined before with white: nervures with white and blackish
alternate dots, the latter setigerous: tibia pale brownish. [837]
Length a quarter of an inch nearly.
Very numerous at Engineer Cantonment on the Missouri.
DELPHAX Fabr.
D. TRIcARINATA.—Whitish ; thorax yellowish; hemelytra
with two oblique bands and spot; nervures spotted.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body whitish : head above, pale green: eyes deep brown, pro-
foundly emarginate beneath: antenne brown, longer than the
head, second joint rather longer than the first: seta longer than
1825.]
256 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
the antennz : front brown, deeply impressed with the grooves of
the rostrum, presenting three prominent carin : rostrum witha _
-fuscous band on the middle, and spot near the tip: thorax yel- —
lowish : hemelytra white, an obsolete band,at base; an oblique —
distinct one on the middle united to a curved one beyond the
middle, which attains the tip and incloses a linear oblique spot
near the tip of the costal margin: feet spotted with fuscous : ab-
domen pale yellowish: tergum blackish in the middle.
Length of the body and wings three-twentieths of an inch.
Came on board of our boat as we ascended the Missouri, in
considerable numbers on the third of July. The hemelytral
fascia, may, on many specimens, be traced into the form of the
letter W, [338] the oblique spot being included between the
posterior curve of the letter and the costal margin.
CERCOPIS Fabr.
1. C. QUADRANGULARIS.—Brownish-cinereous ; elytra with
two oblique brown bands confluent at the outer margin : beneath
black ; feet annulate with pale.
Tnhabits Missouri.
Body brownish-cinereous, covered with dense, minute hairs :
head obsoletely spotted : eyes fuscous, a pale longitudinal line on
the middle, in which is a brown central line: stemmata indis-
tinct, black : thorax emarginate at the anterior angles for the re-
ception of the eyes, and deeply emarginate behind for the recep-
tion of the scutel; a double series of obsolete, indented spots
before : scutel, tip and basal angles acute : hemelytra pale brown-
ish-cinereons ; an oblique black-brown fascia from the inner basal
angle, is confluent at the middle of the exterior margin, with an
oblique fascia which terminates near the sutural tip; tip with a
small blackish curve; region of the humerus dusky; beneath
black: feet black: thighs annulate with pale; posterior pair of
tibize pale, armed with two robust spines behind, and numerous
small ones at tip; posterior tarsi armed with spinules at the tips
of the first and second joints beneath : abdomen black; tail pale
beneath. [339]
Length more than three-tenths of an inch.
2. OC. oprusA.—Head and anterior part of the thorax pale,
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SARGUS Latr. Meig.
. DECORUS.—Front blue; thorax green ; tergum greenish
Iden ; feet pale yellow.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and East Florida.
Hypostoma and vertex blackish; proboscis yellow; antennz
y yellowish ; third joint darker; frontal tubercles with a
: reflexion ; wing dusky, stigma distinct; poisers pale yel-
pleura blackish-piceous ; feet yellow ; posterior tarsi dusky ;
men slender, widest at tip, gradually [377] attenuated to
ie base, and with pale yellowish-brown hair.
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
his species is very closely allied to the S. auratus Meig.
abr., but it is smaller, and the feet are dissimilar ; it may, how-
sver, prove to be a variety of that species.
2. §. porsatis.—Black, eyes brassy, with a green line; feet
white, tibize and tarsi above blackish.
-Inhabits Kentucky.
- Stemmata approximate on the vertex; eyes brown, when re-
sent brassy-green tinged with red or purplish, a broad, green,
eitudinal line across the middle; antenne whitish at base;
white; tarsi black at the tip; anterior and posterior tibiz
‘ked by an oblong, opake, brown spot; abdomen oval, mid-
of the two or three basal segments of the tergum and venter
Length of 9 one-fifth of aninch, % rather less.
‘The male is very similar to the female, but is a little smaller.
This species is allied to the genus Vappo Latr., by the ner-
ures of the wings, the nervure between the three which radiate
‘om the central joint being altogether wanting, but the second
yint of the antenne resembles that of a Sargus, the third joint
s deficient in my specimen. In general form it resemble S. po-
a Beris according to Wiedemann.—SAckEN. |
PARAGUS Latr.
4-rAscIaATus.—Black; tergum with four yellow bands;
margin of the wings fuscous.
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258 LONG'S SECOND EXPEDITION.
Inhabits North-west Territory.
Head pale yellowish; hypostoma slightly impressed with a
black line, and another dilated black line descends [378] from
the black vertex and includes the superior portion of the tuber-
cle of the antennz ; mouth each side black; antennz blackish-
piceous, basal joint and seta paler ; second joint decidedly longer
than the first; eyes with two yellow bands of which the anterior
one is irregular; occiput black, with a cinereous orbital line ;
thorax with four yellow spots on the anterior margin; an obso-
lete, yellowish, curved line above the wings terminating an-
teriorly in a transverse, whitish spot on each side of the centre ;
an angulated yellow line behind; pleura with two yellow spots
placed vertically ; scutel edged with yellow ; wings hyaline, a fus-
cous costal margin, ferruginous at base and gradually dilated to-
wards the tip; poisers white; feet white; anterior pair with the
anterior half of the thighs and tibiz and all the tarsi black ; in-
termediate pair with the tip of the thighs, of the tibie, and all the
tarsi pale rufous, posterior pair hairy beneath, with a tooth near
the tip and posterior half black; tarsi and tip of the tibie pale
rufous, the latter arcuated ; tergum with a band near the base,
somewhat narrowest in its middle; another narrower one on the
middle and two near the tip a little broader in their middles,
yellow; venter with about three distant, narrow, yellow bands,
of which the middle one is sometimes fulvous.
Length less than three-fifths of an inch.
This insect does not altogether agree with the characters of
the genus in which I have placed it, inasmuch as the hind thighs
are toothed, the hind tibiz arcuated, and the terminal joint of
the antennz is oval and not elongated. It disagrees with Milesia
in the elongated first and second joints of the antenne, and with
Pipiza in the length of the palpi, and but for the character of
the antenne, I should certainly refer it to the genus Milesia.
[Macquart has placed this insect as a new genus Mixtemyia.
—SACKEN. ]
CURCULIONIDES.
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Descriptions of North American Curculionides and an arrangement of some
of our known species agreeably to the method of Schoenherr,* July 1831.
BRUCHUS Fabr.
1. B. 4-macunatus, F. Oliv—Fabricius says it inhabits the
island of Santa Cruz, and Olivier says it is from Carolina. The
only individual I have seen was found by Mr. Barabino at New
Orleans.
Olivier gives its length at three-twentieths of an inch. The
present specimen is considerably over one-tenth, but is less than
three-twentieths.
2. B. oprectus.—Dusky ; base and tip of the antenne feet
and abdomen obscure rufous.
Inhabits Louisiana.
Body above blackish ; with prostrate, somewhat dense, dull
yellowish hairs: antenne gradually thicker to the tip, basal half
and terminal joint dull rufous, second joint nearly as long as the
third : thorax with numerous, distant punctures; elytra immac-
ulate, the striz distinct ; apical margin obsoletely rufous ; beneath
black, with prostrate hair; feet dull rufous; posterior thighs
somewhat dilated, beneath blackish with a tooth near the tip and
about two small ones nearer the tip ; abdomen dull rufous, immae-
ulate.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
3. B. TRIANGULARIS.—Black ; elytra with a triangular band,
in which is a black spot each side.
Inhabits Mexico.
*I am greatly ‘indebted to this distinguished naturalist for his able
work the ‘‘ Dispositio Methodica Curculionidum”’ as well as for a know-
ledge of several unpublished genera of this family ; my thanks are also
due to Germar who has kindly furnished me with his ‘‘Coleopterorum
species noye aut minus cognite descriptionibus illustrate,’’ in which
many new genera are instituted.
[The very unnatural classification of Schénherr has left this family
in such an unsatisfactory condition so far as regards the identification
of genera, that I have not yet attempted a critical study of our species.
My notes on this paper therefore will be meagre and more imperfect
than in other portions of the work.—LEc. ]
260 CURCULIONIDES.
Body black; antennz rufous at base; thorax transverse ;
elytra with slender, deep, punctured strize; a common, large tri-
angular white band, connected along the suture with the white
scutel and attenuating to the lateral edge ; in the middle on each
side of the suture is a black dot; posterior thighs with a spine,
beyond which are two smaller spines.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch. [2]
Readily distinguished by the common white triangular band of
the elytra marked by two black spots. I had three specimens
from Mexican seeds of the size of those of Palmetto, but concave
within.
3. B. mrmus.—Brown, varied with black lines and cinereous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body light brown, variegated: antenne pale rufous: thorax
much narrowed before, with two interrupted, elevated, black lines
and one or two on each side ; base rather prominent at the scutel ;
scutel whitish apparently bifid: elytra with black spots and ab-
breviated lines, which have a whitish spot at their anterior
tip ; a light brown line curves inwards from the humerus and
passes along the third interstitial line towards the tip; beneath
dusky or blackish: feet pale rufous; posterior thighs blackish
beneath with several minute spines and four or five larger ones
near the tip: posterior tibiz blackish, subfasciate beyond the mid-
dle : podex yellow.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
5. B. ocunatus.—Brown; posterior thighs three or four-
toothed.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body elongated, pale brown, covered on every part with short
prostrate, dense hair: head on the front dusky, with a slight cu-
preous tinge; much dilated orbits cinereous; tip of the labrum
piceous : antennze fuscous : four basal joints honey-yellow; tho-
rax with a hardly obvious, dorsal, pale line: elytra with aéute
strie, which have distant punctures rather short: anal segment
but little oblique, more than half the length of the elytra; feet
honey-yellow : posterior thighs near the tip with about four teeth,
of which the first is most prominent.
Length one fifth of an inch.
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The anal segment is more nearly horizontal than any species I
have seen.
6. B. opsoLeTus.—Blackish, varied with cinereous hair.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish cinereous, with a slight tinge of brown: anten-
nz not deeply serrate: thorax much narrowed before, [ 3] cin-
ereous each side, a slight impressed dorsal line; base with the
edge almost angulated, central lobe almost truncate; scutel quad-
rate, whitish, longitudinally divided by a dusky line; elytra with
the interstitial lines having a slight appearance of alternating
whitish and dusky ; on the middle of the third interstitial line is
a more obvious abbreviated whitish line: posterior thighs with a
black spine, and two smaller ones.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
The whitish or cinereous markings are not very striking; on
the elytra they may sometimes be traced into two obsolete macu-
lar bands. I obtained many specimens from the seeds of an
Astragulus in August, in company with Apion segnipes nob.
7. B. mMuscuLus.—Blackish with cinereous hair; antenne and
feet rufous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish-cinereous, with a slight tinge of brown, or black
with cinereous hair: labrum piceous: antenne rufous at base
and tip, piceous in the middle: thorax rather long, narrowed be-
fore, somewhat cinereous each side, and on a dorsal line ; basal
edge lobed at the scutel: scutel quadrate cinereous, with a dusky
line ; elytra, third interstitial line with an abbreviated cinereous
line on its middle; feet rufous; anterior thighs at base, interme-
diate pair to the middle, black; posterior thighs with a spine,
and three close set smaller ones distant from it, and with their
tibize black.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
Resembles obsoletus nob., but is a little smaller, and the ru-
fous antenne and feet distinguish it.
8. B. rransversus.—Black, with cinereous hair; interstitial
spaces with transverse black lines.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, more or less covered with cinereous hair; head
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262 CURCULIONIDES.
black: antennze rufous: thorax transverse, widely rounded before,
with a scutellar lobe: scutel subquadrate with a dusky line:
elytra, interstitial spaces interrupted by transverse black lines:
feet rufous: posterior thighs black at base, armed with a spine
near the tip.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
ANTHRIBUS F. Sch. [4]
Subgenus TRoprpEREs Sch.
1. A. cornutus.—Thorax with five tubercles.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head white: mandibles piceous: antenne rufous, clava fuscous :
rostrum moderate: eyes distant: thorax with two fascicles of
erect hairs on the anterior edge, and three larger ones placed
transversely on the middle; elytra somewhat variegated, with
several fascicles of erect hairs on the interstitial lines; and a
white, double, common, transverse spot before the middle; feet
hairy.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
[This is A. coronatus Sch.—Lec. ]
Subgenus PHAENITHON? Schon."
2. A. BREVICORNIS.—Antenne short; seutel and alternate
spots on the elytra, whitish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black-brown : head covered with prostrate whitish hair:
antenne hardly longer than the head, fuseous; thorax with a
transverse elevated subbasal line, rectilinear in the middle, ar-
quated each side, reflected at the posterior angles, and termi-
nating at the lateral middle: scutel white : elytra striated : inter-
stitial spaces convex, with alternate blackish and whitish spots ;
humerus prominent, and a prominence on the middle of the
base: feet obscure piceous.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
The tip of the club, exhibits the appearance of a fourth joint,
which however is much smaller than the others; the eyes are
emarginate. These characters justify the formation of a distinct
subgenus.
CURCULIONIDES. 26
OS
ATTELABUS F. Sch.
A. PUBESCENS nob. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Vol. 5, p. 252.
A. Rhots Boheman Acta Mosqu.
RHYNCHITES Herbst. Schénh.
1. R. copraris Fabr.—The three ultimate joints of the an-
tennze are elongated, differing in this respect from the other spe-
cies of the genus; it has been separated under the generic name
of Sapindus.
The species varies so much in color as to have given rise to
‘several specific names, viz. :
Anthribus collaris Fabr. Syst. Eleut.
Rhynchites angustatus Herbst. [5]
Rhynchites rubricollis nob., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci,* and Melsh.
Catal.
Rhynchites nigripes Melsh. ; quercus Knoch. in Melsh. Catal.
Rhynchites ruficollis Germar, Sp. Nov. p. 188.
The latter is very remarkable in having the thorax of the same
color as the elytra. Dejean in his Catalogue places the species
in the genus Rhinomacer.
[Is Hugnamptus angustatus Sch.—L«xc. |
2. R. nirtus Fabr.
R. xneus ? Bohemann.
Doubts have been expressed of our insect being the hirtus of
Fabr., but it agrees better with the description than any. It is
also, as Fabricius says, of the stature and magnitude of R. pubes-
cens.
3. R. 2RATuS.—Brassy, antennee, rostrum, and beneath, ob-
scure bluish.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Curculio xratus Knoch, in Melsh. Catalogue.
Body brassy, punctured: rostrum very slightly dilating to-
wards the tip, with an impressed line above, from the base to the
middle: front with small punctures: thorax with dense punc-
tures: elytra with a transverse, dilated but not profound, com-
*This reference is wrong, it is described in Long’s Expedition, 2, 288:
ante, p. 192.—Lzc. ]
264 CURCULIONIDES.
mon indentation : with strie of transverse, large punctures: be-
neath blackish-blue.
Length nearly one-tenth of an inch.
This is the smallest North American species yet known.
I have found it on the oak in June.
Genus PTEROCOLUS Sch.
Antenne 11-jointed, not geniculate; basal joint not much
elongated ; eighth joint transverse linear ; ninth and tenth trans-
verse subquadrate, dilated, and with the ultimate semioval one
remote, perfoliated, forming an oblong oval club; rostrum di-
lated at tip: head rather long behind the eyes, neck not con- ~
tracted ; scutel transverse subquadrate: elytra somewhat abbre-
viated ; each rounded at tip, depressed above: podex and part of
the back, naked: feet robust: thighs unarmed, dilated ; tibize un-
armed, ciliate densely on the exterior edge with very short spines,
and with small spines around the edge of the tip: body rounded.
This genus differs from Rhynchites by the rounded form of
the body; the shorter and depressed elytra, more divaricate [ 6 ]
at their tips; the rostrum is shorter and more contracted in the
middle, and the origin of the antennz is nearer the middle or
rather the base of the rostrum; the tibie are ciliated with short
spines, Xe.
P. ovatus Fabr. (Attelabus) Syst. Eleut.
APION Herbst.
1. A. ROSTRUM nob. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci.
This may very probably prove to be A. nigrum Herbst.
Dr. J. F. Melsheimer informed me that it is found in abun-
dance on the leaves of Robinia pseud-acacia.
[This is Apion Sayt Sch.—Lec.]
2. A. SEGNIPES.—Black; feet rufous, with black incisures
and tarsi.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, punctured with prostrate white hairs; rostrum
rather long, and very slightly angulated, slightly tapering, punc-
tured at base: antenne with three or four basal joints, rufous :
thorax with dense large punctures: elytra with punctured pro-
foundly impressed strie; feet rufous; thighs at base, coxe, tro-
CURCULIONIDES. 265
chanters and knees black ; tibiae black at tip; tarsi black with a
whitish reflection at the tip of their joints.
Length about one-tenth of an inch.
T obtained numbers of this species from the seeds of an Astra-
gulus in August.
LAIMOSACCUS Sch.
L. practarus Fabr. Schénh. ; Curculio nephele Herbst.
This is a well marked insect, remarkable by the very large
fulvous mark on the disk of each elytron occupying two-thirds
of the whole surface. The tooth of the anterior thighs is very
prominent. I obtained it on the oak in July.
THAMNOPHILUS Schonh.
1. T. Barprrus—Body rather long and narrow,’ blackish-
brown, with confluent punctures : rostrum punctured, cylindrical,
as long as the head and thorax, slightly broader at tip, a little
curved ; thorax with one or two slight tubercles each side before :
elytra with the striz rather wide and deep, punctured ; thighs
with a tooth beneath.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Length to the tip of the rostrum three-tenths of an inch.
Belongs to the Subgenus Panus Schonh.
[Placed by Schénherr in Magdalinus to which also belong the
following four species.—LEC. ] [7]
2. T. otyra Herbst (Curculio) Natursyst. vol. 7, p. 7.
The scutel is white; this character was probably obliterated in
Herbst’s specimen as he has not mentioned it.
3 'T. armicoLnts nob. (Ieynchenus) Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci.
vol. 3, p. 312.
4, T. pANDURA.—Thorax with a lateral tubercle before the
middle and on the posterior angle; tarsi piceous.
Inhabits United States.
Ourculio pandura Knoch in Melsh. Catalogue.
Body black, punctured: antenn® piceous: rostrum slightly
arquated: thorax with separate punctures; an angle or tubercle
each side a little before the middle, contracted before the pos-
266 CTRCULIONIDES.
terior angles, which are prominent: elytra with striz of large
punctures: tarsi rufo-piceous.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
Much like 7” olyra, but is much smaller, the lateral! thoracic
tubercle is nearer the middle and scutel is black.
). T. PALLIDUS.
with rufous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body punctured, somewhat elongate ; head densely punctured,
punctures not profound ; rostrum a little dilated towards the tip,
punctured: club ovate acute, not much elongated: thorax with
dense, irregular, not very deep punctures, a dorsal glabrous line,
and anteriorly on each side is an acute tubercle: elytra with im-
pressed striz in which are oblong punctures ; interstitial lines a
little convex and slightly rugose with a very minute series of
scales or pores, near the tip these lines are more convex, basal
edge somewhat elevated: thighs, spines acute; postpectus and
base of the abdomen dusky.
Length to tip of rostrum about three-twentieths of an inch.
The color is much paler than that of the armcollis nob. and the
club is much shorter.
Pale yellowish; head and thorax tinged
CHLOROPHANUS Dalm.
C. acutus nob. (Curculio) Journ. Acad. Nat. Se. vol. 3,
p. 510.
This insect also oceurs in Indiana. [8]
[Is the type of Brachystylus Sch.—Lxc.]
ITHYCERUS Schonh.
I. cURCULIONIDES Herbst.
I have always considered the Curculio punctatulus Fabr. and
Oliv. synonymous with this, but Germar is of the opinion that it
is a different insect.
Curculio noveeboracensis Forster.
[I consider Pachyrhyncus Schinherri Kirby, Fauna Bor. Am.
203, Rhinaria Schinherri Sch. Cure. 7, 2, 369 as synonyms of
this insect.—LEc.]
CURCULIONIDES. 267
Genus THECESTERNUS nob.
Anterior part of the pectus excavated for the reception of the
rostrum.
Natural character—Body convex, firm, unequal: rostrum
very short, thick, entire: antennz rather slender, inserted near
the middle of the rostrum, ina deep, somewhat angulated groove ;
first jomt oblong turbinate, a little arquated; second and third
short, subturbinate, the latter shorter; fourth and eighth very
short, quadrate or transverse ; club rather large, of which the
basal joint (or two joints 7) is as long again as the ultimate one,
which is subacute: eyes a little oblique, somewhat acute before,
oblong subovate: thorax longitudinally somewhat quadrate : scu-
tel none: elytra connate, rigid, hardly broader at base than the
thorax, narrowed at tip and concealing the podex: pectus ante-
riorly deeply excavated to receive the rostrum : feet, anterior pairs
approximate: posterior pair distant: thighs not dilated: tibiae
with a short, thick, or double spine at tip: tarsi simple.
Obs.—I proposed this genus when describing the species, but
omitted the name. It differs from Brachycerus F., and Episus
Billb. by the pectoral excavation, general form of the body, less
robust antenne, and larger club.
T. HUMERALIS nob. (Brachycerus,) Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Vol. 5, p. 254.
[This is*the type of Lithodus Germ. Sch. Cure. 2, 420.—
Lec.
GRAPHORHINUS Sch.
1. G. vAposus.—Body dark cinereous : rostrum with a deep-
ly impressed line, on each side of the middle of which is a short
impressed line, and between the eyes is a dilated, suborbicular
indentation : thorax with large, somewhat irregular, approximate
punctures: elytra with the alternate lines more elevated, partic-
ularly towards the base ; punctures transverse. [9]
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
TInhabits Missouri.
This insect was presented to me by Nuttall.
[Belongs to Hpicaerus.—Lxc. ]
268 CURCULIONIDES.
2. G. OPERCULATUS.—Rostrum obsoletely truncated ; a frontal
dilated puncture.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, covered with minute, orbicular, perlaceous scales :
head with a dilated impressed puncture between the eyes, an ob-
solete longitudinal sulcus on the short, robust rostrum and a still
less obvious one on each side; thorax canaliculate in the middle ;
elytra with series of rather large impressed punctures: thighs
with a sinus beneath near the tip.
Length over seven-twentieths of an inch.
DERACANTHUS Schonh.
Subgenus ARACANTHUS.
D? pALLipus.—Body whitish, varied with pale brown ; rostrum
not longer than broad, with an impressed, very obvious line from
the vertex to the tip: eyes small: thorax with numerous, small
punctures not close set nor very regularly placed; base not un-
dulated : elytra with regular striz of punctures.
Inhabits United States.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
THYLACITES Germ.
1. T. Microps.—Body whitish : rostrum very short and broad :
eyes very small, orbicular ; front with an acute impressed line : ver-
tex and thorax a little rough with numerous slight indentations ;
seutel not obvious: elytra with their striz and punctures not
visible, suture a little elevated : feet simple.
Inhabits Missouri.
Length less than three twentieths of an inch.
[This is 7. microsus Sch.—Lec. |
Subgenus SrropHosomus Sch.
2. T. TESSELATUS nob. (Liparus) Jour. Acad. Nat Se.
CALLOPISTUS Schénh. (in litt.)
B. AuRICEPHALUS nob. (Cureulio) Jour. Acad. Nat. Se.
vol. 3. p. 310.
[Is Platyomus auriceps Sch.—Lxc. ]
CURCULIONIDES. 269
TANYMECUS Germ.
1. T. LACAENA.—Body a little cupreous, dull yellowish cine-
reous, densely punctured: rostrum with a raised line, tip widely
indented above: antennz blackish rufous: thorax with three ob-
solete blackish vittee; widest a little before the middle: scutel
very small, cinereous: elytra with the striz hardly impressed
at base but obviously impressed towards the tip, punctures rather
large, quadrate ; interstitial lines flattened, tip of each with a
short joint in the middle.
Length to tip of rostrum three-twentieths of an inch.
Curculio lacaena Herbst? Natursyst.
2. T. conrusus.—Much like the preceding but is destitute of
the thoracic vitte. :
Length to tip of the rostrum about three-tenths of an inch.
[Appears to be 7. confertus Sch.—LEc.]
APHRASTUS Schonh. (in litt.)
A. TAENIATUS nob. Journ. Acad. Nat. Se.
Elytra whitish, second and fourth interstitial lines light
brown. [10]
SITONA Germ.
1. 8S. INDIFFERENS.—Body black, rather thinly covered with
cinereous hair: rostrum short, dilated, with an indented line
which does not reach the tip: thorax cylindric with small, ir-
regular, hardly impressed punctures: elytra striate, the strize
with rather large punctures: feet obscure piceous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
In form somewhat like lineedlus Gyll.
2. S. scrsstrrons.—Covered with white scales; elytra with
black spots.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body entirely covered by minute scales, which on the sides of
the thorax and elytra are white, and on their middle light brown;
head obviously punctured and with a widely impressed line ex-
tending to the tip: antenne dark piceous; basal joint paler,
clavate : thorax rather short, slightly rounded each side, obviously
270 CURCULIONIDES.
punctured: a much dilated brown dorsal vitta in which is a
narrow white vitta, a lateral brown vitta from the eye: elytra
with a much dilated common brownish vitta; a few blackish
spots; tibie with a slight rufous tinge: tarsi spongy beneath :
eyes rounded.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
This much resembles the S. Zineellus Gyll., but the nasal jomt
is shorter, the eye smaller, the thorax shorter, &c.
HADROMERUS Schonh.
H. mitaris.—Brown varied with cinereous: rostrum with a
deeply indented line : antenne and tarsi rufous: thorax and head
with numerous deep punctures ; the former with a dilated lateral
vitta: elytra with an oblique cinereous arquated vitta from the
humerus to the middle ; tip cinereous almost constituting a band ;
beneath with whitish scales: feet somewhat banded.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Ourculio hilaria ? Herbst. Natursyst.
The male is smaller and the extremity of the oblique vitta is
almost insulated so as to form a small spot in the middle of each
elytra, surrounded by a dark line.
[Belongs to Pandeleteius Sch.—Lec.]
CLEONUS Schonh.
C. rrivirratus.—Covered with cinereous hair; thorax tri-
lineate , elytra, suture and vitta on each blackish.
Inhabits Arkansaw.
Lixus trivittatus nob. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. [Wrong reference.
—LEc. |
Body black, densely covered by cinereous hair; head, a black
lateral line from the eyes to the tip of the rostrum, and a carin-
ate line above; thorax deeply and widely indented behind ; three
longitudinal blackish vitte ; an abbreviated, longitudinal, slightly
elevated line before, scattered punctures; elytra with regular
series of profound punctures; a sutural double blackish vitta
spotted or interrupted with cinereous ; and a vitta on the middle
of each elytron also spotted with cinereous; beneath with small
black spots.
Length (total) about two-fifths of an inch.
I obtained two or three specimens near the Rocky Mountains.
CURCULIONIDES. 271
HYPSONOTUS Germ.
1. H. aLTERNATUS.—Body piceous, nearly covered with pros-
trate brown hairs: elytra with the strie simple impressed, the
hairs upon them forming alternate whitish and brownish spots ;
amore obvious white spot near the tip of each elytron; front
and rostrum with an impressed line; thorax with the punctures
[11] large and close set, concealed by the hairs, with a longitudinal
raised line; thighs beneath near the tip emarginate.
Length less than half an inch.
Inhabits the North-west Territory.
[Belongs to Alophus.—LEc. ]
2. H. impricatus nob. (Liparus) Journ. Acad. Nat. Se.
[Is an Epicaerus according to Shénherr.—Lec. ]
LISTRODERES Schonh.
1. L. cAupatus nob. (Rynchaenus) Journ. Acad. Nat. Se.
2. L. SQUAMIGER.—Body covered with minute brownish cine-
reous scales: rostrum with a carinate line; thorax with scattered
punctures ; not flattened ; scutel yellowish or whitish, elytra with
punctured strie towards the tip concealed by the scales; the
united tip obtusely rounded ; humerus obtuse.
Length from two-fifths to half an inch.
Inhabits Arkansaw.
Much like caudatus nob., but in that species the humeral line
is carinate and acute.
»
3. L. porceLLus.—Body blackish rufous, with numerous
short, robust, upright hairs; rostrum broad and rather short,
with somewhat elevated lines and wide indentation at base:
thorax subcylindric: elytra with a wide impressed stria, in
which are transverse punctures ; a paler submarginal line each
side and terminal spot; feet dull rufous.
Inhabits United States.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
4. L. sparsus.—Body dull drab color; with minute scales,
the surface with small, dense, shallow indentations; numerous
short, robust, upright hairs; rostrum robust, short; antennx
rufous: thorax somewhat rounded; scutel small, transverse :
272 _ CURCULIONIDES. Ph eesy
elytra with rather longer hairs than the thorax, with slenc
punctured strize, punctures obsolete towards the tip; humer
little prominent, somewhat carinate ; feet unarmed.
Inhabits Missouri.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
5. L. LINEATULUS.—Body with a dirty yellowish cinereous |
covering, and with short, robust hairs; rostrum with two longi- >.
tudinal grooves ; antennz rufous ; thorax rounded, with a trans- |
verse indented anterior line anda longitudinal obsolete, impresseleam
one: the whole surface has a Peaniied appearance ; clytrawith :
the striae and punctures concealed by the covering, the alternate :
interstitial lines prominent and distinct.
Length over one-fifth of an inch.
Very distinct from the preceding species and may be distin- a
guished from them by its much smaller size.
BARYNOTUS Germ.
1. B. r1arpus.—Body dirty brown, with remote, robust, up-—
right hairs: rostrum short, thick, transversely indented between
the eyes; thorax a little indented longitudinally; transverse, as Be
broad in the middle as the base of the elytra; elytra with
the strize obtuse, slightly impressed, punctured ; interstitial lines —
haying the hairs distant and regular.
Inhabits Connecticut.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
[ Phyzxelis rigidus Sch. Cure. 7, 124.—LeEc.]
2. B. errnaceus.—Rather slender; thorax rounded, some-
what distant from the abdomen. se
Inhabits United States.
Body covered with very minute, oppressed, orbicular, dark —
brown scales: rostrum robust, moderate; mandibles exerted ar-
quated simple, acute, unarmed, nearly half as long as the ros- :
trum: thorax rough, the scales and their intervals exhibiting
the irregularity of a sanded surface; hairs numerous; interval i 3
between the thorax and abdomen widely contracted: elytra with
punctured strize and rigid equi-distant black hairs on the inter- |
stitial lines ; posterior declivity nearly vertical.
Length over one-fifth of an inch. ies s
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 273
More rounded and less sericeous than C. griseus Fab., and
“somewhat larger than C. padi Gyl.
LAMPYRIS Linn. Latr.
zy, 1. L. rvriconn1s.—Blackish ; antenne and thorax rufous.
¥ Lamp yris ruficollis Melsh. Catal. [ 162]
- Head black, polished, with short hairs; eyes rather small,
Be nincnt; antenn and palpi dull rufous: thorax transversely
‘g “oblong drat, with short hairs, polished; anterior angles
rounded ; anterior margin not extended over the head; rufous,
a little Suaky before the middle: elytra blackish, with numerous
punctures furnishing short hairs: pectus cules on the lateral
‘Margin: tibia obscure rufous.
_ Length three-twentieths of an inch.
_ The smallest North American species I have seen, and very
_ distinct by its characters from any of them. It does not appear
to be endowed with the power of yielding light.
[Belongs to Helodes Latr., (Cyphon Fabr.,) and subsequently
deseribed as H. marginicollis Guerin, and H. fragilis Zeigler ; it
_ varies in having sometimes a black dorsal thoracic spot.—LEc. |
S
2, L. ancuLata.—Blackish-brown ; thorax yellowish, with a
-yitta and lateral margin, black ; elytra margined with yellowish.
: Lampyris marginata Melsh. Catal.
_ Body dilated: head dull rosaceous, with an obscure frontal
spot and vertex, blackish ; antennz simple, blackish, basal joint
pale; palpi blackish : thorax obtusely somewhat angulated before;
a dilated black vitta attenuated before, on each side of which to-
panels the base is a large pale rosaceous space, and towards the tip
each side a dull yellowish one ; lateral margin blackish ; a longi-
tudinal elevated line ; lateral margin a little excurved near the
posterior angles; posterior dai arcuated each side: scutel
black : elytra with a broad outer margin and narrow sutural
gin and tip, yellowish : abdomen, terminal segments bright
yellow. [ 163 }
Length two-fifths of an inch.
In general form, and color of the thorax, it resembles the
corrusca Linn., which, however, is destitute of colored margins
to the elytra, ‘nul its thorax is rounded before ; it is very differ-
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274 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
ent from the marginata Linn., by its much more dilated form.
I have one specimen which is three-fifths of an inch in length.
[Belongs to Photinus as enlarged by Lacordaire, Gen. Col. 4,
321.—LEc.]
3. L. cenrrRATA.—Thorax rosaceous, with a black centre;
elytra margined with yellowish.
Lampyris linbata, Melsh. Catal.
Body oblong: head blackish; mouth dull rufous; antenne
simple, compressed and with the palpi, black: thorax rounded
before, destitute of a carinated line; a black vitta, each side of
which is a large rosaceous spot ; lateral margin not excuryed to-
wards the posterior angles, yellowish; anterior margin dull tes-
taceous yellow; posterior edge rectilinear: elytra brownish-
black, a narrow exterior, sutural and terminal margin, yellowish :
abdomen, terminal segments bright yellow.
Length from two-fifths to nine-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Thoracic vitta abbreviated.
Very similar in its markings to the preceding, but is less dila-
ted, the thorax is rounded before, with its posterior edge rectili-
near, and the lateral margin is not blackish, &e.
[Also a Photinus, but previously described as LZ. pyralis Linn.
and J. rosata Germ.—LEc. |
5. L. rEvTIcULATA.—Elytra dusky, with longitudinal elevated
lines, and transverse ones in the interstitial spaces.
Body rather slender: head yellowish; eyes black: [164] tho-
rax wider than long, accurately rounded before; depressed mar-
gin wide at the posterior angles ; pale yellowish, blackish on the
disk ; lateral and anterior margins a little recurved: elytra fus-
cous, with longitudinal elevated lines, and intermediate, trans-
verse, somewhat irregular ones: pectus pale yellow each side:
postpectus and feet pale yellow.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
A single specimen was brought from Arkansa by Mr. Thomas
Nuttall. It may be readily distinguished from the other species
of the United States by its reticulated elytra, and slender
form.
[Constitutes the genus Phausis Lec.; the antenne have 12
joints, the last being very small and subulate.—Lxc.]
[Vol. V.
OF PHILADELPHIA. 275
5. L. scrncrinLans.—Light brown ; thorax rosaceous, with
a yellowish margin and central black spot ; elytra with a yellow-
ish margin.
Lampyris pyralis, Melsh. Catal.
Body oblong: head blackish, more or less tinged with rufous ;
mouth paler; antenne brown: thorax regularly arcuated before
and on each side; bright rosaceous, with a black central spot
and impressed line ; anterior and lateral margins pale yellowish ;
posterior edge very slightly arcuated, which extends equally
from one angle to the other: elytra pale brown, with a narrow
exterior, sutural and terminal margin.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
This is our very abundant “ Fire-fly,” and is familiar to every
inhabitant of this country. It is very like the centrata nob.,
but is much smaller and of a much paler color. With the late
Mr. Melsheimer, [ have always hitherto considered this species
to be the [165] pyralis of authors; but on a careful comparison
with their descriptions, and particularly that of Olivier and his
figure, I have, after much hesitation, concluded that it is dis-
tinct from that species. The pyratis is described to be equal in
size to the splendidula and noctiluca, but our species is smaller ;
my chief reliance, however, is on the figure given by Olivier,
which is beyond all doubt that of a widely different species from
the present.
The female differs from the male in having the elytra imper-
fect, being not more than one-third the length of the abdomen ;
they are, however, margined like those of the male.
[Belongs te Photinus——Lxc. ]
CANTHARIS Fabr. Dej.
1. C. TromMENTosA.—Rufous ; elytra blackish, covered with
short hairs ; thorax truncated before.
Cantharis tomentosa Melsh. Catal.
Head prominent, somewhat elongated and attenuated behind the
eyes, glabrous, rufous: antennz dusky, pale rufous at base, second
and third joints equal : thorax rufous, subglabrous, with very min-
ute hairs, polished; lateral margins narrow, more depressed behind;
anterior margin truncated ; a longitudinal acute impressed line;
1825.]
276 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
scutel pale rufous : elytra blackish, with dense minute hairs, and
close set small punctures: postpectus dark plumbeous, sericeous,
with very short prostrate hairs: feet pale rufous; tibie dusky,
the anterior pair somewhat arcuated, so as to have the appear-
ance of being a little dilated [166] on the inner side towards
the tip: abdomen dark plumbeous on the disk, lateral margins
and tip pale rufous.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
A species of Podabrus subsequently described as P. rufiolus
Mels.—Lec. ]
2. C. RoTUNDICOLLIS.—Pale rufous; elytra plumbeous, seri-
ceous ; thorax rounded before.
Head rounded, sericeous on the front, towards the tip a little
varied with black ; antennze hardly darker than the head, third
joint longer than the second, but not twice as long; mandibles
black at tip and on the inner margin : thorax pale rufous, polish-
ed, with short hairs, somewhat inequal; lateral margins nearly
obsolete behind, depressed before ; posterior margin abruptly de-
pressed ; anterior margin regularly rounded, lateral angles none:
scutel pale rufous: elytra plumbeous and decidedly sericeous,
varying with the incidence of the light: beneath pale rem
sericeous : anterior tibiz simple.
Length nearly three-fifths of an inch.
The colors of this species, as well as their distribution, are so
very similar to those of the preceding, that it might be easily
mistaken for the same, but it differs in the anterior rotundity of
the thorax and the simplicity of the anterior tibie.
3. C. LIGATA.—Pale ochreous ; head with two lines and tho-
rax with a vitta, black.
Body pale ochreous: head with two very obvious black lines,
proceeding from the base of the antennz and converging a little
to the neck; antenne black, second joint very small, half the
length of the third, [167] which is not more than two-thirds
the length of the fourth ; mouth prominent, with a black line
each side above ; palpi long, terminal joint but little dilated:
thorax quadrate, not transverse; lateral edges rectilinear; angles
rounded, posterior ones more acutely so; a broad black vitta,
which, however, does not affect the anterior and posterior raised
[Vor
OF PHILADELPHIA. 211
edges : elytra immaculate: wings black: tibize and tarsi black,
nails simple.
Length more than two-fifths of an inch.
The form of the palpi prove this species to be closely related
to Malthinus. I found the specimen near the cantonment of
Major Long’s exploring party on the Missouri river.
[This is a variety of Chauliognathus marginatus with immacu-
late elytra Lec. ]
4. ©. sactata.—Pale ochreous; thorax with an impressed
line, dull rufous, yellowish each side.
Body pale ochreous ; head yellowish before, above the antennz
black, polished ; antennze black beneath, and basal joint rufous ;
second joint half as long as the third, which is equal to the
fourth: thorax transverse, rounded before; posterior angles
acute; yellowish each side, on the disk rufous with a blackish
line, and with an indented line extending from the middle to the
posterior raised edge: elytra immaculate: postpectus blackish
on each side: tibiz and tarsi black above, nails with a prominent
tooth: venter blackish in the middle.
Length more than two-fifths of an inch.
I found this species when with Major Long’s party, near the
Rocky Mountains.
{Unknown to me.—L«c.] [168]
5. C. PARALLELA.—Black ; thorax yellow, with a black vitta.
Head black ; mandibles honey-yellow ; antennze with the first
joint yellowish beneath, second joint half the length of the third,
which is equal to the fourth: thorax yellow, with a slight tinge
of rufous, with a black equal vitta, which occupies not more
than one-fourth or one-fifth of the surface; anterior portion
rather narrower than the posterior margin; angles rounded:
elytra black: beneath black : pectus yellow: nails armed with a
tooth.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
This species was labelled in my cabinet with the name of
Uincola, but that name is pre-occupied. The black line of the
thorax is well defined, and its sides are parallel. Occurs in
June.
[Thisis C. lineola Fabr.—Lxc.]
1825.]
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6. C. LATICORNIS.—Black ; thorax with the lateral margin
yellow; antenn@ serrate.
Body black; head somewhat yellowish before; antennz a
little dilated and serrate on the inner side; second joint very
small, less than one-third the length of the third joint, which is
equal to the fourth: thorax a little narrower before, lateral nar-
row margins honey-yellow ; middle of the lateral edge contracted ;
posterior angles subacute: pectus yellowish: nails simple, pos-
terior pair with a slight tooth.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
[Belongs to Polemius Lec., Proc. Acad. Nat. Se. Phila. 5, 339;
Telephorus dubius Mels. is synonymous.—LEc. |
6. C. scrrutA.—Dusky ; thorax, margin of the elytra and
feet yellow.
Head black, anterior half yellowish; antennee with [169] the
two basal joints beneath yellowish, second joint rather large, two-
thirds the length of the third joint, which is equal to the fourth:
thorax yellow, immaculate; anterior angles obtusely rounded,
posterior angles acutely rounded; elytra dusky, with a pale yel-
lowish margin, the sutural margin very broad, near the seutel
occupying nearly half the width of the elytrum: beneath pale
yellowish ; postpectus and venter varied with dusky : nails armed
with a tooth.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
[Subsequently described by me, Agassiz, Lake Sup., 230, as
Telephorus nigriceps.—Lx¢. |
8. C. ? BipentTATA.—Thorax bidentate, yellow; antenne ser-
rate.
Body black: antennz dilated, joints short, serrate; second
joint very small, not dilated, half as long as the third, which is
equal to the fourth : thorax yellow; near the posterior angle on
each side are two prominent, approximate, parallel teeth.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
[Belongs to Sit’s.—Lec.]
[Vol. V.
OF PHILADELPHIA. 279
MALACHIUS Fabr.
1. M. FLAVILABRIS.—Purplish-black ; head at tip yellow.
Body black, with a slight tinge of purplish, particularly on the
elytra: head polished deep black between and above the eyes,
anterior to which it is bright yellow ; antennz beneath one half
the length yellow: anterior pairs of feet yellow, coxe and thighs
with a dilated black line ; posterior feet dusky.
Length to the tip of the elytra more than one-tenth of an
inch.
[Belongs to Anthocomus ; subsequently described as JM. ceru-
leus Randall.—Lxc. ] [170 }
2. M. pustzitus.—Purplish-black ; feet, excepting the poste-
rior tibize, yellow.
Head polished, black ; antennze at base yellow ; mandibles yel-
low, piceous at tip: anterior pairs of feet, excepting the patella,
yellow; posterior pair yellow, tibiz and line on the thighs,
black.
Length more than one-twentieth of an inch.
I received the two insects above described from Dr. J. F.
Melsheimer, under the names I have given to them.
[Belongs to Hbzus.—LEc. ]
3. M. scrncetus.—Pale yellowish ; thoracic disk black.
Head yellow, black at base: thorax deep black on the disk,
each side and basal edge yellow: scutel black; elytra pale yel-
lowish, suture excepting towards the tip blackish : pectus yellow,
with a blackish spot each side; postpectus yellow ; lateral and
posterior margins black: abdomen black, incisures and lateral
edge yellow.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
A common species, remarkable for its pale color.
[A species of Anthocomus.—LEC.]
4, M. apicatis.—Black ; thorax sanguineous; feet and tip of
the elytra whitish.
Head black, polished ; antennze yellowish : thorax sanguineous,
dusky on the anterior margin: elytra black, polished ; a large,
rounded, whitish, somewhat hyaline spot occupying the tip: feet
and posterior part of the venter pale yellow or whitish.
1825.]
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Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
I obtained this species when with Major Long’s party in
Missouri.
[Belongs to Ebzus.—L«c. | [171]
5. M. TeRMINALIS.—Blackish ; terminal margin of the elytra
pale testaceous.
Body black, polished, somewhat hairy; antennz at base,
clypeus on its anterior margin and labrum dull rufous: elytra
with the apical margin only pale testaceous: anterior thighs be-
neath, piceous : abdomen with the segments margined with pale
testaceous.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch: of a more robust form
than the preceding insect.
[An Anthocomus.—Lkxc.]
XYLETINUS Latr.
X. SERICEUS.—Brown ; thorax indented each side behind ;
elytra striate.
Anobium sericeum Melsh. Catal.
Body cylindrical, with minute prostrate hairs: head granu-
lated ; antennz rufous ; mouth with golden yellow hair: thorax
granulated ; an obvious longitudinal impressed line, terminating
behind in a short carina, which separates two impressed trans-
verse spaces; lateral edge prominent: elytra with regular im-
pressed striz, in which are equal, large, impressed punctures.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
If the short Fabrician description of serricornis be accurate,
there can be no doubt that the present specimen is distinct.
[Belongs to Trypopitys Redt.—Lerc. ]
ANOBIUM Fabr.
“]. A. a@reBosum.—Thorax much elevated, acute in the
middle. [172]
Anobium gibbosum Melsh. Catal.
Body very hairy, brown; hairs more or less ferruginous: an-
tenne nearly naked, reddish-brown: thorax much elevated in
the middle, the tip of the prominent part bifid: elytra with
irregular strize of punctures ; a few more prominent tufts of hairs;
humerus prominent: postpectus dusky.
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Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
The hairy surface, and prominence of the thorax render this a
striking species. It is not common.
2. A. BISTRIATUM.—Black ; feet dull rufous; antenne pale
yellowish.
Thorax a little compressed before, with a slight oblique groove
each side, proceeding backward and becoming confluent on the
posterior submargin; lateral margin impressed, edge rather
prominent ; anterior edge slightly reflected : elytra with obsolete
series of impressed punctures; on the lateral margin are two
deeply impressed strize.
Length more than one-twentieth of an inch.
A small but very distinct species.
3. A. NoTATUM.—Above blackish, varied with cinereous ;
thorax with the posterior angles subacute.
Head with cinereous hair on the front; antennz glabrous,
rufous, as long as the thorax: thorax blackish-brown, a longitu-
dinal impressed line, in which is very short cinereous hair, on
each side of which is a small obsolete cinereous spot; base with
a large cinereous patch ; posterior angles rather prominent, sub-
acute : scutel cinereous: elytra striate, punctured, [173] with
short cinereous lines in the interstitial spaces, forming a band
beyond the middle, and at base generally enclosing a black spot:
beneath cinereous ; feet blackish-rufous.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
This pretty species is not at all common.
4. A. TENUESTRIATUM.—Reddish-brown ; sericeous; elytra
with filiform strie.
Anobium villosum Melsh. Catal.
Antenne moderate, the terminal joints not unusually elongated,
the length of each not being equal to three times its breadth :
thorax not remarkably convex, a little indented transversely each
side on the posterior margin, but not carinated on the posterior
middle ; before the middle on each side, in a particular light, is
arounded spot of the general yellowish sericeous hair: elytra
with very slender, not deeply impressed, punctured striz.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
A very common species; it frequently occurs in our museums.
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It is also very destructive to Iris root of the shops, and to various
other farinaceous substances. It has some resemblance to the A.
striatum Fabr., of Europe, but the terminal joints of the antennz
are less elongated, the thorax is less contracted before, and the
strie of the elytra are much narrower. The name given by Mr.
Melsheimer is pre-occupied. [174]
TILLUS Fabr. Latr.
1. T. prcotor.—Black ; thorax rufous, anterior and posterior
margins black.
Body hairy: head black : antennz dusky, pale rufous at base :
mouth pale rufous: thorax contracted behind the middle, and a
little dilated at the middle: rufous, anterior and posterior mar-
gins black : elytra black, with regular strize of punctures: pectus
tufous, anterior and posterior margins black : postpectus piceous :
feet yellowish, knees and tarsi dusky.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles 7. elongatus Linn., of Europe, but the middle of the
pectus is not black, and the anterior and posterior margins of the
thorax are black. Mr. Nuttall brought me a specimen of this
insect from Arkansa, and Dr. J. F. Melsheimer sent me one
under the name which I have adopted.
[This is a Cymatodera.—Lxc. }
2. T. uNDULATUS.—Elytra pale testaceous, two undulated
bands and tip black.
Notoxus undulatus Melsh. Catal.
Body long, slender: head black : eyes nearly entire : antennze
pale rufous, nearly filiform, slightly larger towards the tip, and
hardly serrated: palpi pale rufous: thorax blackish, cylindrical,
transversely indented on the anterior submargin, a little dilated
on the middle of the lateral margin, and narrower behind: elytra
with regular strie of punctures, pale testaceous; basal margin
blackish ; an undulated band before the middle, another behind,
the middle and tip black: [175] beneath rufous, stethidium
sometimes varied with blackish: feet pale testaceous; nails pec-
tinated. ‘
Length nearly two-fifths of an inch.
This insect has the habit of a Notoxus, but it cannot be con-
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generic with the mollis, owing to the conformation of the first
joint of the tarsi, which agrees with that of the present genus.
The antenne are much less serrated than those of elongatus Fabr.,
and are proportionally longer, the nails also are pectinated.
[Also a Cymatodera afterwards described as C. longicollis
Spin.—LEc. ]
CLERUS Fabr. Dej.
1. C. TRIFASCIATUS.—Rufous; elytra with a broad band on the
middle, and tip black, an intermediate cinereous band.
Body hairy, bright rufous : head at tip dusky : antennz black,
terminal joint rufous at tip: thorax short, the transverse inden-
tation rather deep: elytra rufous and granulated at base; on the
middle a much dilated deep black band, undulated on its anterior
and posterior edges, and with a narrow cinereous line at its ante-
rior edge; behind this black band is a pale rufous band so covered
by cinereous hair as to appear entirely cinereous ; tip deep black :
beneath rufous: feet hairy, black.
- Length more than nine-twentieths of an inch.
This insect has considerable resemblance to the ichnewmoneus
Fabr., and rufus Oliv., but the black band occupies the situation
of the rufous band of those insects, behind this band these two
species have [176] a black band, but in our insect this is rufo-
cinereous; the tip also is deep black, whereas in the above men-
tioned species, it is either spotted or margined with cinereous.
[Belongs to Thanasimus, as now separated from Clerus——LEC. ]
2. C. PALLIPENNIS.—Blackish ; elytra pale testaceous, bifasci-
ate with black.
Body greenish-black : antenne and palpi pale rufous, terminal
joint of the former a little dusky : thorax widest before the mid-
dle, contracted behind; an indented transverse line on the ante-
rior submargin, and a less conspicuous one on the posterior
margin: elytra very pale testaceous, with a black band on the
middle, and another at tip: feet pale testaceous, posterior pair
rather long.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Similar in form to the humeralis nobis.
[Belongs to Hydnocera, afterwards described as WH. serrata
Newman.—LEc. ]
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3. C. UNIFASCcIATUS.—Blackish ; elytra with a white band on
the middle.
Body black, tinged with greenish: antenne and palpi pale
rufous: thorax widest before the middle, so as to resemble a
tubercle on each side: elytra with a very narrow, pure white
band on the middle: feet blackish ; tarsi pale.
Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch.
Of a form similar to the preceding.
[Also a Hydnocera ; described by Spinola as 7. punctata. --
Lec. ]
ENOPLIUM Latr.
E. pistocatuM.—Black ; elytra with a whitish band and
spots.
Body punctured, black, hairy: head on the anterior [177 ]
part reddish-yellow ; antennz brownish, yellowish at base, ter-
minal joints not deeply serrated, somewhat rounded: thorax sub-
cylindric: elytra with an oblique line from the humerus, having
a spot at its inner tip,an angulated band beyond the middle, and
a spot near the tip, whitish-yellow : feet pale.
Length from three-twentieths to nearly one-fifth of an inch.
Var. a. Spot at tip of the elytra obsolete or wanting.
Although the antenne differ considerably from the character-
istic form of this genus, yet as they have three large and sepa-
rated joints at tip, and*the palpi are all filiform, with five distinet
joints to the tarsi, I have thought best to place the present in-
sect in the genus Hnoplium. \
[This is 2. distrophum Klug. ; Phyllobaenus transversalis Spi-
nola.— LEC. ]
NECROPHORUS Fabr.
N. orprcouiiis.—Thorax orbicular: elytra with rufous band
before the middle and spot at tip.
Body deep black, above polished: clypeus before with a large,
square, rufous spot: antenne black ; clavum, excepting its first
joint, light ferruginous : thorax orbicular, margined all round, ex-
cepting on the anterior portion, which is truncated ; the impressed
lines are well defined, and the longitudinal one extends to the
base undiminished: elytra minutely punctured, and with two
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obsolete neryures ; the anterior band is rather before the middle,
but does not extend to the seutel; it is undulated, and does not
reach the suture ; the spot at tip is somewhat [178] reniform or
trilobate, and does not reach the edge or suture: beneath pi-
ceous : feet above black : postpectus yellow sericeous.
Length more than nine-tenths of an inch.
It differs from marginatus Fabr., particularly in the rounded
form of the thorax, which in that species is much narrowed be-
hind: the elytra of marginatus have a rufous exterior margin,
the basal band is not interrupted by the suture, and embraces
the tip of the scutel; there is also a band at tip. The colors of
the antenne are arranged exactly as in vespillo Fabr., but the
thorax is much more accurately rounded, and the elytral mark-
ings are different. The rotundity of the thorax is more com-
plete than even that of mortuorum Fabr. The species occurs in
the N. W. Territory: it is very rare in the Middle States. I
have received a specimen from Dr. T. W. Harris of Milton,
Massachusetts.
NITIDULA Fabr. Dej.
I. N. 6-MacuLata.—Blackish, with a broad pale rufous mar-
gin and elytral spots.
Nitidula 6-maculata Melsh. Catal.
Body blackish-brown or deep piceous: antennz pale rufous:
thorax with a dilated pale rufous margin: elytra with a dilated
pale rufous margin; an angulated line in the form of a U at
base, a small spot on the submargin, sometimes connected with a
line which runs towards the tip, and becomes confluent with the
lateral margin ; an angulated or rounded spot [179] behind the
middle, rufous : beneath piceous: feet paler.
Length more than a quarter of an inch.
The rufous angular line at the base of each elytron, in the
form of the letter U, is a striking character.
[Belongs to Lobiopa Kr.—Lxc.]
2. N. z1czAc.—Black-brown ; elytra with an angulated band.
Body dark-brown or blackish, with numerous prostrate hairs :
antennz piceous, two basal joints rufous: thorax with a rufo-
cinereous lateral margin : elytra without striz, an obsoletely rufo-
cinereous margin ; on each is one or two obsolete rufous spots at
1825.]
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base, and a very obvious ochreous spot on the middle, in the
form of a V, the angle pointing towards the base: beneath black-
ish-piceous : feet and lateral margin of the pectus, rufous.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
This species was sent me by Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, who re-
marked, that “it resembles the European Mitidula undulata
very much, but differs in having the undula or lunule nearer to
the apex of the elytra.” With that species I am entirely unac-
quainted.
3. N. unpuLATA.—Yellowish-fulvous, varied with fuscous ;
an undulated, common immaculate space behind the middle of
the elytra.
Nitidula undulata Melsh. Catal.
Body above fulvous, more or less tinged with yellowish : head
varied with fuscous, sometimes nearly all fuscous, with the ex-
ception of the anterior portion, [180] and the antenne: thorax
literate with fuscous, the broad lateral margins immaculate with
the exception of a single spot on the middle: elytra irregularly
marked with small fuscous spots; a large, common, transverse,
undulated, immaculate space behind the middle : slightly striated ;
striz not obviously punctured, but furnished with very short,
recurved hairs; exterior margin immaculate: beneath rufous:
feet and tail paler.
Length about one-fifth of an inch.
The European analogue of this insect is certainly the NV. varia
Fabr., but the spots of the elytra of that insect seem to be more
distinctly arranged in abbreviated longitudinal lines, and the
common immaculate space of the elytra appears to be less ob-
vious, and less acutely undulated. I know of no species in this
country, for which it. can be readily mistaken. It may possi-
bly prove to be a variety of varia.
[Belongs to Prometopia Er.—Lxc.]
4. N. rurA.—Dull rufous, immaculate ; elytra somewhat trun-
cated at tip.
Nitidula rufa Melsh. Catal.
Body obscure rufous, with the margin a little paler: thorax
with the lateral edge a little curved inwards, so that the greatest
breadth is anterior to the posterior angles: elytra destitute of
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any appearance of spots, lines, or strize, but on the sutural sub-
margin is a longitudinal hardly elevated undulation; tip not
reaching the tip of the tergum, truncated, or very obtusely
rounded : feet and terminal segment of the venter, paler. [181]
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
[A species of EKpurxa Er.—Lec.]
5. N. GEMINATA.—Reddish-brown: elytra, each with four
ochreous spots, placed 2, 2.
Body obscure reddish-brown, a little hairy: thorax widest at
the basal angles; lateral margin rufous: elytra striate with ele-
vated, acute lines, and with intervening regularly concave
grooves ; tip reunded, concealing the extremity of the abdomen ;
on each elytrum are four ochreous spots, of which one is on the
humerus: another near the scutel, elongated, approaching the
suture, near the tip, and sometimes common; and two other
rounded ones beyond the middle, placed transversely, equal; ex-
terior margin obscure ochreous.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
The general color of the elytra is sometimes so similar to that
of the spots, that the latter are hardly observable.
[Belongs to Stelidota Kr.—Lxc.]
6. N. 8-MacuLtata.—Dark reddish-brown: elytra with four
rufous spots placed 1, 2, 1.
Body very obscure reddish-brown : front with two indentations :
thorax rather large; lateral margin paler; elytra striate with
slightly elevated lines ; a rufous oblong spot at the middle of the
base, a rounded one behind the humerus, atiother on the sutural
. margin near the middle, and a fourth a little behind the mid-
dle, oval, oblique; tip rounded, concealing the tip of the abdo-
men, and rufous.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
The lines of the elytra are more obtuse than those [ 182 ] of the
preceding species, the interstitial spaces are not so regularly
grooved, and the spots are located differently. I found it in
plenty, when on the Arkansa river with Major Long’s party.
{Also a Stelidota.—LEc. ]
7. N. unmiInEATA.—Reddish-brown; thorax with a line and
elytra, each with about five spots, rufous.
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Body obscure reddish-brown : thorax with the lateral margins
and longitudinal dorsal line rufous: elytra destitute of strie; a
large oblong spot at base, near the scutel, a rounded one on the
humerus, another near the middle of the exterior submargin, a
rounded spot on the subsutural margin, rather behind the mid-
dle, another near the tip, and exterior and terminal margin, ru-
fous; tip very obtusely rounded, almost truncate, not covering
the termination of the abdomen.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
For this species I am indebted to Dr. J. F. Melsheimer.
[This is probably a variety of Amphicrossus ciliatus —LEc.]
8. N. semirEora.—Piceous ; elytra abbreviated, rufous, pi-
ceous at tip.
Nitidula hemiptera Melsh. Catal.
Body dark rufo-piceous, punctured: head with an indentation
each side above the antennz ; antennz rufous: clava oval, dusky :
elytra about half the length of the abdomen, truncated, yellow-
ish-rufous, or testaceous ; exterior margin and tip rufo-piceous.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch.
The name given by Mr. Melsheimer is pre-occupied. [183]
[Belongs to Colastus Er.—Lxc. ]
9. N. untcoLtor.—Piceous, immaculate ; elytra abbreviated,
slightly sericeous.
Body rufo-piceous: head with dense, confluent, small punc-
tures: thorax with small confluent punctures: elytra darker,
about half the length of the abdomen, a little sericeous in a par-
ticular light : beneath somewhat paler.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
I have found this species under loose bark of the yellow pine,
in October.
[A species of Carpophilus.—Lx0.]
10. N. BRacHYPTERA.—Piceous, immaculate ; elytra two-thirds
the length of the abdomen.
Nitidula brachyptera Melsh. Catal. .
Body entirely piceous: head with an impressed, transverse
line between the antennz; antennz rufous: thorax, posterior
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angles rounded : elytra abruptly truncate at tip, rather more than
two-thirds the length of the abdomen: feet rufous.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
The smallest species I have seen.
[I have not identified the species: it is probably a Carpophi-
lus.—LEc. |
SCAPHISOMA Leach.
S. convEXA.—Highly polished, black ; antennz, mouth, feet,
and tail piceous.
Scaphidium convecum Melsh. Catal.
Body black, very highly polished; head piceous, paler before,
with a deeply impressed, transverse arcuated line between the
eyes: thorax with minute, rather distant puncture : elytra, punc-
tures, excepting towards the base, more obvious than those of
the [184] thorax; terminal and posterior lateral margin ob-
scurely piceous : feet, abdominal incisures and tail piceous.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
I received this species from Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, under the
denomination I have adopted. From all I can learn, it seems to
be very closely allied to the S. agarica of authors, of which, in
fact, it may possibly prove to be a variety.
CATOPS Fabr.
1. C. opacus.—Brownish-black, opaque; terminal and two
basal joints of the antenne rufous.
Ptomophagus opacus Melsh. Catal,
Body sericeous, with minute hairs, which, in a particular light
are pale ferruginous : antennz with the seventh joint largest, the
eighth smallest: elytra not striated, but with a subsutural im-
pressed line, and very numerous minute punctures, furnishing
minute hairs: feet blackish piceous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Occurs frequently in a species of Hydnum.
2. OC. stmpLEX.—Pale brownish, sericeous; terminal and five
basal joints of the antenne rufous.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Head dark ferruginous; antenne dark ferruginous, the five
basal joints and terminal joint rufous ; palpi and mandibles ferru-
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ginous: thorax rather paler than the head, quadrate, a little |
transverse ; sides regularly arcuated ; posterior margin not wider
than the anterior; [185] posterior edge rectilinear; angles
rounded : elytra paler than the thorax, light brownish, with ob-
solete strize, more obyious towards the tip ; very numerous minute
punctures, furnishing minute hairs: beneath piceous: feet ru-
fous; thighs yellowish beneath.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch.
This species occurs on dung.
ATTAGENUS Latr.
A. CYLINDRICORNIS.—Reddish-brown ; antennz and feet pale
rufous.
Dermestes cylindricornis Melsh. Catal.
Body reddish-brown, with very numerous, short, ferruginous,
somewhat rigid, sericeous hairs: head blackish, with an obscure
rufous frontal spot; antennz pale rufous, terminal joint dark
brown; mouth rufous: thorax nearly as dark as the head : elytra
paler than the thorax : beneath piceous-black ; feet pale rufous.
Length % three-twentieths, 2 less than one-fifth of an inch.
Var. a. Smaller.
Dermestes floricola Melsh. Catal.
Var. b. Elytra almost rufous.
Dermestes obscurus Melsh. Catal.
This species is common.
[The specimens in Dr. Melsheimer’s collection belong to 4.
megatoma, which has been imported from Europe: the descrip-
tion seems rather to refer to A. spurcus Lec., Proc. Acad. Nat.
Se. Phil. 7, 109, but is too indefinite for accurate determina-
tion.— LEC. ]
MEGATOMA Herbst, Latr.
M. ornata.—Blackish ; elytra undulated with rufous. [186]
Dermestes undulatus Melsh. Catal.
Body with short, numerous hairs ; antennz pale rufous, termi-
nal joint dusky : thorax somewhat variegated with irregular lines
of rufo-cinereous hairs: elytra with one-half its surface occupied
with rufous spots or irregular lines: beneath blackish-brown.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
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The name wndulatus is pre-occupied by a species described by
Herbst. The short hair with which the body is furnished, is
deciduous, particularly that of the thorax.
[Belongs to Trogoderma.—LEC. |
BYRRHUS Latr.
B. ALTERNATUS.—Blackish-brassy ; elytra with alternate
darker lines.
Head and thorax minutely punctured, black-brassy; with
short, prostrate hair; antenne black ; the thorax with a slender,
impunctured, dorsal line: elytra black, very slightly tinged with
brassy ; strize very narrow, well impressed, and with very small
punctures; interstitial lines flat, alternately more obviously
polished ; very minute hairs: beneath blackish, with small very
regular punctures : feet blackish-piceous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
T am indebted to Mr, Charles Pickering, of Salem, Massachu-
setts, for this species. I have never before met with it.
[Identical with Cytilus varius of Kurope.—L«rc.]
ELMIS Latr.
1. E. crnorus.—Blackish ; elytra with a large rufous arcuated
line and spot at tip. [187]
Parnus cinctus Melsh. Catal.
Head black; antenne and palpi yellowish, dusky on the ter-
minal joint; thorax black, anterior and posterior margins pale
rufous: a transverse slight elevation each side of the middle
with a corresponding indentation before: elytra convex, black,
with a large arcuated pale rufous line, extending nearly straight
from the humerus obliquely to near the sutural middle; thence
it curves outwards and backwards towards the margin; towards
the tip, adilated longitudinal pale rufous line: feet elongated
tibiz and base of the thigh, pale rufous.
Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch.
The antenne are very obviously eleven-jointed, and the termi-
nal joints are slightly enlarged.
[Belongs to Ancyronyx Er.; previously described as Macrony.
chus variegatus Germ.—LEC. ]
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2. E. 4-noratus.—Black ; antenne, two spots on each ely-
trum, and tarsi rufous.
Body black: antennx entirely rufous; thorax simple: elytra
with strie of punctures; a large rounded rufous spot at the base
of each, chiefly on the humerus, and a rufous elongated, obsolete
one on the posterior declivity : tarsi rufous.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
MACRONYCHUS Mull.
M. GLaBratus.—Blackish ; feet slender; antenne pale ru-
fous.
Macronychus glabratus Knoch, J. F. Melsheimer.
Body entirely blackish; slightly hairy: thorax [188] with a
slightly elevated line each side at base, hardly extending to the
middle: elytra with series of large punctures not very deeply
impressed ; a more distinct series of hairs near the suture; an
elevated, crenate, submarginal line extends from the humerus,
but is abbreviated before the tip: feet elongated.
Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch.
HYDROPHILUS Linn. Fabr.
1. H. rorunpus.—Very convex, oval; elytra destitute of
strie, excepting the sutural one.
Body black, polished, with very numerous, minute, regular
punctures: palpi piceous: thorax with the lateral margin pice-
ous; this color extends a short distance on the basal margin:
elytra very obscurely piceous on the lateral margin, without any
appearance of strie or large impressed punctures; the sutural
striz very obvious, not reaching the base, generally hardly sur-
passing the middle.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
For this species I am indebted to Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, who
informed me that it inhabits “ marshy places in forests near the
first ridge of the South Mountains, in Adams County, Pennsyl-
vania.”” [also found it in Georgia. It resembles globosus nob.,
but is less convex, and is destitute of striz of the elytra.
[Belongs to Philhydrus.—Lec. ]
2. H. strrarus.—Dull testaceous; head dark greenish; ely-
tra striate, and with small remote black spots.
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Hydrophilus striatus Melsh. Catal. [189]
Head dark greenish, with a cupreous gloss: thorax tinged
with rufous, with a double, longitudinal, abbreviated line : scutel
black: elytra with acute, closely punctured striz ; a small spot
on the humerus, and two others arranged in a very oblique series,
with respect to the first; then a transverse, much undulated
series of five or six small spots; then two small spots near the
sutural tip, black: beneath blackish: feet pale rufous.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
About equal in size, and closely allied to the peregrinus of
Herbst, but that species is represented to be altogether destitute
of the black spots on the elytra, and of the double thoracic line.
[Belongs to Berosus.—LEc. ]
3. H. ExIauus.—Pale testaceous; elytra with punctured
striz.
Body with numerous small punctures: head with the trans-
verse line very distinct: elytra rather paler than the thorax,
with the striz rather sian punctured: beneath slightly tinged
with rufous. -
Length one-tenth of an inch.
This small species I obtained on the sea shore of Chincoteague
Island.
[I have not identified this species—Lec. ]
4, H. suscuprevus.—Black, obsoletely tinged with cupreous ;
elytra destitute of strie, excepting the sutural one.
Hydrophilus minutus Melsh. Catal.
Body oval, punctured, black, with a slight cupreous reflection :
thorax obsoletely piceous on the lateral margin: elytra with
rather larger punctures than [190] those of the head and tho-
rax; strie none, excepting the sutural one, which is obsolete in
the middle, and does not approach the base; exterior margin and
tip obsoletely piceous: beneath blackish-piceous : feet piceous.
Length much less than one-tenth of an inch.
Closely allied to the genus Spheridium. It is much smaller
than the minutus of Herbst.
[A species of Hydrobius, having 8-jointed antenne.—LE«c. ]
1825.]
294 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
SPHERIDIUM Fabr.
1. S. pRarexTatuM.—Black ; elytra with a yellowish lateral
and terminal margin.
Spheridium pretextatum Melsh. Catal.
Body oval, black, polished, punctured : palpi whitish : antennee
piceous : elytra striate ; stria very distinct, impressed, punctured ;
interstitial spaces punctured : a broad pale yellowish outer mar-
gin, commencing at the anterior angle, and gradually dilating to
the tip: feet piceous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
[These three species belong to Cercyon.—L«Ec.]
2. S. NIGRICOLLE.—Black ; elytra and feet pale testaceous.
Spheridium glabratum Melsh. Catal.
Body oval, polished, punctured : head black : antenne piceous;
capitulum dull rufous: palpi piceous : thorax black : elytra testa-
ceous: striz slender, not deeply impressed, punctured ; terminal
margin obsoletely paler, interstitial lines punctured: feet pale
testaceous.
_ Length more than one-tenth of an inch. [191]
Var. a. Elytra and feet dark reddish-brown, the former with a
very obvious pale spot at tip, somewhat similar to the wnistriatum
of Beauvois, but much smaller than he represents that insect
to be.
8. S. occALLATUM [OCELLATUM. ]—Black ; elytra with a pale
tip ; feet piceous.
Body oval, black, polished, punctured : palpi piceous : antennee
blackish-piceous : elytra with very distinctly punctured, impressed
striz ; a large dull yellowish spot at tip, rounded on its anterior
termination, and extending further on the lateral margin than on
the suture: beneath blackish: feet piceous.
Length much less than one-tenth of an inch.
Found in putrescent animal substances at Senipuxten. It is
about the size of apicial’s nobis, which it much resembles, but it
is distinguishable by its black color, and firmer consistence.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 295
APHODIUS Illig. Fabr.
A. vitTatus.—Black ; elypeus trituberculate ; elytra with a
dull rufous vitta.
Scarabeus vittatus Melsh. Catal.
Head minutely punctured ; three tubercles placed in a trans-
verse line, the intermediate one largest, and the lateral ones elon-
gated in a line to the eye: tip of the elypeus slightly and very
obtusely emarginated: thorax with numerous small punctures :
elytra with narrow punctured striz ; the interstitial spaces flat ;
a dull rufous vitta including the humerus at base, [192] extend-
ing somewhat obliquely towards the apex of the elytron, and con-
tracted in the middle: feet obscure rufous.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
This insect is very like the terminalis nobis, but it may be dis-
tinguished by the vitta of the elytra, and the much less pro-
foundly emarginated clypeus.
TROX Fabr.
1. T. strraTuLus.—Elytra with elevated acute lines, and in-
termediate regular grooves.
Trox striatulus Melsh. Catal.
Head blackish-brown, with confluent punctures; tip widely
emarginate : thorax blackish-brown, with dilated confluent punc-
tures ; a slightly impressed longitudinal groove ; sides very much
decurved : elytra light brown, with numerous profound grooves,
which are separated by elevated acute lines.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
The smallest species known to inhabit the United States, and
so perfectly distinct in the striking character of its grooved ely-
tra, as not to require any comparative observations.
2. T. TERRESTRIS.—Elytra with raised obtuse lines, on which
are round fascicles of short hairs.
Trox terrestris Melsh. Catal.
Body blackish-brown: head with two small tubercles on the
front: thorax with the dorsal groove very distinct, contracted
and almost obliterated in its middle, so as to be nearly inter-
rupted into two, on each [193] side of the posterior portion of
1825.]
296 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
it is another groove equally profound ; posterior angles obliquely
truncated: elytra with the fascicles of yellow hair, on the ele-
vated lines, rounded and not oblong, equal; interstitial spaces
with small tubercles.
Length nearly one-fourth of an inch.
This insect is about equal in size to the arenarius Fabr., from
which it differs in having no capillary lines in the interstitial
spaces of the elytra. The variolatus of Melsh. Catal. if not alto-
gether the same as the arenarius of Europe, is certainly most
closely allied to it.
3. T. porcatus.—Elytra with elevated interrupted lines and
numerous transverse punctures on the interstitial spaces.
Trox porcatus Melsh. Catal.
Body brownish-black: head somewhat inequal, with a more
distinct frontal groove: thorax with short brownish hair ; a deep
and well defined longitudinal groove, sides inequal ; lateral edge
entire ; posterior angles projecting: elytra with regular series of
interrupted hairy lines, the series alternately smaller ; interstitial
spaces with dilated transverse impressed distinet punctures.
Length nearly nine-twentieths of an inch.
A little larger than canaliculatus nobis, which it resembles,
but it differs in having the transverse punctures of the elytra ;
capillaris nobis is smaller than the above-mentioned species, and
may be distinguished from the present by the capillary lines of
its elytra. [194]
SCARAB AUS Latr.
S. reLicrus.—Head with an elevated transverse line, inter-
rupted in the middle ; clypeus at tip elevated and bidentate.
Body brownish-black: head with a transverse elevated line
between the origin of the antennee, interrupted in the middle,
and most prominent near the interrupted part; tip of the clypeus
with two reflected, acute denticulations: thorax with rather
sparse punctures : elytra punctured, and with three double series
of punctures, converging towards the apical angle; the second
and third double series do not reach the angle, a fourth double
series is on the exterior submargin, but is not so distinct as the
others: beneath piceous: pectus and postpectus hairy: feet
above blackish : yenter blackish.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 297
Length more than four-fifths of an inch.
It may be compared with the S. punctatus Fabr. of Southern
Kurope, but is of a more slender form, and is otherwise dis-
tinguished by the armature of the anterior termination of the
head. I have found specimens in Pennsylvania. It varies in
having the reflected tip of the head emarginate, and not deeply
divided into two teeth. I have received a specimen from Dr. 'T.
W. Harris, of Milton, Massachusetts.
[Belongs to Ligyrus Burm.—L«c. ]
MELOLONTHA Fabr.
1. M. satra.—Chesnut-brown; head and thorax blackish-
brown; the former and the inferior surface of the stethidium
hairy. [195]
Body cylindrical; head blackish, with small but dense and
confluent punctures; front, below the vertex, and above the trans-
verse impressed line, with a band of rather long dense ochreous
hairs, terminating at the eyes ; clypeus deeply and widely emargi-
nated, the edge reflected, and beneath the edge is a fringe of re-
curved hairs; thorax rather prominent on the middle of the
lateral edge; nearly as dark colored as the head; punctures
numerous, irregularly disposed: scutel with a few punctures,
and with reflected prostrate yellow hairs at its base, partly
covered by the base of the thorax: elytra confluently punctured,
chestnut-brown: stethidium beneath, with dense pale yellow hair :
nails with a prominent tooth on the middle, and an angle at
base.
Var. a. Thorax rufo-castaneous.
Length more than thirteen-twentieths of an inch.
This common species was sent to me by Dr. J. F. Melsheimer,
under the name which I have adopted. The following are his
remarks: “it differs from J. quercina in being more cylindrical,
from M. quercus, in the absence of the “rore ccerulescenti,” Xe.
and from M. hirticula, in the want of the triple series of fuscous
erect hair on each elytrum. In its proper season this insect may
be found in vast numbers under the deciduous leaves of forests ;
during the night the millions of wings that fan the air, produce
a loud humming sound, not unlike that emitted by the enraged
occupants of a humble-bee’s nest.”
1825.]
298 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
It is much smaller than the quercina, smaller than the hirticu-
la, and larger than quercus.
[Belongs to Lachnosterna.—Lxc.] [196]
2. M. Epui~ipa.—Ochraceous; thorax somewhat rufous ;
head blackish ; clypeus nearly entire.
Head blackish, with sometimes an obscure chestnut disk ; very
densely and confluently punctured; punctures small: clypeus,
anterior termination widely, but slightly truncated, not at all
emarginated, the edge reflected: thorax pale rufo-castaneous,
polished ; punctures irregularly scattered ; middle of the lateral
edge rather prominent: scutel with a very few punctures, and
with reflected prostrate hairs at its base, partly covered by the
base of the thorax: elytra pale ochraceous, densely punctured :
stethidium beneath, with pale yellow, dense hair: nails with a
strong prominent tooth on the middle.
Var. a. Scutel entirely destitute of punctures.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
This species closely resembles the preceding, but it has a
more robust form, it is somewhat shorter, destitute of the frontal
band of hair, and is of a paler color. I adopt the name given
to it by Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, who remarked ina letter to me,
that “it approaches nearest to a Melolontha described by Pro-
fessor Knoch under the name of angularis, but as the thoracic
angles of that insect are covered with a substance resembling
Mother of Pearl, or, as the Professor expresses it, “einer farbe
die véllig mit der kalkerde iiberein kimmt; welche von den
Mineralogen Schaumerde genannt wird,’ we cannot connect
with propriety, our insect with the M. angularis.’ In color it
closely resembles the longitarsa nobis (in Long’s second expedi-
tion) but that [197] insect is somewhat smaller, with an emargi-
nate clypeus and much longer-tarsi.
[Belongs to Lachnosterna ; Burmeister places it in Trichestes,
which is not entitled to be considered as a’ genus. —Lec.]
3. M. Morsta.—Elytra punctured, and with two double series
of punctures ; clypeus slightly emarginated.
Melolontha moesta Knoch in Melsh. Catal.
Head with very ‘dense profound punctures; transverse line be-
tween the eyes rather deeply.indented : clypeus with the margin
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 299
recurved, the tip very obtusely, but not very profoundly emargi-
nated: thorax with scattered profound punctures; lateral edge
obtusely projecting a little, rather behind its middle: elytra with
numerous punctures, and with two regular double series of punc-
tures on the disk, one or two on the exterior submargin, and a
single subsutural series: beneath glabrous: nails with a robust
prominent obliquely truncated tooth beyond the middle.
Length about one-half an inch.
The color of young specimens is rather pale chestnut, but, as is
the fact with respect to many species, as they grow older, the color
becomes darker, and it is not uncommon to find individuals that
are almost black.
[A species of Diplotaxis, previously described as MM. liberta
Germ.—LEc. ]
4, M. sorpipa.—Covered with short dense hair.
Melolontha sordida Melsh. Catal.
Superior surface entirely covered by short close set hairs, which
are longest on the head, thorax, and base of the elytra; the punc-
tures are also dense and confluent: clypeus with the edge reflect-
ed; tip widely emarginated: thorax, lateral edge reflected, and
[198] a little dilated rather behind the middle: elytra having the
subsutural line obliterated: beneath nearly glabrous: nails with
an obliquely truncated, very robust tooth beyond the middle.
Length about two-fifths of an inch.
The color varies considerably. I have a specimen that is of a
pale chestnut color, and others that are dark dullbrown. I have
found this species in May; and at Chinquoteague Island, many in-
dividuals occurred under yellow.pine trees in company with the
preceding species in October. It is very well distinguished from
other species by its equally distributed hairy covering.
[Belongs to Diplotaxis, and afterwards described as D. carbo-
naria Burm.—LeEc.]
5. M. rronpicota.—Elytra punctured, and with two double
series of punctures ; ¢lypeus entire.
Melolontha frondicola Knoch, Melsh. Catal.
Body pale chesnut : head ‘dusky, with large confluent. punc-
tures ; transverse line’ ‘angulated i in the middle; clypeus very ob-
bse rounded at tip, almost truncated, the edge reflected : see)
1826.)
300 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
with rather large, very numerous punctures, more dense and con-
fluent on the sides; lateral edge a little obtusely dilated at the
middle: elytra with numerous punctures, and with two double
strie of punctures on the disk, one or two on the exterior sub-
margin, and a single subsutural one : beneath glabrous : nails with
a remarkably robust broad compressed truncated tooth.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Although this species is very similar in some respect to the
moesta, yet it is so much smaller as to [199] be readily distin-
cuished ; the clypeus also of that species is emarginated, and the
punctured series are much more regular than those of the present
species, in which the punctures of the series are often confluent
with the punctures of the interstitial lines. As regards, size, it is
but little smaller than vespertina, which has numerous indented
strize on the elytra.
[ Also a Diplotaxis and appears to be D. testacea Burm.—LEc. ]
6. M. unirascrata.—Thorax very dark green; elytra testa-
ceous, with a black abbreviated band or spot on the middle.
Head densely punctured, particularly before, very dark green-
ish on the vertex, and tinged with cupreous before: clypeus en-
tire at tip, the edge reflected: thorax blackish-green, rather
sparsely punctured, punctures small, lateral edge a little dilated
rather before the middle: scutel dark green, sometimes tinged
with cupreous, with a few punctures : elytra pale testaceous, in a
particular light having a slight metallic tinge, each with seven
or eight regular striz of punctures, and a few scattered ones
near the suture; margin and suture dusky; on the middle is a
blackish band which is more or less interrupted or undulated :
beneath black, slightly tinged with green and cupreous: stethi-
dium a little hairy: acetabulum with an indented longitudinal
line : nails, of the anterior and intermediate feet having one nail
simple, and the other bifid at tip, of the posterior feet simple.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Var. a. Elytra, excepting at base, simple.
This species is very closely allied to varians Fabr., but it may
be distinguished by its much larger size. [200] The varians
is not uncommon in Pennsylvania, but the present is a Southern
species. Dr. J. F. Melsheimer gave it the name of vernalis,
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 301
which is preoccupied in this genus; he informed me that it
“‘was captured in Virginia, in the early part of the year 1807.
Male and female were flying about in a ploughed field in innu-
merable multitudes.”
Judging from its habit, it belongs to Megerle’s genus Ano-
mala.
[An Anomadla previously described as M. binotata Schénh—
Lec.]
HOPLIA Nig.
H. Trirascrata.—Head black : clypeus at tip reflected: tho-
rax densely covered with reddish-yellow scales: feet brownish-
red: scutel blackish: elytra light brownish-red, with sparse yel-
lowish scales, which, however, are more dense in some parts, so
as to form three bands, which are tolerably distinct; of these,
one is at the base, the other on the middle, and the third near
the tip ; they are somewhat undulated : anal segment and beneath
densely covered with pale cinereous scales, which have, in some
parts, a cupreous reflection. The opposite sex is black on those
parts, which in the other are brownish-red, and the bands of the
elytra are hardly discernible: in both sexes the humerus is pro-
minent, and at the decurvature of the elytra near the tip, they
are elevated almost into an angle.
Length nearly one-third of an inch.
The great difference in color between the two sexes of this
species, may readily deceive naturalists into the belief that they
are two distinct species. [201 ]
[Described by Burmeister as H. primona; the male also by
Melsheimer as /. tristis—Leo.]
CETONIA Fabr.
C. vesTita.—Hairy ; clypeus emarginate ; elytra with a few
white spots.
Body brownish-black, with very numerous, rather long, re-
flected, cinereous hairs: head with the hairs smaller and sparse
before ; clypeus widely emarginate at tip, the lateral angles sub-
acute and a little elevated; lateral margin not recurved: thorax
with a carinated glabrous line, little elevated but very distinct :
elytra with two hardly obvious elevated lines on the middle, con-
1825.] .
302 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
fluent behind; striz slightly impressed, with small punctures ;
on each elytrum is a small white dot on the middle of the sutural
submargin, another behind the middle and approaching nearer
to the suture, three oblique ones on the exterior submargin, and
a transverse one at tip near the suture.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
This species resembles the sepulchralis Fabr., but it differs in
having the clypeus emarginated, the hairs of the body elongated,
and the spots of the elytra fewer in number. In form it is more
slender than that well known species, and its color more opaque
and less metallic. It is much more closely allied to the C. hirta
Fabr., of Europe, the spots being nearly similar; but the vestita
is one half smaller, and the hair is much coarser and much less
abundant ; can it be a variety of that species ?
I have met with but two specimens, one beloning to the Phila-
delphia Museum, and the other sent to me by Dr. T. W. Harris,
of Milton, Massachusetts. [202]
[Unknown to me; believed by Schaum and other entomolo-
gists to be the European species.—LEc. ]
LUCANUS Linn. Latr.
1. L. pracipus.—Head small, slightly concave ;, tooth of the
mandibles emarginate.
Body dark reddish-brown: head slightly concaye, rather nar-
rower than the thorax: mandibles hardly as long as the head,
regularly curved ; tooth a little beyond the middle, not very pro-
minent, but rather wide and emarginate at tip: elytra without
strive : anterior tibize about four-toothed, superior tooth small.
Length one inch.
I found this species when with Major Long’s party in Arkansa.
It differs from the dama Fabr. in being smaller, in having the
head narrower than the thorax, the mandibles shorter and less
arcuated, and their tooth wide and bifid at its tip.
[Appears to be the female of L. ldentus, a species cited from
Say, but of which, as Burmeister observes, no description can be
found in his writings; it was first published under that name by
Laporte, in his Hist. Nat. 2,71. The name placidus has greatly
the priority.—LEc. ]
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 303
2. L. BREVIS.—Short and wide; mandibles one-toothed; ely-
tra smooth, humerus mucronate.
Body robust, reddish-brown: head wide, rather narrower than
the thorax, minutely punctured, a little concave above the man-
dibles ; mandibles short, with one simple oblique tooth on the mid-
dle, extending inwards and forwards; thorax wide with minute
punctures, angles rounded ; posterior ones not obliquely truncated ;
elytra nearly smooth, having numerous small punctures, and ob-
solete, hardly impressed lines ; humerus mucronate: anterior ti-
bie with five or six small denticulations, and a broad terminal,
prominent one widely emarginate; intermediate tibiz with a
single spine on the middle. [ 203 |
Length nearly nine-tenths of an inch.
This species seems to be related to parallelus nobis, but it is
much wider in proportion to its length, and there are no distinct
strize on the elytra.
[A species of Dorcus unknown to me.—L«Ec.]
TENEBRIO Fabr.
1. T. REFLEXUS.—Blackish-green ; edge of the clypeus re-
flected ; thorax subquadrate.
Tenebrio xruginosus Melsh. Catal.
Body very dark green, almost black: head minutely and
densely punctured, anterior edge of the clypeus regularly ar-
cuated and reflected; antennz black; palpi blackish piceous ;
thorax rather transversely quadrate, minutely and densely punc-
tured ; angles subacute: elytra with impressed, punctured strie ;
interstitial lines depressed, almost flattened, obsoletely punc-
tured: tibie, anterior pair of the male with a prominent angle
above the middle, and with the second pair much arcuated on
the inner side.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
The specific name xruginosus is preoccupied.
[This belongs to Centronipus, and is 7. calcaratus Fabr.—Lec. ]
2. 'T. RuFIPES.—Black, polished; terminal joint of the an-
tenne pale fulyous; thighs bright rufous.
Tenebrio rufipes Melsh. Catal.
Body oblong, black, polished: antenne black, two basal
joints piceous, terminal joint, except at its base, fulvous : thorax
1825.]
304 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
rather narrower than the elytra, and with the head densely and
minutely punctured : elytra with impressed, punctured striae, and
convex interstitial lines: thighs bright rufous; tibiz, anterior
[ 204] pair of the male with a short spine on the inner middle.
Length half an inch.
I have stated this insect to be polished, in order to distinguish
it from the Upis fulvipes Herbst, which it very much resembles,
and with which it is strictly congeneric.
[Also a Centronipus.—Lec.]
[Continuation from Vol. 5, Nov., 1826, pp. 257—284.]
OPATRUM Fabr.
1. O. Notum.—Brownish-black : elytra with regular series of
impressed punctures.
Opatrum clathratum Melsh. Catal.
Head with small, close set punctures ; terminal emargination
not angulated: thorax with small, close set punctures ; lateral
edge reflected ; posterior angles somewhat produced subacute :
elytra destitute of impressed striz, but with regular series of
large, profoundly impressed, rather longitudinal punctures ; tarsi
piceous.
Length less than seven-twentieths of an inch.
This does not correspond with the description of the c/athra-
tum Fabr., inasmuch as the elytra are not striated. It is common.
[Belongs to Opatrinus.—L«Ec. ]
2. O. PULLUM.—Brown; head and thorax darker; elytra
with punctured striz ; beneath reddish-brown.
Desc. Head and thorax dark-brown, minutely and densely
punctured ; posterior angles not prominent; lateral edges not re-
flected: antennze piceous ; terminal emarginations of the clypeus
not angulated : elytra with impressed, punctured striz, the punc-
tures profound, somewhat transverse; interstitial lines with
numerous small punctures : beneath reddish-brown. (6,0 mm
Length rather more than three-tenths of an inch. [238]
I obtained this species on the margin of the Arkansas river,
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 505
when with Major Long’s party. It may be distinguished from
the preceding by the striated elytra, and by the simple edge of
the thorax.
[Unknown to me, perhaps a Blapstinus.—LEc.]
BOROS Herbst.
B. unIcoLor.—Blackish-brown, punctured ; thorax not obvi-
ously indented behind.
Body depressed, rather slender, blackish-brown, punctured :
head suboval, punctures rather large, numerous; smaller before ;
a dilated indentation each side anterior to the eyes: antennze but
little longer than the head: thorax oval, accurately rounded each
side, punctures numerous, rather large; no indentation: elytra
with irregular, numerous punctures, smaller than those of the
thorax, not disposed in any regular series; an obtuse indented
line on the outer margin, and another at the suture.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
I received this insect from Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, under the
name I have adopted. It is certainly very closely allied to B.
elongatus Herbst, but judging by the figure given by this author,
it is much smaller; it is also destitute of any obvious indentation
on the posterior part of the thorax.
[On comparison I find the sides of the thorax to be a little
more rounded than in the European specimens.—L&c. ]
BOLETOPHAGUS Illig.
B. corticoua. [Ante, 1, 115.] [239]
EUSTROPHUS Illig.
KE. TOMENTOSUS.—Brown ; golden sericeous; elytra immacu-
late.
Mycetophagus tomentosus Melsh. Catal.
Body oblong-oval, regularly and equally rounded, before and
behind ; brown, covered with very numerous, bright sericeous
hairs: antenne and palpi rufous: thorax but little undulated on
the posterior edge: elytra with slender, punctured strize : beneath
color of the antenne.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
At first view, this might be mistaken for the E. bicolor Vabr.
1826. ] 20
306 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Dej., but that species is considerably larger, of a much darker
color, almost black, with a comparatively slight opal-sericeous
gloss; the antennz also are blackish, with the base and tip
rufous or fulyous; the bifasciatus nob., has banded elytra. [240 ]
HELOPS Fabr.
1. H. putitus.—Body short, very convex, somewhat eupreous ;
third joint of the antennz not greatly longer than the fourth.
Helops pullus Melsh. Catal.
Antenne piceous ; third joint hardly as long as the fourth and
fifth together; the two latter equal: eyes moderate: head and
thorax densely and equally punctured; anterior angles of the
latter subacute ; lateral edge slightly contracted behind the an-
terior angles: elytra rather paler than the head and thorax, and
more obviously cupreous, with punctured striae : pectus each side,
with numerous, longitudinal, impressed lines ; tarsi dark rufous.
Length from one-fourth to three-tenths of an inch.
In general form, it somewhat resembles H. contractus Beauy.;
particularly in the great convexity of the superior surface of the
body ; but it cannot be mistaken for that insect.
2. H. porrrus.—Cupreous ; elytra united ; wings imperfect.
Body bright copper, polished; punctured: antennz long,
blackish ; third joint equal to the fourth and fifth together,
which are equal; labrum piceous: eyes moderate: thorax de-
cidedly widest before, narrowest at the posterior angles, with
small, close set punctures, and a longitudinal, obsolete, impressed
line: elytra united, the line of the suture distinct, with acutely
impressed, punctured striz; interstitial lines flat, with very
minute punctures: wings imperfect, shorter. than the elytra:
beneath piceous. [241 ]
Length two-fifths of an inch.
I obtained this handsome and curious species in Kast Florida.
[Seems to be related to 17. cisteloides Germ., but does not agree
satisfactorily with that species—LEc. ]
3. H. TenurIcoLuis.—Blackish ; terminal joint of the antennze
fulvous; thorax cylindrical.
Body elongated, brownish black: eyes large : antennee rather
short; fifth joint obviously shorter than the fourth; terminal
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joint fulvous: thorax minutely and equally punctured; narrow, -
sub-cylindric, slightly wider in the middle, equally wide at base
and tip; narrower than the elytra: elytra with rather wide and
profound striz, which are punctured ; interstitial lines narrow,
convex ; beneath piceous: anterior tibie slightly arcuated.
Length half an inch.
This species resembles a Upis, in the form of the thorax.
[A Stenochia not different from S. terminata Say, ante, 2,
157.— Lec. ]
4, H. aratus.—Body short, moderately convex; third joint
of the antennez rather shorter than the fourth and fifth united ;
lateral thoracic edges rectilinear.
Head punctured densely: antenne dark testaceous: thorax
dull metallic greenish, slightly tinged with purplish; thickly
punctured, punctures rather large; angles subacute; lateral
rectilinear : elytra slightly purplish, brassy, with punctured striz,
and smaller punctures on the intermeditae spaces: beneath
blackish : pectus punctured on each side, with small, close set,
longitudinal impressed lines: feet reddish-testaceous at base.
Length one-fourth of an inch. [ 242]
I am indebted for this species to Mr. Jno. S. Skinner, editor
of the American Farmer, who received it from a correspondent,
with a note, stating that they had been found on the body of the
peach tree, just below the surface of the ground.
[I cannot identify this species; it does not appear very dis-
tinct from H. pullus.—L«Ec. ]
CISTELA Fabr.
1. €. opscurA.—Blackish-brown, with short hairs; antennz
and feet dusky rufous ; strive of the elytra not deeply impressed.
Cistela obscura Melsh. Catal.
Body oblong, varying in color from a light brown to a blackish,
with numerous short pale hairs arising from punctures: head
transversely a little indented between the antenne: antennz —
moderate, dark rufous: palpi rufous: thorax with the posterior
angles subacutely rounded: elytra with slightly impressed _striz,
their punctures profound: beneath piceous, and, excepting the
pectus, punctured : feet rather paler, somewhat rufous.
Length % lessthan one-fourth ; ? more than three-tenths of an
inch.
1826.]
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The male in my specimens is of a paler color than the female.
It differs from the atra nob., by having the striz of the elytra
much less deeply impressed.
The palpi are all terminated by a joint formed like a reversed
triangle ; it therefore belongs more properly to the genus Ad/e-
cula of authors.
2. CO. arra:—Blackish-brown, with short hairs; striz of the
elytra deeply impressed.
Cistela atra Melsh. Catal, [243]
Body nearly black, with a tinge of brown, with numerous short
blackish hairs, arising from punctures : head transversely indented
between the eyes; antennz dark fuscous, nearly half as long as
the body, terminal joints somewhat ovate, and slightly petiolated :
thorax with the posterior angles subacutely rounded: elytra
with rather deeply impressed, punctured striz: beneath dark
rufo-piceous.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
It may be distinguished from the preceding, by the form of
the terminal joints of the antenna, as well as by the more deeply
impressed striz.
[The name having been previously employed, this species has
been described by Dr. Melsheimer as Alleculu nigrans.—LEc. }
MORDELLA L. Fabr.
1. M. rrrvascrAta.—Testaceous, disk of the thorax and three
bands of the elytra black.
Mordella trifasciata Melsh. Catal.
Body pale testaceous: head immaculate : thorax with the disk
and anterior margin black: elytra with a black band at base,
‘irregular on its posterior edge, and extending a short distance
down the suture; another on the middle, rather narrower at the
suture, and a third at tip: beneath, excepting the pectus, dull
piceous, slightly yellowish sericeous: feet pale.
eneth one-tenth of an inch.
2. M. arreNUATA.—Pale rufous; thorax with a black spot ;
clytra black, with an abbreviated rufous vitta.
Desc. Body rufo-testaceous: antenne black, four basal joints
pale rufous : thorax with a large black spot on the anterior disk:
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elytra black, a rufo-testaceous [244] vitta, commencing at the
middle of the base where it is broadest, and gradually attenuated
to the tip, which does not reach the middle ; a sericeous vitta
extends the whole length in a particular light, more distinct
towards the tip: postpectus, venter and posterior feet piceous,
sericeous: anterior and intermediate feet pale rufous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
ANASPIS Geoff.
A. RuFA.—Entirely rufous, immaculate.
Mordella rufa Melsh. Catal.
Body rather dull rufous, more obviously sericeous on the
elytra: beneath clearer rufous: feet somewhat paler; antenns
longer than the thorax.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
ANTHICUS Fabr.
1. A. constrictus.—Black ; elytra dark rufous at base ; tho-
rax very much contracted behind the middle.
Desc. Head black, polished : antennz blackish-piceous : thorax
black, polished, very profoundly contracted behind the middle,
bilobate, anterior lobe much the larger: elytra dull rufous, gradu-
ally becoming darker towards the tip, which is almost black ;
with regular series of impressed punctures: thighs blackish,
rather dilated: tibize dull rufous.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
Differs from cinctus nob., by having the thorax much more
profoundly contracted, and in being destitute of any cinereous
band, or terminal spot.
[Belongs to Tomoderus Ferté.—Lxc. ] [245 |
2. A. BIrascraTus.—Rufous ; elytra with a black band and
tip.
Head darker than the thorax : antennz and palpi paler than
the head: thorax gradually narrowed behind, not abruptly con-
tracted: elytra irregularly punctured ; a black band on the mid-
dle, a little dilated on the outer margin, and slightly interrupted
at the suture ; a terminal black band: beneath pale rufous.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
Comes near to basilaris nob.; but, in addition to its difference
1826.]
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in having the elytra banded, the base of these wing-sheaths is
not turgid, as in that species. I obtained a specimen in East —
Florida, when in that country with Mr. Maclure’s party.
[The name being preoccupied, this was afterwards named by
Ferte A. bizonatus; it does not, however, appear different from
his A. cervinus.—Lk«c. ]
3. A. PALLIDUS.—Pale; elytra with a broad band and narrow
suture, blackish.
Head and thorax pale ochreous; the latter with a moderate
longitudinal groove, and gradually narrowed towards the base ;
the lateral curvature behind the middle being somewhat concave :
elytra pale yellowish; basal margin dusky; a dilated blackish
band on the middle much dilated on the exterior margin, and at
the suture; on both of which, it extends in a narrow line to the
base and tip; punctures not distinct ; beneath pale rufous; feet
whitish.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
This may be distinguished by its thoracie groove, pale color,
single band, and marginal lines.
[I have not identified this species.—Lec.]
4, A. poLirus.—Blackish ; thorax not narrowed behind ; ely-
tra bright rufous. [246 |
Body with rather long hairs: head blackish: antenne dull
rufous : thorax blackish, rather short, not obviously narrowed
behind ; a transverse impressed line at base: elytra impunctured,
polished, rounded, bright rufous, at the somewhat pointed and
blackish: feet bright rufous.
Length more than one-twentieth of an inch.
The form of the thorax and elytra of this species are quite
different from those of the preceding species.
[I have failed to identify this insect. —LEc.]
5. A. LUGUBRIS.—Black, impunctured ; two basal joints of the
antenne and mouth rufous.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, impunctured, slightly hairy: head polished: an-
tenne a little serrate, two basal joints obscure rufous : mouth ob-
solete piceous: thorax polished, transversely oval, orbicular, a
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distinct impressed transverse line at base: elytra opaque, rather
hairy, with minute transversely-confluent punctures.
Length less than a quarter of an inch.
Found near Fort Osage.
[This and the four following species belong to Pedilus. This
one is described as Pyrochroa inornata Randall, Ped. imus New-
man, and Ped. nigricans Ziegler.—L«c. ]
6. A. coLLARIS.—Black; thorax rufous; two basal joints of
the antennz at tip dull rufous; mouth pale.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, impunctured, a little hairy: antennz a little ser-
rate, two basal joints dull rufous at tips: mouth pale, palpi dusky :
thorax transversely oval-orbicular, rufous, polished, a transverse
impressed basal line: elytra hairy, with small, numerous, irregular
punctures.
Length one-fifth of an inch. [247 ]
Distinguished from the preceding by the color of the thorax.
[ Afterwards described as Ped. rujfithorax Newman, and P.
narginicollis (var.) Ziegler.—LEc. }
7. A. TERMINALIS.—Black, punctured ; thorax rufous ; elytra
yellowish-white at tip.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, punctured, with short hair: head polished, im-
punctured: antenne black-brown: labrum and mouth yellowish-
white: maxillary palpi dusky at tip: thorax rufous, transversely
oval, impunctured, a transverse impressed basal line: elytra with
transversely confluent punctures, a yellowish-white terminal spot:
pectus rufous: nails one-toothed beneath.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
Found in Missouri and Arkansaw.
[Probably the male of Ped. collaris——LEc.]
8. A. LABIATUS.—Black, exterior margin of the thorax, cly-
peus, labrum, and basal joints of the feet rufous.
Inhabits Missouri Territory.
Body black, with minute punctures: head obsoletely piceous
on the vertex, a little indented above the antenne: antennee fili-
form, somewhat serrate, two first joints rufous: clypeus, labrum,
and mouth, rufous: mandibles black : thorax punctures sparse,
1826.]
312 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
a longitudinally oval rufous spot on the lateral margin, and a
transverse impressed line and spot at base : scutel rounded at tip:
elytra densely punctured, tip mucronate, and with an indented
spot: coxee and trochanters rufous: pectus rufous, a lateral, sub-
marginal black spot.
Length about seven-twentieths of an inch. [ 248 }
Taken on the lower Missouri, near Fort Osage: closely allied
to the preceding species.
[ Afterwards described as Pyrochroa infumata Hentz, and Ped.
marginicollis LZiegler.—L«xc. ]
9. A. ImprEssus.—Black: thorax rufous; an indented spot
at the tip of each elytra.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Mouth, antennze, two basal joints, and palpi at base, dark rufous :
thorax rufous, with a longitudinal slightly impressed line : elytra
densely and irregularly punctured ; a large profound, indented,
oval impunctured spot at the sutural tip of each elytra.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles A. collaris, but is distinguished by its somewhat
larger size, and the profoundly impressed spot at the tip of each
elytra. I found this species early in May, attached to the side
of a Meloe angusticollis, which was perfectly at rest upon the
ground, not appearing to be in the slightest degree incommoded
by the weight of its temporary parasite, but seeming rather
pleased with its society. This species and the ugubris, collaris,
terminalis, and labiatus, differ much from the other species of the
genus that have come under my observation; but as they appear
to me to approach more closely to this genus than to any other,
I place them here for the present.
ANTHRIBUS Fabr.
1. A. norarus.—Black; head, thorax each side before, and
elytra at base and tip, with a gray spot.
Anthribus notatus Melsh. Catal.
Head entirely gray above : antennz piceous-black : [249 ] tho-
rax with an irregular gray spot each side before, connected by a
line of the same color, on the anterior margin; about four very
small obsolete gray spots, of which one is each side near the
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base, and the others near the middle: elytra with a longitudinal,
irregular gray spot at the base of each, a smaller one near the
subsutural middle, and a band at tip: tibia with a gray band on
the middle : tarsi, first joint gray : venter gray at tip, with three
black dots each side.
Length a quarter of an inch.
This species is not common.
[This is A. Zugubris Oliv., and belongs to Cratoparis Schénh.—
LEc. |
2. A. CAPILLICORNIS.—Blackish ; antennz elongated, very
slender ; elytra with black spots.
Anthribus capillicornis Melsh. Catal.
Body brownish-black : head with small dense punctures, plane,
not elevated between the eyes: antenne much elongated, nearly
two-thirds the length of the body; basal joint dull rufous at the
incisures : thorax with small dense punctures, immaculate, ele-
vated line of the posterior margin parallel with the edge, entire:
elytra with punctured striz; interstitial lines with quadrate,
velvet black spots: tibia with an obsolete gray band.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
The antenne are very long and slender ; but in other respects
they resemble those of the neighboring species.
[This is A. coffee Fabr., and belongs to Arecerus Schénh.—
Lec. |
3. A. 4-noraTus.—Blackish ; a humeral spot and common
band, dull rufous.
Anthribus 4-notatus Melsh. Catal.
Head with dull yellowish hair: a little elevated [250] between
the eyes: antenne shorter than the thorax, piceous at base : tho-
rax slightly varied with the yellowish hair; punctures rather
large ; line of the posterior margin, nearly parallel to the edge,
entire : elytra with strie of large punctures; a dull rufous, irre-
gular, humeral spot, and an abbreviated common band of the
same color behind the middle; on the posterior declivity are
several somewhat elevated tubercles, of which the superior is
largest: tibia annulate with testaceous, more obvious on the
posterior pair.
1826.]
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Var. a. Abbreviated band of the elytra grayish.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
[This is A. bimaculatus Oliv., and belongs to Tropideres
Schénh.—Lec. ]
4. A. LIMBATUS.—Testaceous; rostrum short; striz of the
elytra subacute, with small punctures.
Anthribus limbatus Melsh. Catal.
Body rufo-testaceous, with short pale ochreous hair: front a
little convex : rostrum short: antenne rufous: thorax with the
line of the posterior margin prominent, a little undulated, ap-
proaching the posterior edge in the middle; elytra, strie narrow,
punctures not large: beneath dusky : feet rufous.
Length three-twentieth of an inch.
[Belongs to Brachytarsus.—LEc’]
5. A. ALTERNATUS.—Robust ; elytra with series of alternate
gray and black spot.
Body short and thick, densely hairy, brownish-cinereous : head
plane, not prominent between the eyes: antennz moderate, pale
rufous, three last joints fuscous: thorax with a few black spots ;
elevated line of the posterior margin not prominent, placed near,
and parallel to the posterior edge: elytra with punctured [251 ]
strie, alternate interstitial lines, with alternate black and gray
spots: feet rufous; thighs dusky ; tibiz with about two dusky
bands.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
This may readily be distinguished from A. capitlicornis, by the
much shorter antennz, and more robust form of body.
[Also a Brachytarsus.—LEc. ]
6.. A. VARIEGATUS.—Varied, with blackish and dull yellow-
ish; elytra, each with two larger spots.
Anthribus variegatus Melsh. Catal.
Body dull ochreous, varied with blackish, with very short
hair: head plane, dusky, paler towards the tip: antenne
moderate, pale rufous, three terminal joints fuscous: thorax
much yaried with blackish, which does not extend on the ante-
rior margin: elytra with hardly obvious striz, with many small
orbicular, blackish spots, and two larger spots on each, of which
one is near the sutural base, and the other rather beyond the
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middle, near the suture: feet pale rufous: thighs blackish in the
middle.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
The two spots of eaeh elytron are sometimes united by an
intervening blackish sutural line.
The species is not uncommon, and I have found it on the
“smut” of wheat. Mr. Lea took eighty individuals from six
heads of wheat.
[Subsequently described by Schénherr as Brachytarsus obso-
letus. —Lxc. ]
7. A. TOMENTOSUS.—Body short, blackish, tibize rufous.
Anthribus tomentosus Melsh. Catal.
Body robust, short, dark reddish-brown, covered by short,
yellowish-cinereous hair : head on the vertex [252 ] and between
the eyes a little convex : antennz rufous, at tip fuscous: thorax
rather convex transversely in the middle, a little depressed before
the base; posterior angles acute: elytra with punctured striz,
immaculate: tibia rufous ; terminal joint of the tarsi blackish.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
This species does not appear to be common. It is much
smaller than either of the preceding.
[Described by Schénherr as Brachytarsus brevis —LEC ]
ATTELABUS Fabr. Dej.
1. A. PUBESCENS.—Dull rufous, with short yellow down.
Attelabus pubescens Melsh. Catal.
Body above dull rufous, the whole surface covered with thick
set, somewhat matted, short yellowish down: head with very
small punctures at base, and large ones at tip; an elevated frontal
_ longitudinal line ; rostrum much contracted between the antennx,
dilated before: thorax with an indentation each side of the
middle: elytra striate, and with irregular punctures: venter
nearly naked: feet naked, bright rufous.
Length about one-fifth of an inch.
This species is not uncommon. Dr. Melsheimer found it on the
leaves of the Corylus americana.
[This was previously described as A. rhois Boheman.—L«c. ]
2. A. SCUTELLARIS.—Black ; antennz and tarsi rufous ; scutel
white.
1826.]
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Body deep black, much punctured: head short behind the
eyes, with distant punctures, more dense on the rostrum: an-
tenn rufous: thorax with numerous [253] dense punctures :
scutel white: elytra slightly hairy, with punctured striz; the
interstitial lines crenate : feet piceous: thighs with a slight angle
on the inferior middle : tarsi rufous.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
I obtained two specimens on the Kalmia latifolia in July.
It is a small species.
[Is the type of Piazorhinus Schonh.—Lxc. }
APION Herbst.
1. A. RostRuM.—Black ; thoracic punctures large, dense; an
impressed line, and punctures between the eyes.
Rhynchites rostrum Melsh. Catal.
Body entirely black: vertex impunctured: front with large
punctures, and a longitudinal impressed line ; an impressed lon-
gitudinal line between the antenne : thorax with large, concave,
close set punctures ; an impressed, abbreviated line on the mid-
dle of the posterior submargin: elytra striate, the strise rather
wide, punctured, interstitial lines flat topped with a single series
of small hairs.
Length from the tip of the rostrum less than three-twentieths
of an inch.
This is a very abundant species. Dr. J. F. Melsheimer found
it on the leaves of the Robinia pseudacacia ; and Dr. Harris of
Milton, Massachusetts, informs me that it occurs in all its stages
in the seed vessels of the wild indigo, (Baptista tinctoria,) in the
months of August and September. I have also taken it in
plenty on that plant. It seems to be allied to [254] the A. ni-
grum Herbst., but it does not agree with his figure, nor sufli-
ciently well with his description.
[Afterwards described as A. Sayi Sch.—Lxc. ]
BRACHYCERUS Oliv. Fab.
B. HUMERALIS.—Body inequal, with punctures furnishing
small hairs; humeral angles advanced. [
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body black, punctured, and with minute punctures furnishing
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short, robust, filiform, white remote hairs: head transversely in-
dented at the base of the very short rostrum, and with a very
profoundly impressed abbreviated frontal line: antenna, termi-
nal joint oval, acute: thorax inequal, widest in the middle, punc-
tures dilated, preceded each side by small tubercles; anteriorly
profoundly excavated, for the reception of the proboscis: elytra
with double series of dilated punctures, each puncture preceded
by an obtuse, slightly elevated tubercle, and each double series of
punctures above separated by a slightly elevated interstitial line:
humeral angles projected forwards, and embracing the lateral
base of the thorax ; obtuse at tip, and rugged.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Male more than one-fifth of an inch.
Not uncommon near the head waters of the Arkansa river ;
where [ obtained a few specimens, when with Major Long’s party.
It is remarkable by the profound excavation in the anterior
face of the trunk, for the reception of the rostrum; the antenne
also do not perfectly agree with [255] those of the genus; these
and other distinctions would authorize the formation of a new sub-
genus, which may be named
[The type of Lithodus ; afterwards named Thecesternus by Say ;
ante 1, 267.—LEc.]
BOSTRICHUS Fabr. [TOMICUS Latr.]
1. B. exesus.—Rufous; elytra excavated at tip, each six or
cight-toothed.
Bostrichus exesus Melsh. Catal.
Body with short, numerous, ochraceous hairs : head ferruginous,
with numerous small elevations: antenne, club rather large :
thorax ferruginous, rough, with numerous elevated points before ;
behind with rather distant punctures: elytra darker rufous than
the thorax, with punctured striz ; punctures large, transverse ;
posterior declivity excavated, with large punctures, and armed
on each side with six or eight teeth; the first and third being
sometimes obsolete, the fifth a little larger.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
Eats a straight, zig-zag, or waved passage between the bark
and wood of the yellow pine, (Pinus mitis Michaux,) when cut
1826.]
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down or decaying: they are numerous, and many die when per-
fect, being unable to cut a passage through the bark.
[Previously described by Germar as 7. calligraphus.—LxEc. ]
2. B. rascraTus.—Blackish ; thorax at base and band on the
elytra, ferruginous.
Bostrichus fasciatus Melsh. Catal.
Body brownish-black : thorax rough before, with slightly ele-
vated ruge, and with a few hairs ; behind glabrous, impunctured,
and pale ferruginous : elytra [256] destitute of strie, punctures
obsolete; basal half pale ferruginous; sutural region dusky ;
posterior declivity hairy, slightly truncated, towards the suture,
indented.
Var. a. Band of the elytra occupying the greater portion of
the surface, and of a clay color. From Sinipuxent.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
[Belongs to Corthylus Kr.—Lxc.]
3. B. xyLocRAPpHuUS.—Rufous; elytra with series of punc-
tures and short points on the posterior declivity.
Bostrichus xylographus Melsh. Catal.
Body somewhat polished, a little hairy, rufous : thorax rugous
to the middle, on the centre of which is an obtuse, hardly raised
tubercle, behind which the surface is smooth, with a few very
small punctures: elytra with series of slightly impressed punce-
tures, the interstitial lines with minute punctures, furnishing
hairs; posterior declivity not truncate, but with small denticula-
tions on the interstitial lines.
Length much less than three-twentieths of an inch.
This insect is abundant in forests of the pine, (Pinus mitis
Mx.,) to which it is very destructive. Immediately beneath the
bark, on the wood, it excavates a rectilinear groove, with short,
equal, lateral grooves at right angles with the preceding.
It varies considerably in size.
4, B. porirus.—Rufous, with rather long hair; elytra entire.
Apate politus Melsh. Catal.
Thorax with elevated rather distant points before, [257]
gradually disappearing towards the base : elytra punctured, punc-
tures not regular in series; tip simple: feet yellowish: tibiz
narrowed at tip. .
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Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
[Belongs to Xyloteres.—LxEc. ]
5. B. ptnt.—Dark chestnut; elytra excavated at tip, each
about four toothed.
Bostrichus typographus ’ Melsh Catal.
- pum
Body somewhat hairy, chestnut brown: head with minute ele-
vated points : antennze pale rufous : thorax punctured, more par-
ticularly hairy before and on each side ; before the middle, with
numerous small elevated points, more acute towards the anterior
margin : elytra more particularly hairy each side, with strie of
transverse punctures; interstitial lines impunctured; tip trun-
cated obliquely, and excavated ; the exterior edge on each side
with four denticulations, of which the second from above is the
largest, and the inferior one is smallest and most acute; there
are sometimes two very small ones above, near the suture.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
This species is very closely allied to B. exesus. It is very de-
structive to many species of pine. Mr. Z. Collins informs me
that it depredates on the larch, (Pinus pendula? Aiton.) Dr.
J. Mease recently exhibited to me some sections of limbs of the
Silver pine (Pinus strobus) trees, which decorate the public
squares of this city, now discovered to be seriously injured by
the attacks of this insect. [258]
HYLURGUS Latr.
H. pentatus.—Head plane ; body reddish-brown ; elytra with
impressed, punctured striz.
Head blackish, with short hairs: antenne rufous: thorax
blackish, passing into dull rufous at base ; with numerous hairs
rather shorter than those of the head; punctured: elytra dull
rufous, with numerous short hairs; striate, the striz deeply im-
pressed, and giving the prominent basal edge a dentate appear-
ance ; interstitial lines rough, with raised points, which are more
prominent and destitute [distinct ?] towards the tip; beneath
dark reddish-brown : feet rufous.
Length nearly one-tenth of an inch. .
Resembles the frontalis Fabr.; but the head is destitute of
spines, and the elytra are less prominently aculeate. I have re-
1825.]
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cently received an individual from Dr. T. W. Harris of Milton,
Massachusetts.
[I have a species of Hylesinus which agrees with this descrip-
tion, but the elevated punctures are hardly more distinct at. the
tip. Phleotribus liminaris also agrees, except that the front is
concave with two distant small acute tubercles.—L«Ec. |
APATE Fabr.
A. punctatus.—Black-brown : posterior declivity of the ely-
tra carinate on the exterior submargin.
Apate punctatus Melsh Catal.
Body confluently punctured: head rough: antenne piceous,
three exterior joints yellowish, decidedly transverse: thorax he-
fore rough, with elevated, thick points, which disappear towards
the base, and are there supplied by discoidal punctures: elytra
with large, impressed punctures, which can hardly be traced
into a series; tip rather abruptly declining, [ 259] with prostrate
yellowish hairs, and a carinate line on the exterior submargin.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
CLYPEASTER And. Latr.
C. FAscIATUS.—Thorax yellowish, with a dusky disk; elytra
black, with a yellowish band.
Body rather oblong-oval, depressed, with fine prostrate hairs :
antennee dusky at tip : thorax honey-yellow, blackish on the disk ;
anterior margin regularly rounded; posterior margin but little
undulated: elytra very obtusely rounded at tip, almost truncate,
black, with a honey-yellow band a little beyond the middle, and
the edge of the tip somewhat dull yellowish: beneath dusky:
feet honey-yellow.
Var. a. Elytra honey-yellow, with a paler band.
Length about one-twentieth of an inch.
I refer this little insect to the present genus, by its form of
body. It is very like a small Cassida, and the head is equally
concealed by the clypeiform thorax.
[The name Clypeaster being preoccupied for a genus of Kchi-
noderms, I have given the name Saciwm to this genus; Proe.
Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 6, 144.—Lec.]
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CERYLON Latr.
C. cASTANEUM.—Reddish-brown, punctured, palpi bright yel-
lowish ; elytra striate.
Inhabits the United States.
Body reddish-brown, punctured, glabrous: antenne paler:
palpi pale reddish-yellow, polished: thorax widely and slightly
indented at base, each side of the [260] middle; punctures nu-
merous distinct, posterior angles rectangular: scutel transversely
linear: elytra with the striz impressed, punctured.
Length rather more than one-fifteenth of an inch.
This species is not uncommon. I have found it in various
parts of the Union, and as far west as Missouri.
MYCETOPHAGUS Fabr.
1. M. puncrarus.—Blackish ; elytra rufous, with a large dot;
scutel and tip black.
Mycetophagus punctatus Knoch, J. F. Melsheimer.
Body blackish-piceous, with short hairs: antenne and mouth
piceous: thorax immaculate, with a small indentation each side,
on the basal margin : scutel black: elytra with punctured striz ;
rufous ; region of the scutel black; a large black spot on the
middle, confluent with the lateral margin, and extending on that
part to the humerus, and in the opposite direction to a large,
subterminal black band ; a small fulvous tip.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
2. M. rLExvuosus.—Blackish; elytra rufous, undulated with
black.
Mycetophagus flecuosus Melsh. Catal.
Body blackish-piceous, with short hairs: antennge, terminal
joint fulvous : thorax indented each side on the posterior margin :
elytra with punctured striz, yellowish rufous ; a transverse quad-
rate black spot on the region of the scutel ; a small rounded one
on the [261 ] humerus; a large irregular one on the exterior
middle, sometimes not interrupted by the suture, and a large
black spot on the tip, enclosing a small fulvous spot; beneath
pale piceous.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch,
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322 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Closely allied to the preceding, but is much smaller, and the
markings are always different.
3. M. 6-puncratus.—Blackish ; elytra with three spots of
yellowish hairs.
Mycetophagus 6-punctatus Melsh. Catal.
Body blackish-brown, with short yellowish sericeous hairs : an-
tennze with the three last joints larger: labrum yellowish : thorax
with an abbreviated, obsolete longitudinal line on the posterior
margin, each side: elytra with regular series of hairs, more
obvious towards the exterior margin; a dense group of hairs on
the middle of the base, forming a spot on that part; a subsutural
one is before, and another behind the middle : beneath piceous :
tarsi paler.
Length rather less than one-tenth of an inch.
Very distinct from the preceding.
[Belongs to Litargus Kr.—Lec.]
4. M. prpesmus.—Blackish ; elytra with two bands and obso-
lete tip, pale rufous.
Body blackish-piceous, with short yellowish-sericeous hairs:
head piceous : antennez somewhat clavate: thorax with the pos-
terior angles rounded: elytra with a pale rufous, slightly oblique
band near the base, and another beyond the middle ; tip obso-
letely pale rufous: feet pale.
Length much less than one-tenth of an inch.
[Also a Litargus.—LxEc.] [262]
LYCTUS Fabr.
1. L. REFLEXUs.—Chestnut ; thorax punctured, slightly nar-
rower behind ; elytra striate.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Lyctus americanus ? Melsh. Catal.
Head with numerous, large, deep punctures; a longitudinal
rather wide indented line each side, near the eyes: antennz
rather robust, shorter than the thorax: thorax with large numer-
ous punctures, gradually a little narrowed behind, without any
impressed line or elevation; lateral edge dusky: scutel convex,
rounded : elytra with somewhat large strie, in which are large
punctures ; terminal edge reflected.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
[Belongs to Pycnomerus Er.—LeEc.]
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2. L. geminatus.—Thorax longitudinally indented ; strix of
the elytra geminate.
Tnhabits Pennsylvania.
Body depressed, dark reddish-brown, with short, prostrate
hairs: head punctured : antennz rather robust, with short hairs :
thorax gradually a little narrowed behind, with numerous large
punctures; middle of the disk widely indented longitudinally :
scutel convex, rounded: elytra depressed above; impressed strix
placed in pairs; interstitial lines punctured.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
[This is a species of Bothrideres Er., but very different from
B. geminatus Hald., which was subsequently described as B.
exaratus Mels.—LEc. ]
3. L. H#MATODES.—Thorax with two indented lines; elytra
with large, deep punctured striz.
Lyctus hematodes ? Fabr.
Body dark reddish-brown, a little depressed: head [263]
with large, not profound punctures; an indented longitudinal
space each side, between the antenne: antennz short, robust :
thorax with large, somewhat deep punctures, and two dilated,
parallel, indented lines on the disk: margin a little ele-
vated, in the middle contracted ; elytra with dilated profound
strie or grooves, in which are dilated, not deeply impressed
punctures ; interstitial lines narrow, prominent.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
This certainly approaches the description of LZ. hamatoces
Fabr., and probably is the same; but as he describes that species
to be carinated on the thorax, I have made out the above des-
cription, that those who have an opportunity, may compare.
I obtained may specimens under loose bark of the yellow-pine,
on Chinquoteague Island, in October.
The three species above described, correspond with the charac-
ters of the genus Bitoma of Herbst, in having the antenne
shorter than the head and thorax, and the mandibles not very
obviously projecting ; yet they appear to me to be very properly
retained in the present genus.
_[A species of Pycnomerus.—LEc. |
1826.]
324 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
COLYDIUM Fabr.
1. C. PARALLELOPIPEDUM.—Head with two tubercles ; thorax
with two elevations, and an elevated line each side.
Colydium parallelopipedum Melsh. Catal.
Body dull rufous ; glabrous, punctured : head with an indented,
transverse line, and two hardly prominent [264] tubercles,
often obsolete: thorax quadrate, rather longitudinal ; two tuber-
¢les before, which gradually dilate and disappear behind ; lateral
submargin, with an elevated line hardly attaining to the base,
and extending on the anterior edge, so as to join the opposite
line; exterior edge a little reflected ; anterior angles prominent:
elytra with hardly impressed, punctured striz, becoming small
behind: feet pale rufous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
This seems to be allied to C. bidentatum Fabr., of South
America.
[Belongs to Aulonium Er—L«c.]
2. C. LONGIUSCULUM.— Dark brownish; antenne and feet
rufous; thorax punctured.
Colydium longiusculum Melsh. Catal.
Body linear, slender, elongated, dark reddish-brown: head
blackish, eminently punctured; nasus dull rufous: antenne
bright rufous: thorax cylindric, long, minutely punctured, black-
ish: elytra with large, deep striz, in which are transverse punc-
tures ; interstitial lines convex: beneath blackish: feet bright
rufous.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
3. C. LINEOLA.—Dark brownish ; antenne and feet rufous ;
thorax with an impressed line.
Colydium lineola Melsh. Catal.
Body linear, slender, elongated, dark reddish-brown: head
blackish, dull rufous before, minutely punctured: antennze
rufous: thorax cylindric, long, minutely punctured, blackish,
with a very obvious, longitudinal, acutely impressed line on the
hack: elytra [265] with rather large, deep strie, and transverse
punctures, which crenate the interstitial lines: beneath rufous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
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Resembles the preceding, but is smaller, and is readily dis-
tinguished by the impressed line of the thorax.
LATRIDIUS Herbst.
L. puBrescens.—Reddish-brown; thorax each side irregu-
larly denticulated.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Latridius pubescens Melsh. Catal.
Body irregularly punctured, with numerous scattered hairs :
thorax on the lateral edge having eight or nine irregular denti-
culations: elytra without any series of punctures or Impressed
line; hairs of the lateral margin prominent.
Length neraly three-twentieths of an inch.
Very different from the species which I described under the
name of J. 8-dentatus, which has regular series of punctures on
the elytra.
[Belongs to Paratenetus, and seems to be P. punctatus Spin.,
Mon. Cler. 2, 116; tab. 44, fig. 5—Lxc.]
SILVANUS Latr.
S. penTATUS.—Thorax 6-toothed each side, and with a double
indentation behind.
Latridius dentatus Melsh. Catal.
Body reddish-brown, depressed, punctured ; punctures small :
head with a reflected edge each side, [266] extending above
the eye, and somewhat more prominent over the insertion of the
antenne : thorax with two dilated, parallel, longitudinal inden-
tations behind the middle, and not reaching the base; lateral
edge with six rounded teeth; the anterior and posterior ones
more acute: elytra with about four slightly elevated lines, sub-
sutural one obsolete.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
[This is the type of Nausibius, and was previously described
under the same specific name by Marsham and Fabricius ; it has
been carried by commerce over the entire globe. The genus is
still of doubtful position.—LEc.]
1826.]
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SYNCHITA Hel.
1. S. 4-currara.—Blackish-brown ; thorax canaliculate ;
elytra each with two rufous spots. .
Inhabits Arkansaand East Florida.
Body with short curved hairs: head at tip tinged with rufous:
thorax with a longitudinal groove each side on the submargin,
continued on the anterior margin ; lateral margin a little concave,
the edge denticulated : elytra with four dilated grooves, containing
double series of punctures, anda marginal groove, containing
but a single series of transverse punctures; interstitial lines
slender; each elytron with an oblong longitudinal dull rufous
spot at base, and another beyond the middle.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
_ L obtained three specimens when with Major Long’s party in
Arkansa, and several occurred in Florida.
[Belongs to Ditoma Latr.—Lec. }
2. S. GRANULATA.—Thorax granulated; elytra with granu-
lated interstitial lines.
Inhabits East Florida. [ 267]
Body blackish-brown: head granulated, somewhat rufous
before: antenne rufous, joints of the capitulum not distinctly
separate: thorax covered with granulations; without grooves ;
lateral edge denticulated : elytra with regular series of elevated
granulated striz, and intervening, narrower, smooth ones.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
Very distinct from the preceding. I obtained but a single
specimen in Florida, and Mr. Nuttall presented me with three
which he brought from Missouri.
CUCUJUS Fabr.
1. C. Braurratus.—Dark reddish-brown ; antennz more than
half the length of the body; elytra with a large spot; thorax
with a lateral impressed line. :
Cucujus biguttatus Melsh. Catal.
Head with numerous small punctures: thorax with numerous
small punctures, not obviously crenate on the lateral edge, with
an impressed line on the lateral submargin ; the margins slightly
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~
paler than the disk: scutel pale: elytra with acute impressed
striz ; a rather large, oval, pale spot somewhat before the middle,
chiefly included between the second and third strive: beneath
rufous.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
This is a common insect. It is so much like the C. bipustula-
tus of Panzer, that we find some hesitation in admitting it to a
distinct rank. That species, however, judging from Panzer’s
figure, has the lateral [268] edges of the thorax obviously
crenate, and the pale elytra spot is much larger than in the pre-
sent species.
[This species belongs to Laemophlous.—Lxc. |
2. ©. MopEsTtA.—Reddish-brown ; antennz more than half
the length of the body; thorax with a lateral impressed line ;
elytra with punctured striz.
Head and thorax reddish-brown, with numerous small pune-
tures; the latter somewhat rounded, hardly narrower behind,
with an obvious impressed longitudinal line on each lateral sub-
margin: antenne considerably more than half the length of the
body : elytra rather shorter than the abdomen, pale testaceous,
immaculate; striz obtuse, hardly impressed, with large punc-
tures: beneath reddish-brown.
Length more than one-twentieth of an inch.
This small species occurs in East Florida, and was obtained by
Mr. Maclure’s party. Itis about equal in size to C. testaceus
Fabr., of Europe, but is a very different species. In the form
of its antenne, this species approaches the genus Brontes.
[Also a Lemophleus—LEc. ]
LAMIA Fabr.
1. L. MAcuLA.—Brownish; sides of the thorax and spot on
the elytra gray.
Cerambyx macula Melsh. Catal.
Head brownish above, grayish before, and gray on the cheeks :
antennee a little longer than the body, dull rufous; the joints
blackish at their tips: thorax slightly inequal, with very obtuse,
obsolete tubercles; lateral spine none, substituted by a hardly
elevated tubercle ; above brownish, with two longitudinal, [269]
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328 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
distant blackish lines; sides beneath the lines gray : elytra pune-
tured ; each with six lines of minute black spots, one of which is
at the suture, and another on the lateral margin; a large trian-
gular gray spot on the lateral middle, rarely reaching the suture:
thighs clavate, black: tibize dull rufous, annulate with dusky.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
This species frequently occurs.
[Belongs to Leptosty/us, Lec. Journ. Acad. Nat. Se. Phila. 2d
ser. 2, 168.—Lec.]
2. L. currata.—Elytra with minute elevated points, and
about six obsolete gray spots. j
Lamia 6-guttata Melsh. Catal.
Body brownish: antennz a little longer than the body, obscure
rufous; the joints dusky at their tips: thorax a little inequal,
with hardly elevated, very obtuse tubercles; lateral spine none,
being substituted by a slightly elevated tubercle: elytra punc-
tured, each with six lines of minute black spots, which are each
elevated, reflected, and acute ; about six obsolete gray spots on
each, of which one-is sub-marginal behind the humerus, a minute
one is upon the middle, and the third is small, subsutural, and
behind the middle: thighs clavate, blackish: tibize dull rufous,
annulate with dusky.
Length nearly seven-twentieths of an inch.
This species resembles the preceding, but it may be distin-
guished by the want of the large gray lateral spot of the elytra,
and more essentially by being armed with reflected points on the
elytra. It also resembles the ZL. aculifera nobis, but is destitute
of the whitish elytral band, and the general form of the body is
different from either, being less robust.
[A species of Leptostylus, which I have failed to identify ; it
seems to be most like L. commixtus.—LEc. ] [270]
3. L. pasycerus.—Antennz hairy beneath; elytra with
minute elevated points.
Body light brownish-cinereous : antennz a little longer than
the body, with rather long, close-set hairs on the inferior side:
thorax without obvious tubercles: with two obsolete, longitudi-
nal, approximate, brown lines: elytra with a commom arcuated
black line, extending from one humerus to the other; numerous,
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rather large, irregular punctures ; a few series of distant elevated
black points ; an obsolete common white band behind the mid-
dle: thighs clavate: tibize not annulated.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
This may be distinguished from either of the before mentioned
species ; by the pendant hair of the inferior side of the antenne,
&e. The white band is sometimes altogether wanting; and if
very closely examined, the black points of the elytra will be
found to consist of fasciculated hairs.
[This is the type of Heyrus Lec., Journ. Ac. Nat. Se. Phila.,
2nd ser. 2, 160.—LEc.]
4. L. atpHa.—Elytra each with a white oblique line extend-
ing backwards from the middle of the suture.
Cerambyx analis ? Melsh. Catal.
Body dull reddish-brown : head longitudinally deeply indent.
ed on the vertex : antennze considerably longer than the body ;
incisures blackish: thorax above, destitute of tubercles, but with
three small black spots, placed 2, 1; a short tubercle, abruptly
acute at tip, each side before the posterior angles, which are
emarginate; posterior margin with a transverse indented line:
scutel blackish: elytra irregularly [271] punctured; a few
black dots, consisting of tufts of hair, chiefly along the suture;
region of the scutel dusky; a blackish marginal abbreviated line
from the humerus; a blackish line margined with gray, extends
from the middle of the suture, obliquely backwards, towards the
exterior margin.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
This species is not very rare in Pennsylvania; I also obtained
one in the N. W. Territory.
[Belongs to Liopus.—Lxc.]
5. L. racera.—Blackish; elytra yellowish-white, with four
blackish bands.
Antenne nearly twice as long as the body: thorax equal, with
an acute spine each side, near the posterior angles, which are
emarginate ; a gray mark behind the middle, in the form of a W:
elytra yellowish-white ; a blackish band at base, decurrent behind
along the suture ; a narrow oblique band before the middle, not
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330 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
reaching the suture ; a broad band rather behind the middle, and
another at tip: feet ochreous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
I have found this pretty little species on the common Juniper,
early in July.
[Also a Liopus.—L«xc. ]
6. L. spinosA.—Covered with short, prostrate gray hair; an-
tennz gray and black.
Saperda spinosa Melsh. Catal. y
Head deeply indented between the antenne: labrum piceous :
antennz longer than the body, black, each joint gray at base:
thorax cylindrical, immaculate; an acute, slightly recurved spine
near the posterior angles; elytra with numerous small impressed
[272] punctures, at tip truncated: venter with a series of almost
concealed black spots on each side.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch.
The general form is that of a Saperda; but, agreeably to the
generic characters, the spines of the thorax determine the affinity.
[I formed a special genus Dectes for this insect, but it seems
to be scarcely distinct from Liopus.—L«c. ] :
SAPERDA Fabr.
1. S. cingunata.—Brownish-cinereous, with obsolete fulvous
dots ; elytra with a dull cinereous band.
Saperda cingulata Melsh. Catal.
Body robust, covered with short prostrate hairs: head varied
with fulvous, a slender fulvous line around the eye, a frontal in-
dented line: antennz much longer than the body, bnt not twice
as long: thorax obviously broader than long, slightly varied with
fulyous: elytra with numerous, obsolete, small fulvous dots; at
base and tip broadly reddish-brown ; a broad cinereous, somewhat
undulated band on the middle.
Length eleven-twentieths of an inch.
This is not common. Occurs on the Hickory.
[Belongs to Oneideres—Lxc.}
2. 8. nrgRA.—Entirely black, immaculate ; elytra irregularly
punctured.
Saperda nigra Melsh. Catal.
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Head indented between the antennz, minutely granulated: an-
tenne much longer than the body: thorax minutely granulated ;
a transverse impressed line on the anterior and posterior margin:
elytra very minutely granulated, and with numerous, irregularly
placed, rather distant, profound punctures; tip simple: (273]
anterior thighs laterally arcuated, their tibize perpendicularly
arcuated.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The anterior thighs and tibie are very obviously arcuated.
[A species of Dorcaschema.—LEc.]
3. S. ruscriprs.—Hairy, black ; thorax with two black vitte ;
feet rufous. :
Saperda fuscipes Melsh. Catal.
Body with rather long cinereous hair, punctured: head not
indented between the antennz: labrum testaceous: thorax as
long as broad, irregularly and deeply punctured ; two longitudinal
black vitta, occasioned by the complete denudation of the parts:
elytra with numerous, close-set, irregularly disposed, deeply im-
pressed punctures ; at tip rounded: feet dull rufous.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
4. §. 3-11neaTA.—Densely covered with short prostrate hairs ;
antenne naked, black.
Saperda cinerea, )
Ss. Sie th, f Melsh. Catal.
Body densely clothed, with short, prostrate, greenish-cincereous
hairs: head a little tinged with yellowish, with a longitudinal
line : antennee quite naked and black: thorax tinged with a little
yellowish, breadth hardly exceeding the length ; a longitudinal
black line before the middle: elytra immaculate, rather acutely
terminated.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
[Belongs to Hetemis Hald ; previously described as S. cinerea
Oliv.—L«c.
5. S. vestira.—Very hairy ; brownish, varied with grayish ;
antenne as long as the body. [274]
Body in every part with numerous long erect hairs, and shorter
ones between them ; numerous punctures placed irregularly : head
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not indented: labrum piceous: thorax with a short tubercle on
each side: elytra rounded at tip.
Length less than than one-fourth of an inch.
This species might perhaps be referred to the genus Lamia.
[Belongs to Hupogonius Lec., which is allied to, and perhaps
the same as Callia Serv. There is another S. vestita Say, ante
1, 193.—Lec. }
6. S. optiqgua.—Elytra with four oblique, elevated lines.
Body yellowish-brown, or pale ferruginous: head with an im-
pressed line; a broad fuscous line behind each eye: antennz
rather longer than the body, gray, incisures fuscous ; first joint
rather thick, hairy, fuscous: thorax cylindrical, with four fuscous
vittze : elytra with numerous, subinequal, irregularly disposed
punctures; four elevated, obtuse, parallel, oblique lines, commenc-
ing at the exterior submargin, and proceeding backward to the
suture, the anterior originating on the humerus; tip mucronate.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
This interesting species was brought by Mr. Thomas Nuttall
from Missouri.
STENOCORUS Fabr.
1. S. R1GIpus.—Ferruginous ; antennz robust, spinous be-
neath.
Body rather slender, ferruginous, with very short hairs: head,
space between the antennze more elevated ; a longitudinal impress-
ed line: mandibles at [275] tip black: antennz very robust,
hairy, a little longer than the body; with numerous spines be-
neath, particularly on the third or fourth basal joints: thorax
rounded, a little narrower before, widest behind the middle: ely-
tra very pale ferruginous; without any striz or punctures, instead
of which, are very slight depressions, furnishing very short hairs ;
on the middle of each elytron is a longitudinal obvious nervure ;
tip acutely rounded: thighs, anterior ones more robust than the
posterior pairs.
Length more than three-fifths of an inch.
The spines on the inferior surface of the antenne, are not
confined to the tips of the joints, as in some species, but occupy
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the surface from base to tip; they are obsolete on the first,
second, and terminal joints. The species is rare.
[Belongs to Sclerocerus, and is the male of JS. /inearis Harris,
Trans. Hartford Soc. Nat. Hist. 85.—Lec.]
2. S. QUADRIGEMINATUS.—Pale brown; elytra each with two
geminate spots; basal ones equal.
Body entirely pale yellowish-brown: antenne hardly more ob-
viously hairy on the basal joints than on the others : thorax with
two black tubercles above, rather before the middle, placed trans-
versely, and a short spine each side on the middle of the length
of the thorax: elytra rather paler than the thorax; each with
two double, somewhat elevated bright yellow, abbreviated very
short lines; the two members of the basal spot equal, the othe
spot is placed on the middle, and its inner member is shorter
than, the exterior one ; tip two-spined, the exterior spine longest .
intermediate and posterior thighs two-spined at tip, the inner
spine rather longest. [276 |
Length nine-tenths of an inch.
This insect is not uncommon. It is related to S. 4-maculatus
Fabr., S. maculosus Fabr., S. didymus Oliv., all of South
America, and WS. stigma Oliv., of Cuba. It differs from the first,
to which it is more closely related than to either, by the equality
of the two members of the basal double spot of the elytra, and
by having only two tubercles on the back of the thorax ; from
the maculosus it may be distinguished by its greater size and
simple pale color ; from didymus by its smaller size, and not hav-
the third and fourth joints of the antenne more hairy than the
other joints ; from stigma by having the basal spot of the elytra
double.
[Belongs to Eburia.—Lec.]
CLYTUS Fabr.
1. C. conrusus.—Black, with spots of yellowish-white ; feet
rufous, tarsi and knees black.
Head covered with prostrate, short yellowish hair, excepting a
longitudinal line on the vertex: antenne two-thirds the length
of the body, black : thorax covered with hair, excepting a dilated
dorsal vitta, and a narrow obsolete longitudinal line each side:
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scutel covered with white hair: elytra with irregular, inequal
spots of short yellowish-white hair; of these spots there is in
many specimens, a series at the suture, another on the middle,
and a third on the exterior submargin; but in other specimens
the series are obsolete, and in some, many of the spots are con-
fluent ; [277] tip truncate, emarginate: wings blackish: feet
rufous ; knees, tarsi, and tip of the tibia black.
Length about seven-twentieths of an inch.
IT obtained a small individual several years since in this State,
and my brother B. Say took a specimen near Pleasant Mills,
New Jersey, and I subsequently obtained another in the N. W.
Territory. ’
[This is the type of Atimfa Hald., but not being recognized
by him, was described as A. tristis—LEc.]
2. C. ANNosus.—Black, with short gray hairs; a triangular
carina between the eyes.
Body black, covered with short, gray, prostrate hair: head
with a grooved prominence between the eyes, terminating ina
short carina: antenne but little longer than the thorax: thorax
with a naked dorsal vitta: elytra with the hair more densely
arranged in some parts, so as to exhibit the appearance of small
spots, which are arranged in two bands, in each of which are
two spots each side, the second band is on the middle ; near the
tip are one or two common spots ; tip entire..
Length nearly one-half of an inch.
I received this species from Mr. T. Nuttall, who brought it
from Missouri.
[Unknown to me.—Lzc.]
CALLIDIUM Fabr.
C. cucusIFORME.—Pale yellowish; thorax a little contracted
in the middle.
Callidium cucujiforme Melsh. Catal.
Body depressed: head with a slight rufous tinge: antenne
rather shorter than the body, tinged with rufous: thorax [278]
longer than broad, obtusely contracted each side, rather before
the middle: elytra irregularly punctured, without elevated
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lines : thighs dilated : pectus with a large discoidal, very slightly
indented space on each side.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
[Belongs to Smodicum.—L«c. ]
LEPTURA Linn. Fabr.
1. L. scanAris.—Rufous, sericeous; elytra slender, with
sericeous triangles along the suture. ;
Body elongated rufous, more or less covered with golden seri-
ceous ; impunctured: head with a transverse indentation before,
and a longitudinal indented line; space behind the eyes promi-
nent: antenne rather more than half the length of the body:
thorax with a transverse impressed line before, and another be-
hind: elytra slender, concavely arcuated on the outer edge be-
hind the middle, rounded at tip, considerably shorter than the
abdomen; adarker rounded spot on the middle, and an oblong
one behind the middle, so arranged as to exhibit two sutural
golden-sericeous triangles on each elytron: posterior thighs
blackish at tip: tergum. longitudinally black in the middle: be-
neath with brilliant golden sericeous hair.
Length one inch.
For this fine species I am indebted to my friend, Prince
Musignano, who obtained it near his summer residence, at Point
Breeze, New Jersey. It is much like the Cerambyx longipes of
Drury, 1, pl. 37, fig. 4, [279] but the thighs are not spinous at
tip, as in that species.
2. L. NIGRELLA.—Blackish-brown ; thorax cylindrical.
Leptura nigra Melsh. Catal.
Body punctured, somewhat pubescent: head with confluent,
small punctures; those of the nasus, and labrum sparse: antennez
more than two-thirds the length of the body : thorax cylindrical,
very slightly wider behind, punctured like the head ; an obtuse,
lightly impressed, transverse line on the anterior submargin, and
another on the posterior submargin: elytra with very obvious,
numerous punctures, which are more particularly confluent near
the base; tip a little truncated obliquely: beneath dull silvery
sericeous.
Length nearly seven-twentieths of an inch.
I received this species from Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, under the
1826.]
336 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
name which I have here given; that of nigra being preoccu-
pied. The thorax approaches the form of that of a Saperda.
3. L. pupeRA.—Black ; thorax subglobular; elytra truncate
at tip.
Leptura pubera Melsh. Catal.
Body punctured, somewhat pubescent: head with dense small
punctures: antenne rather more than two-thirds the length of
the body: thorax convex, with rather large punctures: elytra
with numerous, rather large punctures, at tip transversely a little
truncated: beneath dull silvery sericeous.
Length three-tenths of an inch. [ 280 |
This is very different from the preceding in the form of the
thorax, as well as in color, Xe.
4. L. ca#ruLba.—Slender ; bluish; feet pale rufous.
Rhagium rufipes Melsh. Catal.
Body slender, punctured: head transversely much indented
near the nasus: palpi pale rufous: antenne situated on a tuber-
cle: thorax with a small tubercle, rather behind the middle on
eacn side; an anterior and posterior, transverse, impressed line :
elytra acutely rounded at tip: feet pale rufous; beneath dull
plumbeous.
Length rather more than one-half of an inch.
A very pretty little insect, belonging to the genus Toxotus
of Megerle. The name rujipes, is pre-occupied in this genus.
[The type of Encyclops Newman, but described by him as L.
pallipes.—LKEc. ]
5. L. SPHHRICOLLIS.—Black ; thorax contracted on the poste-
rior margin; feet varied with yellowish.
Body with very short hairs, somewhat sericeous: labrum and
anterior margin of the nasus yellowish: mandibles and palpi
yellowish, at tip piceous: thorax globular in the middle; ante-
rior and posterior margins much contracted: elytra punctured ;
the punctures large at base, small towards the tip of the elytra:
feet yellowish ; thighs at tip, and tibia at base, blackish.
Length nearly one-third of an inch.
I received this insect from Mr. Charles Pickering, of Salem,
Massachusetts, to whom I returned for it the name of L. pubera ;
but on a strict comparison, I find that by the form of the thorax,
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it is quite different from that species, and much more closely re-
lated [281] to the L.rujicollis nobis, from which it differs chiefly
in the color of the thorax.
ORSODACNA Fabr.
1. O. TrIPLA.—Rufous ; feet yellowish ; thorax dentate each
side.
Crioceris asparagi Melsh. Catal.
Body rufous, punctured: head coarsely and confluently pune-
tured ; before the antenne yellow : antennz with the basal joints
yellow at their tips: mandibles black at tip: thorax widest in
the middle, with coarse, confluent punctures ; lateral edge with
about six unequal denticulations, of which the anterior one is
yellowish, and forms the anterior angle: elytra with triple series
of rather large impressed punctures, and alternate elevated lines:
feet yellow; tarsi rufous: venter yellow in the middle.
Length from one-fifth to one-fourth of an inch.
Var. a. Elytra pale; abdomen yellow.
Crioceris flavida Melsh. Catal.
Seems to belong to the genus Auchenia of Megerle; but I
have not seen the characters of that genus.
[Belongs to Syneta.—LEc. ]
2. O. HEPATICA.—Head black ; thorax rufous ; elytra brownish.
Head black: palpi and base of the antenne yellowish : thorax
yellowish-rufous, larger before the middle, with scattered punc-
tures ; anterior angles rounded : elytra liver color, with numerous,
irregularly disposed, rather large punctures: beneath piceous :
feet yellowish. [ 282}
Length less than a quarter of an inch.
This species was brought from the Mississippi region, by Mr.
Thomas Nuttall.
DONACIA Fabr.
1. D. QUADRICOLLIS.—Brassy green; thorax with the im-
pressed line and lateral tubercle, obsolete.
Head dull green bronze; frontal line very profoundly im-
pressed ; no distinct tubercle ; lateral lines very distinct and de-
finite : antenne nearly black ; second joint but little shorter than
the third: thorax quadrate, very slightly narrower at base ;
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338 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
densely and confluently punctured ; the longitudinal line, as well
as the lateral tubercles, indistinct ; color brassy-green: elytra a
little inequal near the suture; slightly truncated, and not de-
curved at tip: with regular distinct striz of punctures : beneath
dusky silvery gray: feet dull rufous; posterior thighs with a
small tooth ; all the thighs a little dusky above.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
This species is nearly equal in size to the palmata Oliy., which
is the D. anea of Melsh. Catal. ; but that common insect has the
dorsal thoracic line and lateral tubercles well defined, the third
joint of the antennze nearly double the length of the second, and
the tips of the elytra more profoundly emarginated; the thorax
is moreover transverse. JI may observe, with respect to the
palmata, that the male only has the anterior tarsi dilated.
[Previously described as D. subtilis Kunze —Lxc.] [283]
2. D. MpraLLica.—Cupreous; antennz and feet rufous; se-
cond and third joints of the former equal.
Donacia metallica Melsh. Catal.
Body above cupreous, polished: head densely punctured,
nearly opaque, with an acute impressed line transversely in-
dented in the middle ; tubercles and Jateral lines none: antennz
pale rufous ; rather short; less than half the length of the body ;
with short joints, the second and third equal, the fourth nearly
equal: thorax convex, gradually a little narrowed to the base,
decidedly longer than broad, very highly polished, with very dis-
tinct scattered punctures, an impressed, acute line; lateral tu-
bercle obtuse, obvious; small tubercle of the anterior angle dis-
tinct from the large tubercle, subacute ; posterior submargin in-
dented: elytra, striz with impressed punctures; a single obso-
lete indentation passes from the humerus to the suture before
the middle ; tip much decurved, rounded: beneath greenish sil-
very: feet pale rufous: posterior thighs with a broad prominent
angle.
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
Var. a. Antenne and feet dusky.
Var. b. Green ; antennz and feet obscure rufous.
The thorax is more convex and polished than in most other
species. I have received a specimen from Dr. T. W. Harris, of
Milton, Massachusetts.
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[This is D. sulcicollis Lac., which name must be adopted, as
there is a D. metallica previously described by Ahrens.—Luc. ]
3. D. rurA.—Dull metallic rufous; front destitute of lateral
impressed lines.
Body totally dull rufous, with a metallic gloss, particularly on
the elytra: head dusky, almost opaque, with much crowded, very
small punctures ; no appearance [284] of tubercles; a very dis-
tinct, impressed frontal line extending down between the an-
tenn ; no appearance of impressed lines near the eyes : antenney
somewhat paler than the body, and about half the length of the
body; third joint distinctly longer than the second: thorax
longer than broad, minutely punctured ; longitudinal line very
distinct, deeply impressed ; a transverse impressed line on the
posterior submargin ; lateral tubercles rather prominent, obtuse ;
tubercle of the anterior angle distinct from the large tubercle,
acute: elytra hardly obviously imequal near the suture; with
strize of punctures; tip decurved, almost truncated, or obtusely
rounded: beneath, in a particular light, dull silvery sericeous:
feet rufous.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch.
I found this species in company with palmata, on the bank of
the Schuylkill river.
[Continuation from Vol. 5, 1826, pp. 293—304. ]
4. D. pusitua.—Green ; elytra brassy ; tibie and tarsi rufous;
second and third joints of the antenne equal.
Head brassy-green, very densely and confluently punctured ; a
well impressed frontal line ; lateral lines none ; no appearance of
frontal tubercles : antennz short, much less than half the length
of the body ; second and third joints equal, fourth joint hardly
longer ; joints dull rufous, blackish at tip : thorax green, a little
tinged with brassy, longer than broad, as densely punctured ag
the head ; middle of the anterior edge a little elevated: longi-
tudinal line none ; lateral tubercles obvious: elytra brassy-green,
a little tinged with cupreous ; with strie of punctures; three lon-
1826.]
340 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
gitudinal indentations near the suture, of which the anterior one
is widest and deepest, with a slight impressed line extending
obliquely to the base ; tip decurved and rounded : beneath green,
tinged with brassy: feet rufous: thighs at tip brassy-green, pos-
terior pair with a prominent angle beneath.
Length rather more than a quarter of an inch.
The smallest species I have seen; it occurs in the Middle
States, and I have also received a specimen from Dr. T. W. Har-
ris, of Milton, Massachusetts.
5. D. coNFLUENTA [CONFLUENS. ]—Brassy, tinged with cu-
preous ; head with two tubercles; second joint of the antennz
shortest ; elytra truncate at tip. [294]
Head rather obscure; a profound frontal line, on each side of
which is an oblong tubercle; punctures confluent, small: an-
tenne not quite half the length of the body, fuscous, first joint
metallic, polished, third joint distinetly longer than the second :
thorax nearly square, a little narrowed to the base, with very dis-
tinct confluent punctures, and a slightly impressed dorsal line ;
lateral tubercles not prominent; anterior tubercles not distinct:
acutel cinereous: elytra with punctured striz; two subsutural
impressed spaces, of which the exterior extends obliquely to the
middle of the base; tip hardly decurved, truncated: posterior
thighs with a small angle beneath.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
I have found this insect in Pennsylvania, and also in Missouri.
In some specimens, lateral impressed spaces of the elytra are
very distinct, but in general they are not perceptible.
LEMA Fabr.
L. MELANOCEPHALA.—Above rufo-testaceous; head and all
beneath black.
Head deep black, inequal; thorax rufo-testaceous, polished,
abruptly very much contracted on the middle of each side, pre-
senting the appearance of a profound vertical groove in that part:
elytra rufo-testaceous, polished, with almost regular series of im-
pressed punctures: beneath black, immaculate.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles the trilineata Oliv., in form, but it is [295] readi-
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ly distinguished from that well marked insect. It inhabits | the
N. W. Territory, where it was found by Major Long’s party. I
also received specimens from Dr. T. W. Harris.
[Unknown to me.—LEc.]
CASSIDA Fabr.
C. Brvirrata.—Yellowish ; elytra with two lines and suture
black.
Cassida bivittata Melsh. Catal.
Body sub-orbicular, yellowish, tinged with rufous; margin all
round paler: elytra with regular stria of impressed punctures,
those on the margin much larger and blackish; two black vitte
on the middle, of which the exterior one is a little undulated,
and the inner one rather shorter ; suture black ; beneath piceous
Length one-fifth of an inch.
EUMOLPUS Fabr.
1. E. prnt.—Brassy, with short whitish hair ; antennz obscure
rufous.
Body rather dark brassy polished, punctured, with short
whitish hair: head with an impressed longitudinal line on the
front : antennz and palpi dull rufous : thorax, as well as the head,
slightly tinged with cupreous: scutel cupreous: elytra destitute
of striz or lines: beneath reddish-brassy, more densely covered
with the whitish hair than the superior surface: feet not so
thickly hairy, dark rufous.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
I received this insect from Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, [ 296] under
the name which I have adopted; he informed me that its favor-
ite food is the different species of Pinus.
[Belongs to Glyptoscelis Lec. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila.,
1859, 81, and was previously described as Lu. hirtus Oliv.—LeEc.]
2. EK. BARBATUS.—Brassy, with short ferruginous hair; an-
tennze obscure rufous.
Eumolpus barbatus Melsh. Catal.
Body dark brassy; tinged, particularly on the head and tho-
rax, with cupreous ; somewhat polished; punctured, and covered
with short, ferruginous hair: head with a longitudinal, darker,
1826.]
342 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
slightly impressed line: antenne and palpi dull rufous: elytra
destitute of striz or lines: beneath reddish-brassy, covered with
whitish hair: feet very dark rufous.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but is always smaller, and it may be
at once distinguished from it by the color of the hair, which on
the superior surface is decidedly ferruginous.
CHRYSOMELA Linz. Latr.
1. C. cH#RULEIPENNIS.—Blue polished ; thorax and feet ru-
fous; antennz and tarsi black.
Head punctured, blue-black: antennz black, basal joint ru-
fous beneath and at tip: thorax bright rufous, with numerous
punctures ; an obsolete transverse dusky line on the anterior sub-
margin, and another on the posterior submargin: scutel blue :
elytra polished blue, numerously punctured, the punctures irre-
gularly situated, sometimes confluent: beneath blackish-blue :
feet pale rufous: tarsi black: anus rufous. [ 297 |
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
A beautiful and rare species, an inhabitant ofthe North West
Territory. I received a specimen from Mr. John P. Brace of
Litchfield, and another from Dr. T. W. Harris.
This is the very abundant C. polygoni, which is probably in-
troduced from Europe.—Lec.]
2. C. sprr#A[E].—Green; elytra pale yellow, with green spots,
a common and sutural line trifid at base.
Head dark green, tinged with brassy: antennz and palpi ru-
fous : thorax dark green, tinged with brassy: elytra pale yellow,
sometimes tinged with rufous: each with about seventeen un-
equal small green spots; a larger lunate one originating on the
humerus ; a common green sutural line, which sends off a lateral
short branch on each side near the base : beneath blackish-green :
feet rufous.
Length a quarter of an inch.
I received several specimens from Dr. Jno. F. Melsheimer,
under the name which I have adopted. He informed me that
he found them on the Spirea opulifolia Muhl. Catal. I have
also found them near Philadelphia, and in Missouri. It is very
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closely allied to the C. philadelphica Fabr., but is smaller, and
the sutural line is always common ; whereas in the philadelphica
there is a slender subsutural line on each elytron always insu-
lated from the suture throughout its whole length.
It has also a general similarity to the multipunctata nobis, but
that species is larger and more oblong, the elytral spots more
numerous, and arranged in a different manner, and the head and
thorax are of a different color. [298]
HELODES Fabr.
H. rrivitrata.—Blue-black ; margin of the thorax and two
elytral vitte yellow: y
Body punctured : head entirely blue-black, with an impressed
frontal line divaricated before: thorax with somewhat sparse
punctures ; lateral margins yellow, this color being contracted in
the middle on the inner side: elytra with punctured stirs: su-
tural margin yellow; vitta on the middle not reaching the tip,
and exterior edge blue-black : feet immaculate: venter with the
caudal segment margined behind with dull yellowish.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
This insect was sent me by Mr, Charles Pickering, of Salem.
It is so closely allied to the H. phellandrii Linn., in size, form,
description, and disposition of colors, that I have hesitated to
consider it as distinct. The chief difference which I have been
able to discover, consists in the circumstance, that the feet in the
phellandrii are partly yellow, whilst those of the present species
are perfectly immaculate. Still it is highly possible that it may
prove to be a variety of that well known insect.
[This is a Chrysomela of the division Prasocuris.—Lxc. ]
GALLERUCA Fabr.
1. G. RUFOSANGUINEA.—Hntirely rufo-sanguineous, pune-
tured.
Head punctured, with an impressed frontal line passing down
between the antennz, and more dilated [299] above; an in-
dentation each side near the eyes; antennez black, dull rufous at
base : eyes deep black : thorax with rather large numerous pune-
tures, a large, indented spot each side, and a dilated longitudi-
1826.]
344 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
tudinal line in the middle; posterior angles subacute: scutel at
tip very obtusely rounded, or somewhat truncate: elytra with
very numerous, profoundly impressed, rather large, irregularly
disposed punctures: wings blackish: beneath hardly paler in
color than the superior surface.
Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch.
Not uncommon in some situations in the middle States. I
have also received it from Dr. T. W. Harris.
[Belongs to Adimonia.—Lec. ]
2. G. MERACA.—Greenish-black ; antennz and feet yellow-
ish.
Body black, slightly tinged with green: head with a few scat-
tered punctures, a longitudinal impressed line, and above the an-
tenne a transverse one: antenne yellowish: labrum and mouth
yellowish: thorax destitute of distinct punctures; lateral edge a
little excurved at the posterior angles, which are acute: elytra
with obsolete irregular punctures: beneath black-blue: venter a
little tinged with cupreous: feet yellowish: thighs at base black-
ish: cox yellowish.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
[A species of Luperus.—LxEc. |
ATTICA Fabr.
A. SUTURELLA.—Testaceous ; thorax with black spots ; elytra
with a black sutural edge.
Body punctured, testaceous: head tinged with fulvous ; [300]
an impressed frontal line, and two impunctured spots ; punctures’
numerous, dense ; antennz black, first joint beneath dull rufous:
thorax tinged with fulvous, with fuscous spots or characters on
the disk ; punctures numerous: scutel black: elytra testaceous,
tinged with fulvous on the exterior margin; punctures numer-
ous, crowded ; raised line of the suture black, forming a common
sutural line, which does not quite reach the apex: pectus testa-
ceous, tinged with pale fulvous: postpectus black: feet black :
posterior thighs dull rufous beneath : venter dull rufous.
Length one-fourth of an inch:
Very distinct from any other species I have seen.
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TRITOMA Fabr.
1. T. unrcotor.—Black ; elytra striate; tarsi piceous.
Tritoma unicolor Melsh. Catal.
Body black, polished, minutely punctured: palpi yellowish :
antennze ferruginous, the club blackish: thorax with the punc-
tures scattered on the disk, dense each side: elytra with regular
series of impressed punctures, obsolete towards the tip: tibie
all dilated and angular near the tip: tarsi pale piceous.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
2. T. ANGULATUM.—Black; beneath piceous; feet yellow-
ish. i
Heitoma wifes \ Melsh. Catal.
piceum,
Body black, polished, punctures obsolete ; head piceous : palpi
ferruginous : antennz ferruginous, the [301] club blackish : ely-
tra with regular series of impressed punctures: beneath pice-
ovs: feet yellowish : tibiae dilated and angular near the tip.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but differs from it both in size and
coloring.
3. T. puLCHRUM.—Black ; elytra rufous on the basal half.
Tritoma pulchrum Melsh. Catal.
Body black, punctured, polished: antenne ferruginous; elvb
dark piceous: palpi yellowish: elytra rufous at base, deep black
at tip, the line of division extending from behind the sutura]
middle, in an oblique direction rectilinearly towards the humeral
angle, behind which it turns abruptly outward to the exterior
edge; strize of punctures regular: tibiee hardly dilated at tip:
tarsi ferruginous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch, nearly.
The Triplax sanguinipennis and biguttata of vol. 4.p. 89, may,
perhaps, with greater propriety be referred to the present genus.
[This is 7. cinctum Lac. subsequently described —LEc. ]
1826.]
346 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
COCCINELLA Linn.
1. C. puntata.—Pale testaceous ; elytra with a yellow lateral
margin, in which is a black spot.
Head yellow: antenne blackish at tip: labrum piceous at
base : thorax with a pale testaceous disk ; a narrow yellow an-
terior margin; a dilated, oval, yellow lateral margin, separated
from the color of the disk by a black line, and including an in-
sulated [302] black spot: elytra pale testaceous, with a dull
yellowish lateral margin : beneath blackish.
Length from more than one-fourth of an inch to three-tenths.
I found an individual several years since, cast up by the
waves on the eastern coast of Virginia, and I obtained another
when in Florida with Mr. Maclure.
[Belongs to Myzia Muls. as reformed by me; C. notans Ran-
dall, is a variety of it.—Lec.]
2. C. BinotaTa.—Black ; lateral margin of the thorax and
head yellow ; each elytron with a rufous spot.
Coccinella binotata Melsh. Catal.
Body rounded-oval, convex, punctured, black, polished : head
pale yellow : labrum and transverse line on the vertex piceous :
thorax with a yellow lateral margin extending for a short dis-
tance on the anterior margin; anterior margin with an obsolete
yellowish line interrupted in the middle: elytron each with a
rufous, orbicular, central spot.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
This species agrees with the Fabrician description of the C.
oculata, but it is a widely different species.
3. C. NorMATA.—Black ; elytron each with a rufous spot.
C. bipustulata Melsh. Catal.
Body rounded-oval, convex, black, polished, punctured : head
and thorax immaculate: elytron each with a cental, orbicular,
rufous spot.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
This is very similar to the preceding species, but it is alto-
gether destitute of any spot on the head and thorax. It is quite
different in form from the C. bipustulata, Fabr.
[Belongs to Hyperaspis—Lxc. ] [303]
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4. ©. propaA.—Black ; a lateral spot on the thorax, and three
on each elytron, yellowish.
Body rounded-oval, black, punctured, convex: head immacu-
late: antennzs honey yellow: thorax with a large, oval, pale
yellow spot on each lateral margin; elytron each with a rather
large, yellowish, orbicular spot somewhat before the middle, two
smaller orbicular yellow spots placed transversely beyond the
middle, and nearer the exterior and sutural edges than to each
other.
Length nearly one-tenth of an inch.
[Also a Hyperaspis.—LEc. ]
EUMORPHUS Fabr.
1. E. pistincrus.—Rufous; elytra with a common vitta, and
another on the exterior margin, black.
Endomychus distinctus Melsh. Catal.
Body bright rufo-sanguineous : antenne dark piceous, terminal
joint paler: thorax with an impressed line on the lateral sub-
margin; disk somewhat darker than the lateral margin: elytra
with a rather broad, common, black vitta, commencing at the
scutel, becoming a little narrower towards the tip, and abbreviated
before the tip of the suture; an elongated black spot on the
middle of the lateral submargin, and occupying more than one-
half of its length: beneath immaculate.
Length less than a quarter of an inch.
A fine species, by no means common.
[Belongs to Mycetina Muls., and was previously described as
LIycoperdina vittata Germ., or rather Tritoma vittata and Catops
vittatus Fabry. ; also as Endomychus lineatus Oliv.—L«xc. }
2. E. ancunatus.—Dark rufous, margin and feet paler.
Endomychus limbatus Melsh. Catal. [ 304]
Body dark rufous or piceous: thorax a little convex; an im-
pressed line on the lateral submargin ; lateral margin paler than
the disk: elytra a little convex, with a paler exterior margin,
sometimes obsoletely so on its middle, the paleness being then
confined to the humerus and tip: feet pale rufous : anterior tibize
with a prominent angle on the inner middle.
Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch.
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Smaller and somewhat more convex than the preceding spe-
cies. It is altogether different from the limbatus Oliv., of
Cayenne.
[Belongs to Lycoperdina and was previously described as L.
ferruginea Lec., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 1, 172.—Luc.]
LYCOPERDINA Latr.
L. vestira.—Yellowish, hairy; disk of the elytra blackish.
Body oval, covered with rather short hairs; yellowish: an-
tenn, the six terminal joints piceous: thorax with the disk
somewhat darker ; lateral margin with an impressed line ; lateral
submargin with an abbreviated impressed line at base: elytra
dark piceous ; basal sutural and exterior margins yellowish : be-
neath immaculate.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
I have found this species on the Oak in June.
[Belongs to Stenotarsus Perty, and was previously described
as Hrotylus hispidus Herbst, and subsequently as Ephebus limba-
tus Guérin, Archiy. Entom. 1, 270.—Lerc.]
[From vol. 6, 1829: pp. 149—178.]
Descriptions of North American DIPTEROUS INSECTS.
CULEX Linn. Meig.
C. Musicus.—Tergum purplish, with lateral yellowish spots.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head dull honey-yellow: vortex blackish with yellowish hair:
proboscis and palpi black: thorax black-purple, with yellowish
hair or scales : wings dusky : poisers white, a little dusky at tip:
tergum purple, or violaceous, with a band at base, and large
lateral spot on each segment of yellowish hair or scales: feet
black-violaceous: thighs, excepting at tip, and cox whitish,
sericeous : tarsi, two terminal joints of the posterior pair white. —
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
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CHIRONOMUS.
C. THNIONOTUS.—Stethidium green, trilineate; a black line
on the middle of the anterior line.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body bright pea-green : head yellowish, terminal joint of the
antenne blackish: thorax with three dilated, pale honey-yellow
vittee ; a black line along the middle of the anterior one: wings
white: metathorax pale honey-yellow, with a blackish spot in
the middle, divided by a green line: tergum [150] immaculate ;
pectus pale honey-yellow: feet pale greenish, anterior tibize and
tarsal incisures dusky.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch 9.
C. prvinctus.—Tergum black, incisures white; feet with
black incisures.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body dusky: stethidium dusky livid: thorax trilineate with
blackish: scutel dull honey-yellow: halteres and wings white:
tergum brownish-black ; incisures, particularly those near the
base, white: thighs black, anterior pale at base; the others with
a white annulus near the tip: tibiz and tarsi white, with black
incisures.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
CERATOPOGON Meig.
C. scuTELLATUS.—Black ; seutel yellow; abdomen whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head blackish: mouth yellow: thorax pale yellowish, with
three black lines, which are widely dilated before, and confluent:
scutel yellow: wings dusky: poisers white: abdomen whitish :
feet whitish.
Length nearly one-twentieth of an inch.
Appeared in considerable numbers on the last of August, soon
after sunrise.
LIMNOBIA Meig.
L. LivipA.—Tergum livid, with a yellowish margin.
Inhabits Mexico. [151]
Head yellowish-brown, with a longitudinal fuscous line: antennz
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fuscous, paler at base : joints rounded: thorax yellowish-brown,
trilineate with blackish, exterior lines dilated, middle line capil-
lary : metathorax with a gray reflection, yellow each side : poisers
elongated, reaching the tip of the second abdominal segment,
yellow, with a lateral dusky line: wings with a slight yellowish-
brown tint, cross nervures margined with dusky: tergum livid,
with a darker dorsal, and submarginal line, and yellowish margin:
pleura bilineate with fuscous ; superior line passing round the
pectus before the anterior feet, and the inferior line behind them:
feet yellowish, with an obsolete dusky band towards the tip of
the thighs: venter livid, with a yellowish margin and obsolete
middle line.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
The nervures are arranged nearly as in L. Jutea Meig.
TIPULA.
T. ANNULICORNIS.—Pale ; antenne annulate with black.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body very pale honey-yellow: antenne with a black annulus
on each joint: palpi black at tip: wings immaculate: tergum
with obsolete, dusky, slightly undulated bands.
Length under one-fourth of an inch. [152]
PLATYURA.
.P. suBTERMINALIS.—Yellowish ; wings with a subterminal
band.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body enfirely pale honey yellow: antennz, excepting the two
basal joints, fuscous: ocelli with a small black areola: thorax
immaculate : wings with a slight yellowish tinge ; a blackish sub-
terminal band, occupying on the costal margin all the space
between the small cross nervure and the tip of the next long
nervure, and extending to the thinner margin: tergum a little
more dusky than the thorax ; tibizs and tarsi dusky.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Nervures as in P. Baumhaueri Meig., but the small cross ner-
vure on the costal margin is perpendicular to the costal edge.
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LEIA Meig,
L. sryirrata.—Honey-yellow ; trunk bilineate, and tergum
with two series of black punctures.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body rather pale honey-yellow: antenne black at tip: stem-
mata very distinct, in a curved line: thorax a little hairy, on each
side a dilated black vitta: wings fasciate near the tip: tergum on
each side with a series of oval black spots: coxze white.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
Taken on the window in June. [153]
MYCETOPHILA Meig.
M. prscorp[£]A.—Thorax pale with a blackish disk ; wings with
a fuscous spot.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head blackish: antennz whitish, at tip blackish: thorax pale
honey-yellow; disk blackish owing to three vitte of that color
being confluent into one: wings hyaline, with a fuscous spot on
the connecting nervures: tergum blackish, somewhat sericeous :
poisers whitish : feet whitish, with blackish tarsi: abdomen whit-
ish at base.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
Belongs to Meigen’s first division of the genus.
M. nusita.—Dusky ; wings immaculate; feet whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body dusky, brownish: antennz first and second joints yel-
_ lowish: thorax on the humerus dull honey-yellow: scutel dull
yellowish : wings hyaline, immaculate : poisers whitish, capitulum
dusky before the tip: abdomen slender, gradually enlarging to
the tip: tergum with the tips of the segments pale; anal seg-
ment pale: feet whitish, dusky towards the tips; spines one-third
the length of the first tarsal joint.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Belongs to Meigen’s fifth division.
SCIARA Meig.
L. unicotor.—Velvet black; wings with a slight violaceous
tinge. [154]
Inhabits Mexico.
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Body velvet black, with numerous short hairs: thorax with a
minute humeral, obsolete piceous spot, and another at base of the
wings: scutel with an obsolete piceous spot on each side; wings
large, black, with a violaceous tinge; the apical fureate nervure,
as well as all the other nervures, equally definite.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
S. exiiis.—Halteres nearly half the length of the abdomen.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body dusky : antenne as long as the body: stethidium yellow-
ish-white: thorax blackish: wings dusky ; apical forked nervure
wide, the inferior portion hardly arquated: halters subclavate,
about half as long as the abdomen, a little dusky: abdomen a
little hairy: feet pale.
Length % one-thirtieth of an inch.
PENTHETRIA Meig.
P. HEROS.—Black; costal margin of the wings fuscous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body entirely velvet black: wings dusky; costal margin fus-
cous; costal edge black ; nervures of the disk-pale.
Length ? two-fifths of an inch.
This I believe to be the largest species, yet discovered, of this
small genus. The arrangement of [155] the nervures differ
considerably from that of P. holosericea Latr., as represented by
Meigen. The male is much smaller and nearly corresponds in
the arrangement of its nervures.
DILOPHUS Meig.
D. strycius.—Velvet black, immaculate.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body velvet black: thorax with a transverse series of approxi-
mate spines on the collar, interrupted in the middle, and a series
of smaller ones before the middle of the thorax: wings blackish
a little tinged with violaceous: anterior tibia with a series of acute
spines on the anterior middle and tip.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 353
BERIS.
B. FuscrTaRsis nob.—When describing this species I observed
that “The scutel of my specimen is wanting, I cannot therefore
ascertain its number of spines.” I have since obtained individu-
als in Indiana, and find that the scutel is altogether destitute of
spines or radii. It differs in this respect from all the known
species.
XYLOPHAGUS Meig.
X. FASCIATUS.—Wings dusky, fasciated ; abdomen fasciated.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body dusky: thorax posterior portion honey-yellow :
[156] poisers blackish at tip: wings dusky, a more distinct
band on the middle and at tip: feet honey-yellow ; hind tibie
blackish : tergum yellow, basal half of the four basal segments
black ; remaining segments nearly all black.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
By an accident the head and anterior part of the thorax of this
fine specimen were destroyed, but the above description will
sufficiently indicate the species. The wing nervures resemble
those of the maculatus Fabr.
THEREVA Latr.
T. ALBIFRONS.—Black, with gray hair: thorax with a black-
ish vitta.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with numerous gray hairs: front silvery: an-
tenn : rostrum dirty honey-yellow: thorax with a broad
fuscous vitta: wings hyaline: poisers black at tip: tergum with
the segments tipped with a more dense margin of gray hairs,
wider and more obvious on the sides: venter, the two middle
segments with a pale terminal margin: feet blackish; tibie
dirty honey-yellow.
Length % three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles frontalis nob., but is much smaller.
ANTHRAX.
A. EDITITIA.—Black, with fulvous hair: wings fuscous at
base. [157]
Inhabits
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Body black, covered with dense fulvous hair: cheeks naked :
proboscis rather prominent, black : antennze, two basal joints
yellowish : wings hyaline, basal half fuscous, including all the
costal cellule and the middle transverse nervures which are
darker than the other part; two exterior transverse nervures
margined with blackish: halteres reddish-brown, tip yellow:
tergum each side and at tip yellowish: venter, except on the
two or three basal segments yellowish: feet fulvous; tarsi
blackish.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
Belongs to Wiedemann’s fifth tribe.
A. LIMATULUS.— Wings fuscous at base and with three fuscous
points.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body brownish-black: occiput plumbeous, near the neck
black, with a black indented line passing up to the vertex:
wings dusky, fuscous at base, chiefly on the costal portion of it,
which extends attenuating beyond the middle; anastomosis, in
the hyaline portion, margined with fuscous: tergum with four
series of silvery points, or rather abbreviated transverse lines.
Length % three-tenths of an inch.
Length 9 two-fifths of an inch. [158]
Var. a. Posterior cross neryure of the central wing cellule not
margined.
Belongs to Wiedemann’s second tribe.
DASYPOGON Meig.
PD. cepruicus.—Black, with short cinereous hair.
Inhabits Mexico.
Hypostoma, mystax, and genz silvery: antennz black, first
joint of the style longer than the second: vertex concave, but
not very profound: stemmata on.a common elevation: thorax
with a slight appearance of lineations before: poisers yellow at
tip: nervures black: tergum with the segments having short
white hair each side: metathorax also somewhat silvery each
side: anterior coxe with a slender, arquated, transverse, black
common line, and a longitudinal black line of separation : ante-
rior tibiz with silvery hair.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
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The nervures of the wings are arranged more like those of an
Asilus than of a Dasypogon, but the bi-articulate style proves the
generic affinity.
LAPHRIA.
L. santosA.—Black ; abdomen sanguineous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blued-black: head black ; front with a silvery reflection :
posterior and inferior orbits reflecting [159] silvery: wings
black violet : abdomen sanguineous, first segment of the tergum
blackish.
Length nearly half an inch.
RAMPHOMYIA Meig.
R. RuFIROsTRA.—Black ; thorax lineate.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body hairy, black: proboscis honey-yellow, black at base:
thorax blackish-cinereous, opake, with three polished, black,
equal lines obsolete behind, and two less obvious ones on each
side, connected to the exterior of the dorsal ones in a humeral
spot: wings with a yellowish tinge towards the base, and a large
fuscous carpal spot; middle cellule very short, but little longer
than broad: poisers honey-yellow, with a fuscous capitulum ;
tergum polished : feet very hairy, polished; anterior tarsi, first
joint as long as the tibia and rather more dilated.
Length 9 three-twentieths of an inch.
SARGUS.
S. rrivirratus.—Green ; thorax [with] dull darker lines :
tergum fasciate.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body grass green, not metallic, nor brilliantly polished: an-
tennz terminal joint rounded, yellow; seta black: stemmata
equidistant, in a fuscous areola: thorax trilineate with dull red-
dish-brown : poisers blackish at tip: tergum, segments, except-
ing the [160] basal one, with a broad dusky band at their bases :
feet dull yellowish, darker at their tips.
Length from two-fifths to half an inch.
A large species, destitute of the highly polished metallic color
1829.]
356 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
so striking in many species. The thoracic lines are so dilated as
to give the thorax the appearance of being entirely dull reddish-
brown.
NEMOLETUS Meig.
N. ponyposus.—Black ; feet yellowish; thighs black at base.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, with a slight tinge of purplish, polished: wings
white, costal and basal nervures yellowish: poisers white: feet
honey-yellow ; thighs, except at tip, black ; tarsi, terminal joint
black ; posterior tibize black in the middle: venter immaculate.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
This is closely allied to the species which I described under
the name of pallipes.
STRATIOMYS.
S. rrivirTaTa.—Greenish; thorax with three, tergum with
one black vitta.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head yellowish-green ; front and vertex brownish, each witha
transverse, somewhat undulated line: antenne reddish-brown,
paler at base: thorax green, with three broad black vitt : scutel
greenish, two-spined, [161] immaculate: poisers pea-green:
tergum yellowish-green, with a dilated, crenate vitta: pectus
with a broad black vitta: proboscis and point each side on the
hypostoma, black.
Length nearly seven-twentieths of an inch.
S. conrpHora.—Black ; thorax with minute golden hairs: be-
neath greenish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head yellowish-white, two undulated black frontal bands:
vertex black, yellowish behind: hypostoma with a lateral black
dot, sometimes obsolete : proboscis black: antennz black: ocei-
put black: thorax with numerous small golden hairs; a yellow-
ish line over the wings : scutel black, posterior margin and spines
yellow : wings hyaline; costal nervures and cellule yellowish ;
middle nervures blackish: tergum black, with lateral yellow
triangles and tip; beneath pale greenish: pectus on the disk
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black : feet yellowish, a line beneath the thighs black: venter
on the posterior disk ferruginous.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch.
BACCHA.
B. costata.—Body black ; tergum with white bands.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head silvery ; a shining black line from the vertex to the
mouth, much constricted on the middle of [162] the front: an-
tenn obsoletely honey-yellow at base: occiput plumbeous with
a silvery reflection : thorax black: poisers white: wings hyaline
with a somewhat narrow costal margin, not reaching the tip:
scutel margined with yellow: tergum black; first, second, and
third segments with an oblique white spot on each side at base,
and remaining segments tipped with white; feet black; anterior
pairs, base of the tibia and tip of the thighs honey-yellow ; pos-
terior tibia honey-yellow at base.
Length half an inch. -
XYLOTA Meig.
X. ARQUATA.—Blackish ; tergum fulvous with white arcs.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body blackish : head above with greenish hair, below the an-
tennz with whitish hair: vertex blackish ; tubercle of the an-
tenne black: antenne black-fuscous: hypostoma with a naked
black vitta before, and ‘another on each side, from the anterior
canthus of the eye to the tip: thorax with short hair; with three
slender lines on the disk : scutel yellowish at tip: wings hyaline:
tergum fulvous; first segment black; remaining segments, ex-
cepting the terminal one, with a blackish middle and whitish
transverse arquated line each side: feet, knees and posterior
tibie honey-yellow: venter yellowish, more dusky at tip. [ 163]
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Tergum black, with transverse arquated lines: poste-
rior margins of the segments yellow.
MILESIA Fabr. Meig.
M. BarpA.—With yellow hair ; tergum black, yellow at base.
‘Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: hypostoma with silvery hair and longitudinal,
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polished, naked line: antennz piceous: front covered by yellow
hair : thorax densely covered by yellow hair black in the middle :
scutel piceous, covered by yellow hair: wings with a large
fuscous spot on the middle, obsolete in the male: poisers
piceous: tergum black, covered by black hair; basal segment
and second segment at base covered by yellow hair : ‘feet hairy ;
tarsi piceous: posterior thighs of the male much thickened and
with their tibiee arquated.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
This I formerly considered as Eristalis posticaius Fabr., but
his attributed characters of “thorax immaculatus”’ and “ femo-
ribus posticis dentatis” seem to prove it distinct.
[Walker, List of Diptera of British Museum, 3, 598, refers
this species to Merodon.—SacxkEn. ]
SYRPHUS Fabr. Meig.
1. S. stEGNUS.—Blackish-blue; tergum fasciate with glau-
cous. [ 164]
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black-blue: hypostoma with dull cinereous irregular
rugosities : antenna, terminal joint beneath dull honey-yellow :
wings hyaline, between the mediastinal and postcostal nervures
yellowish: poisers yellow: tergum velvet black, opake, with
polished glaucous bands, the first one interrupted; second and
third occupying the basal half of the segments, the outer margin
and the narrow tip, together with a longitudinal line ; terminal
segment entirely glaucous: tibize honey-yellow : venter cupreous.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
2. S. muruus.—Tergum yellow, with blackish bands and
spots.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head beneath and behind plumbeous: posterior orbits dull yel-
lowish : front and vertex brassy black: hypostoma prominent,
yellow: antennz, beneath honey-yellow: thorax olivaceous, with
a blue vitta, and yellow one over the wings: scutel dull yellow-
ish, paler at tip: tergum with five broad blackish-purple bands,
concealing the incisures, and on the middle of the third and
fourth segments are two small blackish spots; terminal band
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somewhat trilobate: feet yellow ; posterior tarsi blackish : venter
yellow, tinged at tip with ferruginous.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Closely allied to S. marginatus nob., but the abdomen is much
more elongated. [165]
3. S. Ecrypus.—Segments of the tergum edged with yellow
and with a lateral oblique line.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head yellow: proboscis black : vertex blackish : occiput black :
posterior and inferior orbits gray: mouth, each side and beneath
black: thorax green-gray, with an obsolete capillary line reflect-
ing yellowish: scutel honey-yellow, darker on the middle base :
poisers yellow: tergum black, edged all round with yellow ;
second segment with two yellow dots; third and fourth segments
with their basal edges and dorsal line yellow, and on each side a
wider line originating from the base, and curving a little towards
the dorsal line, abbreviated, rounded at tip and tinged with ru-
fous ; fifth segment rufous with three black spots: pectus blued-
black : feet white: posterior tarsi blackish.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
ERISTALIS Fabr. Meig.
E. TRIFASCIATUS.—Thorax grayish, trifasciate ; tergum with
a band ; incisures yellow.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head white, on the vertex a little olivaceous; behind dark
olive, with white orbits: antenne with the seta naked, and with
a spot above on the front elevation of the hypostoma, and mouth
each side honey-yellow: thorax gray-olive, with three equidis-
tant blackish bands; middle band as broad as the [ 166] other
two together; posterior band terminal: wings tinged with yel-
lowish, particularly in the middle: scutel pale honey-yellow:
tergum black; second segment with a broad honey-yellow band,
interrupted in the middle, and with the third and fourth segments
bright-yellow on the posterior margin: feet rufous, tibia paler
at base ; posterior thighs blackish at base.
Length over half an inch.
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VOLUCELLA Geoff. Meig.
1. V. vioLAcEA.—Dark violaceous ; hypostoma whitish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body blackish-violaceous: hypostoma dull honey yellow, with
small hairs reflecting whitish; thorax, each side, and scutel
paler: wings blackish at base; this color is confined to the basal
cellules and the costal margin to the middle.
Length % thirteen-twentieths of an inch.
The eyes of the specimen are in contact on the vertex.
2. V. posticA.—Obscure violaceous ; hypostoma whitish with
a lateral black line.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body blackish-violaceous : head whitish, tinged with obscure
yellowish: antennz fuscous: hypostoma with a black line each
side: orbits behind and above silvery: thorax each side and be-
fore the scutel, dull honey-yellow: scutel honey-yellow: wings
[ 167] hyaline, transverse nervures of the middle margined with
blackish : tergum yellowish-violaceous, darker on the tips of the
segments ; third and fourth segments with a small white spot on
each side at their bases: venter with a yellow disk: feet black-
ish ; tibize dirty honey-yellow.
Length half an inch. 4.
Viewed from before, the posterior segments of the tergum
have a hoary appearance, in consequence of haying numerous
short hairs of that color. The eyes in the specimen are distant
on the vertex.
3. V. MARGINATA.—Black, head white; tergum with black
bands.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head white; vertex black; face with a black line extending
to the tip of the hypostoma: hypostoma with a line each side,
and all beneath black: orbits beneath white, behind glaucous :
antenne dark honey-yellow, seta very densely plumose, appearing
like a solid mass, black: thorax with a vitta on each side over
the wings, and two spots at base, yellowish white: wings with
the middle cross nervures margined with dusky: tergum pale
yellow, with a black dorsal vitta, and black posterior margins to
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the segments: venter whitish, at tip black: feet black; tibie at
base white; tarsi at base tinged with rufous.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch, the other sex half an inch.
If it be true that the male in this genus, is distinguished [168]
invariably by the contact of the eyes on the vertex, then the
male of the present species is nearly double the size of the fe-
male, and the former has the more densely plumose antenne ; in
this case also the female of the violacea has the loosely plumose
antennz, and the female of the postica has the loosely plumose
antenne.
PSILOPUS Meig.
1. P. reMorAtTUS.—Dolichopus femoratus nob. Jour. Acad.
Nat. Sci., vol. iii. p. 86. [Ante, 76.]
This brilliant species varies in the color of its thighs, which
in my description are stated to be green; a specimen taken in
Indiana has whitish thighs.
2. T. PATIBULATUS nob.—Dolichopus patibulatus Journ. Acad.
Nat. Sci., vol. iii. p. 87. [Ante, 76.]
This species also occurs in Mexico.
CHRYSOTUS Meig.
1. C. nuBitus.—Blackish ; feet dull honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish: head dull plumbeous: thorax cinereous, with
three brown lines: wings immaculate: poisers white: feet dark
honey-yellow ; thighs black at base and above.
Length rather over one-tenth of an inch.
2. C. CONCINNARIUS.—Green-brassy ; tergum blue towards the
tip. [169]
Inhabits Mexico.
Head violaceous, with a,cinereous reflection: palpi with a ci-
nereous reflection : antennz black : thorax green with a gray oli-
vaceous reflection : wings hyaline, obsoletely tinged with yellow-
ish on the costal margin: poisers white: tergum with a gray re-
flection, brassy-green at base, and violaceous towards the tip:
thighs green ; tibiz whitish.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
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3. C. ABDOMINALIS.—Green, polished ; feet white.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body bright green, brilliant: hypostoma purple : antennze yel-
low: thorax immaculate: poisers yellow: tergum, first segment
at base with an obsolete yellowish line: feet white: venter white,
at tip blackish-purple.
Length % one-tenth of an inch.
MEDETERUS Fisch.
1. M. LaTERALIS.—Tergum pale, with a lateral series of
polished spots.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head silvery: proboscis and antenne yellowish, seta of the
first joint very short: eyes (when recent) green polished, with a
cupreous reflection: thorax green, somewhat pruinose, with a
dorsal rather compound vitta: wings hyaline: poisers whitish :
tergum dull yellowish, with a series of [170] brassy spots on
each side, posterior two largest: feet and venter whitish.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch.
The dorsal vitta is impressed behind.
2. M. PUNCTIPENNIS.—Thorax variegated ; wings with brown
spots.
Inhabits Mexico.
Thorax olive-brown, trilineate ; middle line slender, dull yel-
lowish, obsoletely zigzag; outer lines cinereous with black
points: scutel brown, cinereous in the middle: wings hyaline,
with many irregular fuscous spots, hardly to be traced into four
bands: poisers yellow ; tergum cupreous, posterior margins of the
segments blackish: feet white; tarsi blackish.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
DOLICHOPUS F. Meig.
D. ABDOMINALIS.—Green ; abdomen rufous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head silvery: antenne, first and second joints black, third
: thorax polished green: wings hyaline: abdomen, ex-
cepting the terminal joint, rufous: halteres white: pleura and
pectus blackish, pruinose: feet white; tarsi dusky.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
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SCENOPINUS Latr. Fabr.
8S. NUBILIPES.—Black ; thorax submetallic ; thighs black.
Inhabits Indiana. [171]
Body black: head and thorax with numerous short hairs
giving it a granulated appearance, the latter with an obsolete
rufous lateral tubercle near the humerus, disk slightly metallic :
wings very slightly dusky: poisers blackish: tergum trans-
versely grooved: thighs black: tibie dull honey-yellow; tarsi,
particularly the posterior pair, whitish.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Closely allied to S. pallipes nob., but may be distinguished by
the color of the feet.
CONOPS Fabr.
C. TIBIALIs.—Black ; two-thirds of the wings fuscous; tibiee
white at base.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with short hairs: head yellow: vertex black:
front with a longitudinal black line, bifarious at the base of the
antennz : hypostoma with an impressed saggitate spot : antennze
black, terminal joint beneath obscurely rufous: proboscis black :
mouth, each side and beneath black : occiput black, with a white
reflection : thorax black ; humeral tubercle with a whitish reflec-
tion: scutel and metathorax black, the latter with a whitish re-
flection : wings two-thirds fuscous ; central cross nervure very dis-
tinct: poisers yellow, black at the base of the petiole: tergum,
segments edged behind with whitish or yellowish, on the basal
suture the white band is common ; [172] near the tip with more or
less of a whitish reflection: feet black; tibiae white at base, an-
terior and intermediate pairs near the tip with a silvery reflec-
tion.
Length from one half to three-fifths of an inch.
Resembles C. sagittaria nob., but differs in several characters.
PHASIA Latr.
1. P. arrrpennis.—Black; abdomen and base of the thighs
ferruginous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Mouth and hypostoma pale yellowish : proboscis black : palpi
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364 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
yellowish : orbits yellow, somewhat golden : antennz black, third
joint hardly longer than the second, subovate : front with a much
dilated velvet-black vitta: thorax black, with a dilated golden
vitta each side before: wings black, opake, gradually paler on
the thinner margin ; apical cross nervure confluent with the ex-
terno-medial nervure before the tip; poisers and scale yellow:
feet black ; thighs at base, coxe and abdomen ferruginous.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The wing nervures are like those of P. semicinerea Meig.
2. P. suGAToRIA.—Black, abdomen ferruginous ; thorax with
golden lines before.
Inhabits Indiana. [173]
Front golden, with a dilated fuscous vitta : hypostoma whitish,
with two black lines each side descending from the antenne:
antennze fuscous, first joint very short, third ovate, longer than
the second: proboscis blackish: palpi yellow: thorax black, a
transverse golden line before the middle, from which proceed
five golden lines to the anterior margin, the lateral ones more
dilated and anterior to the wings black, opake; posterior margin
abruptly hyaline; apical cross nervure rectilinear, confluent
with the apex of the wing at the tip of the externo-medial ner-
vure: poisers and wing scale pale ferruginous: abdomen pale
ferruginous, black at tip: feet black ; thighs at base, and coxe
pale ferruginous; posterior tibiae deeply ciliated with dilated
scale-like hairs.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
This cannot be the Thereva lanipes of Fabr. of which the
thoracic lines are said to be white, and the abdomen black, im-
maculate; neither can it be the T’hereva pilipes Fabr., which is
said by Wiedemann to be a Phania, for the antenne of our species
have not the third joint “elongated and linear” as in that
genus. It seems also allied to Dictya pennipes Fabr., which,
however, has a large ferruginous spot on the wing.
[This isa Trichopoda Latr., previously described as 7. (Dictya)
pennipes Fabr. Say described the male ; the female has a ferru-
ginous spot at the base of the wing, and the abdomen is entirely
ferruginous.—SACKEN. |
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 865
OCYPTERA Fabr.
O. ancuaTA.—Wings blackish on the costal margin ; apical
eross-nervure arquated at its origin. [174]
. Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish : hypostoma yellowish-white ; orbits, excepting
behind and on the vertex, honey-yellow with a gray reflection :
front with a dilated blackish vitta : antennz with the base of the
third joint obsoletely honey-yellow beneath: thorax with yellow
hair before the wings: wings hyaline: costal margin blackish ;
terminal cross-neryure not angulated at its origin: halteres yel-
lowish : wing-scales white: feet black ; base of the thighs and
coxze yellowish: tergum pale yellowish; basal segment with the
base and dorsal line black ; second segment with a large black
triangle; third segment with a gray reflection each side ; re-
maining part black : venter pale yellowish, at tip black.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
This may readily be distinguished from other species, by the
form of the apical cross-nervure.
MILTOGRAMMA Meig.
M. TRiFasciaTa.—Tergum black, fasciate with gray.
Inhabits Indiana.
Hypostoma and posterior and inferior orbits honey-yellow, with
a silvery reflection: antennz honey-yellow; seta with dense
short hairs: frontal vitta of equal breadth: thorax gray, with
many obsolete abbreviated blackish lines: scutel gray: tergum
black; segments, except the basal, silvery-gray [175] on the
basal half: venter the same: feet black; thighs on the exterior
side with a gray reflection; wings tinged with brownish.
Length less than half an inch.
GONIA Meig.
G. FRONTOSA.—Front very prominent, abdominal segments
whitish at base.
Inhabits Upper Missouri.
Body black, with rigid hairs: head pale yellowish-white, seri-
ceous: front very prominent, gibbous: eyes placed very far back,
oblong-oval, chestnut-brown: stemmata black: antennz black-
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366 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
ish-cinereous ; seta reclivate, robust, terminal joint longest : pro-
boscis black: palpi pale: thorax immaculate: scutel pale brown-
ish : wings dusky ; nervures blackish-brown ; costal margin, to-
wards the base brownish: feet black: tergum each side near the
base with a large, obsolete, reddish-brown spot; segments whitish
at base.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
Occurred rather common at Engineer Cantonment on the Mis-
souri, late in March, on a wounded tree from which much sap
had exuded.
MESEMBRINA Meig.
M. paLiipA.—Honey-yellowish ; wing nervures margined.
Inhabits Indiana. [176]
Body dull honey-yellowish : head pale yellow: front with a
reddish-brown vitta: antenne very short, hardly half as long as
the hypostoma, terminal joint oval: nervures margined with
brownish: pectus, pleura and feet paler.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
CORDYLURA Fall.
C. quatis.—Dark cinereous, hairy; thorax trilineate ; head
with a cinereous reflection.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish-cinereous : head hemispheric, dark. plumbeous,
with a silvery reflection: eyes approximate above: antennx
blackish, rounded at tip; bristle short, two-jointed, thickened at
base: palpi hairy, black, dilated at tip: proboscis rather long,
slender, black : thorax obscurely trilineate with black and with
two less distinct oblique lines each side: wings slightly dusky:
tergum very hairy, black, when viewed from behind with a gray
reflection, except on the dorsal line and sutures: feet hairy,
black.
Length ¢ one-fifth of an inch.
DEXIA Meig.
1. D. verTEBRATA.—Abdomen conic, pale yellowish, with a
dorsal black line and tip.
Ynhabits Indiana.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 367
Orbits, except behind, silvery: front fuscous : [177] hyposto-
ma pale livid, with a dark lateral line bounding the orbits: an-
tennz yellowish, darker at base; seta blackish: thorax blackish :
tergum yellowish-white with a black line, which is somewhat
dilated at the tip of each segment; tip of each segment and tail
black: feet black ; coxee piceous.
Length half an inch.
Nervures of the wings arranged like those of D. rustica Fabr.
2. D. anatis.—Abdomen yellow, blackish at tip.
Inhabits Indiana,
Head silvery; front tinged with dull yellowish : antennze yel-
lowish, tip of the third joint black: palpi yellow: proboscis
black, yellow at tip: thorax black, with a somewhat golden re-
flection ; a dull yellow line each side, passing over the origin of
the wings : wings hyaline, a little dusky, yellowish at base : scutel
yellow: pectus black, with a whitish band before: feet yellow-
ish ; tarsi black : abdomen pale yellow, tip fuscous.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
The proboscis and palpi are much elongated.
SAPROMYZA Fall.
1. S. connExA.—Pale honey-yellow; head whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head whitish: antennz pale honey-yellow, terminal joint
rounded : eyes greenish, somewhat gilded: [178] thorax and
scutel honey-yellow : wings with a slight yellowish tinge : tergum
paler than the thorax: feet white.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Closely resembles S. flava Linn., of Europe, but is much larger.
The S. flava is also an inhabitant of this country.
2. 8. prpuncTaTa.—Yellowish: wing with spots and costal
margin fuscous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body pale honey-yellow : scutel with two black points on the
posterior edge: wings hyaline; costal margin beyond the post-
costal nervure, and extending in breadth a little over the sub-
costal nervure, fuscous; near its tip it extends into the wing so
as to form a spot on the externo-medial nervure, this nervure and
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368 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
the interno-medial nervure have each a spot at tip: the two cross-
neryures margined : tergum more dusky at tip, with an obsolete
blackish dorsal line, and posterior margins of the segments.
Length one-fifth of an inch. .
[Continuation from vol. 6, 1830, pp. 183—188.]
ORTALIS Fall.
1. O. ManainAaTA.—Nervyures margined with fuscous.
Tnhabits Indiana.
Body dull honey-yellow: front somewhat fulvous: hypostoma
with a black line under each antennz: thorax yellowish-gray,
with two dorsal black lines, exterior to which are three abbre-
viated lines: scutel immaculate: wings with the nervures mar-
gined with fuscous ; costal margin fuscous, with a whitish spot
near the base, extending into a band, another hyaline spot before
the tip: pleura honey-yellow: feet pale, tergum black; first and
second segments chiefly honey-yellow; remaining segments gray
at base.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Closely allied to the genus Platysoma, and is a fine species.
2. O. LIGATA.—Wings quadrifasciate with fuscous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body blackish: head ferruginous, tinged with glaucous be-
hind and on the vertex: thorax blackish-plumbeous: wings
white, subopake, with four fuscous [184] bands; the first a little
oblique, across the neck of the wing ; second from the tips of the
mediastinal and postcostal nervures, and proceeding a little
obliquely, so as to be bounded posteriorly by the middle cross
nervure ; third, perpendicular to the costal margin, and covering
the posterior cross nervure ; fourth, terminal, slightly connected
on the costal edge with the third: poisers white : tergum coppery-
black : feet black ; knees and tarsi ferruginous.
Length three-twentieth of an inch.
3. O. TRIFASCIATA.—Wings hyaline, trifasciate with fuscous.
Inhabits the United Sates.
Head blackish-rufous: thorax brassy, polished: seutel rather
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ae
“ COTTON PLANT. 369
_ Correspondence relative to the Insect that destroys the Cotton Plant.
oa
To Tuomas Say, Esq.,
Prof. of Natural History, University of Pennsylvania.
‘a Sir —I have for several years ‘paid some attention to an in-
sect which has infested our cotton, whose character and species
‘Ihave been very desirous of ascertaining. I addressed a letter
to Mr. Stephen Elliott on this subject, and he referred me to
you, not being able to give me the description wanted. TI also
sent to Dr. Samuel Mitchell of New York, but he likewise was
_ not able to give any satisfactory account, and referred me to Mr.
Le Conte]; but owing tosome adventitious circumstances, I never
heard from him, and have now taken the liberty of addressing
_ you, although an entire stranger, and must make my love of the
sciences generally, as well as my desire to be acquainted on
this particular point, my excuse. I have therefore sent a box
containing the moths. They were put into the box in the cater-
_ pillar state, with a few cotton leaves to feed on. After a time
they went into the pupa state, and finally became moths. I have
_ written an essay on these insects which is incomplete, from not
_ knowing their scientific name and character. If you will so far
- oblige me, please address a few lines on the subject to your obe-
_ dient servant, C. W. CAPERS.
New Harmony, Nov. 1, 1827.
_ Sir:—I received your interesting communication of the date
of Jan. 21, not until Thursday last, and how to account for its
_ long detention I know not. It was brought by private convey-
ance in due time from Philadelphia, so that the delay must have
occurred in that city, or on its way there. Any future package
"you may wish to send me, may be confided to the care of a house
in New Orleans.
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370 COTTON PLANT.
I have carefully examined the contents of the box which
accompanied your letter. It contained several cotton moths,
which are much injured, but as far as I am enabled to judge by
their remaing characters, they constitute a new species, of which
I have made the following description :
NOCTUA Fabr.
N. xvurna.—Olivaceous, tinged with vinaceous; superior
wings with a black spot. [814]
Description. —Head vinaceous, with a small whitish tuft before:
antennze pale honey-yellow, of moderate length, covered with
scales above and short hair beneath: labrum rounded, small :
mandibles conic, whitish, with a fascicle of sericeous fulyous hair
on the inner base: maxillze as long as the antenne, papilaceous
towards the tip: palpi densely covered with short, equal scales,
which are intermixed rufous and white; second joint much
longer than the first; third joint very distinct, conic, linear;
thorax vinaceous with more or less of olivaceous, particularly
on the sides: superior wings vinaceous towards the posterior
margin obsoletely olivaceous; a little above and partly on the
second bifurcation of the post costal neryure is an oblique sub-
oval, blackish spot, in which are paler scales, forming almost a
double pupil: posterior to this spot is an obsolete, much undu-
lated, interrupted, dull rufous line, reaching the anal margin
near the middle and the costal margin at two-thirds the distance
from the humerus: behind this line is a distinct one, and in
some specimens a still less distinct one towards the base of the
wing, accompanied by a small spot : inferior wings on the inferior
page with a slight, slender, rufous band: anterior tibiz with a
spine: posterior tibiae with spines on the middle and tip: claws
distinct, emarginate beneath.
Length to tip of superior wings nine-tenths of an inch.
Larva sixteen-footed, spotted; eyes spotted: beneath immacu-
late, simple. Pupa simple, dark chestnut or blackish ; three of
the abdominal segments with dilated, rufous, posterior margins.
In the above description, if any errors occur as regards color,
you can rectify them from more recent and perfect specimens.
With these moths a single individual occurs of the Noctua Iota
COTTON PLANT. 371
Linn. Whether or not this is a confederate of the aylina in de-
stroying the cotton plant, you are best able to judge ; but I should
rather suppose that its ravages are not particularly directed against
that plant, and that its presence here is rather fortuitous.
One of the small vials contains a Gryllotalpa Americana.
I take the earliest conveyance for this letter, in hopes it may
reach you early enough to be of some utility.
Yours, &c., Te SAY.
372 MACLURIAN LYCEUM.
[From Contributions of the Maclurian Lyceum to the Arts and
Sciences, vol. I. Philadelphia. ]
Note on Capt. Le Conte’s paper on “New Coleopterous Insects of North
America,’’ published in the first volume of the Annals of, the Lyceum of
Natural History of New York.
Read April 23, 1827.
Colaspis infuscata Le C. is the C. quadrinotata.—See Journal
of the Acad. Nat. Sc. P. vol. iii. p. 444.
Anthicus murinipennis Le ©. is the A. bicolor —See American
Entomology, vol. i. pl. x. It is very closely allied to Notocus
serricornis of Panzer, No. 31. [39]
Molorchus affinis Le C. is the M. bimaculatus.—See Journal
Acad. Nat. Se. P. vol. ili. p. 428.
Chrysomela scalaris Le C. may possibly prove to be the @.
decipiens of Weber, p. 52, notwithstanding Weber’s description
of the suture, which he says is “ brunneus;” a specimen in my
collection has a tinge of that color, and another has a slight ap-
pearance of the lateral thoracic indentations, which Weber attri-
butes to his species. At any rate, I referred the species to that
description until another insect could be found better adapted
to it.
There can be no doubt respecting priority in relation to the
above names.
MACLURIAN LYCEUM. ate
[From Contributions of the Maclurian Lyceum to the Arts and Sciences.
Vol. I., Philadelphia, pp. 67—83.]
A Description of some new species of Hymenoptera of the United States.
Read March 3, 1828.
AULACUS Jurine.
A. FASCIATUS.—Wings violaceous with hyaline band.
Inhabits Ohio.
Body black; thorax confluently punctured in transverse
grooves ; wings violaceous with a hyaline band on the middle,
hardly reaching the anal margin; abdomen much compressed ;
oviducts longer than the abdomen, much incurved at tip.
Length half an inch. [68 |
ICHNEUMON Linn. Fabr.
1. I. parata.—Antenne black with a whitish annulation ;
tergum yellow, with five or six blackish bands.
TInhabits Indiana.
Head yellow; disk of the vertex and the occiput black; an-
tennee black ; basal and second joint beneath and 15, 16, 17, 18,
19 and 20 joints pale yellowish: thorax black; band on the
collar, line on each side extending to the wings, and interupted
before, and a small quadrate spot on the disk, yellow ; scutel and
a small spot behind it, yellow: metathorax, posterior disk, yellow ;
wings somewhat dusky with fuscous nervures; stigmata pale
brownish; central cellule pentangular and transverse, not at all
oblique, the superior side very short; tergum, basal segment
with the basal incisure, and spot on the disk near the tip, black ;
remaining segments with a blackish band at their bases more or
less emarginated in their middles; beneath yellow; pectus and
postpectus with the transverse incisure, black; posterior feet,
cox above, excepting at tip, thighs, excepting at base, tibia at
tip and first and second joints of tarsi, black; venter with paler
and less perfect bands than those of the tergum.
Var. a. Intermediate thighs black on their middle above.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
374 MACLURIAN LYCEUM.
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2. I. conciInNUS.—Antennez black with white annulations ;
tergum white with six or seven black bands.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head white; a broad black vitte extending from the black
occiput, two black abbreviated lines beneath the antenne, each
terminating near an indented point; mandibles brown at tip, a
black line from their base to tip ; antennee black; 9 to the 17 joints
inclusive, [69] white ; collar yellow, anterior portion black; thorax
with a narrow line before the wings widely interrupted before ; a
double much abbreviated white line in the middle; scutel and
small transverse line behind it, white; metathorax with two
longitudinal lines, on each side of which is a spine, and a lateral
white line interrupted above; tergum yellow; terminal half of
the first segment, and basal two-thirds of each of the others,
black ; pectus black; feet honey yellow; cox white ; posterior
feet, coxee with a wide much indented black band ; thighs black-
ish at base; venter somewhat dusky ; central cellule of the wings
as in the preceding.
9 A single line beneath the antenne and an irregular line
above the mouth, black; double white line on the thorax widely
separated ; an abbreviated, oblique white line from the edge of
the scutel towards the superior wings; tergum with the black
band of the first segment not terminal; feet honey yellow; coxz,
excepting the posterior pair, white ; tip of the tarsi black ; ovi-
duct blackish piceous, less than half the length of the abdomen.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
Second joint of the maxillary palpi dilate, as in Pedtastes Ilhg.
3. I. ortosus.—Antennez black with a white annulation ; ter-
gum with a white band on the base of segment.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black with a white orbital line, broader before and ob-
solete above ; antenne 9 to the 14 joints inclusive, white; thorax
with a line before the wings, interrupted before, and two abbre-
viated lines on the disk slightly diverging anteriorly, white ; scu-
tel and transverse spot behind it, white; central cellule of the
wings [70] as in the preceding, but the superior side is somewhat
shorter ; tergum, first segment with a triangular band at tip;
pleura with a white, longitudinal, abbreviated line beneath the
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wings and one or two spots behind; beneath with a white spot
before the anterior and intermediate coxe ; tibie white lines on
their exterior sides ; posterior tarsi, first and second joints with a
white line above.
Length more than half an inch.
Second joint of the maxillary palpi dilated as in Pe/tastes Illig.
4. J. vinotus.—Black: abdomen rufous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black; head above the antenne and occiput, black ; or-
bital line interrupted behind, and all beneath the antenne except
the incisure, white ; antennx, basal joints beneath, white; collar
with a white line; thorax with a short line above the anterior
wing and another below it, from the anterior extremity of these
lines, a white line proceeds, -and is interrupted before; two im-
pressed dorsal lines obsolete behind ; scutel and obsolete point
behind it, white ; wings, central cellule pentangular, transverse ;
metathorax with somewhat elevated ruge, enclosing a pentangu-
lar space, from the angles of which abbreviated lines diverge,
the two posterior of which terminate at the short tubercles ; feet,
anterior and intermediate pairs, pale whitish yellow, the coxe
white with a black spot behind, the thighs with a black line and
tibize of the anterior pair also with a black line; posterior pair
black, second, third and fourth joints of the tarsi, white; abdo-
men bright rufous, immaculate.
Length % half an inch. [71]
5. I. rnquristror.—Black ; feet honey-yellow ; posterior tibia
white, binnulate with black.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black; palpi whitish; thorax with a white spot on the
anterior base of the superior wings; wings, central cellule quad-
rangular, longitudinal, narrowed a little at the tip; feet honey-
yellow: posterior tibia white, a black annulus near the base and
another somewhat larger at tip; joints of the posterior tarsi
whitish, blackish at their tip: oviducts nearly as long as the ab-
domen.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Preys upon the larva (of a Bruchus?) that feeds on the seeds
of the Clematis.
376 MACLURIAN LYCEUM.
6. I. preRELAS.—Black ; feet honey-yellow: oviducts elon-
gated.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black; immaculate; antennz piceous beneath ; palpi
whitish: wings, central cellule subquadrangular, almost triangu-
lar, rather longitudinal; posterior tibiz and tarsi. dusky; ovi-
ducts nearly as long as the body, aculeus piceous.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Belongs to the genus Pimpla Fab.
7. I. nmarts.—Yellowish ; head black, beneath the antennz
yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body yellowish, approaching honey-yellow ; head above the
antennee and occiput black; beneath the antennz and mouth
yellow, a transverse black line above the mouth ; antenne dusky,
yellowish beneath, and still darker above, shorter than the body ;
thorax with an obsolete, double, pale yellowish line; wings hya-
line; central [72] cellule small, quadrangular, longitudinal, some-
what oblique, not distinctly narrowed at either end; posterior tarsi
at their tip dusky: abdomen depressed: venter with a dusky spot
near the tip.
Length ® nearly three-tenths of an inch.
8. I. mMALAcus.—Body black ; antennze annulate with white,
beginning at the tenth joint and terminating at the eighteenth ;
joints very distinct ; wings blackish ; small cellule with one bulla,
large anal cellule with three bulla and two short processes ; me-
tathorax with elevated lines: abdomen withan impressed line each
side.
Length more than half an inch.
9. I. pecrorALIS.—Black : abdomen rufous; antennee black-
ish, whitish near the middle.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black; orbits and all beneath the antenne, yellow;
antenne blackish, 13, 14, 15, 16, joints white: thorax with
scutel and a white line before the wings, interrupted before ;
transverse line beneath it, yellow; wings hyaline, central cel-
lule pentangular, transverse ; pleura black: pectus black,
with a large yellow spot between the intermediate and posterior
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feet: feet yellow ; posterior thighs tinged with rufous; posterior
tibiz rufous at tip; abdomen rufous, with black incisures.
Length over one-fifth of an inch.
10. I. Brrascrarus.—Ferruginous wings dusky, bifasciate.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body ferruginous; antennze somewhat tinged with whitish
beyond the middle and fuscous at tip: thorax circumscribing inci-
sure black ; wings dusky with a hyaline [73] band hardly beyond
the middle and an abbreviated one nearer the tip ; stigma pale fer-
ruginous ; inferior wings dusky, with a semifasciate on the mid-
dle with hyaline: oviducts black; pectus incisures black ; pos-
terior tibiz blackish at tip.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
11. I. MoruLus.—Black ; antenne with a whitish annulation.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: antenne with a white annulation beginning at the
tenth or eleventh joint and ending at the sixteenth or seventeenth ;
wings violet black; recurrent nervures of the small cellule, with
each a salient angle; on the anterior one a whitish dot and an
the posterior two white dots: a dot also on the posterior nervure
of the small cellule; metathorax with elevated lines and each side
behind an acute angle; abdomen with a short petiole, which is
lineated : second segment opaque with confluent punctures, larger
towards the base ; color blue-black ; oviduct hardly obvious.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Second joint of maxillary palpi dilated as in ie Illig.
‘12. I. restpuus.—Yellowish; antenne white in the middle
and black at tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body yellowish, tinged with rufous: antenne not longer than
the thorax, the ten basal joints color of the body, 11, to 16
whitish, the remaining joints black; wings hyaline ; central
cellule pentangular; posterior tibie at tip, and posterior tarsi,
dusky.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch. [74]
378 MACLURIAN LYCEUM.
ANOMALON Jurine.
1. A. SEXLINEATA.—Black ; feet rufous ; metathorax with six
raised lines.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black; antennz piceous beneath, rather shorter than the
body ; palpi yellowish; thorax subtrilobate, the impressed lines
being deep and wide ; wings a little dusky, a small whitish spot
on the beginning of the carp: central cellule none ; metathorax
densely punctured, with six longitudinal, slightly elevated lines,
two of which are on the side; feet rufous; posterior tibia and
their tarsi dusky ; tergum, first segment densely and finely pune-
tured ; oviduct hardly as long as the abdomen.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
2. A. HUMERALE.—Black ; antenne with a white cinctus.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, punctured; antennz, 12, 13, 14 and 15th joints
white ; thorax with an acute tubercle on the humerus ; somewhat
elongated before the wings ; metathorax with two acute tubercles
each side at tip; tergum, second segment with an impressed
oblique line each side at the basal angle; oviduct longer than the
abdomen; knees white.
Length ? more than half an inch.
3. A. MELLIPES.—Black: feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished ; palpi whitish; wings hyaline, with a
slight fuliginous tinge; larger middle cellule with three white
bullee ; oviduct as long as the body; feet honey-yellow.
Length more than two-fifths of an inch. [75]
OPHION Fabr.
1. O. Binineatus.—Honey-yellow; head yellow; thorax
with two dark lines.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head yellow; antennz honey-yellow; mandibles blackish at
tip; thorax with two somewhat reddish brown lines almost ob-
solete ; wings with fuscous nervures; costal nervure and carpal
spot honey-yellow ; the latter dilated, conspicuous ; large central
cellule acutely angulated at tip; central cellule angulated
MACLURIAN LYCEUM. 379
at tip; small central cellule angulated at the superior basal angle
and with a very slight process, its terminal nervure almost oblit-
erated on the outer half, its outer nervure almost obliterated in
the middle and white in that part: the two terminal connecting
nervures forming an acute angle; pleura paler than the thorax;
abdomen, second segment hardly as long as the first and longer
than the third.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
2. O. ANALIS.—Reddish-brown: head above black, beneath
the antennz yellow; abdomen black at tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head above the antenne black : beneath the antennz yellow:
occiput black, reddish-brown each side: antennz dark reddish-
brown, almost black, at base black: beneath somewhat paler,
darker towards the base, radical joint yellow at base; thorax red-
dish brown, with large blackish disk, divided into three wide
lines by two impressed lines; sutures of the scutel and metatho-
rax black; wings the larger central cellule obtuse at tip; smaller
central cellule with a small angle at tip, where it is widest, very
obtusely rounded at the superior basal angle; do not meet and
form an angle, carpal spot slender ; pectus black ; posterior thighs
blackish at base, their coxe with [76] a black spot, their tibiz
dusky at tip and their tarsi yellow; abdomen black at tip and
on the superior edge of the second segment, which is at least as
long as the first segment.
Length @ nearly three-fifths of an inch.
3. O. GgemMInATUS.—Yellowish; vertex with a black spot;
large central cellule of the wings obtuse at tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body dull yellowish ; head yellow; vertex black: antennxe
somewhat shorter than the body, tinged with brown, the first
joint yellow ; wings hyaline, with fuscous nervures and honey-
yellow somewhat dilated carpal spot: large central cellule obtuse
at tip, the nervure of the tip double ; smaller central cellule very
obtusely rounded at the superior basal angle; pleura and pectus
pale yellowish; abdomen, second segment obviously shorter than
the first, and not longer than the third.
Length about two-fifths of an inch.
380 MACLURIAN LYCEUM.
This species closely resembles O. bilineatus nob., but is much
smaller, and the arrangement of the wing-nervures proves it to be
a different species.
4. O. EMARGINALUS [EMARGINATUS].—Black ; antennz fus-
cous ; feet honey-yellow.
Tnhabits Indiana.
Body black, sericeous with short hair; head convex beneath
the antennze, at the base of which the head is much more prom-
inent than immediately above the antennz where the head is in-
dented ; antennz short, above dark fuscous, beneath paler, first
joint rather longer ; palpi white : thorax immaculate ; metathorax
with four longitudinal slightly raised lines; wings hyaline with
fnscous nervures and carpal spot ; larger central cellule obtuse or
[77] rather truncated at tip, and emarginated by the curvature of
the radial cellule ; smaller cellule with a small angle at tip, where
it is widest, and gradually tapering to its opposite extremity with-
out any curvature: feet honey-yellow, short, anterior coxse with
a whitish reflection; abdomen short, almost sensible, not compres-
sed.
ALYSIA Latr.
1. A. RiprsunDA.—Rufous ; head, wings and tip of the ter-
gum, black.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body yellowish-rufous ; head black, a rufous spot each side of
the mouth; antenne longer than the body; wings blackish ;
central cellule large, longitudinal, acute before, nervure connect-
ing with the carpal spot placed obviously behind the middle of
the cellule ; feet black; tibiz and tarsi more or less tinged with
dull rufous; tergum depressed, near the tip a large black spot.
Length % nearly one-fifth of an inch.
2. A. PALLIPES.—Black ; feet, abdomen at base, and antennze
at base, white.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished ; antennse fuscous, first and second joints
whitish; mandibles piceous; wings hyaline, central cellule in
length equal to double its greatest width; feet white; abdomen
white at base.
Length one-twentieth of an inch.
MACLURIAN LYCEUM. 381
BRACON Jur. Fabr. Latr.
1. B. ExHALANS.—Black ; abdomen sanguincous.
Inhabits Indiana. }
Head black; palpi whitish; antennze shorter than the [78] body .
thorax black; wings blackish, second cubital cellule longitudinal,
quadrangular, acute at base, nervure connecting with the carpal
spot placed obviously before the middle of the cellule ; feet black-
ish ; abdomen sanguineous ; oviduct shorter than the body, black-
ish ; metathorax simple pale reddish.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
2. B. HonEsToR.—Yellowish-rufous; wings blackish, with a
whitish band and tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body rufous, slightly tinged with yellow ; antenn rather long-
er than the body; thorax somewhat bilobate, the posterior seg-
ment being canaliculate ; wings dusky, with black nervures and
rather large carpal spot; a narrow, transverse, whitish band be-
yond the middle, and whitish tip ; posterior tibize dusky, whitish
at base and at the terminal incisures; abdomen clavate, almost
pedunculated ; oviduct longer than the abdomen.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Second cubital cellule elongated.
3. B. rruncATor.—Pale honey-yellow ; vertex with a black
spot.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body pale honey-yellow, polished, impunctured ; antenne fus-
cous, honey-yellow at base; stemmata in a black spot; palpi
whitish towards the tip ; metathorax slightly punctured: abdomen
much compressed, truncate.
Length nearly one one-fourth of an inch.
PERILAMPUS Latr.
1. P. rRIANGULARIS.—Green and blue; tarsi yellow; wings
dusky at tip. [79]
Tnhabits Indiana.
Body polished; head green with a violaceous reflection, each
side before vertically striate; occiput transversely and longitudi-
382 MACLURIAN LYCEUM.
nally striated, violaceous, the collar punctured, green; scutel
much elongated, entire; wings dusky on the apical half; abdo-
men very short, wide, triangular, very convex above and beneath ;
anterior half violaceous, posterior half, green with a violaceous
reflection ; tarsi yellow.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
2. P. HYALINUS.—Green; wings hyaline.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body green punctured ; scutel much elongated, slightly emar-
ginated ; wings hyaline, immaculate; abdomen very short, wide,
triangular, very convex above and beneath, violaceous ; tarsi yel-
lowish ; anterior tibize honey-yellow.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Differs from the preceding in being destitute of the dusky wing
tips and in having punctures instead of strie.
SPALANGIUS Latr.
S. potrrus.—Bluish-green ; tergum with a cupreous band at
base. |
Inhabits Virginia.
Body bluish-green, varied with violaceous, densely punctured ;
front grooved to receive the basal joint of the antennz ; flagellum
fuscous; wings hyaline, slightly dusky; scutel somewhat promi-
nent; abdomen a little depressed ; first segment brilliant cupre-
ous: incisures glabrous ; terminal segment longer than the others
together, forming at tip a narrowed, carinated black [80] process
for the reception of the tip of the oviduct beneath; feet dull
honey-yellow.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
I found this species on the sea beach of Senipuxent Island.
CODRUS Jur.
C. pALLIDUS.—Pale honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body pale honey-yellow; antennz, excepting the basal joint,
fuscous ; stethidium, incisures black ; wings hyaline : stigma dis-
tinct, pale brown.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
MACLURIAN LYCEUM. 383
SERLION Latr.
S. TERMINALIS.—Antenne, terminal joint white; wings uni-
fasciate.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body somewhat piceous; head yellowish; antenne broken,
blackish ; first joint nearly as long as the others together ; ter-
minal joint dilated, compressed, subtriangular, white ; wings with
a broad dusky band ; intermediate tarsi white except at tip.
Length more than one-twentieth of an inch.
PSILUS Jur.
1. P. crnrarus.—Black ; feet whitish; hairs of the wings
elongated.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished ; antenne with an oblong oval acute club,
at base honey-yellow ; petiole of the abdomen and feet honey-
yellow ; wings deeply ciliated, the hairs longer tnan the trans-
verse diameter of the wings.
Length less than one-twentieth of an inch.
2. P. oprusus.—Black ; feet whitish, thighs black in the mid-
dle. .
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished ; antennze fuscous ; anterior wings white
and very obtuse, finely ciliated; ciliee very short; feet whitish ;
thighs black, white at base and tip; coxee black.
Length nearly one-twentieth of an inch.
PLATYGASTER Latr.
3. P. PALLIPES.—Body black ; antennze fuscous, moniliform :
basal joint honey-yellow; wings hyaline; abdomen polished,
much depressed ; widest near the tip and obtuse, gradually and
rectilinearly a little narrowed to the base: feet whitish-yellow.
Length one-thirtieth of an inch.
BETHYLUS Latr.
B. ARMIFERUS.—Black ; tergum with elongated white hairs.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body entirely black, immaculate, with short hairs; head
384 MACLURIAN LYCEUM.
covered with discoidal punctures; tergum polished, with a few
elongated, rigid, white hairs, as long as two of the segments
taken together.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch. [81].
DRYINUS Latr.
D. Brrascratus.—Yellowish ; wings bifasciate.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body honey-yellow, varied with blackish; anterior thighs
dilated; wings with two fuscous bands, the apical one broader.
Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch. [82)
CHRYSIS Linn. Latr.
1. C. pactricA.—Green; anal segment mutic ; tarsi fuscous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body green with a slight bluish tinge, with short hairs; an-
tenn, five or six terminal joints fuscous; wings hyaline, a little
brownish on the costal margin beyond the stigma; tergum more
particularly tinged with bluish ; anal segment rounded, subtrun-
cate, unarmed ; tarsi fuscous.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
2. C. CARINATA.—Bluish ; abdomen subtridentate.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body greenish blue varied with purplish ; front, from the an-
tennze to the middle, with numerous whitish hairs; antenne fus-
cous, green at base; metathorax, lateral tubercles acute; middle
termination subacute ; tergum, anal segment carinate, the carina
extending beyond the edge into an acute tooth; lateral angles
acute ; tarsi fuscous.
‘Length three-tenths of an inch.
HEDYCRIUM Latr.
H. stnvosum.—Reddish-coppery ; wings fuliginous at tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body reddish-coppery, polished, punctured ; front concave,
greenish ; antenne fuscous, green at base; metathorax acute at
posterior angles; wings beyond the middle fuliginous ; tergum
blue-purple; terminal segment hardly as long as the penultimate,
with a sinus at tip; beneath green ; tarsi fuscous.
Length about one-fifth of inch.
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lots: scutel edged with yellow: hemelytra dusky, with pale
ey. Inhabits Pennsylvania.
_ Head yellow; a longitudinal red vitta each side on the hypos-
‘toma; thorax and scutel black-blue, edged with dull rufous ;
hemelytra brownish bronze ; nervures fuscous: pectus and venter
black; sutures dull yellowish : anterior and intermediate feet pale
yellow: posterior thighs blued-black with yellowish tip, their
tibie blued-black with yellow spines, their tarsi dull yellowish.
Length more than one-fourth of an inch.
_ J. SUBBIFASCIATUS.—Brown; hemelytra bifasciate with
_ whitish.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body clear light brown: head yellow, with a capillary black
line on the vertex, and two rufous, subarquated lines on the
hypostoma: scutel with about four obsolete, dusky small spots:
hemelytra with a whitish band almost interrupted, behind the
middle, and an abbreviated band before the middle, [311] on
the second short nervure of the thinner margin and extending
to the third nervure; nervures fuscous: pectus with large black
spots.
aH Length 9 to the tip of the hemelytra three-tenths of an inch.
TETTIGONIA Latr. Germ.
1. T. occaTor1a.—Yellowish-green, lineate with fuscous.
_ Inhabits Indiana.
_ Body above yellowish-green: head with a black point at
tip; above five-lined: exterior lines submarginal, passing over
‘the stemmata, second pair of lines confluent before and not
reaching the tip; central line very small, abbreviated, basal:
thorax also five-lined, corresponding with the lines of the head,
and the three inner ones passing upon the scutel: hemelytra
lineated with yellowish-green and fuscous, the two inner fuscous
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386 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Length to tip of hemelytra one-fourth of an inch.
2. T. versutA.—Yellow ; head, scutel and hemelytra lineate
with dark green.
Inhabits the United States.
Body yellow : head with a blackish-green anterior edge ; above
tinged with fulvous on the disk, with a submarginal, dark green
line each side, which is interrupted and diffracted behind the
middle, and does not reach the tip of the head, near which it
joins a double, obsolete line, which passes over the [312] middle
of the head: thorax with a large green spot: scutel with several
dark green lines: hemelytra with three oblique green vitte and
blackish dots on the apical margin: tergum dusky, or blackish
with lateral yellow triangles.
Length to the tip of the hemelytra less than one-fourth of an
inch.
3. T. QUADRIVITTATA.—Hemelytra sanguineous with oblique
green vitte and margin.
Inhabits the United States.
Body yellow: head with a blackish anterior and lateral edge
passing through the eyes: thorax rufous, anterior and posterior
margins green, the latter connected with a yellowish lateral spot,
and a dorsal green vitta which is abbreviated before : scutel ru-
fous : hemelytra sanguineous, with a green margin and two oblique
green vitte, of which the inner one proceeds from the humerus
to the inner margin, and the other is abbreviated and partially
twice interrupted: tergum sanguineous.
Length to the tip of the hemelytra more than three-tenths of
an inch.
Very closely allied to A. bifasciata Linn., of Europe, but that
species is much more hairy ; in the 4-notata all the nervures of
the hemelytra are distinctly visible.
4. T. MOLLIPES.—Yellow ; hemelytra green with a pale margin.
Inhabits the United States.
Body yellow: head elongated, acute before ; beneath the eyes
a brown line, which is continued on [313] the pectus: thorax
green, a broad anterior and lateral yellow margin: scutel green-
ish-yellow : hemelytra green; nervures paler; exterior and api-
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cal margins pale yellow or whitish; a pale yellowish, capillary,
oblique line from the humerus to the inner margin: tergum black-
purple, lateral edge and tip yellow.
Length tothe tip of the hemelytra over three-tenths of an
inch.
A common species.
5. T. BirmpA.—Green, head and thorax banded, and hemely-
tra lineated with blackish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Vertex white with a central, transverse, dark green, abbrevia-
ted line; prominent tip of the head with a dark green spot;
Jabrum yellowish, at tip dusky: thorax, anterior margin and
posterior submargin, with a transverse dark green transverse
line, anterior submargin and posterior margin with a white trans-
verse line: scutel en the edge and a central, transverse, abbrevi-
ated line dark green: hemelytra with six rather oblique dark
green lines, the exterior one bifid at tip: beneath blackish : feet
pale.
Length to the tip of the hemelytra about one-fifth of an inch.
6. T. HIEROGLYPHICA.—Dull rufous; head and scutel linea-
ted ; hemelytra spotted.
Inhabits Arkansa.
Body obscurely dull rufous: head with a black dot at tip,
above literate with black: thorax with a [814] dusky posterior
disk : scutel with black more or less curved lines: hemelytra
obsoletely spotted, nervures being pale: beneath pale yellowish :
pectus with large black spots: feet immaculate: tergum blue-
black, edge yellow.
Length to tip of hemelytra one-fifth of an inch. .
Agreeably to the arrangement of Germar, the following of
my published species, may be placed in this genus, viz :
Cercopis obliqua, C. basilaris, and C. comes; as well as the
following species of Fabricius, viz: Cicada undata, C. trrorata,
and Cercopis costalis.
The species which I published under the name of Cicada miz-
ta, has the same relation to this genus as the (. costalis of
Panzer.
1831.]
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[From Vol. 8, 1839, pp. 9—46.]
Descriptions of New North American NEUROPTEROUS INSECTS, and Ob-
servations on some already described.
Read July 12th, 1836.
ZESHNA Fabr.
+ Eyes in contact above.
1. A. MuLticrncrA.—Reddish-brown ; thorax with green
lines and spots; abdomen with green bands and lateral vitta.
Inhabits Indiana.
@ Body reddish-brown; eyes connate, dull greenish above,
with a semiocellate blackish mark, and on the posterior margin
pale bluish, including a black line; inferior portion tinged with
gray, and with several moveable internal spots; frontal vesicle
dull whitish, above reddish-brown, dull yellowish in the middle,
with a quadrate blackish spot; [10] thorax with two anterior
green lines, and on the pleura beneath each wing, also a green
oblique line, between the bases of the wings are green spots ;
wings immaculate, tinged with ferruginous, carpal spot fuscous ;
accessory membrane opaque white ; abdomen with a lateral, angu-
lated and almost interrupted green vitta ; segments with a double
green, sutural, narrow band, and in the middle of each, another
narrow band, excepting the three ultimate ones, on which are
but single sutural bands; caudal foliaceous processes blackish,
somewhat dilated in the middle, gradually narrowed to each ex-
tremity, and rounded at tip; feet black; thighs rufous at base.
Length three and three-fifths inches to tip of caudal appendices.
The abdomen tapers gradually from the base to the tip. The
description is taken from a recent specimen.
[This species, which is common throughout the United
States, has usually heen referred to the heros of Fabricius.—ED. ]
[This is 4. heros Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 285.—UuLEr. ]
AQ. Junitus.—Green; abdomen brown, laterally bluish ; wings
immaculate.
L. Junius Drury, Vol. 1, pl. 47, fig. 5.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 389
x, Body bright green; eyes brown, tinged behind and be-
neath with yellowish; labium yellowish ; antennz and interven-
ing line black ; frontal vesicle above with an arcuated blue line
and central black dot: wings immaculate; carpal spot pale
brown : posterior wings, next to the body and behind the ner-
vures, with a small opaque white spot, terminated by a black,
broad line ; feet rufous; tibize and tarsi [11] black; abdomen
with a dorsal and lateral interrupted raised line; brown above,
with a lateral, interrupted blue vitta, originating with the second
segment; first and second segments bright green; venter tinged
with brown, with a blackish vitta ; foliaceous appendices carinate,
at the exterior tip prominent mucronate.
Length three inches.
@ Wings with a trace of ferruginous on the anterior portion ;
foliaceous appendages rather smaller, lanceolate, acute.
Drury in his figure represents the abdomen as entirely green ;
but this is a mistake ; his dried specimen had this part brown,
and supposing it to have been green when living, he figured it
so. Can this be vesiculosa L.? It is allied to the formosa Van-
derlinden, which, however, appears to have a black, angulated,
dorsal vitta on the abdomen, and the eyes are described to be
green.
[Belongs to the genus Anax Leach—UHLER. ]
3. A. constricta.—Abdomen contracted near the base,
elongated, with interrupted bands ; anal processes undulated and
prominently mucronate.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Eyes in contact above; occiput black, with a yellow spot
between the eyes; front greenish-yellow ; between and behind
the antenne, with the exception of a yellow transverse spot '
black, connected anteriorly with a transverse black line; stethi-_
dium brownish, varied with greenish vitte before, and oblique
ones on the pleura, and spots on base of the wings; wings hya-
line, a little lactaceous ; stigma moderate, black ; anal membrane
[12] black, white at base; abdomen elongated, fuscous, with
somewhat glaucous interrupted bands and spots ; two basal seg-
ments thick, the second with a narrow interrupted band: third
remarkably contracted in the middle, with two small transverse
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390 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
spots, and on the posterior margin an interrupted band ; remain-
ing segments haying the same markings as the third, together
with a large double lateral longitudinal spot, excepting the ulti-
mate and the caudal segments, which have only the posterior in-
terrupted band ; caudal segments two-thirds the length of the
preceding one; anal processes as long as the two preceding seg-
ments, undulated, foliaceous, with a longitudinal line in the mid-
dle, dilated on the inner edge beyond the middle, near the inner
tip, hairy, and with a tooth, and rounded prominence; at tip
rounded, with a prominent cylindrie spine ; inferior process half
the length of the superior ones; feet piceous, or blackish ; an-
terior thighs with a glaucous line behind.
Length less than three inches.
The third abdominal segment is remarkably contracted. The
posterior interrupted bands might be called rounded or quadrate
spots, and are largest and more glaucous on the posterior seg-
ments. It resembles Libellula tenebrosa ?
4. 7A. CLEPSYDRA.—Abdomen contracted near the base, with
interrupted bands; anal processes foliaceous.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
This is so much like constricta S., that it may possibly prove
to be a variety. Nevertheless, the anal [13] appendices are
very different. These are foliaceous, oblong-oval, gradually nar_
rowed at base, with a small angle at tip; upper side with a cari-
nated line; caudal segment of the abdomen with an elevated
compressed tooth near its base above.
Length less than three inches.
The only individual I have seen was sent me by Dr. Harris.
5. AN. vinosA.—Abdomen contracted near the base; wings
"very slightly tinged with ferruginous ; stigma yellowish ; pleura
with two bright yellow orbicular spots.
Inhabits Massachusetts. Harris.
Length over two inches and a half.
Resembles clepsydra S., very closely, but it may be distin-
guished by the color of the wings and stigma, the bright orbi-
cular spots of the pleura, the yellow antenne, and the absence of
black markings in the summit of the frontal vesicle. The anal
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processes resemble those of clepsydra, and the neck of the wings
is fuscous as in janata 8.
[This is #. 4-guttata Burm. Handb. 2, 837 —Uuter.]
6. Al. JANATA.—Wings immaculate; abdomen contracted
near the base, banded; anal processes at tip unarmed, pedi-
form.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
% Eyes in contact above ; occiput dusky ; posterior canthus of
the eyes dull yellowish ; space between the eyes transversely
triangular, depressed, dusky, excepting the posterior edge, which
is yellowish, and is a raised line; antennze and vertex black, ex-
cepting a transverse, obscure, arcuated line ; front yellow; [14 ]
summit with a black line and anterior margin; thorax brown,
two dull glaucous vittz before ; pleura, two oblique yellow vitte,
margined with black; wings hyaline, immaculate; basal neck
fuscous ; anal membrane white ; stigma dull yellowish; abdomen
dusky ; third segment deeply contracted ; segments with a yel-
lowish band at base, interrupted one at tip, and spot in the mid-
dle; caudal segment but little shorter than the preceding one,
and carinate at base, beneath with the lateral tubercles of the
second segment compressed and denticulated ; caudal processes a
little undulated, being slightly dilated beneath near the base, and
more obviously so towards the tip, so as to be pediform ; tip un-
armed ; inferior process hardly half as long as the superior ones ;
feet yellowish, blackish beneath.
Length over two inches.
Sent to me by Dr. Harris. I have not seen the female.
It resembles constricta S., but is smaller, the caudal segment
is subequal to the preceding segment, and the superior caudal
processes are suddenly enlarged near the tip, and are unarmed.
7. AK. FuRCILLATA.—Inferior anal process widely forked at
tip.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
% Body brownish; pleura with three oblique, yellow lines;
between the wings varied with whitish ; wings immaculate, anal
membrane white ; stigma fuscous ; abdomen, third segment very
much contracted; segments with a double spot at tip,a [15]
smaller double one in the middle, and a triangular spot at base ;
anal processes narrow, foliaceous, on their basal half subcylindri-
1839.]
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cal, with two small distant teeth on the inner inferior side ; be-
yond the middle rectilinear, flattened, sides parallel, rounded at
tip; inferior process about half as long as the superior pair,
wide, widely emarginate down to its middle.
Length over two inches.
This may readily be distinguished by the widely forked form
of the inferior caudal process. I have seen but the individual
sent me for examination by Dr. Harris.
[Subsequently described as Gynacantha oii Rambur,
Neuropt. 209.—UHLER. ]
8. AK. opLIQUA.—Thorax brown, with two oblique yellow
vitte before ; front yellow, with a black band. °
Inhabits Indiana.
HKyes angularly contiguous above; front greenish-yellow, with
a black band; antennze black; space between the antennz and
region of the stemmata black; occiput dull yellowish ; occipital
interval tubereuliform, greenish-yellow ; posterior upper canthus
of the eyes black, passing in a hairy ridge to the top of
the occipital tubercle; stethidium fuscous; two yellow oblique
vitte before; middle between the wings with a yellowish spot;
pleura with two distant, parallel, oblique, yellow vitte, margined
with black; wings hyaline, immaculate; stigma black; anal
membrane white ; abdomen blackish, a dorsal series of yellowish
spear-shaped marks, those of the two posterior segments dilated,
the last one quadrate : anal appendices not longer than the [16]
anal segment, mucronate; inferior process as broad at its tip as
the tip of the abdomen, and widely more or less emarginated :
beneath, first and second abdominal segments pale, the lateral
tubercle rounded, unarmed ; feet black.
Length about two and a half inches.
Var. a. Dorsal series of the abdomen none; a lateral series of
dull yellowish, oblong, subtriangular spots.
This variety was sent to me by Dr. Harris. I have not seen
the female.
[Subsequently described as Cordulegaster fasciatus Rambur,
Neuropt. 178.—UHLEnr. ]
+ + Eyes distant above.
9. AK. FRATERNA.— Wings immaculate ; thorax yellowish, with
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brown lines ; abdomen brown, with a yellow vitta; dilated at tip.
Inhabits the United States.
Length less than two inches.
*%, Head greenish-yellow; eyes distant above ; labrum with an
indented point in the middle; between the eyes a black band,
including the stemmata and antennz; thorax greenish-yel-
low, with three double fuscous vittee; between the wings a
greenish-yellow vittze; wings immaculate; costal nervure green-
ish ; carpus fuscous small, the transverse line of its base pass-
ing obliquely across the second series of cellules; accessory
membrane very small; abdomen dark fuscous, cylindrical, thicker
at base, and much dilated at tip; a dorsal yellowish line, inter-
rupted by the incisures, wider on the basal segment, and ex-
hibiting a spot only on two of the dilated segments; anal ap-
pendices four, short, subulate: sides of the abdomen with a di-
lated [17] yellowish vitta on the basal segment, on which is also
a lateral tubercle; remaining segments with a spot on the base
of each, those on the dilated segments are much larger, that on
the terminal segment occupying all the side, yellow and conspi-
cuous ; pleura green-yellow, with two oblique, fuscous lines ; feet
fuscous : tibia with a dull green line; the dilated tip of the ab-
domen is very concave beneath.
? Tubercles of the basal segment of the abdomen obsolete ;
abdomen at tip somewhat less dilated ; anal appendices two.
Length two inches. .
Common in June, on the banks of the Wabash.
It resembles forcipata Fabr., closely, but the feet of that spe-
cies are yellowish above ; the dorsal line of the abdomen is capi-
tate on each segment, and on the basal segment trilobate.
It belongs to the genus Gomphus Leach.
10. A. stigmMata.—? Body yellow ; stemmata. rather large ;
thorax with a double brown arcuated vitta before, each side of
which is an abbreviated, oblique, brown line, and another brown
line on the suture of the pleura; wings with a very slight tinge
of yellowish, at their origin ferruginous ; costal edge whitish,
with two series of minute black points; stigma rather large,
blackish ; tergum, each segment excepting the basal and ultimate
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ones, with a longitudinal spot each side, contracted in the mid-
die and not reaching the base; terminal process conic, acute, not
at all compressed ; thighs with a brown line above towards the
tip ; tibia and [18] tarsi black-piceous ; the former yellowish on
the inner side ; abdomen not remarkably clavated.
Length two inches.
This species resembles the fraterna, but it is much more yel-
lowish, the stigma of the wings is about double the size, the
markings differ. It also resembles unguiculata Vanderlinden,
but the stigma is much larger.
[Belongs to Gomphus Leach.—U BLER. ]
LIBELLULA.
1. L. ayMenaA.—Wings hyaline; posterior wings with the
anal margin brown, with white nervures; anal membrane white,
opaque.
Inhabits Indiana.
2 Vesicular front fulvous; stethidium dull yellowish-green ;
wings hyaline; stigmata small; posterior pair wider at base, the
anal margin brown, particularly towards the anal angle, which,
however, this color does not reach, neither does it attain to the
origin of the wing, the nervures of this brown margin are yel-
lowish-white ; anal membrane opaque, pure white; scutel trica-
rinate ; abdomen with a carinate line above, and on each side;
second, third, fourth, and fifth segments with two transverse,
elevated lines towards their middles; anal processes cylindrical,
mucronate ; feet blackish ; anterior pairs of thighs greenish-white
exteriorly ; anterior pairs of tibiae with a whitish line.
Length nearly two inches.
Readily distinguishable by the whitish nervures in the brown
anal margin of the posterior wings, and the snow-white anal
membrane. It seems to be allied to L. carolina. [19]
2. L. carotrnA Linn.—Basal fifth of the posterior wings
fuscous.
Length two inches.
Drury, Ins. Vol. 1, pl. 48, fig. 1. Eney. Meth. p. 565.
3. L. TRANSVERSA.—Thorax with a white band before the
wings, and another between the wings.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 395
s, Body brownish; eyes contiguous above in a small part of
their curvature ; thorax with a yellowish-white band at the ante-
rior base of the anterior wings, and a white band between the
two pairs of wings, descending obliquely on the pleura, where it
is yellow; wings hyaline; basal costal cellula brown; stigma
slender, yellowish, not very obvious; anal membrane white ;
abdomen slender, wider near the tip; segments paler on the
basal half; lateral carina none; anal processes lanceolate, slightly
arcuated, exterior edge towards the tip minutely denticulate ;
inferior process nearly as long as superior the ones; tarsi
blackish.
Length two inches.
Dr. Harris sent me a male specimen, I have not seen the
female.
[Subsequently described as Zpophthalmia cinnamomea Burm.
Handb. 2, 2, 845: and Didymops Serville’ Ramb., Neuropt.
142.—UuLeEr. ]
4, L. TENEBROSA.—Wings immaculate ; body greenish-black,
with yellow lateral marks on the trunk.
Inhabits Indiana.
*%, Eyes bright emerald green, in contact above; front brown-
ish towards the mouth, near the antenne bright green, above the
antennz brownish ; mouth beneath yellowish : vertex brownish ;
thorax dark [20] greenish; tinged towards the head and on the
sides with vinaceous; an oblique yellowish line under each wing,
and a yellowish spot each side behind; wings hyaline; stigma
blackish ; anal margin with a thick fuliginous nervure, tinged on
its side with ferruginous; anal membrane blackish, whitish at
base ; abdomen greenish-black, immaculate, very slender behind
the base, thickest at base, and fusiform beyond the middle ; anal
appendices arcuated, superior pair with a tooth on the superior
middle, at tip abruptly incurved and truncate ; feet immaculate.
Length over two inches.
[Belongs to Cordulia.—UHLER. ]
5. L. typ1A.— Wings with a broad, brown band ; and at base
an abbreviated line.
L. Lydia Drury, Ins. Vol. 1, pl. 47, fig. 4, Oliv. Ency. Meth.
p- 070.
1839.]
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This species agrees with the short description in Turton’s
Linn., of the trimaculata Degeer, and I should certainly consider
it the same species, if Olivier had not decided the trimaculata
to be the same as the bifasciata L.
[This is L. trimaculata Degeer, pl. 26, fig. 3—UHLER. ]
6. L. BrrasciataA Fabr.—Wings with brown semifascia, tip
and basal line.
L. puchella Drury, Vol. 1, pl. 48, fig. 5.
LL. bifasciata Fabr. 2 Oliv. Enc. Meth. p. 561.
LL. versicolor Fabr. *,
L. trimaculata Deg. Ins. Vol. 3, pl. 26, fig. 2.
9 Destitute of the white wing-spots ; abdomen brownish-livid,
with a lateral vitta, which is gray, and becomes- gradually yellow
to the tip; beneath [21] with a yellow lateral vitta, being a
continuation of the posterior line of the pleura, and becoming
obsolete behind.
It is on the authority of Olivier, that I quote Degeer’s trima-
culata for this species, as I do not possess the work of the latter
author.
[This is S. pulchella Drury —UHLER. ]
7. L. TERNARIA.—Wings with a fuscous line or spot at base .
a spot or band in the middle and another near the tip.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
*, Head, a black line between the antennz; eyes above in
contact by a curved line; posterior lateral canthus of the eyes
with two yellow spots; pleura with two oblique lines; wings
with a pale ferruginous vitta, extending from the base along the
anterior submargin to the middle, thence along the margin to the
tip, interrupted by the stigma, which is black; on the middle of
the costal margin a fuscous spot, and from the stigma a fuscous
band, which does not reach the tip; at base of the posterior
wings, behind the vitta, is a rather large and conspicuous, irre-
gular, fuscous spot, reticulated with whitish nervures; anal
membrane white; margined cellules ten or eleven between the
middle and stigma; abdomen greenish-yellow at base, and black
at tip, with a yellow lateral vitta ; anal processes fusiform, black,
subacute ; inferior process hardly one-third as long as the others.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 397
9 The spot of the middle of the wing is extended into a
semifascia, and the subterminal band is more distinct; at the
base of the posterior wings is a black, securiform line, one-fourth
the length of the [22] wing, behind which isa large, pale ferru-
ginous spot, reticulated with whitish nervures.
Length one inch and seven-tenths.
At first sight resembles L. bifasciata Fabr., but is quite dif-
ferent; the ultimate wing band is not terminal, the anal pro-
cesses also are dissimilar.
I have not seen any other specimens than the sexes sent me
by Dr. Harris for examination.
In some of its characters it resembles the LZ. guadrimaculata
Linn., of Europe, but that has not the terminal wing bands.
[Subsequently described as L. semifasciata Burm. Handb. 2,
862: and LZ. maculata Rambur, Neuropt. 55.—UHtER. ]
8. L. Lepa.—Wings at tip, point on the costal margin, and
line at base, brown.
Inhabits the United States.
L. Lydia, Drury, Ins. Vol. 2, ea 47, fig. 1, and Oliv. Ency.
Meth. p. 570, No. 8.
Thorax brown, with a pale vitta; pleura greenish ; wings with
a blackish point on the middle of the costal margin, and oblong
blackish carpus ; terminal half of the anterior margins and tip
fuscous ; a slender black line, at base, equal in length to the
breadth of the body; abdomen with a broad, yellowish-rufous
lateral vitta ; anal segment remarkably short ; on each posterior
orbit of the eyes are two yellow spots.
Length about two inches.
Var. a. Fuscous tint on the anterior margin of the wings ob-
solete, being only a very slight tinge of ferruginous.
Drury’s figure represents this species very well, but the fuscous
tips of the wings are generally broader, though sometimes alto-
gether wanting. [23]
Olivier has two different species of the name of Lydia, both of
which he quotes from Drury. We have therefore changed the
name of the present species.
[The name L. Lydia Drury, 2, pl. 47, fig. 1, must be restored
to this species, as the other LZ. Lydia of the same author had been
1839.]
398 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
before deseribed by Degeer under another name. It is also L.
axilena Westw. Nat. Libr. 1, pl. 29, fig. 1—Unuer.]
9. L. quADRUPLA.—Thorax with a whitish vitta; abdomen
with a lateral, yellowish one ; wings with a bicolored stigma, and
basal blackish line.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
This insect very closelyr esembles L. Leda 8. It differs, how-
ever, in being smaller, and in haying the stigma larger, white,
with a black tip. The male is destitute of the black wing tips,
and like the female, has the exterior half of the costal margin
tinged slightly with ferruginous. The anal processes are short,
subcylindric, a little smaller at base, and beneath, towards the
tip, minutely denticulated ; at tip a small point.
The sexes were sent me by Dr. Harris.
Length from one inch and three-fifths to one inch and seven-
tenths.
10. L. BASALIS.—Wings fuscous on the basal half.
Inhabits the United States.
*, Body brownish-black ; head immaculate, dark bluish ; wings
dark fuliginous opaque, on the basal half, beyond which is a
broad, milk-white almost opaque band ; stigma blackish ; abdomen
somewhat depressed, of equal diameter nearly to the tip, dusky,
with a lateral dull yellowish vitta ; beneath black-brown.
Length nearly two inches.
[In a note attached to this description by Mr. Say, [24] is a
reference to L. marginata Degeer. Wings fuscous from the
base nearly to the middle.
Ix. dimidiata Fabr. V. Enc. Meth., refers to Seba, which is
quite different. Said to be from Surinam, and is much smaller,
to which species the above described insect seems to bear some
resemblance in the arrangement of its colors.—ED.]
[Synonym is Z. luctuosa Burm. Handb. 2, 861.—U ner. ]
11. L. eponina.—Upper wings bifasciate and with a spot
near the base ; lower wings with a band and interrupted one, and
subbasal line and spot.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Indiana.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 899
L. eponina Drury, Vol. 2, pl. 47, fig. 2. Oliv. Ene. Meth.
572, No. 10.
Wings pale ferruginous ; upper pair with a subbasal spot, band
in the middle, and another band before the stigma, fuscous; in-
ferior wings with a corresponding band towards the tip, inter-
rupted band in the middle, undulated, longitudinal line at the
base, and spot near the anal angle fuscous ; anal membrane white ;
stigma yellowish.
Length nearly one inch and a half.
A beautiful and strongly marked species.
12. L. acura.—Wings immaculate; body greenish-yellow ;
abdomen with the edges blackish.
Inhabits Mexico.
° Body greenish-yellow ; eyes approaching above, but hardly
touching, the nearest parts not rounded, almost acute ; orbits be-
fore and above with a black edge; stethidium immaculate ; ad-
domen pale yellowish-brown, yellowish green at base ; the acute
longitudinal edges, above and each side, black ; the [25] trans-
verse edges and a subbasal transverse line on each segments fus-
cous ; venter also with a black line; feet black; thighs yellow-
ish, with the spines black, and on the anterior pairs a line be-
neath.
Length one-inch and three-fifths.
The quadrilineate abdomen, with the subacute proximate per-
tion of the eyes distinguish this species ; the abdominal lines are
not dilated, but limited to the edge of the caring. The frontal
vesicle is greenish-yellow, with a dark transverse line at the an-
tenne.
[This is L. vesiculosa Fabr., Ent. Syst. 2, 377, (var. parv.)—
Unter. }
18. L. Berentce.—Frontal vesicle blue above ; wings ferrugin-
ous at base.
Inhabits the United States.
IL. Berenice Drury, Ins., Vol. 1, pl. 48, fig. 3.
Front whitish, steel-blue above; eyes obtuse above and con-
nate; trunk brownish, with two greenish-yellow vitte before, and
with three oblique broad and obvious yellow lines each side
under the wings; between the wings varied with blackish ;
1839.]
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wings immaculate, or with a tinge of ferruginous at their origin,
particularly of the posterior pair, and on the middle ; anal mem-
brane blackish ; stigma rather large and blackish ; feet black ;
coxee and trochanters yellow ; inferior side of the anterior thighs
yellow; abdomen with a dorsal black vitta, including the carina,
and a lateral black vitta above the lateral carina; lateral carina
black; these vittea are more and more widely confluent at the
sutures, towards the tip of the abdomen, which is entirely
black. [26 ]
Length from one inch and a half to one inch and three-quarters.
It may be distinguished by the blue top of the frontal vesicle,
and the ferruginous mark at base of the wings. The ferruginous
cloud on the middle of the wings is often altogether wanting.
It also varies in having no abdominal vitte, excepting a vestige
at base. The blue color sometimes extends down the front. The
abdomen is also sometimes blue, and the thorax sometimes black.
Drury describes the abdomen of the female as yellow, with black
annulations, and that of the male blue.
The inferior anal process is at least two-thirds the length of
the superior ones, which are arcuated, with a tooth beneath near
the tip, and at tip acute.
A specimen from Dr. Harris.
14. L. RusicunpuLA.—Abdomen sanguineous, with a lateral
black vitta; wings pale ferruginous at base; anal appendices in
the male with a tooth on the inferior middle.
Inhabits Indiana and Massachusetts.
Male.—yes brown, in contact above ; front greenish-white ;
mouth pale yellowish; thorax obscure brown, immaculate; be-
tween the wings a little tinged with dull sanguineous ; wings with
a very small ferruginous spot at base, not over one-tenth of an
inch in length, more evident on the inferior wings; stigma brown;
about nine marginal cellules between the stigma and middle of
the wings; tergum bright sanguineous, above carinate, immacu-
late, on each side a black line, which dilates [27] towards the
tip of each segment ; anal appendices deflected, longer than the
inferior conic one, mucronate, and with a strong tooth on the in-
ferior middle; feet blackish, venter pale.
Length one inch and a half.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 401
Variety.—The ferruginous tinge of the base of the wings, ex-
tending to the middle; that of the superior pair chiefly on the
anterior half of the wing; that of inferior pair more obvious,
much broader, extending nearly to the thinner margin.
Length one inch and two-fifths.
I have found many individuals of this species.
V. L. ferruginea Enc. Meth. 565.
15. L. seMicincrA.—Wings tinted on the basal half with pale
ferruginous ; anal processes with an angle beneath near the tip.
Inhabits Indiana and Massachusetts.
* Antennz black, with a blackish line between them: thorax
brownish ; pleura yellowish ; wings hyaline; stigma rather small,
its marginal nervures thick and black; basal half more or less
tinted with pale ferruginous, particularly on the inferior wings ;
about seven marginal cellules between the middle and the stigma ;
anal membrane white ; abdomen with a dorsal and lateral edge ;
paler at base, and with a lateral black line; anal processes de-
flected, rectilinear, cylindrical, with three or four minute denti-
culations beneath, an angle beneath near the tip, and the tip
acute ; inferior process extending nearly to the tip of the superior
pair.
Length about one inch. [28]
Very much like a small specimen of rubicundula 8., but dif-
fers in several characters, particularly in the anal processes, and
in the number of marginal cellules.
16. L. sSIMPLICICOLLIS.—Wings immaculate ; stethidium yel-
lowish ; abdomen pale brown, a little varied with black.
Inhabits Indiana and Massachusetts.
% Frontal vesicle pale greenish-yellow; a black band across
the antennz; occiput and posterior orbits black, with yellow
spots ; eyes acute above, almost meeting ; stethidium green-yel-
low, alternating with black at the superior base of the wings;
wings immaculate ; stigma fuscous ; anal membrane narrow, black ;
feet black; thighs on their posterior side brownish; abdomen
brownish, with slender incisural black lines and black edges to
the carinze ; a black spot on each, excepting the three basal ones ;
beneath black ; anal appendices very short, green, mucronate.
Length one inch and a half.
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Of the male I have but one specimen, which is of a greenish-
yellow color, with the sutures and abdominal spots contrasting
strikingly with it.
Dr. Harris sent me a specimen for examination.
[Synonyms, L. maculiventris Ramb. Neuropt. 87. 2D. cceru-
lans Ramb. ibid. 64.—UHLER. ]
17. L. opsoLeraA.—Wings with a submarginal series of six or
eight brown spots.
Inhabits Indiana and Massachusetts.
Body dusky; wings hyaline; anterior marginal and submar-
ginal longitudinal nervures dull yellowish: anterior wings with
a submarginal series of [29] small brownish spots from the base
to the middle, the latter spot largest, transverse, and reaching
the anterior edge; posterior wings with six corresponding sub-
marginal spots; a fuscous spot at the anal base of each wing;
anal membrane black, with its basal half white; stigma dull yel-
lowish; abdomen with the incisures black, a dorsal and lateral
carinated line; feet with black spines.
Length about one inch and three-fifths.
The pleura and base of the abdomen are somewhat marked
with brighter yellow. The brown spots of the anal base and the
submarginal spots of the wings, are sometimes obsolete, or alto-
gether wanting anal appendices $ arcuated, unarmed; inferior
process a little curved upward, over three-fourths the length of
the superior pair.
A female specimen sent me for examination by Dr. Harris
has the spots of the anal base of the wings more obvious.
[Synonym LL. polysticta Burm. Handb. 2, 856 ; belongs to Cor-
dulia Leach.—U LER. |
18. L. Exusta.—Wings with a fuscous spot at base; anal
processes subequal.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
$ Body yellowish-brown, covered with a cinereous pubescence ;
a black line between the antenne; eyes in contact by a small
portion of their superior curvature; thorax above pale brownish
with a yellowish-green vitta from the anterior wings forward ;
wings hyaline, very slightly tinted with yellowish; costal cellules,
between the middle of the wing and the stigma, about twelve or
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 403
thirteen ; stigma yellowish; a fuscous longitudinal spot on the
middle [30] of the base of the superior wings as long as the
width of the thorax; a large, triangular, fuscous spot at the
base of the inferior wings, a little longer than that of the upper
wing; anal membrane white ; abdomen with a dorsal and lateral
edge; anal processes somewhat linear, a little arcuated, not nar-
rowed at base, minutely denticulated towards the tip, which is
acute; inferior processes nearly as long as the others.
Length one inch and two-fifths.
I have not seen the female. From Dr. Harris.
19. L. cynosunA.—Posterior wings with a small fuscous spot
at base ; anal processes excurved.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
% Body brownish ; head with a black line between the an-
tennz ; tubercle above the antennz large; eyes in contact above
by a curved line ; pleura pale greenish, a yellow band beneath the
anterior wings; wings hyaline ; anteriors immaculate ; about six
costal cellules between the middle and the stigma, which is dull
yellowish ; posterior pair with the basal, costal, and subcostal
cellules fuscous, and an irregular fuscous spot between them and
the anal angle; anal membrane white; abdomen with a dorsal
and lateral edge; on each side, near the base, a yellow spot, be-
yond which is a honey-yellow vitta: anal processes longer than
the caudal and ultimate segment of the abdomen together a lit-
tle dilated and curved outwards towards the tip, which is rounded,
abruptly narrowed beneath towards the base ; inferior process
two-thirds the length ef the superior ones. [31 ]
Length one inch and a half.
Resembles exusta, but differs in the number of costal cellules
and in the form and length of the ana! processes.
It was sent to me by Dr. Harris. |
[Belongs to Hpitheca, and is perhaps EL. semiaquea ? Burm.—
UHLER. |
20. L. Tenera.—Wings with an abbreviated band and sub-
basal spot.
Inhabits Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.
Body fuscous; frontal vesicle yellowish, brownish above ;
eyes contiguous above; thorax with two bread glaucous vitte
1839. ]
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before ; pleura with two oblique glaueous wide lines ; wings hya-
line, a fuscous, undulated band on the middle, not reaching the
thinner margin; a fuscous spot midway between the band and
base, somewhat larger on the posterior wings; costal margin
slightly tinted with ferruginous; stigma brown; anal membrane
small, white ; abdomen rather wide, second and third segments
with a transverse, elevated line on their middle; feet yellowish.. ~
Length nine-tenths of an inch.
It has some resemblance to JL: varia Linn., but is a very dif-
ferent species. It is not uncommon, but is more limited than
some other species to the immediate vicinity of ponds and slug-
gish waters.
21. L. renurcrnerta.—Small ; wings ferraginous.
Inhabits the United States.
Body fuscous, small ; eyes meeting above ; front yellow; above
fuscous ; thorax immaculate, somewhat hairy ; pleara with about
two yellow spots; [82] wings entirely ferruginous; stigma
darker, reddish; anal membrane small, blackish; feet dull yel-
lowish ; tergum with a very slender, bright yellow, transverse
line at each incisure; anal appendices areuated mucronate; In-
ferior process nearly as long.
Length over four-fifths of an inch.
This small species is common in many parts of the Union, fly-
ing rather slowly over the surface of ponds, and, like other spe-
cies, settling upon sticks and other objects that project above the
surface.
V. L. obscura. Ene. Meth., 562-
Is it the male of tenera ?
[This is the male of L. tenera Say, and is properly L. domitia
Drury, 2, pl. 45, fig. 4, of which Z. chlora Rambur is a male
variety.—UHLER. ]
The following note, taken at the island of Senpuxten, on the
eastern shore of Maryland, I find amongst my papers.
L. mpuTa.—%, Abdomen red; segments black at tip; thorax
green ; frontal vesicle bluish ; eyes darker.
Abdomen greenish ; segments black at tips.
T have not observed this species in Indiana.
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GF PHILADELPHIA. 405
CALEPTERYX Leach.
1. C. MATERNA.—Wings steel-blue, with a tings of brown; a
white, opaque, costal spot near the tip.
Libellula virgo. y. Drury, Ins. Vel. 1, pl. 48, fig. 2.
{This is the female of C. xquabilis, both are preoccupied by
_ Westwood, Drury, Ill. 1, pl. 48, fig. 2, whe gives the name (.
virginica.—U HLER. |
2. C. opAcA.—Bluish green, wings darker, immaculate.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
% Body bluish-green, or blue, varied with green; [33] be-
neath blackish ; antennz, second and third joints equally long ;
wings subopaque, blackish-blue, with a tinge of brown, destitute
of any costal spot ; abdomen blue, segments at their tips green-
ish; feet black.
Length about one inch and seven-tenths.
Var.? Wings nearly hyaline, only tinged with the color.
For this species I am indebted to Dr. Harris.
[Was previously described by Beauvois as C. maculata, pl. 7,
fig. 3—U Her. |
3. C. QUABILIS.—Blue and green; wings hyaline, a large
blackish spot at tip.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
% Head and thorax green, tinged with blue ; labrum blackish
violaceous ; antennz, second joint rather longer than the third ;
wings hyaline, without any costal spot, a large fuliginous black-
ish spot at tip, occupying the fourth of the length on the anterior
pair, and the third of the posterior pair; abdomen blue ; beneath
blackish, towards the tip greenish; anal processes covered in-
wards, and towards the tip a little downwards, of equal diameter,
excepting that on the inner side they are a little dilated beyond
the middle, upper side a little spinous; at tip obtuse ; inferior
processes two, rectilinear, cylindrical, a little shorter than the
superior pair, dilated on their inner base; pectus and feet black.
Length less than two inches.
A female specimen, also sent me by Dr. Harris, may, perhaps,
be of the same species, inasmuch as the wing-spots correspond,
except in being paler; but the wings have an opaque white spot
near the costal tip. [34]
1889.]
406 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
LESTES Leach.
1. L. REcTANGULARIS.—Wings divaricated ; foreeps aeutely
bidentate beneath.
Inhabits Indiana and Massachusetts.
$ Body dull greenish, more or less tinged with eupreous ;
head above black, with a very slight eoppery tinge: each side of
the mouth yellow; labrum bluish yellow; mandibles piceous at
tip; eyes (when recent) ultramarine; thorax with the dorsal
suture and lateral vitta, varying from pale yellowish to verditer
green ; wings hyaline, cellules chiefly pentagonal ; stigma black-
ish, its length nearly three times greater than its breadth ; abdo-
men nearly as long again as the wings; tergum with the basal
segments a little paler, darker at their tips, and with a hardly ob-
vious whitish, interrupted band at their bases; ultimate seg-
ments much darker; anal segment with a longitudinal carina
beyond the middle ; forceps shorter than the two ultimate seg-
ments taken together, with two oblique, very acute teeth be-
neath ; beyond the middle curved downward and inward, so as
to become nearly perpendicular to the basal half; inferior pro-
cesses almost reaching the incurved tip of the forceps; beneath
pale, whitish, more or less tinged with yellowish-green.
Length over two inches.
¢ Abdomen much shorter than in the male; tergum with a
more obvious cupreous color ; feet (as in the male) pale yellow-
ish, with two black lines on the thighs and one on the tibi. [35]
Length one inch and seven-tenths.
This species made its appearance here about the middle of
August. It may at once be distingushed, when at rest, from the
apicalis, by its divaricating wings. It resembles a South Ameri-
can species, which, not finding described, I have called undulata,*
but the abdomen of that insect is much shorter.
*L. unpULATA.—Wings divaricated ; forceps undulated at tip.
Inhabits South America.
% Body pale; head with a broad green band between the eyes ; thorax
with a double green vitta; wings hyaline; cellules chiefly pentagonal;
stigma light brown; abdomen not one-third longer than the wings, cop-
pery green above, whitish at tip; forceps as long as the two preceding
segments taken together, undulated at tip; on the basal half not dilated,
and having beneath two remote teeth, of which the basal one is very
obtuse in form of a lobe.
Length one inch and three-fifths.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 407
2. L. BASALIS.—Wings sanguineous at base.
Inhabits Missouri, Indiana and Massachusetts.
% Head cupreous; thorax cupreous, with black sutures; pleura
with yellowish, oblique lines; wings with quadrangular cellules
and an oblong dusky carpus; basal fourth, bright sanguineous ;
pectus yellowish; feet black; tibise exteriorly dull yellow; abdo-
men steel-blue, with slender white incisures; beneath yellowish,
with a black middle line ; forceps arcuated, spinous above, with a
large double tooth beneath ; tip obtuse.
Length one inch and three-fourths.
2 Body green; head with a yellow, abbreviated line on the
anterior orbits, yellow nasal margin and labrum; thorax with a
lateral yellow vitta; wings tinted with yellow-brown towards the
base ; [36] carpus white; abdomen with a slender, longitudinal line,
and slender basal annulation on each segment; beneath whitish,
with a black line; feet black; thighs yellowish beneath; tibia
yellowish above.
Length over one inch and three-fourths,
Of this fine species, Mr. Nuttall presented me two individuals
which he obtained from Missouri. The bright sanguineous color
of the wings in one sex terminates abruptly, and in the other the
very pale yellowish-brown color of the same part gradually disap-
pears towards the middle.
In the A. cata Drury of South America, (A. Brightwelli Kirby?)
the inferior pair of wings have a reddish spot at tip.
It is very abundant in some situations in Indiana, and is easily
- taken.
[This is Heterina americana Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 237.—
UBLER. |
3. L. EURINUS.—Wings immaculate; forceps curved inward,
bidentate.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
% Body blue, somewhat varied with greenish and violaceous ;
pectus beneath yellowish ; antennze, second joint shorter than the
the third; labrum and each side of the mouth yellowish ; thorax
with a yellow vitta, behind bifid and divaricated; between the
wings yellowish; pleura chiefly yellow; wings with a slight tinge
of greenish-yellow; stigma blackish; abdomen blue, segments
1839.]
408 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
greenish at tip; beneath, a black vitta, and segments blackish be-
hind; forceps curved inward, bidentate beneath; inferior pro-
cesses conic, less than half as long as the forceps; feet black;
thighs whitish beneath; tibie with a white line on the exterior
side.
Length one inch and nine-tenths. [37]
The body is much shorter, and the wings longer than the
rectangular 8., which it resembles; the inferior anal processes
also are shorter, and the superior pair not decurved so much.
From Dr. Harris.
AGRION.
1. A. verticaLts.—Head green, blackish above; occiput
with a bluish spot on each side.
Inhabits Indiana.
*, Body above dark bluish, somewhat glaucous, with an obso-»
lete brassy reflection ; head light green ; above and behind black,
with an obsolete brassy reflection ; frontal projection black above,
sometimes connected by this color with the color of the vertex ;
eyes bright yellow green, fuscous on the superior surface ; occi-
put witha dilated pearlaceous blue or glaucous spot each side;
hairs numerous and rather long; thorax with numerous, rather
long hairs; a brassy vitta and lateral black lines ; wings hyaline;
cellules chiefly quadrangular; stigma short, rhomboidal, brown-
ish; tergum slightly pruinose, tips of the segments a little darker,
and extreme base of the segments with an obsolete yellowish
band; terminal segments a little darker and slightly iridescent ;
venter pale green or gray, with a black line; pectus and pleura
greenish ; feet greenish ; thighs black above ; tibia with a black
line on the exterior side.
Length one inch.
9 Body of a darker color than that of the male; the eyes are
black above ; the occipital spots are [$8] small and orbicular ; the
tergum is brassy-green, with a very narrow, white, interrupted
band at base of each segment; two ultimate segments bright
pearly blue; anal segment on the superior tip with an emar-
ginate, slight elevation.
Length one inch.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 409
This species is not abundant. I obtained several specimens in
August.
2. A. HASTATA.—Stigma almost detached from the margin,
sanguineous.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Head greenish ; above dark metallic-greenish ; eyes green,
above blackish ; frontal projection blackish above: occiput with
an orbicular glaucous dot each side; mouth yellowish ; thorax
brassy-greenish, sometimes tinged with blue; a slender pale line
each side of the back ; wings with chiefly rhomboidal cellules ;
stigma of the superior obovate acute, connected with the edge of
the wing only by a short petiole, sanguineous ; stigma of the in-
ferior wings rhomboidal, blackish : abdomen bright yellow ; ter-
gum with green hastate spots and lines; two or three ultimate
segments immaculate ; anal segment with an elevated, prominent
spine-like process, bifid at tip; two very small, incurved, lateral
hooks ; venter with a slender, blackish line; pleura, pectus and
feet pale green ; thighs with a black line towards their tip, obso-
lete on the posterior pair.
Length over nine-tenths of an inch.
The edge of the superior wing, opposite to the stigma isa
little convex and white. [39 |
¢ Head yellowish ; above dark metallic-greenish ; eyes above
light brown, and beneath this color is an obsolete parallel line ;
occiput with the two spots connected by a paler line; thorax on
each side with an obscure tinge of fulvous ; stigma of the superior
wings not separate from the edge, rhomboidal, yellowish-white ;
tergum green, tinged with dull fulvous each side before the mid-
dle; tail with two small angulated processes beneath, which do
not extend beyond the extremity of the abdomen.
Var. a. Occiput fulvous ; the fulvous color of the sides of the
thorax and of the abdomen is more vivid and on the latter pre-
vailing so that the green of the tergum is obsolete before the
middle.
It is common in August, in meadows.
[This is A. venerinotatum, Hald. Pr. Acad. 2, 55; also the
same as A. anomalum Ramb. 281.—UH ER. ]
1839.]
410 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
3. A. ANTENNATA.—A glaucous occipital band; two basal
joints of the antenne subequal.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body obscure bluish-green, somewhat metallic; head green
before ; mouth yellow; vertex and occiput black, the latter with
a glaucous band, clavate each side; eyes dark greenish, above
blackish ; antennz with the two basal joints much thicker than the
others, equal in length, the first cylindric, the second attenuated
at base; thorax with a glaucous vitta each side of the back ;
wings hyaline ; cellules chiefly quadrangular ; stigma rhomboidal,
not longer than broad; tergum with a glaucous band ‘at base of
each segment; the green color at tip extends upon the sides ;
venter glaucous, with a black line; pleura glaucous; pectus
paler ; feet whitish, with a [40] broad black line on the thighs,
and another on the tibize, excepting the posterior ones.
Length one inch and two-fifths.
This species is smaller than apicalis, and larger than either
verticalis or hastata nob., and is distinguished from them by the
elongation of the basal cylindric joint of the antenne being
equal in length to the second joint.
4. A. APICALIS.—Two or three ultimate abdominal segments
pearlaceous blue above.
Inhabits the United States.
Head pale brown; a black band on the vertex between the
eyes, and sometimes two black circles; thorax pale brown, or
bluish pearly, with black sutures; wings hyaline, with chiefly
quadrangular cellules ; carpus short, rhomboidal, brown, or dull
whitish ; nervures black; abdomen black-green; segments ex-
cepting the terminal three, with a dull whitish, basal annulus,
from which proceeds a slender line, and on the side, a broader
one of the same color, neither of which reach the tip of the seg-
ment; three ultimate segments dull yellowish, or cerulean pearla-
ceous above and on each side; pleura and pectus pale yellowish ;
feet pale yellow; thighs lineated with brown; tarsi with black
incisures and extremity.
Length one inch and a half.
A yery common species, remarkable, when recent, by the color
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 411
of the tip of the abdomen and of the thorax, which arrests the
attention when the insect is on the wing. [41]
But it varies much in color. The vitte of the abdomen are
more or less dilated, sometimes hardly visible; the head and
thorax are, in some individuals pearlaceous-blue, and the ultimate
abdominal segment varies from dull yellowish, with blackish lines,
to a bright pearl-blue, sometimes dull-yellowish with a pearlace-
ous-blue lateral spot on each.
It is very common.
The female has two small angulated processes beneath the tail,
which do not extend beyond the tip of the abdomen, the nails at
their extremities are curved downwards; the hooks at the tip of
abdomen of the male are not obvious.
The description is from recent specimens. The fine blue color
disappears in the cabinet specimens.
BAXTIS Leach. ‘
1. B. rvrerpuncrata.—Whitish ; head greenish; ‘segments
of the tergum black on the posterior edges.
Tnhabits Indiana.
Body yellowish-white, tinged with green; head rather promi-
nent, yellow-green ; vertex with a lateral black point; eyes with
a longitudinal black line; stemmata distant, each with a black
orbit ; anterior one less than half the size of the others; seta of
the antenne black; front with a black angular line under the
antenne; neck distinct, separating the head from the trunk, with
a black line each side ; thorax somewhat brownish ; wings on the
anterior margin greenish, with black cross nervures, and a dis-
tinct, black, abbreviated, longitudinal [42] line on the middle,
between the third and fourth nervures; feet greenish ; anterior
and intermediate pairs of thigl§ biannulate with blackish, poste-
rior pair tipped with dusky ; tergum with the posterior edge of
the incisures black; setae immaculate.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
The small black spot on the middle of the costal margin is very
obvious. The abdomen at tip is more or less obviously ferru-
ginous.
1839.]
412 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
2. B. ArniDA.—Brownish ; posterior pairs of feet and sete
white.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body reddish-brown, with dusky incisures; head rather pro-
minent, whitish, varied with ferruginous; vertex with a small
black spot each side on the orbit; eyes rufous, with a whitish
vitta; stemmata prominent, approximate; anterior one nearly as
large as the others; wings immaculate, inferior pair more than
one-third the length of the other; anterior tibie whitish, obscure
at base and tip; posterior pairs of feet and sete greenish-white ;
tergum with the posterior margins of the segments.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
It occurs about the middle of June.
3. B. vertricis.—Yellowish-white ; head and double thoracic
vitta ferruginous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body yellowish-white ; head sessile; vertex ferruginous; thorax
with two ferruginous vittee, confluent before, and becoming obso-
lete behind; wings with the nervures, except those of the margin,
[43] black; inferior wings not extending beyond the fourth ab-
dominal segments; sete hardly longer than the body, the inci-
sures black; feet white; anterior thighs ferruginous at tip; an-
terior tibize at tip, and their tarsal incisures, fuscous.
Length over one-fourth of an inch, of the sete over three-
tenths.
Caught in the window in August.
4. B. opesA.—Body short; wings blackish, with a hyaline
spot, and numerous smaller ones.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body very short, robust, blackish livid; wings dark brown or
blackish, with numerous small, transverse, hyaline, very oblique,
semifasciz about the middle on the anal half; inferior pair ex-
cepting on the apical margin with numerous transverse, abbre-
viated, hyaline lines ; abdomen with a dull, rufous, livid margin
to the segments; sete very short, hairy, with black incisures ;
feet pale yellowish ; incisures of the tarsi black
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
This species is not common.
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OF PHILADELPHIA. 413
The wings are longer than the body, and the sete not longer
than the abdomen.
EPHEMERA.
E. winaris.—Minute, white ; stethidium pale fulvous; abdo-
men with three lateral points.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body white; eyes black, double ; stethidium pale [44] ful-
yous; pleura and pectus with a few abbreviated dusky lines;
wings two, ample, costal margin slightly dusky; abdomen de-
pressed, with three brownish punctures on each side towards the
tip; seta elongated.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
The smallest species I have seen. IJ caught several of them
about the candle, on the evening of September 4th. They vary
in having the brownish lines of the pleura and pectus obsolete,
or altogether wanting.
FORMICALEO Geoff.
1. F. opsoterus.—Antenne white in the middle; abdomen
with white bands.
Inhabits the United States.
Head dull whitish, with a broad, dark, honey-yellow band be-
tween the eyes; antennz fuscous, middle fourth whitish ; thorax
dull whitish ; wings hyaline: anterior pair with a few obsolete,
small, brownish spots or transverse abbreviated ‘lines, two of
which on the posterior margin are oblique, and a somewhat
larger one on the costal margin near the tip ; posterior pair with
fewer spots, about three or four subcostal distant ones, and a
large one on the terminal fourth, and a less obvious apical one ;
abdomen blackish, with a whitish band on each segment; be-
neath with a broad blackish vitta each side over the feet from
the head to the abdomen; feet fuscous, posterior pair with a
white annulus towards the tip, and at base and their tibia
whitish. [45]
Length of body about one inch.
This species is rather common.
2. F.? @RaAtaA.—Wings at tip varied with black and pale car-
neous.
1839.]
414 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish ; head and thorax varied with yellowish ; wings,
on the apical third, varied with flesh color, and a large trifarious
undulated, blackish mark; superior pair with a few blackish
spots on the middle nervures, and on those of the anterior sub-
margin; feet fuscous, with a yellowish Jine.
Length to the tip of the wings, about two inches.
This beautiful species is very rare.
A specimen was presented to me by Mrs. Corson ; it was taken
at her residence, near Evansville, Indiana.
Thd palpi in the specimen are deficient.
[This is Myrmeleon roseipennis Burm. 2, 995.—UntER. ]
CHRYSOPA Leach.
C. ocuLATA.—Pea-green; head and thorax spotted; tarsi
brownish.
Inhabits the United States.
Antenne pale brownish ; first joint white, with a sanguineous
band at base above, second joint black; eyes golden; palpi al-
ternately black and white; labrum with two dilated sanguineons
vittze ; between the eye and mouth is a black, angulated line ;
base of the anteunz enclosed by two black circles; which are
tinged with sanguineous above; above each antenna are two
blackish spots, of which the anterior ones are sometimes con-
fluent with the [46] circles of the antennz ; thorax with two
series of three blackish spots in each, and two or three lateral
spots; wings hyaline, iridescent, haying the transverse nervures
varied with black; tarsi pale brownish-yellow.
Length to the tip of the wings three-fifths of an inch.
This beautiful little insect is very common. When irritated,
it diffuses a strong offensive odor, similar to that of human ex-
erement. It is the analogue of the C. perla L., with which I
have hitherto confounded it, but, judging by Donovan’s figure,
it is never so large. Donovan says the perla stinks before a
storm; our species has always that quality when irritated or
alarmed.
[This is C. euryptera Burm. 2, 980.—Un Ler. ]
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 415
[From the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New
Series, vol. 1, 1818, pp. 401-426.]
A Monograph of North American insects, of the gonus CICINDELA.
Read, 7th November, 1817.
Tt will perhaps be thought necessary, previous to entering into
a technical detail of the characters of the genus Cicindela, and
of the indigenous individuals which are comprehended by it, that
some account of the manners of this sprightly tribe should be
given, and of such circumstances, relating to them, as may serve
to present them to the recollection of the general observer. [I
shall accordingly proceed to state, that thése insects usually fre-
quent arid, denudated soils; are very agile, run with greater celer-
ity than the majority of the vast order to which they belong; and
rise upon the wing, almost with the facility of the common fly.
They are always to be seen, during the warm season, in roads or
pathways, open to the sun, where the earth is beaten firm and
level. At the approach of the traveller, they fly up suddenly to
the height of a few feet, pursuing then a horizontal course, and
alighting again at a short distance in advance, as suddenly as
they arose. The same individual may be roused again and again,
but when he perceives himself the object of a particular pursuit,
he evades the danger by a distant and circuitous flight, usually
directed towards his original station. It is worthy of observation,
as a peculiarity common to the species, that when they alight,
after having been driven from [402] their previous position, they
usually perform an evolution in the air near the earth, so as to
bring the head in the direction of the advancing danger, in order
to be the more certainly warned of its too near approach.
They lead a predatory life, and as it would appear, are well
adapted to it, by their swiftness, and powerful weapons of attack.
The beaten path, or open sandy plain, is preferred, that the
operations of the insects may not be impeded by the stems and
leaves of vegetables, through which, owing to their elongated
feet, they pass with evident difficulty and embarrassment. They
416 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
prey voraciously upon the smaller and weaker insects, upon larvee
and worms, preferring those whose bodies are furnished with a
membranaceous cuticle, more readily permeable to their instru-
menta cibaria.
The same rapacity is observable in the larva, or imperfect stage
of existence, of these insects, that we have occasion to remark in
the parent; but not having been endowed by nature with the
same light and active frame of body, they are under the neces-
sity of resorting to stratagem and ambuscade for the acquisition
of the prey, which is denied to their sluggish gait. The remark
is, I believe, generally correct, though liable to many signal ex-
ceptions, that carnivorous animals display more cunning, industry,
and intelligence, than those whose food is herbs, for the acquisi-
tion of which, fewer of the mental attributes are requisite; we
see throughout the amimated creation, that the development of
these qualities, as well as of the corporeal functions, are in exact
correspondence with their necessities; and that where a portion
of the one is withheld, an additional proportion of the other is
imparted. This larva has a very large head, elongated abdomen,
and six short feet placed near the head; when walking, the body
rests upon the earth, and is dragged forward slowly by the feet.
Notwithstanding these disadvantages they contrive means to ad-
minister plentifully to an appetite, sharpened by a rapid increase
of size. A cylindrical hole is dug in the ground to a consider-
able depth, by means of the feet and mandibles, and the earth
transported from it, on the concave surface of the head; this cell is
enlarged [403] and deepened, as the inhabitant increases in size,
so that its diameter is always nearly equal to that of the head. At
the surface of the earth they lay in wait for their prey, nicely
closing the orifice of the hole by the depressed head, that the
plain may appear uninterrupted; when an incautious or unsus-
pecting insect approaches sufficiently near, it is seized by a sudden
effort of the larva, and hurried to the bottom of the dwelling, to
be devoured at leisure. These holes we sometimes remark, dug
in a footpath ; they draw the eye by the motion of the inhabitant
retreating from the surface, alarmed at the approach of danger.
I shall now proceed to offer some remarks on the affinities of
this genus, and endeavor to point out the differential traits, by
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 417
which it may be distinguished from its congeners. Cicindela,
according to Linnzus, included not only all the insects, which
would at this day be referred to it, but many others, which, how-
ever closely allied by habit, are widely distinct in the formation
of their oral organs. These were separated by the celebrated
systematists, Fabricius and Latreille, into several new genera, to
which well defined essential characters have been affixed. These
separations have been made upon the best possible grounds; the
convenience of the student, and the approximation to natural
method. So circumscribed, Cicinde/a presents a natural group,
in which each individual so perfectly corresponds with the others,
as well in its internal organization and parts of the mouth, as in
habit, or general form of the body, that the entomologist finds
no difficulty in distinguishing it from insects of neighboring
genera, and referring it to its relative situation.
The genera to which allusion is here made, as having affinity
with the one under consideration, are principally Colliuris, Ther-
ates, Megacephala, Manticora, Elaphrus, and Notiophilus. In
constructing the essential character, I have endeavored to ascer-
tain such traits as will at once, invariably, distinguish Cicindela
from all other known genera of the Pentamerous Coleoptera, and
prevent the occurrence of error in the reference of species to it.
In external form, Cicindela [404] borders very closely upon the
genera here enumerated, and in addition to evidence of frequent re-
currence, furnishes us with ample proof, that if habit was the only
character consulted in the formation of a system, animals of very
different modes of life, and totally distinct in nature, would be
blended together by artificial violence. Of the genera above
mentioned, the two last are very distinct from Cicindela, by the
inarticulated maxillary nail, and by a deep sinus on the inner
edge of the anterior tibia, characters which at once approach
them to the Carati, notwithstanding the almost perfect similarity
which Elaphrus bears to Cicindela in miniature, by the form and
proportions of its body. The mentum or chin also of the former
is not divided as it is in the latter genus, and it is worthy of
particular remark, that in Notiophilus there exists the spine and
recipient cavity of Elater. Colliuris is composed of two species,
natives of the East Indies, and one of South America, distin-
1818.] 27
418 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
guished by the cylindrically-conic thorax, more elongated body,
and narrow, transverse mentum, which is widely emarginated,
without a conspicuous inner division, but in other respects much
resembling Cicindela. A genus has been lately formed by Mr.
Latreille, under the name of Therates, for an insect of the South
Sea Islands, which Fabricius had named C. labiata. This has a
strikingly discrepant peculiarity in the form of the intermediate
palpi, which are abbreviated into a spine-like process. Manticora
includes two species, indigenous to the Cape of Good Hope,
which resemble Cicindela by the form of the mentum, in which
there is scarcely any difference; the jaws also are similar, and the
mandibles not unlike; but a good distinctive character rests in
the palpi, of which the posterior are larger than the intermediate
ones; the abdomen also is somewhat pedunculated, and embraced
each side by the elytra. The last proximate genus which I shall
notice, is that of Megacephala, of which at least two species, the ~
Carolina and Virginica, are natives of this country, and are
principally found in the Southern States. In this genus, as in
those before adverted to, there is no difficulty in pointing out
good and substantial characters, by which [ 405 ] it may be read-
ily known; the anterior palpi are elongated, and reflected, not
equal to the intermediate ones, as in Cicindela ; the inner divis-
ion of the mentum is much shorter and the front of the head
convex.
Having thus noted the differences existing between this genus
and each of its neighboring genera, I shall next proceed to lay
down its characters, distinguishing them into Essential, Artifi-
cial'and Natural, for the first of which the preceding remarks
will furnish materials ; and finally, I shall endeavor to describe
the species with such accuracy and detail, that they may be
readily known.
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 419
Order V.—COLEOPTERA.
Section I. PENTAMERA.—Family I. EnromopHaca.—Tribe T.
CICINDELET®.
CICINDELA.
Cicindela Linn. Fabr. Latr.
Buprestes Geoff.
Lissential Character —Maxille monodactyle ; mentum trifid,
inner division scarcely shorter ; intermediate and posterior palpi
subequal, filiform ; tibize simple.
Artificial Character —Antennze filiform; clypeus shorter than
the labrum ; maxillez with two very distinct palpi, of which the
exterior one is nearly equal to the labial palpi, penultimate joint
of the latter hairy ; [406] mentum trifid, the divisions nearly
equal in length ; feet slender, elongated. Anterior tibia with-
out a sinus near the tip.
Natural Character.—Body oblong, of a medium size, agile,
winged, hairy, above depressed, and punctured.
Head as large as the thorax, exserted, inclined, suboval. Ver-
tex rugose, elevated each side upon the eyes, concave on the disk.
Antenne filiform, eleven-jointed, shorter than the body, first joint
dilated,attenuated at base, and inserted in the anterior canthus
of the eye, with which and with the clypeus it is nearly in comtact ;
second joint very small, rounded, third cylindrical, longest, and
with the next dilated at tip, succeeding ones subequal, or gradu-
ally decreasing in length, and furnished with a few rigid hairs
at their tips, terminal one obtuse. Clypeus transverse, very short,
contracted in the middle. Labrum coriaceous, very large, trans-
verse, often dentated, exserted, prominent. Mandibles advanced,
prominent, attenuated and incurved towards the tip, dentate
within, a large compound tooth at the base, and about three
other distinct ones nearer the tip. Maxille corneous, recurved,
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420 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
linear, a little gibbous at the insertion of the palpi, deeply ciliate
with rigid bristles within, and armed with a terminal, distinct,
moveable, partly incurved nail. Palpi six, filiform; anterior
pair biarticulate, first joint elongated, rectilinear, a little dilated
at tip, almost attaining the apex of the maxilla, second joint
linear, incurved over the point of the maxilla and attaining the
termination of the nail. Intermediate palpi with the preceding,
situate on the back of the maxilla, quadriarticulate, first joint
[407] abbreviated, attenuated at its insertion, second joint cylin-
dric, elongated beyond the tip of the maxilla and equa to the
two succeeding ones conjointly, third shorter than the terminal
one, gradually dilated to the apex, fourth somewhat enlarged to-
wards the extremity, truncate. Posterior, or labial palpi pe-
dunculated, approximate at base, nearly equal to the preceding
pair, triarticulate, first Joint minute, attaining the tip of the in-
ner division of the mentum, second elongated, cylindric, very
hairy above, terminal one glabrous, half as long as the preceding,
truncate at summit. Labium membranaceous, short, concealed
behind the mentum. Mentum, corneous, transverse, somewhat
concave, trifid, inner division conic, as long or nearly so as the
lateral ones, and a little more advanced, lateral ones dilated, and
rounded on the external margin, tip conic, the separating sinuses
admitting the free motion of the labial palpi. Eyes large, very
prominent, reticulate, obovate, distant from the thorax.
Trunk.—Thorax subquadrate, length and breadth nearly equal,
generally with an anterior and posterior impressed, transverse line
connected by a dorsal, longitudinal one giving to the disk a bilobate
appedrance. Scutel triangular, conspicuous, acutely margined.
Pectus hairy, punctured or scabrous, brilliant, prominent between
the anterior coxee, (sternum) about half as long as the cox, con-
eave at tip. Epigastrium usually hairy, punctured, brilliant.
Klytra rigid, as long as the abdomen, depressed, incumbent not
deflected, rounded behind, wider than the thorax, humerus pro-
minent, rounded before, suture and margin nearly parallel, disk
punctured, granulated, granule exceedingly minute. [408]
Wings, hyaline, with a few nerves; costal margin strong, stigma
dilated, with three hyaline spots. Feet elongated, sub-compress-
ed, slender, formed for running; hind pair longest; anterior
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pair shortest; coxee of the four anterior ones conic-ovate, of the
posterior pair minute and concealed ; trochanters of the two an-
terior pairs subtriangular, of the posterior ones large, reniform
and prominent; thighs nearly equal to the tibise, two anterior
pairs, a little dilated near the base and attenuated towards the
tip, hind pair linear ; tibize slender, linear, not emarginate with-
in, heel armed with two spines; tarsi five-articulate, filiform,
longer than the tibiz, joints cylindrical, first joint longest, second,
third and fourth gradually decreasing in length, the latter not
bilobate, terminal joint as long as the third and furnished with
two simple, incurved, acute nails; first, second and third joints
of the anterior pairs in the male dilated, hairy beneath.
Abdomen.—Subcordate or subtriangular, of six distinct seg-
ments, five in the female; tergum concave on the disk, with an
elevated margin ; venter convex, first segment divided into two re-
mote, almost triangular portions, forming the anterior lateral angles,
second segment with two deep, rounded sinuses near the middle
for the reception of the third pair of cox, separated by a sub-
triangular, obtuse portion of the segment ; third, fourth and fifth
subequal, conspicuously falcate behind at the margin, rather di-
ninishing in size, the last more rapidly narrowed in the male,
the sixth segment with an obtuse sinus at the middle tip; tail
convex above, truncate beneath, with a deeply indented line near
the tip in the female.
Larva.—Body soft, cylindrical, elongated, whitish, with a
double, erect, dorsal spine on the eighth segment; [409] head
coriaceous, colored, depressed and concave above, beneath con-
vex, much broader than the body, rounded, furnished with
strong, prominent mandibles, short antennze and two stemmata
on each side ; first, second and third segments, each furnished
beneath with a pair of scaly feet, the former with a coriaceous
disk ; tail simple.
Food.—Insects, worms, &e, in the different stages of their ex-
istence.
Season.—Spring, summer, autumn.
Color.—Green, purplish or black, often varied with the two for-
mer, and exhibiting brilliant metallic tints, the elytra usually
with abbreviated bands, lunules, and spots of white or yellow.
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422 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Obs. The sexes may be distinguished from each other by the
three first anterior tarsal joints of the male being dilated, and
hairy beneath ; the last segment of the body, with an obtuse sinus.
The tarsi of the female are simple, the tail canaliculate towards
the tip.
1. C. vunGaris.—Obscure, on each elytron three whitish
bands, two of which are curved, and the intermediate one re-
fracted.
Length more than three-fifths of an inch.
Tnhabits North America.
Desc. Head blackish or obscure cupreous, green at base above,
front with cinereous hair; antenne, first, second, third and
fourth joints green, furnished with a few white hairs before, ori-
gin of the hairs in punctures, which are more obvious on the
basal joint, remaining joints black, opaque ; labrum white, with
three [410] black teeth at tip and four marginal punctures, one
of which behind each of the lateral teeth, and one at each an-
terior angle; mandibles white at the base, black within and at
the tip; palpi above green, beneath purple, the second joint of
the labials white. Trunk, thorax quadrate, inconspicuously nar-
rowed behind, obscure cupreous, with distant hairs, submarginal
impressed lines blue ; feet green ; thighs usually brassy-red above;
elytra cupreous brown or blackish obscure, with minute, irregular,
ereen punctures; suture and external edge cupreous, each ely-
tron with an external lunule or curved line, originating on the
humerus, sometimes interrupted on the margin and curved in-
wards towards the tip of the elytron, intermediate band refracted,
at the centre of the elytron, in an obtuse angle, curved down-
wards, and terminating near the suture, posterior band, some-
what lunate, terminal. Abdomen, tergum greenish blue, segment
brownish or pale at tip; venter blue with a purple shade ; tail,
and sinus of the male purple.
This species I have always been accustomed to refer to C. tri-
jfasciata, and it is not without considerable hesitation that I ven-
ture to give it a distinct name. Mr. Melsheimer considered it
as trifasciata, and that name in his catalogue refers to the in-
sect under consideration ; it is also true, that it corresponds in
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every particular with the short description of that insect in the
Syst. Nat. and also in the Syst. Eleut., but this circumstance
alone is not sufficient to warrant us in concluding it to be the
same, for in this instance, as in very many others wherein brief
descriptions are concerned, several distinct species may be re-
ferred with equal propriety to the same trivial name. Olivier,
in his celebrated work, gives us a few additional characters of
the trifusciata, the most important of which “on voit une raie
interrompue, le long de la suture, jusque vers le milieu,” is
with respect to our insect a [411] good discriminative charac-
ter, in which this line or vitta never has existence; the size also
as depicted by him, tab. 2, fig. 18, is not quite half an inch,
whereas that of the vulgaris is full three-fifths. From these
characters it must be evident that Olivier’s trifasciata is a dif-
ferent insect from the one here described, and as he examined
the various cabinets in which the insects described by Fabricius
are preserved, I rely upon his knowledge of the Fabrician spe-
cies, particularly as he gives the synonym of that author.
Against the correctness of this decision it might be urged, that
Fabricius, in his subsequent work, Syst. Hleut., does not refer
to the above mentioned figure, neither does he quote Olivier at
all under his description of ¢rifasciata ; but this objection, how-
ever plausible, will have no weight, when we know that he refers
to this very figure, the 18th, of tab. 2, for the C. punctulata, an
insect with which it has no other than a generic affinity, and for
which, on comparison, it could not be mistaken.
[ Afterwards described as C. obliquata Dej.
Lec. |
2. C. HIRTICOLLIS.—Obscure cupreous, beneath bluish-green,
trunk each side cupreous brilliant, hairy ; elytra with two lunules,
intermediate refracted band and outer margin white.
C. hirticollis, Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences,
vol. 1, No. 2, p. 20.
Length rather more than half an inch.
Inhabits Pennsylvania. :
Desc. Head cupreous, varied with green or blue, front with
cinereous hair; terminal joints of the antenne black, opaque ;
labrum white, sinuate on the anterior edge, and furnished with a
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474 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
single tooth and eight submarginal punctures producing hairs ;
mandibles white at the base, within dark green, tip black: palpi
white, terminal joints green. Trunk, thorax with the submarginal
lines blue, quadrate, not straitened behind ; elytra obscure, punc-
tured irregularly with green, punctures larger than in [412] the
preceding species, more conspicuously serrate at the hind margin
and mucronate at the inner tip: anterior lunule originating on the
humerus, continued a short distance on the margin, aud curved
rather towards the base of the elytron, intermediate band divari-
cated on the margin, so as to attain the lunules, but is sometimes
interrupted before the posterior, refracted in a somewhat acute
angle at the centre of the elytron, thence recurved nearly parallel
with the suture, and dilated at its termination ; posterior lunule
terminal; feet red-cupreous, hairy; trochanters purple. Abdo-
men, venter blue, segments tipped with brassy ; tail purple.
This insect does not appear to have been described except in
the work to which the synonym refers; it had been previously
overlooked, probably in consequence of its proximity in point of
colors and marking to the preceding species, which it generally
accompanies; but a small degree of scrutiny will detect a suffi-
cient number of discriminative characters to warrant us in con-
stituting of this insect a distinct species; in size its female is
equal to the male of (. vulgaris, the punctures of the elytra are
much larger, the intermediate band is so widely spread out upon
the margin, as nearly to connect the anterior and posterior
lunules, and the tip of the anterior lunule is curved towards the
base of the elytra, and not obliquely towards the tip, as in the
preceding species ; a striking difference also is perceptible in the
upper lip which in that insect is three-toothed, but in the C. hir-
ticollis it is one-toothed. Neither this nor the preceding species
have been observed to vary in their colors or markings.
[Ante, 2; this description and figure evidently refer to the
species afterwards described as C. albohirta Dej. The figure is
quite characteristic, and can by no means be regarded as C. bal-
timorensis Herbst., (repanda Dej.)—LEc. |
3. C. unrpuNCTATA.—Dull eupreous, obscure, naked, base of
the mandibles, labrum and marginal dot on each elytron, white.
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C. unipunctata, subpurpurascens, labio elytrorumque puncto
albis. Fab. Syst. Eleut. pars 1, p. 238. [413]
C. unipunctata, violette, brilliante en-dessous, obscure en-des-
sus; elytres avec un point blanc. Oliv. Inst. 33, tab. 3, fig. 27.
Length nearly seven-tenths of an inch.
Inhabits the southern States.
Dec. Héad entirely rugose, neck above granulate; clypeus
narrowed in the middle; labrum much broader in the middle,
white, edge brown, strongly three-toothed before, of which the
intermediate one is larger, margin with four punctures, of which
two are at the lateral angles and the others at the base of the
lateral teeth ; mandibles white at base, tip black; palpi green.
Trunk, reddish-purple on the sides; thorax with the lines not
deeply impressed or differently colored, a little narrowed be-
hind ; elytra with a slight shade of greenish-olive, convex, with-
out a sutural angle or spine behind, irregularly punctured with
green; on the posterior half are some larger, scattered, impress-
ed green dots, a few at the base and in an undulated line near
the suture ; surface somewhat unequal, a conspicuous indenta-
tion towards the base of each near the suture and an oblique,
abbreviated, obscure one in the centre of the elytron near the
marginal spot, which is subtriangular, white and placed on the
middle of the margin; a minute, obsolete, white dot is situate
at the posterior curve. Abdomen, yenter reddish-purple each
side near the base; tail black.
Of this insect I have seen but a single specimen, for
which I am indebted to Mr. J. Gilliams, who caught it in the
state of Maryland. It is very possible that it may be a distinct
species from the C. unipunctata as the figure of that insect by
Olivier above referred to is rather smaller and of a somewhat
different habit ; nevertheless as his description agrees very well
[414] with our insect, J shall consider it as the same until those
who haye an opportunity of seeing the original may decide.
4. ©. sexaurrata.—Greenish-blue polished, each elytron
with three marginal white dots, the two first, nearly equal, the
jast transverse and terminal.
C. 6-guttata, viridis, nitida, elytris punctis tribus marginali-
bus albis. Fab. Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 241.
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426 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
C. 6-guttata, d’un vert bleuatre brilliant; élytres avec trois
points blanchatres, sur le bord extérieur. Oliy. Ent. No. 33, pl.
2, fig. 21, a.
C. 6-guttata, elle brille du plus beau verd-bleu. Le pattes
sont bleues, les yeux blancs. Herbst. Arch. p. 159, pl. 27, fig.
17,
Length of the male more than half an inch.
Inhabits North America.
Desc. Head green, sometimes glossed with blue; antenna,
four basal joints green, remainder black-brown; labrum white,
edged with brown, three triangular teeth before, and six margi-
nal blackish punctures each of which latter furnishes a hair ;
mandibles white above, tip black; palpi green; eyes brown.
Trunk green, tinged beneath with blue, but without a cu-
preous tint, hairs remote and short; feet green; trochanters
brassy ; intermediate tibia with more numerous short hairs near
the tip behind ; elytra green, brilliant, behind the middle blu-
ish-purple, which deepens towards the tip, hind margin rounded,
obscurely serrate, sutural margin not abbreviated nor mucronate
at tip, each elytron marked by three marginal white dots, the
first placed in the middle of the margin, one at the posterior
curve, and the third transverse and terminal; inferior page
blackish, marginal spots testaceous. Abdomen, venter bluish-
green, segments margined, bronzed, edge and tail purple. [415]
Var. a. Elytra each with an additional spot, which is fulvous
or white, and generally inconspicuous, placed behind the middle
triangularly with respect to the two anterior, marginal ones.
Var. 8. Hach elytron with a single marginal spot, the two
posterior ones wanting.
This insect is common in Pennsylvania, but not so frequent
as either vulgaris or hirticollis. Its characters are strong and
discriminative, so that our synonymes are free from doubt, al-
though that of Herbst represents the eyes as white; but this
color is, as in some of the Carabi and many other insects, only to
be found in the dried specimen, and is by no means universal.
The second variety was brought from the banks of the Missouri,
above the confluence of the river Platte, by Mr. Thomas Nuttall.
5. C. DORSALIS.—Bronzed, elytra white, each with two curved
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lines on the disk, suture, and curved branch near the base,
green ; tail testaceous.
C. dorsalis, Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, vol.
bp. /20.
Length nearly three-fifths of an inch.
Inhabits New Jersey.
Desc. Head bronzed, naked, edges green; antennz brown,
basal joints green, the third hairy before; labrum white, not
emarginate at the anterior angles, broad before, and furnished
with a single tooth, eight punctures very near the edge, of which
six are equidistant on each side of the tooth, the others remote ;
clypeus almost obsolete above; mandibles white above and be-
neath, tips and teeth within [416] black-green, a very strong
tooth beneath, near the tip of one mandible, the other simply a
little angulated in that part; palpi white, tip of the terminal
joint of each blackish. Trunk cupreous, covered each side by
short, dense, prostrate, cinereous hair ; thorax bronzed, varied with
green, margin and longitudinal dorsal line hairy ; scutel green or
bronze ; elytra white, with very minute, irregular punctures, and
afew larger ones on the anterior margin; suture anda lunated branch
near the scutel, curving on each elytron and abbreviated behind, the
middle of the base green, disk with two abbreviated green brack-
et-formed lines, of which one curves outwards and the other in-
wards, respectively terminating at one end opposite the centre of
the other. Abdomen, venter bronzed, segments margined with
purple, having dense, cinereous, prostrate hair each side; tail and
tip of the last abdominal segments testaceous.
This very fine and beautiful species I discovered a few years
ago on the sea beach of New Jersey. In several of the Cicinde-
lee there is a strong tooth on one of the mandibles near the tip,
beneath pointing downwards, which is very conspicuous in the
present species; these teeth are I believe never found on both
mandibles, otherwise the mouth could not be properly closed, ac-
cordingly the tip of the armed jaw is always beneath the other
in repose; neither is the weapon confined to the right or left
mandible, but is found upon either indifferently, whilst upon the
corresponding part of the other, is usually a very small angle.
It must be remarked that this insect seems to approach a species
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428 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
described by Fabricius, as a native of the island of St. Thomas,
and I here subjoin his definition, “ C. viridi-zenea, elytris albis:
sutura lunulaque viridi-eneis. Syst. Hleut.” [417]
[ Ante, 1 ; afterwards describedas C. signata Dej.—Lxc,]
6. C. MARGINATA.—Olivaceous, obscure, sometimes with cu-
preous reflections; cheeks, sides of the trunk and of the abdomen,
with short dense hair, each elytron with a whitish margin,
two abbreviate branches, an intermediate refracted one, and two
dots at base.
C. marginata, viridis, elytris punctis quinque, lunulaque apicis
albis. Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 241.
Length of the male more than half an inch.
Desc. Head greenish, olivaceous varied with purple, and
edged with blue ; antenne purple at base, terminal joints brown;
front with prostrate hair; labrum white, with several minute,
obtuse teeth, in the male, with a single more prominent one, and
about ten marginal punctures, lateral angles rounded; cheeks
covered with dense hair; palpi white, terminal joint of each
black at the tip. Trunk, on each side cupreous, concealed by short,
cinereous hair ; thorax bronze or olivaceous, posterior impressed
line green or reddish ; elytra olivaceous-obscure, or tinged with
cupreous, margin pale, uniting the anterior and posterior lunules,
the former with an accessary spot at the middle of the base, and a
smaller one interrupted from its tip, the latter continued a short
distance upon the sutural margin, intermediate band refracted in
a very acute angle, at the centre of the elytron elongated, and
dilated behind, terminating at the suture, in a transverse line
drawn from the tip of the posterior lunule ; trochanters testaceous.
Abdomen, venter very hairy each side, segments bronzed and
margined with purple; tail testaceous, of the female blackish-
purple. [418]
The markings of the elytra are in many specimens so far obso-
lete, as to be only distinguishable in a particular light; and they
are always less obvious than those of the vulgaris, hirticollis, &c.,
to the latter of which, this insect, in the distribution of its bands
and lunules, bears some resemblance.
[Afterwards described as C. variegata Dej.—LEc. ]
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7. C. opscura.—Black, each elytron with two white marginal
spots and a terminal lunule.
C. obscura, nigra, elytris punctis duobus marginalibus, lunula-
que apicis alba. Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 238.
Inhabits North America.
Dese. Head black, naked; antenne brown at tip; elypeus
large ; labrum white, three-toothed, not emarginate, at the ante-
rior angles, margin with about six punctures, of which one is
placed each side of the larger central tooth; mandibles white
on the exterior base above ; palpi piceous. Trunk, black, imma-
culate ; elytra tinged with brown on the posterior half, punctures
minute, not deeply impressed, two white marginal macule, of
which the anterior one is smaller, rounded, and placed near the
humerus, the other large, triangular, situate in the middle of the
margin, lunule terminal; tarsi piceous. Abdomen, black, naked,
immaculate.
Var. a. Labrum black or piceous, anterior marginal spot of the
elytra wanting.
Very distinct from any other species with which I am ac-
quainted, for the variety I am indebted to Mr. J. Gilliams, who
caught it in the State of Maryland.
[Not the C. obscura Fabr., which is the European C. ger-
manica ; it isa black race of C. rugifrons Dej., and was described
as C. modesta Dej.—Lxc.] [419]
8. C. puRPUREA.—Head, impressed lines of the thorax and
margin of the elytra green, the latter with a central, reclivate,
oblique, abbreviated band, terminal line and intermediate dot
white.
C. purpurea, purpurine en-dessus, d’un vert bleuatre on-des-
sous; elytres avec une band courte, et deux points blancs. Oli-
vier, Ins. 33, t. 3, fig. 34.
C. marginalis ? thorace elytrisque cupreis ; marginibus viridi-
bus, elytris lunulis duabus albis, Fabr. Syst. Hleut. 1, p. 240.
Length of the male about three-fifths of an inch.
Inhabits North America.
Desc. Head red-cupreous, hairy with green edges, and two
distinct green lines between the eyes, originating at the base of
the antenne, and approximating towards the vertex; antennx
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430 ; TRANSACTIONS OF THE
green at base, tip brown: clypeus blue; labrum white, three-
toothed, edge black and with about eight marginal punctures;
mandibles black within and at tip; palpi green. Trunk, green,
each side golden; thorax with a cupreous disk; elytra oliva-
ceous-green to a brilliant cupreous-red, margin bright green, each
with an oblique, reclivate band near the middle, originating at
the green margin, and terminating ata distance from the su-
ture, a transverse line at tip and an intermediate submarginal
dot, white; trochanters purple; tibiz hirsute behind. Abdo-
men, venter green, sides purple.
Var. a. Elytra destitute of the intermediate dots. (C. ramosa
Melsheimer, Catalogue, p. 46.
Var. 8. Head and thorax green; elytra as in the preceding
variety.
Var. y. Head and thorax green ; elytra immaculate. [420]
Var. ¢. Black, opaque above, beneath polished; labrum, lines
and spot of the elytra, as in the species; cheeks and venter a
little glossed with purple.
C. tristis? nigra, elytris macula media flava. Fabr. Syst.
Eleut. 1, p. 235. (Var.)
This insect is subject to numerous varieties in color and mark-
ings, but those above described are the most striking of any that
have fallen under my observation ; the anterior band is sometimes
obsolete towards the tip, so as to leave a very short perfectly
transverse line attached to the margin. The variety a, is much
more common in Pennsylvania than either of the others. It is
probable that the marginalis of Fabricius will prove to be the
same with this, but Olivier’s designation, having the right of
priority, will of course be adopted. The variety 5 is a memora-
ble departure from the appearance of the species, no trace of the
original coloring remains upon it, but that of the bands, &c., of
the elytra ; is seems a link in the connecting chain which unites
the purpurea with the species described by Fabricius, under the
trivial name ¢ristis, and seems to be alienated from it, only by the
presence of an intermediate dot and terminal line; the central re-
elivate band is precisely the same in form. Nevertheless it is
highly probable that the ¢rist’s is a distinct species, although for
the present I have placed it here as a variety, having no oppor-
tunity of examining a specimen.
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9. C. puNcTULATA.—Obscure cupreous, beneath varied with
blue and purple, each elytron with a few white points and ter-
minal lunule, an undulated line of distant green punctures near
the suture,
C. punctulata, bronzée en-dessus, bleu en-dessous; élytres
avec quelques points blanes, et une suite de pointes enfoncés
brillans. Oliv. Ins. No. 33, tab. 3, fig. 87, a. b. [421]
C. punctulata, capite, thoraceque cupreis, elytris punctatis ob-
scuris: punctis lunulaque apicis albis. Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 1, p.
241.
C. obscura Melsh. Catal.
Length about half an inch.
Inhabits North America.
Desc. Head cupreous obscure, margin, cheeks and _ two lines
between the eyes blue; antennz brown, base cupreous; front
naked ; labrum white, sinuated on the edge, with a single promi-
nent tooth and six submarginal punctures; palpi, labials white,
last joint green, external maxillary ones piceous, third and fourth
joints green. Trunk, deep blue, varied with purple beneath, sides
eupreous ; thorax color of the head, impressed lines and lateral mar-
gin blue; elytra color of the thorax, irregularly punctured with
green, on each an undulated line of distant larger green punc-
tures near the suture, and a few at the middle of the base; five
small white dots, of which three are on the disk arranged in an
oblique line, one near the humerus, the second central, third
near the suture, the fourth and fifth dots marginal situate oppo-
site the two preceding ones, terminal lunule straight, not ascend-
ing the suture. Abdomen, venter varied with purple and blue;
tail bronzed.
Var. a. Elytra destitute of the white dots, the lunule only re-
maining.
A very common insect, its variations are confined to changes
in the number and magnitude of the spots of the elytra; the
anterior marginal dot is always minute, and of all the others
most frequently wanting, the two anterior spots of the disk also
are often invisible. Fabricius by mistake refers to fig. 18, tab.
[422] 2, of Olivier’s Insects, for this species, which is intended
for the C. trifasciata, a native of South America, rather smaller
than this insect and totally distinct in its characters.
1818.]
432 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
10. C. rormosA.—Red-cupreous brilliant ; elytra with a three-
branched, broad white margin.
C. formosa, American Entomology, pl. 6. Journal of the
Acad. of Nat. Sciences, p. 19. [Ante, 1, 35.]
Length seven-tenths, breadth one-fourth of an inch.
Inhabits the sandy alluvions of the Missouri, above the con-
fluence of the river Platte.
Desc. Head red-cupreous, brilliant; front hairy; antennz
fuscous, basal joint green, second bronzed, third and fourth pur-
ple ; clypeus and cheeks deep purple, the latter hairy; labrum
white, with a blackish three-toothed edge, and six marginal
punctures ; mandibles black, base above white ; palpi, basal joints
testaceous or pale, terminal one green tipped with bronze.
Trunk, deep purple, sides green, hairy; thorax color of the head,
scabrous ; pectus green before: feet purple; coxee hairy ; tro-
chanters bronzed; elytra color of the head and thorax, with a
dilated, white, uninterrupted margin, and bluish edge, anterior
and posterior branches, short, intermediate band flexuous and
oblique, nearly attaining the suture, and with the other branches
dilated, equal to the margin; hind angle not conspicuously mu-
cronate. Abdomen, venter exclusively purple, covered with
cinereous hair ; tail bronzed.
The most beautiful, and one of the largest of the North .
American species; in the arrangement of the bands, &c. [ 423 ]
of the elytra, it has some resemblance to the C. hirticollis, but
is a perfectly distinct species.
[Fig. 10 of the plate by an error represents a variety of C.
pusilla.—Say, MS. correction. ]
11. ©. pEcEMNOTATA.—Green above, tinged with cupreous;
elytra margined with bright green or bluish, four white spots
and an intermediate refracted band.
C. 10-notata American Entomology, pl. 6. Journ. Acad. Nat.
Sciences, p. 19. [Ante, 1, 34.]
Length three-fifths of an inch, nearly.
Inhabits with the preceding.
Desc. Head green, varied with eupreous and blue; front
hairy, labrum white, unequal, edge black, and tridentate ; an-
tennze fuscous, basal joints variegated ; palpi dark purple, varied
with green. Trunk, green, a little bronzed each side; thorax
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luish, the bilobate disk cupreous; scutel blue; elytra dull
olivaceous-green, with a slightly cupreous tint and blue margin,
four white dots and refracted band; of the anterior marginal
dots, one is placed on the humerus, and the second equidistant
from the band, which is refracted at the centre of the elytron,
and terminated near the suture, in a transverse line with the
penultimate spot; this last is large, submarginal, and orbicular ;
terminal spot transversely triangular, and with the first interrupt-
ing the margin; sutural angle not mucronate. Abdomen,
venter bluish-green, with a few hairs each side; tail purple.
The specimen from which this description was taken is a
female; it resembles C. purpurea in its differently colored elytral
margin, but is sufficiently distinct from that insect by its more
numerous spots, &e. [424]
[The figure is so different from that given in American Ento-
mology, ante 1, 34, that it is impossible to believe that both have
been taken from the same specimen. The present figure evi-
dently belongs to one of the western varieties of C. punctulata,
but the description does not agree with that species —LEc. ]
12. ©. pustntA.—Body above blackish obscure, beneath
black-blue or greenish; trochanters testaceous ; elytra with two
lunules, an intermediate band, which is divaricated on the
margin.
CO. pusilla, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., p. 21. [Ante, 2.]
Length less than half an inch.
Inhabits with the preceding.
Desc. Head dark green, obscure; antennz fuscous, bronzed-
testaceous or greenish at base; labrum white sinuate, and
brown on the edge, with six or eight marginal punctures ; palpi
testaceous, bronzed at tip; front naked. Trunk obscure ; thorax
with the impressed lines not differently colored; elytra black,
each with two lunules and a recurved band, attenuated, anterior
lunule elongated, much narrowed, acute at tip, posterior one not
dilated at the suture, and incurved from the margin; band
dilated near the margin into a triangle, recurved before the mid-
dle, and passing very obliquely and nearly in a right line, to its
termination near the suture, sometimes obsolete at tip ; feet testa-
1818.] 28
434 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
ceous, thighs dark green. Abdomen, venter dark blue, segments
tipped with bronze, almost naked each side ; tail purple.
Var. a. Elytra destitute of the intermediate band.
This is the smallest of our species, being less than punctulata,
and of the most sombre coloring; the lunules and band hardly
relieved by a contrast with the general surface, as they are very
narrow.
The preceding descriptions were drawn out from specimens in
my possession, the three last species, were caught by [425]
Mr. Thomas Nuttall on the Missouri, and now form a part of
his collection ; to him I am indebted for the permission to de-
scribe them. Specimens of those for which I have referred to
Melsheimer’s Catalogue, were sent me by the Rey. John Melshei-
mer of Hanover, a zealous entomologist, and son of the author of
that work, who may justly be entitled the father of entomology
in this country.
In order that the present paper may comprehend all the
known North American species of this genus, and thereby pre-
sent a complete Monograph, I subjoin from Fabricius, three de-
scriptions of species, which have not fallen under my notice ;
I therefore have taken the liberty to translate his description as
follows :—
13. C. viotacEA.—Bright blue polished ; labrum white.
inhabits Carolina.
Cabinet of Mr. Bose.
Desc. Of a medium size; body bright blue, polished, covered
with elevated scabrous punctures; antennze dark brown at tip ;
labium (labrum) and base of the mandibles above white. Syst.
Eleut. part 1, p. 282.
Is not this referable to the genus Megacephala ?
14. C. ABDOMINALIS.—Black, labrum and lunule at the apex
of the elytra white ; abdomen rufous.
Inhabits Carolina.
Cabinet of Mr. Bose.
Desc. Smaller than C. germanica ; head and thorax eylindri-
cal, black-cupreous, a little polished ; labrum [426] white; ely-
tra black, an obscure line of impressed punctures at the suture,
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and white lunule at tip ; body and feet greenish-brassy, polished ;
abdomen ferruginons. Syst. Eleut. part 1, p. 237.
15. C. Mrcans.—Head and thorax cupreous polished; elytra
obscure ; minute points and lunule at the apex white.
Inhabits North America. Syst. Eleut. part 1, p. 238.
It is highly probable that this description was intended to de-
signate an insect very similar to the C. puactulata, perhaps the
same, or only a variety of it, for it is as characteristic of that
species as it can be of any other.
[From Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series,
Vol. 2, No.1, 1823.]
Descriptions of Insects of the Families of CARABICI and HYDROCAN-
THARI of Latreille, inhabiting Nerth America.*
Read August 26th, 1819.
In the first volume of the New Series of the Transactions of
this Society, I commenced the regular description of our North
American insects, by a Monograph of the indigenous Cicindelete ;
a Linnean genus whick occupies the first station in the improved
classification of Latreille.
I now proceed to lay before the Society descriptions of such
of our native insects, as were included by Linné, in his three
genera, Carabus, Dytiscus, and Gyrinus. The two former of
these, but more purticularly the first, are nuw considered as great
families, constituting numerous genera, and agreeably to the or-
der in which I have enumerated them, immediately succeeding
the Cicindeletex, in the system which I have adopted. .
*The title page of the 2d vol. of the New Series of these Transactions
bears date 1825, which was the time of completion of the volume, but
the late Dr. T. W. Harris informed mein a letter, that he received from
Mr. Say a copy of this paper, with the following addition to the title :—
**Printed and published by Abraham Small, 1823.’ This, of course,
gives Say’s names precedence of those published by Germar in his Sp.
Tns. Noy. in 1825.—Lxc.
1823.)
436 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
The Carabit are very numerous, are insectivorous, terrestrial,
commonly inhabiting moist places, under stones, or [2] fallen
trees, under bark or on flowers, &c. They generally run briskly
when disturbed, and many species diffuse a foetid odor, or dis-
charge a peculiar, pungent, acetous gas.
The Dytiscti are much less numerous than the preceding, but
are equally nourished by animal food. They inhabit the waters,
occasionally visiting the surface for the purpose of respiration ;
they move with rapidity and ease through the water and the air,
but on land their gait is embarrassed by the natatory form of the
posterior feet.
The Gyrinii, which are now included in the same family with
the Dytiscii, are comparatively few in number of species, and
those few are so intimately united in nature by a similarity of
character and habit, that no division has yet been found neces-
sary in the genus, which still remains unchanged as it was first
established in the artificial system. These insects, like those of
the preceding Linnzan genus, are insectivorous and aquatic ; they
do not, however, like them, remain at the bottom to seek their
prey, but chiefly confine themselves to the surface. They de-
scribe graceful curvatures or gyrations on the surface of the water
with a pleasing facility of movement, without exhibiting to the
eye the oar-like feet by which that celerity is effected. When
alarmed, they dive to the bottom with swiftness, carrying with
them a globule of air, that their respiration may not be suspend-
ed. When irritated, they eject a lactescent fluid, which, in
many instances, diffuses an agreeable odor, somewhat similar to
that of the Calycanthus floridus of botanists. They fly with
much ease and chiefly at night, but their moyements on land are
uncouth and embarrassed.
After thus briefly noticing the most prominent features exhib-
ited by these insects, it may be proper to observe, that the de-
scriptions are drawn out from such specimens only as have fallen
under my own observation, and which I had an opportunity of
examining and comparing together, in order the more effectually
to indicate their differential characters. The individuals are
chiefly preserved in my cabinet ; and for such as I do not pos-
sess, I have carefully referred to those collections from which I
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have described them. I have scrupulously [3] retained all the
specific names, which have been given by the late Rev. F. V.
Melsheimer, in his Catalogue of the insects of Pennsylvania; ex-
cepting only such as have been previously employed in the same
genera by other entomologists ; and so far as I could ascertain
them by the aid of the scientific intelligence of his son the Rev.
J. F. Melsheimer, who has liberally furnished me with specimens
from his collection. I am also indebted to Mr. Thomas Nuttall,
who has confided to my care his entire collection, with permis-
sion to avail myself of the opportunity of describing such of them
as are new.
I have not thought it necessary to draw out the generic de-
scriptions at length, as this has already been done with sufficient
detail by Professor Bonelli of Turin; whose excellent papers I
have not yet had the good fortune to peruse. If, in the descrip-
tion of some of the species, I have been anticipated by the labors
of this, or any author, I shall immediately relinquish my claims,
and do justice to the real discoverers, when their labors shall
meet my eye.
To the inflexible Linnean entomologist, who may object to the
numerous genera which are here adopted, I will merely observe,
that each of those divisions which are here called families, he
may regard as only genera, (as they coincide with those of Lin-
nzeus,) and to each of the species described he may add the char-
acters of those divisions which are, in this essay, called genera ;
thus the system as it stands, complicated as it is by the vast
accession of discoveries of recent date, will afford him every fa-
cility, which he might suppose to result from a scrupulous adhe-
rence to the Linnzean method.
The modern entomologist will readily perceive that I have not
adopted all the genera of M. Bonelli, but that many of these are
included under the genus Feronia of Latreille. In this respect
I had no option; having no definitions of such genera, with the
exception of those contained in the Régne Animal, many of
which are too brief to be exclusively relied upon.
1823.]
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TRANSACTIONS OF THE
ENUMERATION OF SPECIES.
BRACHINUS.
. fumans.
CyMINDIS.
. sSinuatus.
decorus.
purpureus.
pilosus.
LEBIA.
tricolor.
vittata.
. atriventris.
- ornata.
. Viridis.
. platicollis.
GALERITA.
. americana.
ODACANTHA.
. O. pennsylvanica.
. O. dorsalis.
SCARITES.
S. subterraneus.
PASIMACHUS.
. depressus.
. subsuleatus.
CLIvINA.
bipustulata.
. viridis.
. lineolata.
- pallida.
globosa.
. pallipennis.
Morto.
. Georgie.
HARPALUS.
. caliginosus.
. bicolor.
. erraticus.
faunus.
herbivagus.
similis.
vulpeculus.
iripennis.
viridis.
hylacis.
rusticus.
agricolus.
. viridipennis.
. sphericollis.
carbonarius.
pennsylvanicus. | «
ABAX.
. coracinus.
Epomis.
15. H. baltimoriensis.
16. H. cenus.
FrRoNIA.
1. F. musculis.
2. F. basillaris.
| 3. F. impuncticolllis.
4. F. angustata.
5. F. obesa.
6. F. lineola.
7. F. pallipes.
8. F. atrimedia.
9. F. longicornis.
10. F. unicolor.
ll. F. stygica.
12. F. mesta.
13. F. sigillata.
14. F. placida.
15. F. tartarica.
16. F. muta.
17. F. submarginata.
18. F. impunctata.
19. F. ventralis.
20. F. adoxa.
21. F. gregaria.
22. F. terminata.
23. F. autumnalis.
24. F. limbata.
25. F. parmata.
26. F. cupripennis.
27. F. convexicollis.
28. F. honesta.
29. F. 8-punctata.
30. F. nutans.
31. F. cincticollis.
32. F. decora.
33. F. decentis.
34. F. extensicollis.
35. F. ochropeza.
36. F. lucublanda.
37. F. chalcites.
38. F. caudicalis.
39. F. interstitialis.
40. F. obsoleta.
41. F. punctiformis.
42. F. recta.
43. F. hypolithos.
A
E
. tomentosus.
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a
CuHLZNIvS.
1. C. sericeus.
2. C. zstivus.
3. C. lithophilus.
4. C. emarginatus.
5. C. pusillus.
6. C. laticollis.
7. C. impunctifrons.
8. C. nemoralis.
9. C. solitarius.
0. C. pennsylvanicus.
Dic#.vs.
1. D. purpuratus.
2. D. dilatatus.
3. D. furvus.
PANAG AUS.
1 P. crucigerus.
2. P. fasciatus.
CyYcHRUS.
1. C. elevatus.
2. C. unicolor.
3. C. stenostomus.
4. C. bilobus.
CALOSOMA.
1. C. serutator.
2. C.calidum. [6]
CARABUS.
1. C. sylvosus.
2. C. interruptus.
3. C. limbatus.
4. C. serratus.
NEBRIA.
N. pallipes.
OMOPHRON.
O. labiatum.
ELAPHRUS,
E. riparius.
NorioPuHILus.
N. semistriatus.
BEMBIDIUM.
1. B. honestum.
2. B. punctato-stria-
tum.
3. B. levigatum.
4. B. dorsalis.
5. B. contractum.
6. B. niger.
7. B. oppositum.
8. B. affinis.
9. B. inornatum.
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10. B. flavicaudus. 2. C. fenestralis. 3. H. niger.
11. B. proximus. 3. C. ambiguus. 4, H. catascopium.
12. B. levum. 4. C. seriatus. 5. H. lacustris.
13. B. variegatum. 5. C. nitidus. 6. H. affinis.
14. B. tetracolum. 6. C. bicarinatus. Hyprocantuvs.
ae TRECHUS. ie & venustus. H. iricolor.
. T. conjunctus. 8. C. glyphicus.
2. T. partiarius. 9. C. obtusatus. ras ete
3. T. rupestris. 10. C. stagninus. 2. H. eb UREttEES
Dyriscus. LAccopHILus. pee ODE.
1. D. fimbriolatus. 1. L. maculosus. Gyrinus.
2. D. verticalis. 2. L. proximus. 1. G. americanus.
3. D. mediatus. Hyproporvs. 2. G. emarginatus.
4. D. teniolis. 1. H. undulatus. 3. G. analis.
CoLyMBETES. 2. H. oppositus. 4. G. limbatus. [7]
1. C. erythropterus.
Order and Section COLEOPTERA PENTAMERA.
Tribe IT—ENTOMOPHAG A. Family IT—CARABICI.
BRACHINUS Web. Fabr.
Anterior tibia emarginate ; elytra truncated at tip; palpi fili-
form; labium subquadrate ; neck none; abdomen with interior
vesicles inclosing a caustic, volatile, and detonating fluid ; nails
simple.
B. FuMANS.—Ferruginous ; elytra blue-black; venter, testa-
ceous-black.
Brachinus fumans, ferruginous ; elytra blackish-azure. Fabr. Syst.
Eleut., p. 219.
Body ferruginous, with numerous minute hairs; head, front
longitudinally impressed, each side near the base of the an-
tenn; thorax with a longitudinal impressed line from the head
to the scutel; scutel minute, blackish-brown ; elytra blackish-
azure ; about seven slightly impressed, very obtuse grooves, more
distinct near the suture, and obsolete at the outer margin; sepa-
rating lines rounded ; venter dark reddish-brown.
Length eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Rather common under stones, &c., in various parts of North
‘America. In common with the other species of the genus, it
discharges from the posterior extremity of the body, when [8]
alarmed or irritated, a caustic fluid; this is remarkable by an
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440 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
audible detonation, with its accompanying cloud of smoke as in
the discharge of a gun.
CYMINDIS.
Anterior tibia emarginate ; elytra truncated at tip; exterior
maxillary palpi filiform ; labials terminated by a securiform joint ;
neck none ; body depressed and destitute of the secretory organs
which furnish the detonating fluid; nails pectinated.
1. C. stnvatus.—Black; feet testaceous; elytra with a pale
humeral! spot and margin.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Body punctured, glabrous; antenne, labrum, and palpi rufous ;
thorax transverse, slightly contracted behind, lateral edge ab-
ruptly and minutely excurved behind, forming a minute acute
angle, basal lines obsolete, basal edge sinuately rounded ; elytra
blackish-brown, with a pale, rufous, humeral spot, margin
and obsolete geminate spot behind, strize acute, punctured, inter-
stitial lines flat broad; postpectus, punctures obsolete; feet tes-
taceous; venter impunctured.
Found by Mr. J. Gilliams in Maryland.
[Afterwards described by Dejean as C. pustulata ; it belongs
to the genus Apenes Lec. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 5,
174.—LEc. ]
2. C. pecorus.—Head blue; thorax rufous; elytra green
polished.
Length three-tenths of an inch. [9]
Carabus decorus, alatus, cyaneus, thorace pedibusque rufis. Fabr.
Syst. Eleut.
Head blackish-blue, obsoletely punctured; beneath purple
black : antennz fuscous ; two basal joints rufous-obscure ; mouth
black ; mandibles rufous beneath; trunk rufous, impunctured ;
beneath somewhat paler ; thorax with an impressed line and ob-
solete transverse ruge; elytra green polished, with punctured
strie; deflected edge purplish; feet rufous; tips of the thighs
and base of the tibize black ; penultimate tarsal joints bilobated ;
venter obscure bluish-black.
Found by Mr. Nuttall on the Missouri.
[Belongs to Calleida Dej.—Lec.]
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3. C. VIRIDIPENNIS.—Elytra green, polished, margined with
cupreous.
Carabus prasinus Melsh. Catalogue.
Inhabits Pennsylvania; rare.
Body destitute of hairs; head purple-black; vertex gla-
brous ; front impressed each side near the antenne; antenne
testaceous, rather darker towards the tip; thorax green,
tinged with purple ; a longitudinally impressed line, and trans-
verse, minute, parallel ruge; posterior angles angulated ; be-
neath purple-black, green each side ; feet purple-black, paler to-
wards the tips; penultimate tarsal joint bilobate; scutel testa-
ceous ; elytra striate, green, polished, reflecting in some lights a
slight purpurescent tinge ; outer margin cupreous; strize distinct,
acute, distant, the marginal one with distant punctures from the
humerus to the apex ; venter blackish.
Length half an inch.
This was sent to me by Dr. J. F. Melsheimer; I have not found
a specimen, and therefore have considered it as a rare [ 10] spe-
cies. The name prasinus having been already applied to a dif-
ferent species has rendered it necessary to change it.
[Belongs to Calleida, and described by Dejean as C. margi-
nata.—Lxc. |
4. C. puRPUREUs.—Purple or violaceous; antennx, mouth
and tibiz black.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Head obsoletely punctured, deep violaceous ; antennze fuscous,
three basal joints rufous, obscure ; trunk deep violaceous ; a lon-
gitudinal impressed line, and transverse obsolete rugze; elytra
deep violaceous, obsoletely punctured, and with minutely pune-
tured, acute, distant striz; a line of marginal punctures; tibie
and tarsi black-brown ; penultimate tarsal joint bilobate ; venter
violaceous; tail black.
In form and magnitude resembles C. viridipennis, but is more
depressed and wider. Brought by Mr. Nuttall from the Mis-
souri.
[I have referred this speeies to Glycia Chaud., but have
since failed to find sufficiently distinct characters for, that genus
to enable me to confirm this reference. The present species be-
1823.]
442 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
longs to a genus, which, like Apenes, has the labial palpi very
much dilated, and the clypeus separated from the front by a well
defined line ; it differs, however, by the thorax not being pedun-
culated at base, but only very slightly rounded, nearly truncate.
—L«c.]
5. C. prnosus.—Black-brown, punctured; mouth, antenne
and feet rufous; elytra with punctured striz and interstitial
lines.
Carabus pilosus Melsh. Catalogue.
Body somewhat hairy; head deeply punctured; no distinct
frontal impression ; antennze and mouth rufous; thorax with nu-
merous, profound, approximate punctures, and a longitudinal,
impressed line which hardly attains the anterior edge; elytra
with punctured obtuse striae which are subequal to the inter-
stitial lines; punctures transverse, dilated, approximated ; inter-
stitial lines punctured; epipleura rufous, punctured ; feet rufous ;
pectus punctured; venter obscure, rufous, with distant minute
punctures.
Length two-fifths of an inch. [11]
[ have not met with a living specimen of this insect: it is
rare.
Var. «. A longitudinal, rufous, humeral spot ; punctures of the
interstitial lines numerous, dilated. In the Philadelphia Mu-
seum.
Var. 6. Thorax margined with rufous; a longitudinal, ru-
fous, humeral spot.
Var. y. Thorax, head, and humeral spots rufous.
The thorax of this species seems to vary in the length of its
transverse diameter.
[Afterwards described as C. pubescens Dej}.—LEc.]
LEBIA Latr. Bonell.
Anterior tibiz emarginate ; elytra truncated at tip; palpi fili-
form; terminal joint cylindrical, hardly truncate; thorax wider
than long ; penultimate tarsal joint bilobate ; nails pectinated.
1. L. rricotor.—Head black ; mouth, antenne, thorax and
feet ferruginous ; elytra green, polished.
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
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Head black, polished; front minutely corrugated; vertex
glabrous ; mouth labrum, and antenne ferruginous or pale tes-
taceous ; thorax ferruginous, glabrous, very minutely rugose; a
longitudinal impressed line; margin depressed and somewhat
ciliated ; angles rounded ; beneath ferruginous ; feet, color of the
thorax; scutel color of the thorax; elytra profoundly striate ;
striz impunctured ; interstitial lines convex; marginal line in-
terrupted by punctures from the humerus to the apex; venter
blackish. :
Length about three-tenths of an inch. [12]
Not uncommon in Pennsylvania. Found also by Mr. T. Nut-
tall on the Missouri. The name of JLebias has been more re-
cently applied by Cuvier, to designate a genus of fishes.
2. L. virrata.—Rufous ; elytra black, with a white fillet and
yellowish margin ; feet black.
Length rather more than one-fourth of an inch.
Winged ; thorax orbicular, rufous; elytra black, with a white vitta.
Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 202, Mus. D. Yeates.
Antenne black; head rufous; scutel small, rufous; elytra glabrous,
shining black with a longitudinal white fillet in the middle ; body ferru-
ginous; legs black. Turt.
Antennz black ; head rufous; eyes black ; thorax rufcus, hardly broader
than the head; scutel rufous; elytra black, slightly striated ; exterior
margin and triangular spot around the scutel rufous; a longitudinal
white line on each; beneath fulvous; feet black with half of the thighs
rufous. (Length of figure one-fourth of an inch.) Oliv. 3, p. 98, pl. 6,
fig. 69, a, d.
Body impunctured, nearly destitute of hairs; head rufous ;
antennz black-brown, rufous at base ; palpi black ; trunk rufous,
glabrous; thorax with an impressed longitudinal line; elytra
with acute distant strize ; two parallel black vittae.—the outer one
originating on the humerus and abbreviated near the middle of
the tip,—inner one originating at the middle of the base, becomes
common before the middle of the suture, and is abbreviated near
the inner angle of the tip ; an elongated common whitish triangle
at base, a white vitta on the middle, and a pale rufous margin
and tip; feet black; nails pectinated; coxe rufous; venter ru-
fous.
Var. 2. Color of the outer margin extended round the base to
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444 : TRANSACTIONS OF THE
the scutel, thighs rufous at base, common black vitta continued
to the tip.
If the figure given by Olivier be correct, the specimens [13 ]
here described must be considered a variety. Several individuals
were brought from the Missouri by Mr. Nuttall. They are
occasionally taken in Pennsylvania, on flowers. When recent,
it is of a much more bright red than when long preserved in the
cabinet. The red becomes pale and the white vitta yellowish.
Caught in Mr. R. Haines’s garden, Germantown.
3. L. ATRIVENTRIS.—Ferruginous ; elytra deep purple ; venter
black.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Body impunctured, naked or with very few hairs; antennx
brown, three first joints ferruginous; palpi blackish; thorax,
disk convex ; margin towards the hind angles depressed, hind
angles rounded; a longitudinal impressed line ; elytra deep blue,
with acute, distant, not deeply impressed striz, a series of pune-
tures on the external margin from the humerus to the middle of
the tip; punctures more distant on the middle of the margin ;
nails pectinated ; venter black.
Found under stones, Xe.
4. L. onnataA.—Rufous; head and elytra black; the latter
with a yellowish edge and four spots.
Carabus 4-notatus Melsh. Catal.
Length, male one-fifth—female one-fourth of an inch.
Body impunctured and almost destitute of hairs; head black ;
three basal joints of antenne rufous ; trunk rufous, paler beneath ;
thorax with an obsolete longitudinal impressed line ; disk some-
what convex; margin depressed; feet pale; nails pectinated ;
elytra striated ; striee acute, distant; two large subtriangular or
suboyate spots near the base ; two smaller ones near the tip; and
outer edge yellow ; [14] venter pale yellow or reddish-brown.
Var. a. The two basal spots of the elytra wanting.
Var. g. Head corrugated. Probably a distinct species.
This species varies in the form of the basal spots, which are
sometimes elongated or confluent with the margin, and either ab-
breviated or attaining the base. The posterior spots also oceur
enlarged, so as to be confluent with the apical margin. It
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strongly resembles Dromius 4-maculatus, but the venter is not
black, and the spots of the elytra are differently formed.
On flowers, (the blossom of the blackberry, &c.) in May, June,
July and August. Not uncommon.
The name 4-notatus has already been made use of in this
genus; I have therefore been compelled to change it.
[The species afterwards described by Dejean as L. analis is
subsequently claimed as this species, and it is certain that varie-
ties 2 and 8 are so correctly referred: with regard to the type,
however, I believe that Say has described LZ. axillaris Dej., thus
confounding these two very distinct species.—LEc. ]
5. L. viripis.—Green, polished, immaculate ; antenne, palpi-
and feet black.
Length upwards of one-fifth of an inch.
Body impunctured, nearly destitute of hairs; head green,
with a few obsolete punctures; antenne black-brown; labrum
and palpi blackish; nasus cupreous; trunk green polished,
beneath darker ; thorax with an impressed line; elytra obsolete;
strie distant, acute; outer margin punctured; a single punc-
ture near the inner tip; feet black; nails pectinated ; venter
blackish-green.
Var. a. Dark purplish blue; striz of the elytra indistinct,
beneath purple-black ; antennze black.
Very common on flowers. The thorax and elytra, when ex-
amined by a high magnifier, are granulated.
6. L. PLATICOLLIS.—Rufous; elytra black-brown edged with
rufous; margin of the thorax depressed. [15]
Length nearly two-fifths of an inch.
Head dark rufous, tips of the mandibles and eyes black ; tho-
rax rufous, impunctured, rather wider than long, widest before
the middle, somewhat narrowed behind; hind angles very
obtuse ; margin depressed; dorsal line slightly impressed ; basal
lines obsolete; elytra blackish-brown, with a pale rufous edge ;
strize acute ; interstitial lines flat; feet testaceous ; venter dusky,
blackish towards the tip, and on the tips of the segments.
Var. a. A humeral, submarginal, pale rufous, longitudinal
spot; disk of the thorax dark rufous, margin pale. Museum of
Mr. Peale.
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446 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
This species is perhaps a Dromia, [Dromius.]
[Afterwards described as Cymindis complanata Dej.; it belongs
to the genus Pinacodera Schaum, Ins. Deutschl. 1, 294.—Lec.]
GALERITA Fabr.
Anterior tibia emarginate ; elytra truncate at tip; palpi secu-
riform ; tongue exserted, coriaceous in the middle, membranace-
ous each side, and pointed at tip; neck distinct; penultimate
tarsal joint bilobate.
G. AMERICANA.—Black ; thorax and feet ferruginous; elytra
black-blue.
G. americana black; thorax ferruginous; elytra azure. Fab. ‘Syst.
Eleut. 2, p. 214. Latr. Réegne Animal.
Carabus Janus Fab. Syst. Eleut. 1. 136, 51.
Carabus bicolor Drury Ent. 1, tab. 42, fig. 2.
Zuphium americanum Lamarck, An. San. Vert., Vol. 4, p. 505.
Antenne reddish, filiform, a little longer than half the body; head
black, advanced; thorax narrow, subcordate, reddish; elytra black or
blueish black, striated ; beneath black; feet reddish, long. N. Amer.
Cab. of M. Gigot d’Orey, Oliv. 3, p. 63, t. 6, f. 72.
Galerita americana Edinb. Encye.
Length three-fourths of an inch. [16}
Body with very short dense hairs; head black; front with
two indented lines ; vertex with an obsolete rufous spot ; antenne
testaceous ; second, third, fourth, and tip of the first joints black ;
palpi testaceous ; thorax and feet ferruginous ; elytra black-blue
opake ; about eight distant, acute, impunctured striz.
Very common under stones, &c. in various parts of the United
States, and in Florida. Found also by Mr. Nuttall on the
Missouri.
[ G. Janus is the name now adopted for this species —LEc. ]
ODACANTHA Fabr.
Anterior tibize emarginate ; elytra truncated at tip; head at-
tenuated behind ; palpi filiform; tongue exserted, coriaceous in
the middle, and membranaceous each side.
1. O. PENSyLVANICA.— Black; elytra rufous with pune-
tured striz at the base; marginal spot, sutural spot and tip
black.
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Agra pensylvanica Edinb. Encyc.
Drypta pensylvanica Lamarck, An. San. Vert. 4, p. 505.
Body with a few distant hairs ; head black, destitute of punc-
tures, polished ; antennz, four basal joints rufous; thorax black,
with excavated punctures each side, which disappear near the
tips, a longitudinal impressed line each side above; feet pale
testaceous; knees dusky or black; tarsi, penultimate joint
entire; elytra rufous, striate with punctures which are obsolete
behind the middle; a large, common, longitudinally oblong-oval
black spot on the middle, and a common, transverse, terminal
larger one, which is connected by the black hind [17] margin
with a spot on the middle of the margin, which is also generally
connected with the common middle one ; venter glabrous, black,
often with a slight testaceous shade before.
Not uncommon beneath stones, &e. Found also by Mr. T.
Nuttall on the Missouri. It has been referred to the genus
Agra, but the palpi are decidedly those of Odacaniha as de-
scribed by M. Latreille.
[Belongs to Casnonia.—LEc.]
2. O. poRSALIS.—Head black; thorax rufous ; elytra testa-
ceous ; suture black.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
O. dorsalis Fabry. Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 239.
Head black; clypeus, labrum, mouth, and antennz rufous.
Thorax cylindrical, somewhat contracted before the base, punc-
tured ; punctures numerous, minute, sparse or wanting on the
disk; a longitudinal dorsal impressed line, and an obsolete,
dilated, dusky vitta on each side ; elytra yellowish-white, striate ;
striz regularly and distinctly punctured; a common blackish
sutural line, dilated before the tip ; pectus pale rufous ; feet testa-
ceous, tarsi, penultimate joint bilobate ; venter blackish.
Inhabits the Southern States.
This ought ungestionably to form a distinct genus from that of
the preceding species.
[Belongs to Leptotrachelus.—Lxc. |
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448 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
SCARITES Fab.
Anterior tibia emarginate and crenate; elytra entire ; antennze
short, third and fourth joints moniliform, subequal; labrum short,
dentated; mandibles elongated, dentate ; palpi filiform; tongue
dilated, very short, emarginate at tip; thorax rounded behind;
body subcylindrical. [18]
S. suBTERRANEUS.—Black, immaculate; head bisulcate before;
elytra striated ; feet, second pair, with two permanent spines on
the tibize.
Length about nine-tenths of an inch.
Black ; anterior feet digitated; head sulcated before; elytra striated ;
strie smooth. Fabr. Syst. Eleut. I, p. 124.
Carabus interruptus Fuess. Arch. 161, t. 29, f. 4.
Black; head with two longitudinal impressions; elytra striated.
Oliv. 3, p. 8, pl. 1, fig. 10.
Head with two indented parallel lines before, half the length of
the head; mandibles profoundly canaliculate above, teeth above
striated ; antennz attaining the base of the anterior feet, ferrugin-
ous, darker at base; labium subcarinate on the middle, with a
double impression at base; gula with an impressed line which is
furcate before. Trunk somewhat scabrous each side beneath ;
thorax, a longitudinal impressed line and a transverse anterior one ;
posterior edge emarginate; feet, second pair, armed with two
permanent prominent spines, on the outer edge below the middle,
of which the inferior one is larger; elytra distinctly and rather
strongly striated ; striz impunctured ; margin scabrous; epipleura
glabrous; humerus carinated before, carina terminating abruptly
in an angle.
Very common in almost every part of North America.
PASIMACHUS Bonell. Latr.
Anterior tibia emarginate and crenate ; elytra entire; antennz
short, third and fourth joints not moniliform ; labrum dentated ;
mandibles strongly dentate; palpi filiform; tongue dilated, very
short, and emarginate; thorax subcordate, truncate behind; body
dilated, depressed. [19]
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 449
1. P. pEpREssus black, glabrous; thorax and elytra margined
with purple ; elytra perfectly smooth.
Length eleven-tenths of an inch.
Carabus depressus Melsh. Catal.
Scarites depressus, thorax subquadrate, black; elytra glabrous.
Fabr. Syst. Eleut., p. 123.
Scarites depressus, antenne black, obscure at tip; head with two
impressed lines before; thorax with a longitudinal impressed line ;
borders sometimes black-blue; tarsi black brown. Oliv. 3, No. 36,
p. 5, t. 2, £. 15.
Body glabrous, black, impunctured ; head transverse quadrate,
with two indented longitudinal lines more than half its length ;
antennz black-brownish at tip; first joint black; labrum unequal ;
mandibles as long as the head, strongly dentate in the middle ;
tooth in the left one double ; thorax with an impressed line and
two indentations near the base; exterior margin purple; excurved
near the base; elytra glabrous, perfectly smooth; outer margin
purple, with a line of elevated granules ; tarsi black-brown.
Var. a. Less dilated; margins blue; elytra smooth, with a
slight appearance of lines; sternum striated at tip. From the
Missouri.
Cabinet of Nuttall.
This fine large insect is of frequent occurrence in the United
States beneath old logs, stones, &c., and is very probably the same
as the depressus of Cayenne; to which country authors have
referred this species.
[Var. a isa distinct species, afterwards described by me as P.
elongatus.— LEC. ]
2. P. sussuLcaTus.—Black, glabrous; thorax and elytra mar-
gined with bluish purple; elytra with obsolete lines.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
Body black, impunctured; [20] head impressed, frontal lines
profound ; antenne with ferruginous hairs toward the tip; thorax
margined with blue-purple, slightly contracted behind ; edge near
the posterior angles slightly excurved ; dorsal and basal lines very
distinct; elytra with broad shallow sulcations ; with (in some parts)
obsolete rudiments of punctures ; interstitial lines slightly elevated,
1823.] 29
450 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
convex, obtuse; margin blued-purple, with a regular series of
minute, elevated, ocellate granules.
I found several specimens of this insect in Georgia and Florida.
It is sufficiently distinct from the preceding ; being smaller, more
of an oval form, the thorax less contracted at the base, and the
elytra subsulcate; the lateral edge also is excurved at the base,
which character distinguishes it at once from the marginatus of
Fabr. and the sub/evis of Palisot. How closely it may correspond
with the sulcatus of Macleay I am unable to determine, not having
yet seen his work.
I have to regret the circumstance of my not having it in my
power to refer to M. Palisot de Beauvois’s splendid work on the
insects of Africaand America. The seventh number only, belong-
ing to the library of the Philadelphia Museum, has yet met.my
eye; although I have made several attempts to procure an entire
copy of the work from Paris.
CLIVINA Latr.
Anterior tibiee emarginate and crenate; elytra entire ; labrum
entire ; mandibles with obsolete teeth; tongue prominent, mem-
branaceous each side; thorax rounded.
1. C. BrpusTULATA.—Black ; thorax impunctured ; elytra with
punctured striz, and a large obscure rufous spot near the tip and
at the base of each.
Length three-tenths of an inch. [21j
Scarites bipustulatus? black; elytra striated ; a large ferruginous spot
behind. Fabr. 1. p. 125.
Scarites bipustulatus, Melsh. Catal.
Scarites 4-maculatus Palisot de Beauvois.
Body blackish; beneath piceous: head somewhat unequal
before ; antennz and palpi reddish-brown ; thorax black, impune-
tured ; a longitudinal impressed line joining a transverse angu-
lated one before ; lateral carinated edge abbreviated and recurved
at the tip; elytra brown-black, strongly striated; strie nearly
equal to the intermediate lines and punctured, punctures exea-
vated ; a large obsolete spot at the base, and a large and more
distinct spot near the tips of each, rufous; epipleura with large
and profound punctures at base.
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A large species by no means common. [I think it highly prob-
able that the 4-maculatus of Palisot is no other than this insect :
if so, the spots of the elytra, and especially those of the base, in
his figure, are by far too distinct ; indeed, the former are always
obsolete and sometimes not at all visible.
< green, beneath blackish ; elytra punc-
tured, cupreous on the disk, edge bluish ; feet testaceous.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Scarites viridis Melsh. Catal.
Body somewhat hairy; head equal, dark cupreous green ;
antennz and mouth rufous; mandibles black at tip; trunk
beneath reddish-black ; thorax cupreous green, somewhat hairy ;
lateral carinated edge abbreviated, very oblique, rectilinear: a
dorsal impressed line, and anterior, transverse, angulated one ;
elytra dark cupreous tinged with green, hairy; striz obsolete,
lines of distant punctures obsolete behind, margin greenish, edge
blue, an impressed [22] line near the suture excurved at its
base near the suture; feet testaceous.
[Belongs to Ardistomis Putz., afterwards described by Dejean
as Clivina rostrata.—Lxe. ]
3. C. LINEOLATA.—Blackish ; head with several elevated
lines ; thorax with three impressed ones ; elytra striate.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Head with several elevated lines, of which the two interior are
largest, forming a groove between them, and continued and con-
nivent upon the labrum; behind the elevated lines punctured :
thorax three impressed longitudinal lines; intermediate one
attaining the anterior transverse angulated one, lateral ones ab-
breviated near the anterior margin; lateral edge continued and
projecting into a slight angle behind the middle; elytra black-
brown or greenish, striz punctured, profound, and equal to the
intermediate lines ; feet testaceous.
Readily distinguishable from the preceding ones by the ele-
vated frontal lines as well as by the impressed line of the thorax.
[Belongs to Schizogenius Putzeys, and described by him as 8.
sulcifrons.— LEC. ]
1823. ]
452 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
4, C. PALLIDA.—Pale yellowish ; thorax depressed, truncate
before, lateral edge minutely angulated behind the middle.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Body pale, yellowish, immaculate; head sulcated each side
before; thorax little elevated, with a longitudinal impressed line,
subquadrate, truncate the entire width before, rounded behind ;
lateral edge attaining the base, with a slightly projecting angle
behind the middle, above which is a small puncture; elytra
strongly striate-punctured ; a marginal series of short transverse
lines, forming quadrate intervals. [23]
Found on Chinquoteague Island, coast of Virginia, under yellow
pine bark.
[This is perhaps C. rufescens Dej.; if it is not, Ido not know
the species.—LEc. ]
5. C. SPH#RICOLLIS.—Thorax globose, with an impressed
line; elytra with punctured distant striz.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Body impunctured, with a few scattered hairs, beneath black ;
head black, longitudinally indented each side; mouth and an-
tenn rufous; thorax purple black, rounded before and behind ;
lateral edge obsolete near the base, more distinct before, and des-
titute of any angle behind; an impressed dorsal line; elytra
reddish-brown or bronzed, with punctured striz; strie distant ;
feet dark rufous ; venter black.
Differs from the succeeding species, in being larger and in
having the strize more distant from each other, or, in other words,
less dilated. -
This and the two following species belong to the genus Dis-
chyrius of Bonelli.
6. C. GLoBULOsSA.—Black ; mouth, antenne, and feet rufous ;
elytra with punctured obtuse striz.
Length from one-tenth to five-fortieths of an inch.
Scarites globulosus Melsh. Catal.
Head black, longitudinally indented on each side ; mouth and
antenne rufous; neck beneath rufous; trunk beneath black,
tinged each side with rufous thorax purple-black, globose, round-
ed before and behind; lateral edge obsolete near the base, more
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distinct before, and destitute of a projecting angle behind; an
impressed dorsal line ; elytra black, striate-punctured ; punctures
equal in length to the intermediate spaces and nearly equal in
breadth to the interstitial lines: [24] feet rufous; venter black.
This resembles Scarites gibbus, of which no description has
been given, sufficiently characteristic, toenable us to judge of their
differences. It may not be improper to observe here, that the
same figure of Fuess. Arch. the 17th of plate 29, has been refer-
red to, both forthe S.gibbus and Carabus ? globator ; it is probable
therefore that they are one species, particularly as Herbst calls it
globator, and has the S. gibbus of Fabr., as a synonym.
7. C. PALLIPENNIS.—Reddish-brown, beneath black ; elytra
pale yellowish.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Body impunctured, beneath black, sides reddish-brown ; head
reddish brown; antennze and mouth paler; thorax globose,
somewhat truncated before, rounded behind, color of the head,
a longitudinal impressed line, lateral edge obsolete behind ; elytra
pale yellow or whitish, striated; strie distant, with obsolete
punctures ; an obsolete blackish oblique spot at base, another at
tip, and a still less distinct one behind the middle ; feet rufous;
venter testaceous black, and (like the trunk) margined with
rufous.
Found at Egg Harbor, coast of Virginia and Florida, and is
common.
MORIO Latr.
Anterior tibia emarginate; elytra entire; palpi filiform: an-
tenne moniliform, joints subequal; tongue prominent, truncate
at tip, and membranaceous each side; mandibles acute. [25]
M. Grora1#.— Deep black above, beneath piceous-black ; nasus
with four elevated lines.
Length nearly three-fifths of an inch.
Scarites Georgie, piceous blackish; thorax subcordate ; elytra canali-
culate, strize subcrenate, those of the margin dentate. Palisot de Beau-
vois, vol. 1, No. 7, pl. 15, f. 5.
Body elongated, black, immaculate ; head, an elevated line and
groove over the eyes and base of the antenna, two indented
1823.]
454 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
frontal lines; nasus, four elevated longitudinal lines; antenne,
ferruginous hairs at tip, basal joint piceous; labrum piceous-
black, emarginated at tip; mandibles canaliculate on exterior
base ; thorax glabrous, narrower behind ; angles acute; a strongly
impressed dorsal line, and an abbreviated indented one each side
at hind angles ; exterior margin with six or eight hairs; a slight
emarginure before the hind angles; no abbreviated stria near
the scutel; elytra striate; strie impunctured, slightly crenate,
marginal one more conspicuously so; marginal interstitial line
ocellately punctured from base to tip; humeral angles slightly
acute.
I found two specimens under the bark of a decaying tree, in
South Carolina; I have not met with any in this State.
[Subsequently described by Latreille as Harpalus monih-
cornis.—LKE¢. |
HARPALUS Latr.
Anterior tibiz: emarginate ; four anterior tarsi dilated in the
male; elytra entire; antenne filiform, joints subcylindical ; lab-
rum subquadrate, entire, or very slightly emarginate; palpi fili-
form ; tongue exserted, cylindrical and coriaceous in the middle,
and membranaceous each side, tip truncate, unarmed; neck
none. [ 26]
1. H. caniainosus.—Black ; antennze, palpi, tarsi, and ante-
rior coxee ferruginous-brown.
Length one inch, breadth two-fifths nearly.
Apterous ; thorax square, black-obscure ; elytra striate; antenne tes-
taceous. Inhabits North America. Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 188.
Antenne and palpi ferruginous-brown; head smooth with two slightly
impressed points before ; thorax broad, smooth ; scutel small, triangular ;
body black: thighs with a range of small impressed points. Oliv. 3, 35,
pl. 6, f. 64, and pl. 7, f. 81.
Carabus politus Melsh. Catal.
Head glabrous ; antennz, palpi, and edge of the labrum ferru-
ginous-brown ; an indented puncture each side on the front; lab-
rum slightly emarginate at tip; labium unarmed in the sinus;
trunk beneath punctured; thorax with numerous minute punc-
tures, longitudinal line obsolete, area of the hind angles depressed
and confluently punctured, posterior angles acute; tarsi and
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coxx of the two anterior pairs of feet ferruginous-brown ; elytra
striate ; stria impunctured; margin opake, with numerous
minute punctures and a few larger ones; venter black, rarely
piceous.
The largest species of the genus in this country ; when irri-
tated it diffuses a very pungent vinegar-like odor. If the species
described by Fabricius is in reality apterous, as he supposes it to
be, this insect-is a distinct species, and the name given by Mr.
Melsheimer will be retained. It is very common.
[Referred to Selenophorus and Pangus, which, however, are
more properly united with Harpalus.—Lec. ]
2. H. picotor ?—Black; beneath deep piceous: antenne,
palpi, and feet testaceous.
Length, male less, female more than three-fifths of an inch. [27]
Winged; body above black, beneath ferruginous. Inhabits North
America. Mus. D. Lewin. Fabr. 8. Eleut. 1, p. 195.
Resembles C. ruficornis; head black; thorax almost square, with @
longitudinal line impressed in the middle, and two impressions posterior ;
elytra black, striated ; body beneath brown, more or less clear. Cab. of
M. Bose. Oliv. 3, p. 57, tab. 11, f. 92, b. Length seven-tenths of an
inch,
Carabus ostraceicornis Melsh. Catal.
Head black; antennz and mouth rufo-testaceous ; gula pice-
ous; thorax glabrous on the disk; a dorsal impressed line ; area
of the hind angles depressed and confluently punctured, posterior
angles rounded ; elytra striate; strie impunctured, margin with
numerous punctures ; pectus and postpectus piceous-black, pice-
ous on the disk, with obsolete punctures; feet testaceous, pale ;
venter piceous-black ; tail paler.
A very common insect under stones, &c. It does not corres-
pond with the description of bicolor of authors, but I do not
know what other insect they allude to. Mr. Marsham describes
this insect as an inhabitant of Great Britain.
[I consider this as H. pensylvanicus Degeer ; it also appears to
be H. faunus Dej.—Lec.]
3. H. prraticus.—Reddish-brown, beneath testaceous ; elytra
fuscous ; thorax a little contracted at base.
Length three-fifths of an inch nearly.
1823.]
456 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Body glabrous, reddish-brown, beneath testaceous; head not
darker than the thorax ; antennze fuscous towards the tip; thorax
broad as the elytra, gradually contracted behind, marginal groove
somewhat dilated, dorsal and basal lines distinct, continued to
the base, anterior transverse line widely curved, base not wider
than the tip, each side obsoletely punctured, basal edge rectili-
near, lateral angles obtuse, slightly rounded ; elytra darker than
the thorax, striate, strize impunctured, interstitial lines convex ;
[ 28] feet pale testaceous.
It is very probable that this species may prove to be the H.
pensylvanicus, instead of the following one, as the thorax, in
being narrowed behind, agrees with the figure Olivier has given
of that insect.
[Incorrectly described by Olivier as H. pensylvanicus.—Lxc. ]
4. ‘H. PENSYLVANICUS.—Reddish-brown; head darker, be-
neath testaceous; thorax punctured each side at base.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Reddish-brown ; head dusky ; shells striate; body beneath, antenne
and feet testaceous. Inhabits Pennsylvania. Turt. p. 470. Degeer 4, t.
Lp #22)
Head brown-testaceous, obscure; thorax brown-testaceous, nearly as
broad as elytra, with a somewhat impressed line ; elytra striated, brown-
testaceous: body beneath and feet testaceous. Cab. of M. Banks. Oliv.
3, p. 72, t. 8, f. 92.
Head dusky reddish-brown ; labrum darker, tip, excepting the
central portion, depressed and hairy ; mandibles black at tip ; an-
tennz testaceous, paler at base ; pectus and postpectus testace-
ous ; thorax reddish-brown, as broad as the elytra, transversely
quadrate, angles rounded, a dorsal slightly impressed line, base
each side impressed and confluently punctured ; elytra striate,
striz impunctured ; interstitial marginal lines obsoletely pune-
tured, exterior one with a few larger subocellate punctures; feet
pale testaceous ; venter pale testaceous.
[I have named this species H. compar. Dejean describes it
as HH. bicolor. The older figures and descriptions of De Geer and
others seem to lead to the conclusion that H. pensy/vanicus and
bicolor are the same species, and that the names belong rather to
the one above described as HZ. bicolor. For this reason I have
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considered it necessary to propose a new name for this very
common insect.—LEC. ]
5. H. rAunus.—Dark reddish-brown; antenne, palpi and
feet paler ; thorax punctured behind.
Length half an inch.
Carabus faunus Melsh. Catal.
Body reddish-brown obscure, beneath rather pale; head, basal
suture distinct ; antennz and palpi pale testaceous; thorax quad-
rate, hardly narrowed before or arquated at [ 29] the sides, hind
angles rounded, dorsal line faintly impressed, basal lines dilated,
and with the hind margin conspicuously punctured, lateral mar-
gin depressed, punctured; elytra striate, striz with distant
minute punctures, punctures of the marginal line not ocellate ;
feet pale testaceous.
Of this insect I have seen but two specimens; one of which
was sent me by my friend Dr. J. F. Melsheimer of Hanover.
[This was subsequently described as H. badius Dej.—Lec.]
6. H. HERBIVAGUS.—Deep black-brown, beneath piceous-
black ; labrum piceous-black; thoracic angles rounded; feet
reddish-brown.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Head black ; antennze and palpi testaceous ; thorax, impressed
line obsolete, lateral basal lines very distinct, margin somewhat
depressed, posterior angles rounded, not depressed or punctured
above ; elytra, striz impunctured, tip obtusely rounded, margi-
nal punctures continued, edge ferruginous ; feet reddish-brown.
Not uncommon. Very much resembles the next, but differs
from it by the more obtuse termination of the body, &c. This
may possibly be the H. dubius of Palisot, but his description is
not sufficiently detailed to enable us to determine satisfactorily.
7. H. simitis.—Blackish, beneath piceous-black ; elytra
greenish or cupreous; labrum ferruginous; posterior thoracic
angles subacute ; feet pale testaceous.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Head purple-black ; antennz brown, base and palpi testace-
ous ; labrum ferruginous; thorax purple-black, hind angles sub-
_ acute and with the [80] margin slightly depressed, impunctured,
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458 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
dorsal line obsolete, basal lines subimpressed ; elytra dark green
or cupreous ; strise impunctured, edge ferruginous, tip acutely
rounded ; feet pale testaceous.
I collected this species in North Carolina, where it appears to
be rather common. It is distinguishable from the preceding
only by immediate comparison : the tips of the elytra when taken
together are more acute, the labrum ferruginous, hind thoracic
angles more acute, feet much paler, and the thorax more dis-
tinetly transverse.
[I consider this as probably the species subsequently described
by Dejean as H. agilis, in which case it belongs to Hurytrichus
Lec. It may however be Gynandrotarsus harpaloides Ferte,
an insect from Texas, unknown to me.—LEC. ]
8. H. vutpecuivs.—Rufous ; elytra brownish, impunctured ;
posterior thoracic angles rectangular.
Length nearly two-fifths of an inch.
Body glabrous, beneath obsoletely punctured; head with the
mandibles black at tip ; thorax a little contracted behind, base
each side depressed and punctured, dorsal line obsolete, lateral
angles rectangular, basal edge rectilinear; scutel dark rufous ;
elytra blackish-brown, strize profound, impunctured, interstitial
lines convex, impunctured; pectus and postpectus obsoletely
punctured ; feet paler.
This, at first view, resembles Feronia interstitialis. I have but
a single specimen, which is a female.
[Subsequently described as H. nigripennis Dej.; belongs to
Bradycellus.—Lxc. |
9. H. mrpennts.—Black ; elytra black-blue iridescent; feet
testaceous.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Body black, beneath dark piceous; antennz, labrum, mouth,
and feet rufo-testaceous, the latter paler ; thorax somewhat wider
than long, widest in the middle, hardly narrower at base than at
tip; lateral edge piceous, [81] almost regularly arquated ; angles
obtusely rounded ; basal edge rectilinear ; dorsal and basal lines
obsolete ; base with numerous slight punctures ; elytra blackish,
with blue and iridescent reflexions.
[Afterwards described by me as Selenophorus varicolor, having
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falsely applied the present name to a much larger species, which
must therefore now be called H. (S.) opalinus.—Lexc.]
10. H. vrripis.—Green, beneath black; feet rufous; thorax
punctured ; elytra with minute hairs.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Head tinged with bronze ; antenne and palpi rufous; labrum
piceous ; thorax before and at base slightly bronzed; punctures
numerous, obsolete on the anterior disk; elytra slightly tinged
with brassy, with acute, impunctured striz, and numerous short
hairs ; interstitial lines flat ; feet rufous; bears some resemblance
to Feronia lucublandus.
[Previously described as H. viridizneus Beauv. and subse-
quently as H. assimilis Dej.—Lxc. ]
11. H. nynacis.—Black ; labrum, mouth, and feet testace-
ous ; abdomen piceous ; base of the thorax narrowed, angles ob-
tuse.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Body black, beneath piceous ; labrum, mandibles, excepting at
tip, palpi, three basal joints of the antennze, and feet rufo-testa-
ceous ; antennz dusky. Thorax of equal diameters, narrower at
base than the elytra, broadest in the middle ; lateral edge regu-
larly arquated ; angles very obtuse, posterior edge rectilinear; a
longitudinal, slightly impressed, continuous line; basal lines
very distinct. Elytra with a very slight greenish shade; basal
joint of the anterior and intermediate tarsi dilated and granula-
ted beneath, the remaining joints hardly dilated.
The first or basal joint of the anterior and intermediate [32]
tarsi only is dilated, and it is granulated beneath as in cexnus,
and of course does not, strictly speaking, belong to this genus.
The baltimoriensis, carbonarius, agricolus, ceenus, and rusticus
have also granulations, or rather close set hairs on the dilated
tarsi of the male. On account of this distinctive character, I
should have referred them all to that division of Feronia in which
M. Latreille places Epomis, &c., did not that author expressly
state that insects of that division ought to have the two anterior
tarsi only of the male dilated.
[Subsequently described as Gynandropus americanus Dej.—
Lec. |
1823. ]
460 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
12. H. rustrcus.—Deep black-brown ; base of the antenna,
mouth beneath and palpi, and posterior thoracic angles reddish-
brown ; glabrous beneath.
Length from two-fifths to half an inch.
Carabus rusticus Melsh. Catal.
Antenne brown, two basal joints reddish-brown; labrum black ;
maxille and palpi reddish-brown ; thorax glabrous, a dorsal im-
pressed line, and two abbreviated ones at base ; margin not de-
pressed, but continuing the general,curve to the edge; hind
angles obsoletely reddish-brown; elytra, strie impunctured ;
second, fourth, and sixth interstitial lines punctured near the tip,
marginal one with ocellate punctures not interrupted in the mid-
dle; pectus and postpectus not hairy.
Var. a. Elytra reddish-brown.
Very similar to H, carbonarius and equally common ; but is
readily distinguishable by the color of the thoracic angles, naked
breast, punctures of the interstitial lines, Xe.
[Belongs to Anisodactylus ; A. tristis Dej. is merely a variety.
—LEc.]
13. H. carBponarius.—Black ; palpi and base of the antennze
piceous ; sternum and postpectus somewhat hairy. [33]
Length nearly eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Carabus carbonarius Melsh Catal.
Antenne blackish brown, basal joints piceous; palpi piceous
at the tips of the joints; vertex with an obsolete piceous spot
visible in a particular light; thorax, dorsal line not deeply
impressed ; exterior and posterior lateral margin depressed and
somewhat rugose ; basal lines not definite; base not narrowed ;
elytra strize not impunctured, punctures on the marginal inter-
stitial line few and hardly ocellate, sixth interstitial line pune-
tured near the tip ; sternum a little hairy from the head to the
tip ; postpectus somewhat hairy on the disk ; venter, first segment
hairy beneath.
A very common species. The hairs beneath are small, and
require the aid of the microscope to be discovered.
[ Afterwards described as Anisodactylus luctuosus Dej.—LEc.]
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15. H. aaricoius [AGricoLa].—Black; palpi and antennz
piceous, the latter paler at base ; sternum and postpectus glabrous.
Length from nine-twentieths to one-half of an inch.
Antenne dusky piceous, basal joint light piceous; palpi pi-
ceous, paler at tip; vertex with an obsolete, piceous spot; visible
in a particular light; thorax slightly narrower at base, dorsal
line distinctly but not deeply impressed, lateral margin and a little
rugose, spaces of the basal lines deeply impressed and densely
punctured ; elytra, strie profound, impunctured; sixth intersti-
tial line with a single puncture.
This species resembles the preceding one, but it has a shorter
and more robust form, and the thorax is somewhat narrower at
the base than in the middle, which is not the case in carbonartus.
Tt is also common.
[H. paradoxus Hald., and Anisodactylus striatus, Lee. appear
to be properly referred to this species.—LEc. ]
16. H. BALTIMORIENSIS.—Black ; elytra reddish-brown, black-
ish on the disk ; feet pale testaceous. [34]
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Carabus baltimoriensis, Melsh. Catal.
Nasus with about three hairy punctures each side at tip
antenne black-brown, base, labrum, palpi, and base of the man-
dibles pale reddish-brown; thorax black, somewhat narrower
behind, posterior angles acute, dorsal line distinct, basal lines
dilated, and with the posterior margin conspicuously punctured ;
scutel blackish; elytra, base, exterior and posterior margins red-
dish brown, common disk blackish; feet testaceous.
Distinguished from all the preceding ones by the thorax being
much narrowed behind.
[Also an Anisodactylus, and considered as the previously
described Carabus St. crucis Fabr.—L«xc.]
17. H. cmnus.—Blackish, slightly tinged with green; palpi
and base of the antenne testaceous.
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
Carabus cenus Melsh. Catal.
Head green-black slightly tinged with cupreous; antennz
brown, three basal joints and palpi testaceous ; thorax black, very
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462 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
slightly tinged with green, transverse; hind margin punctured as
the middle, and equal to the base of the elytra; dorsal and pos-
terior lines distinct, beneath black ; elytra striate, strize impune-
tured, acute, interstitial lines flat; feet testaceous; thighs tes-
taceous black ; dilated tarsi granulated beneath.
[Also an Anisodactylus.—Le«c. ]
FERONIA* Latr.
From this genus, as defined by Latreille, in the Régne Animal
I have distinguished Abax, Epomis, Chienius, and Dicelus, as
distinct genera. [34]
1. F. Muscunis.—Bedy oval, piceous; thorax at base as
broad as the elytra.
Length one-fifth to one-fourth of an inch.
Body oval, dark piceous or blackish ; beneath piceous ; labrum
piceous ; antenne and palpi rufous; thorax from the middle to
the base as broad as the base of the elytra; hind angles subacute
not depressed ; lateral margin not depressed, but with an elevated
line; dorsal and basal lines indistinct; elytra striate, striz
indistinctly punctured, lateral interstitial line serrate before and
behind on the inner edge; feet rufous or piceous.
This species I found common on the eastern shore of Virginia,
in October, on the blossoms of the kinks bush. When caught,
like very many of the tribe, they diffuse a strong foetid odor. In
Florida I took several specimens on the wing in a conflagrated
salt marsh. Belongs to the genus Amara of Bonelli.
2. F. BASILLARIS.—Oval, blackish-bronzed, beneath black ;
feet piceous; thorax punctured each side at base, and as broad
as the elytra; palpi blackish.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Carabus smaragdulus Melsh. Catal.
Body oval, blackish bronzed or purplish black ; beneath black ;
antennz deep brown, three basal joints rufous; palpi black ;
thorax from the middle to the base as broad as the elytra,
numerous distinct punctures each side at base, posterior angles
acute, margin not depressed; elytra striate, strie punctured,
*This name is also made use of in botany, and ought therefore to be
changed,
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marginal interstitial line serrate on the inner edge, margin tinged
with green; feet deep piceous. [36]
Closely resembles impuncticollis, but the strive of the elytre
and the hind angles of the thorax: are punctured. The name
smaragdulus having been appropriated to a very different insect,
I have substituted that of basillaris. It belongs to the genus
Amara of Bonelli.
[Afterwards described by Dejean as Amara lucidula.—Lxc. |
3. F. rMpuncricotiis.—Oval, blackish-bronzed, beneath
black ; thorax impunctured and as broad at base as the elytra ;
palpi blackish.
Length three-tenths ofan inch.
Body oval, slightly attenuated behind, blackish-bronzed or
purplish black ; antennz brown, three basal joints rufous ; palpi
black ; thorax from the middle to the base as broad as the base
of the elytra, base impunctured, hind angles acute, dorsal and
basal lines distinct, margin not depressed ; elytra somewhat nar-
rowed behind with impunctured striz, lateral interstitial line
serrate on the inner edge; feet piceous black.
This insect is not uncommon in Pennsylvania; it was also
found by Mr. Nuttall on the Missouri. Corresponds with the
characters of the genus Amara of Bonelli.
4. F. anaustata.—Oval, blackish cupreous, beneath black ;
feet rufous ; thorax impunctured, as broad as the elytra; palpi
rufous.
Length hardly one-fourth of an inch.
Body oval, above blackish cupreous, beneath black ; antennsx
and palpi pale rufous; thorax from the middle to the base as
broad as the elytra, impunctured, posterior angles acute, margin
not depressed, dorsal and basal lines distinct; elytra striate, im-
punctured, marginal interstitial line serrate on the inner edge;
feet rufous. [37]
Taken by Mr. Nuttall on the Missouri. Resembles basillaris
and impuncticollis, but is much smaller, and differs from the first
by being impunctured, and from the last by the color of the an-
tenne, palpi, feet, &e. Belongs to the genus Amara of Bonelli.
[Afterwards described as A. indistincta Hald—Lec.]
1823.)
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5. F. oprsA.—Black, beneath piceous ; antennz, mouth and
feet rufous.
Length more than two-fifths of an inch.
Body black ; antennee and mouth reddish-brown; nasus and
labrum very dark reddish-brown; thorax slightly margined,
much punctured at base, dorsal line slightly impressed, basal
lines distinct; elytra with striz very distinctly punctured, inter-
stitial lines depressed, beneath piceous; abdomen and feet red-
dish-brown.
A very short and wide species, belonging to the genus Amara
of Bonelli. It was found at Harrowgate, the seat of my friend
Mr. J. Gilliams.
6. F. ninroLa.—Pale yellowish-testaceous ; elytra each with
a black line.
Length three-tenths of an inch full.
Carabus lineola, winged, ferruginous; elytra with a blackline. Fabr.
Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 197. Mus. D. Banks. Inhabits North America.
Carabus lineola, elytra striate ; thorax paler, with two black linear
spots. Turt.
Carabus lineola, ferrugineous ; thorax equal, withtwo points; elytra
_with two black lines.
Like C. ferriginosus; antenne ferruginous, as long as thorax; head
ferruginous ; thorax a little narrower than the elytra, ferruginous, with
two points black, obscure ; elytra ferruginous, striated, a line upon each
bifurcated anteriorly ; body beneath brown-ferruginous ; feet ferrugin-
ous. Cab. of M. Banks. Oliv. 3, p. 78, pl. 7, fig. 75.
Head testaceous-yellow; antenne subglabrous, and with the
palpi paler; a black transverse line on the vertex, and tips of
mandibles and eyes black; thorax color of the head, transverse,
subquadrate, rather narrower than the elytra, angles rounded, a
dorsal impressed line which is somewhat indented before, a black
longitudinally rhombic spot each side of the middle, an irregular
smaller one each side at base, and a transverse obsolete arquated
one before ; all beneath and feet paler, anterior ones five-spined
on outer edge of the tibiee, two terminal spines approximate ;
elytra paler than the thorax, each with a black, abbreviated,
vitta, furcate before, and an abbreviated, black, obsolete band at
base, striate; strize acute, distant, impunctured; margin im-
punctured.
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Var. a. Thorax rufous, immaculate ; head black.
This species I might have referred to C. furcatus of Fabr.,
had he not quoted for /ineola a figure of Olivier’s which agrees
very well with this insect; an agreement to which, when com-
bined with the accompanying description, no doubt can be
attached.
Is not furcatus the same insect? I should suppose the species
named comma to be also closely allied to it.
[Belongs to Agonoderus.—Lxc. ]
7. F. pantipes.—Head black; thorax and elytra pale testa-
ceous, the former black on the disk, and rounded at the posterior
angles, the latter with an abbreviated black vitta ; beneath black;
feet pale.
Length, male one-fourth—female three-tenths of an inch.
Carabus pallipes, winged, black; thorax rounded ; thorax and elytra
with a pale margin; feet pale. Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 200. Mus. Dr.
Hunter.
Inhabits North America.
Antenne black, pale at base ; head black; mouth ferruginous ; elytra
striate, black, border pale. Turt.
Antenne ferruginous, obscure; head black; mouth and palpi ferru-
ginous ; thorax [39] black, margined with ferruginous ; elytra striated
black, border ferruginous pale; body beneath black; feet pale. Cab.
Dr. Hunter.
Oliv. 3, pl. 9, f. 99. Carolina.
Carabus furcatus Melsh. Catal.
Body beneath black; head deep black; antenne and palpi
ferruginous ; thorax pale testaceous; a large black spot occupy-
ing the disk, sometimes distinguished into several obsolete lines,
a longitudiual impressed abbreviated line; feet pale; anterior
ones six-spined on the outer edge of the tibia, two terminal
spines approximate ; elytra paler than the thorax, striated, im-
punctured, each with a broad, black, abbreviated vitta, which is
separated from the suture by the first elevated line.
Var. a. Pale testaceous beneath.
Var. 8. Elytra with a common black disk, formed by the june-
tion of the vittee at the suture.
Var. y. Thorax immaculate.
Very like a lineola, but is a little smaller and more depressed ;
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466 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
and otherwise sufficiently distinct. I should have been in doubt
whether this species or the next was the true pallipes Fabr., had
it not been for the specific character “ thorax rotundatus” applied
by that naturalist to his insect, a character more decidedly ap-
plicable to this species.
It is not uncommon, and appears to be a general inhabitant of
this country. Nuttall found it on the Missouri.
[Also an Agonoderus.—LEc.]
8. F. arRIMEDIA.—Pale rufous; head, disk of the thorax and
of the elytra black; beneath black; feet testaceous ; posterior
thoracic angles acute.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Body black beneath ; head black ; antennz, base rufous ; palpi
rufous ; thorax rufous, with a black disk, edge slightly excurved
near the hind angles; hind angles acute; dorsal line distinet ;
[40] basal lines indefinite, indented ; base each side punctured;
elytra with impunctured striz and depressed interstitial lines,
pale rufous or testaceous with a common black disk, which is
dilated behind the middle and attenuated before ; feet testaceous.
A greater portion of the antenne and feet were wanting in the
specimen, but one of the anterior tarsi which was remaining was
much more dilated than that of the preceding species. From the
Missouri. Nuttall.
[A species of Bradycellus.—Lxc.]
9. F. LonGicorN1s.—Apterous, dark piceous, beneath paler :
antennze rufous; feet testaceous.
Length rather more than half an inch.
Carabus longicornis Melsh. Catal.
Body glabrous, dark piceous, beneath piceous ; front longitu-
dinally indented each side ; antennz rufous, half as long as the
body, the joints attenuated towards their bases ; labrum truncate,
rufous ; palpi rufous ; thorax contracted behind, edge slightly
excurved at the hind angles, anterior transversely indented line
profound, dorsal line at base abruptly canaliculate, basal lines
dilated, suborbicular, profound, scabrous, extending from near
the dorsal line to the angle ; elytra, interstitial lines of the disk
convex, glabrous, striz obtuse, punctures approximate, trans-
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yerse, extending upon the sides of the strie, sixth and seventh
striz obsolete ; feet testaceous.
This species is net of frequent occurrence ; inhabits moist
places under stones. It appears to belong te the genus Percus
of Bonelli.
[Belongs to Patrobus, and afterwards described as P. america-
nus Dej.—Lec.]
10. F. untcotor.—Apterous, glabrous, black ; tips of the an-
tennze [41] brownish ; tarsi piceous; strive of the elytra punc-
tured.
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
Body glabrous, black, impunctured ; head, antenne brownish
towards the tips, joints attenuated towards the bases; labrum
truncate ; palpi piceous ; thorax transverse, contracted behind
rather abruptly, tip of the posterior angles ebtusely rounded,
sublobate ; dorsal line not attaining the base, basal lines indented,
excurved to the angles, anterior transverse line obsolete or want-
ing, lateral edge much rounded, abruptly excurved behind ; elytra
convex, striz not deeply impressed, punctures longitudinal, ab-
breviated striz near the suture, obsolete marginal interstitial line
serrate with ocellate punctures, third line with a single puncture
near the middle; feet black; tibia at tip and tarsi dark piceous.
This species is referable to the genus Pterostichus of Bonelli.
[I have separated the species having a single dorsal puncture,
under the generic name -Lvarthrus.—Lxc. ]
11. F. sryaica.—Apterous, black, glabrous, impunctured ;
strize impunctured ; basal thoracic lines dilated.
Length more than three-fifths of an inch.
Carabus stygicus Melsh. Catal.
Body black, impunctured, glabrous ; antennee rather surpassing
the base of the thorax, brownish towards the tips, the joints
attenuated towards their bases; palpi rufous ; thorax, diameters
subequal, gradually a little contracted behind, edge not excurved
at the hind angles, hind angles not prominent, rounded, basal
lines double, dilated, orbicular, and scabrous, base wider than the
petiole ; elytra slightly tinged with brown, strie indented, im-
punctured, interstitial line convex, third with a single puncture
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468 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
behind; wings none; [42] feet black; tibiae and tarsi deep
piceous.
Belongs to the genus Pterostichus of Bonelli.
[A variety was afterwards deseribed as F. rugicollis Hald.—
Lec. |
12. F. m@sta.—Apterous, black, glabrous; thorax as broad
as the elytra, much contracted behind; elytra very obtusely
rounded behind, striz impunctured.
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
Body black, glabrous, impunctured, rounded behind ; antenne
brownish or ferruginous towards the tips; palpi piceous ; thorax
before the middle as broad as the base of the elytra, much con-
tracted behind, posterior angles obtusely rounded, dorsal line
very distinct, basal ones excavated, slightly punctured and placed
at the lateral angles, base not wider than the petiole, basal edge
rectilinear ; elytra slightly tinged with purplish, very obtusely
rounded behind, striz profoundly indented, impunctured, inter-
stitial lines very convex, third with about four distant punctures;
postpectus, peduncle punctured each side; feet, thighs robust ;
tarsi piceous.
Is distinguished from stygieus by the very narrow thoracic
base, and very obtuse termination of the body.
[Subsequently described by Say as F. supercitiosa. (Ante,
92;) and more recently by Newman as F” relicta.—LEc.]
13. F. sigittATaA.—Apterous, black, glabrous ; thorax slightly
contracted behind, anterior transverse line acute and deeply im-
pressed ; elytral strize punctured.
Length more than seven-tenths of an inch.
Body black, glabrous, impunctured; antenne brownish to-
wards the tip; labrum dark piceous ; mandibles obliquely striated
above conspicuously ; palpi piceous ; thorax broadest before the
middle, gradually a little contracted behind, dorsal line acute,
impressed, continued, anterior transverse line aeute, deeply im-
pressed, resembling [43] a suture, area of the basal lines in-
dented, each with two shorter oblique lines, lateral edge slightly
curved, not perceptibly exeurved near the base, basal angles
rounded, base much wider than the petiole; elytra, striz not
very deeply impressed, distinctly punctured, abbreviated strize
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near the scutel, obsolete, interstitial lines depressed, third one
with two distant obsolete punctures behind the middle; wings
none; pectus in some lights slightly tinged with green; tarsi
piceous.
Resembles tartaricus, but is distinguished by the thoracic hind
angles being less acute and the elytral striz punctured; from
wnucolor it is at once distinguished by the less rounded form of
the thorax and its less contracted base; from stygicus, to which
by form it is more closely allied, it may be readily separated by
the punctured striz, &c.
Found on Mr. R. Haines’s farm, Germantown.
It belongs to the genus Prerostichus of Bonelli.
[Afterwards described as F. vidua Dej.; belongs to Evar-
thrus.—Lxe. |
14. F. practpaA.—Blackish, glabrous ; thorax transversely sub-
orbicular, margined ; elytra with acute impunctured strie.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Carabus peltatus Melsh. Catal.
Head purple-black slightly tinged with green ; antennx black-
ish, rufous at base; palpi rufous or piceous; thorax a little nar-
rower than the elytra, transversely suborbicular, blackish, slightly
tinged with green ; margin depressed, edge a little recurved, parti-
cularly at the hind angles, which are not excurved; dorsal line and
anterior transverse line impressed, basal lines almost obsolete in
the concavity of the lateral base, which is a little rugous; elytra
blackish with an obsolete purplish tint; striz# not profound, acute,
impunctured ; interstitial lines very slightly convex ; [44] pectus
and postpectus black ; feet black ; tibiae and tarsi piceous; abdo-
men black. |
[A Platynus of the division Agonum, and afterwards described
as A. morosum Dej.—LEc.]
15. F. rarrarica.—Entirely black, immaculate, glabrous ;
strie of the elytra impunctured.
Length three-fourths of an inch.
Body glabrous, black; head frontal lines distinct; antenne,
ferruginous hair towards the tips, joints attenuated towards their
bases; labrum truncate; thorax large, transverse, gradually a
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470 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
little contracted behind, base nearly equal to the base of the ely-
tra, dorsal line profoundly and equally impressed, anterior
transverse line more profoundly impressed, confluent with
the marginal groove at the anterior angles, basal lines strongly
impressed, excurved, and distinetly confluent with the marginal
groove behind the angles, lateral edge excurved at the hind
angles, posterior angles acute; elytra, strise impunctured, inter-
stitial lines very convex, third with three remote punctures, one
near the base, one near the middle, and one towards the tip ; feet
black; tarsi piceous.
[This is a species of Lophoglossus Lec., and is most probably
the one described by Dejean as Feronia complanata.—Lxc. |
16. F. mMura.—Black ; thorax punctured each side at base ;
elytra with obsoletely punctured strize.
Length half an inch.
Carabus adoxus Melsh. Catal.
Body glabrous, black ; antennze ferruginous towards tip, joints
attenuated towards their bases; palpi piceous; thorax in the
middle as broad as the elytra, gradually a little contracted to the
base, where it is very slightly excurved; base somewhat de-
pressed, and distinctly punctured each side, dorsal line distinetly
continued to the base ; [45] elytra, strize obsoletely punctured,
interstitial lines convex, third one with a puncture at the base,
one in the middle, and one near the tip; feet black; tibia and
tarsi piceous; postpectus punctured each side.
Differs from adoxus, to which it is closely allied, in having
less robust antenne, vestiges of punctures in the elytral strie,
the thorax more rounded and less excurved at the posterior
angles, and the dorsal line not abbreviated behind.
[Also described subsequently as Feronia morosa Dej., and
Omaseus picicornis Kirby.—Lxc.]
17. F. susBMARGINATA.—Blackish, glabrous, all beneath pi-
ceous ; thorax with a depressed margin, the edge reflected, base
each side, and elytral striae: punctured.
Length half an inch.
Antennz and palpi deep piceous; labrum truncate, piceous ;
thorax in the middle as broad as the elytra, base punctured,
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marginal groove dilated, piceous, resembling a narrow depressed
margin and reflected edge, dorsal line distinct, lateral edge not
excurved near the hind angles, base wider than the petiole, pos-
terior angles prominent and rounded; elytra, striae punctured, in-
terstitial lines convex, third one with a puncture behind the
middle, and one near the tip; feet piceous ; postpectus punctured
each side behind the intermediate feet and at base; venter im-
punctured.
This species very much resembles decentis, but the thorax is
more dilated, and the elytra narrower. It may be distinguished
by having the postpectus punctured both at base and each side.
[Afterwards described by Germar as Peecilus monedula.—Lxc. }
18. F.rmpuncrata.—Black, glabrous, impunctured ; antenne
and palpi pale rufous; fest testaceous.
Length a little more than two-fifths of an inch.
Body black, impunctured, glabrous; [46] antennz slender,
extending beyond the humerus, and with the palpi pale rufous ;
thorax broadest rather before the middle, contracted behind,
margin a little depressed behind, the edge somewhat recurved,
posterior angles obtusely rounded, base impunctured; elytra pro-
foundly striated, strize impunctured, interstitial lines convex, the
third one with two distant punctures ; feet testaceous.
Resembles submarginatus and decentis, but is entirely destitute
of punctures ; the form of the thorax also is perfectly distinct.
1 caught it on Mr. R. Haines’s farm in Germantown.
[Belongs to Pristodactyla ; described by Dejean as P. ameri-
cana.—LkEC. |
19. F. vENTRALIS.—Black, glabrous, all beneath piceous-
black; thorax at base not wider than the pedicel of the post-
pectus.
Length rather more than two-fifths of an inch,
Body above black, polished, beneath piceous-black ; antenne
piceous, with ferruginous hairs towards the tip; labrum deep
piceous; palpi piceous ; thorax before the middle as broad as the
elytra, gradually much contracted behind, base hardly wider
than the pedicel, lateral margin not depressed, edge not excurved
behind, dorsal line slightly impressed, basal lines distinct, con-
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472 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
spicuously punctured; elytra narrowed behind, strie punctured,
interstitial lines hardly convex ; pectus impunctured; feet rufo-
testaceous ; postpectus and venter punctured.
Very like submarginatus ; but the form of the thorax is very
different. It was taken in Missouri by Mr. Nuttall.
20. F. apoxa.—Apterous, black, glabrous, impunctured; strize
impunctured; basal thoracic line not dilated.
Length half an inch. [47]
Carabus adoxus Melsh. Catal.
Body black, glabrous, impunctured; antenne robust, the
joints attenuated towards their bases, and with the palpi dark
rufous ; labrum truncate, dark rufous ; thorax large, impunctured,
gradually contracted behind, edge excurved at the hind angles,
dorsal line not attaining the base, basal lines strongly impressed,
cutting the base near the angles; pectus impunctured; post-
pectus punctured ; elytra, striz impunctured, interstitial lines
convex ; feet piceous ; abdomen piceous.
Corresponds with M. Latreille’s definition of the genus Pterosti-
chus of Bonelli.
[Afterwards described by Dejean as Feronia tristis.—Lxc. ]
21. F. GreGARIA.—Dark reddish-brown; limbs and margin of
the thorax paler, thorax at base equal to the base of the elytra.
Carabus gregarius Melsh. Catal. S
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Body dark chestnut, blackish each side beneath ; head dark
chestnut ; eyes and mandibles at tip black; antenne and palpi
reddish-brown, the former half as long as the body; thorax
rather longer than broad, impunctured, lateral margin distinct
and with the posterior margin paler, the latter rather broader
than at tip and equal to the base of the elytra, dorsal and pos-
terior lines indistinct, angles rounded ; elytra with impunctured
strie, margin paler and distantly punctured, without emargina
near the tip, but regularly rounded in that part; epipleura dis-
tinctly canaliculate to near the tip; feet color of the antenne,
long; venter blackish.
Belongs to the genus Calathus of Bonelli and Latreille. [48]
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22. F. TeERMINATA.—Deep reddish-brown ; elytra darker ; an-
tenn and feet testaceous : thorax not contracted behind.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Carabus terminatus Melsh. Catal.
Body dark reddish-brown ; eyes blackish ; antenne and palpi
testaceous, somewhat darker at tips; thorax transverse, with a
distinct, depressed margin each side, not narrowed behind, pos-
terior angles subacute, attaining the humeral ones, dorsal line
indistinct ; elytra somewhat opake, darker than the thorax, striae
impunctured, suture and edge paler, marginal punctures distinct,
a distinct sinus near the tip; feet testaceous; venter and post-
pectus blackish each side.
This species appertains to the genus Calathus of Bonelli.
[A Harpalide of the genus Hurytrichus—LrEc. ]
23. F. AUTUMNALIS.—Blackish-brown ; antennz and feet tes-
taceous, lateral edge not distinctly excurved behind.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Carabus autumnalis Melsh. Catal.
Body depressed, deep blackish-brown; head black ; antennze
and mouth yellowish testaceous, the former brownish towards
the tip; thorax a little narrower behind, broadest before the
middle, margin not depressed, dorsal and basal lines distinct,
posterior angles subacute, hardly attaining the humeral angles,
lateral edge not distinctly excurved behind; elytra blackish,
polished, strize impunctured, edge with a very obtuse sinus near
the tip, marginal interstitial line serrate within; feet testaceous.
It seems to belong to the genus Calathus of Bonelli.
Resembles terminatus, but is smaller, and the thorax is a lit-
tle narrowed behind, and is destitute of a depressed margin.
[Belongs to Bradycellus.—Lxc. | [49]
24. F. nimpata.—Dark reddish brown; thorax rounded ;
elytra deeply margined with testaceous ; postpectus pedunculated.
Length from one-fourth to three-tenths of an inch.
Carabus limbatus Melsh. Catal.
Body deep reddish-brown ; antenne at base, and palpi paler ;
thorax suborbicular, margin not depressed, edge consisting of a
simple elevated line, anterior angles subacute, dorsal line indis-
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474 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
tinct, basal lines indented ; pectus paler ; feet testaceous ; petiole
distinct ; elytra with distinctly punctured striz, disk black-
brown to the fifth stria, remaining margin testaceous, marginal
interstitial line with a few larger punctures behind, none in the
middle.
Rather rare.
[A Platynus of the division Agonum, and afterwards described
by Dejean as A. palliatum.—LEc. ]
25. F. pARMATA.—Black: thorax rounded ; feet testaceous ;
elytra margined with testaceous; postpectus pedunculated.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Carabus parmatus Melsh. Catal.
Body black ; antennz and palpi rufous; thorax transversely
suborbicular, destitute of depressed margin or elevated edge;
feet pale rufous: petiole very distinct; elytra striate, impunc-
tured, disk black-brown to the sixth stria, margin pale rufous,
marginal interstitial line slightly punctured on the inner edge ;
venter black.
Much resembles F. dimbata, but the strie of the elytra are
not punctured and the edge of the thorax is destitute of an ele-
vated line.
[Belongs to Olisthopus.—Lxc. ] [50]
26. F. cupripennis.—Green, polished ; common disk of the
elytra cupreous, brilliant.
Carabus metallicus Melsh. Catal.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Head green; antenne, labrum and palpi black; thorax im-
punctured, green varied with purple, rather narrower than the
elytra, regularly curved each side to the bases, posterior angles
none, dorsal and basal lines distinct, the latter dilated; elytra
cupreous, brilliant, margin green, strie acute, impunctured, in-
terstitial lines flat; pectus and postpectus dark green; feet
green ; tibize and tarsi, and trochanters piceous.
Var. a. Elytra brilliant green slightly tinted with cupreous ;
head and thorax tinged with purplish.
A very beautiful and brilliant insect. The name metadlicus
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having been applied to a very different insect, the above is sub-
stituted for it. |
[A Platynus of the division Agonum.—L«¢. ]
27. F. cONVEXICOLLIS.—Green varied with cupreous, all be-
neath black ; thorax submarginated, punctured behind.
Length more than seven-twentieths of an inch.
Body beneath black ; head green, with slight cupreous reflec
tions; labrum purple-black; mandibles black; thorax green,
elevated portion cupreous, margin depressed more perceptibly
towards the hind angles, breadth greatest in the middle, hardly
contracted behind, base as broad as the elytra and punctured ;
elytra green, slightly varied with cupreous, particularly at the
sutural base, strize with indistinct, distant punctures, interstitial
lines somewhat convex, third one with three distant punctures
behind the middle; postpectus punctured each side; feet
black. [51]
I have seen but a single specimen, which was deficient in an-
tennze, palpi, and also in tarsi, with the exception of two joints
of the second pair ; these were not dilated. It was brought from
Missouri by Mr. Nuttall.
[Belongs to Pacilus.—Lxc.]
28. F. wonestA.—Black ; beneath and feet piceous ; above im-
punctured ; thoracic lines profoundly indented; lateral edge
excurved behind.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch.
Body black with a piceous shade, beneath piceous ; antennse
and palpi rufous ; labrum piceous; thorax impunctured, broadest
before the middle, gradually contracted behind, dorsal and basal
lines profoundly indented, lateral edge excurved near the base,
basal angles rectangular; elytra piceous-black, deeply striated,
striz impunctured, interstitial lines convex, third one with a
puncture near the middle; postpectus each side and peduncle
punctured ; feet piceous; venter punctured each side at base.
[Afterwards described by Dejean as Feronia fascidita, and by
Laporte as Stomis americana. Overlooking the dorsal puncture,
I placed this species, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. 2d, ser. 2, 237, in
the division of Pterostichus, having no dorsal puncture.—Lec.]
1823.]
476 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
29. F. 8-puncratus.—Green ; elytra with a common cupreous
disk, third interstitial line with four distant, large, excavated im-
pressures.
Length full three-tenths of an inch.
Carabus 8-punctatus Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 186.
Body beneath dark green; head green slightly varied with
cupreous ; antennz and palpi black; thorax green, somewhat
cupreous on the disk, rounded behind, lateral curve equal, hind
angles none, dorsal line distinct, basal ones profoundly impressed ;
elytra green opake, common disk to the fourth strize cupreous,
polished, strize acute, interstitial lines flat, third one with four
distant, profoundly excavated, quadrate impressures; [52] feet
piceous.
Remarkable by the very conspicuous elytral series of dilated
punctures. Mr. Marshal describes this species as a native of
Great Britain.
[A Platynus of the division Agonum.—LEc. ]
30. F. nuraAns.—Green, polished, beneath black ; elytra eu-
preous ; feet testaceous at base.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Head green, beneath black ; antennze, labrum, and palpi black ;
thorax impunctured, green, rather narrower than the elytra,
broadest in the middle, regularly arquated each side to the base,
posterior angles none, dorsal and basal lines distinct, the latter
dilated, orbicular, base not wider than the petiole; elytra dark
cupreous slightly tinted with greenish, striz impunctured, inter-
stitial lines nearly flat ; pectus and postpectus black; feet pice-
ous ; thighs testaceous at base ; venter black.
Closely approximated to cupripennis, but may be distinguished
by the color of the under part of the body, base of the thighs,
and elytra. The specimen I bought several years ago in New
York.
[A Platynus afterwards described as Agonum femoratum De}.
—Lec.]
31. F. crxcricoLiis.—Piceous-black, beneath somewhat paler;
thorax margined ; elytral striae: impunctured.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
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Body black tinged with piceous, impunctured, beneath pice-
ous ; antennz and palpi rufous ; thorax narrower than the elytra,
contracted behind, margined, margin rufous, somewhat recurved,
edge excurved, near the posterior angles, which are obtuse ;
[53] elytra, striz impunctured, acute, seventh one obsolete, in-
terstitial lines slightly convex, third with two or three punc-
tures ; pectus and postpectus impunctured ; feet piceous.
[A Platynus afterwards described as follows: Platynus blandus
Germ., Anchomenus corvinus Dej., A. deplanatus Chaud., A. mar-
ginalis Hald.—LEc.]
32. F. pecorA.—Head deep green; thorax rufous; elytra
dark cupreous.
Length seven twentieths of an inch.
Head deep green, purplish at base ; antenne and palpi rufous,
dusky at tip; labrum and nasus purplish; thorax pale rufous,
narrower than the elytra, broadest before the middle, a little con-
tracted behind, hind angles obtuse, dorsal line slightly impressed,
basal ones distinct; elytra, disk obscure cupreous to the eighth
stria, margin green, interstitial lines somewhat convex, strize 1m-
punctured ; pectus pale rufous; postpectus black slightly pur-
purescent, impunctured ; feet testaceous; abdomen black, pice-
ous behind.
38. F. DECENTIS [DECENS].—Black, depressed ; third intersti-
tial line tripunctate; thorax each side at base depressed and
punctured ; feet black.
Length eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Carabus gagathes Melsh. Catal.
Body black, depressed, glabrous ; antenne piceous-black ; palpi
dark piceous ; thorax narrower than the elytra, slightly contract-
ed behind, margin somewhat depressed behind, edge recurved,
posterior edge very slightly excurved, posterior angles not round-
ed, dorsal line indented, anterior transverse line angularly and
deeply indented, base each side excavated and confluently punc-
tured. LElytra, strie with transverse, numerous, lineolar punc-
tures, interstitial lines convex, the third one with three remote,
[54] lateral punctures, of which one is obsolete and placed near
the base on the exterior side, one near the middle on the anterior
side, and one near the tip; feet black ; tarsi piceous ; postpectus
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with a few punctures at base each side before the intermediate
feet.
This species occurs not unfrequently. As Panzer has given
the name gagathes to a German insect which is distinct from
this species, | have of course adopted a new one.
[A Platynus afterwards described as Anchomenus gagates De}.
and A. coracinus Lee.—L«Ec. ]
34. F. EXTENSICOLLIS.—Head and thorax greenish ; elytra
green or purplish, beneath piceous-black ; feet testaceous.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Carabus extensicollis Melsh. Catal.
Head dusky green; antenne and palpi rufous; labrum trun-
eate ; thorax narrower than the elytra, longitudinal, immargined,
blackish-purple or greenish, gradually contracted behind, slightly
excurved at the hind angles, base somewhat scabrous, basal lines
dilated, concave, dorsal line distinct ; scutel blackish-purple ; ely-
tra green or purple, striz impunctured, interstitial lines convex,
third one with four or five obsolete remote punctures ; feet testa-
ceous.
[Also a Platynus.—Lxc.]
35. H. ocuropezA.—Blackish ; thorax rounded behind ; ely-
tra with perlaceous reflections ; feet testaceous.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Carabus ochropezus Melsh. Catal.
Body glabrous, blackish, beneath piceous; antenne brown;
base and palpi rufous ; thorax somewhat rounded, posterior angles
very obtusely [55] rounded, dorsal line obsolete, basal lines ex-~
cavated, base with numerous small punctures, edge dull rufous ;
elytra dark brown or blackish, with obsolete perlaceous reflec-
tions, striz impunctured, interstitial lines depressed, sutural edge
and deflected margin rufous or piceous; pectus and postpectus
impunctured ; feet testaceous.
Var. a. Elytra blackish-testaceous, almost destitute of the
perlaceous reflections.
[Belongs to Stenolophus.—Lxc. }
36. F. LUCUBLANDA.—Green or reddish-purple, polished, all
beneath black; head and thorax impunctured, margin of the
thorax depressed.
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Length eleven-twentieths of an inch nearly.
Carabus lucublandus Melsh. Catal.
Body glabrous, green, polished, beneath black ; head impune-
tured ; antennz and palpi brown rufous at base, three basal joints
of the former with a dusky carina; thorax impunctured, widest
in the middle, a very little narrowed behind by a regularly
curved edge, base nearly as broad as the elytra, basal angles ree-
tangular, obtuse, lateral margin very distinctly and abruptly de-
pressed, dorsal line acute, lateral ones, two on each side, indent-
ed; elytra green or reddish-purple, margin purplish-opake, in-
terstitial lines convex, impunctured, the third with two or three
remote punctures, striz purplish within, impunctured; feet
blackish-piceous or rufous.
Agreeably to M. Latreille’s definition of the Pacilus of Bonel-
li, this insect probably belongs to that genus: the carina of the
antennz is not confined to the third joint, but is extended to
the second and first, and is very definite and striking ; but the
character attributed to that genus of “ thorax [56] narrowed be-
hind” is not sufficiently obvious in our insect. Wings perfect.
The name Pecilia designates a genus in icthyology.
37. F. cHaLcirEs.—Green, polished, beneath black; feet
black ; head and thorax impunctured, margin of the thorax not
depressed.
Length half an inch.
. Carabus chalcites Melsh. Catal.
Body glabrous, green, polished, beneath black ; head impunc-
tured; antennz brown, rufous at base, third joint with a black-
ish carina; labrum black: palpi piceous; thorax impunctured,
not contracted behind, dorsal line distinct, base as broad as the
elytra, basal lines two each side, margin not depressed, basal
angles rectangular, acute; scutel green or cupreous; elytra pol-
ished, green, slightly tinted with cupreous, margin opake, in~
terstitial lines convex, impunctured, strie within black and
with indented lines on each side; feet black; tibie and tarsi
deep piceous.
Common. Brought also from the Missouri by Mr. Nuttall.
This species belongs to the genus Pecilus of Bonelli. It seems
to resemble the Harpalus viridi-zneus of Palisot, but the thorax
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480 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
is less contracted at base, has four basal lines, and the feet are
blackish.
[Afterwards named P. Sayi by Brullé, in consequence of
Germar also describing a Pecilus chalcites, but the name of Say
antedates the latter by two_years, as will be seen by the note on
p-. 435.—Lec.]
38. F. caupicALis.—Winged ; black; joints of the antennze
attenuated at their bases; thorax with the exterior edge excurved
at base ; elytra with slightly punctured strie.
Length less than half an inch.
Body black, glabrous, polished ; antenne and palpi piceous ;
thorax contracted behind, lateral edge excurved near the [57]
basal angles, dorsal line very distinct, continued to the base with
a much shorter one at the lateral angles, space of the basal an-
gles depressed and punctured, basal lines distinct, not attaining
the basal edge ; elytra, striae impressed, slightly punctured, in-
terstitial lines convex ; pectus and postpectus each side punctur-
ed; feet dark piceous.
Somewhat allied to /. adoxa, but is winged, the antennz are
far less robust, the thorax is smaller, punctured at the basal
angles, and slightly punctured in the striz of the elytra.
[Afterwards described as Omaseus nigrita Kirby ; I consider
Feronia luctuosa Dej., as the same, but Baron Chaudair informs
me that he refers that name to the species described by me as
Prerostichus abjectus, Dr. Harris kindly communicated to me
specimens of the present species which have been compared with
Say’s type —Lrc. ]
39. F. INTERSTITIALIS.—Rufous ; elytra brownish, punctured,
with iridescent reflections ; posterior thoracic angles rounded.
Length full seven-twentieths of an inch.
Head rufous, black at tip; thorax rufous, transverse, quadrate,
widest in the middle, edge curving equally, base depressed each
side and with numerous punctures, anterior margin punctured,
and a few remote punctures on the disk, dorsal line impressed,
posterior angles obtusely rounded; elytra blackish-brown with
iridescent reflections, striz profound, interstitial lines convex,
conspicuously and densely punctured, edge rufous; pectus pale
rufous ; feet rufo-testaceous ; postpectus black ; venter rufous.
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Tt was brought from Missouri by Mr. Nuttall, and is very rare
in Pennsylvania.
[Belongs to Amphasia Newman, and was described by him as
A. fulvicollis ; it is also the Harpalus obscuripennis Dej—Lxc. ]
40. F. opsoteta.—Totally deep black, immaculate, impunce-
tured, glabrous.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Body black, glabrous, impunctured ; antenne at base deep
blackish-piceous; thorax narrower than the elytra, rounded, rather
wider before [58] the middle, hind angles slightly projecting,
the edge not excurved, base impunctured, dorsal line obsolete,
basal line wanting ; elytra, striae obsolete or slightly impressed,
impunctured ; feet black-piceous; tibiee rather lighter.
Seems to belong to the genus Argutor.
[A Platynus, afterwards described as Agonum luctuosum Dej.
—Lec.]
41. F. puncrrrormis.—Black ; thorax rounded behind, basal
lines punctiform ; elytral striee punctured.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Body black, glabrous ; antennz brown, piceous at base ; palpi
blackish ; thorax, lateral curve regularly rounded, posterior angles
very obtusely rounded, dorsal line obsolete, basal lines each in
the form of a dilated puncture, base impunctured ; elytra, strize
slightly punctured, interstitial lines depressed, third one with
three remote punctures; pectus and postpectus impunctured :
feet black ; tibie and tarsi blackish-piceous.
Probably referable to the genus Argutor.
[Also a Platynus, and subsequently described as Agonum
rufipes Dej., and A. foveicolle Chaud.—Lec. ]
42. KF. recta.—Piceous-black ; antennx, palpi, and feet
rufous; thoracic impressed lines very distinct, posterior angles
rounded.
Length rather less than three-fifths of an inch.
Body piceous-black, glabrous, beneath rather paler; antenne
brownish, base and palpi rufous; labrum piceous; thorax as
broad as the elytra, edge regularly curved, posterior angles ab-
ruptly rounded, base impunctured, dorsal line very distinct, basal
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482 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
lines longitudinally rectilinear, profoundly indented ; elytra, stria
punctured, interstitial lines convex, in some lights a faint perla-
ceous gloss ; pectus and postpectus impunctured ; feet rufous.
Resembles Harpalus ochropezus, but is decidedly not of [59]
that genus. It corresponds with the genus Argutor of Bonelli.
[Belongs to Loxandrus Lee., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil.,
2d ser. 2,250; afterwards described as Feronia lucidula Dej.,
Pogonus rectus Say, and Megalostylus laticollis Chaud.—Lxc. ]
43. F. nypoLtirHos.—Apterous, black, glabrous; feet rufous;
strize of the elytra punctured.
Length more than eleyen-twentieths of an inch.
Antenne dark piceous; palpi rufo-piceous; thorax narrowed
behind, dorsal line deeply impressed, surface obsoletely trans-
versely wrinkled, basal lines dilated, distinctly indented, angles
obtusely rounded, lateral edge regularly arquated ; elytra, striz
not deeply impressed, irregularly punctured; thighs and coxx
rufous ; tibize and tarsi dark rufous.
This species seems to belong to the genus Pterostichus of
Bonelli, and it may be distinguished from those which we have
mentioned to be referable to that genus by the color of its feet.
[A Platynus afterwards described as P. erythropus Dej —LEc. ]
ABAX Bonell.
Anterior tibize emarginate ; antennz moniliform ; elytra entire,
united ; wings none; labium with the intermediate tooth obtuse
or truncated; thorax large, transversely quadrate, basal angles
each with two abbreviated strix ; anterior tarsi of the male with
three dilated joints.
A. coractnus.—Black, beneath piceous-black ; elytra striate,
a line of marginal ocellate punctures.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Carabus. coracinus Melsh. Catal.
Body beneath piceous-black ; head black ; a deeply impressed,
acute, transverse line between the bases of the antenne, equally
distinct with the [60] articulation of the labrum; eyes promi-
nent; labrum deep piceous; antennew hairy, brown, piceous and
glabrous at base, somewhat shorter than the thorax; thorax
black, somewhat transverse-quadrate, anterior and posterior
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diameters equal, anterior angles rounded, little prominent, poste-
rior ones rectangular, attaining the outer humeral angles, lateral
edge obscure piceous, margin obsoletely purple, a dorsal impress-
ed line and basal abbreviated one each side; elytra blackish
faintly tinged with reddish-purple, striated, striz acute, minutely
punctured, a marginal line of ocellate punctures, which are more
distant in the middle; epipleura reddish-purple.
[Afterwards described as Myas cyanescens Dej.—Lxc.]
EPOMIS Bonell. Latr.
Anterior tibiae emarginate ; two anterior tarsi dilated in the
male, and furnished beneath with dense, granuliform papille ;
antenne filiform; labrum entire; palpi with the terminal joint
dilated, obtriangular.
E. romMentosus.—Dusky cupreous opake; elytra and feet
black.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Carabus tomentosus Melsh. Catal.
Head impunctured, dark cupreous , antennx black, two basal
joints rufous ; labrum piceous; palpi black; thorax cupreous,
with numerous, green, confluent punctures, as broad as the ely-
tra at base, and gradually contracting by a curved line to the
head ; elytra greenish-black, striate, strie distinctly punctured ;
pectus and postpectus black, punctured ; abdomen black.
Not uncommon in Pennsylvania. A specimen was brought
[61] from the Missouri, by Mr. Nuttall, which varies in being
entirely green above.
[This is the type of Hurydactylus Ferté, which, however, is
not to be separated from Chlanius; the species was subse-
quently described as Amara luctuosa Germ.—Lxc.]
CHLAENIUS Bonel. Latr.
Anterior tibize emarginate ; two anterior tarsi dilated in the
male, and furnished beneath with dense, granuliform papille ;
antenne filiform, joints elongated ; labrum entire ; palpi filiform.
1. C. sericEus.—Green, beneath black; antenne and feet
rufous ; head punctured.
Length about three-fifths of an rach.
1823.]
484 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Carabus sericeus, alatus, ater, capite, thorace, et elytris viridi-nitenti-
bus, antennis pedibusque rufis. Forst. Nov. Sp. Ins. Cent. Oliv. Encye.
Meth.
Carabus Fosteri Turt. Linn. 2, p. 464.
Carabus sericeus Melsh. Catal.
Body green, beneath black, with very short namerous hairs ;
head polished, punctured ; antennz and palpi pale rufous, the
former paler at base; labrum rufous; mandibles ferruginous at
base; thorax distinctly transverse, densely punetured, polished,
dilated in the middle, posterior lateral edge rectilinear or slightly
excurved, dorsal and basal lines very distinct, base rather nar-
rower than the elytra; elytra not wider behind the middle, with
numerous minute punctures, striate ; striz acute, minutely punc-
tured, interstitial lines flat; feet rufous; pectus and postpectus
punctured ; abdomen with minute punctures.
Var. a. Elytra purplish.
Very closely resembles the next, but differs in the less elon-
gated form of the thorax. Common in the Middle States, and
was brought from Missouri by Mr. Nuttall. [ 62 }
2. C. mstIvus.—Green-cupreous; elytra purple-black; an-
tennz and feet rufous; head punctured,
Length seven-tenths of an inch,
Carabus amethystinus Melsh. Catal.
Body greenish-cupreous, beneath black, with very short nu-
merous hairs; head polished, punctured ; antennz and palpi ru-
fous, shaded towards the tips; labrum ferruginous; mandibles
blackish ; thorax as long or rather longer than broad, dilated in
the middle, posterior lateral edge rectilinear, or slightly excurved,
densely punctured, polished, dorsal basal lines very distinct, base
narrower than the elytra; elytra dark purple, opake, perceptibly
a little dilated behind the middle, with very minute, numerous
punctures, striate, striz a little obtuse, punctured, interstitial
lines depressed, a little convex ; pectus and postpectus punctured,
feet rufous ; abdomen minutely punctured.
This cannot be amethystinus of authors, if the figure of that
insect by Olivier be correct.
[Afterwards described as C. cobaltinus Dej., and a variety as
C. congener Lee.—LeEc.]
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3. C. LITHOPHILUS.—Green, beneath black ; head punctured ;
feet testaceous ; antenna fuscous, paler at base.
Length less than seven-twentieths of an inch.
Bedy green, with very short, numerous hairs, beneath black ;
head punctured ; front smooth ; antennz fuscous, base and palpi
testaceous, the latter dusky at tip ; labrum and mandibles piceous-
black ; thorax wider somewhat behind the middle, transverse-
quadrate, lateral edge regularly and equably curved, posterior
angles slightly rounded, surface densely punctured, punctures
large, dorsal line acute, posterior ones dilated; elytra villous,
minutely punctured, strie punctured, interstitial lines flat [63]
pectus and postpectus with dilated glabrous punctures ; feet rufo-
testaceous ; venter with villous punctures.
Closely allied to sericeus and xstivus, but is much smaller.
[Subsequently described as C. viridanus Dej.—Lec. ]
4. C. EMARGINATUS.—Green-cupreous; elytra purple-black ;
antennz and feet rufous; head punctured; labrum deeply emar-
ginated.
Length eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Body green, tinged with cupreous, with very short mumerous
hairs; head polished, punctured ; antennz and palpi rufous; la-
brum profoundly and obtusely emarginate, ferruginous ; thorax
transverse-quadrate, dilated in the middle, polished, densely
punetured, lateral edge curved regularly to the hind angles, dor-
sal and basal lines very distinct, base nearly equal to the base of
the elytra; elytra dark purple, opake, with numerous very min-
ute punctures, striz punctured, interstitial lines depressed ; pec-
tus and postpectus punctured ; feet rufous; abdomen minutely
punctured.
Very like C. zstivus, but is readily distinguished by the cur-
vature of the thoracic edge being regularly continued to the pos-
terior angles, and by the more deeply emarginated labrum. Not
uncommon.
[Belongs to Anomoglossus Chaud., a genus which differs from
Chizenius by the absence of the mentum tooth.—Lzc. ]
5. C. pusittus.—Green,, polished; elytra purple; antenna
and feet rufous; head punctured ; labrum deeply emarginate.
1823.]
A486 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Length less than seven-twentieths of an inch.
Body with very short numerous hairs; head green, polished,
punctured ; antennz and palpi rufous, brownish towards the
tips; labrum piceous, deeply emarginate; thorax with large
punctures, a little contracted behind, posterior lateral edge
somewhat excuryed, dorsal line not deeply depressed, basal ones
indented ; elytra purple, interstitial lines convex, with distinct
punctures [64] striae with the punctures not larger than those
of the interstitial lines; feet pale rufous.
Not a common species. Known by its small size.
[Also belongs to Anomoglossus ; it was afterwards described by
Dejean as C. elegantulus.—Lxc.]
6. C. LATICOLLIS.—Dark violaceous ; elytra black; antennee
and feet rufous ; head punctured ; thorax at base as broad as the
elytra.
Length rather more than three-fifths of an inch.
Body hairy, deep violaceous glossed with green, beneath black ;
head punctured ; antennz reddish-brown, base and palpi rufous;
labrum truncate, ferruginous; thorax densely punctured, trans-
verse-quadrate, narrowed before, base not contracted, as broad as
the elytra; elytra with numerous minute punctures, striae with
with small punctures, interstitial spaces perfectly flat; feet ru-
fous ; abdomen with small punctures.
Approximates closely to zstivus and sericeus, but differs in the
form of the thorax, which is proportionally larger.
Brought from the Missouri by Mr. Nuttall.
7. C. impunctirrons.—Dark green; elytra black; antenne
and feet rufous; head impunctured; thorax at base as broad as
the elytra.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Body dark green, beneath black ; elytra black; head green,
polished, impunctured ; labrum emarginate, ferruginous; thorax
obscure green, transverse-quadrate, punctured, punctures minute,
base as broad as the elytra; elytra black, punctures numerous,
minute, striz with distinct punctures; feet rufous.
1 istinguished from all the preceding ones by the glabrous
front, and small size of the thoracic punctures. Rare. [65]
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8. C. NEMORALIS.—Cupreous-green, beneath black; elytra
purple-black ; antennze and feet rufous; head impnnctured ; tho-
rax at base narrower than the elytra.
Length half an inch.
Carabus amethystinus Melsh. Catal.
Body with very short, numerous hairs, cupreous-green ; elytra
dark purple, beneath black; head glabrous, polished; labrum
ferruginous, truncate ; antenne and palpi rufous ; thorax broadest
in the middle, posterior lateral edge slightly excurved, base nar-
rower than the elytra, punctures numerous, small, impressed
lines distinct; scutel not darker than the elytra; elytra deep
purple, obscure, with numerous minute punctures and punctured
striz, interstitial lines depressed ; sternum slightly tinged with
green; feet rufous.
Is at once distinguished from exstivus by the impressed front,
and from impunctifrons by having the thorax narrowed behind.
Common in Pennsylvania. I found it also in Georgia and Flo-
rida.
3. C. sonirartus.—Green, polished, beneath piceous ; feet
pale; head impunctured ; thorax at base narrower than the ely-
tra, subcordate.
Length nearly eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Body green, polished, beneath piceous-black ; head impune-
tured ; antenne brownish, paler at base; labrum truncate, pale
ferruginous; thorax dilated before the middle, contracted be-
hind, dorsal lines and base punctured, disk each side impune-
tured; scutel purplish ; elytra green, polished, striae indented,
obtuse, punctures distinct, intervals not equal to their length
and becoming obsolete towards the tip, interstitial lines convex,
with very distinct punctures; [66] feet pale, joints somewhat
darker ; tail pale.
Differs from all the preceding ones in having the lines inter-
vening between the striw convex. It was taken on the Missouri
by Mr. Nuttall.
10. C. PENSYLVANIcUS.—Green, polished, beneath piceous;
elytra blackish; feet rufous; head impunctured; interstitial
lines of the elytra somewhat convex.
Length not quite half an inch.
1823.]
488 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Carabus pensylvanicus Melsh. Catal.
Body green, polished; elytra dark purplish, with an obscure
greenish margin ; beneath deep piceous ; head impunctured ; an-
tennz brown, rufous at base ; labrum ferruginous, slightly emar-
ginate; thorax dilated in the middle, punctured, somewhat con-
tracted behind, edge slightly excurved near the base; elytra
with numerous minute punctures, striz with approximate punc-
tures which are obsolete towards the tip, interstitial lines convex}
feet rufous.
Resembles nemoralis, but is known by the convex interstitial
lines and less profoundly emarginated labrum.[?]
Not common.
[The description is hardly sufficiently definite to enable this
species to be fully determined. I have, however, applied the
name to the one afterwards described as C. pubescens Harris,
and C. vicinus Dej.—Lec.]
DIC ALUS* Bonel. Latr.
Anterior tibize emarginate; two anterior tarsi dilated in the
male and furnished beneath with dense, granuliform papille ;
antennee filiform ; labrum profoundly emarginate. [ 67]
1. D. purpurAtus.—Blackish ; thorax margined with pur-
ple; elytra purplish.
Length nine-tenths to eleven-tenths of an inch.
Carabus purpuratus Melsh. Catal.
Dicelus purpuratus, thorace transverse, purpureo irroratus, elytris sul-
catis, corpore abbreviato, dilatato. Bonel. Obs. Entom., Vide Mem. de
V’Acad. Imper. de Turin.
Body beneath black, impunctured ; head black ; antennz with
ferruginous hairs towards the tip ; thorax black, tinged with pur-
ple, margin purple or purple-blue, depressed lateral edge re-
* Since the prefatory observations to this essay were printed, I have
had the good fortune to find, in the library of this Society, the fifth
volume of the Class of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the Me-
moirs of the Imperial Academy of Turin. This volume is particularly
interesting to me at this time, as it contains a portion of the essay on
the Linnean Carabii by M. Bonelli, entitled ‘‘ Observations Entomolo-
giques.’’ From this essay I have made a few quotations in this genus.
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flected ; elytra blackish glossed with purple, striz profound, im-
punctured, interstitial lines very convex ; beneath.
2. D. viotacgus. [Ante, 1, 51.] [68]
3. D. piuatatus. [Ante, 1, 53.]
4. D. ELoNGATUS.—Black, impunctured, immaculate, striae
impunctured.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Carabus furvus Melsh. Catal.
Dicelus elongatus, thorace subquadrato, niger, elytris sulcatis, corpore
elongato. Bonel. Obs. entom.
Antenne gradually becoming ferruginous towards the tip;
thorax of nearly equal diameters, contracted before, margins
depressed, lateral edge slightly reflected, dorsal line continued
to the base, basal depression not distinctly sinuated before, basal
lines distinct ; elytra black, striee profound, impunctured, inter-
stitial lines very convex; humeral elevated line elongated.
5. D. scunprinis. [Ante, 1, 53.] [ 69]
6. D. spLenpipus. [Ante, 1, 52.]
PANAG AUS Latr.
Anterior tibia emarginate; elytra entire; exterior maxillary
and labial palpi with the terminal joint subsecuriform ; [mentum]
tridentate, middle tooth short, obtuse ; tongue short ; head small ;
labium much wider at base; neck distinct, abrupt; thorax or-
bicular; abdomen subquadrate; antennee filiform.
1. P. crucigeRuUs.—Black, hirsute; elytra with four large
fulvous spots.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
Body black, opake, punctured ; head with obsolete punctures ;
antennz with a few rufous hairs towards the tip; thorax trans-
versely suboval, widest behind the middle, punctures numerous,
dilated, and distinct, edge abruptly excurved near the posterior
angles, which are small, prominent, acute; elytra with obtuse
striz, punctures dilated, each elytrum with two large fulvous
spots, of which one is near the [70] base, rounded, attaining the
margin, and the other near the tip, orbicular and distinct; pec-
tus, postpectus, and abdomen each side at base with dilated
punctures.
1823.]
490 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Closely resembles the Crux major of Europe, but is a much
larger insect. I found a specimen on the sea beach of Senipux-
ten, eastern shore of Maryland, which was cast up alive by the
waves, the last of September.
2. P. rascratus.—Ferruginous, hirsute, punctured; elytra
fulvous, with a black band and tip.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch. ;
Head punctured; nasus impunctured, glabrous ; antennz fus-
cous; palpi black; thorax widest behind the middle, convex,
punctures numerous, large, lateral edge deeply and widely ex-
cavated behind, posterior angles prominent, distinct; elytra ful-
yous, with a common black band rather behind the middle, con-
tracted on the disk, and dilated at the suture and margin, de-
flected base and tip black, strize obtuse, punctures large, distinct,
transverse ; epipleura with a distinct, impressed, punctured stria ;
pectus and postpectus with dilated punctures ; feet black ; venter
deep piceous, punctured each side at base.
Very distinct from the preceding species, and is a rare insect.
CYCHRUS Fabr.
Anterior tibize entire ; elytra entire, embracing the abdomen ;
external maxillary and labial palpi dilated, compressed, sub-
securiform or obconic; mandibles elongated, bidentate near the
tip; labium profoundly emarginate, not wider at base than at
tip ; labrum elongated, very profoundly emarginate ; tongue very
small; abdomen robust, convex. Ca
1. C. ELEVATUS.—[Ante 1, 103.]
2. C. untcotor.—[Ante 1, 99.] [72]
3. C. stenostomus.—[Ante 1, 101.] [73]
4. C. BILoBus.—[Ante 1, 101.]
CALOSOMA Weber.
Anterior tibie entire; elytra entire; exterior maxillary and
labial palpi with the terminal joint hardly larger than the prece-
ding joint; mandibles unarmed, robust; labrum transverse, bilo-
bate ; labium profoundly emarginate and with a short acute tooth
in the middle; antenne, second joint one-third as long as the
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following one ; thorax transversely suboval ; abdomen subquad-
rate.
1. C. scruTATOR.—Violaceous ; thorax with a golden margin ;
elytra green margined with reddish-cupreous.
Length from twenty-three-twentieths to five-fourths of an
inch. [ 74]
Carabus scrutator Oliv. Ent. No. 35, pl. 3, 32, a. b.
Calosoma scrutator Fabr. Syst. Eleut. pars 2, p. 215. Melsh. Catal.
and Leach Zool. Misc. Vol. 2, p. 93, pl. 93.
Body beneath green varied with golden cupreous ; head im-
punctured, black, with violaceous reflections, orbits above golden;
antennz with ferruginous hair towards the tip; beneath green ;
tooth of the labium very short, hardly prominent; thorax im-
punctured, blackish-violaceous, with an uninterrupted golden
margin, dorsal line abbreviated, obsolete, basal lines none, basal
‘edge subrectilinear, the lateral angles not extending backwards ;
elytra bright green with a very slight cupreous reflection ; striz
reticulated by much smaller transverse lines which are more
deeply impressed in the striz so as to resembles transverse punc-
tures, strie fifteen, transverse lines very numerous, fourth, eighth,
and twelfth interstitial lines each with several distant impressed
punctures, exterior margin reddish-cupreous; feet violaceous :
yenter green, incisures each with a golden cupreous base and
lateral spot.
Var. a. Head distinctly punctured, disk of the thorax green
with a very slight violaceous tint; length nine-tenths of an inch.
This species makes a very near approach to the sycophanta of
Kurope ; but, as Dr. Leach observes, it differs from that insect in
color, in being less convex, and in having a shorter thorax.
2. CG. caALIpuM.—Black ; elytral striz reticulated, equal, with
a triple row of indented gold dots.
Length from nine-tenths to nine-eighths of an inch.
C. calidum Fabr. Syst. Eleut.
Carabus calidus Melsh. Catal.
Head black, with crowded minute confluent punctures ; an-
tennze brown towards the tip ; [75] thorax black, with crowded,
minute, confluent punctures, posterior lateral margin reflected,
posterior angles rounded and extending backwards beyond the
1823.]
492 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
basal line; elytra black, strie reticulated by smaller transverse
lines, which, near the base, are much more deeply impressed, 86
as almost to granulate the interstitial lines; striz fifteen, trans-
verse lines very numerous, fourth, eighth, and twelfth interstitial
lines with several equal, equidistant, dilated orbicular, impressed,
golden dots, and a solitary one near the scutel, exterior marginal
groove greenish ; pectus each side with minute crowded punc-
tures ; sternum impunctured ; postpectus each side, and each side
of the abdomen with rather larger punctures.
I was formerly misled respecting this insect by that portion of
the specific description of Fabricius which ascribes to it an apte-
rous character. In this error I was corrected by Professor
Wiedemann of Kiel, who assures me that Fabricius was mistaken,
and that his species is certainly winged.
CARABUS Lin. Latr.
Anterior tibiz entire; elytra entire ; exterior maxillary and
labial palpi subtriangular, dilated; mandibles not elongated,
robust; labrum short, transverse, bilobate; labium profoundly
emarginate and with a central tooth; antenne, second joint half
as long as the next; thorax subcordate, emarginate behind ; ab-
domen oval.
1. C. sytvosus.—Apterous, black; thorax and elytra mar-
gined with violaceous, the latter with a triple series of excavated
punctures.
Length rather more than an inch.
Carabus silvosus Melsh. Catal.
Body black, glabrous; [76] antennz brownish towards the
tips; palpi, terminal joint dilated ; thorax margined, margin vio-
laceous, gradually more recurved to the posterior angles, very ob-
tusely rounded, slightly extending backwards beyond the basal
line, base depressed and with the lateral margin somewhat scabrous,
dorsal line obsolete, basal lines wanting ; elytra black, margin
violaceous, disk nearly smooth with about thirty striz of minute
impressed punctures and three distant series of remote excavated
ones.
All the species of this genus that I have seen, as well as those
of Procrustes, Calosoma, &c., have the tibie of the second pair
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of feet of the male densely ciliated near the external tip, with
fulvous hair.
2. C. INTERRUPTUS.—Apterous, blackish; elytra slightly
bronzed ; fourth, eighth, and twelfth interstitial lines interrupted ;
strie concave with impressed punctures and elevated ones.
Length nine-tenths of an inch.
Carabus granulatus Melsh. Catal.
Head black ; antennze and palpi deep piceous, the former fus-
cous towards the tip; thorax black, with numerous, minute, in-
dented punctures, which are obsolete on the disk, dorsal and
basal lines conspicuous, margin towards. the posterior angles
slightly reflected, posterior angles rounded, prominent behind the
basal line; elytra black-bronzed, strize with a somewhat lateral
series of punctures and numerous elevated ones, interstitial lines
fifteen, two of which are more conspicuous, fourth, eighth, and
twelfth interrupted, interrupted lines acute behind, a submar-
ginal series of elevated punctures; feet black ; venter deep pice-
ous or black.
The impressed punctures of the intervening lines of the [77]
elytra are sometimes obsolete or wanting. This species does not
agree with the description of C. granulatus either as respects the
color of the antennz or that of the body. And although it
corresponds with the description of txdatus better than any
other insect I have yet seen, yet the differences are so striking as
to forbid its being referred to that species. This will be placed
beyond a doubt by comparing Olivier’s description with the above,
and particularly that portion of it relating to the elytra, of which
he says that they are “ presque lisses ou sans stries bien mar-
quées, avec trois rangées des points enfoncés.”
[Previously described as C. vinctus Weber.—L«c. |
3. C. LIMBATUS.—Apterous, black ; margin of the elytra pur-
plish ; fourth, eighth, and twelfth interstial lines interrupted.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
Body black, glabrous ; head obsoletely corrugated above the
eyes ; antennze fuscous at tip; thorax impunctured, rugulous at
base ; elytra margined with purple, striz with transverse lineo-
lar punctures, interstitial lines elevated, equal, distinct, marginal
1823.]
494 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
ones and tips slightly reticulated, fourth, eighth, and twelfth
interrupted ; pectus impunctured ; postpectus each side at base
obsoletely punctured; feet black; venter each side obsoletely
punctured.
This insect very much resembles C. interruptus, but differs in
the form of the punctures of the elytra and in having this part
margined with purple ; the form also is less elongated.
Taken by Mr. J. Gilliams in Maryland.
[Afterwards described as C. Goryi Dej.—LEc.]
4. C. sprratus.—Apterous, black; thorax and elytra mar-
gined with obscure violaceous, interstitial lines reticulated, three
interrupted ones.
Length more than seven-tenths of an inch. [78]
Carabus catenatus Melsh. Catal.
Body black, glabrous; head smooth, impunctured ; antenne
fuscous beyond the middle ; thorax, exterior margin obscure vio-
laceous, and with the base somewhat scabrous, disk impunctured,
dorsal and basal lines obsolete, the latter oblique; elytra mar-
gined with obscure violaceous, edge near the base slightly serrate,
interstitial lines about fifteen, obtuse and smooth, connected by
numerous transverse septa, which are-equally prominent and ob-
tuse, not continued, fourth, eighth, and twelfth line dilated, in-
terrupted, obtuse. Postpectus and venter each side punctured.
The name catenatus has been applied by Panzer toa specjes
inhabiting Carolina.
[Subsequently described as C. lineatopunctatus Dej.—LEc.]
NEBRIA Latr.
Anterior tibia entire; elytra entire ; exterior maxillary and
labial palpi with the last joint clongated, subcylindrical, the
latter of equal joints ; tongue not longer than the labrum, and
not tricuspidate at tip; labrum entire; labium profoundly emar-
ginate, and with an emarginate, obtuse, central tooth ; mandibles
not dilated at base ; thorax truncate, cordate; abdomen oval, de-
pressed ; antennee filiform.
N. PALLIPES.—Black ; thorax dilated, very short: feet tes-
taceous.
Length nearly half an inch.
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Body black, glabrous, depressed ; head with two obsolete pice-
ous spots on the vertex ; mouth piceous; palpi paler at base ;
antenn rufous, base paler ; labium elongated, nearly as long as
the labrum, bisetous near the tip; thorax much abbreviated, as
broad as the elytra, much contracted behind, exterior and _pos-
terior margins depressed, [79] lateral edge reflected, dorsal line
conspicuous, posterior angles acute; elytra profoundly striated,
strize punctured on the sides, interstitial lines convex ; pectus
and postpectus with obsolete dilated punctures ; feet testaceous:
venter piceous towards the tip, impunctured.
In this species the emargina of the anterior tibia is yery small
and placed very near to the tip, so as to be undiscoverable but
by particular examination. Judging from the generic definition
which authors have given, this species must differ from the
other species of this genus in the form of the labium, which is
elongated, acute, as in Pogonophorus, and has on each side near
the tip a long hair or bristle, instead of spines, as in the latter
genus ; it does not therefore agree with the character given of
the labium of Nebria,— labium subquadrate,” “ labium short,”
“nearly quadrate,” &c., nor yet with that of Pogonophorus, of
which this part is tricuspidate. But as it will not agree with
any other than the two genera above mentioned, and as it differs
from the latter genus in not having the mandibles dilated at base,
nor the maxillary palpi much elongated, I have thought proper to
place it with the present genus, to which it seems to have the
closest affinity.
OMOPHRON Latr.
Tongue very short; antenne filiform ; maxille ciliated on the
exterior side; body short, nearly hemispherical; thorax trape-
zoidal, transverse, sinuated, or lobed behind; anterior pair of
tibie slightly emarginate on the inner side.
QO. tABrATuM.—Blackish ; labrum, margin of the thorax and
of the elytra whitish : antennz, palpi, and feet testaceous.
Length one-fourth of an inch. [80]
Scolytes labiatus niger, labio thoracis elytrorumque margine argenteis.
Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 248.
Head blackish, base punctured ; eyes large ; nasus triangular,
1823.]
496 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
piceous, with a yellow hind margin ; antennz and palpi testace-
ous; labrum white somewhat silvery ; thorax black-brown, broad
as the elytra at base, gradually narrowed before before, basal
line sinuated each side and angulated in the middle, punctures
obsolete on the disk, dorsal line obsolete, basal lines none, lateral
margin white somewhat silvery near the edge, edge black-brown ;
scutel not perceptible ; elytra black-brown, striz thirteen, towards
the tip and margin obsolete, punctures distant, impressed only on
the lateral parifet]es of the striz, interstitial lines convex, margin
whitish somewhat silvery near the edge, dilated and undulated
behind with several punctiform hyaline macule; pectus and
postpectus punctured, piceous; feet testaceous; venter pale pice-
ous impunctured.
This specimen I obtained near Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey,
on the skirt of a forest.
ELAPHRUS Fabr.
Antenne hardly longer than the head and thorax, somewhat
more robust towards the tip; external maxillary and labial palpi
with the ultimate joint subcylindrical, longer and larger than the
preceding joint; labium profoundly emarginate; maxille hardly
ciliated on their external side ; thorax. subcylindrical, somewhat
dilated in the middle, unequal, longer than broad; anterior tibiz
emarginate on the imner side.
E. ripartus ?—Dark brownish-green, a little bronzed: elytra
with dilated, orbicular, impressed spots, and three elevated studs
each side of the suture.
Length more than three-tenths of an inch. [81]
E. riparius Fabr.
Body dark brownish-green, opake, beneath rather paler, pol-
ished, glabrous, punctures very numerous, crowded ; head slight-
ly corrugated between the eyes; antennz and labrum blackish ;
mandibles green each side at base, piceous within near the tip ;
palpi above piceous, beneath paler; gula impunctured ; thorax
broadest rather before the middle, narrower than the elytra, a
transversely indented curved line before the middle, and a longi-
tudinal abbreviated one, lateral edge hardly prominent, slightly
excurved behind, posterior angles inconspicuous, base not wider
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than the petiole; elytra equally punctured with about twenty
large, dilated, orbicular, impressed, purplish spots, and two or
three equidistant, elevated, elongate, subquadrate, impunctured,
bronzed spots each side near the suture, the anterior one
largest, a few obsolete elevated lines; postpectus green, tinged
each side with cupreous; feet green; femora and tibiz piceous
at base; venter green, disk impunctured, segments brassy at
tip.
[Afterwards named F. ruscarius Say, infra—Lec.]
NOTIOPHILUS Dumeril.
Antennz not longer than the head and thorax, rather more
robust towards the tip; external maxillary and labial palpi with
the terminal joint subcylindric, large, and longer than the pre-
ceding joint; labium profoundly emarginate; maxille hardly
ciliated on their external side ; thorax depressed, transverse, sub-
quadrate ; anterior tibia emarginate on their inner side.
N. sEMISTRIATUS.—Brownish bronze ; front corrugated ; elytra
with punctured striz and a longitudinal equal space near the
suture. j
Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch. [82]
Elaphrus semistriatus Melsh. Catal.
Body brownish bronze, glabrous, immaculate, beneath blackish ;
head with six or eight frontal, longitudinal, elevated lines, abbre-
viated on the vertex; nasus with several elevated lines at tip,
and a transverse interrupted one at base; labrum, a single im-
pressed, longitudinal line; antenne and palpi deep fuscous, paler
at base; thorax as broad as the elytra, transverse quadrate,
broadest before the middle, slightly contracted to the base, punc-
tures numerous, approximated, obsolete each side of the disk,
dorsal line impressed, punctured, basal lines indented, lateral
edge slightly curved, posterior angles rectangular ; scutel rounded
at tip, impunctured ; elytra, strie obtuse with large punctures,
interstitial lines hardly wider than the strie, a dilated, smooth,
polished, longitudinal, continued space separated from the suture
by a series of impressed rounded punctures ; pectus punctured ;
postpectus with a few punctures each side ; feet black.
Var. a. Dark green; tibize piceous.
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498 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Var. g. Feet rufous; thorax more contracted behind.
[ Var. 8 was afterwards recognized as a distinct species, NV. por-
rectus Say, infra.—LEc. ]
BEMBIDIUM Iatr.
External maxillary and labial palpi with the penultimate joint
largest, dilated ; terminal joint abruptly very slender and short ;
anterior tibiae emarginate on the inner side.
1. B. honestuM.—Bronzed, beneath dark bjuish-green ; an-
tenne, palpi, and feet piceous; thorax much narrower than the
elytra, basal line oblique each side.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Tachys ereus Melsh. Catal.
Head black, very slightly bronzed ; palpi piceous, peultimate
joint of the exterior ones blackish ; [83] thorax black, slightly
bronzed, impunctured, narrower than the elytra and contracted a
little towards the base, broadest rather before the middle, posterior
angles acute, prominent, from tip to tip not equal to the diameter
before the middle, dorsal lines distinct, basal lines abbreviated,
indented, somewhat dilated, marginal groove uninterrupted at
the hind angles, basal edge oblique each side; elytra bronzed,
striz impressed, not obsolete near the tip, punctures approxi-
mated, interstitial lines flat, third with two punctures on the
outer edge, one near the middle, and the other behind; pectus
and postpectus impunctured, deep bluish-green ; feet piceous ;
trochanters and base of the thighs paler.
Panzer has applied the name which Mr. Melsheimer adopted
to a different insect of this genus.
{This appears to be the species afterwards described as #.
antiquuim Dej.—L«c. ]
2. B. pUNCTATO-STRIATUM.—Blackish, beneath dark green
polished, thorax hardly narrower than the elytra, basal line
oblique each side.
Length from one-fourth to nearly three-tenths of an inch.
Body all above black obsoletely bronzed, beneath deep green
highly polished; antenne fuscous, basal joint rufous; palpi
rufous at base, darker towards the tip; thorax broadest in the
middle, narrowed before, somewhat contracted before the poste-
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rior angles, breadth from tip to tip of the posterior angles equal
to the breadth of the middle, basal edge oblique each side, dorsal
line slightly impressed, basal lines indented, conspicuous ; elytra,
striz impressed, obtuse, not obsolete near the tip, punctures
rounded, conspicuous, interstitial lines slightly convex, third one
with a dilated indentation near the middle, and another behind ;
. humerus obtusely angled ; feet dark rufous.
Var. a. Body above bright cupreous; impressed elytral spots
green ; thighs and tibiz each at tip greenish. [ 84 ]
Very similiar to the preceding species, but, independently of
color, it may be readily distinguished from it by the much wider
thorax and the impressed elytral spots.
[Afterwards described as B. stigmaticum Dej.; B. sigillare
Say, infra, is probably the same species.—LeEc.]
3. B. LeviaaruM.—Above green, polished, beneath blackish ;
elytral strize not impressed, punctured.
Length rather more than one-fourth of an inch.
Body all above green, polished, beneath blackish, polished ;
antenne and palpi rufous ; thorax impunctured, broadest in the
middle, nearly equal to the base of the elytra, contracted behind,
posterior angles rectangular, basal line nearly rectilinear, marginal
groove interrupted at the posterior angles by an oblique acutely
carinated line, dorsal line slightly impressed, basal ones pro-
foundly indented ; elytra destitute of impressed strize, punctures
rounded, somewhat dilated, obsolete behind the middle, inter-
stitial lines flattened; feet dark rufous; venter slightly piceous
on the disk.
This species was obtained in Missouri by Mr. Nuttall.
[Placed by me as the type of a different genus Hydrium,
which I afterwards reunited with Bembidium.—L«c.]
4. B. poRsALISs.—Greenish polished, beneath blackish ; elytra
testaceous, with two obsolete undulated bands.
Length upwards of one-fifth of an inch.
Body beneath piceous-black, polished ; head green somewhat
brassy; front longitudinally convex in the middle; antennz
brown, testaceous towards the base; palpi testaceous, darker
towards the tip; thorax green slightly tinged with cupreous,
1823.]
500 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
marginal groove interrupted at the posterior angles by an oblique
carinatcd line, dorsal line obsolete, basal ones dilated, basal edge
oblique each side: elytra whitish-testaceous, strie punctured,
profound, not obsolete near the tip, interstitial lines hardly con-
vex, third with a transverse linear impression before and one
behind the middle, area of the scutel greenish, two fuscous, ob-
solete, [85] undulated bands behind the middle, the posterior
one less definite ; feet whitish-testaceous.
Found in Missouri by Mr. Nuttall.
5. B. contractuM.—Blackish-brown, thorax much contract-
ed behind, base hardly broader than the peduncle, rectilinear.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Head black ; antenze brown, base rufous ; labrum deep piceous ;
mandibles piceous before the tip; palpi piceous black; thorax
black, slightly cupreous, widest rather before the middle, much
contracted behind, lateral groove not dilated, posterior angles
very small, base excepting the angles, hardly wider than the
peduncle, basal line rectilinear ; elytra blackish, or dark piceous,
slightly glossed with cupreous, with a very indistinct paler pos-
terior margin and tip, strie impressed, obsolete at tip, lateral
ones shortest, punctures very distinct, approximated, interstitial
lines flat, third with a puncture before and one behind the mid-
dle ; feet testaceous.
The pale hind margin and tip are usually obsolete, and often
almost imperceptible; it varies in extending to the base, but is
ordinarily in the form of a very indistinct, subterminal, margi-
nal spot, and an apical larger one.
6. B. niger.—Purple-black ; elytra bronzed, striz obtuse,
obsolete at tip; feet rufous.
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
Tachys niger Melsh. Catal.
Body beneath piceous-black ; head blackish tinted with purple ;
antennze fuscous; base and palpi rufous; thorax black, slightly
purpurescent, broadest rather before [86] the middle, lateral
edge slightly excurved near the posterior angles, basal edge
slightly oblique each side; elytra dark bronzed, strize obtuse,
somewhat canaliculate, obsolete behind, punctures transverse,
interstitial lines convex; feet rufous.
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At once distinguishable from the preceding species by its
smaller size.
7. B. oppostruM.—Black ; elytra fuscous, each with twe
large remote whitish spots.
Length one-eighth of an inch.
Tachys 4-guttatus Melsh. Catal.
Head black ; antennze brown; base and palpi testaceous ; tho-
rax black, somewhat pedunculated, wider before the middle,
much contracted behind, posterior angles salient, acute, basal
edge oblique each side, and, excluding the angles, hardly wider
than the peduncle ; elytra fuscous or blackish, each with a large,
whitish, longitudinally suboval spot attaining the humerus and
exterior margin, distant from the suture, and one less than half
as large, rounded, placed on the disk behind the middle, strize
obsolete, wanting behind, punctures of the striz distinct; feet
testaceous.
Subject to considerable varieties in size and in depth of color-
ing of the elytra. The term 4-guttatus of Mr. Melsheimer is
preoccupied.
[Identical with the European B. 4-maculatum.—Lxc.]
8. B. arrrnis.—Black ; elytra each with two large, distant,
obsolete, pale spots, and a smaller one on the humerus before.
Length one-eighth of an inch.
Thorax black, wider before the middle, much contracted be-
hind, posterior angle salient, acute, basal edge oblique [87] each
side, and, excluding the angles, hardly wider than the peduncle ;
elytra blackish, each with obsolete, marginal, pale spots, one
placed before the middle not attaining the humerus, one smaller
behind the middle attaining the margin, and one smallest before
the humerus, striz impressed, wanting at tip, punctures distinct ;
feet testaceous.
Very similar to the preceding, but may be distinguished by
the larger anterior spot being placed considerably behind the
humerus and by the more profoundly impressed striz.
[Afterwards described by Dejean as B. fallax and B. decipiens.
—Lec.]
1823. ]
502 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
9. B. ivornatuM.—Black ; feet piceous ; elytral strize obso-
lete, impunctured.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
Body deep black, polished ; antennze brown; base and palpi
rufous; thorax nearly as broad as the elytra, somewhat narrowed
behind, lateral edge hardly excurved behind, posterior angles
rectangular, basal edge rectilinear ; elytra black, dorsal strize ob-
solete, obtuse, impunctured, lateral striz wanting; feet piceous.
Often under the bark of decaying trees. —
[Belongs to Tachys and was afterwards described as Tachyta
picipes Kirby.—Lec. ]
10. B. FLAvicaupus.—Piceous; elytra with obsolete, im-
punctured striz and pale at tip.
Length three-fortieths of an inch.
Head blackish ; antenne, labrum, and palpi pale rufous ; tho-
rax piceous-black, transverse quadrate, broadest in the middle,
not contracted behind, posterior angles rectangular, basal edge
rectilinear; elytra blackish, from near the middle to the tips
yellowish white, striz impunctured, wanting each side and at
tip, interstitial lines convex ; feet pale rufous; venter piceous
at, tip. [88]
Var. a. Entirely testaceous.
These I found very numerous under the bark of decaying
trees.
[A species of Tachys.—Lxc.]
11. B. proximus.—Head and thorax piceous; elytra testa-
ceous with a blackish common disk, strize obsolete, impunctured.
Length rather more than one-tenth of an inch.
Head blackish piceous; antenne rufous; base and palpi
pale ; labrum rufous; thorax piceous, transversely subquadrate,
slightly contracted behind, posterior angles rectangular, base
much broader than the pedicel, basal line slightly oblique each
side, dorsal line distinct, basal ones indented; elytra testaceous,
a common black spot on the middle hardly attaining the margin,
region of the scutel dusky, strie very obtuse, obsolete, wanting
each side and at tip, impunctured, interstitial lines convex ; pectus
and postpectus piceous ; feet testaceous ; venter blackish, paler
at tip.
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Approaches the preceding, but, color apart, it may be known
by the thorax being more contracted behind.
[Also a Tachys.—Lxc. ]
-12. B. pavum.—Piceous; palpi whitish; elytra destitute of
striae.
Length one-twentieth of an inch.
Body piceous tinctured with rufous; head rather darker ; an-
tennz paler at base; palpi whitish; thorax transversely sub-
quadrate, broadest before the middle, hardly narrowed behind,
lateral edge not excurved behind, posterior angles slightly obtuse,
angular, basal edge nearly rectilinear, dorsal line obsolete, basal
ones wanting; elytra impunctured, destitute of striz, except-
ing an obsolete sutural one ; feet testaceous.
I arrange this species with Bembidium from the habit, the
palpi in the specimen I possess being mutilated. [89]
[A Tachys afterwards described as B. troglodytes Dej.—Lxc.]
13. B. varieGAtuM.—Black ; head and thorax tinged with
greenish ; elytra varied with testaceous ; feet pale piceous.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Body impunctured, glabrous, beneath black; head black
slightly bronzed ; antennze and palpi fuscous, base piceous ; tho-
rax blackish slightly bronzed, tinged each side with green,
broadest in the middle, a little contracted behind, lateral edge a
little excurved near the base, posterior angles rectangular, dorsal
and basal lines distinct, an elevated acute line at the posterior
angles; elytra black variegated with testaceous, or testaceous
varied with black dots and lines, and with a slight cupreous
tinge, striz punctured, profound, interstitial lines convex, third
one with two distant punctures.
Very closely allied to B. dorsalis, which may be a mere variety
of this insect. This species is subject to great variety in its
elytral markings, the chief color of the elytra being sometimes
black and sometimes pale testaceous, with a greater or less
number of lines and spots.
14. B. rerracotum.—Greenish-black ; feet rufous; elytra
each with two rufous spots.
Length nearly one-fourth of an inch.
1823.]
504 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Head deep greenish; antennze fuscous ; base and palpi rufous ;
thorax broadest before the middle, contracted behind, lateral
edge excurved at base, base punctured; elytra blackish, striz
punctured, interstitial lines convex, third one with two distant
punctures, a longitudinal, submarginal, rufous spot originating on
the humerus, and an oblique, almost common, elongated one be-
hind the middle; feet rufous.
[This species is the same as the European one, which by the
latest authorities is considered as B. ustulatum (Linn.;) which is
also described as B. rupestre Illiger and Dejean, and considered
by Erichson as Carabus Andre Fabr.—Lxc.] [90]
TRECHUS Clairyille.
Anterior tibie emarginate ; anterior and intermediate tarsi of
the male dilated; elytra and wings entire; palpi filiform, the
last joint of the exterior ones as long or longer than the prece-
ding joint, not narrowed at base, but forming with that joint a
fusiform mass.
1. T. consuncrus.—Head piceous-black ; thorax rufous, im-
punctured ; elytra dusky; feet testaceous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Body impunctured, glabrous ; head black or deep piceous ; an-
tennee brown; base and palpi testaceous ; labrum piceous ; man-
dibles rufous at base ; thorax rufous, rounded behind, dorsal line
not deeply impressed, basal lines slightly excavated, base im-
punctured; elytra blackish, margin and suture piceous obscure,
strize impunctured, interstitial lines depressed ; pectus rufous ;
sternum black; feet testaceous; postpectus black ; abdomen
black.
Very common. The disk of the thorax is sometimes dusky or
blackish.
[Belongs to Stenolophus, and was subsequently described as
Acupalpus misellus Dej.; A. rotundicollis and lugubris Hald—
Lxc. ]
2. T. PARTIARIUS.—Head black ; thorax rufous, rounded be-
hind, punctured at base; elytra pale, disk dusky; feet testa-
ceous.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
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Body glabrous, beneath black; head black ; antennex brown ;
base and palpi testaceous; nasus and labrum piceous; thorax
rufous, rounded behind, dorsal line distinct, continued to the
base, posterior lines excavated, dilated, and punctured, a few
obsolete punctures before ; elytra pale rufous or testaceous, some-
what darker on the disk, striz impunctured ; pectus rufous ; ster-
num black; feet testaceous ; postpectus and abdomen black. [91]
Very closely allied to the preceding, is less common, and is
distinct by the punctures of the thorax, by the less abrupt poste-
rior termination of that part, and by the consequent less obtuse
form of the angles.
[A species of Stenolophus, belonging to my 4th division, Trans.
Am. Phil. Soc. 10, 586, and afterwards described as Acupalpus
pauperculus and consimilis Dej.—LEc. |
3. T. RUPESTRIS.—Head black; thorax dark rufous, punc-
tured at base, posterior angles not rounded, beneath black ; feet
testaceous.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
Body glabrous, beneath black ; head black; antenne brown ;
base and palpi testaceous ; nasus and labrum deep piceous ; tho-
rax deep blackish rufous, gradually a little narrowed from before
the middle to the hind angles, which are slightly angulated, the
edge very slightly excurved at the hind angles; elytra with im-
punctured striaw, disk blackish, margin and suture dark rufous ;
pectus piceous-black ; sternum black ; feet testaceous ; postpec-
tus and abdomen black.
Var. a. Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
Strongly resembles the two preceding species, but is suffi-
ciently distinct by the form of the posterior thoracic angles.
It is highly probable that Var. a. is in reality a distinct
species.
[A species of Bradycellus, afterwards described as Acupalpus
elongatulus Dej., and Trechus flavipes Kirby.—LEc. ]
1823.]
506 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Family WI. HYDROCANTHARI.
DYTISCUS Lin. Latr.
Antenne longer than the head, setaceous ; scutel distinct ;
three basal joints of the anterior tarsi, in the male, dilated,
patelliform ; palpi filiform.
1. D. rFimprioLAtTus.—Attenuated before, blackish-green
above; thorax and elytra yellowish on the outer margin, the
latter with three series of punctures. [92]
Dytiscus jimbriolatus Melsh. Catal.
Length one inch and one-fifth.
Body dark green, beneath piceous-black, impunctured, very
distinctly widest behind and narrowed before ; head smooth, with
a slightly impressed spot on each side of the front; nasus and
labrum yellowish, the latter with an impressed transverse pune-
ture each side, the former blackish at base above ; trophi and
antenne rufous; mandibles at tip and labium black-piceous ;
thorax with numerous, minute, impressed, irregular lines, an
anterior, abbreviated, indented, transverse line each side of the
dorsal one, lateral margin yellowish; elytra with very numerous,
abbreviated, longitudinal, irregular, impressed, unequal lines,
which are obsolete near the suture, tip, and on the outer margin,
three series of distant punctures slightly villous, lateral one
indistinct, costal margin yellowish, which becomes obsoletely
semideltoid near the tip; pectus and postpectus piceous-black ;
feet piceous ; femora and basal joints of the anterior pairs yel-
lowish-rufous ; venter piceous, three lateral rufous punctures on
each side. .
A black spot is often present on the middle of the yellow
thoracic margin. This’ species approaches exceedingly near to
D. limbatus of K. India; but, according to the observations of
Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, it is smaller, the color is less olivaceous,
more of a deep green, and the form a rather longer oval. :
[A. species of Cybister, afterwards described as C. dissimitis
Aubé.—Lec. ]
2. D. VERTICALIS.—Suboval, above blackish, with greenish re-
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fiections ; thorax and elytra margined with yellowish, the latter
with an oblique subterminal line.
Length one inch and three-tenths.
Body impunctured, above black, with olivaceous green reflec-
tions, beneath piceous-black, suboval, very slightly broadest be-
hind and hardly narrowing before ; head large; vertex with an
obscure rufous spot, a geminate, impressed, punctured spot near
the nasus, numerous superciliary [93] punctures; nasus and
labrum yellowish, the former with an abbreviated impressed line
each side before ; antenne and palpi rufous at base, piceous at
tip ; labium ventricose between the insertion of the palpi, rufous ;
labium and gula rufous; thorax margined each side with yellow-
ish, a longitudinal impressed line, a transverse, somewhat undu-
lated, submarginal line of impressed punctures each side before,
and a more abbreviated sparse one on each side behind; elytra
margined each side with yellowish, which becomes obsolete
behind, a yellowish, oblique subterminal line behind, three very
distinct series of punctures, with alternate series of minute remote
ones; pectus pale rufous; sternum black, hardly elevated before ;
postpectus piceous black; feet piceous; femora and basal joints
of the anterior pairs rufous ; venter piceous black, three obsolete,
lateral, piceous spots.
Differs much from the preceding species, in being far more
robust before, and instead of the semideltoid termination of the
yellow margin, there is an oblique subterminal line, as in D.
marginatus, but it is very distinct from the latter species, by not
having the yellowish anterior and posterior thoracic margins.
3. D. meprarus.—Blackish, punctured, beneath black ; tho-
rax with a yellowish band and margin; elytra fasciate behind.
Length about eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Head rufous-yellow varied with dusky base black ; front with
sometimes two oblique blackish spots; nasus paler; labrum
whitish, particularly on the anterior margin; thorax black, a
yellowish margin and abbreviated narrow band which is ab-
ruptly dilated backward near the lateral margin, where it be-
comes confluent with the basal margin; scutel black, impunctured ;
elytra blackish-brown varied with yellowish, minute, irregular
lines, and as well as the thorax with numerous, minute punc-
1823.]
508 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
tures, a yellowish, narrow, exterior, and subsutural [94] mar-
gin, and a common, arquated, somewhat undulated band behind
the middle, and a terminal one, obsolete or confounded with
the tip; anterior feet and sternum testaceous; posterior feet
piceous ; thighs black ; venter, third, fourth, and fifth segments
each with a large, rufous, lateral spot.
The grooves of the elytra in the female of this species are
obsolete and abbreviated, and not more distinct than those of
the male.
[Belongs to Acilius, and was afterwards described as Colym-
betes Maccullochii Kirby.—Lec. ]
4. D. tanioLis.—Blackish ; thorax margined each side with
rufous ; elytra covered with confluent black points, three acute,
pale rufous, longitudinal lines on each elytron.
Length rather more than half an inch.
D. pictus Melsh. Catal.
‘Body oblong-oval, not wider behind, black, varied with rufous,
beneath piceous-black ; head with a double, impressed, very dis-
tinct line each side before ; antennz, labrum, and nasus rufous,
the latter with an impressed line each side; thorax with a
slightly punctured, transverse line before, and an obscure rufous
margin; elytra rufo-testaceous, but rendered black by small,
dense, confluent punctures, which are entirely confluent near the
suture, an immaculate outer margin, and undulated subbasal
line, three acute pale rufous lines on each elytron, punctured
striz indistinct, that next the suture more obvious, and composed
of an interrupted series of minute punctures ; pectus and post-
pectus piceous-black ; feet rufo-piceous ; venter piceous-black,
segments piceous at tip.
I have seen but one sex of this species, a female, which was
sent to me by Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, under the name which I
have adopted; that of pictus above quoted, having been pre-
viously applied to a different insect, although that insect does
not belong to this genus in a rigid arrangement. [95 ]
[This is a Colymbetes also found in South America ; it!was pre-
viously described as D. calidus Fabr., and subsequently as Hyda-
ticus meridionalis Mels.—LxEc.]
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COLYMBETES Clairville.
Antenne longer than the head, setaceous; scutel distinct ;
basal joints of the four anterior tarsi of the male almost equally
dilated, not patelliform; palpi filiform.
1. C. Enyt[H]Roprerus.—Black ; elytra dark-reddish-brown,
margin and base paler; feet towards the tips piceous; body
rounded behind.
Length not quite two-fifths of an inch.
Dytiscus eryt{h]ropterus Melsh. Catal.
Body black, above divided by minute lines into minute, irre-
gular, longitudinal, or suborbicular spaces; head black, two in-
distinct piceous spots on the vertex, and an abbreviated line and
puncture on the front each side; antenne and palpi rufous; tho-
rax black, dorsal line abbreviated, obsolete, lateral edge arquated ;
seutel black, plain ; elytra reddish-brown, darker on the posterior
disk, immaculate, exterior margin and base paler, rounded be-
hind, inflected margin black ; pectus and postpectus black ; ster-
num acutely carinated ; feet piceous, middle of the thighs black,
nails of the anterior pair in one sex dilated in the middle and
compressed ; venter black, segments piceous at tip.
Rather less convex than the succeeding species, and some-
what more dilated. The color of the head and thorax is mani-
festly distinct from that of the elytra, and forms a good specific
character.
[Belongs to Agabus.—Lxc. ]
2. C. FENESTRALIS.—Black, slightly bronzed; elytra four-
spotted, anterior spots obsolete, terminal ones distinct, beneath
piceous-black.
Length two-fifths of an inch. [ 96")
Dytiscus fenestralis Melsh. Catal.
Body black, above slightly bronzed and divided into very
minute suborbicular, depressed granules, beneath piceous-black ;
head with two obsolete piceous spots on the vertex, a definite,
impressed, abbreviated, oblique, frontal line, with a smaller
oblique one above, each side ; antenne and palpi piceous ; thorax,
an obsolete, punctiform, central line, often wanting; elytra, on
each a submarginal, elongated, obsolete, rufous spot behind the
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510 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
middle, and a subtriangular one near the tip; pectus and post-
pectus not obviously granulated; sternum acutely carinated ;
feet piceous; venter with very numerous, oblique, irregular
lines.
Var. a. Above dark reddish-brown, margin paler, spots yel-
low, distinct, piceous ; feet pale rufous.
My friend Dr. J. F. Melsheimer, in a letter written some
time since, observes that “the two yellowish macule near
the apex of the elytra differ oftentimes in depth of coloring
and in size. I have several specimens that have the macula
of an irregular, others of an oval or elongated form, and the
color of all the different shades from a faint yellow to a light
brown. It delights in miry forest springs, where it feeds on
tender vegetables and minute insects. If it is caught and
pressed between the fingers, it will exude from the divisional
line of the stethidium (truncus) and abdomen, a white milky
substance. It moves with great activity.”
It undoubtedly approaches very closely to C. fenestratus of
Europe, which insect has the same fenestrate elytral spots; as
well as another insect which is described by Marsham under the
name of D. obscurus.
[Belongs to J/ybius, and was afterwards described as Dytiscus
biguttulus Germ.—L«c. ]
3. C. AMBIauUS.—Black ; elytra dark reddish-brown; feet
rufous; body somewhat acute behind; yertex with obsolete
piceous spots. [97]
Length not quite seven-twentieths of an inch.
Body black, above with minute, depressed, irregular granules ;
head black, two indistinct piceous spots on the vertex and an ab-
breviated frontal line and puncture each side; antennz and palpi
pale rufous ; thorax black, dorsal line obsolete ; seutel black; elytra
dark reddish-brown, immaculate, margin and base paler, apex
acute; epipleura black; sternum acutely carinated; feet pale
rufous, posterior ones rufous.
For this insect I am indebted to my friend Dr. J. F. Melsheimer,
who sent it to me as a distinct species. It approaches very closely
to E. erythropterus, but may be distinguished by its smaller size,
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less dilated form, more gradually attenuated and more acute pos-
terior termination of the body.
[A species of Agabus, afterwards described as A. infuscatus
Aubé: Colymbetes discolor Harris, is probably the same.—LEC. |
4. C. sertatus,—Black, immaculate, slightly purple-bronzed ;
elytra with about three irregular series of punctures on each ;
lateral edge of the thorax somewhat rectilinear.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Body black; immaculate, above very slightly bronzed, divided
into very minute, suborbicular, depressed granules, beneath black ;
head, a transverse frontal puncture each side, with double, parallel,
obsolete, smaller ones above; antennz and palpi rufous; thorax,
submargin slightly depressed, dorsal line obsolete, lateral and basal
edges nearly rectilinear, posterior angles subacute ; elytra on each
three irregular series of villous punctures, and a submarginal less
distinct one ; epipleura piceous; sternum acutely carinated, depres-
sed behind, slightly elevated, obtuse before; feet rufous, posterior
pair piceous.
This insect was sent me as distinct by Dr. J. F. Melsheimer.
It is very closely allied to C. nitidus, but is considerably larger.
[Also an Agabus described as A. striatus Aubé, and A. arctus
Mels.—LEc. ] [98]
5. O. nrvipus.—Black ; elytra with about three irregular series
of punctures on each; lateral edge of the thorax arquated each
side.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Dytiscus nitidus Melsh. Catal.
Body black, immaculate, polished, and divided into very minute,
irregularly orbicular granules, beneath black; head, a transverse,
abbreviated, frontal line each side, superior punctures obsolete or
wanting ; antennz and palpi rufous; thorax, dorsal line abbre-
viated, central, lateral edge arquated, posterior angles subacute ;
elytra with three irregular series of villous punctures, and a sub-
marginal and sutural less distinct one; epipleura black ; sternum
acutely carinated, depressed behind; feet piceous, anterior ones
rufous.
The chief difference between this species and the preceding one
appears to rest in the general form and size of the body, the color
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512 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
and markings being nearly the same ; the present is much smaller,
of a more rounded oval, and much more obtusely rounded before.
[Also an Agabus.—LEc.]
6. C. BrcARINATUS.—Reddish-brown, punctured ; sternum bi-
carinated.
Length rather more than three-tenths of an inch.
Body reddish-brown or ferruginous, oblong-oval, with minute
numerous punctures ; head, lateral frontal line oblique, puncture
above wanting; thorax, a submarginal slightly rugose line, dorsal
line obsolete; elytra attenuated behind, rather darker than the
thorax, about three obsolete irregular series of punctures; sternum
bicarinate ; feet, anterior pairs paler.
[The type of the genus Matus Aubé.—LEc.]
7. C. venustus.—Pale rufous, beneath testaceous; elytra
blackish lineated with whitish. [99]
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
Body pale rufous, minutely punctured, beneath testaceous tinged
with reddish, minutely lineated; head blackish at base; antennz
and palpi testaceous; thorax at the middle of the base and tip
blackish ; elytra blackish, with very minute, numerous fenestrate
punctures, a submarginal whitish line interrupted at tip, passing
round the humerus, and falcate on the base, an abbreviated sub-
sutural one at base, hardly attaining the middle, and two or three
smaller obsolete ones near the marginal line; sternum acutely
carinated.
A remarkably handsome and distinct species. It is not common,
and may probably prove to be the interrogatus of Fabricius.
[This is D. interrogatus Fabr., and constitutes the genus Copto-
tomus Say, infra.—Lxc.]
8. C. atypHicus.—Dark brown or blackish; elytra profoundly
striated.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Dytiscus glyphicus Melsh. Catal.
Body dark reddish-brown, minutely punctured, beneath blackish,
minutely lineated; thorax with an anterior, indented, rugous, sub-
marginal line; elytra with eleven profoundly impressed strie,
alternately abbreviated towards the tip, the inner ones abbreviated
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at base, marginal one extending from the middle towards the tip ;
feet rufous.
This insect varies in being of a paler color. I found it numer-
ous in fresh water ponds on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina.
[A species of Copelatus afterwards described as C. 10-striatus
Aubé.—LEc. ]
9. C. oprusatus.—Black ; elytra four-spotted, punctured.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Body black; head with two obsolete piceous spots on the vertex, a
single [100] impressed, abbreviated, frontal line each side; antennze
and palpi piceous ; elytra with two or three distinct series of punc-
tures, somewhat irregular, scattered behind, each elytron with a
pale, fenestrate, elongated, submarginal spot behind the middle,
and a subtriangular one near the tip ; feet piceous.
Var. a. Body beneath testaceous; frontal spots obsolete.
This species approaches very near to fenestralis, but differs in
having the series of large distinct punctures, in being not more
than half the size of that insect and more obtuse before. Found
on Mr. R. Haines’s farm, Germantown.
[A species of Agabus afterwards described as A. gagates Aubé.
—Lec. ]
10. C. stacninus.—Oval, black, beneath rufous ; vertex with
two piceous spots; elytra with a submarginal whitish line be-
hind.
Length less than seventh-twentieths of an inch.
Dytiscus stagninus Melsh. Catal.
Body oval, obtuse behind, black, beneath rufous; head with two
obscure piceous spots on the vertex, a single, impressed, transverse,
abbreviated line and point each side before; nasus and labrum
piceous; elytra with three dilated lines of irregular, profound,
rather large punctures, becoming confused at tip, an abbreviated,
submarginal, whitish line on each elytron, originating near the
middle of the tip; tergum with a few hairs each side behind.
[Also an Agabus, afterwards described as A. striola Aubé.—
LEc.]
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514 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
LACCOPHILUS Leach.
Antennze setaceous, longer than the head ; scutel none; anterior
tarsal joints of the male not patelliform; palpi filiform.
1. L. macuLosus.—Yellowish-testaceous ; elytra blackish, lin-
eated and spotted with white. [101]
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Dytiscus maculosus Melsh.'Catal.
Body yellowish-testaceous, glabrous; elytra blackish, three
spots or dilated lines at base, of which one is humeral and one
subsutural, each emarginate at tip and profoundly so on the inner
side, and the third rather shorter, arising from the middle of the
base, two marginal spots of which the anterior one is much the
largest, a common irregular spot behind the middle, and an
apical common band, white, tip obliquely truncate.
Var. a. Trunk beneath black.
Var. 6. Yellowish-testaceous ; elytra with a common black
band behind the middle.
Rather a common insect. The last variety is a remarkable
one; but, when closely examined, traces of some of the spots are
perceptible upon it.
2. L. proximus.—Yellowish-testaceous ; elytra blackish, ob-
soletely spotted with dull whitish.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Body yellowish-testaceous, paler beneath; elytra with spots as
in the preceding species, but obsolete, the larger marginal one
distinct.
This species I found very numerous in the fresh water marshes
of South Carolina. I do not hesitate to give it as distinct from
the preceding, although so closely allied to it by the elytral
maculz. It is readily distinguishable by its inferior size.
[Afterwards described as L. fasciatus Aubé.—Lec. ]
HYDROPORUS Clairville.
The four anterior tarsi apparently four-jointed, the fourth
joint minute, and with the base of the fifth concealed in a pro-
found fissure of the third joint; body oval, the breadth greater
than the height ; scutel none. [ 102 ]
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1. H. unpuLATUs.—Ferruginous ; elytra trifasciate with black.
Length about three-twentieths of an inch.
Dytiscus undulatus Melsh. Catal.
Body ferruginous, very numerous, minute, villous punctures,
hairs adpressed to the surface ; head destitute of large, indented,
frontal punctures ; antenne and palpi paler; thorax at base and
tip black, lateral edge very slightly arquated ; elytra, suture and
three undulated irregular bands black, of the latter, one is basal,
one central, and the other subterminal.
The bands sometimes occur dilated and decurrent, so as to
forma common black disk to the elytra.
[ Also described subsequently as H. fasciatus Harris; the % is
H. pubipennis, and the Q H. velutinus Aubé.—LEc.]
2. H. oppostrus.—Blackish ; head and base of the thorax
ferruginous ; elytra with six whitish marginal spots or subfascia.
Length rather less than three-twentieths of an inch.
Body with very numerous, villous, minute punctures, hairs
adpressed to the surface; head rufous or ferruginous, four or
six indented, frontal, distant punctures; thorax ferruginous,
black at tip, about three indented punctures, placed transversely ;
elytra black, each with an irregular humeral spot, another placed
upon the margin behind the middle, and a third apical one yel-
lowish, edge yellowish ; postpectus and venter blackish or deep
piceous; pectus and feet yellowish-testaceous.
This was sent to me as a distinct species by Dr. J. F. Mel-
sheimer. It is very like undulatus.
[This seems to be the species afterwards described as 1. prowi-
mus Aubé.—Lec. ]
3. H. nrger.—Black, villous, obscure, immaculate ; head and
lateral margins of the thorax and elytra obscure rufous. [103]
Length more than three-twentieths of an inch.
Dytiscus niger Melsh. Catal.
Body black, obscure, very numerous, minute, villous punctures,
hairs adpressed to the surface; head obscure rufous, paler be-
neath, dusky each side of the front, a slightly indented spot
each side before instead of the impressed line and punctures ;
antennze dusky towards the tip of each of the terminal joints ;
palpi, terminal joints blackish ; thorax black, very obscure rufous
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516 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
on each side, dorsal line none ; elytra black, very obscure rufous
each side near the base, strie or maculz none ; epipleura rufous ;
pectus and postpectus black; feet rufous; venter black, seg-
ments slightly piceous at tip.
4, H. carascoprumM.—Black, obsolete, spotted and lineated
with rufous; feet rufous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Body black, obscure, with villous punctures, hairs adpressed to
the surface ; head obscure rufous, dilated orbits and base black,
indented frontal spots each side instead of impressed lines and
punctures ; antennze, terminal joints blackish at their tips ; palpi,
terminal joint black ; thorax black, a central longitudinal spot,
and irregular submarginal one each side, rufous, dorsal impressed
line none; elytra black, margin rufous, with a transverse irregu-
lar process at base, and another at the middle, and common
apical band, a double sutural line, an abbreviated line arising
from the middle of the base, and a subsutural spot near the mid-
dle, rufous, a distinct sutural stria and an obsolete one near the
middle; feet rufous.
[ Afterwards described as 1. parallelus and H. interruptus Say.
—L«Ec. |
5. H. Lacusrris.—Rufous, obscure; a common impressed,
[ 104] longitudinal line each side on the base of the thorax and
elytra.
Length more than one-twentieth of an inch.
Dytiscus lacustris Melsh. Catal.
Body rufous, obscure, with minute punctures; head with
slightly impressed frontal spots ; antennze, terminal joints tipped
with blackish ; maxillary palpi blackish at tip; thorax blackish
at base and tip, base each side with an impressed, acute, oblique
line not attaining the anterior margin; elytra with a blackish
suture, base, and submargin, an impressed, acute, longitudinal
line as long as the thorax arises from the middle of the base of
each elytron, appearing to be a continuation of the lateral thoracic
line ; pectus and feet pale rufous; postpectus blackish; venter
pale rufous.
Var. a. Postpectus rufous.
[Afterwards described as Hl. pulicarius Aubé.—LEc. |
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6. H. Arrinis.—Rufous, obscure ; a common impressed, longi-
tudinal line each side on the base of the thorax and elytra;
elytra varied with longitudinal black lines.
Length more than one-twentieth of an inch.
Body rufous, obscure, punctured ; thorax blackish at base and
in the middle, an impressed, acute line each side at base not at-
taining the anterior margin; elytra with a blackish suture, base,
irregular submargin and intervening abbreviated lines, punctures
of the disk rather larger, distinct, impressed line of the middle
of the base of each elytron much abbreviated, obsolete.
Differs from the preceding, to which it is very similar, in
having rather larger punctures on the disk of the elytra, more
distinct lines, and in having the meee ones of the base very
short and indistinct. [ 105]
[Afterwards described as H. nanus Aubé.—Lxc.]
HYDROCANTHUS Bay.
Antenne rather longer than the head, somewhat thicker in
the middle ; scutel none; maxillary palpi filiform; labiales,
terminal joint dilated, subovate, compressed, entire; anterior
tibiz mucronate, tarsal joints of the male not patelliform; a
small pectoral scale covering the origin of the posterior feet.
H. rgicotor.—Ferruginous; elytra dark reddish-brown, iri-
descent, attenuated behind.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Body pale ferruginous, above glabrous, impunctured, beneath
with villous punctures ; head obtusely rounded before; eyes not
elevated above the surface; antennz eleven-jointed, originating
beneath; labrum rather large, abruptly deflected, or somewhat
inflected, entire ; palpi whitish ; thorax, posterior angles acute ;
sternum not prominent before, behind the origin of the anterior
feet dilated, depressed, and connate with the poststernum by a
rectilinear suture its whole width; poststernum dilated, depressed,
equilateral, concealing the origin of the intermediate feet, poste-
rior scales equilateral, obliquely truncate at tip, and concealing
the origin of the posterior feet; feet, anterior tibia minutely
pectinate beneath, and terminated by a robust decurved hook;
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518 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
tarsi abbreviated; elytra dark reddish-brown, iridescent, desti-
tute of punctures or striz, and attenuated behind.
This seems to be a rare insect; I have seen but a single speci-
men. This new genus certainly differs from all the genera of
its family by the form of the labial palpi, of the sternum and
poststernum, mucronate anterior tibia, &e. It closely approaches
the genus Noterus by the dilated labial [106] palpi, but differs
in having those parts entire.. It also has some relation to Hali-
plus by the scales which conceal the origin of the posterior feet.
The proper situation of this new genus is between those two
genera, but it is unquestionably much more closely allied to the
former.
HALIPLUS Latr.
Antenne ten-jointed; palpi subulate; scutel none; tarsi fili-
form, five-jointed, posterior thighs concealed at base by a clypei-
form scale ; body oval, thick.
1. H. 15-puncratrus.— Yellowish ; thorax with two black
spots at base; elytra punctured and spotted with black.
Length five-fortieths of an inch.
Dytiscus maculatus Melsh. Catal.
Body pale yellowish, with numerous dilated punctures, rounded
behind ; head immaculate ; thorax, a distinct black spot each
side at base; elytra pale, with profoundly punctured striz, punc-
tures dilated, black, each elytron with six black dots placed 1, 2,
1, 2, the anterior one before the middle, the two succeeding ones
on the middle.
The Dytiscus maculatus of Fabricius is altogether different from
this species; it is a Colymbetes. I have, however, thought
proper to reject the name maculatus as applied to this insect,
lest it should be confounded with the Fabrician insect by those
who adhere to his system or to that of Linné.
[Belongs to Cnemidotus.—LExc. ]
2. H. rriopsis.—Pale yellowish; thorax with a black spot
before ; elytra whitish, spotted with black.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch.
Body pale yellowish, numerous dilated punctures; [107]
thorax with a large conspicuous, deep black spot on the anterior
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margin ; elytra paler than the body, strize profoundly punctured,
punctures color of the elytra, suture, base, tip and six spots on
each elytron deep black, spots placed 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, the penulti-
mate one joining the suture, suture at the centre dilated into a
spot.
GYRINUS Linn.
Antenne shorter than the head, second joint with a lateral
process ; eyes apparently four ; two posterior pairs of feet dilated
very much compressed.
1. G. AMertcANus.—Blackish bronze, beneath piceous ; elytra
smooth, slightly sinuate at tip.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch, breadth more than one-
fourth of an inch.
Gyrinus americanus, levis, ater opacus, pedibus quatuor posticis testa-
ceis. Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. 1, 275.
G. americanus, bronzé ; pattes ferrugineuses ; elytres simples, presque
striées. Oliv. Ent. 3, No. 41, p. 12, pl. 1, fig. 5.
G. americanus Dr. Forsberg, Trans. Upsal Society.
Body oblong, subovate, blackish, slightly tinged with bronze
or purplish, beneath piceous ; head, labrum deeply ciliated with
white hair; thorax impunctured, scutel none; elytra with very
minute obsolete, distant punctures, disk plain, each side with
four or five obsolete striz, tip distinctly and very obtusely
sinuated, a projecting angle at the sutural tip; poststernum with
distant profound punctures before ; feet testaceous, anterior pair
rufous and destitute of a femoral spine.
A very common insect. When caught, a lactescent fluid [108]
is secreted from the anal segment, that diffuses a strong odor
very similar to that of the flowers of the Calycanthas.
2. G. EMARGINATUS.— Blackish-bronze, beneath blackish ;
elytra smooth, each simply rounded at tip.
Length nine-twentieths to eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Body blackish-green, slightly bronzed ; beneath piceous black
or fuliginous; head blackish-green ; labrum at tip and antennz
at base ciliated with white hairs; thorax impunctured ; scutel
none ; elytra with very minute, obsolete, distant punctures, strize
seven jor eight, more distinct in the %, obsolete, each elytron
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rounded at tip, not sinuated or dentated ; poststernum punctured
before, punctures profound and distant; feet, posterior pairs
testaceous, anterior pair in the 4 furnished with a prominent
angle or obtuse spine near the tip of the anterior edge of the
thigh.
The elytra appear emarginated at the tip of the suture when
at rest, in consequence of each of them haying a rounded termi-
nation. This species must have hitherto been confounded
with the Americanus with which it associates indiscriminately,
but is sufficiently distinct by the armature of the anterior femora
of the male and by the simply rotund termination of the elytra
in both sexes.
3. G. ANALIS.—Black, slightly bronzed; elytra with punc-
tured striz ; thorax with a transverse indented line.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Body beneath impunctured and tinged with piceous; front
between the eyes with two impressed dots; labrum at tip and
palpi at base ciliated with white hairs; mouth beneath piceous ;
labial palpi testaceous, blackish at tip ; thorax with a transverse
indented line rather before the middle not attaining to the lateral
margins, and a short oblique line on each side behind it curving
towards the lateral edge; scutel distinct, subtriangular [109 ]
elytra with about eleven distinct narrow strize of punctures, in-
terstitial lines depressed, each elytron very obtusely rounded at
tip; poststernum impunctured; feet rufous; caudal segment
testaceous.
Resembles G. natator, but that insect is larger ; it corresponds
in size with the marinus Gyllenh., but the punctures of the
elytra are much smaller, and the termination of the elytra is
more obtusely rounded.
4. G. timBatus.—Black ; elytra with punctured striae ; epi-
pleura yellowish.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
Front bipunctured ; thorax with an obsolete, transverse im-
pressed line before the middle and a short oblique line each side
behind the middle; elytra striate with small punctures, intersti-
tial lines depressed, each elytron obtusely rounded at tip, beneath
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rufous; epipleura and margin of the pectus behind the eye yel-
lowish.
I obtained this species in Georgia and East Florida. It closely
resembles the preceding species, but may be at once distinguish-
ed from it by the color of the epipleura and inferior surface of
the body.
[From Vol. IV. pp. 499— __.]
Descriptions of new North American Insects and Observations on some
already described. *
Real Noy. 2, 1882.
AMBLYCHEILA Say.
Labrum transverse, much wider than long; mandibles promi-
nent, strongly toothed ; labial palpi elongated ; basal joint short,
entirely concealed by the mentum ; second joint short, spherical,
resting on the edge of the emargination of the mentum; the
third joint elongated, cylindric, with rigid hairs; fourth joint
enlarging to the extremity where it is truncate, somewhat sinuate ;
mentum, tooth robust, prominent, canaliculate before, acute; an-
tenne, second joint two-thirds the length of the third; wings
none; elytra united; eyes ee small, hemispherical, entire ;
clypeus at tip entire.
A. CYLINDRIFOMIs Say, (Manticora) Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci.—
This insect, which I found near the Rocky Mountains, I de-
scribed under the genus Manticora, but judging by the present
mutilated state of the specimen it seems to agree better with the
Megacephala. It differs from Manticora altogether in form, in
the smaller size of the head, and in not having a lobed thorax, Xc.,
but it corresponds in the comparative magnitude of the eyes, the
diameter of which is hardly more considerable than that of the
[A portion of this paper, ending with Pangus, [IV. 431] was first
printed in the Disseminator, (a newspaper published at New Harmony)
from June 1830, to August 1830; another portion from the beginning
to Elater obesus [VI. 168] was issued as an 8vo. pamphlet, bearing on
the title page the date New Harmony, Indiana, 1829—1833.—Lxc. ]
1834.]
522 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
basal joint of the antennz. In the size of the eyes it differs
greatly from Megacephala, also in the circumstance that the
basal joint of its labial palpi is altogether concealed by the men-
tum : but it agrees with this genus in form, and is probably [410]
more closely related to it than Manticora. Still, however, as it
does not agree with any known group, it may perhaps be proper
to construct a genus for its reception.
MEGACEPHALA Latr.
M. cAROLINA Fabr.—This species is certainly found in the
southern part of the Union: I have an individual that was taken
in New Orleans ; it varies a little from the West Indian speci-
mens in being less deeply sculptured.
CICINDELA Linn.
1. C. untcotor Dejean.—This species appears to have an ex-
tensive range. I received a specimen from Dr, Pickering of
Massachusetts, and I found ancther in Florida. It varies in
haying a slight touch of white on the tip of the elytra.
2. C. MARGINATA Fabr. Syst.’ Eleut. 1, 241, No. 48. Dejean
has described this species under the name of variegata, Sp. Gen.
1, 84—see also vol. 2, 414.
3. C. uNtpuNCTATA Fabr.—Varies in having a very small ob-
secure yellowish spot, half way between the ordinary spot and the
tip, on the margin.
4. C. vutGarRIs Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1818. Since
described by Dejean under the name of obliquata, Sp. Gen. 1,
72, but corrected vol. 2, Supp. 414.
5. C. HIRTICOLLIS Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1818. Since
described by Dejean with the name of repanda, Sp. Gen. 1, 74,
but corrected vol. 2, 414.
6. C. porsALIS Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1818. Since
described by Dejean with the name of signata, Sp. Gen. 1, 124,
but corrected vol. 2, 414, Supp.; and on page 426 of the same
Supplement he describes another species under the name of dor-
salis, which, however, will of course be changed, as mine has the
priority.
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 523
7. C. puRPUREA Oliv. Ins. 33, pl. 3, f. 34. Say, Trans. Amer.
Philos. Soc. 1818, p. 419. C. marginalis Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 1,
240, and Dejean, Sp. Gen. 1, 55. Olivier has certainly the pri-
ority, and consequently the exclusive right as being the first de-
scriber of this species. [411 }
8. C. seExGuTTaTA Fabr.—Dejean has ascertained autoptically
that C. violacea Fabr. is the immaculate variety of this species.
9. C. 12-aurrata Dej.—I obtained a specimen in Missouri
State.
Of this genus I have in my cabinet twenty-two species, natives
of the United States, that have been described.
ARETHAREA Say.
Artificial character.—Elytra truncated ; terminal joint of the
maxillary palpi acicular; anterior tibie simple.
Natural Character.—Head large, wider than the thorax, con-
tracted behind at the junction with the thorax; antenne origi-
nating beneath a carina, with the first joint much shorter than
the head; labrum short, bilobated ; the lobes divaricated ; margin
hairy ; mandibles very prominent, arquated, acute ; within promi-
nently and acutely denticulated ; maxille rectilinear with rigid
hairs within; palpi with the penultimate joint dilated ; ultimate
joint acicular and minute ; labium at tip with two equal mem-
branaceous lobes and a lateral robust seta; palpi very small and
feeble, terminal joint somewhat shorter and more slender than
the preceding one; mentum transverse, simple; destitute of
auricles; thorax cylindrical; truncate before and behind; elytra
broadly truncate at tip; tibize, anterior pair simple; tarsi with
subequal simple joints; the basal ones slightly longest ; nails un-
armed ; posterior pair of feet with the nails pectinated.
Obs. The prominent, arquated and denticulated mandibles of
this curious insect resemble, with some accuracy, those of Cicin-
dela ; but the general appearance and extraordinary assemblage
of characters widely separate it. It has the truncated elytra of
Lebia and its congeners; the simple anterior tibiz of Cicindela ;
and a singular character that seems to connect the two families,
that of having the anterior pair of nails simple and the posterior
pair pectinated. We may also remark, however, that the acicu-
1834.]
524 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
lar terminal joint of the maxillary palpi is a trait in common with
Bembidium Bon.
A. HELLUONIS.—Head black ; thorax rufous ; elytra blue.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head punctured, somewhat hairy; eyes small, almost equidis-
tant [412] between the tip of the mandibles and the thorax ; an-
tenne, first and second joints pale rufous; labrum yellowish-ru-
fous; mandibles piceous; palpi pale yellowish rufous; thorax
punctured, excepting along the dorsal middle; elytra destitute
of striz or punctures, blue, with a purplish reflection; feet and
postpectus pale yellowish; knees and tarsi brownish.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The intermediate feet and the antenne, excepting the first and
second joints, are deficient in this specimen. I am not sure
whether [ obtained it on our journey to the Rocky Mountains,
to St. Peter’s river, or in Pennsylvania, but I think the latter.
[No insect has yet been seen by other entomologists, which at
all approaches the description here given. With regard to the
systematic relations which such an object would have, it is quite
obvious that it should not be placed with the Carabide, since
the mentum transverse, simple, destitute of auricles, is altogether
foreign to the Adephagous series. This form of mentum, with the
subulate palpi and bilobate labrum, fix the head, at least, as be-
longing to a Staphylinide. In that family the insertion of the
antennze, form of palpi, ligula and mandibles, prove conclusively
that it enters the group Pederini. In fact, there is nothing in
the description of the head, thorax and anterior legs, which for-
bids a reference to Cryptobium bicolor or C. melanocephalum.
With regard to the elytra and posterior legs, I must suppose them
to have been derived from some foreign Carabide, and that the
union was effected unintentionally, before the specimen came
under Say’s notice.—LEc. ] "
CASNONTA Latr.
C. RurreEes Dej.—The insect of this genus represented by
Drury (Ins. 1, pl. 42, f. 4 and 6) is probably a variety of this
species. Dejean has not noticed this figure at all. The Galerita
americana is represented in the same plate.
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, SPHERACRA Say.
Elytra entire; tibia emarginate; terminal joint of the tarsi
profoundly bilobated ; nails simple ; head as long behind the eyes
as before them; thorax subcylindric; antenne much shorter
than the body; basal joint much shorter than the head,
joints excepting the second not very unequal in length, subcy-
lindric ; labrum emarginate ; palpi with the terminal joint some-
what fusiform, subacute; mentum with a prominent acute cen-
tral tooth.
8. poRsALIS Fabr.—“ Black ; elytra striate, testaceous ; suture
broadly black.
Inhabits Carolina.
Museum of Mr. Bose.
Smaller than O. angustata. Antenne testaceous ; head black,
polished, broader than the thorax; thorax cylindrical, obscurely
ferruginous; elytra striate, testaceous; suture broadly black,
hardly attaining the tip ; body black ; feet testaceous.” abr.
Odacantha dorsalis Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. 1, 229.
In my specimen the head only is black, or rather of so deep a
rufous as to appear black, excepting the tip and base. [413]
This well known species was referred by its discoverer, Fabri-
cius, to his genus Odacantha ; in which arrangement he was.fol-
lowed by Dejean, who, however, was fully aware of its generic
difference from the O. melanura, Fabr. Dejean, in his observa-
tions on the genus, says, “that in consequence of the joints of
the tarsi being less filiform than those of the type of the genus,
almost triangular, the penultimate one deeply bilobate and the
extremities of the elytra rounded, it would be perhaps proper to
make a new genus of this insect.” In this remark I perfectly
coincide, as I cannot see the propriety of joining, in the same
genus, two insects whose characters in the artificial system place
them in different families, though it cannot be denied that they
have many, more intimate, natural affinities.
I had written the above with the expectation of introducing
a new species, in an insect which, in form and color, resembles
the dorsalis exceedingly to the eye, excepting in size; but on
close examination it proves to be widely distinct.
[This genus was previously described as Leptotrachelus Fabr.
—Lec.]
1834.]
526 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
CYMINDIS Latr., Dej.
1. C. piaticoniis Say, (Lebia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe.
vol. 2, new series.
This species has been since described by Dejean under the
name of C. complanata. In my specimens the palpi are hardly
dilated. It varies in having the thorax darker and of the color
of the head. I obtained an individual in Indiana.
2. ©. LATICOLLIS.—Blackish ; thorax transverse; feet pale
rufous; elytra with slender strie and minute punctures.
Inhabits near the Rocky Mountains.
Body black-brown, punctured, with short hairs : head ;
thorax decidedly transverse, with numerous somewhat large punc-
tures ; truncate before, and a little sinuate behind; margin each
side depressed and a little elevated, dull rufous ; at the posterior
an obvious tooth; elytra with very slender capillary strie im
which are minute punctures, which are larger and more obvious
towards the base and lateral margin; interstitial lines with a
very slight convexity, and with numerous small punctures, rather
larger than those of the strie ; lateral margin [414] obscure
rufous; tip truncate, without any appearance of sinuation: be-
neath obscure rufous, punctured ; feet rufous; thighs and _ tro-
chanters paler.
Length about two-fifths of an inch.
I obtained it when on the expedition to the Rocky Mountains
with Major Long. The thorax is shaped somewhat like that of
americana, Dej., but is wider, as in platicollis, Say. The elytra
have not the slightest appearance of being sinuated at tip.
3. ©. Prtosus Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Since de-
scribed by Dejean, under the name of pubescens, Sp. Gen. 1, p.
215, but corrected in yol. 2, Suppl. p. 446.
CALLEIDA Dej.
1. C. viriprpennis Say, (Cymindis) Trans. Amer. Philos.
Soe.
This species has been since described by Dejean, under the
name of marginata, vy. Spec. Gen. 1, p. 222, but corrected vol.
2, Supp. p. 450,
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 527
He has given the name of viridipennis to another species ; but
as it is a subsequent name, he will of course change it.
2. ©. SMARAGDINA Dej.—A specimen of this insect was sent
to me by Dr. Pickering, from Salem, Massachusetts, so that it ig
probably a general inhabitant of the Atlantic States, but as I
have found it myself but once (in the state of Ohio,) I should
suppose it is rare.
3. C. PURPUREA Say, (Cymindis) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.
4. C. pecorA Fabr. Say, (Cymindis) Trans. Amer. Philos.
Soc. Dej., Sp. Gen. 1, 224.
LEBIA Latr., Dej.
1. L. ornnata Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Since de-
scribed by Dejean under the name of analis, Spee. Gen. 1, 265,
and corrected, 2, Supp. 452.
2. L. viripis Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Dejean has
described a speeies under the same name. It is closely allied to,
if not the same as this, but if not the same species, the name
must of course be changed. Spec. Gen. 1, 271.
3. L. ruscata Dej.—Varies in having the head nearly black,
the thorax [415] yellowish ferruginous, and the elytra paler
brown, the yellowish spots, particularly the terminal, almost ob-
solete.
BRACHINUS Weber.
B. styGicornis.—Ferruginous ; antenne black ; elytra blackish
blue.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body ferruginous, with short hairs: head with irregular punc-
tures; each side between the antennz, becoming irregular, but
slight ; lineations near the eyes: antennze brownish blue, first and
second joints ferruginous: thorax with minute, irregular, transverse
lines, dorsal lines well impressed: elytra slightly grooved, more
obviously so towards the base ; edges beneath purplish ; postpectus,
except in the middle, and venter blackish, with short whitish
hairs.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
1854.]
528 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Var. a. Sutural edge of the elytra ferruginous.
I obtained this species in the winter of 1819, when with Major
Long’s party, at Engineer Cantonment, near Council Bluff. It
occurred in considerable numbers, occupying some crevices of
rock, eight or ten feet under the surface, in a temporary quarry,
where they were hybernating. It differs from cyanipennis, Say,
found at the same locality, by the different color of the antennze, &c.
Can this be the janus, or is the guadripennis De}. synonymous
with that species described in Turton’s Linn. ?
CLIVINA Latr., Dej.
1. C. prpustuLATA Fabr.—The true species of this author
has almost always, if not in every instance, but two spots on the
elytra, and these are terminal. The second interstitial line has
seven or eight subequidistant punctures, and the fourth interstitial
line has five or six punctures, subequal, excepting the terminal
one, which is more distant.
2. C. QUADRIMACULATA Palisot de Beauvois.—This species is
quite distinct, though very closely allied to the bipustulata. It is
similar in size and almost so in form; but the thorax is propor-
tionally longer. In color it is generally like the preceding, but in
addition to the two terminal punctures of the elytra, their base is
more or less, but generally obsoletely, tinged with obscure rufous.
The interstitial lines are [416] altogether destitute of punctures.
I have a variety in my collection, of which the elytra are entirely
of a rufous color and even paler than the terminal spots usually
appear; these spots are of course not visible.
3. C. viripis Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., has been since
described by Dejean under the name of rostrata, Sp. Gen. 1,
419, but corrected vol. 2, Supp. 478.
Of this genus I have eight described species of this country.
CARABUS Linn.
1..C. vinctus Weber.—I think it highly probable that Dejean
is right in considering, as he does, (doubtfully however), my C.
interruptus to be the same as this. Weber's expression, “ lineis
elevatis tribus,” renders this conclusion highly probable.
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2. C. Ligatus Germar, Sp. Nove, p. 6.—Since described by
Dejean under the name of carinatus, Sp. Gen. 2, 80. He quotes
igatus doubtfully as synonymous. His description, however,
agrees so perfectly that I feel no hesitation in considering them
the same.
3. C. SERRATUS Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Since de-
scribed by Dejean under the name of lineato-punctatus, Sp. Gen.
2, 77; the former has, of course, the priority.
4. C. ExTERNUS Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sce.—The largest
American species I have seen. It belongs to Dejean’s twelfth
division of this numerous genus. What is the C. tedatus L.?
CALOSOMA Weber.
1. C. tuxatum Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Se. 38, 149.—Dej., Sp.
Gen. 2, 196.
2. C. LaVE Dej., Sp. Gen. 2, 210.—I obtained an individual
of this insect in Mexico. It corresponds accurately with the
description ; but in addition I may add that it varies in having a
large obscure rufous spot on the vertex.
3. C. cALIDUM Fabr.—My description in the Trans. Amer.
Philos. Soc. was taken from the true Fabrician species as is evinced
by the expression “ dilated, impressed, golden dots,” as applied to
the elytral [417] excavations. But I did not sufficiently examine
the very closely allied species which Dejean has separated from it,
as I supposed it to be only a variety.
ELAPHRUS.
1. E. ruticrnosus.—This new species was found in Pennsyl-
vania by Mr. Le Sueur, to whom J am indebted for the specimen ;
and although the head and thorax are destroyed, yet sufficient
character remains to prove it the analogue of the L£. wliginosus,
Fabr., of Europe. In comparison with that species, however,
many dissimilarities are perceptible. The discoidal indentations
are larger and more obviously emarginated by the entering an-
gles of the interstitial spaces. The interstitial spaces are some-
what less regular, and have rather large punctures, particularly
towards the base; towards the tips of the elytra the punctures
are not larger than those of the wliginosus, but are fewer in num-
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530 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
ber. The body is slightly larger than in that species. It ap-
pears to be rare.
[This is perhaps L. cicatricosus Lee.—Lxc.]
2. E. ruscarius.—This species I described in the Trans.
Amer. Philos. Soc., with a mark of doubt, as the £. riparius
Fabr., but having recently compared it more accurately with nu-
merous European specimens, I think it may, with propriety, con-
stitute a distinct, but certainly very closely allied species. In
comparison with the ripardus, it is rather more robust, ofa darker
color, more deeply sculptured, as well on the thorax as on the
elytra, and the discoidal impressions are somewhat larger and
more obvious.
In these characters my specimens allagree, and I possess more
or less mutilated specimens from Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Ar-
kansaw, Missouri and the Rocky Mountains. I therefore have
ventured to separate it as a distinct species.
NOTIOPHILUS Dumer.
1. N. sEMIsTRIATUS, Say.—Closely allied to V. aquaticus F.,
and biguttatus F., partaking of the characters of both. Dejean
states that it “ne différe peut-étre pas de l’une des espéces
d’Europe,” but he does not inform us which of the species ; in-
deed they are all so closely [418] allied, that considerable exam-
ination is required to detect permanent differences. The elytral
puncture is small, and like that of aqguaticus, placed nearer the
base than that of the biguttatus, but the striz like those of the
latter, are not obsolete towards the tip; the four basal joints of
the antenne are rufous, Xe.
2. N. porrectus Say.—W. semistriatus, var. b, Say. Trans.
Amer. Philos. Soc. On close examination I am convinced that
this deserves to rank as a separate species. In comparison with
either of the species above mentioned, the thorax is much more
contracted behind, and the labrum is more advanced. The feet
are entirely rufous, even including the thighs. The head is
larger than that of the sem/istriatus, and the strie are not so deep-
ly impressed, but the impressed point of the elytra is similarly
situated, though perhaps a little further back. The length is
much the same. The color is tinged with violaceous.
[ Previously described as Elaphrus xneus Herbst.— Lec. ]
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eo
ped
CHLAINIUS Bonelli.
1. C. pusmunus Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Since de-
seribed by Dejean under the name of elegantulus.
2. C. TOMENTOSUS Say, (Epomis) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—
This species has been referred te this genus by Dejean; the
palpi are not sufficiently securiform for Epomis.
3. C. CIRCUMCINCTUS.—Green, tinged with violaceous ; edges
rufous.
Inhabits Louisiana.
Body green, more or less tinged with violaceous and brassy,
punctured; head minutely and confluently punctured; in the
middle tinged with bronze ; lateral edges dark purplish ; anten-
nz reddish brewn, three basal jeints pale yellow with rufous in-
cisures ; labrum and mandibles honey yellow; the latter black
at tip; palpi yellow ; terminal joints honey yellow; thorax deep-
ly punctured, sparse near the anterior angles, and almost want-
ing each side of the middle; dorsal line acute, almost obsolete ;
basal lines widely indented ; lateral edge regularly arquated ;
dull rufous; basal edge rectilinear in the middle and a little ob-
lique each side, making the angles rather more than rectangular ;
green a little tinged with brassy; scutel dark purplish ; elytra
with profound, obsoletely punctured striz; interstitial spaces
flattened, punctuated, [419] sericeous ; rather dull green with a
slight violaceous reflection; exterior and apical edge dull ru-
fous ; beneath black; feet yellow, joints a little rufous; venter
en the margin yellowish.
For this pretty species I am indebted to Mr. J. Barabino of
New Orleans.
[Afterwards described as (. virens Chaud.—LEc. ]
4. C. victnAns.—Head and thorax brassy ; antenna at base
and feet ferruginous ; elytra violaceous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Pubescent ; head impunctured, brassy-green, polished ; two ob-
solete indentations between the antennz ; labrum transversely
narrow, truncated, and with the palpi dull rufo-ferruginous ;
antenne fuscous, pubescent, three basal joints subglabrous, rufc-
1884.]
532 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
ferrnginous; thorax brassy-green, with rather dense, very short
hair, polished; dorsal and basal impressed lines distinct; pos-
terior angles not exeurved, but obtusely angulated, almost
rounded ; elytra bluish violaceous, with punctured striz ; inter-
stitial spaces pubescent, depressed, and minutely granulated,
beneath blackish ; feet rufo-ferruginous.
Length half an inch.
Much like C. nemoralis Say, but the antennz of that species
are entirely rufoferruginous, its posterior thoracic angles are
slightly excurved, Xe.
5. C. soccatus.—Blackish ; feet ferruginous with blackish
tarsi and joints.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body blackish, with a slight violaceous tinge; minutely pubes-
cent, punctured; head blued-black, glabrous, two slight indenta-
tions between the antennze, and an obsolete transverse one be-
tween the eyes; antenne pubescent, blackish, three basal joints
dark piceous ; palpi piceous ; thorax short ; lateral margin regu-
larly arquated ; posterior angles rounded ; impressed lines dilated ;
elytra with punctured strix ; interstitial spaces minutely granu-
lated, depressed ; beneath blackish ; feet rufo-ferruginous, joints
and tarsi blackish-piceous.
Length nearly half an inch.
Resembles vigilans Nob., but the thorax is shorter and the
lateral curvature is more regular, that of the preceding species
being almost rectilinear from near the middle to the posterior
angles; the colors also are different in their arrangement. [420]
Of this genus I have sixteen North American described
species.
OODES Bonel.
O.? PARALLELUS.—Black; thoracic angles rufous; feet pi-
ceous.
Inhabits Louisiana.
Body black, very slightly tinged with piceous; head with but
a slightly impressed point between the antenne; antenne red-
dish brown, three basal joints honey yellow ; palpi honey yellow;
mandibles piceous ; thorax narrowed before, smooth, dorsal line
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distinct, not extended on the margins; basal lines distinct, ob-
lique; region of the posterior angles a little, but widely, depressed,
rufous or sanguineous, and by transmitted light it appears reti-
culated; impunctured; posterior angles rounded, but not ob-
tusely so; greatest width a little behind the midle ; elytra with
the strize continued parallel to the tip, well impressed, minutely
punctured; interstitial spaces depressed, third with a single
slight puncture en the posterior fifth from the base ; beneath
black ; posterier angles of the pectus, epipleura and feet piceous ;
anterior tarsi with four not widely dilated subquadrate joints, the
fourth joint being as large as the third, and all beneath with
dense fastigiate hairs; intermediate tarsi also somewhat dilated.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
The elytra are hardly perceptibly sinuous near the tip.
The specimen, for which I am indebted to Mr. J. Barabino of
New Orleans, is a doubtful congener of the O. helopoides Fabr.,
than which the body is somewhat more elongated, the thorax
more gradually narrowed before. It has at first sight more the
appearance of the Harpalus terminataus or Calathus gregartus Say.
The intermediate tarsi are somewhat dilated, the anterior tarsi
are not widely dilated and the terminal joint is as large as the
preceding one. I place it in this genus provisionally, more speci-
mens may show this arrangement to be incorrect. The parallel-
ism of the striz of the elytra to their termination is a remarka-
ble character, even more obvious than in the helopoides.
[The type of Lachnocrepis Lec. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soe. 10,
391.—LEc. ] [421]
DICALUS Bonelli.
1. D. purpuRATUS Bonelli —Since described by Dejean under
the name of chalybxus Sp. Gen. 2.
2. D. eLonGaTUS Bonelli Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—
Dejean is of the opinion that this is not the elongatus of Bonelli,
and has described it with the name of furvus, but he has not
stated the reasons for this opinion.
[D. furvus Dej. is totally distinct from D. elongatus: it is
allied to, and perhaps identical with D. ovalis Lec.—Luc.]
1834.]
534 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
POGONUS Zeigl.
P. rEcTUs Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—I may
add to the description that the strie are well impressed and punc-
tured rather densely on the sides; third interstitial line with
about three punctures, excepting the middle one, hardly distinct
from the punctures of the strive.
[Belongs to Loxandrus ; the anterior tarsi of the male are ob-
liquely dilated, which accounts for the error of Say in referring
it to Pogonus.—LEc. ]
PATROBUS Meg.
P. LONGICORNIS Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—
Recently described by Dejean under the name of americanus,
Sp. Gen. 3, p. 84. Why he has added a synonym in this ease,
I know not.
ANCHOMENUS Bonelli.
1. A. DECENTIS Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe.—
Has been recently described by Dejean under the name of ga-
gates. :
2. A. CINCTICOLLIS Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe.
-—Since described by Germar under the name of b/andus, Sp.
Novee, p. 12, and recently by Dejean by the name of corvinus Sp.
Gen. 3, p. 109.
3. A. EXTENSICOLLIS Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos.
Soc., is also referred by Dejean to this genus.
4, A. pEcorus Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe. is
also refered to this genus by Dejean.
5. A. COLLARIS.—Black with a hardly obvious tinge of pur-
ple; tibize and tarsi piceous; thorax subquadrate; elytra with
three punctures on the third interstitial line.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished, glabrous, with a few, rather long,
marginal [422] hairs; head impunctured; base of the first
joint of the antenne, of the mandibles black-piceous ; antennz
at tip brownish, third joint of the same length as the fourth ;
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impressions between the eyes rather deep; thorax rather short,
wider than long, subquadrate, impunctured ; lateral edge regu-
larly curved; margin slightly elevated, narrow, broader towards
the posterior angles ; dorsal and anterior lines distinct ; posterior
lines dilated, suborbicular, slightly rugous ; posterior angles very
obtuse ; anterior and posterior margins subequally broad ; elytra
with acutely impressed stria, regularly punctured; punctures
small, obsolete towards the tip; third interstitial line with three
punctures, two at the third striz and the terminal one at the
second strie; interstitial lines much depressed; tibia, tarsi,
knees and extreme base of the thighs piceous.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
This species is rather more robust in proportion to its length
than the other American species. The thorax is much broader
and shorter. The species is perhaps more like scutedlaris Say,
than any other; that insect is remarkably depressed about the
region of the scutel.
AGONUM Bonelli.
1. A. SUTURALE.—Green, polished ; suture cupreous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Above metallic green, polished, impunctured; head with a
slight coppery reflection ; labrum, antenne and palpi blackish :
thorax varied with cupreous; dorsal line and basal dots obviously
indented ; elytra with very slender strize ; interstitial spaces wide
and plain, first one cupreous, third with three punctures, equidis-
tant, basal one on the third striew, middle one on the second
striz ; beneath piceous black; coxz piceous.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
This is a brilliant species, equalling in this respect the 8-punc-
tatum Fabr., and errans nob. and but little inferior to cupripenne
nob., all of which, together with nutans nob., belonging to this
genus, although I referred them to the including genus F’eronia,
Latr. The cupripenne nob., is equal in splendor, though not in
magnitude, to the 6-punctatum Fabr. In comparison with parum-
punctatum F., the form is more robust, thorax more brilliant,
wider, and is as wide at base as anteriorly ; the interstitial spaces
also are much more flattened. [423]
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2. A. ORBICOLLIS.—Black ; thorax rounded ; third interstitial
line with three punctures.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, polished, impunctured ; antenne ———, basal
joint and palpi piceous; thorax orbicular, truncate before and
slightly so behind; lateral edge regularly arquated, not depressed,
but with a simple and equally elevated edge ; dorsal line obsolete,
anterior and posterior transverse lines obsolete ; basal impressed
lines or dots distinct; elytra with well impressed strize, which
are crenate, not punctured ; interstitial lines convex, the third
from the suture with three equidistant punctures; feet piceous ;
Length nearly seven-twentieths of an inch.
Size of A. viduum Fabr., with the similar punctures on the
third interstitial line, excepting that they are equidistant, and
these lines are more convex, the thorax is much more orbicular,
the feet differently colored, and there is no brassy reflection.
This cannot be the melanarium Dej., for the striz are as obvious
as in the viduum, and although the thorax agrees with that
insect in being “plus etroit” than that of the vidwum, yet it
would not be described as “ subrotundato,” as that author ap-
plies the same term to designate the form of the thorax of viduum.
It is much like A. punctiforme Say, but it is a little more elon-
gated, the thoracic lines are much less distinct, &c.
3. A. NUTANS Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Since
described by Dejean with the name of striatopunctatum.
+. A. ERRANS Say, (Feronia) Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci—The in-
terstitial space has three punctures, of which the first and second
are somewhat nearer than the second and third.
5. A, PUNCTIFORME Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.
I have an individual that has four punctures on the third inter-
stitial space, as Dejean describes his albicrus to have.
6. A. OBSOLETUM Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe.
Since described by Dejean by the name of Juctuosum, Sp. Gen.
3, 172.
7. A. LIMBATUM Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe.
Since described by Dejean by the name of palliatum, Sp. Gen.
3, 174. [424 ]
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OLISTHOPUS Dejean.
1. O. PARMATUS Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe.
Dej. Sp. Gen. 3, p. 181.
2. O. crnctus.—Blackish ; edge of the thorax, elytra and feet
dull rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body blackish ; head impunctured ; antennse dusky, pale rufous
at base; palpi piceous ; thorax with the dorsal and anterior lines
almost obsolete ; lateral narrow margin obviously rufous ; lateral
basal impressions very distinct, suborbicular and sparsely punc-
tured: elytra dull reddish brown, with a slight perlaceous re-
flection ; striz well indented, impunctured; interstitial spaces
depressed, third space with an impressed puncture beyond the
middle; feet yellowish piceous, posterior pair darker.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
Much like the parmatus Say. It is more slender.
[A specimen was given me by Dr. Melsheimer; not different
from O. parmatus.—LEc. ]
FERONIA Latr. Dej.
Pacitus Bon.
1. F. conVEXICOLLIS Say.—Resembles F’. chalcites Say, but
is shorter, the thorax more convex, and the punctures of the third
interstitial stria of the elytra are three, of which the terminal one
is near the tip.
Sreropus Meg.
2. F. opsoLETA.—Blackish-ferruginous ; elytra, strie obsolete
each side and at tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body very dark rufous, polished; labrum, palpi, mandibles at
base, antenne, feet and abdomen honey-yellow; head impunc-_
tured ; a slightly raised line over the antenne, inside of which the
front is slightly corrugated transversely each side; thorax with
the surface obsoletely corrugated, visible in a particular direc-
tion ; dorsal line acute, slightly impressed ; basal lines indented,
single, viewed from above orbicular, definitely and rather deeply
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538 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
impressed ; base a little emarginate, not wider than the abdomi-
nal petiole ; elytra with punctured, not deeply impressed strize,
obsolete at tip and on each side; marginal ocellate punctures
about seventeen, in a continuous series rather sparse in the mid-
dle : near the tip very slightly sinuated ; third interstitial space
with a puncture [425] near the middle of the second stria.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Closely allied to S. Uigeri Panz., but the thorax of that spe-
cies is not so narrow at base, and its elytral striz are not obsolete
at tip, and not even decidedly so on the sides. It is excedingly
like S. ventralis N., but it is more robust, and the sides of the
elytra are more arquated.
The characters of this species agree very well with the descrip-
tion of tencbricosa Dej., excepting that the elytra are not “assez
fortement sinuées postérieurement.”
3. F. opscurA.—Black ; tibiee and tarsi dark rufous; elytral
strize obsolete on each side.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black ; labrum and base of mandibles tinged with rufous ;
palpi dull honey-yellow ; antenne blackish ferruginous ; front
with two indented lines; head impunctured ; thorax not so nar-
row at base as the petiole; dorsal line acute, not deeply im-
pressed; basal lines well indented, definite, impunctured, not or-
bicular, viewed in any direction, very slightly arquated ; elytra
striate ; the striz not distinctly punctured, obsolete on the lateral
submargin, and not so obvious at tip as on the disk; marginal
ocellated punctures about seventeen ; near the tip rather slightly
sinuate ; third interstitial tripunctured, the two anterior punc-
tures at the third stria.
Length less than nine-twentieths of an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but the thorax at base is wider, and
the body is longer. In the proportion of the base of the thorax
it corresponds with F. J/ligeri Panz., but aside from color, it may
be distinguished from the obsolete lateral strize, the much less
dilated thoracice basal lines, Xe.
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PLATYSMA Sturm. Dej.
4. I. opLonconoraTa.—Dark reddish-ferruginous; elytra
with five or six large subsutural punctures.
Inhabits North West Territory.
Body with a hardly perceptible metallic gloss; head darker ;
thorax with the dorsal line very distinct ; lateral basal lines well
indented and with obsolete confluent punctures ; posterior angles
angulated ; elytra striated; five or six large indented punctures
placed somewhat [426] alternately on the second and third
strie ; marginal ocellate punctures with their regions indented.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
This is the analogue of the F. oblongopunctata ¥., correspond-
ing in the punctures of the elytra, but differing in color, and
having the thorax somewhat more robust.
5. F. pepARCA.—Reddish-brown ; thorax punctured on the
anterior and postérior margins.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body reddish-brown, rather pale; head much darker, tinged
with blackish, impunctured; antennz short, not reaching the
base of the thorax ; thorax rather abruptly contracted behind ;
anterior and posterior margins deeply punctured, the punctures
of the former not extending to the lateral margin; lateral mar-
gin with a puncture furnishing a hair on the middle and another
on the posterior angles, which are rectangular ; dorsal line dis-
tinct, but not deeply impressed; basal impressions dilated, and
with all the base punctured ; elytra with slender striz, not deeply
impressed, but with very distinct punctures; stria obsolete to-
wards the tip; epipleura and all beneath paler.
Length nearly half an inch.
The light color, with the punctured anterior and posterior
thoracic margins, will distinguish this species.
It was taken by William Bennett and presented to me by Mr.
Maclure.
ABAX Bonelli.
6. A. corActnus Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—I think this
is the insect that Dejean has recently placed in Ziegler’s genus
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Myas, and described under the name of of cyanescens ; the insect
agrees perfectly with his description, but as the palpi of my only
remaining specimen are deficient, I cannot be certain of its ge-
neric identity.
7. F. [A.] permunpa.—Black, with a perlaceous reflection ;
third interstitial line three-punctured.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black; antennz piceous, dull honey-yellow towards the
tip; distinctly compressed; joints, in profile a little narrowed to
the base ; palpi piceous, not at all securiform, terminal joint less
dilated at tip than that of the preceding joint; thorax with a
slight perlaceous reflection, rather narrower at tip than at base ;
lateral margin depressed, [427] punctured, gradually reflected
to the edge, which is but little arquated ; posterior angles rect-
angular ; disk impunctured ; dorsal line well indented ; basal lines
two on each side, punctured within, deeply impressed, the ex-.
terior one very short; elytra brownish-black, somewhat irides-
cently pearlaceous; striz deeply indented, impunctured ; scutel-
lar striae short, but definite; interstitial spaces convex ; third
three-punctured, first puncture near the base on the third stria,
second on the middle on the second stria, third towards the tip,
also on the second stria; beneath piceous ; sides very distinctly
and numerously punctured.
Length half an inch.
I obtained this fine species a few days since under an old log.
It does not at all agree with either of the descriptions of Dejean.
The labrum is not emarginate. The terminal joint of the palpi
is less dilated towards the tip than that of the A. parallelus
Duftschm., or A. metallicus Fabr.
Motors Bonelli.
8. F. constricra Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sciences.
STOMIS Clairv., Dej.
S. GRANULATUS.—Black, antenne dull rufous, blackish piceous
towards the base.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, apterous, polished ; head impunctured ; impressed
lines between the antennze very obvious; antennx blackish-pi-
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ceous to the fifth joint, which with the others are dull rufous ;
first joint hardly as long as the third; labrum a little prominent,
piceous, widely but not deeply emarginated before; palpi dull
rufous, not very widely truncated at tip; labial not securiform ;
mandibles prominent, very acute; thorax as long as broad, not
remarkably convex ; impunctured; dorsal line distinct, not ex-
tending to the base, which is a little depressed ; lateral margin
depressed and reflected, narrow, wider near the posterior angles,
which are somewhat acute ; lateral edge excurved near the pos-
terior angle; basal lines distinctly indented and dilated ; base
considerably wider than the peduncle ; elytra somewhat de-
pressed, ovate-oval ; surface composed of very minute granules ;
striz slender, deeply impressed, impunctured ; third interstitial
space with three nearly [428] equidistant punctures, the termi-
nal one much the largest, with minute elevated centres ; tip very
obtusely sinuous ; tarsi dull rufous.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
Taken by William Bennett, during his stay in Mexico with
Mr. Maclure.
It will be obvious from this description, that our species does
not well correspond with the S. pumicatus, Panz., but agreeably
to the tables given by Dejean it cannot be placed elsewhere. It
is larger and more dilated than pumicatus, the basal joint of the
antenne is shorter, the palpi are not so obtusely truncated, and
its habit and appearance quite different.
PELOR Bonelli.
P. avipus Say, (Zabrus) Journ. Acad, Nat. Se. [Ante, 95.]
AMARA Bonelli.
In my paper on the Curabiciand Hydrocanthari, published in
the Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. vol. 2, new series, as above quoted,
I described five species of the United States, under the genus
Feronia, agreeably to the arrangement of Latreille, indicating,
however, at the same time, that they belonged to Bonelli’s Amara.
But Dejean and many other distinguished entomologists give the
group a separate station.
1. A. muscuLis Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—
Dej. Sp. Gen. 3, 477.
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542 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
A. BASILLARIS Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe.
3. A. IMPUNCTICOLLIS Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos.
Soc.—Dejean thinks it the same as A. trivialis, Duftschm., but
I have not yet compared it.
4. A. ANGUSTATA Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe.
5. A. OBESA Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe.
6. A. IMPUNCTATA Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—
Dejean thinks it the same as the familiaris, Duftschm., but I
have not satisfactorily compared them.
The following species appear to be new: [429]
7. A. potosa.—Black ; oblique line near the thoracic angle
obviously impressed ; elytra vias impunctured striz.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, impunctured ; head with the impressed lines be-
tween the antenne absolete ; antennze fuscous, joints rather short,
three basal joints honey-yellow ; palpi black piceous, thorax rather
short, lines not deeply impressed ; oblique line near the posterior
angles very distinct; hair of the lateral margin situated at one-
third of the distance between the anterior and posterior angles,
another hair at the basal angle ; elytra with impunctured capillary
striee; interstitial lines depressed, hardly convex; feet piceous-
black ; tibize and tarsi a little paler.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles A. impuncticollis, nob., and A. communis and vul-
garis Fabr., but differs from all in color, greater brevity of the
thorax, more robust form, &c. Viewed in a particular light, a
tint of blue may be, with some difficulty, detected.
8. A. seRA.—Greenish black ; three basal joints of the anten-
ne yellowish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Antenne fuscous; first, second, third and base of the fourth
joints yellowish ; thorax impunctured, basal angles rectangular,
with the oblique line not deeply impressed ; basal lines rather
deep, abbreviated, definite, impunctured; dorsal line distinct ;
elytra with the striz impunctured, acutely impressed ; basal ab-
breviated striz rather long ; interstitial lines with a very slight
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convexity, nearly flat; near the lateral tip slightly and rather
acutely sinuated ; tibie and tarsi-piceous.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The thorax is longer than that of the preceding species, and
the interstitial lines are a little convex, which will readily dis-
tinguish it from A. impuncticollis, N. The colors of the antennx
as strongly contrast as those of A. vulgaris F.
9. A. FURTIVA.—Pale ; thorax punctured at base ; elytra with
punctured strize.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body honey-yellow, more or less tinged with dusky; antenna,
palpi and all beneath paler; head with the frontal impressed
lines dilated, distinct; thorax a little contracted at base, the
posterior angles slightly excurved and acute ; dorsal line well
impressed, particularly behind the [430] middle; basal lines
deeply impressed and definite, punctured ; impressed lines of the
posterior angles, distinct and rather deep, punctured ; base pune-
tured ; elytra with punctured strie ; the punctures orbicular and
close set ; near the tip obtusely, but not deeply sinuated.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
Resembles the A. fulva, Ill., particularly in the form of the
thorax. The color has sometimes a very slight metallic tinge,
but never so obvious as in the fulva.
10. A.? agrossa.—Alternate interstitial spaces punctured.
Inhabits N. W. Territory.
Body short, robust, convex, blackish piceous; head ;
thorax convex, descending much each side, transverse, oblong-
quadrate ; dorsal line almost obsolete ; anterior transverse line
hardly obvious; basal margin depressed and somewhat rough ;
lateral margin depressed, but not elevated except near the poste-
rior angles lightly ; elytra with a sinus near the tip; stria well
impressed, impunctured ; interstitial spaces with from five to
eight distinct punctures on the third, fifth and seventh spaces ;
marginal series of punctures small, almost indistinct.
Length of thorax and abdomen nine-twenticths of an inch.
This species I found in the north western part of the United
. States when traversing that country with Major Long’s party.
It is a remarkable insect, readily distinguishable by the peculiar
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puncturing of the elytra. I have two specimens, both of which
are mutilated, so that I am not perfectly sure it belongs to this
genus.
[This is probably Nothopus zabroides Lec. formerly described
by meas Kuryderus zabroides, but the description is hardly
sufficient.—LEc. ]
DAPTUS Dj.
D. r1ncrAssAtus Dej.—This insect appears to be rare.—I ob-
tained an individual in Pennsylvania. It has not yet occurred
to me in the western States.
[The type of Geopinus Lec.—Lxc.]
CRATACANTHUS Dej.
C. PENSYLVANICUS Dej., is a common insect.—But it is not
confined to Pennsylvania, as the name would seem to imply; it
is abundant in this state, and I obtained three specimens near
the Rocky Mountains ; [431] these are somewhat smaller than
the inhabitants of this vicinity, and of a paler color.
PANGUS Zeigl.
P. cAtiainosus Fabr.—Dejean refers this large species to
Pangus, which he makes a division of his genus Selenophorus.
ANISODACTYLUS Dej.
1. A. ptiaTatus.—Black; thorax transverse quadrate, not
contracted behind; impunctured; first joint of the antennz tes-
taceous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, impunctured ; antennz not reaching the base of
the thorax; first joint pale testaceous, second joint darker, re-
maining joints blackish; impressed frontal lines very distinct ;
thorax without any appearance of puncture, not narrowed behind ;
lateral edge regularly arquated ; posterior angles rounded ; dorsal
line not very obvious ; basal indentations much dilated, not pro-
found ; minute longitudinal lines or wrinkles at the middle of the
base, and less obvious ones on the anterior margin ; elytra, strie
profound, impunctured ; interstitial spaces depressed; tip very
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obtusely sinuous; abdomen, terminal and anal segments above
punctured.
Length less than half an inch.
This species is closely allied to the A. ceenus Say, and its form
is perhaps still more like that of an Amara in being more obtuse
and robust. It is much larger and more rounded behind. It
was taken in Mexico by William Bennett, and was presented to
me by Mr. Maclure.
2. A. BALTIMORIENSIS Say, (Harpalus) Trans. Amer. Philos.
Soc.; Dej. Spec.—A very bad name, as the species is found as
well in Indiana as in Baltimore; but it is a specific name, and
therefore unchangeable.
3. A. RusTIcUS Say, (Harpalus) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. ;
Dej. Spec. ; A. merulus ? Germar.
[A. merula is quite different.—LeEc. ]
4. A. c@Nus Say, (Harpalus) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.; De-
jean Spec.
5. A. AGRICOLUS Say, (Harpalus) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe. ;
Dej. Spec. [432 ]
6. A. CARBONARIUS Say, (Harpalus) Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc.
7. A. Larus ? Dej.—An insect is found in this vicinity which
I have referred, but very doubtfully, to the /tus. Its characters
correspond to the description, but if it be indeed the same a very
important character must be added. My specimen is a male.
The alternate interstitial spaces are cupreous, and the remaining
part is green. It has avery much dilated, slight indentation
behind the middle of the elytra, and a smaller one nearer the tip.
OPHONUS, Zeigl.
O. INTERSTITIALIS Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.
Since described by Dejean under the name of Harpalus obscuri-
pennis.
HARPALUS Latr.
1. H. vunrrcuntus Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Since
described by Dejean under the name of nigripennis. It differs
however from his description, by having an impressed puncture
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546 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
on the third elytral stria; but I have a variety altogether des-
titute of the puncture.
2. H. viripis Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Subsequently
described by Dejean under the name of assimilis.
3. H. mexicanus Dej. Sp. Gen.—This appears to be a com-
mon species. Mr. Maclure has recently sent me specimens by
Wm. Bennett, and I obtained it also in that country.
4. H. rriconor Say, has been recently described by Dejean
under the name of dichrous. I obtained a specimen formerly,
with a collection I purchased in New York as having been re-
ceived from New Haven, and I have since found two in Indiana.
[No species of the name cited is to be found in Say’s writings.
—LEc.]
5. H. TERMINATUS Say, (Feronia) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.
Dejean, Sp. Gen., refers this species to the present genus. The
anterior pairs of the tarsi of the male are clothed with dense
hairs beneath.
6. H. amputatrus.—Elytra greenish, truncate at tip.
Inhabits N. W. Territory.
Body blackish ; head with the frontal lines rather slightly
indented ; antennze, palpi, tibize and tarsi honey-yellow, the tibize
darkest; thorax with the basal angles rounded; edge obscure
rufous; dorsal line [433] obsolete, or slightly impressed; basal
lines substituted by dilated, slightly indented spaces, in which are
numerous small punctures; posterior lateral margin with smal]
punctures; basal margin obsoletely tinted with greenish ; elytra
with impunctured striz, more or less green, sometimes bright
green; suture, outer and terminal edges obscure rufous; tip
widely and somewhat obliquely truncate.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
Var. a. Elytra reddish brown, with hardly any tint of green.
Readily distinguished by the truncated appearance of the tip
of the elytra, from H. zneus F., which has the elytra decidedly
sinuate at tip, and even abruptly so.
7. H. ocreatus.—Black green ; impunctured ; feet pale yel-
lowish.
Inhabits Mexico.
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Body very dark green, impunctured ; head black, with hardly
any appearance of green ; antenne honey-yellow, the joints, ex-
cepting the first and second, with darker centres ; palpi and base
of the mandibles honey-yellow ; labrum with a slight projecting
angle in the middle of the emargination ; thorax blackish green,
hardly narrower at base ; dorsal line indistinct, but more obvious
in the middle ; basal indentations dilated not profound ; lateral
edge dull honey-yellow ; posterior angles obtuse ; elytra obviously
tinged with green ; a little wider at base than the thorax; strie
very slender, impunctured ; interstitial spaces flat, third space
with a puncture at three-fourths the length from the base ; lateral
edge near the tip and suture near the tip obscurely piceous ; tip
deeply and rather obtusely sinuous; beneath black, the greenish
tinge hardly perceptible; feet yellowish; tarsi rather darker ;
first joint of the anteriors of the male somewhat smaller than the
second ; these tarsi have beneath close set hairs.
Length over seven-twentieths of an inch.
This species has almost the Amara like form of some species
of Anisodactylus, in which genus I should have placed the spe-
cies but for the angle in the emargination of the mentum. It is
very closely allied to terminatus Say, but is rather more robust,
the head and thorax are differently colored, the posterior lateral
margin is more depressed, &c. [434] It must resemble closely
H. agilis Dej., of which it may possibly be a variety.
It was obtained by William Bennett, and presented to me by
Mr. Maclure.
STENOLOPHUS Meg., Dej.
S. crnctus.—Dark piceous; margin and suture of the elytra
honey-yellow ; feet pale yellow.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
Body blackish piceous ; antenne fuscous, three basal joinis
and labrum honey-yellow ; mandibles piceous, black at tip; tho-
rax rather convex, a little narrowed behind gradually ; base rec-
tilinear, each side a little arquated to the posterior angles, which
are obvious but almost rounded; lateral edge but slightly
arquated, nearly rectilinear behind the middle, near the posterior
angle hardly perceptibly excurved; dorsal line very distinct
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548 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
anterior transverse line distinct, obtusely arquated; basal lines
so much dilated as to extend to the lateral angle, including a
few sparse, profound punctures ; base and tip and exterior edge
paler piceous; elytra with impunctured, deeply indented striz,
less profound towards the margin; rudimental strie none ; sutural
interstitial space paler piceous; dilated exterior margin honey-
yellow ; lateral series of punctures, with the exception of a small
one, widely interrupted in the middle; feet pale yellow.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
For this insect [am indebted to Dr. Harris. On a cursory
examination I considered it identical with S. ochropezus Say,
notwithstanding its great inferiority of size, which may at once
distinguish it. The thoracic posterior angles are much more ob-
tusely rounded in that species, the punctures of the basal lines
are much more numerous and extend nearly to the basal middle,
the dorsal line is obsolete, &e.
[This is a variety of Bradycellus rupestris ante, 505.—LEc.]
ACUPALPUS Latr., Dej.
1. A. PARTIARIUS Say, (Trechus) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—
Since described by Dejean under the name of festaceus. I
have recently received a specimen from Louisiana, for which I
am indebted to Mr. J. Barabino. [Ante, 504.] [435]
2. A .coONJUNCTUS Say, (Trechus) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—
Since described by Dejean under the name of mise/lus.
3. A. RUPESTRIS Say, (Trechus) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—
Since described by Dejean under the name of ¢antillus. [Ante,
505. ]
4. A. DEBILIPES.—Piceous black ; base of the antenne and
feet pale yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body very dark piceous, almost black; head impunctured ;
between the antennz on each side a dilated very obvious inden-
tation ; antenne brown, three basal joints yellowish ; mandibles
at tip black ; palpi yellowish, rather pale; thorax widest before
the middle, gradually narrowed, by a regular arquation of the
edge, to the base; basal angle obtusely rounded; anterior and
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posterior margins on their middles obviously piceous ; dorsal
line well impressed, very distinct, not abbreviated; anterior
transverse line obvious in all its length, arquated; basal lines
dilated, orbicular, obvious, with a few, small, sparse punctures
within or rather near the base; elytra with slender striz ; inter-
stitial spaces flat, third with a puncture between the middle and
tip ; marginal and sutural edges towards their tips piceous ; rudi-
mental stria none, but instead of it is a puncture at base of the
second stria; feet pale yellow.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
[Unknown to me.—LEc. ]
5. A. oBsoLETUS.—Dark piceous; striz of the elytra obso-
lete.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body dark piceous, impunctured ; antennze, labrum and palpi
honey-yellow ; thorax with pale piceous anterior and basal mar-
gins ; lateral margin with eight or nine hairs ; dorsal line almost
obsolete ; basal impressions dilated, oval; elytra with the basal,
exterior and apical margins paler piceous ; strize obsolete, except-
ing the subsutural and lateral ones ; a series of large punctures
behind the middle of the exterior margin; feet pale honey-yel-
low.
Length one-fifth of an inch. * [436]
BEMBIDIUM Latr.
1. B. 1nmQuate Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Se. Vol. 3, p. 151.—
Very closely allied to paludosum, Panz., and may possibly be
only a variety of that European species, nevertheless it is some-
what smaller, the thoracic impressed lines are more distinct, par-
ticularly the transverse basal one, and the strize of the elytra are
more dilated and the punctures more obyious. As it is the
* Count Dejean has done me the favor to send me the four volumes
of his ‘‘ Species des Coleopteres,’”? which have now been published.
This work is indispensable to all those who study the Coleoptera. It
contains the descriptions of a great number of North American species,
and has greatly facilitated my examination of the insects described in
the preceding part of this paper.
1834.]
550 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
analogue of paludosum, it belongs to the genns Bembidium, as
at present restricted.
2. B. HonestuM Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soec.—When de-
seribing this species I stated that the elytral strie are “not ob-
solete behind.” This may be corrected by substituting the phrase
“almost obsolete behind.’ The punctures of the strie are large
and obvious at base, but are obsolete, or rather entirely wanting
on the posterior third. The exterior margin and epipleura are
blackish green.
3. b. PUNCTATOSTRIATUM Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—
The posterior angles of the thorax are very acute; the basal and
anterior margins are slightly longitudinally wrinkled, the dorsal
line transversely wrinkled on its margins, and the basal lines are
obliquely wrinkled; the sides of the thorax are also somewhat
undulatedly wrinkled. The third interstitial space is much wider
than the others, and the posterior punctures is much nearer to
the anterior puncture than to the tips.
4. B. Lavicatum Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—The basal
thoracic lines are much dilated.
d. B. coxenprx Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Se. 3, 151.—An-
tennee with three basal joints and base of the fourth pale yellow-
ish ; palpi (in the dry state) pale yellowish, dusky at tip; face
with an impressed line each side; vertex longitudinally wrinkled ;
surface somewhat wrinkled transversely and at base longitudi-
nally ; basal indentations dilated, minutely rugose; elytra with
the anterior and posterior discs obscurely testaceous. I am not
so fortunate as to possess definitions of the several genera into
which this genus, as originally constructed by Latreille, has been
recently divided; but I rather think, by analogy, that the pre-
sent species is a Peryphus Mee. ‘
[This variety, if it be so, was previously described by Dejean
as B. nitidulum.—L«xo.] [437]
6. B. porsALE Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—This species
varies considerably. The dorsal line is more or less obvious, and
sometimes rather deeply impressed. In one specimen is a slight
appearance of puncturing on the middle of the thoracic base.
The thorax is more or less engraved with undulated lines, which
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ate sometimes almost imperceptible. Perhaps a Notaphus of
Meg.
7. B. rerracotum Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Allied
most closely to Peryphus rupestris Illig., than which it is some-
what larger.
8. B. posrREMUM.—Blackish ; elytra brownish, obscure yel-
lowish at tip.
TInhabits Pennsylvania.
Head greenish-black ; face with an indented line each side,
between which and the eye is a large orbicular puncture; an-
tennz fuscous, piceous at base; palpi dark honey-yellow; mandibles
at base piceous; thorax bronze black, very obscurely piceous on
the middle of the anterior margin ; contracted behind ; posterior
angles obtuse angular ; dorsal line impressed ; anterior transverse
very obvious, arquated; basal line dilated, suborbicular; basal
margin with slight inequalities or punctures between the basal
lines; a slightly elevated line on the lateral margin, forming a
groove with the slightly elevated edge, more obvious near the
angle, and becoming obsolete before ; elytra very dark honey-yel-
low or brownish, much paler at tip; strize somewhat dilated, and
with dilated, quadrate, profound punctures; striz more slightly
impressed towards the tip, and the punctures obsolete ; third in-
terstitial space a little broader than the others, with a puncture
before the middle and another equidistant behind the middle,
both nearer the third stria ; wings perfect ; beneath black ; abdo-
men tinged with piceous; feet pale yellowish.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Resembles tetracolum Say, but the elytral striz are more di-
lated, the punctures of the third interstitial space are more an-
terior, and the posterior pale spot of the elytra is quite terminal.
Belongs to the genus Peryphus Meg.
[Afterwards described as Peryphus scopulinus Kirby.—Lec.]
9. B. NIGRUM Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—The striz are
go much dilated that no punctures are visible on the third inter-
stitial space.
10. B. stcrnnare.—Cupreous ; elytra with two dilated, sub-
quadrate green spots on each ; fourth stria rectilinear.
Inhabits Missouri. [438 ]
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552 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Body bronzed cupreous, somewhat polished; head greenish each
side and before ; an impressed line near the eye, between which
and the eye is a dilated puncture; antennz blackish-green, first
joint beneath piceous; palpi black piceous, tinged with green ;
thorax rather broader behind than before ; posterior angles acute ;
lateral edge excurved behind ; dorsal line distinct, but not deeply
impressed, not abbreviated; basal lines dilated; elytra with
punctured striz, punctures almost obsolete towards the tip;
fourth stria not undulated; third interstitial space as broad as
the seventh and with two dilated impressed subquadrate spots,
green, and including each a puncture, and placed near the mid-
dle; beneath dark green; feet blackish green; tibize and base of
the thighs piceous greenish.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
I obtained this species during the journey of Major Long’s
party to the Rocky Mountains. It is very distinct from the i-
equale Say, which it somewhat resembles by many characters.
That of the rectilinear fourth stria of the elytra is an obvious
one.
[Apparently not different from B. punctato-striatum.—LEC. ]
11. B. semirasciatuM.—Greenish-black ; elytra each with
four spots ; third interstitial space two-punctured.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head metallic green; two impressed lines between the an-
tenne very distinct; antenne dull piceous; labrum and palpi
blackish ; thorax metallic green with a slight tinge of cupreous ;
dorsal line slender; lateral indentation of the base obvious,
bounded near the angle by a carinate, abbreviated line; lateral
edge with a hair rather before the middle, and another at the
posterior angle, not arquated from behind the middle to the basal
angle; elytra, blackish, with a slight cupreous tinge, with well
impressed punctured strize, distinct to the tip; interstitial lines
depressed, plane ; third line with a transverse indentation before
the middle and a less distinct one behind the middle ; a duil honey-
yellow dot on the middle of the base, a semifascia before the
middle, another behind the middle, and an irregular apical spot ;
beneath black ; feet piceous.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
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Resembles NV. ustulatus Fabr., and therefore probably is a No-
taphus Meg.
12. B. oppostruM Say.—Resembles the maculatum Gyll., and
probably [439] belongs to Zopha. The sutural stria is impressed
from the middle of the tip. It is somewhat bronzed.
15. B. ppHrppratuM.—Pale testaceous ; elytra with punctured
striz and a large common blackish spot.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body pale testaceous or honey-yellow ; antenng paler than the
head, a little darker towards the tip; palpi color of the antenna ;
thorax widest before the middle, gradually contracting by an al-
most rectilinear, but hardly perceptible concave line, to the basal
angle, which is rectangular; dorsal line but slightly impressed,
obsolete before ; basal lines hardly distinct from the depressed
basal margin, which is minutely wrinkled ; elytra with impressed,
punctured strize, obsolete at tip; seventh stria wanting; third in-
terstitial line with two small orbicular punctures, one before the
middle and the other a little behind the middle; a very large
common blackish spot on the middle, within which the suture is
reddish-brown ; suture behind the spot blackish ; a small, obso-
lete blackish spot at the base each side of the scutel; feet pale
yellowish.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
At first view it resembles proximum Say, both as respects size
and color, but it may be distinguished by many characters, of
which the punctured stri@ is one.
[The type of Pericompsus Lec.—UeEc. ]
14. B. rrarpuncratumM.—Piceous; elytra with five abbreviated
strize ; thorax three-punctured between the dilated basal lines.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body piceous ; head and thorax darker ; antenne light brown-
ish, paler at base; palpi pale yellowish ; thorax with the dorsal
line distinct, terminating on the basal margin in an impressed
puncture, on each side of which is another rather smaller pune-
ture; basal lines much dilated, deeply undulating the posterior
edge of the thorax; elytra with about five rather obtuse
strize, not extending to the tip or base; sides destitute of striae
1834.]
554 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
excepting a marginal interrupted one; an indentation each side
of the scutel and on the humerus.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
The dilated basal thoracic lines deeply indenting the posterior
edge, together with the three intervening punctures will readily
distinguish [440] this species. At first view it resembles B.
flavicaude Say, but is more highly polished.
[Belongs to Tachys.—Lxc.]
15. B. 1ncurvumM.—Piceous ; elytra with a honey-yellow vitta
from the humerus, a little dilated at its termination before the
tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body piceous ; head blackish-piceous ; antennze honey-yellow ;
thorax a little contracted gradually to the base ; dorsal line slen-
der and slightly impressed ; basal transverse line deeply impressed,
with numerous minute wrinkles ; basal lines dilated, undulating
the posterior edge ; elytra polished, with a profoundly impressed,
somewhat dilated, simple, sutural strixe; the second stria obso-
lete ; an interrupted stria on the lateral margin ; a dilated inden-
tation each side of the scutel, and a smaller one on the humerus;
a dilated vitta from the humerus, near its tip, curves a little to-
wards the suture; and is in that part a little more dilated ; venter
black piceous; feet honey-yellow.
Length over four-fiftieths of an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but is destitute of the three punctures
at the base of the thorax, and with that species belongs probably
to Peryphus Meg.
Of the genus Bembidium Latr. I have twenty-two described
species natives of North America.
[Also a Tachys.—Lxc.]
DYTISCUS Linn. Latr.
1. D. conriurns.—Blackish-brown margined with honey-yel-
low ; four exterior grooves of the elytra nearly or quite gemi-
nately confluent at tip.
Inhabits Maine.
Body blackish-brown with a green reflection, covered above
with minute punctures ; head dark green, with a frontal rufous
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semicircle, divaricating at its anterior tips into a more dilated
spot between the canthus of the eye and the nasus, which is yel-
lowish, excepting the anterior edge ; above the nasus a transverse
impressed line, ending each side in a more dilated spot ; thorax
margined all around with honey-yellow ; anterior margin with a
somewhat double line, of which the posterior one is obsolete ;
posterior margin with the yellow color, near the lateral angles,
contracted or almost obsolete; elytra with [441] about ten
grooves which extend three-fourths the distance to the tip, the
four exterior interstitial spaces confluent, or nearly so, by twos;
lateral margin not dilated, honey-yellow with an obsolete branch
towards the tip, proceeding obliquely to the suture; beneath
honey-yellow, sutures more or less margined with black.
Length one inch and a half.
This fine large species was sent me by Dr. EH. Holmes of the
Gardiner Lyceum, together with many other interesting objects
of natural history. It is more than double the size of D. fasct-
ventris Say, and may also be distinguished from that species
by the confluent termination of the four exterior grooves of the
elytra in the female. It is less dilated than the Jatissimus Fabr.,
and is destitute of the wide elytral margin.
[Afterwards described as D. Ooligbukii Kirby.—Lec.]
2. D. HaBILis.—Blackish-olivaceous; thorax and elytra mar-
gined with yellow ; elytra with three series of punctures.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body oval; above with minute, distant punctures; head with
a frontal rufous angular line or semicircle, divaricating at its an-
terior tips into a more dilated spot between the canthus of the
eye and the nasus, which is yellow, excepting the anterior edge ;
above the nasus on each side is an orbicular, punctured indenta-
tion; front each side at the eye with an indented, punctured
line; thorax with a broad yellow margin ; dorsal line acute, dis-
tinct, not extending upon the margins ; a line of impressed punc-
tures on the anterior margin interrupted in the middle ; lateral
margin not at all depressed ; scutel honey-yellow on the poste-
rior submargin ; elytra with three series of impressed punctures ;
the exterior series less distinct ; general puncturation near the tip
much larger and more obvious; posterior margin yellowish with
1834.]
556 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
an obsolete undulated branch proceeding obliquely towards the
tip ; beneath varied with blackish, piceous and yellow.
Length one inch.
A male of this species was taken by William Bennett in the
river beyond Vera Cruz, and, together with the two following,
presented to me by Mr. William Maclure. It is allied to the
D. marginalis, F., but that species in form approaches the ovate ;
the present also is much smaller and oval. [442]
3. D. BIMARGINATUS.—Black ; head and thorax rufous ; elytra
with a yellow vitta on the lateral submargin.
Inhabits Louisiana.
Body oval, blackish ; head honey-yellow, posteriorly black ;
palpi and antennz yellowish; thorax honey-yellow ; posterior
margin black, which is more dilated on the middle half; elytra
with three series of distant slight punctures; on the lateral sub-
margin a yellow vitta, which passes a short distance on the hu-
meral base, and posteriorly diverges a little from the margin,
attenuates, and does not reach the tip; margin and epipleura
dull rufous, not reaching the tip; beneath piceous-black ; pectus
and anterior feet yellowish ; terminal joints of the tarsi piceous ;
posterior pairs of feet piceous ; intermediate thighs dull yellow;
venter each side with obsolete piceous spots.
Length less than half an inch.
For this species I am indebted to the politeness of Mr. J. Bar-
abino, who sent it to me from New Orleans.
[Afterwards described as Hydaticus fulvicollis Aubé.—Lxc.
COLYMBETES Clairv.
1. C. ranrouts Say, (Dytiscus) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—In
Mexico is a variety, being smaller. The specimen is a male, and
proves that the species must be placed in the present genus. It
was taken in the river beyond Vera Cruz.
2. C. GUTTICOLLIS.—Thorax yellowish with four black spots ;
head black, anteriorly and band of the vertex yellow.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head black; a transverse yellowish band between the nearest
points of the eyes ; a dilated yellowish triangle occupying all the
anterior part of the head, the apex being at the middle of the
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face; antenne and palpi honey-yellow, dusky at their tips; tho-
rax honey-yellow, anterior margin blackish ; posterior margin
dusky ; four large black spots in a transverse series, the two in-
termediate ones nearer together ; elytra honey-yellow with minute
black points more or less crowded so as to give a dusky, sometimes
almost blackish appearance ; lateral margin destitute of black
punctures, but with a black line on the posterior curvature ; at
base, particularly the humeral base, destitute of the black punc-
tures ; three regular series of small black dots; beneath black;
[443] pectus, feet and epipleura yellowish.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
Taken in the river beyond Vera Cruz.
It is about the size of the C. adspersus F., which it consider-
ably resembles, if we except the thoracic black dots.
3. C. FENESTRALIS Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Since de.
scribed by Germar under the name of biguttulus Sp. Insect., p.
29. 4
4. C. InTERROGATUS Fabr., Syst. Eleut. C. venustus Say,
Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—When describing this species I stated
that it “ may probably prove to be the interrogatus of Fabricius.”
Of this I have now so little doubt, that I venture to reject the
name I then provisionally gave, and to adopt the true or ante-
rior name. Dejean is also of the opinion that it is the interroga-
tus F. Sturm, however, considers it distinct.
[Ante, 512. Belongs to Coptotomus——Lxc.]
COPTOTOMUS Say.
Tarsi distinctly five-jointed ; basal joints of the anterior pair
of the male subequally dilated or gradually tapering ; posterior
nails pressed together and apparently single; posterior feet
natatory, base of the thighs naked; antenne eleven-jointed,
at least as long as the head and thorax, filiform; scutel distinct;
terminal joint of the palpi somewhat compressed at tip and emar-
ginate.
Obs. This genus differs from other genera of this family in
the character of the emarginate palpi, excepting the genus Note-
rus, which is destitute of an apparent scutel and the emargina-
1834.]
558 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
tion of the palpi is confined to the labial. The name is derived
from the words copto, I cut, and tome, joint or articulation, in al-
lusion to the form of the palpi.
C. sERRIPALPUS,—Yellowish; elytra brownish varied with
whitish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body oblong-oval, honey-yellow; head black on the posterior
margin ; labial palpi with the penultimate joint crenate or bitu-
berculate before; thorax on the middle of the anterior and pos-
terior margins broadly black ; elytra brownish, with very numer-
rous, minute honey-yellow [444] points; two very slightly im-
pressed strive, with punctures hardly distinguishable from minute
inequalities of the surface, and an indistinct part of a series of
hardly impressed punctures each side; from the base near the
scutel proceeds a whitish broad vitta one-fifth of the length of
the elytra, bifid at tip; from the humeral base to the tip, pro-
ceeds a broad, interrupted and somewhat irregular vitta also whit-
ish ; venter piceous.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
This insect was obtained on the estate of the Conde del Regla
about 10 leagues N. E. of the city of Mexico, by William Ben-
nett, and presented tome by Mr. William Maclure. It cannot
be the Dytiscus ctreumscriptus, Germ., which is “ breviter ovali.”
LACCOPHILUS Leach.
L. MACULOSUS Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.--Since described,
by Germar, also under the name of maculosus, Sp. Gen., p. 30.
HYPHYDRUS Latr.
H. puncratus Say, (Laccophilus) Journal of the Acad. Nat.
Science.
[Ante, 1,178. Belongs to Hydroporus.—Lxc. ]
HYDROPORUS Clairv.
1. H. Birrpus.—Elytra with a subsutural, impressed, punc-
tured stria.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black ; head with much dilated indentations between the
eyes ; a longitudinal honey-yellow line, more dilated before ; an-
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tennz yellowish, dusky at tip; thorax witha submarginal honey-
yellow band before having three processes, one in the middle, and
one, rather more dilated, on the lateral margin, not reaching the
posterior edge ; elytra with a very distinct, punctured, impressed ,
subsutural stria, and about two other hardly obvious ones near the
middle: bifid yellowish lines at base near the tip; feet dark
honey-yellow.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
This species and the two following were taken by William
Bennett in a small river beyond Vera Cruz, and were presented
to me by Mr. Maclure.
2. H. Nupatus.—Beneath black ; feet yellowish ; thorax and
head [445] on their disks yellowish ; elytra blackish with lines
and tip yellowish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head with numerous deep punctures, honey-yellow on the disk,
blackish each side and behind ; antennz pale yellowish, dusky at
tip; thorax with numerous deep punctures, more dense and ob-
vious towards the base, honey-yellow, anterior and posterior mar-
gins dusky; elytra brownish black, with numerous, profound,
approximate punctures ; strize not distinct, but traces of two may
be discovered near the base; about four more or less confluent
lines at base, irregular ones each side and tip dull whitish-yellow ;
beneath black, pectus yellow ; feet honey-yellow.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
3. H. sericatus.—Yellowish ; elytra blackish with abbre-
viated lines and margin dull yellowish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Dull honey-yellow, somewhat sericeous above; head with a
dilated, not profound, indentation each side, and numerous small!
punctures ; antennze also honey-yellow ; thorax a little dusky on
the anterior and posterior margins, with numerous, small, slightly
impressed punctures; elytra dark brownish, almost black, more
obviously sericeous than the thorax ; striz none; lateral margin
dull honey, dilated near the base into a band of about four ab-
breviated, unequal, longitudinal lines, excepting the inner one,
not reaching the base, another somewhat similar band behind
the middle and slight double dilatation at tip of the same color.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
1834.]
560 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
This species was obtained in the same locality with the pre-
ceding. It is closely allied to undulatus Say, but is more serice-
ous, the elytral lines are not so dilated or confluent, &e.
4. H. inreRRuptTuS.—Black ; feet, frontal line, three thoracie¢
spots, and many elytral abbreviated lines yellowish.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body blackish ; head with a slight piceous tinge; an anterior
honey-yellow triangular spot, the superior angle near the vertex ;
antennee pale yellow, dusky at tip; thorax obsoletely tinged with
piceous ; a lateral irregular spot, and a dorsal, longitudinal, some-
what fusiform one, honey-yellow; elytra with an oblique im-
pressed line at the inner angles, a slightly impressed subsutural
strize, and an obsolete one on each side of the middle; lateral
margin with two slender oblique branches before [446] the
middle, slender subsutural vitta exterior to the stria, interrupted
line or two along the middle, a small spot behind near the middle
and about two transverse series or two or three short lines, dull
honey-yellow ; beneath black ; pectus, feet and epipleura yel-
lowish.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
[Ante, 99,916. Identical with HZ. parallelus and H. catasco-
pium.—LeEc. ]
5. H. piscrcottis.—Reddish brown, somewhat sericeous,
minutely punctured, middle of the thorax without punctures.
Inhabits North-west Territory.
Body entirely dark reddish brown, with minute punctures ;
head —; thorax with the disk impunctured, polished and
a little more convex; elytra darker than the thorax, more obyi-
ously sericeous ; lateral margin a little paler ; spot at the tip dull
yellowish ; postpectus black piceous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
T obtained an individual of this species during Long’s Expedi-
tion to the source of St. Peter’s river, and although it is now
mutilated, yet I have no hesitation in giving it as distinet from
any other I am acquainted with.
[Dr. Harris regarded this as the species afterwards described
as H. dichrous Mels.; the description seems to me too indefinite
for accurate determination.—Lec.]
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HALIPLUS Latr.
H. 12-puncotatus Say.—Some specimens were found in
Mexico, in the locality above mentioned, by William Bennett,
and presented to me by Mr. William Maclure. They vary a little
from those of this region in being very slightly more elongated
and larger; but the spots, their arrangement and the sculpture,
appear to be precisely the same. ‘The species is therefore found
over the greater part of North America east of the Rocky
Mountains.
NOTERUS Latr.
N. sicotor.—Honey-yellow ; elytra black, punctured.
Inhabits Louisiana.
Head and thorax honey-yellow ; eyes black ; palpi not deeply
emarginate ; elytra black, punctured; at tip obsoletely piceous,
very obliquely and slightly truncate ; acute; beneath honey-yel-
low, or piceous.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
For this species I am indebted to Mr. Barabino.
[Afterwards described as Suphis gibbulus Aubé.—Lec.]
HYDROCANTHUS Say. [447]
H. atTripENnNis.—Ferruginous ; black.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head and thorax ferruginous ; the former with an oblong tri-
angular, obsolete, darker spot between the eyes, and the latter
with an impressed line on the lateral submargin ; elytra blue-
black, immaculate, impunctured ; pectus, as well as the head be-
neath, dull yellowish ; sternum flat, at its anterior tip acute, but
not prominent, dusky; postpectus blackish, dull yellow at tip;
feet, intermediate and posterior pairs blackish, slightly varied
with piceous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
This is the second species of this genus; the first I published
in the Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. vol. 2, new series. The genus
is allied to Noterus Latr., but the labial palpi are much more di-
lated, and have no appearance of emargination.
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562 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
GYRINUS Linn.
1. G. EMARGINATUS Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Since
described by Germar under the name of vittatus, Spec. Nov.
2. G. ANALIS Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.—Germar is of
opinion that this is the same as natator F.; but on comparison, I
find it to differ in many small characters, the most obvious one
of which is the color of the epipleura, that of the natator being
light piceous, whilst in the analis it is of a bronzed black, &e.
It is no doubt a closely allied species.
3. G. optusus.—Black ; feet honey-yellow ; behind obtuse.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, polished; head with two indented dots between
the eyes; mouth piceous; antennz piceous-black ; thorax with
the anterior lateral, posterior lateral and medial impressed lines
very distinct; elytra obtuse behind and widely truncate; near
the tip obviously depressed ; punctures well impressed, in regu-
lar series, the intervals not impressed; beneath dark piceous,
somewhat paler on the edges of the segments; feet and tip of
the venter honey-yellow.
Length over one-fifth of an inch. [448 }
It may be distinguished from the analis and himbatus nob.,
and from the natator Fabr., and marinus Gyl., in being more ob-
tuse behind and the consequent greater truncation of the elytra.
4, G. parcus.—Black ; feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body rather robust, black, highly polished ; head with two in-
dented, oblique lines between and before the eyes: thorax with
the impressed lines very obvious; elytra with very distinct, well
impressed series of punctures, the intervals not at all impressed ;
tips obtusely rounded ; feet honey-yellow.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
In comparison with minutus Fabr. this species is a little longer
and much more robust, more highly polished, and the impressed
lines of the thorax and dots of the elytra are more profound and
distinct. It is somewhat smaller than either of those I have
before described, and the punctures of the elytra are, notwith-
standing, larger.
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STAPHYLINUS Linn. Gray.
1. S. epnrepratus.—Black ; elytra rufous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, polished ; head with a longitudinal, impressed line
between the eyes ; superior orbits with three or four punctures,
above these a lateral series of four or five punctures, and two or
three insulated ones, and at base each side a transverse series of
four or five punctures; antennz, terminal joint obliquely trun-
cate; thorax semioval with a few scattered punctures each side,
an abbreviated dorsal series of four or five punctures not extend-
ing on the posterior third of the length of the thorax ; scutel
densely punctured, black; elytra cinnamon-rufous, with very
numerous small hairs and slightly impressed punctures ; tergum
a little hairy, deep blackish-blue, iridescent; palpi ELE
Length over half an inch.
This and the following species belong to Family Ist of
Gravenh. Monogr.
[A species of Belonuchus, which I found at San Diego, Cali-
fornia, under dead Opuntia leaves.—LEC. |
2. S. connexus.—Black ; elytra and feet rufous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, polished; head with punctured orbits and a few
scattered punctures each side; palpi piceous black; a deep and
wide indentation between the antenna, on each side of which
above is a single puncture ; thorax with a series of about five
large dorsal punctures [ 449] and a few scattered lateral ones ;
antennge cinnamon rufous, with very short hair and minute punc-
tures; feet color of the elytra.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but the feet are rufous, and the
tergum is simply black; the clypeus is a little advanced in the
middle. Fam. Ist.
3. S. rracunDUS.—Black ; elytra rufous ; dorsal thoracic punc-
tures three.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head with an orbital puncture and three occipital punctures, of
1834.]
564 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
which the anterior one is near the eye and larger; antennz
piceous; flagellum fuscous; the joints a little broader than long;
terminal joint with the apex rather prominent; mouth dull
piceous; occiput with numerous small punctures; thorax with
three small dorsal punctures, not reaching the middle of the length;
lateral punctures about five, the second and fifth placed a little
above the straight line ; marginal punctures two or three ; towards
the anterior angles are numerous obsolete discoidal punctures,
visible with a strong power; scutel glabrous, black ; elytra rufous,
densely punctured, with short prostrate hairs ; tergum at tip slightly
tinged with piceous; tibie, tarsi and posterior margins of the
ventral segments piceous.
Length over seven-twentieths of an inch.
This species seems to have some relation to the /aticollis Grav., ©
but the thorax is less dilated, the lateral puncturations are much
more numerous; the elytra are of a different color, &c. Fam. Ist.
[Belongs to Quedius, considered by Erichson as a variety of Q.
fulgidus.—Lxc. |
4. S. BLANDUS Gray.—The reddish color of this handsome
insect is of a tint approaching sanguineous.
Gravenhorst had probably old specimens, of which the color
had faded. He describes the feet as “ rufo testacei,” but in my
specimens the tibia and tarsi are piceous. He says “ coleoptera
depilia,” but my specimens certainly have prostrate hairs on the
elytra as well as on the seutel. If this is not in reality Graven-
horst’s species, it differs in the exceptions I have stated, and can
be called /xtulus. Fam. Ist.
[Belongs to Philonthus.—Lxc. }
5. S. Inversus.—Black; dorsal thoracic punctures three.
Inhabits Indiana. [ 450]
Head with an orbital puncture, and another above the eye;
mouth and antennez piceous; joints of the flagellum rather trans-
verse, point of the last joint not prominent; thorax a little nar-
rowed before; dorsal punctures three, the series nearer each other
at tip than near the head and hardly reaching the middle of the
length ; lateral two remote, with a single puncture midway be-
tween the second and the dorsal series; marginal one; scutel
glabrous, impunctured ; elytra on the disk with but very few hairs ;
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punctures few, distant, almost to be traced into obsolete Series ;
laterally with small punctures, furnishing short hairs; tergum in
some lights slightly iridescent towards the tip; beneath very ob-
scurely piceous ; feet piceous.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
The two dorsal series of punctures in other species diverge a
little posteriorly, but in the present species they evidently approach
towards their posterior termination. Fam. Ist.
[Considered by Erichson as Quedius capucinus.—LEc.]
6. S. prmip1aTus.—Blackish ; elytra and margins of abdominal
segments reddish-brown ; feet pale.
Inhabits United States.
Body piceous black ; head oval black, with two punctures be-
tween the eyes, two punctures on the posterior canthus and five
or six behind; mouth piceous; antenne, first and second joints
and part of the third yellowish, or reddish-brown, more or less
pale ; thorax black, with a tinge of piceous; dorsal series five,
and an equal puncture more distant than the others, near, the
anterior margin, and a little exterior to the line of the series;
lateral punctures two, or in a much curved line three; marginal
two; elytra reddish-brown, with prostrate hairs; abdomen, seg-
ments reddish-brown on their posterior margins; feet yellowish,
or pale reddish-brown.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
I have found specimens in Pennsylvania and Missouri. The
reddish-brown color of the posterior margins of the abdomen is
obvious beneath. Fam. Ist.
[A Philonthus, probably the same as the Kuropean P. ventralis.
—Lec.]
7. S. TACHINIFORMIs.—Black ; thorax sanguineous; feet piceous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black ; head rather small, oval, polished ; with two punc-
tures [ 451] each side between the eyes, and eight or ten behind
the eyes ; antennz fuscous, dark piceous at base ; mouth piceous;
thorax sanguineous ; dorsal punctures five, distant from the base
and tip; lateral two; marginal three, placed triangularly ; elytra
with a slight, obscure metallic tinge, with numerous minute punc-
1834.]
566 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
tures furnishing prostrate hairs; feet honey-yellow ; posterior pair
and tibize and tarsi darker.
Length one-fourth of an inch. Fam. Ist.
8. S. aprcraLis.—Black ; terminal joint of the antenne and
abdomen towards the tip, rufous.
Inhabits the United States.
Body black, polished, punctured; head with numerous pune-
tures, smooth in the middle; antenne with the terminal joint
yellowish-rufous; mandibles piceous; palpi with the terminal
joint rather long, slender, piceous; thorax with numerous not
crowded punctures, with a longitudinal, dilated, glabrous line ;
scutel, punctures minute, dense; elytra with a subsutural line
and numerous small punctures furnishing hairs ; abdomen towards
the tip dull rufous ; feet piceous-black.
Length nearly two-fifths of an inch. Fam. 3d.
[Afterwards described as Philonthus hematurus Er.—L«Ec. }
9. S. CYANIPENNIS Fabr.—The allied species of the United
States was considered by Gravenhorst as a variety only of the
European species. I have not at present in my collection the
true cyanipennis of Europe to compare, but as Gravenhorst mentions
a difference in the size of the head, it may yet prove to be a dis-
tinct species, and, if so, the name proposed by Knoch, S. ceyanop-
terus, will be an appropriate one. Fam Ist.
[Also a Philonthus.—LEc. }
10. S. vipvatus F.—This name has the priority over that of
maculosus Gray. Belongs to Family 4. It is singular that Gra-
venhorst, in his revised work the ‘‘ Monographia,” quotes the
proper name of this insect and yet retains the synonym of macu-
dosus as the true name, although it was given by himself a year
after the Fabrician name.
11. 8. vionacrus Grav.—This species is subject to vary con-
siderably ; the “linea media longitudinali levi” of the head is
very commonly obliterated by punctures, and there exists a variety,
of which the elytra are tinged with greenish, or are dusky brassy.
Belongs to Fam. 3.
12. S. umBRATILIS Gravy.—My specimens, five in number,
have about [452] five punctures in the dorsal series, neither of
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them has four only as stated in the description. Belongs to Fam.
Ist.
13. S. ATER Grav.—-In my cabinet I find that I formerly
placed this species under the genus Astrapxus Gray., from the
circumstance that the terminal joints of the palpi are more dilated
than in any other species of Staphylinus, that I am acquainted
with. The terminal joint of the maxillary palpi, is not longer
than the penultimate one, and the diameter is nearly, if not quite
as great; the terminal joint of the labial palpi is very obviously,
dilated, oval, and its transverse diameter is nearly double that of
the last joint of the maxillaries. Still, however, as neither of
these joints can be called securiform, agreeably to the essential
characters of Astrapzus, we must agree with Gravenhorst, and
return the species to his third family of Staphylinus, from which
it certainly differs in the characters above stated.
[Belongs to Ocypus.—L«Ec. ]
XANTHOLINUS Dahl.
1. X. emMeEsus Gray., Coleopt. Micropt. 176, belongs to this
genus. It is subject to vary in its coloring; the abdomen is often
piceous, and sometimes even still paler.
2. X. CEPHALUS.—Black ; antennz reddish-brown ; elytra and
feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Virginia.
Body black, polished ; head elongated, sides parallel, punctured ;
punctures numerous and larger each side, excepting immediately
the line behind the eye obsolete on the longitudinal middle; a
larger puncture each side at base; and a slight longitudinal in-
dentation on the basal margin ; thorax as wide as the head ante-
riorly, becoming gradually a little narrower to the base; a dorsal
series of five or six punctures ; lateral four or five punctures; on
the anterior termination of this series a much dilated slight inden-
tation ; marginal puncture one; basal edge each side and lateral
edge with a series of punctures; elytra honey-yellow, irregularly
not profoundly punctured; pectus rufous; feet honey-yellow ;
abdomen piceous black.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
1834.]
568 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
The head is large, longer than the thorax. I obtained it on
Chinquoteage Island.
[Afterwards described as Gyrohypnus assimilis Kirby, G. con-
sentaneus Nordmann: X. Kiesenwetteri Sachse, Ent. Zeit. 1852,
126 does not appear to differ.—Lxc.] [453 ]
3. X. HAMATUS.—Piceous ; antenne, elytra and feet yellowish.
Inhabits the United States.
Head piceous-black, ovate, with sparse, profound punctures,
wanting on the longitudinal middle, and immediately in a line
behind the eye; antennz reddish-brown, paler at base ; palpi pale
reddish-brown ; thorax rufo-piceous, not distinctly contracted be-
hind; dorsal punctures about ten, with an anterior, nearly paral-
lel, exterior series of about four; lateral series ten or twelve
punctured, extending to the locality of the posterior angle, and
at its anterior extremity curved outward and backward with four
or five additional punctures; elytra honey-yellow, sparsely and
irregularly punctured; a somewhat elevated line on-the sutural
submargin ; feet dark honey-yellow.
Length about one-fourth of an inch.
Remarkable for the number of punctures in the thoracic series.
[Afterwards described by Erichson as X. obscurus.—LEc. ]
LATHROBIUM Gray.
1. L. SIMILIPENNE.—Black ; members rufous or yellowish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, polished, hairy, densely punctured ; antenne red-
dish-brown, first and second joints rufous; labrum and palpi
piceous ; thorax longer than broad, with a longitudinal glabrous
line in the middle and, a glabrous basal margin ; elytra, terminal
edge piceous ; tergum with more minute punctures ; more hairy
at tip; feet honey yellow; thighs pale yellow.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Like most of the species of this genus, the middle of the tho-
rax is destitute of punctures; in this character it also agrees
with Staphylinus violaceus Gray.
2. L. ARMATUM.—Anterior thighs dilated and angulated be-
neath.
Inhabits Indiana.
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Body black, punctured ; antenne piceous ; first joint obconie,
not longer than the second and third together, which are equal ;
4-10 joints moniliform ; last joint ovate acute ; palpi pale piceous ;
terminal joint minute, that of the labial longer; thorax oblong-
quadrate ; angles rounded ; glabrous line none; elytra black-pi-
ceous, punctures not [454] deeply impressed; sutural striae dis-
tinct ; feet rufous ; thighs robust, particularly the anterior, which
have a prominent angle beneath near the tip; tibix a little di-
lated and compressed, obliquely truncate at tip; anterior pair
with an obtuse sinus on the inner side; tarsi, first joint not
longer than the second; penultimate joint a little lobed beneath.
Length about seven-twentieths of an inch.
I have obtained but one specimen, which is a male. The
above description will show that it differs much from any known
species.
[Unknown to me.—LEc. ]
3. L. cinctumM.—Black, punctured ; antenne and mouth pi-
ceous ; feet yellowish ; posterior margins of the segments of the
abdomen rufous. ys
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, punctured, hairy ; head above, punctures dense,
distinct, profound, furnishing hair; on the front sparse, remote ;
antennz pale piceous, first joint nearly one third of the entire
lenggh, third joint rather longer than the second and with the
others obconic, two terminal ones subglobular; labrum very
short at tip, punctured and setous, emarginate in the middle ;
mandibles piceous, prominent, strongly dentate in the middle;
palpi, maxillary prominent, pale piceous, terminal joint conic
acute, as large at base as the preceding joint, labial pale testa-
ceous, minute, throat with an impressed convex line ; thorax ob-
long, not wider than the head, punctures numerous, profound,
furnishing hairs, angles rounded; scutel impunctured, elytra,
punctures somewhat transversely confluent, a little hairy ; feet
testaceous, thighs paler, anterior thighs near the tip abruptly
narrowed beneath, coxe piceous ; pectus impunctured ; postpectus
and abdomen densely and minutely punctured, punctures hairy;
segments of the latter with rufo-ferruginous posterior margins.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
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570 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Found near Engineer Cantonment on the Missouri.
[Afterwards described as Cryptobium latebricola Nordm.—
Lc. ]
4, L. BrcoLor Gray.—This is an abundant species, and widely
distributed. Nuttall gave me a specimen which he found in Ar-
kansaw ; I have taken them in Missouri, Pennsylvania, and very
commonly in this State. It varies considerably in its shades of
coloring. I have an individual of which the thorax is pale yel-
low. [455]
[Belongs to Cryptobium.—L«c. }
5. L. prmrpratuM.—Black ; thorax and posterior half of the
elytra rufous.
Inhabits the United States.
Black ; head with scattered punctures; antennze fuscous ; first
and second joints and palpi honey-yellow ; thorax bright rufous,
with a dorsal hardly regular stria of seven or eight punctures,
the stria somewhat impressed towards the base ; lateral punctures
many, not crowded ; elytra with one or two hardly regular striz
of punctures and lateral scattered punctures; an indented sub-
sutural line; bright rufous, the basal half black; tergum piceous
black ; segments dull rufous on their posterior margins ; feet pale
yellow.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Punctures of the thorax a little more regular and nu-
merous ; black portion of the elytra confined to the basal margin
and sometimes obsolete.
Punctured somewhat like /ongiusculum Grav., but is much
smaller and differently colored.
6. L. spH#RICOLLE.—Blackish ; thorax orbicular, convex ;
antennz long.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black piceous; head with the carina of the antennz a
little elevated, abrupt before; antennee much thicker towards
the tip, rather longer than to the base of the thorax, first joint
hardly longer than the second and third together ; fuscous, three
basal joints honey-yellow, fourth and terminal joints obscure
honey-yellow; larger joints hardly longer than broad, mandibles
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bifid at tip, and with the palpi piceous; neck distinct; thorax
nearly orbicular, a little wider before the middle and narrower
behind; convex, with sparse black hairs ; elytra with scattered
upright hairs; subsutural strize deeply indented, particularly to-
wards the base; tip truncate, not sinuate; taken together, trans-
verse quadrate ; tergum black; feet yellowish; thighs towards
the tip piceous.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
The labrum is longitudinally indented in the middle, and at tip
is widely, but not very deeply emarginate. The habit differs
from that of most of the species, and it cannot be, rigidly speak-
“ing, congeneric with bicolor and pallipes Grav. [456]
[Belongs to Apocellus.—Lec.]
It varies in having the feet entirely yellowish and the tips of
the carine of the head honey-yellow.
7. L. MILLEPUNCTATUM.—Piceous ; with dense, minute pune-
tures; thorax with a glabrous line, rounded behind.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body dull piceous, with very minute, crowded punctures and
small hairs; head larger than the thorax, black piceous, quad-
rate, almost lobed at the posterior angles; antennze and mouth
paler, rufous; thorax, as in Staphylinus, rounded behind and
truncate before; a dorsal, slender, glabrous line; elytra paler on
the humerus ; tergum dark piceous, posterior margins of the seg-
ments and lateral margin paler; beneath honey-yellow, head ru-
fous.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
The form of the thorax and head is that of a Staphylinus ;
which, together with the dense and minute puncturing, distin-
guish this species very readily from others.
[Belongs to Lithocharis, and previously described as Peederus
corticinus Gray.—LEc. ]
8. L. coONFLUENTUM [CONFLUENS.]—Piceous ; densely punc-
tured; thorax short, rounded behind and angulated before each
side; head large.
Inhabits the United States.
Body piceous; head with close set, discoidal punctures ; large,
ovate or subquadrate; tips of the carin of the antennx, base of
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572 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
the antenne and palpi paler; palpi with the terminal joint very
small ; antenne towards the tip moniliform ; thorax much smaller
than the head, paler on the lateral and posterior margins ; pune-
tures confluent longitudinally ; anterior margin with a short, ab-
rupt neck; anterior angles angulated; behind rounded; elytra
with small, irregular punctures, furnishing short hairs, almost
obsolete at tip; tip paler; feet honey-yellow.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
I obtained a few specimens at Chincoteague Island, in dung,
October ; and one in Indiana.
[Also a Lithocharis.—LEc. ]
PINOPHILUS Grav.
P. LATIPES Gray.—In his last work this author abolishes this
genus and unites the species with Lathobium. But I think with
Latreille, that it must be a distinct genus. [457 ]
P/AEDERUS Fabr.
1. P. piscopuncratus.—Yellowish ; abdomen black at tip.
Inhabits the United States.
Body elongated, dull honey-yellow, punctured; head with
close set, discoidal punctures; subquadrate, obtuse before ; an-
tennze and palpi paler than the head; thorax with discoidal
punctures ; which are close set and like those of the head with
a central point ; oval, rather smaller than the head ; edges a little
darker; elytra a little paler than the head and thorax, with
dense, transversely somewhat confluent punctures ; abdomen dark
honey-yellow, black at tip ; feet color of the elytra.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
Resembles P. binotatus Say, but may be distinguished at first
sight by the more obtuse anterior termination of the head, and
by the absence of the elytral spots, which mark that species.
[Belongs to Sunius, and was previously described as Pxederus
longiusculus Mann.—Lk«c. |
2. P. crncrus.—Black ; tips of the elytra obscure rufous.
Inhabits the United States.
Body elongated, black with a slight tinge of piceous, and with
discoidal punctures; head obtuse before; antenne and palpi
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honey-yellow ; thorax somewhat smaller than the head, a little
obovate, obscurely rufous behind; elytra obscure rufous at tip;
tergum, posterior margins of the segments dull rufous ; feet pale
honey -yellow.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch.
Resembles the preceding in form, and in the obtuse anterior
termination of the head.
[Probably the same with Sunius prolixus Er.—Lec. ]
RUGILUS Leach.
R. DENTATUS.—Black ; feet pale; elytra dull rufous at tip.
Inhabits United States.
Body piceous black ; head longitudinally wrinkled; antennz
and palpi piceous; labrum large, bidentate in the middle, pice-
ous, rounded each side; thorax smaller than the head, longi-
tudinally wrinkled, convex, with a longitudinal, glabrous line ;
elytra with numerous, minute, hairy punctures; a subsutural im-
pressed line ; posterior margin dull [ 458] rufous, or yellowish ;
feet pale yellowish.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Posterior margin nearly black towards the suture ;
glabrous thoracic line almost obsolete.
Much smaller than RP. orbiculatus Payk., and the wrinkles of
the head and thorax are larger and more obvious.
[Belongs to Stilicus—Lxc. ]
STENUS Latr.
1. S. GentcuLatus.—Black; antennz and feet whitish.
Inhabits United States.
Body black, with a very slight cinereous tinge ; deeply punc-
tured ; head with a wide, but not very deep indentation each
side of the middle; profoundly punctured; antennz whitish ;
anterior part of the head with short whitish hairs; thorax punc-
tured like the head ; elytra also with profound punctures ; tergum
a deeper black than the elytra; segments with large punctures
at base and small ones towards the tip; feet yellowish-white ;
posterior knees blackish.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
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574 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
This has been supposed to be the same as the fuscipes Grav.,
but it is much larger, with pale feet, &c.
[The name being preoccupied was changed by Hrichson to S.
flavicornis.—LECc. ]
2. S. coton.—Black ; elytra with a rufous dot; feet pale be-
neath.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with large, dense, not very profound punctures ;
elytra with the punctures towards the suture longitudinally con-
fluent ; a sublunate or triangular, dull rufous spot rather behind
the middle of each elytrum; tergum with the punctures not
smaller at the posterior margins of the segments ; feet dirty yel-
lowish ; thighs blackish above.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
Much like S. biguttatus Linn., but is much smaller, and the
spot of the elytra is placed rather more outward and backward,
and is more triangular and emarginate before.
3. S. sryarcus.—Grayish black, immaculate.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black, with a slight tint of gray; punctures dense, with
short, prostrate hairs; head obtusely indented each side between
the eyes ; [459] thorax broadest a little before the middle; ely-
tra, region of the scutel indented; tergum of a more unmixed
black than the anterior part of the body; feet immaculate.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch.
Resembles bupthalmus Sch., but may be distinguished by the
more obvious indentations of the head.
4. S. remorATUS.—Grayish black; thighs rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body black with a slight tinge of gray ; punctures dense, with
short, prostrate hairs; head obtusely indented each side between
the eyes; thorax broadest rather before the middle, contracted
behind; a slight appearance of indentation behind the middle ;
elytra, region of the scutel a little indented; tergum of a more
unmixed black than the other part of the body; anterior thighs
rufous, black at the knee ; posterior thighs obscure rufous.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
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5. S. QUADRIPUNCTATUS.—Black, punctured; thorax hexa-
gonal, inequal.
TInhabits Missouri.
Body deep black, immaculate, profoundly and densely pune-
tured ; mouth testaceous; palpi black; thorax hexagonal, the
lateral edge projecting into dn angle in the middle, disk with
four dilated, indented spots, placed in quincunx, with a slightly
elevated line between them, one or two obsolete, indented spots
near the lateral angle ; abdomen, pectus and postpectus impune-
tured, the former with short hairs; feet piceous.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
Found at Engineer Cantonment. It has a somewhat different
aspect from the preceding species. The eyes are not quite so
large, and the three last joints of the antenne are not so remark-
ably larger than the others.
OXYPORUS Fabr.
O. styeicus.—Black; tarsi rufous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished ; antennze 2—5 joints rufous; labrum ro-
fous ; palpi honey-yellow; thorax with the lateral deflected mar-
gin indented ; [ 460] elytra entirely black ; a subsutural striae,
and an abbreviated one on the middle, near which is another ob-
solete one, and many rather large distant punctures; exterior
margin impunctured ; feet blackish piceous ; tarsi pale rufous.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The thorax is somewhat longer than that of cinctus Grav.,
and the punctures of the elytra are more numerous.
OXYTELUS Grav.
1. QO. scuLprus.—Blackish ; five lined; elytral rufous; feet
pale.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body piceous-black, punctured ; head indented, with numer-
ous, small punctures above; mouth piceous; antennz fuscous,
piceous at base; thorax with five grooves, of which the exterior
ones are dilated and not deeply impressed ; densely punctured ;
anterior angles not acute; elytra dull rufous, with small hairy
punctures; a subsutural impressed line and another from the
1884.]
576 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
humerus not reaching the tip; tergum black with a piceous
tinge ; feet yellowish-white ; tibize and tarsi a little darker.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
Gravenhorst considered this insect as specifically identical
with his piceus, but in his remarks on that species he states that
“huic Oxytelo alius affinis est, quam D. Prof. Knoch O. sculptus
nuncupayit. Differt thorace lateribus subrotundatis, basin versus
paulo angustiore, coleoptris breviore et paulo angustiore, fusco
seu rufo; coleoptris quadratis, rufescentibus seu piceo-rufo.”
These differences of character indicate a difference of species.
It is the Aleochara sculpta of Melsheimer’s Catalogue.
2. O. RUGULOSUS.—Black; longitudinally wrinkled; elytra
obscure piceous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, rather short, with numerous punctures, somewhat
confluent into longitudinal wrinkles; head with three grooves,
rather slightly impressed, the lateral ones dilated; antenne
brown, dull honey-yellow at base; palpi dull honey-yellow ; tho-
rax with three grooves, of which the middle one is wider before
and the lateral ones wider behind; each side a little concave,
the edge slightly reflected: anterior [461 ] angles acute ; lateral
edge arquated; rounded behind; elytra transverse quadrate,
blackish piceous; tergum with dense minute punctures ; feet
honey-yellow.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
This does not altogether agree with the var. a. of the carinatus
of Gravenhorst, and to which he has given the name of insignitus.
The present species is proportionally much shorter than the car7-
natus. It is not more than half the length of that species. It
is more than probable that the insignitus is also a distinct
species.
I obtained three specimens of the rugulosus in Mexico.
{According to Erichson is the European O. nitidulus—LEo.]
3. QO. corpAtus.—Black ; elytra whitish, with a common
brown spot.
Inhabits Virginia.
Body black, with numerous small punctures; mandibles pice-
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ous ; antenne pale, towards the tip brownish; thorax, angles
almost rounded ; elytra yellowish white, with a common fuligin-
ous disk; feet yellowish white ; tibiz and tarsi darker.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
This occurred extremely numerous, in October, under the sur-
face of the sand in flat places on the sea beach, over which the
high tides flow. When the water subsides, their labors become
visible. They proceed forwards a little beneath the surface in a
very irregular line, casting up the sand so as to resemble a
miniature mole tunnel.
On the wet or partially dry plain, their tunnels, though very
small, are yet very striking to the eye, in consequence of their
great abundance, and being drier and whiter than the general
surface. They appear to be in search of the various minute
crustaceous animals, that take refuge in the sand on the recession
of the waters.
[Belongs to Bledius.—Lee.]
4. O. EMARGINATUS.—Black ; elytra whitish with a fuligi-
nous suture.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, punctured ; head with numerous, but not crowded
punctures ; two longitudinal indentations between the antenne ;
antenne, mandibles and palpi honey-yellow; thorax with a pice-
ous tinge, rounded behind; with rather sparse, well defined
punctures, and an obvious, impressed, dorsal line; elytra with
separate punctures and a much dilated, common, fuliginous vitta ;
sutural tip very obtusely [462] rounded; feet honey-yellow ;
thighs and coxe whitish.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
The obtusely rounded sutural tip of ,the elytra, gives this part,
in repose, a profoundly emarginated appearance.
[Also a Bledius.—LrEc. ]
MOLOSOMA Say.
Labrum entire ; palpi filiform, terminal joint of the maxillaries
much longer than the second, slightly attenuate to the tip; an-
tenn before the eyes, inserted under the margin, gradually
thicker at tip, four last joints larger; body cylindric ; thorax
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578 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
truncate at base ; abdomen with the penultimate segment longest ;
tibiee spinous, a little arquated.
M. natipes Gray. Monog. Coleopt. Micr., p. 198.
In the present state of the science, the datipes can no longer
remain in the genus Oxytelus, as a species of which Gravenhorst
described it. That author was, however, perfectly sensible of
its distinguishing characters, and had he written twenty years
later, I should not now have to construct this new genus. The
following are his remarks adjoined to his copious description, to
which I must refer the reader :
“ Cum hoc insectum palpis instructum sit filiformibus, antennis
extrorsum crassioribus, thorace immarginato basi truncato, Tachi-
nis adnumerandum foret, si solos characteres artificiales (Coleopt.
Micropt., p. 134) datos respiceremus. Habitu autem toto, et ex-
ceptis ultimis palporum articulis, partibus etiam singulis cum
Oxytelis hujus familiz plane congruit. Certo systematis natu-
ralis nullam haberemus rationem, cum hoc micropteron Tachinis
adjungeremus. Oxytelis autem, sicut huc usque determinati
erant, ob characteres per systema artificiale constitutos, haud
adsociari potest. KHodem ergo jure, quo Astrapaei genus olim a
Staphylino disjungebatur, quibus attamen simillimum est, hoc
etiam insectum genus novum, ab Oxytelis separatum, conderet,
nisi regula systematis naturalis, i. e. character totus externus
seu habitus totus, dissuaderet.”’ [463 |
[This genus was previously described as Osorius Latr.—Luc. ]
ANTHOPHAGUS Grav.
A. VERTICALIS.—Body reddish brown ; elytra and margin of
the tergum yellowish.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body chestnut, punctured, a little hairy; head darker than
the thorax, punctures sparse ; disk of the vertex impressed ; be-
tween the antennz unequal; antennz and mouth paler than the
head; thorax convex, rounded each side, contracted at base, with
a conspicuous impressed line, terminating behind in a dilated
puncture ; elytra reddish yellow, punctured, at tip obscure ; ter-
eum with a dorsal impressed line; posterior or rather lateral
triangular yellow spot, and on the lateral margin of each seg-
ment; thighs testaceous ; tibize and tarsi somewhat darker.
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Length under one fifth of a inch.
Allied to A. brunneus nob., but the segments of the tereum
are not margined around by dusky ; on each is a dusky triangle,
much dilated on the posterior margin, so as nearly to reach the
lateral edge.
OMALIUM Grav.
1. O. MARGINATUM.—Piceous, punctured ; antennze and feet
dull rufous.
Inhabits upper Missouri.
Body oblong-oval, piceous, punctured ; head, punctures sparse,
obsolete at tip, with an indentation each side between the an-
tenn and a longitudinal impressed line each side at base; an-
tennz rufous at base, red brown obscure at tip with cinereous
hair; palpi rufous; thorax transverse subquadrate, punctures
not crowded ; posterior edge obscurely piceous ; elytra longitudi-
nally quadrate, covering more than half of the. tergum, exterior
margin piceous towards the humerus; exterior hind angeles
rounded, sutural ones acute ; almost to be traced into strie ; feet
piceous, paler towards the tip; tergum obscurely rufous on the
margin, and on the posterior margins of the segments.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
I obtained this insect when with Major Long’s expedition to
the Rocky Mountains; I think it occurred at Hngineer Canton-
ment on the Missouri. [464]
2. O. ROTUNDICOLLE.—Piceous, black; thorax rounded be-
hind, emarginate before.
TInhabits Pennsylvania.
Body with rather large, numerous and profound punctures ;
antennz piceous, brown, the three basal joints, labrum and palpi
honey-yellow ; thorax transverse oval, deeply emarginate before,
equally punctured; posterior angles rounded; edges piceous ;
elytra equally punctured, long; terminal edge piceous; tergum
piceous, rather paler on the posterior margins of the segments ;
feet dark honey-yellow; venter somewhat piceous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Taken on the wing at twilight, in October.
[Belongs to Olophrum Er.—Lxc.]
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580 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
TACHINUS Grav.
1. T. arricaupatus nob.—Very closely allied to atricapillus,
and cinctus Grav.
2. T. opsoLeTus.—Black ; thorax, curve on the elytra, seg-
ment margins and feet yellowish.
Inhabits Virginia.
Body black; antennee fuscous; four basal joints yellowish ;
tip of the last joint dirty fulvous; mouth honey-yellow ; thorax
honey-yellow; elytra, in some lights with an appearance of obso-
lete strie#; subsutural impressed line obvious; a honey-yellow
base, suture and terminal margin; abdomen with the segments
piceous on their posterior margins; feet pale yellowish.
Length over one-fourth of an inch.
I obtained this species in October, at Chinquoteague Island.
[Belongs to Boletobius.—L«Ec. |
3. T. TRIMACULATUS.—Yellowish ; head and three elytral
spots blackish ; tergum rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body yellow, tinged with honey-yellow ; head obscure piceous ;
antennee fuseous ; four basal joints pale yellow; mouth yellow ;
mandibles piceous at tip; thorax immaculate; scutel piceous ;
elytra with a few remote punctures on the basal half, and towards
the tip obsolete impressed strize, a subsutural impressed line, near
which is a series of distant larger punctures ; region of the scutel
with a dilated blackish triangle, extending to the middle of the
length of the suture, and thence by a narrow and paler sutural
line to the tip; exterior [465] margin or epipleura black, with
a spot near its tip extending inwards, half way to the suture, but
notreaching the tip of the elytra; tergum dull sanguineous ; near
the tip with an obsolete, blackish band ; at tip with a yellowish
tinge.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
[Considered by Erichson identical with the European Boleto-
bius pygmzus ; it has been subsequently described as B. venus-
tus, Mels., and B, angularis, Sachse, Ent. Zeit. 1852, 122.—
Lec]
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4. 'T. cincTicoLiis.—Black ; posterior thoracic margin, line of
the elytra, and feet yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black ; mouth yellowish; palpi pale yellow: antennz
fuscous, three basal joints yellowish ; fourth joint piceous; tho-
rax, posterior margin, and lateral margin dilating towards the
posterior angles, honey-yellow; scutel piceous; elytra with an
appearance of striae at tip; a sutural impressed stria, near which
is a series of distinct punctures, and another near the middle and
a submarginal one; pale yellowish, a dilated oval blued black
spot extends from before the middle to the tip, does not attain
to the suture and is confluent with a blackish marginal line
which does not reach the humerus; tergum, segments on their
posterior margins, obscure piceous ; feet pale yellow.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Distinguished from the others of this country, by the differ-
ently colored thoracic margin.
[Also a Boletobius.—Luc. ]
5. T. HuMiIpUS.—Black ; elytra and posterior margins of the
abdominal segments, rufous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black; antennze brownish, base and mouth honey-yellow ;
thorax piceous on the posterior edge; elytra rufous or honey-
yellow, an impressed subsutural line, near which is a series of
punctures, surface with sparse punctures almost to be traced into
two or three series; sutural margin very slightly dusky ; tergum
blackish, with piceous posterior margins of the segments; tip
somewhat fulvous; feet honey-yellow.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
Allied to the preceding, but is a much smaller species, and the
elytra are immaculate. [466]
[Erichson considers this as probably Mycetoporus lepidus.—
Lec. ]
TACHYPORUS Grav.
1. T. rumrpENNISs.—Black ; margin of the thorax and base
of the elytra yellowish.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
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582 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Body minutely punctured; head black; antenne filiform,
brown ; four basal joints honey-yellow; palpi filiform, yellowish ;
thorax black, margined around with honey-yellow ; scutel black ;
elytra fuliginous; a wide part of the base and narrow tip dull
honey-yellow ; tergum blackish, the segments piceous on the hind
margins ; beneath black piceous ; feet honey-yellow.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
[Belongs to Zachinus.—L«c. |
2. T. Morstus.—Piceous, sericeous; thorax and elytra mar-
gined with dull yellowish, obscure.
Inhabits United States.
Body blackish, piceous, somewhat sericeous ; mouth and antennz
dull yellowish ; the latter pale brownish towards the middle ; palpi,
penultimate joint thick ; last joint much shorter and acicular ;
thorax dilated, convex, lateral and basal margins dull yellowish ;
elytra, basal, and exterior margins dull yellowish ; abdomen some-
what hairy at tip, beneath honey-yellow; feet not or hardly spiny.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
The paler margins of the thorax and elytra are sometimes al-
most obsolete.
[Belongs to Conurus, and previously described as 7. crassus
xrav_—LEC. ]
3. T. socosus.—Black; thorax, elytra, feet and mouth yel-
lowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head black piceous, polished, convex, impunctured ; antennz
honey-yellow (six ultimate joints wanting in the specimen) ; pal-
pi honey-yellow, terminal joint acicular; thorax polished, im-
punctured, yellowish ; anterior and posterior margins blackish ;
scutel blackish ; elytra yellowish, with very fine, prostrate hairs ;
region of the scutel blackish ; tergum, posterior margins of the
segments yellowish, longer than the elytra (in the preserved
state); feet pale yellow.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
[ Afterwards deseribed as 7. arduus Er.—Lxc.]
4, T. VENTRICULUS.—Black; thorax each side and elytral
margin piceous.
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 583
Ynhabits Pennsylvania.
Body black, with a slight piceous tinge, polished; antennae
dull [467] yellowish, dusky towards the tip; mouth dull yellow-
ish ; palpi filiform; thorax piceous on the lateral margin, gradu-
ally shading to the general blackish color; elytra on the lateral
margin and at tip piceous ; common edge of the tip not indented
at the suture ; tergum (in the preserved state) much shorter than
the elytra, at tip of the segments dull piceous; feet honey-yel-
low ; tibiae not remarkably spiny.
Length one-twelfth of an inch.
The abdomen contracts very much in desiccation.
This can hardly be crassus Grav., as his description does not
indicate it.
[Considered by Erichson as a Tachinus, but more recently
such species have been separated as a distinct genus Coproporus
Kraatz.—LEc. ]
5. T. oprcus.—Blackish ; feet, base of the thorax and of the
elytra obscure reddish-brown.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body deep black brown, somewhat sericeous ; head black ; an-
tennz at base and tip pale reddish-brown ; palpi pale reddish-
brown ; thorax convex; a narrow, obscure, red brown posterior
margin; elytra with a broad red brown basal margin; feet red
brown ; tibize not remarkably spinous ; tergum with paler margins
to the segments, shorter than the elytra, hairy at tip.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
This species is not highly polished, but is distinctly sericeous.
[Afterwards described as Conurus cinctulus Kr.—Lxc. ]
5, T. acAupus.—Abbreviated ; honey-yellowish ; thorax paler
each side.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body honey-yellow, polished; head black piceous; antennz
fuscous, four basal joints obscure yellowish; palpi yellowish,
last joint acicular; thorax honey-yellowish, more dusky on the
disk and at base, and paler, somewhat translucent on the lateral
margin ; elytra yellow with a rufous tinge, a little hairy, dusky on
the region of the scutel; tip of the suture a little rounded, so as
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584 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
to produce an acute, but small, common emargination; tergum
less than half the length of the elytra, blackish-brassy, somewhat
hairy ; feet yellow, pale ; tibia with obvious, but not very promi-
nent spines.
Length nearly one-twelfth of an inch.
This is very broad in proportion to its length, in consequence
of the great contraction of the abdomen in drying. It resembles
jocosus N., but is wider in proportion to its length, without taking
into consideration the extraordinary brevity of theabdomen. [468]
7. T. FABER—Thorax and elytra yellowish ; near the scutel
depressed ; last joint of the palpi very short.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body somewhat depressed; head blackish-piceous, polished ;
antenne yellowish towards the base; palpi, penultimate joint
rather dilated; ultimate joint very short, conic, hardly one-
fourth as long as the preceding ; thorax honey-yellow, glabrous ;
scutel small, dusky; elytra paler than the thorax, slightly hairy ;
suture and base near the scutel a little dusky; region of the
scutel somewhat indented; tergum wider and more depressed
than in most species, paler towards the tip; beneath reddish-
brown ; feet yellowish ; tibiz a little spinous.
Length about one-twelfth of an inch.
The abdomen is more depressed than usual in this genus, and
the terminal joint of the maxillary palpi is much shorter than in
our other species.
Much reform seems requisite in this and the preceding genera.
[According to Erichson this is the European 7. faber.—
LEc.]
8. T. rIMBRIATUS Grav.—Varies in being more or lesss tinged
with ferruginous. The head and thorax are sometimes entirely
dull ferruginous. It is the boleti of Melsh. Catal., but it was after-
wards first described by Gravenhorst under the name which I
have of course adopted.
[Belongs to Tachinus—Lxc.]
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 585
ALEOCHARA Gray.*
1. A. OBSCURICOLLIS.—Black; elytra ferruginous; tarsi piceous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black; head opaque ; labrum piceous ; thorax orbicular,
truncated before for the reception of the head, opaque; elytra
ferruginous, length hardly exceeding the breadth; scutel black,
opaque; abdomen obviously hairy, polished, lateral edge some-
what elevated ; tarsi piceous.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
2. A. BIMACULATA Gray.
A species very closely allied, or perhaps the same as the bima-
culata Gray., is an inhabitant also of Mexico.
3. A. LUSTRICA.—Blackish ; thorax each side, elytra and feet
dull rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania. [469 ]
Body piceous-black, obviously punctured; head black, with
numerous punctures, sparse in front and more dense behind;
before the antenne triangularly carinate, dull piceous ; antenne
dark reddish-brown, three basal joints honey-yellow ; mouth dull
honey-yellow; thorax with very numerous punctures, rather
larger towards the base and almost to be traced into transverse
arquated lines; lateral margins piceous ; elytra dull yellowish-
rufous, with dense punctures ; abdomen piceous at tip; feet honey-
yellow.
Length under one-fourth of an inch.
[The same as the European A. fuscipes——LEc. ]
4, A. rascrATA.—Yellow ; head, band of the elytra, spot on
the tergum black.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body yellow, with a slight rufous tinge; head black piceous,
with rather large punctures each side towards the eyes; eyes
large, prominent ; mouth dull yellowish; antennez at base pale
* None of the species placed by Say under this genus are mentioned
in the Genera et Species Staphylinorum of Erichson.—LEc.
1834.]
586 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
yellow; thorax sparsely and unequally punctured, with four
somewhat larger remote punctures on the disk ; elytra punctures
small, not deeply impressed ; posterior half blackish ; tergum with
a black dot near the tip; feet whitish.
Length about one-twelfth of an inch.
This is the A. fasciata of Melsh. Catal.
[ Gyrophxna vinula, or G. dissimilis Kr.—Lxc.]
5. A. iInpenTATA.—Yellowish; head, thoracic disk, elytral
spot and middle of the tergum, black.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head not obviously punctured ; eyes not remarkably large or
prominent ; antenne reddish-brown, pale at base ; mouth honey-
yellow ; thorax dull yellowish, dusky in the middle ; a longitudi-
nal impressed line, and an indentation on the middle of the base ;
elytra with small, numerous punctures ; yellowish, with the su-
tural edge and a triangular spot, extending from before the middle
to the posterior outer angle, but not reaching the suture ; tergum
reddish-yellow, the two middle segments blackish; beneath yel-
lowish ; postpectus and middle of the venter black ; feet whitish.
Length about one-fifteenth of an inch.
Var. a. Thorax with the dusky disk obsolete.
Resembles the dichroa Gravy., in having the indentation on
the [470] middle of the base, but it differs in many respects,
and obviously in coloring.
[A species of Homalota.—Lxc. ]
6. A. 4-punoTaTa.—Thorax rufous, with four punctures placed
transversely.
Inhabits Missouri and Indiana.
Head piceous black, with one puncture on the inner orbit, and
three or four behind the eye ; antennz, reddish-brown, three basal
joints honey-yellow ; palpi piceous; thorax honey-yellow with four
distant punctures before the middle, placed in a transverse line,
the lateral ones less distinct ; elytra dull honey-yellow, with min-
ute punctures, having prostrate hairs; tergum piceous, paler to-
wards the tip ; beneath dark piceous ; feet yellowish.
Length over one-tenth of an inch
The four punctures of the thorax is an obvious character.
[I have not identified this nor the two succeeding species.—
Lec. ]
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 587
7. A. PROPERA.—Blackish ; thorax depressed on the posterior
middle.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body with very numerous small punctures, furnishing pale
yellowish hairs ; antennz black fuscous, three or four basal joints
piceous; mouth piceous; thorax black piceous, conspicuously
hairy ; on the middle of the base indented; elytra piceous brown,
obviously hairy, a little depressed on the basal margin and in the
region of the scutel; tergum black ; feet pale piceous.
Length over or about one-tenth of an inch.
The depression, almost or quite amounting to an indentation
at the base of the thorax is sometimes geminate.
8. A. SEMICARINATA.—Blackish ; thorax with a carina on the
basal half.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black with a piceous tinge ; thorax with an elevated line
or two parallel impressed striz, from the middle to the base ;
‘elytra with a slightly impressed sutural groove on the basal half;
abdomen black ; feet pale piceous. [471 ]
[Continuation from Vol. VI. N.§., 1836, pp. 155-190.]
9. *A. SIMPLICICOLLIS.—Blackish ; antenne, feet, inner tip of
the elytra and posterior margins of the segments of the tergum
reddish-brown.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body with short prostrate hairs ; head black ; antennze reddish-
brown; transverse joint somewhat darker; elytra on the sutural
margin, particularly towards the tip, obscure reddish-brown ;
common emargination at tip very obvious: tergum with the pos-
*In the description of the preceding species (A. semicarinata see Vol.
IV. N. 8., p. 470,) the following details were accidentally omitted :—
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
Resembles A. propera, but may be distinguished by the double tho-
racic groove, forming an inclined carina.
1836.]
588 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
terior margins of the segments dull reddish-brown ; feet reddish-
brown or honey-yellow.
Length about one-tenth of an inch.
Distinguished from the two preceding species by the simplicity
of the thorax and the margined segments of the tergumm.
[I have not yet identified this species.—LEc. ]
10. A. rALsIFIcA.—Black ; with converging hairs; elytra and
feet yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with rather long, prostrate hairs: head with the
hairs [156] converging to the middle line and directed forward ,
antenne blackish ; basal joints obscure piceous: palpi dull yel-
lowish ; thorax with the hairs converging to the middle line and
directed forwards: elytra dull yellowish, darker on the base, su-
ture and outer margin; the hairs somewhat arranged so as to re-
semble strize : feet honey-yellow.
Length about one-tenth of an inch.
[I have not yet identified this species —LEC. ]
11. A. vernA.—Black ; distinctly punctured; inner top [tip?]
of the elytra dull yellowish.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body with scattered hairs: head polished, with sparse irregu-
larly arranged, rather large punctures: antenne of the basal
joints hardly tinged with piceous: thorax polished, with numer-
ous, rather large, unequal and irregularly scattered punctures ;
middle line destitute of punctures: feet black-piceous.
Length about one-tenth of an inch.
The more conspicuous and irregular puncturing will distinguish
this species from the above described.
[If for top we read tip, this is A. nitida Grav.—Lec. ]
12. A. exicua.—Black ; punctured ; antenne and feet hardly
tinged with piceous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, a little polished, with short hair; punctures nu-
merous, somewhat regular: antenne at base and palpi very
slightly tinged with piceous : elytra a little indented at the scutel :
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 589
at tip the common emargination obtuse, not profound : feet black-
piceous.
Length one-twentieth of an inch.
[A Homalota, probably the same as Oligota pedicularis Mels.—
Lec. |
13. A. MINIMA.—Black ; elytra and feet dull yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with numerous prostrate hairs: antenne towards
the base with a very slight tinge of piceous: elytra dull yellow-
ish: tergum dirty yellowish at tip: feet whitish yellow, dull.
Length nearly one-tenth of an inch.
Var. a. Thorax nearly the color of the elytra.
[Also a Homalota.—Lxc.]
14. A. prnopata.—Dark reddish-brown; thorax subcordate,
canaliculate, feet pale.
Inhabits Missouri and Indiana.
Body very dark reddish-brown, with numerous regular punc-
tures : antenne, two basal joints paler: mouth beneath, excepting
the terminal joints of the maxillary palpi, pale testaceous : thorax
rounded before and narrower behind; very deeply canaliculate ;
groove abruptly abbreviated on the basal margin: elytra at tip
and sides with smaller [157] punctures than the thorax ; suture
irdented : feet pale testaceous : tergum, segments with dilated
punctures at base.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
The thoracic canal is less dilated, but at least as profound as
that of the canaliculata Gray.; the thorax is more contracted
behind, and the head more prominent, and distinctly separate
from the thorax by a short neck.
The genus Aleochara, as is obvious to entomologists, needs re-
formation. The present species, and some others of Graven-
horst’s first divisions, may be separated from it under the follow-
ing name and characters.
Genus A/eodorus.—Head prominent, with a distinct neck, not
inserted into the thorax ; antennz inserted into the anterior in-
ternal orbit of the eye; three basal joints longest; maxillary
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palpi long, terminal joint acicular; thorax longitudinal, rounded
on the sides, or without lateral edge ; feet simple.*
[Belongs to Falagria.—Lxc. |
BUPRESTIS F.
1. B. virarntcA.—Turton’s Linn. p. 411; Drury’s Ins. vol.
1, p. 66, pl. 30, fig. 3.
This species very closely resembles B. mariana L., and not-
withstanding the magnitude of Drury’s figure, it is somewhat
smaller than the latter species, the posterior part of the thorax
is a little narrower and the curvature of its lateral edge is some-
what different. It inhabits the Eastern and Middle States.
[ Belongs to Chalcophora.—Lxc¢. ]
2. B. tiperta Germ.—This differs more in color from the
virginiensis, than the latter species does from the mariana ; but
it corresponds with virginiensis in the form of the thorax. J am
still inclined to consider it a variety of that species, which
Germar does not refer to in his description of liberta.
[Also a Chalcophora.—Lxc. ]
3. B. purrpa F. (and Melsh. Catal.)
This is the corrosa Deg. MSS. Herbst. Olivier did not ob-
serve the anal points, which are sometimes obscured by the hair.
[A species of Dicerca.—L«xc. ]
4, B. prvaricaTA nob.—That this insect is closely allied to
acuminata ¥., there can be no doubt, and Dejean (in a letter)
considers it the same; but, on reference to the description of
that species by Gyllenhal (Insecta Svecica*,) I find the following
characters, “‘ thorax ante scutellum puncta duo impressa; anus
emarginatus.” In the present species is only a single indenta-
tion at the base of the thoracic groove, and immediately anterior
*I am indebted to Professor Wiedemann for the two very useful works
on ‘Coleoptera Microptera’’ by Gravenhorst. They contain detailed
descriptions of many North American species of the Linnean genus
Staphylinus, which now constitute a large family.
+ For this very accurately descriptive work, I am indebted to the
politeness of the author.
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to the scutel, and the anus is tridentated, the middle tooth being
more slender and acute. A variety in my collection is destitute
of the punctured striz of the elytra.
[ Also a Dicerca.—Lxc. ]
4, B. opscura F. (and Melsh. Catal.)
Herbst says the side of the thorax is rectilinear, not arcuated.
This would agree better with /urida F.; my specimens of ob-
scura are rectilinear only from before the middle to the base.
[Also a Dicerca.—L«Eo. |
5. B. pentrpes Germar.——This is the characteristica of Mel-
sheimer’s Catalogue ; but, as no mere catalogue can establish a
name, Germar’s must be of course retained, because it is the first
name recognized by a description.
[This and the two following belong to Chrysobothris—Lxc. ]
6. B. HYBERNATA F.—From the specimen in my collection,
T am led to believe that the hybernata ¥., is but a variety of the
frontalis Olivier, and that both have serrate elytra; but I have
not at present the means of referring to Olivier’s work. My
specimen is reddish purple; thorax immaculate ; elytra serrate,
with but five green spots; and the anterior thighs are armed
with a prominent tooth.
7. B. seExauTraTa nob. (Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc.)—This name
being preoceupied by Herbst for an American species, we change
it to sexsignata. :
8. B. arppiconts nob. (Journ. A. N. 8.)—This name is pre-
occupied by Llhger for an European species, it must therefore be
changed.
[A species of Pfosima, ante, 104.—Lxc.]
9. B. putcuetta Herbst.—The volvulus F., is probably the
same species; but which of the two names has the priority I
cannot now ascertain, not haying the date of Herbst’s volume.
There is some confusion amongst the species of the small group
to which this belongs, in consequence of the short descriptions
of Fabricius. Herbst’s description of this species cannot well
be mistaken. I have found it in Pennsylvania, [159] Florida
and Arkansa. It is the ornata of Dejean’s Catalogue; and
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Germar, in a letter, considers it a new species under the name of
olydonia.
[This and the two succeeding species belong to Acmzodera.—
LEc.]
10. B. ornata.—About the size of the preceding, though
perhaps a little more robust, of a much darker color; and may
also be distinguished from it by the thorax haying the dorsal line
deeply indented, more especially on the posterior margin, and
being obtusely angulated behind the middle of the lateral edge.
Dejean supposed it a new species, and gave it, in MSS., the name
of multiguttata, but I think there is no doubt that it is the
Fabrician species. i)
11. B. tusutus F.—This species is described as having but
five yellow punctures on the elytra, placed 2, 2, 1, the latter
being the largest. But it varies considerably in this respect,
sometimes having eight or nine spots, and again other specimens
occur with not more than are indicated by Fabricius, if we con-
sider the posterior larger one as being composed of two confluent
ones. The rest of the description agrees precisely, and even the
noted size corresponds with our insect; as Fabricius says,
“statura omnino C. volvuli, at duplo minor.” It may indeed be
at once distinguished from pulchella by its much inferior size,
very different color, and the greater regularity of its elytral spots ;
but the lateral edge of the thorax has a similar curvature. It is
the smallest of our species of the group distinguished by the want
of scutel, &c.. and approaches the ornata by its coloring and the
somewhat similar arrangement of the elytral spots, but differs in
the regular curvature of its lateral thoracic edge. It is the
volvulus of Dejean’s Catalogue. Germar believed it new and
gave it the name of xanthocyma ; it is the culta of Weber; and
Dr. Harris has described it under the name of geranii.
12. B. acornis.—Brassy black ; antenne short; scutel green ;
beneath cupreous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body with dense, rather large, confluent punctures: head a
little tinged with cupreous, particularly towards the tip; tip of
the clypeus not narrowed, not emarginate, but with a slight con-
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cave curvature: labrum hardly prominent, not visible when
viewed from above : antennz very short, not reaching the vertex,
the three basal joints together about as long as all the others
combined ; thorax in breadth at least [160 ] twice the length,
with transverse confluent punctures: scutel bright green: elytra
with transversely confluent punctures; serrate from near the
humerus; surface obsoletely undulated: beneath cupreous: an-
terior thighs with a prominent acute spine.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
A small and distinct species.
[Belongs to Actenodes Lac. Gen. Col. 4, 72. elif
13. B. impepira.*—Elytra bluish-green, grooved and pune-
tured.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Head confluently punctured, green with a cupreous reflection:
antenne steel-blue, at base green: labrum green, ciliate at tip:
thorax cupreous, with green confluent punctures; on some parts
of the disk the punctures are sparse: scutel oval, regularly con-
cave, green ; elytra densely punctured, with five dilated grooves
and four elevated lines, the latter sparsely punctured; green,
gradually shaded into a blue vitta along the middle; suture and
outer margin cupreous; tip somewhat truncated: beneath green
cupreous.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
The specimen was taken near Philadelphia. It is evidently
related to salisburiensis, as described by Weber, to decora F., and
splendens F., of China. But Weber’s description states the
former to have striated elytra, without elevated lines. The
splendens has only three elevated lines on the elytra, and the
decora is larger, with the tip of the elytra two-toothed. Neither
can it be the striata Oliv., as the elytra are not slightly bidentate,
nor are their two inner elevated lines abbreviated. A variety
found by my brother, B. Say, in New Jersey, is much tinted
* Dr. Harris is of opinion that this species, the aurulenta of Linneus
and Olivier, and the striata of Fabricius are the same; and that the
decora F. and salisburiensis Weber and Herbst, are identical. The latter
differ from the aurulenta L., in not having elevated lines on the elytra.
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with copper, and is smaller, but the sculpture and form are the
same.
I may add, as closely allied to the impedita and to the salis-
buriensis Web., in point of coloring, a specimen which I found
in New Jersey many years since, and which I then described
under the name of ultramarina; but the description was mis-
laid and never published, and the specimen is now deprived of
its head and thorax. The following is a description of what re-
mains of it. [ 160 |
Scutel orbicular, disk indented : elytra blue on the disk; sub-
margin and subsuture green, passing into golden towards the
margin and suture which are brilliant coppery or red golden ;
basal margin green golden ; surface with seven or eight stria of
dilated profound punctures; the interstitial lines with each a
single series of smaller punctures ; elevated lines; tip truncated,
with a slight projection at the inner angle : beneath green-golden,
with a slight coppery tinge: tibiae coppery.
Length of the elytra two-fifths of an inch.
It is more brilliant than either the tmpedita or salisburiensis.
From the former it is distinguished by being destitute of elevated
lines on the elytra, and from both by its regular series of large
profound punctures.
[I agree perfectly with the opinions of Dr. Harris expressed
in the note on the preceding page, except in regard to the B.
aurulenta mentioned, which is not that of Linneus, but of Oli-
vier and several later authors. The description of Linneus,
Syst. Nat. 1, 661, makes no mention of the elytral costa, and
applies better to A. decora than to A. striata; the name has
produced so much confusion, that it should not be applied to
any species, but should rather be altogether dropped; B. uléra-
marina is an Ancylochira very closely allied to A. decora, but
of a broader form, with the intervals of the elytra less irregularly
punctured, especially towards the suture, with the tips rounded
or truncate and not bidentate.
Messrs, Laporte and Gory, by unaccountable carelessness, have
affixed this name to a species of Chrysobothris—LxE¢. ]
14. B. viripicorNntis nob.—This has been mistaken by an
European entomologist for the Agrilus rujficollis F.; but it is
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very different in form, which is much more like that of a true
Buprestis ; and the color is also different, though that of the
head and thorax probably deceived him, being coppery in each,
though much more obscure in our insect. I have taken a variety
in this State differing greatly in color, so much so, that it might
lead to error unless actually compared.
The color is bright green; thorax on the dise tinged with
coppery, with a common green triangle extending from the
humerus to beyond the middle; beneath the green color is less
brilliant. Another variety has the cupreous color of the thorax
confined to the lateral margin, the remainder being of the color
of the elytra.
I may add to the specific description that the head has an or-
bicular indentation between the eyes, and a slightly indented
line on the vertex ; the scutel is altogether destitute of a trans-
verse elevated line; it is convex, and widely triangular; the
elytra are minutely serrate at tip.
This species has characters in common with Buprestis and
Agrilus, and it may perhaps belong to the latter.
[Two species of Anthaxia are here confounded together: one
is A. quercata, the other a variety of A. viridicornis— Luc. ]
AGRILUS Megerle.
1. A. RuFIcoLLIS F.—We may add to the Fabrician charac-
ters that the head is profoundly indented on the vertex ; the in-
dented line is continued down the front; the elytra are scabrous,
and at tip, as well as that of the abdomen, serrate.
Var. a. Thorax obscure green. [ 162]
Var. b. Thorax color of the elytra.
The great indentation of the vertex distinguishes this species
from others of this country. Herbst’s figure only tends to mis-
lead, if indeed it can be intended for this insect at all. It is too
robust, the thorax is not represented as indented, and the elytra
are punctured in striz, with large punctures.
2. A. GEMINATUS nob.—A numerous species ; the color of the
head and thorax often resembling those of the preceding species,
but the acute, arcuated elevated line at the posterior angles, is
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similar to that of the linearis F., of Austria, which it very much
resembles.
3. A. PoLITUs nob.—Much like arcuatus, but a little more ro-
bust, and of a brilliant color. Like the other species its elytra
are denticulated at tip. Having examined numerous specimens,
I find that it is not of a larger size than geminatus.
4. A. ARcuATUS nob.—A little larger than geminatus, and re-
sembling it in the character of the elevated line at the posterior
thoracic angles, but the antenng are much more slender and
elongated.
5. A. GRANULATUS nob.—This species has three hardly visible
fulyous spots on the elytra; one on the depressed base, one near
the suture before the middle, and one behind the middle, also
near the suture. I have a specimen in which these spots are
not at all visible.
The elevated line at the posterior angles of the thorax is short,
but very obvious.
6. A. BILINEATUS Weber, nob.—In my printed description
an error occurs. When describing the elytral vitte, instead of
“extended towards the tip, where it gradually approaches the
scutel,”’ I should have said suture instead of “ scutel.”
7. A. LATERALIS nob.—I stated in the description that the
elytra are entire ; I would add that they are not obviously denti-
culated at tip.
8. A. pusILLus nob.—The smallest North American species I
have yet seen.
The above species of Agrilus, excepting the first, I described
in the Journal Acad. Nat. Se., and the Annals of the Lyceum of
Nat. Hist., of New York, under the genus Buprestis, to which
most entomologists yet refer their kindred species. [163 ]
9. A. FALLAX.—Elytra with about three spots on each, which
exhibit a different reflection.
Tnhabits Indiana.
Brassy-greenish: head green, sometimes cupreous on the ver-
tex ; impressed line hardly obvious: thorax with a dorsal and
lateral indented line ; the former more obvious behind, the latter
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oblique and dilated ; more or less tinged with cupreous; an arcu-
ated, elevated line at the posterior angles ; posterior angles acute :
elytra with the basal indentation, subsutural spot behind the
middle, composed of minute prostrate hairs, producing a differ-
ent reflection from that of the general surface; tip denticulate :
beneath blackish-brassy.
Var. a. Dull cupreous; thorax brighter.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
Distinguished by the elytral spots offering a different reflee-
tion from the remainder of the surface. In some positions they
are hardly obvious; but seen from before or behind they are dis-
tinet, particularly the posterior one.
10. A. purmius.—Thorax transversely indented before and
behind the middle ; elevated line of the posterior angle none.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish-brassy : head greenish ; longitudinal impressed
line very distinct: thorax with a transverse indentation before,
a much larger transverse indentation behind the middle, and a
more profound lateral one parallel with the lateral margin; pos-
terior angles destitute of an elevated line, retangular or rather
more obtuse; elytra, basal indentation ovate-oblong, oblique ; tip
denticulated, from the suture to the middle concave; suture
rather prominent.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
Only three of the before mentioned species are destitute of an
elevated line at the posterior thoracic angles, viz. the rujficollis,
bilineata and lateralis, to these we may add the cogitans Weber.
From all these the present is separable by its inferior size, ex-
cepting the /ateralis, which has no denticulations at the tip of the
elytra. One of my specimens has the head green before.
11. A. orrosus.—Line of the thoracic angles short and ob-
tuse; front but slightly punctured.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body greenish, or brassy-blackish, rather slender : head with
the punctures obsolete, excepting on the vertex, where they are
not profound [164] or well defined; beneath the middle of the
front with short whitish hairs: thorax with two slight indenta-
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tions placed longitudinally, a more obyious one on the lateral
margin, and another each side of the basal middle ; elevated line
of the posterior angles less than one-fourth of the length of the
lateral edge, but slightly elevated and obtuse: elytra depressed
from the suture to the middle ; tip denticulated.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
Resembles geminatus, but its form is rather more slender, the
frontal punctures are obsolete, and the elevated line of the thora-
cie angles is much shorter and less distinct.
12. A. cocirans Weber.—The thorax is deseribed to be
serrate ; but on close examination the edge will be found to be
entire, and the upper surface of the edge, or extreme margin
only, is serrate. The body is more dilated than in any other of
our species.
[Belongs to Rhexboscelis Chevr. and was also described as B.
ignara Fabr.—LEc. ]
TRACHYS F.
1. T. TESSELLATA F.
2. T. ovata Weber, Obs. p. 76.
Our species vary greatly or are very numerous.
[These species belong to Brachys.—LEc. ]
METONIUS Say.
Thorax short, wide, and deeply emarginate before for the re-
ception of the head; not lobate behind: antennz subclayate,
concealed when at rest in a groove of the thorax ; body short,
wide before and narrow behind: tibiz angulated, and when at
rest the tarsi are applied to the outer edge : praesternum promi-
nent to the mouth, and behind applied evenly to the poststernum
by a transverse line.
This genus differs from 7rachys in the thorax being not lobed
behind ; in the prasternum terminating by a straight line; by
the dilatation of the tibia, Ke.
[This genus is the same as the subsequently described "Pachye-
celis Solier, which is united with Brachys by Lacordaire.—L«c.]
1. M. ovatus nob. (Trachys) Ann. Lyc. New York.—Those
who will retain this species in 7’rachys must change the name to
levigatus, as the other is preoccupied in that genus.
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2. M. purpuREUs.—Ovate, black ; elytra purple.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: head with distinct punctures; front with an in-
dented, [165] abbreviated line placed low down: thorax with
scattered discoidal punctures ; no lateral indentation: elytra pur-
ple ; indented at the middle of the base and behind the hume-
rus ; punctures rather large but not deeply impressed, placed in
series and obsolete behind: tibiz angulated.
Length under three-twentieths of an inch.
This insect is certainly congeneric with the preceding, but it
cannot be placed in Trachys, or even in Aphanisticus, if pusillus,
Olivier, can be considered as a type of it.
APHANISTICUS Latr.
A. GRACILIS nob. ( Trachys) Ann. Lyc. New York.—The tho-
rax is not laterally dilated and reflected.
[Belongs to Taphrocerus Solier, which is united with Brachys
by Lacordaire.—LEc. ]
MELASIS Oliv.
M. NIGRICORNIS nob., Journ. A. N.S. .
I was deterred from referring this species to Cerophytum Latr.,
by the character “le pénultiéme article des tarses bifide. Le
corps est ovale.”” Our insect cannot therefore be the Melasis
picea Beauy., which is referred to Cerophytum.
ELATER L.
+ Tarsi not lobed beneath.
1. E. optessus nob. (discoideus Fabr.)—The Fabrician
phrase, when describing the elytra, is, “elytra striata, atra, mar-
gine baseos lateralique late albo;” but as the whitish portion
oceupies about two-thirds of the whole surface and might lead to
error, it would be better to say, elytra whitish, with the sutu-
ral margin and exterior edge, excepting at base, black.
I change the Fabrician name, because it is preoccupied by
Weber for a very different species of this country.*
* Dr. Harris says that Weber’s species here referred to, is the hamatus
of Fabricius ; and that Mr. Say does not seem to have known the Elater
discoideus of Fabricius, which is quite distinct from the above named
oblessus.
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2. EK. morio F. Herbst. E. levigatus F. Herbst. E. piceus
Degeer, Turton’s Linn. [166]
This species is subject to vary through all the intermediate
gradations between smooth elytra and deeply striated elytra;
which is the cause why several species have been made of it.
The lateral edge of the thorax is grooved.
[Belongs to the genus Melanactes Lee.—Lxc.]
3. E. ABRuptus nob., Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York. Like
morio, but more conyex above, more impressed at the junction
of the thorax and abdomen; more densely and minutely pune-
tured ; a little more robust ; each joint of the antennz originates
much nearer the posterior angle of the preceding joint; and the
lateral edge of the thorax is destitute of a groove, of a somewhat
different form, and the head is not impressed, but is rounded on
the front.
[Belongs to Ludius, ante 1, 390.—Lxc.]
4. EK. arrenuatus.—Reddish brown; elytra somewhat attén-
uated, blackish and mucronate behind.
Inhabits the United States.
Body bright reddish-brown, almost sanguineous, with small
close set punctures: head not indented before: antenne, joints
not elongated: thorax convex, lateral margin arcuated ; narrowed
before ; line from the posterior angle rectilinear, acute, diverging
from the lateral edge so as to be as near to the inner edge:
region of the scutel rather widely indented: elytra with smaller
punctures than those of the thorax; with obsolete strive; termi-
nal oblique third black ; tip somewhat attenuated and mucronate:
feet a little darker.
Length four-fifths of an inch.
A variety occurs of which the elytra are obscure, but still the
terminal third, and the exterior margin also, are black. In a
particular light is a slight.sericeous effect.
[Also a Ludius, ante 1, 392.—Lxc.]
5. KE, VIRIDIPILIS nob.—The thorax in form resembles those
oculatus and myops F. but is proportionally longer.
The posterior angles are curved considerably downward. It
is rare.
[A species of Chalcolepidius—LxEc.]
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6. E. CYLINDRIFOoRMIS nob.—In the description “a promi-
nent edge above the antennx, which disappears before ;” instead
of the three last words, read, which is obtusely emarginate. The
head, thorax and base of the elytra have rather long, prostrate
hairs ; the remainder of the elytra has short hairs. Tarsi simply
hairy beneath.
It may be referred to the genus Campylus Fischer, but the
head is inserted nearly to the eyes in the thorax ; and the palpi
are hardly filiform.
[Belongs to Limonius.—LEc. ] [167]
7. E. RuBRICOLLIS Herbst, Nob. (Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc.).
This is the verticinus Beauvois, but I do not know which has
the priority.*
8. E. rimBatis.—Thorax fulvous, disk black; elytra black-
ish, with a testaceous margin,
Inhabits United States.
Head blackish; antenne wide, deeply serrate; three basal
joints taken together not longer than the fourth joint; second
and third very short, equal, transverse; thorax fulvous testaceous ;
disc in the middle, basal and posterior part of the lateral margin
black ; elytra testaceous all around, and blackish along the mid-
dle: beneath black piceous; pectus with an oblique, fulvous spot
near the posterior angles; feet piceous.
Length less than half an inch.
This is the dimbalis of Melsh. Catal., and I have it noted in
my MSS. interrogatively as the limbalis of Herbst, but I have
not now his work to refer to.
9. E. ncrypus.—Blackish brassy ; antenne and feet rufous ;
thoracic spines very short.
Inhabits United States.
Blackish or dark brown, tinged with brassy ; clypeus very ob-
tuse, almost truncated before, not appressed ; above plane, with
two obsolete indented lines; antennze dark rufous, not dilated,
and hardly serrate ; second joint more than two-thirds the length
* Dr. Harris remarks that Herbst’s name undoubtedly has the priority ;
for that of Palisot de Beauvois does not seem to have been sanctioned
by a description.
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of the third; terminal joint not abruptly contracted near the
tip: thorax convex; dorsal line obvious; spines short, their ex-
curvature hardly obvious, carina nearly parallel with the exterior
edge ; scutel a little convex ; elytra with punctured striz ; inter-
stitial spaces with numerous, small, definite, orbicular punctures ;
feet rufous ; tarsi simple.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
It may be distinguished from the appressifrons nob., which
it resembles, by thé more convex thorax, of which the spines are
much shorter and not much excurved; the antenne are more
slender, and the terminal joint is not abruptly narrowed near its
tip, and the punctures of the interstitial spaces of the elytra are
obviously orbicular, and definite.
[Belongs to Limonius.—Lxc. ]
10. E. pyrruos Herbst.—EHlongated; the thorax is narrow,
the spines [168] hairy ; the joints of the antenne are in length
about three times their greatest breadth, even the second joint
is in the same proportion with respect to the third: the length
of the antenne is equal to half that of the body: clypeus sub-
quadrate, concave towards the tip.
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
[Belongs to Corymbites; Athous pyrrhicus Hald., A. vagrans
Mels., and A. xqualis Mels. are synonyms of the female ——Lxc.]
11. E. suncrconiis nob. (£. parallelus Say, Ann. Lyc. New
York).—Dejean informs me that the name parallelus is preoccu-
pied, and proposes to substitute for it that which I now give.
An expressive name would be inversicollis, the thorax being as
wide, or rather wider before than behind.
[Belongs to Corymbites, ante 1, 891.—Lec. ]
12. EK. viripis nob., Ann. Lye. New York.—Antenne short :
joints in their greatest breadth nearly equal to their length;
second joint hardly half as long as the third: clypeus at tip not
prominent, but only distinguished by a line: thoracic spines with
a carinate line parallel to the exterior edge. [Ante, 1, 390.]
138. E. Avripruis nob., Journ. Acad. Nat. Se.—I obtained
another specimen in the N. W. Territory.
It is remarkable for the deep indentations of" the clypeus.
[A species of Limonius.—LEc. |
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14. HE. semivirratus nob., (Ibid.)—In the only specimen
at present in my cabinet, is a transverse indented line in the
middle of the lateral margin ; the thoracic dorsal line is polished
behind the middle.
15. E. opesus nob. (Ibid.).—The clypeus is not prominent,
and the thoracic spines are not carinated; the elytra, in one
specimen, are acuminated at tip: the nails are very robust on the
basal half, which terminates at the middle in a prominent tooth
separated by a deep fissure.
)
16. E. viripanvs nob. (Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist.)—The thorax
has two orbicular indentations before the middle.
17. E. Mancvs nob. (Journ. A. N. 8.).—Second joint of the
antennz rather longer than the third. Clypeus not prominent.
Inhabits New Hampshire, Harris.* [169]
18. E. convexus nob. (Journ. A. N. 8.)—With a good mag-
nifier the interstitial lines appear to have minute punctures; the
third and fourth, and fifth and sixth striz of the elytra are con-
fluent before the tip.
* [Among Mr. Say’s suppressed descriptions is the following, which
may be of use in determining the species, and is therefore worth pre-
serving. ]
18. EH. tinrevs.—Black ; elytra whitish, tip and sutural edge black.
Inhabits the United States.
Body black : clypeus not prominent, rounded at tip : antenne robust,
deeply serrate ; second joint transverse, nearly orbicular, very small:
thorax gradually narrowed before by a rectilinear edge almost to the
anterior margin ; animpressed line at base ; posterior angles carinate,
rather acute: scutel convex, acute behind: elytra whitish, with strie
of dilated punctures ; tip black; a narrow, black, sutural margin, and
exterior edge, behind the middle, black: feet piceous: tarsi, fourth
joint hardly shorter than the third.
Can this be the mixtus Herbst? It is the deustus of Melsheimer’s Cata-
logue? a name preoccupied by Thumberg for a species of Ceylon.
[This description Mr. Say orignally arranged immediately after that of
E. mancus, in the papers printed at New Harmony, during the summer
of 1834, but omitted it with the following remark :]
Le Conte says that it is the Jugubris Beauv.
[Afterwards described by Germar as Ampedus lugubris.—LEc. ]
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19. E. cAnpisce.—Thorax rounded, convex, with an elongated
lateral fissure at base.
Inhabits the United States.
Body, blackish : head with short, dense, prostrate, cinereous
hair ; clypeus elevated above the front, edge a Httle reflected :
antenne nearly as long as the thorax, second joint shorter than
the third: thorax elevated, convex, with aslight violaceous tinge,
and short, prostrate, cinereous hair; regularly arcuated each
side ; lateral edge hardly raised, placed low down and obsolete be-
fore the middle; basal margin profoundly bisinuate, with an
elongated fissure near the lateral angles and a small prominence
in the middle; angles short, abrupt: scutel cordate, having a
basal fissure: elytra, striz deeply impressed, third and fourth,
fifth and sixth confluent before the tip; very short hair; inter-
stitial lines convex, minutely rugulous, an obsolete paler spot in
the middle and another beyond the middle: beneath slightly
tinged with violaceous: tibiee and tarsi dark rufous.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Ihave taken it in Pennsylvania, and Dr. Harris in Massa-
chusetts. It resembles convexus 8., but the thorax is much more
narrowed behind, &c.
[Belongs to Cardiophorus.—LEc. ]
20. E. DISCALCEATUS.—Clypeus prominent, triangularly im-
pressed.
Inhabits New Hampshire.
Body hairy, rufous; discs of the thorax and elytra a little
dusky ; head densely punctured ; clypeus prominent and obtuse
before, with a larger triangular indentation : thorax a little dusky
on the anterior margin ; posterior angles a little excurved, obtuse,
earinated line prominent, [170] acute, not parallel with the
edge: elytra with the punctures of the striz not longer than
broad : beneath much paler.
Length nearly half an inch.
The antennz are not longer than the thorax, and the terminal
joint is not remarkably contracted near its tip. The individual
was sent to me for examination by Dr. Harris. It resembles
cucullatus 8., but is destitute of tarsal lobes.
[Belongs to Athous.—L«Ec.]
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21. E. apicatus.—Elytra bright rufous, black at tip.
Inhabits New Hampshire. :'
Body black, with short yellowish hairs: clypeus convex, an-
terior edge not obtusely rounded, declining, but distinct at tip :
antennz dark piceous, rather shorter than the thorax, second
and third joints subequal: thorax wider at the posterior angles;
lateral edge rectilinear from the middle to the tip of the posterior
angles, which are prominent and acute: elytra bright rufous,
with a longitudinal black spot at tip: strie impressed, rather
wide, punctured ; interstitial spaces convex, punctured: tarsi
piceous.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
The specimen was kindly sent to me by Dr. Harris for exami-
nation. Resembles sanguinipennis 8., but is larger, witha black
spot at tip of the elytra.
22. H. HAMATUS.—Blackish, thorax with golden hair ; elytra
whitish, with a dusky hooked line at tip.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
Body blackish piceous: antennz dull rufous, hardly as long as
the thorax, second and third joints subequal, ultimate joint oval,
not longer than the preceding one: thorax convex; posterior
angles excurved, prominent, obtuse at tip; hairs golden, pros-
trate; carinated line parallel to the edge; elytra yellowish-
white, with a piceous vitta on the outer margin from the tip to
near the middle, where it carves inward and backward towards
the suture and tip; striz impressed and punctured: feet rufous.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
Sent to me by Dr. Harris.
[Belongs to Corymbites.—LEC. |
23. E. FALLAX.—Clypeus appressed to the front anteriorly ;
posterior thoracic angles short.
Inhabits New Hampshire.
Body blackish-piceous, with yellowish sericeous hair: elypeus
anteriorly confluent with the front: antennz about as long as
the thorax; joints hardly longer than their greatest breadth :
thorax narrowed before; [171] lateral edge a little arcuated ;
punctures minute ; posterior angles short, rather wide, scarcely
excurved; carina short; basal margin somewhat depressed, with
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a longitudinal indentation in the middle, and a slender impune-
tured line extends to the anterior edge: elytra striate, the striz
not very obviously punctured, third and fourth confluent before
the tip; greatest breadth posterior to the middle: tibiee and
tarsi rufous.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
This species was sent to me by Dr. Harris. The particular
disposition of the hair on the elytra of the specimen gives the
appearance of a broad band at base, another beyond the middle,
and a subsutural spot in the middle, blackish.
[Also a Corymbites.—Lxc. ]
24. E. Aarmus.—Black ; shoulder rufous.
Inhabits United States.
Body black : elypeus with large punctures, somewhat triangu-
larly depressed, anterior edge obtusely arcuated, distinct from the
anterior part of the head : antenne, joints as broad at tip as long,
second and third equal, terminal one large ovate acute, not ab-
ruptly’smaller towards the tip : thorax convex ; punctures rather
distant, larger before; lateral edge subrectilinear, a little undu-
lated ; posterior angles short, their exterior edge very much ar-
cuated, so that the tip points inward and backward, carina di-
verging and distant from the edge, and not very obvious: elytra
with punctured strie, third and fourth confluent before the tip ;
interstitial spaces punctured ; humerus rufous.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Different from scapularis S., of which the tarsi are lobed. It
inhabits the Middle States, and Dr. Harris sent me one from
Massachusetts.
[This is the type of Gambrinus Lec. Trans. Am. Phil. Soe.
10, 455 ; it is united with Zimonius by Lacordaire.—LEc. ]
25. E. aconus.—Posterior thoracic angles very short and
rounded ; antennze longer than the thorax.
Inhabits Massachusetts, Harris. Pennsylvania.
Body violaceous-blackish : clypeus very obtuse before and
hardly distinct from the anterior part of the head; punctures
small, antenne rufous, the tip of the ninth joint reaching the
tip of the posterior thoracic angle, third joint a little longer than
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the second, which is globular ; terminal joint obtuse at tip: tho-
rax with small punctures, and like the head, with prostrate hair ;
lateral edge slightly arcuated to each extremity; at base an im-
pressed line in the middle, and an oblique one each side ; posterior
angles very short, obtusely rounded: elytra with [172] short
hairs, dull rufous, with punctured striz, of which the third and
fourth are confluent before the tip: feet and venter on the mar-
gin rufous.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
The posterior thoracic angles are unusually short and rounded.
[Belongs to Limonius.—Lxc. ]
26. F. VERNALIS Hentz.—Also inhabits Indiana. I obtained
several specimens in the autumn, on the root of an overturned
tree.
[Belongs to Corymbites.—Lxc.]
27. EK. wiERociypuHicus Harris, Catal—Bronzed-black ; ely-
tra pale rufous, with two undulated black bands.
Inhabits Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Harris. Penn-
sylvania.
Body short, robust: head with yellow or prostrate hair: cly-
peus angulated before and but little elevated: antenne rufous ;
second joint half as long as the third; last joint not larger than
the preceding one: thorax convex, covered with prostrate, yellow
hair, lateral edge regularly but not prominently arcuated ; pos-
terior angles excurved, subacute, slightly carinated, with a small
sinus at their inner origin : elytra pale yellowish rufous, striated ;
strie with very distinct punctures, third and fourth confluent be-
fore the tip ; interstitial spaces punctured ; a blackish undulated
band from the humerus, is connected by a subsutural blackish
vitta, with another undulated band behind the middle, which is
decurrent along the suture nearly to the tip; beneath tinged with
rufous ; feet rufous.
Length less than half an inch.
In some specimens the posterior band is also decurrent along
the exterior margin nearly to the tip.
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28. E. cooris.—Thorax rugulous, black, with yellow hairs;
elytra yellowish, bifasciate with black.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: antennz piceous, dull yellowish at base: thorax
longitudinally rugulous, black, with numerous, golden, prostrate
hairs ; posterior angles acute, but not much elongated ; carinated
line prominent, elongated, arcuated: elytra pale yellowish, with
a black spot at base, an angulated band on the middle, inter-
rupted into a spot towards the suture, and another black angu-
lated band, dilated near the suture, which it does not reach, but
passes abruptly backwards towards the tip ; strize as broad as the
interstitial lines; beneath tinged with piceous: feet pale yellow-
ish.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
I took three individuals.
[A species of Cryptohypnus.—Lxc. ]
29. EK. porsauis nob. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci—This name was
given by [173] Paykull to an insect which proved to be the
marginatus Faby. But if it be determined, nevertheless, that the
present name be changed, that of medlillus may be substituted.
It is found in Indiana, and I obtained a specimen at New Or-
leans. Ante, 108.]
30. EH. pectorAtis.—Yellowish ; thorax rounded; head and
elytral band black.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body yellowish, with a slight rufous tinge; punctures hardly
perceptible: head blackish-piceous: clypeus very obtusely rounded
at tip to the eyes: antenne and palpi pale yellow: thorax with
the lateral edge much and regularly arcuated to the origin of the
spines, where it becomes a little excurved; spines short, acute,
carinated : scutel suborbicular: elytra with obsolete strive; a
transverse black band behind the middle running down the su-
ture and exterior margin; pectus with the middle segment di-
lated.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
Resembles areolatus nob., but is much smaller, the thorax more
rounded, the spines smaller, the middle segment of the pectus is
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dilated, &c. A variety from Dr. Harris has the elytral fascia
extending to the tip, and in size is a little longer.
[Belongs to Cryptohypnus.—Lxc. ]
31. HK. curtatus.—Blackish ; elytra yellowish, with a black
band ; thorax with a fissure each side at base.
Inhabits United States.
Body blackish-livid, with minute punctures: clypeus obtusely
rounded, edge reflected: antennz rufous, rather robust, a little
serrate ; second joint two-thirds the length of the third ; ultimate
joint hardly longer than the preceding one: thorax with a fissure
in the posterior edge near the spines ; spines not carinate, but the
lateral edge is somewhat reflected : scutel oblong, concave : elytra
with well impressed, punctured striz; yellowish-white, with a
dusky band on the middle expanding a little on the margin and
suture: feet pale yellow.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
I obtained three specimens in June.
[A species of Cardiophorus which was afterwards cited by
Erichson as Hlater areolatus Say, to which it bears no resem-
blance. It is the only species from the Atlantic slope of the
United States known to me, having the ungues toothed: Say has
given an incorrect measurement; it should read, length three-
twentieths of an inch.—LkEc. |
32. H. SANGUINIPENNIS nob. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci—Closely
resembles preustus Fabr., whieh however, has the colors much
more vivid ; the punctures rather larger and more dense, particu-
larly those of the interstitial lines of the elytra; the thoracic
spines longer ; and the second and third joints of the antennz of
our species are more cylindrical. [174]
33. E. InFLATUS nob. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist.—Resembles holo-
sericeus Fabr., but is still more robust, the thoracic spines are
longer, and the thoracic punctures more obvious.
Inhabits also Massachusetts. Harris.
34. E. FENESTRATUS nob. (Ibid.)—As respects the elytral
spot, it may be compared to the biguttatus Fabr., but is not much
longer than the head and thorax of that species.
[No such species is described by Say.—Lec. ]
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610 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
32. E. opLtiqguus.—Piceous ; thoracic disk and elytra blackish ;
the latter with an oblique spot before the middle.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body yellowish-piceous, punctured, with yellowish hairs : head
black : clypeus not much elevated, obtusely angulated at tip: la-
brum piceous : antennz distinctly serrate ; second joint two-thirds
the length of the third ; fourth to tenth subequal; ultimate one
not suddenly contracted near the tip: thorax blackish on the
‘disk ; lateral edge arcuated near the anterior angles, rectilinear
from before the middle to the tip of the spines ; spines moderate,
not distinctly carinate : elytra with punctured striz, and slightly
punctured interstitial lines; a very oblique yellowish band from
the humerus, gradually dilating to the suture, and terminating
before the middle, leaving a rather large black scutellar area:
pectus paler than the postpectus : feet paler than the pectus : tarsi
and nails simple : venter with an obsolete darker vitta each side.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
This species somewhat resembles the areolatus nob.
To this division of the genus must be added those species which
[have described under the following names, viz. :—badius, erosus,
rotundicollis, plebejus, erytropus, collaris, rubricus, mendica, sila-
ceus, quercinus, basilaris, and arcolatus, as well as the stigma and
nigricollis of Herbst.
[Say has described no species under the name of mendica.—
LEc.]
tt Tarsal joints lobed beneath.
36. E. topatus nob,—This species Germar thinks is the cas-
tanipes Herbst. ; but it certainly cannot be castinipes Fabr. The
anterior part of the clypeus agrees with that of Campylus Fischer.
37. E. BrLopatus.—Dark chestnut; front indented; spines
obtuse ; second and third joints of the tarsi lobed beneath.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body dark chestnut, punctured, with numerous short hairs:
head [175 ] with large, very dense punctures: front a little con-
cave: clypeus not prominent, rather depressed between the an-
tennz : antennz a little paler ; second joint rather more than half
as long as the third; terminal joint abruptly smaller near the
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tip, so as to appear like two joints: thorax with the punctures
as large as those of the head, but less dense; spines obtuse, not
elongated, destitute of carina: elytra with deep strie, in which
are rather large, close set punctures ; interstitial lines convex with
minute punctures: feet, color of the antennz, honey-yellow ;
second and third tarsal joints extended beneath into a membra-
naceous, rounded pulvillus.
Length less than seyen-tenths of an inch.
This species may be distinguished by the obtuse thoracic
spines, and the lobed second and third tarsal joints.
[Belongs to Asuphes.—LEc. ]
38. E. inquinatus.— Honey-yellowish, head and _ suture
blackish.
Inhabits United States.
Body small, honey-yellow, with short hair: head dusky or
blackish: antenne pale: clypeus terminating anteriorly in a
rectangle: thorax dusky on the anterior margin; lateral edge
rectilinear ; posterior angles acute ; base each side with an elon-
gated fissure: elytra, strie distinctly punctured ; sutural margin
widely dusky at base, and tapering to the tip: beneath reddish
brown: feet yellowish; tarsi with the penultimate joint only,
obviously lobed.
Length under one-fifth of an inch.
This species occurs in Pennsylvania, and Dr. Harris obtained
it in New Hampshire, and from North Carolina.
[I received from Dr. Harris a specimen of Dolopius pauper
Lec., as this species, but as the tarsi are not lobed it cannot be so
referred: [ am rather inclined to believe it the same as H/ater
recticollis Say, which is an Adrastus.—LEC. ]
39. EK. MEMNOoNTUS.—Brown, more or less dark : antennz ru-
fous, compressed; length of the joints at least twice their ter-
minal breadth; longer than the thorax: head densely pune-
tured ; front concave, anterior edge depressed in the middle by
the concavity, but still elevated: thorax densely, not confluently
punctured, convex, laterally arcuated, widest in the middle ; pos-
terior angles very little excurved, and at their tips somewhat in-
curved; carinated line nearly parallel with the edge, elevated
and acute; basal edge with an acute sinus near the posterior
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angles: elytra with punctured impressed strie ; punctures nearer
each other than their own length; interstitial spaces convex,
densely punctured; third and fourth striz abbreviated and con-
fluent at tip; apical margin a little elevated : beneath, margins
and feet paler.
Length less than four-fifths of an inch. [176]
E. nemnonius Herbst, Melsh. Catal. p. 42.
Inhabits Middle States.
Terminal joint of the antenne abruptly smaller at tip, and the
thorax is longitudinally indented behind the middle.
[The type of Asaphes Kirby, and described by him as A. ruji-
cornis.— LEC. |
40. E. BARripIus.—Resembles the preceding, but is much
larger, more robust, the thorax more rounded each side, the se-
cond and third strie of the elytra abbreviated and confluent at
tip.
Length over nine-tenths of an inch.
Of this I have seen but one specimen, which was sent me for
examination by Dr. Harris. It was taken in North Carolina.
[Also an Asaphes, and subsequently deseribed as ~Hemicrepr-
dius Thomasi Germ.—L«E¢. ]
4]. E. wemrpopus nob. (Ann. Lye. N. Y.)—Black-brown ; an-
tennz with obconic-compressed joints; not obviously serrate ;
second joint more than half the length of the third: thoracie
spines rather short and obtuse: the carina parallel with the outer
edge: tarsi, first, second and third joints extended beneath into
pulvilli: thorax with a slight fissure on the basal margin, near
the posterior angles.
[Also an Asaphes.—Lxc.]
42. E. soueatus.—Chestnut; clypeus prominent, rounded,
second and third tarsal joints extended beneath into a prominent
lobe.
_ Inhabits Indiana.
Body dark chestnut brown, punctured ; with very numerous,
short hairs, not prostrate : clypeus prominent before, and obtusely
rounded: antennz a little serrate, rufous; second joint not
longer than broad, not more than half the length of the third :
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thorax rather convex, dorsal indentation none, excepting some-
times a very slight one at base; lateral edge rectilinear from be-
fore the middle ‘to the tip of the spines; spines not excurved,
prominent, subacute, carinate; the carina nearly parallel to the
exterior edge: indentation between the thorax and abdomen
deep ; scutel somewhat indented : elytra with punctured striae,
and with minutely and irregularly punctured interstitial lines .
beneath rufous ; second and third joints of the tarsi each extend-
ing beneath into a prominent, flattened, membranaceous lobe,
that of the third much more obvious, rounded at tip, and ex-
tending much beyond the tip of the penultimate joint, which is
very small.
Length from seven-twentieths, to more than eleyen-twentieths
of an inch.
This varies considerably in size, and the prominent obtuse cly-
peus, together with the elongated, membranaceous lobe of the
antepenultimate [177] tarsal joint distinguish it from other spe-
cies. Resembles cucullatus.
[Belongs to Dicrepidius.—Lxc. ]
43. HK. cucunyatus nob. (Ann. Lye. N. Y.)—May be distin-
guished from soleatus by the clypeus being obviously indented
above, and more obtuse, almost emarginate on the anterior edge ;
the antennz are more slender, and the last joint not, or hardly
longer than the preceding one: thorax more slender, and the
spines more obtuse, shorter, and rounded at tip: the larger lobe
of the tarsi is not so prominent. The thoracic spines resemble
those of hemorrhoidalis Fabr., but are more excurvyed.
[A species of Pedetes, ante, 1, 897.—LEc.]
44, H. prnectus nob. (Ibid.)\—The penultimate tarsal joint of
this species is produced beneath into a membranaceous lobe.
Near the description of bilineatus Web., Fabr.
[A Monocrepidius, ante, 1, 8395.—Lxc.]
45. EK. vespertinus Fabr.—The penultimate tarsal joint is
minute, but is extended beneath into a dilated membranaceous
lobe, half the length of the last joint. This species varies con-
siderably ; the elytra have generally a connecting black band be-
yond the middle; they are rarely nearly all black, with one or
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614 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
two small spots, tip and humerus testaceous: the thoracic vitte
are sometimes reduced to very small spots: scutel always testa-
ceous.
[ Also a Monocrepidius—LxEc. |
46. E. crrncumscrrptus Germ.—The penultimate tarsal joint
is at least half the length of the last, and is produced beneath
into a lobe.
[ Nothing of the kind exists in the species that I consider as Ger-
mar’s, and which that author places in Cryptohypnus : for me itis a
Monocrepidius, without tarsal lobes. What insect Say had in
view, I am unable to determine.—LEc. ]
46. HE. prseorus nob. (Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc.)—Penultimate
tarsal joint remarkably short above, hardly visible, but produced
beneath into a dilated lobe, two-thirds the length of the ultimate
joint. [Ante, 113.]
48. E. extriatus nob.—This is the L. geminatus nob. (Ann.
Lye. N. Y.) Elytra destitute of strive; joints of the tarsi, ex-
cepting the terminal one, with dilated lobes beneath. I change
the name, as that of geminatus was previously given by Germar
to a Brazilian species.
[Belongs to Lissomus.—LEc. ]
49. KE. pettus S. (Journ. Acad. Nat. Se. iii. p. 168.)—The
penultimate tarsal joint is dilated beneath into a lobe. A very
pretty little species.
50. E. prnus.—Black ; with two large testaceous spots on
each elytron.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with short yellowish hairs, almost sericeous, punc-
tured: clypeus rounded at tip, somewhat prominent: antennz
scarcely serrate, rufous; second joint more than half as long as
the third; terminal joint [178] not, or hardly longer than the
penultimate one: thorax on the lateral edge rectilinear from be-
fore the middle to the tip of the posterior spine, which is rather
long, acute, carinate: scutel black : elytra with punctured striz,
and minutely punctured interstitial lines; on each a large testa-
ceous spot, extending from the base nearly to the middle, not
reaching the suture, and a smaller one beyond the middle: pec-
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tus in the middle piceous: feet honey-yellow : tarsi, penultimate
joint minute, but extended beneath into a lobe, almost half the
length of the ultimate joint.
Length from one-fourth to two-fifths of an inch.
[Belongs to Dicrepidius.—Lxo.]
51. H. scAPULARIS.—Clypeus concave ; antenne longer than
the thorax ; humerus yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head greenish black: clypeus somewhat prominent, obtusely
rounded at tip, much indented above: antennse longer than the
thorax, serrate ; second joint one-third the length of the third,
which is dilated at tip like the following ones, and somewhat
longer than the fourth: thorax greenish black, rather long; sides
alittle contracted before the spines ; spines robust, not attenuated,
rounded at tip and yellowish : scutel piceous: elytra dull yellow-
ish on the basal margin; with rather deep stria, punctured ; in-
terstitial lines rounded with. transversely confluent punctures:
feet piceous: tarsi with the second, third, and fourth joints di-
lated beneath into rather short lobes, that of the third much
wider and more prominent; fourth joint more than half the
length of the third ; ultimate joint equal in length to the first,
and equal to the second, third and fourth taken together.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
This is rather slender, and the yellowish bases of the elytra
are distinguishing and obvious characters.
[Belongs to Pedetes.—LEc. |
52. E. acANTHUS.—Brown; clypeus concave above; spines
compressed, short, rounded. ;
Inhabits Indiana.
Body rather slender, punctured: head blackish brown, with
small punctures more distant than the length of their diameters :
clypeus prominent, obtusely rounded before and concave above :
antennz longer than the thorax, not serrate ; second joint more
than half the length of the third: thorax blackish-brown ; long,
lateral edge rectilinear, hardly broader behind than before ; an-
terior angles a little prominent, and slightly truncate ; punctures
not discoidal, small, profound, and more [179] distant than the
length oftheir own diameters; spines very short, rounded at
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616 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
tip, compressed, without carina, and reflected a little from the
side: elytra paler, with dilated, punctured striz, and transverse
wrinkles on the interstitial spaces : beneath, excepting the pectus,
rather paler than the elytra: tarsi, second and third joints pro-
duced beneath into membranaceous lobes, that of the third more
prominent; fourth joint minute, hardly wider than the base of
the ultimate joint.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Very much like cwcullatus S.; is smaller and more slender;
the punctures of the head and thorax are not discoidal, as in that
species, and the thoracic spines are entirely destitute of carina,
are more obtuse, compressed, and reflected from the sides. are.
[Also a Pedetes.—Lxc. ]
53. E. charicoLiis.—Black ; antenne, mouth, and feet yel-
lowish ; thoracic spines very short, without carina.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished ; punctures minute and remote: clypeus
not prominent, tip a little reflected and rounded : antenne hardly
as long as the thorax, not serrate, yellowish ; first joint robust ;
second joint but little shorter than the third ; terminal joint not
longer than the penultimate one : mouth, excepting the tip of the
mandibles, honey-yellow: thorax polished, a little narrowed at
the anterior angles; lateral edge almost rectilinear, or hardly
perceptibly arcuated from near the anterior angles to the base ;
spines very short, obtusely rounded, without any carina: scutel
large, angulated behind : elytra with punctured strie ; interstitial
lines with minute distant punctures: pectus, in the middle near
the mouth, honey-yellow: feet pale yellow; tarsi, fourth joint
small, but produced beneath into a dilated lobe; terminal joint
shorter than the first.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
The thorax is remarkably polished.
[Unknown to me; probably a Monocrepidius——LE¢. ]
54. E. rrntrimus.—Dusky, obsoletely margined with rufous;
tarsi, fourth joint lobate.
Inhabits North Carolina.
Body with dense, small punctures, black brown ; vertex longi-
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tudinally indented : clypeus obtusely rounded before, prominent :
antenn pale rufous, third joint a little longer than the second,
terminal joint not obviously contracted abruptly towards the tip:
thorax rather narrowed anteriorly, with an obsolete, dull, rufous
margin and dorsal line ; [ 180] posterior angles very slightly ex-
curved, rather long, acute, with the carinated line very near to
the edge: scutel dull rufous: elytra with the strie impressed,
not confluent, and in which the punctures are not very obvious;
interstitial lines depressed; an obsolete, rufous, humeral spot,
and another on the middle of the exterior submargin: beneath
pale rufous: feet paler; penultimate joint of the tarsi with a
membranaceous lobe.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The body is more elongated than either dilectus S., or bisectus S.
I am indebted to Dr. Harris for an opportunity to examine a spe-
cimen.
[This is a variety of Monocrepidius vespertinus.—LEC. ]
50. E. pEcoLoraTus Harris MSS.—Black ; elytra, antenne
and feet rufous.
Inhabits New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
Body blackish, with pale hairs and minute punctures: clypeus
with larger punctures than the thorax ; two obsoletely impressed
diverging lines; anterior edge subangulated, and the angles so
depressed as to appear confluent with the anterior part of the
head : antennz rufous, a little hairy ; second joint two-thirds the
length of the third ; last joint longer than the first, not abruptly
contracted towards the tip: thorax convex blackish; base with
a fissure each side; posterior angles pointing backward, rather
obtuse and somewhat broad, with the carinated line rather short,
and not much elevated; elytra dull rufous; impressed, slightly
punctured strise, more deeply indented at base, and the third and
fourth confluent before the tip: feet pale rufous; fourth joint of
the tarsi not so distinctly lobed as the preceding joints.
Length half an inch.
Rare in Pennsylvania. Approaches the description of Z. se mt-
rufus Germar, which, however, I believe to be smaller.
[Belongs to Asaphes.—Lxc.]
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618 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
ttt Tarsi dilated, operculiform.
56. E. MARMOoRATUS F.—Our largest species of this division
that I have seen. I have found it as far north as Canada, and
Mr. Nuttall presented me a specimen from Arkansa. It occurs
both in Pennsylvania and Indiana, and Dr. Harris sent me a spe-
cimen which was found in N. Carolina. The thorax may be de-
seribed as unequal, as it has several indentations ; the pectus has
deeply impressed tarsal grooves; the clypeus is concave. [181]
57. E. opercunatus 8., Ann. Lyc. N. Y.*—Belongs to this
division. Dr. Harris sent me specimens from Massachusetts
and New Hampshire.
[Probably the species afterwards described by me as Adelocera
brevicornis is here intended.—LEc. |
58. E. Auroratus.—Blackish, sprinkled with golden seales ;
pectoral tarsal impressions not profound.
Inhabits New Hampshire.
Body blackish, punctured, with bright yellow scales: clypeus
not conspicuously concave before: thorax convex; a longitudi-
nal, impressed, but not much dilated line, obsolete on the ante-
rior third; lateral edge regularly arcuated to the origin of the
posterior angles, which are rather broad, acute, and extending
outward and backward, with their exterior edge perfectly rectilinear
to the tip, basal edge sinuous ; elytra destitute of elevated lines at
base: pectus, tarsal impressions not deeply marked, but distinct,
concave: tarsi rufous.
Length eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Sent to me for examination by Dr. Harris. The lateral edge
of the thorax is not undulatedly arcuated as in 2. marmoratus F.,
and £. operculatus 8.
[Belongs with the two following species to Adelocera.—LEc.]
59. E. oprectus.—Thorax with a much dilated groove ; elytra
with elevated lines at base, one of which extends beyond the
middle.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
* [This is an error. There is no species in the Ann. Lye. N. Y. bear-
ing: the name of operculatus. , Is it not the erosus S. Ann. Lye. i., p.
258 (—H.]
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Body blackish piceous: clypeus transversely concave before :
thorax rather short and wide ; dorsal groove much dilated, the top
of its lateral elevations being equidistant from the middle of the ex-
terior edge; exterior edge arcuated, not undulated ; lateral mar-
gin broadly depressed ; posterior angles rather broad, extending
outwards and backwards, their exterior edge rectilinear to the
tip: elytra with elevated, obtuse lines at base, one of which is
obliquely elongated and is obsolete behind the middle: tarsal
groove of the pectus none.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
For this species I am indebted to Dr. Harris. It is as large as
marmoratus F., and operculatus 8., to the latter of which it ap-
proaches in being destitute of the tarsal grooves of the pectus,
and in the short wide thorax ; but it differs from it in the more
regular arcuation of the lateral edge of the thorax, the exterior
edge of the posterior angles [ 182 ] being rectilinear, and in the
crimped appearance of the base of the elytra, &c.
60. E. piscorprus Weber.*—Remarkable by the golden hairy
head and sides of the thorax. This is the pennatus Fabr.; but
Weber’s name has the priority, and must therefore be adopted.
61. E. reprurus. Blackish; spines acute; elytra with ap-
proximated series of punctures.
Inhabits United States, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North
Carolina. Harris.
Body black-brown, punctured, rather slender: clypeus concave,
truncate at tip, and emarginate each side at the insertion of the
antenne : antenne rufous, serrate; second joint not half the length
of the third: thorax with a dorsal, slightly indented line ; lateral
edge not arcuated; a little narrowed before, and contracted at
the spines ; spines excurved, acute: scutel rounded behind: ely-
tra with approximate series of deep punctures, with an appear-
ance of striae, the series alternately larger : pectus, tarsal grooves
obvious.
~* ‘¢Observationes Entomologice.’? This work, which was presented
to me by Professor Wiedemann, was published in the same year with the
Syst. Eleut. ; but, as Fabricius quotes Weber’s work, the priority of the
latter is evident.
1836.]
620 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Resembles discotdeus Weber, but is always destitute of the
golden hair of the head and thorax. It is the lepturus of Mel-
sheimer’s Catalogue.
[An Adelocera, but does not differ from A. impressicollis.—
LEc. |
62. E. impressicouuis 8., Ann. Lye. N. Y.i., p. 260.—Re-
sembles /epturus 8.; but may be distinguished by its ferruginous
color.
63. E. reEctANGuLARIS 8S. Ann. Lye. N. Y.i. p. 260.—The
posterior angles of the thorax are rectangular, and the antenne
remarkably short.:
[Belongs to Lacon.—LEc. ]
64. E. Avirus.—Blackish; rather long; scales yellow and
black ; spines acute, hardly excurved.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with a slight tinge of piceous, punctured ; scales
intermixed, black and bright yellow; rather slender: clypeus
hardly elevated before ; anterior edge very obtusely arcuated, a
little concave ; antenne serrate, rufous; second joint small, sub-
globular, thorax with an obtusely indented line behind the mid-
dle ; lateral edge very slightly arcuated, and slightly excurved
at the spines ; spines very slightly excurved, acute, not carinated :
scutel concave, rounded behind ; elytra [183] with hardly percep-
tible, raised lines: punctures profound, densely and irregularly
set: feet piceous: pectus, tarsal grooves none.
Length eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Smaller than £. marmoratus F., and more slender, with a
more equal thorax ; larger than LZ. /epturus 8., discoideus Weber;
impressicollis §., and rectangularis §., and the punctures of the
elytra are not in regular series. It seems to approach nearer to
E. operculatus S., but the elytra are more obtuse at tip, and have
much more profound, large, and close set punctures. I have not
now an entire specimen of the latter species, and therefore can-
not compare with the anterior part of the body.
[A species of Adelocera.—LKc. ]
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+7 +t Claws pectinated.
[The species of this division, except 69 and 70, belong to Ora-
tonychus.—LkEc. |
65. E. corricrnus 8. (Journ. Acad. Nat Se., iii, p. 174.)—
The second and third joints of the antenne are rounded, equal.
The basal margin of the thorax has a fissure each side, near the
lateral spines. It varies in size. The smallest one that I have
seen is seven-twentieths of an inch. Canitbe the dispar of Herbst?
66. EK. cinEREus Weber.—Second joint of the antennz about
half the length of the third: the thorax is more rounded at the
sides than the preceding. It varies considerably in size. The
basal margin of the thorax has a fissure each side.
Length from three-tenths to seven-tenths of an inch.
The former size is rare; but the more usual length is about
half an inch.
This is the vulgaris and pilosus of Melsheimer’s Catalogue.
It resembles the brunnipes Ziegler; but the thoracic punctures
are rather larger, and less crowded, the thoracic spines are longer
and more acute, and the second joint of the antenngs is a little
longer in proportion to the third.* [184]
*[ Among Mr. Say’s manuscripts is a description of the cinereus, under
the rejected name of jissilis, which, as it contains the characters of this
species somewhat in detail, it may be proper to insert here. ]
E. fissilis.—Brown ; base of the thorax with a fissure near the pos-
terior angles.
Inhabits the United States.
Body chestnut-brown, punctured, somewhat sericeous with short
hairs: head convex : clypeus rounded at tip: antenne rufous ; second
joint half as long as the third; ultimate joint not abruptly contracted near
the tip: thorax with the lateral edge regularly arcuated, not [184] con-
tracted near the spines ; spines rather short and somewhat obtuse, sub-
bicarinate ; basal margin, near the lateral spines, with a distinct fissure :
elytra with punctured striz, and depressed, minutely punctured inter-
stitial lines ; suture somewhat paler: feet dull rufous: tarsi beneath
with rather dense hairs: nails pectinated.
Length over half an inch.
The thoracic fissures readily distinguish this species. I formerly
marked it in my cabinet interr ogatively as the brevicollis Herbst; but
it can hardly be that species, as no notice_is taken of the fissures. Can
it be the cinereus Weber?
1836.]
622 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
67. EK. comMuNIs Schonherr, is much like the preceding, but
the thorax is canaliculate.
68. EK. insrprens S. (Ann. Lyc. N. Y., i, p. 267.)—The
fissure in the posterior margin of the thorax, near the spines, is
distinct.
69. E. reoticoniis 8. (Journ. Acad. Nat. Se., iii., p. 168.)*
Distinguished from the preceding species by the lobed joints
of the tarsi. In those species the joints have projecting hairs
beneath, but not lobes. The clypeus descends rather low, and is
almost rectangular at tip.
[Belongs to Adrastus.—LEc. ]
70. E. qurerus.—Black ; antenne and labrum rufous; palpi
and feet pale yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black-brown; sericeous with short, yellowish hairs ;
slender; with numerons, minute, but not close set punctures:
clypeus very obtusely angulated in front, almost rounded: an-
*[The following description, which was marked to be omitted by Mr.
Say, contains several characters not laid down in the Journal of the
Acad. Nat. Sciences on the page above quoted. It seems to apply
rather to a variety of the recticollis that was proposed originally by Mr.
Say as a distinct species, under the name of E. inscius, but was subse-
quently referred to the previously described EH. recticollis. For the
reasons above stated, it may be useful to insert the rejected description
in this place. T. W. H.]
E. RECTICOLLIS (inscius S., MSS.). Brown; clypeus subangulated
before ; suture dusky.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body light brown, somewhat sericeous, with yellowish hairs, and
with numerous minute punctures : clypeus but little elevated, tip ob-
tusely angulated: antenne hardly serrate, pale rufous ; first joint rather
long, arcuated, robust; second and third joints subequal : head dusky:
thorax dusky on the middle ; lateral edge nearly rectilinear, arcuated
at the anterior angles, and a little excurved at the spines ; not elongated ;
spines acute, not carinate; posterior edge with a fissure from which a
line extends forward upon the margin : elytra with punctured strie and
minute punctures on the interstitial lines; sutural margin dusky: be-
neath piceous: pectus honey-yellow: feet honey-yellow: tarsi, third
and fourth joints lobed beneath.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
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tenn rufous, not serrate; first joint rather long, and a little
arcuated ; second and third joints subequal, the second rather
longer and more robust: labrum rufous, prominent: thorax
rectilinear on the lateral edge from near the anterior [185] angles,
where it is hardly arcuated, to the tip of the spines ; spines acute,
earinate; the carina, as in the preceding species, forms the ap-
parent edge, and extends more than half the length of the tho-
rax; posterior edge with a fissure each side, extending in an ob-
vious line upon the margin: scutel angulated obtusely behind:
elytra with punctured strie and minutely punctured interstitial
lines: beneath black piceous: feet pale yellow; tarsi, third and
fourth joints lobed beneath ; nails pectinated with but few rather
robust teeth.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Closely resembles the preceding, but is more slender, the
pectens of the nails have fewer teeth, and the clypeus is much
more obtuse at tip, and the color is different.
[Also an Adrastus.—L«c.]
71. E. pertrnax.—Black ; antenne and feet rufous ; punc-
tures sparse.
Inhabits Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, Harris.
Body black, immaculate, with distant grayish hairs: clypeus
with large punctures, anteriorly obtusely rounded and elevated,
the edge a little reflected : antenne rufous; third joint a little
longer than the second : thorax with distant punctures and hairs ;
lateral edge nearly rectilinear behind the middle, the posterior
angles divaricating but slightly outwards; base with the lateral
fissures rather long: elytra with regular series of punctures, the
strie not being impressed, excepting at base and the sutural one:
feet rufous.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
72. KE. Tenax.—Black; antennz and feet rufous ; posterior
thoracic angles not excurved.
Inhabits Massachusetts.
Closely resembles L. pertinax §., but is much smaller; the
punctures of the thorax are much more numerous, the posterior
angles not at all excurved: elytra with the striz distinctly im-
1836.]
624 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
pressed and punctured, the interstitial spaces with rather large
punctures: feet rufous.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
For this species I am indebted to Dr. Harris. [186]
EUCNEMIS Ahrens? Mannerheim.
+ Pectus not inflected at the edge, nor canaliculate beneath, to
receive the antennzx.
* Tarsi simple.
1. E. muscrpus 8. ( Hlater muscidus Ann. Lye. N. Y., i. p.
256.) The largest known species of the United States.
2. E. uniconor 8. (later unicolor Ann. Lye. N. Y. i. p.
255.) Also a large species.
3. E. HETEROCERUS.—Light brown, sericeous; three last
joints of the antenne largest.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body light reddish brown, sericeous, with bright yellow hair ;
punctures minute, universal : antenne, first joint as long as the
three next together; second joint smallest ; third nearly as long
as the two next; fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth short,
equal; remaining joints each nearly as long as three of the pre-
ceding ones together, and somewhat dilated : thorax with an in-
dented line at base; spines prominent, acute: scutel rounded
behind : elytra with impunctured strie: pectus on the lateral
margin slightly concave.
Length half an inch.
The singular form of the antennze will distinguish this fine
species from any other yet known. It will form a separate
genus.
[Belongs to Phlegon Lap., a genus which I afterwards described
as Huryptychus.—Lxc. ]
4. E. QuADRICOLLIS.—Head and thorax with large crowded
punctures ; posterior thoracic angles nearly rectangular.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body piceous black, with yellowish hairs : head with crowded,
large punctures, longitudinally confluent on the vertex : antennz
rather distant at base, not seated in approximated sinuses, but
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ander frontal elevations ; second joint more robust than the third,
and equally long ; fourth joint rather longer than the third; re-
maining joints obconic, subequal, the last a little longer: palpi,
terminal joint oval: thorax transverse quadrate, with punctures
like those of the head, but not much confluent; anterior angles
rounded ; lateral edges nearly parallel, very slightly contracted
towards the posterior angles, which are nearly rectangular, a little
acute, not continued backward beyond the line of the base: ely-
tra with punctured striz and minutely punctured interstitial
lines : pectus with less crowded punctures than the thorax : [187]
middle segment very broad; no groove: feet, like all beneath,
dark piceous : tarsi a little paler.
Length over one-fourth of an inch.
This species is not perhaps in all its characters perfectly coin-
cident with those of the genus, particularly in the remote origin
of the antennz ; but the form of the praesternum and the great
inflection of the head agree very well.
[Unknown to me.—Lzc. ]
5. E. rronrosus.—Antenne submoniliform ; thorax indented
each side of the middle.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish piceous, with short yellowish hair, punctured :
front longitudinally indented: antennz ferruginous, serrato-
moniliform ; basal joint arcuated, obliquely truncated at tip;
second joint arcuated at base: thorax with a longitudinal im-
pressed line, and an indentation each side of the middle; poste-
rior angles prominent: elytra, striz not deeply impressed: feet
piceous.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
The very short and submoniliform joints of the antennz, as
well as the general form of the body, give to this species a re-
semblance to the monilicornis Mannerh., but the thoracic inden-
tations, &c., distinguish it.
[Belongs to Emathion, and was afterwards described by me as
Epiphanis canaliculatus—Lkc. ]
6. E. ruricornis 8. (Melasis ruficornis, Journ. Acad. N. 8.
iii. p. 165.)—This species having a very small spine, and slight
indentation instead of a recipient cavity, may perhaps be placed
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626 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
here. By the very robust antennz it seems to approach the
genus Nematodes Latr.
[This and the next belong to Tharops.—LEc. ]
7. E. optiquus.—Hlytra black, inner portion, bounded by a
line from the middle of the base to beyond the middle of the
length, yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
In general form, and in its antenna, this species resembles the
ruficornis 5.
* * Tarsi, terminal joint short and dilated.
8. E. arropos.—Thorax with two impressed dots and dorsal
line.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish piceous, somewhat sericeous, with bright yellow
hair, minutely punctured: head with the hairs radiating from
the middle of the front: antenne, first joint as long as the three
next together, hardly arcuated ; second joint at least as long as
the fourth; third nearly equal to the fourth and fifth together ;
remaining joints rather larger than the fourth and fifth: thorax
convex before, almost vertical at the sides ; [ 188] like the head,
dark chestnut; a well impressed dot each side, a little before the
middle; an impressed, acute, longitudinal line behind the mid-
dle, extending obsoletely to the anterior edge ; spines prominent,
acute: scutel with a slightly impressed line: elytra blackish,
with impunctured striz ; punctures towards the base somewhat
transversely confluent: pectus with the lateral margin slightly
concave: tarsi, penultimate joint extended beneath into a lobe, a
little dilated and truncated.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Behind each of the dots of the thorax is.an abbreviated, obso-
lete, impressed, transverse line. The dots of the thorax are
‘more anterior than those of the pygmzus Fabr.
[Belongs to Emathion—L«c. ]
77 Pectus canaliculate on the lateral margin.
9. E. cAncearus.—Reddish brown: an elevated line on the
front over the base of the antenne.
Inhabits Indiana.
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Body reddish brown, or chestnut, slightly sericeous, and with
minute punctures: head blackish, with an obvious, transverse
raised, glabrous line over the antenne, a little advanced in the
middle: antenne chestnut; first joint about as long as the head,
somewhat robust, obliquely truncated at the end ; second hardly
shorter, but less robust than the third, attenuated and arcuated
at base, at its junction with the first joint; fourth joint a little
shorter than the third; remaining joints gradually a little longer
to the tip, subequal: thorax dusky, not elevated; dorsal line
hardly perceptible, even at base ; spines prominent, acute : elytra
rather slightly striate ; striae impunctured : beneath particularly
sericeous: pectus with the lateral groove well marked : tarsi,
penultimate joint with a short, rather broad lobe beneath.
Length from one-fifth to three-tenths of an inch.
[This is a species of Fornax, subsequently described by me as
Isarthrus spretus. The lobe of the tarsi is not very obvious ; so
little so, that I failed to see it in my original specimen, though it
is quite visible in some others in a better state of preservation
that I have since examined.—Lxc. |
10. KE. cynrypriconiis.—Black; thorax longitudinally and
widely indented behind.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish, a little ‘sericeous, subcylindric, minutely pune-
tured : antennz dark rufous, shorter than the thorax; first joint
cylindrical, hardly arcuated, at base rather abruptly narrowed,
at tip obliquely truncated, blackish; second joint obconic, at-
tenuated and arcuated at base; third longer than the two follow-
ing ones together ; remaining ones to the last, subequal ; termi-
nal one nearly as long as the third: thorax [ 189] obscurely sub-
iridescent, subcylindric, the sides being almost parallel; not re-
markably elevated; behind the middle a much dilated, oblong
triangular, rather deeply indented line, extending to the base ;
spines acute, not much elongated: scutel rounded at tip : elytra
with the strize obsolete, the subsutural obvious: pectus with the
lateral groove very obvious : tibiae and tarsi rufous ; penultimate
tarsal joint produced beneath into a dilated, obtuse lobe.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
The dilated elongate triangular indentation, or dilated dorsal
1836.]
§28 TRANSACTIONS OF THE
line, extending from the undule to the base of the thorax, is
probably somewhat similar to that of the capucinus Ahrens ; but
the general form is much more cylindric.
[Also a Fornax.— Lec. ]
11. E. ctypratus 8S. (Kater c., Ann. Lye. N. Y. i. p. 266.)
12. E. AM@NniIcorRNIS.—Black ; antennz pectinate, second
and third joints, and feet rufous.
Inhabits Indiana and New Hampshire.
Body small, black, densely punctured above and beneath : an-
tenne with a process on each joint excepting the three basal
ones, black, the second and third joints dull rufous: thorax con-
vex, simple; posterior angles a little excurved, acute, without
carinated line; base without fissures: elytra, third and fourth
striae only half the length of the elytra: feet rufous.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
Resembles #. pygmexus Fabr., but the thorax is without in-
dentation. J obtained two specimens in Indiana, and received
one from Dr. Harris.
[Belongs to Hucnemis ; when laid on its back, this insect will
make a feeble attempt to spring, like a genuine Hlater.—Lzc.]
+ ++ Pectus canaliculate each side of the middle.
13. E. tRrIANGULARIS 8S. (Eater t., Journ. Acad. N. 8. iii. p-
170.)
Antenne, first joint slightly arcuated, obliquely truncate at
tip; second obconic, small, arcuated at base: thorax with an im-
pressed line behind the middle ; anterior margin piceous.
It occurs in Indiana as well as Missouri.
[Belongs to Microrhagus.—Lkc. ]
14. E. sumeRALIS.—Black ; elytra rufous at base.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, minutely punctured, and with minute hairs ; front
with an obsolete indented line : antennze rather hairy ; first joint
slightly arcuated, obliquely truncate at tip; second obconic,
arcuated at base; third shorter than the two following ones to-
vether ; remaining joints [190] subequal, to the last, which is a
little longer; thorax convex, but not much elevated; elytra
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 629
striate; basal fourth rufous; feet rufous: pectus distinetly
eanaliculate each side of the middle.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Note-—I am indebted to Count Mannerheim of St. Peters-
burg, Russia, for this excellent observations on this genus. His
descriptions are detailed and perspicuous. I have adopted, for
the present, his views of this genus.
[Also a Microrhagus.—Lxc. |
THROSCUS Latr.
T. CONSTRICTOR.
This species is the approximate analogue of the adstrictor
Fabr., of Europe, to which I had always referred it: but on
comparing our insect with a specimen of the adstrictor, for which
Iam indebted to the politeness of Professor Germar, I am in-
clined to consider it a distinct species, and I give to it the above
name, which that distinguished entomologist proposes in his
letter. This insect, compared with the adstrictor, is of a paler
color, and a little different in form; being less attenuated be-
hind; in size it is much the same; it is also somewhat more ob-
viously punctured.
1836. ]
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[From Boston Journal of Natural History, Vol. 1, No. 2, May, 1835, pp.
151-203.]
Descriptions of new North American COLEOPTEROUS INSECTS, and
Observations on some already described.
Communicated Feb. 1835.
In this number we present to our readers a part of the hither-
to unpublished entomological papers of the late Thomas Say.
This distinguished and lamented American naturalist was en-
gaged in preparing them for publication in the Boston Journal
of Natural History, when his labors were prematurely arrested
by the disease which proved fatal to him, on the tenth of Octo-
ber, 1834. In justice to his memory, it becomes our duty, with-
out delay, to publish these posthumous papers, and thereby to
secure to his names, as far as possible, the right of priority.
These papers consist of descriptions of New American Coleop-
terous and Hymenopterous insects, and remarks upon some al-
ready described. The Hymenoptera will appear in our next
number.—Pub. Committee.
BRACHINUS Weber.
B. ALTERNANS? Dej.—A specimen occurred near New Or-
leans, which, so far as | have been able to compare [152] the
characters, nearly corresponds with this species ; but as the head
is deficient in the specimen, I cannot determine positively ; and,
furthermore, the circumstance of the second and fourth elytral
costee not being obviously elevated, leads to a doubt.
~SANDALUS Knoch.
1. S. perRopHYyA Knoch.—I observed this insect, frequently,
on the flowers of a resinous plant common in the prairies of Mis-
sourl.
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2. 8.? BRUNNEUS.—Blackish-brown ; antenne sericeous-brown ;
thorax with two indentations on the disk.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish-brown, punctured, oblong; head with small
punctures, rather prominent between the antenne, above which
it is somewhat indented ; antenne as long as the thorax or rather
longer, brown sericeous; thorax with small punctures, anterior
and posterior angles dentiform; disk with a small orbicular in-
dentation each side behind the middle, and an irregular one on
the basal middle ; posterior margin each side of the middle a lit-
tle concave ; scutel orbicular; elytra with numerous somewhat
large punctures ; not in striz, with four slightly elevated lines or
nervures, the inner one abbreviated before the tip, the others
confluent near the tips.
Length from two-fifths to three-fifths of an inch.
This insect approaches, in character, nearer to Sandalus than
to any other genus. In that genus the mandibles are remarka-
bly faleate, and the tooth is on the inner side, towards the base ;
they are also covered to the middle by a membrane or coriaceous
process ; the tibiw are quadrilateral and denticulate, and the
tarsi beneath are clothed with very dense hairs. In our insect
the conformation of the antennz is the same as in the female of
Sandalus, excepting that they are much more elongated ; the
mandibles are less prominent, and have the tooth on the superior
side near the tip, which is therefore emarginate, or rather bifid,
and are destitute of any membranous covering at base ; the tibia
are not quadrangular, the tarsi are simple beneath, and the men-
tum is somewhat transversely oval, with a robust dentiform pro-
cess before. It can be separated under the name of Zenoa.
I have found it under the bark of decaying trees.
Vid. Gen. Analestes Leach, or Cebrio. Probably C.. bicolor,
but it does not appear to agree with Fabricius’s description.
[Previously described as Melasis piceus Beauy.; a variety was
subsequently described by me as Zenoa vulncrata.—LEc.]
LYCUS Fabr.
1. L. MopEestus.—Black; thorax fulvous, with a black disk.
Inhabits Ohio.
Body black, opake ; antenn, second joint minute, nearly half
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the size of the third: mandibles? rufous; palpi, terminal joint
rather oval than securiform ; thorax broader than long, as wide
as the base of the elytra, reddish-fulvous, with a black disk ex-
tending to the base, disk a little convex, without any carinate
line, each side a little concave, lateral edge nearly rectilinear,
the posterior angles not excurved, and not very acute at tip, an-
terior edge regularly arcuated: elytra black, with elevated, lon-
gitudinal lines, and in the intervening spaces are numerous trans-
verse, elevated lines, and a small longitudinal one; wings black,
tinged with rufous on the costal base. [154]
The insect was lost before the measure of its length was taken.
[Belongs to Eros Newman, Anarhynchus Guér—Lxc.]
2. L. opLttquus.—Black ; margin of the thorax and basal mar-
gin of the elytra fulvous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body rather slender, black; antenne compressed, serrate ;
palpi white, terminal joint black ; thorax witha wide lateral ful-
vous margin and an elevated fulvous line in the middle, posterior
angles rather prominent and acute; elytra with elevated longitu-
dinal lines and transverse ones in the intervening spaces, forming
large subquadrate punctures ; a dilated fulvous margin at base,
occupying the surface to the sutural stria, before the middle be-
coming narrower until it terminates on the costal edge beyond
the middle ; coxe white.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Allied to dimidiatus Fabr., but the antenne are not flabellate.
3. L. CANALICULATUS.—Black ; thorax with a yellowish mar-
gin and an impressed line on the basal margin.
Inhabits Missouri. |
Mandibles pale; antenne serrate, third joint rather shorter
than the fourth; thorax yellowish rufous, a large, black, sub-
quadrate spot on the disk, anterior edge very prominently arcu-
ated; basal margin with an abbreviated impressed longitudinal
groove ; elytra with elevated longitudinal lines and intermediate
transverse ones.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
[Also an Hros.—Lec.]
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OMALISUS Geoffr., F.
1. O. MARGINELLUS Fabr. (Lycus) Syst. Hleuth.
Inhabits Pennsylvania; Massachusetts, Harris. [155]
[This and the five following species belong to Eros.—Lxc. |
2. O. coccINATUS.—Sanguineous; head and beneath black.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Body sanguineous ; head black ; mandibles pale reddish ; tho-
rax darker than the elytra, its depressions dusky; two longitudi-
nal elevated lines, distant in the middle, and meeting on the
anterior and posterior edges of the thorax, enclosing a rhomboi-
dal space; from their middle an elevated line proceeds to the
lateral edge; the margin elevated: scutel blackish : elytra with
four elevated lines; interstitial spaces with a longitudinal slightly
elevated line, and transverse ones about the distance of their own
length from each other ; wings blackish: beneath black.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
3. O. MuNDuUS.—Bright sanguineous; antennex black.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body entirely bright sanguineous: antenne, excepting the
three basal joints, black: eyes black: thorax with two longitu-
dinal elevated lines, distant in the middle and meeting before
the anterior and posterior edges of the thorax, enclosing a rhom-
boidal space ; from their middle an elevated line passes to the
lateral edge, and an elevated abbreviated line on the posterior
submargin: elytra with four elevated lines; interstitial spaces
with a longitudinal, very slightly elevated line, and transverse
ones, about the distance of their own length apart ; venter black :
tarsi dusky.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Much like the preceding, but is only half as large, and its
colors are differently arranged.
4, O. HUMERALIS F’. (Lycus) Syst. Eleuth. [156]
Inhabits also Indiana; Massachusetts, Harris.
It varies in having the humeral margin obsolete.
5. O. scULPTILIs.—Piceous; thorax with elevated lines, yel-
lowish each side.
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O. pleurites ? Knoch. in Melsh. Catal.
Inhabits Missouri and Pennsylvania.
Antenne black, second joint minute; third joint as long as
the others: head black; clypeus anteriorly a little produced,
impressed in the middle; thorax with three elevated, parallel
lines before the middle, and two behind the middle, a lateral
somewhat oblique line proceeding to the lateral edge, which is
obtusely a little contracted in that part : elytra with four elevated
lines, interstitial spaces with transverse, elevated, somewhat irregu-
lar lines nearer to each other than their own length.
Length about one-fourth of an inch.
6. O. oBLIQuUS.—Black ; base of the elytra and each side of
the thorax yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black : antenne, second joint more than half as long as
the third: front tinged with ferruginous: thorax reddish-yellow,
with elevated lines enclosing a turbinate space in the middle,
with an elevated line extending from its centre to the anterior
edge, and an oblique one each side, extending to the lateral edge ;
edge elevated ; disk black, extending to the base : elytra reddish-
yellow on the basal half, terminated obliquely at the middle;
elevated longitudinal lines and intermediate transverse ones; a
quadrate black spot, including the black scutel.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch. [157]
PHENGODES Hoffm.
P. pLuMosA Oliv.
P. testaceus Leach, Zool. Journ. 1824.
Not uncommon for a short period in the autumn. Attracted
by the candle, they enter the house in the evening, and fly re-
peatedly against the ceiling in their efforts to escape.
LAMPYRIS Lin.
1. L. rriningats.—Grayish-brown ; elytra with the margin
and three lines yellowish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head on the front, pale carneous or yellowish : antennz black-
cinereous, basal joint whitish : thorax varied with dull yellowish,
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OF NATURAL HISTORY. 635
blackish and rosaceous, sometimes a blackish vitta trilobate at
base, and a lateral marginal spot: scutel blackish : elytra gray-
brown, the edge and sometimes the margin all around, and two
or three lines on each elytron, yellowish: beneath blackish,
generally varied with rosaceous and yellowish.
Length over half an inch.
Var. o. An oblong-subquadrate, marginal, yellowish spot be-
hind the humerus.
A large species, wider and shorter than JZ. versicolor Fabr.,
which it somewhat resembles in the character of the elytra, as it
does L. angulata nob., in that of the thorax.
2. L. BIFARIA.—Antennz with two processes from the base
of each joint.
Inhabits North Carolina, Harris.
Body black, densely punctured: head with a carinate [158]
line: antennz at the base of each joint, excepting the first,
second and ultimate ones, with two opposite processes at least as
Jong as the joint and nearly as thick: thorax fulvous, with a di-
lated black vitta not reaching the anterior edge; an impressed
line ; elytra confluently punctured, appearing granulated.
Length nearly seven-twentieths of an inch.
Remarkable by the form of the antenne.
[Afterwards described as Pollaclasis ovata Newman, and is
placed by Lacordaire in Calyptocephalus.—Lxc. ]
CANTHARIS Lin.
1. C. rricostatus.—Elytra widened and rounded laterally,
with three elevated lines.
Inhabits Pennsylvania ; Massachusetts, Harris.
Body black, with small dull yellowish hairs: head piceous at
base ; front yellow, oval margin blackish; before the eyes and
base of the mandibles yellow: antennz, second joint nearly
equal to the third, which is obviously shorter than the following
ones: maxillary palpi much longer than the labials, black: tho-
rax transverse, yellow; disk fuscous ; each side widely concave ;
anteriorly widely truncate; posteriorly widely emarginate : elytra
laterally roundedly dilated; three prominent lines; humerus
prominent: feet dark piceous; knees paler.
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Length nearly half an inch.
Var. Thoracic margin rufous; front obscure.
The width of the elytra and the form of the elevated lines ,
are like some species of Lampyris; but although the palpi are
very unequal, yet those of the maxillze are not acute at tip, and
the antennze are distant.
[Belongs to Podabrus; afterwards described as Telephorus
Bennettit Kirby.—Lec. ]
2. C. INVALIDA.—Blackish ; sides of the front of the thorax,
and margins of the elytra, yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana. [ 159]
Body brown-black, covered with short hairs: head each side
beneath the antennz yellowish: mandibles yellowish at base:
antenne, first and second joints yellowish beneath: thorax mar-
gined, black, each side yellowish; dish rather unequal: elytra
rather rough irregularly, with three or four obsolete nervures ;
base of the exterior margin of the suture and elevated humerus,
yellowish : pectus each side and before, yellow: venter, segments
laterally margined with yellow.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
Var. o. Margin and suture of the elytra yellowish to the tip.
It differs from rufipes nob., and scitula nob., in being more ro-
bust and hairy; from angulata nob., which it most resembles, by
the entirely black feet, yellowish humerus and basal elytral mar-
gins, yellow lateral ventral margins, somewhat more dilated ter-
minal joints of the palpi, Xe.
[I have not identified this species.—LEc. ]
3. C. peRcomis.—Black, thorax rufous, immaculate.
Inhabits Massachusetts, Harris.
Body black, somewhat polished: antenne with the basal joint
tinged with piceous; second joint less than one-third the length
of the third, which is a little shorter than the fourth: thorax
transversely oval, bright rufous, the edge a little elevated and
dusky : elytra with a slightly uneven appearance, not amounting
to punctures or granulations.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
I have seen but one specimen which was presented to me by
Dr. Harris,
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[Belongs to Sits, and is the female of the species afterwards
described by me as SN. longicornis.—Lxc. ]
4. ©. BipenTATA nob. Journ. A.N.S., may prove to be a
Silis Meg., but as my specimen is imperfect, I cannot determine.
MALTHINUS. [160]
M. MARGINILIS nob. (Molorchus) Journ. A. N. 8. 1824, read to
the Society the preceding year. Malthinus latipennis 2? Germar,
Spec. Nove, p. 72, 1824.
DASYTES Payk. Fabr.
To this genus, as I now understand it, belong several species,
which I published under the genus Malachius; such as termi-
nalis nob., &c.
TILLUS Fab.
T.? TERMINATUS.—Black ; terminal joint of the antenns as
long as the head and thorax.
Inhabits United States.
Body black, densely punctured and with numerous cinereous
hairs: eyes reniform, emargination very profound: antenne,
radical joint suboval; second joint globular ; third, fourth, fifth
and sixth, very short, transverse, approximated ; seventh, eighth
and ninth, rather larger, serrate ; terminal one greatly elongated,
longer than the head and thorax, and about three times as long
as all the preceding joints conjunctly, much compressed, linear,
with dense minute black hairs, tip and base rounded: labrum
rounded at tip: mandibles bifid at tip : thorax cylindrical, hardly
narrowed at base, margin rufous: tarsi distinctly five articulate ;
first joint longer than the second; penultimate one bilobate :
nails dentated : abdomen sanguineous ; terminal segment black.
Length rather more than one-fourth of an inch.
T obtained two specimens of this curious insect, at the [ 161 ]
cantonment of Major Long’s party near Council Bluff on the
Missouri river. It occurs also in Indiana and Pennsylvania.
By the form of the tarsi, palpi and thorax, it approaches the
present genus; but the extraordinary conformation of the an-
tenn seems to require a separation from the other species, at
least in a distinct subgenus.
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It varies in having the rufous thoracic margin very narrow
and even interrupted on the lateral margin.
[Afterwards placed asa distinct genus Macrotelus Klug, Mono-
phylla Spin., both of which names were preoccupied; I have
therefore substituted for them the name H/asmocerus.—L«c. |
PRIOCERA Kirby.
P. rvorNATA.—Black-piceous ; antenne and palpi yellowish ;
maxillary palpi with the last joint rather small.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body elongated, blackish-piceous, with pale hairs, punctured :
head, punctures somewhat confluent, so as to present a rather
granulated appearance: antennz honey-yellow, terminal joint
hardly larger than the preceding one: labrum piceous, obtusely
emarginate: mandibles piceous at base: maxillary palpi with
the terminal joint small: thorax with an obtuse tubercle each
side of the middle, on which is an indentation ; an impressed,
transverse line before the middle and a contraction behind the
middle ; an indentation on the basal margin ; punctures not pro-
found, transversely confluent: elytra with deeply punctured
striz : coxee and tarsi honey-yellow.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
This species agrees with all the characters of the present
genus, as laid down by Kirby, with the exception of the magni-
tude of the terminal joint of the maxillary palpi, which is much
smaller than that of the type of the genus. It is rare.
[Belongs to Cymatodera.—Lkxc. ] [162]
To this genus, which was separated from Tidus by Kirby, the
following species appear to belong.
TILLUS BICOLOR nob. Journ. A. N.S. vol. 5, p. 194.
TILLUS UNDULATUS nob. ibid. p. 174.
CLERUS Fab.
1. ©. QUADRISIGNATUS.—Posterior two-thirds of the elytra
black, with two broad whitish bands. —
Inhabits North Carolina. Harris.
Body rufous, somewhat hairy; antenne black : palpi rufous,
dusky at base: thorax with an angulated impressed line: elytra
black, basal third rufous; a broad yellowish-white band on the
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middle and a narrower one near the tip; more obviously and
densely punctured at base: feet black.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Very different from C. ichnewmonceus F., and trifasciatus §,
by the bands of the elytra. The middle one of the latter is ru-
fous or fulvous, and of the former black, and as long as wide,
whilst in the present species the middle band is not so long as
the width of the elytra, and the posterior band is at least half
its size and of the same color.
2. C. SANGUINEUS.—Elytra sanguineous; head and thorax
dusky.
Inhabits United States.
Body dark piceous : antennee, terminal joint paler: thorax with
a longitudinal dorsal, and lateral rounded indentations : scutel
dark piceous: elytra with numerous, obvious, profound, irregu-
larly disposed punctures : venter and feet somewhat paler.
« Length about one-fifth of an inch. [ 163]
Found in most parts of the Union. Dr. Harris sent me an in-
dividual from Massachusetts.
[Belongs to Thaneroclerus.—LKE¢. ]
3. C. ocuLATUS.—Thorax and margin of the elytra yellowish,
the former with two black dots.
TInhabits Massachusetts.
Head black : antennz yellowish: thorax yellowish, cylindrical,
with a black dot on each side of the middle: elytra black, with
the suture, exterior and terminal margins yellowish; regular
series of large punctures: feet yellowish.
Length over one-fifth of an inch.
Sent to me for examination by Dr. Harris.
[An Lnoplium afterwards described as Peloniwm marginipenne
Spin.—Lec.]
4, C. unpATULUS.—Elytra black, with a zigzag cinereous
band near the middle, and a simple one behind.
Inhabits New Hampshire.
Body sanguineous, punctured, hairy : head blackish: labrum,
antenne and palpi rufous: thorax with an angulated, deeply im-
pressed line on the anterior submargin; anterior margin black-
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ish: elytra black, with a very small rufous portion at base; be-
fore the middle a deeply zigzag narrow cinereous band in the
form of a W, the middle angle pointing anteriorly, wider on the
lateral margin ; anterior to the band are large punctures in regu-
lar striz ; posterior band broader, cinereous, not undulated : post-
pectus with a black middle.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
May be distinguished from nigrifrons S. and nigripes 8. by
the intermediate angle of the anterior band pointing forward,
and from dubius F., which it closely resembles, by its blackish
head, middle of postpectus, and by the form of the posterior
band, which is not undulated as in that species. It was sent to
me for examination by Dr. Harris.
[Belongs to Thanasimus, and afterwards described as abdomi-
nalis Kirby, which name being preoccupied was changed by Klug
to nubilus, without recognizing the identity with Say’s species—
Lec.] [164]
5. C. HUMERALIS S. Journ. Acad. Nat. Se. vol. 3, pt. 1,
1823.
C. humeralis Germar, Sp. Novee. 1824.
TRICHODES Fab.
1. T. Nurrauwi Kirby, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. 12.
T. apivorus Germar, Sp. Nove, p. 81.
It has also received a name in Dejean’s Catalogue.
2. T. VERTICALIS.—Blackish ; head yellow, with a black vitta;
feet and base of the elytra yellowish.
Inhabits United States.
Blackish, somewhat bronzed: head yellowish, with a black
vitta on the vertex: thorax somewhat cylindric, a little larger in
the middle: elytra shorter than the abdomen, not meeting at the
suture, a little narrowed to the tip, which is rounded, densely
and irregularly punctured, punctures rather large ; a large, yel-
lowish spot extends from the base nearly to the middle: feet
yellowish.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. tenellus. Thorax dusky : elytra entirely pale yellowish
white, at tip only a little dusky.
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Var. 6. Thorax with a lateral abbreviated vitta on the anterior
margin: spot of the elytra slender, and nearer the suture.
Dr. Harris sent me a specimen from Massachusetts. I have
obtained it on the common Hickory (Carya) in June.
[Belongs to Hydnocera.—Lxc. ]
ENOPLIUM Latr.
1. E. Laricorne.—Black ; front and each side of the thorax
fulvous. [165]
Inhabits North Carolina.
Body black, punctured: head fulvous: mouth, eyes and an-
tenne black ; the latter, with the three ultimate joints as broad as
long, subquadrate, narrowed at base, the last one oval: thorax
fulvous, of nearly equal width ; a transverse rectilinear, indented
line on the anterior submargin, and indented points each side:
elytra with regular strie of large punctures, much wider than
the interstitial lines.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
The only specimen I have seen was sent to me by Dr. Harris
for examination.
[Belongs to Jchnea Lap.—L«c.]
2. H. DAMICORNE F. (Tillus.)—In his description Fabricius
says, “Antennarum articulis duobus ultimis dilato-compressis,
acutis,” but there are, of course, three dilated ultimate joints.
PINUS) b.
P. HUMERALIS.—Reddish-brown ; thorax quadrituberculate ;
elytra with two bands widely interrupted by the suture.
Inhabits Pennsylvania ; Massachusetts, Harris.
Head pale reddish-brown, with incumbent pale ferruginous
hair; vertex glabrous: thorax reddish-brown, with incumbent,
pale ferruginous hair; an acute, elevated tubercle on each side,
and two longitudinal obtuse ones on the disk, separated by a
groove: scutel with prostrate, cinereous hair: elytra dark red-
dish-brown, somewhat paler at base, with rigid elevated hairs and
regular striz of rather large, impressed punctures ; two remote
whitish bands interrupted at the suture.
Very closely allied to P. fur F., but the body is less [166]
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rounded ; the punctures of the elytra are smaller, and thoracic
grooyes less profound.
DORCATOMA Herbst.
D. stminis.—Rounded, blackish ; head dark piceous; elytra
with two striz and a half.
Inhabits North Carolina, Harris.
Body rounded, very little oval, convex, punctured ; with short,
yellowish hairs: antennz dull rufous; not very robust; basal
joint piceous; antepenultimate joint extending inwards intoa
conie process, and exhibiting the form of an equilateral triangle,
shorter than the preceding part of the antennz; two ultimate
joints equal: elytra with three lateral striz, of which the supe-
rior one is half the length ; humerus elevated, compressed, acute.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
The D. bicolor Germar has a sanguineous thorax, and the
oculata §S. is larger, its antennee more robust, and the terminal
joint arcuated.
HYLECCTUS Latr.
H. nucupris.—Elytra and postpectus black; abdomen and
feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body punctured, with short hairs; labrum tinged with pi-
ceous: antenne, third joint obscure yellowish ; vertex with a
glabrous line: thorax with an indented line and a little unequal
each side; scutel glabrous and carinate in the middle: elytra
with slightly elevated lines; wings dusky, nervures black: be-
neath black : feet and abdomen honey-yellow. [167]
Length from two-fifths to nearly half an inch.
9 Head rufous: antennz black, three basal joints yellowish :
thorax and pectus rufous.
Var. a. Elytra dull yellowish on the basal half.
I observed it in considerable numbers, on the 16th of April,
flying about a prostrate sugar maple, and running briskly upon
it. It is infested by a species of Gamasus.
[Unknown to me.—LEc.]
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CUPES Fabr.
1. C. ctnereA.—Brownish-cinereous; elytra with fuscous
spots and undulations.
Inhabits Indiana, Ohio, and Louisiana.
Body pale brownish-cinereous ; head on each side above the
eyes, with a series of three tubercles, of which the posterior one
is convex, the middle one is most prominent and acute, and the
anterior one is at the superior base of the antenna; eyes promi-
nent, black, polished; antennze nearly as long as the body, robust :
thorax with a carinate line on the middle, widely impressed each
side and with four indentations on the anterior margin ; anterior
angles emarginate: elytra with elevated lines and intervening
series of large regular punctures, several abbreviated dark red-
dish-brown lines and spots which form about three undulated
bands, of which one is near the base, one on the middle, and one
near the tip: venter paler, somewhat testaceous.
Length over seven-twentieths of an inch.
This is the second species of this rare genus that has yet been
discovered ; I obtained numerous specimens in the vicinity of
New Harmony, Indiana, and one near Springfield, Ohio, and the
specimen from Mr. Barabino proves that it inhabits a considerable
portion of the [163] Union. The species is widely different from
the capitata, which I have not found in this region.
[The following description of the foregoing species was found
among Mr. Say’s papers, and, as it contains some particulars not
noticed above, we have thought proper to insert it in this place. —
Pub. Com.]
C. cINEREA.—Cinereous; elytra with abbreviated blackish
lines.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body cinereous, covered with minute scales: head inequal :
thorax inequal, anterior angles not excurved : elytra with largely
punctured strize, the interstitial lines convex, subequal, the alter-
nate ones a little larger; numerous abbreviated fuscous or black-
ish lines, hardly to be traced into three or four very oblique
bands.
Length seven-twentieths to two-fifths of an inch.
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A larger species than the capitata Fabr., and very distinct,
though the inequalities of the head and thorax are somewhat
similar. It is common about old frame houses. I have received
a specimen from Mr. Barabino.
[ C. concolor Westwood, Zool. Journ. 5, 440, and C. trilineata
Mels., do not appear to differ from this species —LEc. ]
SILPHA.
S. caupaTa S., Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1828.
S. rUBERCULATA Germar, Sp. Nove, 1824.
IPS Fabr.
1. I. oprusa.—Black ; elytra each with two nearly orbicular
rufous spots.
I. 4-notata ? Melsh. Catal.
Body oval, convex : antennze piceous: head and thorax [ 169]
with small, regular, subequidistant punctures: elytra punctured,
regularly rounded at tip, and rounded at the sutural angle:
slightly elevated transversely on the posterior margin ; each ely-
tron with two rufous, rounded spots, of which one is at the mid-
dle of the base, and the other beyond the middle of the elytron ;
beneath piceous black.
Length from three-tenths to seven-twentieths of an inch.
The largest species I have seen ; the name 4-notata is preoccu-
pied.
2. I. 4-s1anata.—Black ; elytra each with two yellowish spots,
of which the basal one is sublunate.
I. 4-signata Melsh. Catal.
Body oval, deep black: antennze piceous: head and thorax
with small, regular, subequidistant punctures : elytra punctured,
very obtusely rounded at tip, almost truncate; each elytron with
two yellowish spots, slightly tinged with rufous; the basal one
areuated so as to enclose the humerus; posterior one behind the
middle transversely oval, not sinuated; terminal lateral margin
obscurely piceous : beneath piceous-blackish.
Length slightly more than one-fifth of an inch.
Very similar to the Nitidula fasciata Oliv., but it may be dis-
tinguished by its uniformly small spots. The Lngis confluenta
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nob., strictly belongs to this genus, as well as the Nitidula fusei-
ata and sanguinolenta of Olivier.
3. I. 4+-macunata.—Black ; elytra with a basal and terminal
ferruginous spot.
I. 4-maculata Melsh. Catal.
Body black, polished, oblong-oval, punctured : clypeus, at tip,
tinged with piceous ; antennz piceous : elytra [170] with a large
ferruginous spot at the middle of the base, and another some-
what longer one at tip of each : feet and tip of the venter rufous.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
[Belongs to Hngis.—LEc. ]
4. I. virrata.—Blackish-brown ; elytra with whitish, abbre-
viated vittee.
Inhabits Arkansaw.
Body dark brownish ; elytra with a whitish vitta abbreviated
beyond the middle and abruptly curved at base towards the scu-
tel: another much abbreviated, somewhat oblique one, hardly
reaching the middle of the humerus, and an intermediate one
hardly more than one-fourth of the length of the elytra; tip
obliquely truncated.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
This species was presented to me by Mr. Nuttall, who obtained
it during his expedition to Arkansaw.
[Unknown to me.—LEc. |
HYDROPHILUS Fabr.
H. castus.—Oblong-oval, black; palpi rufous; thorax with
an oblique line each side.
Inhabits Louisiana.
Body black, polished: head with a dilated, hardly impressed
oblique line each side before, in which are scattered punctures
with short hairs, another narrower impressed line nearer the eye:
antenne, first joint of the club with an acute ciliated process:
second joint triangular, small, the anterior angle prominent,
acute; terminal joint subovate, rounded at tip: palpi rufous,
last joint hardly as long as the preceding one: labrum slightly
and very widely emarginate, the anterior edge piceous, and about
two small punctures on the middle : thorax with a rather slender
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arcuated line each side before, and laterally [171] with a few
scattered, slightly impressed punctures: scutel rather large : ely-
tra with four strize of impressed punctures and an approximate
marginal one: feet, excepting the base of the thighs, piceous.
Length nearly three-fifths of an inch.
A specimen was sent tome by Mr. J. Barabino. The whole
surface is covered with very minute crowded punctures, not at
all visible without a pretty good lens.
[Does not differ from Hydrochares obtusatus, ante, 130.—
LEc. |
HYDROPHILUS Fabr.
1. H. Mercus.—Black, highly polished ; sternum not reach-
ing the middle of the venter.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body highly polished, black, oblong-oval; head with an ab-
breviated line of impressed, confluent punctures on the inner or-
bit ; a much arcuated line of punctures from the anterior can-
thus terminates between the eyes; thorax with a much abbrevi-
ated, oblique line of punctures each side; elytra with three se-
ries of distant, obsolete punctures; exterior series remote from
the others ; sternum not canaliculate, not extending to the mid-
dle of the venter; feet more or less piceous.
Length nearly seven-twentieths of an inch.
In comparison with HH. natator nob., which it closely resem-
bles, the surface is more highly polished, the sternum much
shorter and without any appearance of a groove between the an-
terior pairs of feet.
2. H. EXSTRIATUS.—Subsutural stria none, black ; thoracic
edge and beneath piceous.
Inhabits Louisiana.
Body short-oval or rounded, convex, glabrous, black ; [172]
with small, equal, equidistant, numerous punctures ; polished ;
palpi and base of the antenne pale yellow; three last joints of
the latter fuscous ; thorax piceous on the lateral and posterior
margins; scutel small, with but few punctures ; elytra destitute
of striz, and without any appearance of one on the sutural mar-
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gin ; punctures on the basal margin obsolete; beneath piceous ;
tarsi yellow, brighter beneath.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
This species was sent to me by Mr. Barabino. It is smaller
than the orbicularis F., which it resembles much in the punctur-
ing and form; but that species has the subsutural stria extend-
ing from before the middle to the tip of the elytra.
[Belongs to Cyclonolum.—L«xc. ]
3. H. ruscus nob.—Corresponding, almost unvariedly, with
specimens found in Pennsylvania. I obtained it in company
with Hydrocanthus atripennis nob.
SPHARIDIUM Fab.
8. MELLIPES.—Black ; beneath honey-yellow.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body very minutely, and densely punctured, black; antenne
and palpi honey-yellow ; thorax with the anterior and lateral
margins obsoletely piceous ; an impressed puncture on the lateral
margin before the posterior angle; elytra with punctured strie,
and minute, dense punctures on the flat interstitial spaces ; im-
maculate; beneath honey-yellow.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
The largest North American species which I have seen ;
rather larger than S. bi-pustulatum Fabr., but somewhat less
robust. [173]
ONTHOPHAGUS Latr.
1. O. INCENSUS.—Clypeus with two elevated, transverse lines ;
thorax with an anterior double prominence.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, polished, punctured; head with two transverse,
elevated lines ; posterior line between the eyes, and slightly emar-
ginate in its middle; anterior line a little more elevated in the
middle, equidistant from thetip of the clypeus and posterior line ;
tip slightly contracted ; antenne ferruginous ; thorax on the mid-
dle of the anterior submargin with a transverse, sub-bilobate, or
slightly and widely emarginate elevation ; an indented dot each
side; elytra with punctured strix; interstitial spaces plane, mi-
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nutely punctured ; head and thorax with a hardly perceptible
tinge of green.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
The specimen is probably a female. It is smaller than the
O. taurus Linn., the female of which it resembles in the form and
disposition of the lines of the clypeus. It is much larger than
O. latebrosus Fabr., from the female of which it differs consider-
ably in the form of the elevated lines of the head, but agrees in
having a thoracic prominence ; this prominence, however, is more
obvious, and widely emarginate.
2. QO. viripicatTus.—Green ; elypeus bidentate; elytra
smooth.
Inhabits United States.
Scarabus smaragdulus Fab. Melsh. Catal.
Body robust, green; head bidentate at tip; antenne black-
ish ; thorax on the lateral edge a little angulated before the mid-
dle ; elytra smooth, impunctured, or with [174] three or four
hardly perceptible impressed lines; beneath dark green.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
Certainly not smaragdulus of Fab., but it is related, in point of
size and form to Copris subzneus Pal. de Beauy., of which, how-
ever, he remarks, ‘‘Clypeo integro, transverse bicarinato,”’ and
“ses élytres sont d’un noire terne, les stries peu marquées, et une
rangée de points élevés entre chacune,” which prove it to be very
different from our species.
[A species of Canthon previously described as Ateuchus viridis
Beauy.— Lec. ]
3. O. ovatus Fabr.
Our specimens are subject, like the European, to vary consid-
erably in magnitude and some other characters; but I have not
observed any trait which can justify the separation of it from the
Fabrician type.
Var. a.—Elevated lines of the clypeus obsolete or entirely want-
ing. .
Var. g.—Anterior elevated line of the head obsolete.
Var. 7.—Head bidentate before.
Var. §.—Posterior elevated line of the head interrupted in the
middle.
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Var. «.—Elytra with dull ferruginous spots. Arkansaw.
It appears to be an inhabitant of nearly all parts of the Union.
COPRIS Fabr.
1. C. coLonica.—Thorax somewhat retuse ; head with a short
elevation between the eyes.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black ; head a little rugose, witha slightly elevated, com-
pressed, rounded horn, broader than high, situated between the
eyes and not surpassing the line of [175] their anterior canthi ;
tip of the clypeus rather acutely rounded ; thorax somewhat ab-
breviated dorsal line behind the middle, and a deeply indented,
oval impression on the middle of the lateral margin; punctures
small, very numerous ; elytra with indented, punctured stria ;
interstitial spaces convex.
Length nine-tenths of an inch.
Resembles C. carolina Fab., but is not so robust, and the the-
rax is much less elevated behind. The horn of the head, also,
in Carolina is equidistant between the eyes and the tip of the
clypeus. It is also like Micanor ? as figured by Drury i. pl. 35,
fis. 1:
2. C. INCERTA.—Thorax simple, with an impressed line; head
horned ; elytra striate.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, somewhat polished ; head with dense, shallow
punctures; a short, conic, vertical horn on the middle; tip of
the clypeus acutely and rather deeply emarginate ; thorax punc-
tured except on the posterior disk ; a deeply impressed line from
a little before the middle to the base, and an impressed oval spot
each side ; anterior margin rather abrupt; elytra with deeply
impressed, crenate strie; interstitial spaces convex, impunc-
tured.
Length nearly seven-tenths of an inch.
I should be inclined to consider this as as the female of the
procidua nob., but in that species the larger horn is very near
the anterior termination of the head, and the posterior horn is
much shorter and remarkably inclined ; whilst in the present in-
sect no tubercle exists to mark the locality of the larger horn, and
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the horn that it possesses is larger than the posterior horn of
that insect, with which it corresponds in locality but not in di-
rection. [176]
3. C. QUADRIDENS.—Thorax angulated, four-toothed; head
horned.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body blackish-violaceous ; head densely punctured, and with
an elongated, recurved, trigonate horn, which is as long as the
thorax, punctured and acute; thorax rugose, angulated ; poste-
rior angles compressed, elevated, subacute; on a line between
them are two remote, short, vertical, conic denticulations ; ante-
rior margin near the middle with two short, vertical, conic den-
ticulations separated by a raised line; elytra with obsolete striz.
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
A fine species, not so brilliantly colored as the carnifex Fabr.,
or even as the triangulars nob., from both of which it is emi-
nently distinguished by the thoracic denticulations.
4. C. procipua.—Thorax three-horned ; head two-horned.
Tnhabits Mexico.
Body black ; head punctured, two-horned ; anterior horn ver-
tical or hardly recurved, not as long as the head; posterior horn
very short, inclined; thorax punctured, with three horns, the
middle one very obtuse and emarginate, lateral ones acute, in a
transverse line on the anterior submargin; anterior margins de-
clivous; anterior angles rounded; an impressed, abbreviated,
dorsal line and a lateral indented spot ; posterior disk impune-
tured ; elytra with impressed, punctured striz ; interstitial spaces
convex, impunctured.
Var. a. Highly polished.
Length more than three-fifths of an inch.
The armature of the thorax is very similar to that of C. Zuna-
ris Linn., but it is less robust, and is widely distinguished [177]
from that species, by having two horns on the head. The variety
resembles C. Ammon Fabr., anaglyptica nob., in the thoracic
sculpture.
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APHODIUS Illig.
1. A. InNEXuUS.—Black ; elytra with a dull yellowish margin.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head widely emarginate before, punctured; disk convex im-
punctured : antennz cinercous at tip ; palpi honey-yellow : thorax
punctured, excepting on the disk, anterior margin and middle of
the lateral margin; margin, at the anterior angles, obsoletely dull
honey-yellow: scutel impunctured: elytra with impressed, very
regular crenate strize, exterior and terminal margins rather pale
honey-yellow ; this color dilates towards the tip, and is deeply
undulated on the inner edge: feet honey-yellow.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
About the size of A. ater Fabr.
2. A. sERVAL.—Black ; elytra dull whitish, with black spots.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body piceous black, punctured ; head widely emarginated before,
and with a dull rufous margin; thorax with a dull rufous lateral
margin: elytra yellowish white, with seven or eight subquadrate
black spots, and a lateral, abbreviated, black, double, confluent
vitta: with slender punctured striz; interstitial lines flat, im-
punctured.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
Very closely allied to the inquinatus Fabr., and resembles also
A. contaminatus Fabr., but the clypeus is much more deeply
emarginated, and is acutely angulated [178] at each end of the
emargination. ‘This latter species is hairy.
PSAMMODIUS Gyll.
P. InTERRUPTUS.—Thorax with three lateral, transverse undu-
lations. ‘
Inhabits Indiana.
Body dark chestnut, punctured: head deeply and somewhat
acutely emarginated; with very numerous raised points: thorax
with about three, lateral, transverse, but little impressed grooves,
obsolete above; with a dorsal, longitudinal, impressed line,
obsolete before; edge ciliated; surface somewhat rough; elytra
grooved, and somewhat punctured.
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Length three-twentieths of an inch.
In the sulcicollis Ill., the thoracic grooves are not interrupted on
the back ; it is also smaller than the present species.
ODONTARUS Meg.
QO. MuUScULUS.—Small, brown, with short hairs; elytra with
punctured strive.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body small, light chestnut brown, darker before, with very
numerous short hairs, punctured: head, between the eyes, with a
hardly elevated, arcuated line, above which is a transverse
indentation, then a hardly perceptible raised line: labrum
emarginate; mandibles concave above, convex beneath, regularly
arcuated, exterior edge entire: clypeus not trilobate at tip, entire:
antennz yellowish at tip: thorax convex, laterally a little dilated
towards the base; an indentation on the middle of the lateral
submargin ; elytra with somewhat impressed and punctured [179]
strie, which are obsolete on the humerus; interstitial lines
depressed, with minute punctures furnishing hairs.
Length over one-fifth of an inch.
A rare insect; I have found but one specimen, which is
probably a female. It is even smaller than the O. filicornis nob.,
and in form more like the Lazarus Oliy. than the cephus Oliy.
[A species of Ochodzus, afterwards described as O. americanus
Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 2d ser. 2, 66.—Lec. ]
TROX Fabr.
1. T. ALTERNATUS.—Elytra with cinereous, elevated lines
interrupted by black spots.
Inhabits United States.
Body black, or black slightly tinged with brown: head bituber-
culate: thorax with obtuse, elevated, interrupted lines, irregularly
punctured; posterior angles obtusely dentate: scutel, posterior
margin cinereous: elytra striate with dilated punctures; alternate
interstitial lines more elevated, cinereous, interrupted by black spots.
Length over half an inch.
This species is readily known by the cinereous and black
alternation of the more elevated interstitial spaces. A variety
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occurs, of which the elytral punctures are much less dilated, and
the thorax is less deeply sculptured. I have found the species in
Pennsylvania; Nuttall obtained it in Arkansaw, and Mr. Barabino
sent me am individual taken near New Orleans.
A label, attached to a specimen in my cabinet, states that it
cannot be the crenatus Oliv., with which I am now unacquainted.
[Belongs to Omorgus, and was previously described as 7’
punctatus Germ.— Lc. ]
2. T. eLoposus.—Blackish-bronze ; elytra denticulated on the
lateral edge.
Inhabits Pennsylvania. [180]
T. globosus Melsh. Catal.
Body blackish-bronze, punctured : head entire, unarmed ; thorax
with an impressed line on the anterior lateral submargin: elytra
with oblong, deeply impressed, rather distant punctures ; posterior
declivity with four or five elevated, converging lines, the two exte-
rior ones continued towards the humerus ; exterior edge with numer-
ous, approximate teeth : posterior tibize much dilated and compressed.
Length about one-fifth of an inch.
[Belongs to Acanthocerus.—LEc. |
3. T. spLENDIDUS.—Dark brassy; elytra with series of pune-
tures, and on the posterior declivity with elevated lines.
Inhabits United States.
T. splendidus Melsh. Catal.
Body rather short, oval, polished, dark bronze ; punctured : head
unarmed, entire: thorax with an impressed line on the anterior
lateral submargin: elytra with regular series of rather long, deeply
impressed, approximate punctures; on the posterior declivity four
or ‘five elevated, converging lines, the exterior one extending
towards the humerus; posterior tibize much dilated and impressed.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
Readily distinguishable from the preceding by the more approxi-
mate punctures of the elytra, and the simplicity of the lateral
edge. They both exhibit a remarkable difference, in their smooth
surface, from the greater number of the species of this genus.
[Also an Acanthocerus, previously deseribed as Melolontha
aphodioides Mlliger, and Scarabeus latipes Germ., and subse-
quently as A. deevistriatus Lap—LeEc.]
1835. ]
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MELOLONTHA F abr.
M. 1nTEGRA.—Reddish-brown, hairy ; clypeus entire.
Inhabits Mexico. [181]
Body reddish-brown, hairy on every part: head with rather
large dense punctures; tip of the clypeus obtusely rounded; thorax
with the hair equal, reflected : scutel with rather short hair: ely-
tra destitute of elevated lines; hair longer near the base: post-
pectus with long hair: feet with sparse hair.
Length less than three-fourths of an inch.
Distinguishable from all the other known North American
species by its rounded clypeus combined with its universal hairy
vesture and magnitude.
ANOMALA Meg.
1. A. GemMELLA.—Yellowish-white, varied with blackish, ely-
tra with geminate strie.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body pale, varied with blackish: head punctured, cupreous :
thorax with minute, distant punctures ; edge blackish-cupreous ;
disk blackish; this color reaches the middle of the anterior mar-
gin, is sinuate on the sides and profoundly so behind ; a blackish
dot on the middle of the lateral submargin : scutel piceous: ely-
tra with rather distant, large and blackish punctures; three
double series of impressed punctures similar to the others, but
approximate, and a single subsutural series; edge all around
blackish, a humeral spot and middle of the exterior margin
blackish.
Length half an inch.
In some respects resembles A. unifasciatus nob., but it is
larger, with a shorter head, and is very different by other
characters.
2. A. crncraA.—Bluish-green, elytra pale brownish.
Inhabits Mexico. [182]
Head cupreous, punctured: thorax slightly punctured, bluish-
green: scutel bluish-green, punctured: elytra pale brownish, or
a little testaceous, with punctured strize and a broad line of ir-
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regular punctures near the suture: suture and edge all around
and spot on the humerus blackish-green: antennee and palpi fer-
ruginous.
Length over half an inch.
This insect and the preceding may be only varieties ; never-
theless, having three specimens that are similar to each other, I
may state that it differs from A. gemella nob., in the more ob-
viously punctured thorax, in not having the striw of the elytra
so obviously in pairs, and in the color.
HEGETER Latr.
H. puncratus.—Thorax transverse; elytra punctured, and
with opsolete series of punctures.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, densely punctured: antennz and palpi piceous ;
terminal joint of the maxillary palpi rather large: thorax trans-
verse, convex: elytra irregularly punctured, and with regular
series of punctures: feet piceous.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
EURYCHORA Thunb.
EK. INZ=QUALIS.—Body inequal, with elevated points and lines,
and indentations and punctures.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, oblong-oval; head minutely rugose, with an obtuse
indentation each side: thorax inequal, with [183] elevated obtuse
lines and indentations, and numerous small, elevated dots; pos-
terior angles acute: elytra with many small elevated dots, and
deeply impressed, distant punctures; several elevated, obtuse,
abbreviated lines, of which the largest one is near the middle
and extends to the posterior declivity ; on this declivity are three
large, elevated tubercles; an abbreviated line extends from the
humerus, and a very short basal one is nearest the suture:
beneath, with numerous, small, elevated dots.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
This occurred in abundance in an elevated situation, under old
logs.
[Evidently a species of Nosoderma.—L«c. ]
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BLAPS Fabr.
1. B. rumA.—Elongated ; elytra rugose.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, punctured: thorax somewhat longer than broad,
punctures confluent each side and behind; a transverse, sub-
basal, indented band, obsolete in the middle; lateral margin
rounded, the marginal, hardly elevated line being so low on the
side as not to be visible from above: elytra convex, covered in
every part with irregular rugosities.
Length less than one inch.
[These species all belong to Eleodes.—Lxc. ]
2. B. rmporira.—Opaque; thoracic basal angles slightly ex-
curved ; elytra simple.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, nearly opaque, very minutely punctured: head,
transverse line between the antennz, obsolete: thorax rather
wider than long, greatest width a little before the middle; lateral
edge a slightly elevated line, abruptly a little excurved at the
posterior angle, exhibiting [184] in that part a very small, acute,
lateral projection: elytra smooth to the eye, but on close inspec-
tion minutely and irregularly rugose and punctured ; lateral
margin rounded.
Length over three-fifths of an inch.
Much like B. equalis, but distinguishable by its almost total
want of polish, the minute prominence of its posterior angle, and
the microscopic roughness of its elytra.
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3. B. MAurA.—Elytra with impunctured, obtuse strive.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black: head punctured, an impressed line between the
antenne: thorax with hardly discernible punctures; wider than
long; posterior angles not rounded ; lateral edge a vertically ele-
vated line, not in the slightest degree curved outwards near the
posterior angle: elytra somewhat depressed, obtusely striated or
grooved, the grooves impunctured, but viewed in a particular
direction they appear obsoletely rugose; interstitial lines convex ;
lateral margin rounded and evidently irregularly punctured ; epi-
pleura impunctured ; feet punctured.
Length more than three-fifths of an inch.
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4. B. opiirerata.—Elytra with obsolete grooves; lateral
margin rounded.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, immaculate : head slightly punctured ; an impres-
sed line between the antennz: thorax wider than long; lateral
edge a slightly elevated line, a little excurved at the posterior
angle, which is consequently somewhat acute: elytra with obso-
lete grooves, minutely punctured; lateral margin rounded and
smooth: thighs not obviously punctured. [185]
Length less than three-fifths of an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but differs in the excurvature of the
lateral thoracic edge near the posterior angle, and in the grooves
of the elytra being obsolete. :
5. B. cetsA.—Body somewhat elongated ; elytra with traces
of grooves and punctures.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body brownish-black, minutely punctured, somewhat elongated:
head with the impressed line between the antennz obsolete: an-
tennze at tip, and palpi piceous : thorax rather wider than long ;
lateral edge a slightly elevated line, not excurved at the posterior
angles; an obsolete, abbreviated, oblique, impressed line near
the posterior angles ; somewhat attenuated behind ; lateral margin
rounded.
Length more than three-fifths of an inch.
More slender than the maura and obliterata, which have no
appearance of an indentation near the posterior angles of the
thorax.
6. B. zQuaLis.—Elytra smooth, simple ; thoracic basal angles
rot excurved.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, minutely punctured: head with the impressed
line between the antennz, obsolete: thorax broader than long,
broadest in the middle; lateral edge a slightly elevated line, not
at all excurved near the posterior angle; elytra destitute of any
appearance of the rudiment of a groove or of striz ; rounded on
the lateral margin.
Length over three-fifths of an inch.
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Shorter and more robust than B. celsa nob.; allied [186]
more closely to B. obliterata nob. ; but the elytra of that species
are much more rough, and its posterior thoracic angles are slightly
excurved.
7. B. parva.—tateral thoracic edge reclivate; elytra with
punctured striz.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, punctured: head with two obsolete indentations
between the antenne : thorax emarginate before for the recep-
tion of the head; anterior angles acute; lateral edge with a
hardly prominent line, curved convexly before and concavely be-
hind, forming an acute posterior angle; greatest breadth rather
before the middle : elytra with large punctures in regular series ;
interstitial lines irregularly punctured.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
The smallest species I have yet met with in North America.
Of this genus I have described sixteen North American
species, each of which has only the three ultimate joints of the
antennze moniliform ; whereas in all the exotic species of my col-
lection, nine in number, the four ultimate joints are moniliform.
OPATRUM Fabr.
1. O. srrratom.—Clypeus obtusely emarginate; elytra with
punctured strize.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body punctured, black, with a slight brassy tinge: head
densely punctured ; emargination of the tip much dilated; tho-
rax densely punctured, posterior edge not deeply sinuated : ely-
tra with impressed, punctured strie: tarsi piceous. . - PEST]
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles O. pullum nob., but is smaller, and the base of the
thorax is more rectilinear.
2. O. NoTuM nob. Specimens found near New Orleans vary
from those of more northern regions, in being a little polished,
and in having the elytral punctures larger.
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TENEBRIO Lin.
1. T. suppressus.—Thorax large ; clypeus entire ; elytra
with punctured striz.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black: head densely but minutely punctured ; clypeus
a little reflected and entire: labrum nearly concealed: thorax
densely and minutely punctured ; rather large; a large, slightly
indented spot on the posterior submargin ; posterior angles acute;
posterior margin with an impressed line: scutel triangular: ely-
tra with impressed, punctured, and crenate striz ; interstitial
spaces convex, impunctured ; lateral edge acute: anterior tibiz
with a strong tooth.
Length half an inch.
In comparison with 7. reflexus nob., the thorax is larger, more
arcuated on the lateral edge, and more narrowed behind; the
anterior tip of the clypeus is not so prominently reflected, and
the contraction towards the junction of the thorax and abdomen
is more obtuse.
2. T. rnurinasus,—Suboval, black; head before, antenne
and feet ferruginous.
Inhabits Louisiana.
Body oval, a little oblong ; densely punctured: head on the
anterior part obscure rufous ; antenne obscure, [188] ferrugin-
ous; joints transverse, subtriangular or conic: palpi and mentum
ferruginous: thorax regularly punctured; basal edge undulated ;
basal angles rectangular: scutel densely punctured : elytra with
_regular series of punctures ; interstitial spaces slightly convex,
particularly the lateral ones, and with three or four irregular
series of small punctures: beneath ferruginous, punctured.
Length over one-fifth of an inch.
Sent to me by Mr. Barabino from New Orleans.
[Belongs to Heterophaga.—Lxc. |
ULOMA Meg.
U. FERRUGINEA Fab. Several specimens occurred at Vera
Cruz, but I suspect it to be a naturalized foreigner, as it is with
us.
1835.]
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CQDEMERA Oliv.
(EZ. APICALIS.—Pale reddish-brown; elytra black at tip and
with four elevated lines.
Inhabits United States.
Body rufo-testaceous, densely punctured: eyes obvious emar-
ginate: mandibles black at tip: thorax dilated each side before
the middle, narrowed behind: elytra with four narrow, slightly
elevated lines, on each side of which is a series of more obvious
punctures ; third line obsolete before the middle; tip black ;
postpectus, abdomen and feet black, a little sericeous: wings
blackish.
Length about half an inch.
I have found it in Pennsylvania and other parts of the Union,
and Mr. Barabino sent me an individual from Louisiana.
{This is the common Nacerdes melanura, imported from
Europe.—LzEc. ] [189]
LAGRIA Fabr.
To this genus, as it is at present constituted, it seems probable
that the following species belong, rather than to Anthicus, under
which I published an account of them, stating, at the same time,
that they differ from the other species of the genus that had
fallen under my observation, viz :—
Lagria lugubris, L. collaris, L. terminalis, L. labiata, and L.
impressa nob., but the orbicular thorax, the nails being armed
with a tooth or abrupt angle beneath, &c., seem to justify, if not
the formation of a new genus, pease a Apes of the present,
under the name of Corphyra.
[As will be seen ante, 311, these species all belong to Pedilus.
Lec. ]
RHIPIPHORUS Fabr.
R. trMBaAtus Fabr.—Sanguineous; thoracic disk and margin
of the elytra black.
Inhabits the United States.
Body rather slender, yellowish-sanguineous: antenne black,
basal joint yellowish : mandibles black at tip: thorax deeply si-
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nuated behind, and with a more or less dilated, black spot on
the middle: elytra with a whitish disk, more or less broadly mar-
gined with black: thighs at tip, tibie except at base, and tarsi,
except the base of the first joint, black.
Length to tip of elytra a quarter of an inch.
Var. a. Vertex black.
Var. 8. Elytra black, immaculate.
Var. y. Beneath varied with black.
Fabricius was unacquainted with the native country of his
limbatus, but as his description agrees very well with [190] our
insect, and was made out from a specimen belonging to the same
collection in which he described his dimidiatus, I have no doubt
that it was intended to indicate this species. Dr. Melsheimer
was of the same opinion, and has recorded the name in his cata-
logue. I introduce the description for the purpose of preserving
the Fabrician name for a species not commonly known.
MORDELLA Latr.
1. M. nitraris.—Blackish, silvery-sericeous ; elytra with a di-
lated, irregular, dull yellowish band margined with whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, somewhat purplish-iridescent, sericeous: head
dull yellowish-sericeous : thorax varied with gray hairs: scutel
silvery: elytra with a much dilated, dull golden sericeous,
oblique band, occupying about one-third, spread widely towards
the scutel, and margi ned before and behind with a whitish line,
the anterior line much angulated and the posterior one reclivate ;
tip rounded: beneath with purple and green reflections, and sil-
very-Sericeous.
Length about two-fifths of an inch.
This has some resemblance to MV. bidentata nob., but it is
widely distinct by the elytral band and the much more dilated
terminal joint of the maxillary palpi. It is common about the
flowers of the Hydrangia cordata Ph. Its movements are rapid.
2. M. ocunaTa.—Black ; elytra bifasciate, anterior bands with
two dots.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Indiana.
M, fasciata Melsh. Catal. [191 ]
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Body black, whitish sericeous : antennz dull rufous, dusky to-
wards the tip: thorax with two slightly indented dots a little be-
hind the middle: elytra with a yellow-cinereous band a little be-
hind the middle, interrupted at the suture and contracted on
each side, and a mnch larger basal band extending posteriorly
on each elytra in a point, nearly to the middle, and having a
subbasal obvious, definite, black dot each side of the suture:
tibize and tarsi dull rufous.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
The two black dots on the basal band of the elytra are very
obvious, and serve to distinguish it from JL. fasciata Fabr., which
it certainly resembles, and to which it has been referred.
3. M. servAu.—Blackish, spotted with yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body brownish-black: antenne and palpi pale, dull rufous:
thorax with numerous spots of short, yellowish hairs : elytra with
numerous subequal spots of short, yellowish hairs, a dentated
band behind the middle, and narrow terminal margin: beneath
sericeous: venter each side with obsolete oblique, brown lines:
tarsi, color of the antennee.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
A very pretty species.
APATE Fabr.
A. BICAUDATA nob.—A variety of this species occurred in
Mexico. It is large, the feet are nearly black, and the punctures
of the elytra are somewhat larger than in those of this country.
PARANDRA Latr. [192]
P. potiraA.—Ferruginous, head and thorax impunctured.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body ferruginous, polished : head blackish-ferruginous, almost
impunctured, excepting behind the eyes, where the punctures
are numerous ; a longitudinal, slightly indented line before : an-
tenn ferruginous at tip: mandibles with a large, prominent,
rounded tooth near the base; then a profound, rounded sinus,
then a subterminal tooth: palpi ferruginous: thorax blackish-fer-
ruginous, impunctured, gradually a little narrowed behind ; an ob-
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solete indentation in the middle of the lateral margin; lateral
margin decurved, the edging line hardly prominent, so that,
when viewed from above, it is not visible; posterior angles
almost rounded: posterior edging line hardly visible: scutel
small: elytra minutely punctured ; pectus and postpectus dark
ferruginous.
Length about seven-tenths of an inch.
This species, by its size and color, may be readily mistaken
for the P. brunneus of authors, but it differs in many characters.
It has a more slender thorax, whick is not wider than the head.
The teeth of the mandibles are but two, the basal one being very
large and remote from the other, so that when the mandibles are
closed, an oval interval appears, as in the ferruginea Sturm.,
which species, however, has the posterior angles of the thorax
very obtusely rounded. The P. brunnea has three subequal,
subequidistant teeth in the mandibles; the head and thorax ob-
viously punctured, the latter broader than the head, &e.
The species is rare. [193]
PRIONUS.
P. DASYSTOMUS nob.—Occurred near Natchez, on the Missis-
sippl.
MONEILEMA Say.
M. INEQUALIS.—Cinereous ; rough, with elevated points and
tubercles.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body pale, brownish-cinereous : eyes small, distant from the
antennz : antennz nearer to each other than to the eyes; first
joint robust, longer than the second and third together ; half the
length of the body: thorax cylindric-oval, covered with small,
unequal, irregular elevations: elytra with many elevated tuber-
cles, of which some form a regular arcuated series from near the
humerus to the tip, and parallel with the suture beyond the mid-
dle ; tip entire, as long as the abdomen.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Inasmuch as this species is apterous and has a similarity of
habit, I place it in the present genus, although the approxima-
tion of the antenne is an obvious distinction.
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CLYTUS Fabr.
1. C. cuarus.—Thorax yellow, with three black dots; elytra
black ; base, band behind the middle, and tip yellow.
Inhabits Indiana. |
Body covered with short, dense, prostrate hair: head black; a
band on the vertex curving under the head, an abbreviated line
above the antenne, and front yellow: thorax yellow, with three
dorsal, transverse, abbreviated, [194] parallel, blackish bands :
elytra black; basal third a narrow, undulated band behind the
middle, and tip in which is a small black spot, yellow ; a black
dot on the humerus: beneath yellow sutures and feet black.
Length nine-tenths of an inch.
Somewhat like C. decorus Oliv., and speciosus nob., but the
bands of the elytra and other characters are essentially different.
I first observed it near the end of August. It is a remarkably
fine insect.
[ Belongs to Arhopalus as enlarged by me. ]
2. C. CAPREA nob.—Occurred at New Orleans.
STENOPTERUS Illig. (NECYDALIS Fabr.)
S. SANGUINICOLLIS.—Blackish, thorax sanguineous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with cinereous hairs, punctured : thorax sanguine-
ous, inequal, with three more obvious elevations: elytra with a
longitudinal, slightly elevated line; disk obscurely tinged with
brownish: feet yellow; club of the thighs and tip of the tibiz
black.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
It is more slender than S. preeustus Fabr.; but the thoracic
and elytral elevations are somewhat similar.
MOLORCHUS Fabr.
M. Metirus.—Black ; abdomen, feet and basal joint of the
antenne honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: head indented between the antennz: antennze
about as long as the body, basal joint rufous ; thorax subeylindric,
contracted before the middle, and with an indented longitudinal
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line: elytra with a dull [ 195 ] honey-yellow vitta, external edge
and obsolete spot on the basal middle: postpectus sericeous : feet
honey-yellow ; tip of the posterior thighs, their tibise and tarsi
dusky : abdomen honey-yellow.
Length % nearly three-fifths of an inch; ? over four-fifths.
In the form of the thorax it is more like M. bimaculatus nob.,
than marginalis, but it is greatly superior in magnitude to either,
and yery distinct as a species.
ACANTHOCINUS Meg.
A. QUADRIGIBBUS.—Antennx annulate; thorax four tuber-
cled ; elytra with a cinereous spot on each.
Inhabits Louisiana.
Body dark brownish, when closely examined, varied with fer-
ruginous and cinereous, short, prostrate hair: antennz hardly
longer than the body, blackish ; the joints, excepting the basal
ones, reddish cinereous at their bases ; basal joint clavate : head
before remotely punctured; behind the eyes, small, numerous
punctures : labrum dull honey-yellow: thorax with distant punc-
tures; four tubercles nearly in a transverse line, and a longi-
tudinal, elevated line: elytra quadrigibbous at base; inner
gibbosity extended into a longitudinal elevated line, gradually
declining and terminating before the tip ; numerous, distant, pro-
found, punctures; a dilated, undulated, cinereous spot, before
the middle ; a sutural series of alternate, quadrate, small brown
and cinereous spots, nearly opposite; tip emarginate: thighs
clavate.
Length less than three-fifths of an inch.
For an opportunity to described this species, I am indebted to
Mr. Joseph Barabino, who obtained it near New Orleans.
[Belongs to Acanthoderes.—LkEc. ] [196]
TETRAOPES Schoénh.
T. TORNATOR Fabr.—This species is subject to vary. I ob-
tained an individual near the Rocky Mountains, so covered with
short whitish hair as almost to conceal its color; it was destitute
of the large black spot of the elytra. Two specimens occurred
in Mexico, both of which were destitute of the same spot. It
is the 7. tetropthalmus Forster.
1835. ]
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Of this genus are two species; the tornator F., and the can-
teriator Drapiez, both of North America. The latter has re-
ceived three or four names from as many different authors, bat
as they are unaccompanied with descriptions, the above will of
course, take precedence.
HISPA Linn.
H. arricornis.—Above yellowish; antennee, thoracic line and
tip of the elytra, black.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body above yellowish-fulyous: head impunctured: antennee
black : thorax with rather large punctures; a black dorsal line:
scutel black : elytra serrate, with double series of punctures, and
interstitial, slender, elevated lines; tip black-brown, not more
than one-fifth of the whole surface of the elytra: pectus and
postpectus with a lateral black vitta dilating behind: feet black :
thighs fulvous at base: venter black, yellowish each side.
Length more than one-fifth of an inch.
This cannot be H. quadrata Fabr., which has the elytra mar-
gined with purple. [197]
CASSIDA Linn.
(©. UNIPUNCTATA nob. Journ. Acad. Nat. Se. vol. iii.
A variety of this species occurs in Mexico, of a smaller size,
with sometimes a black, arcuated, transverse line behind the ab-
breviated thoracic line. The inferior surface, in some specimens,
is black, the feet varied with whitish, and whitish triangular
lateral spots on the incisures of the venter ; in others the inferior
surface is pale greenish-yellow, more or less varied with black,
the spiracles black. It is an abundant species.
CLYTHRA Leach. Fabr.
C. mucipA.—Black, metallic; head, thorax, and beneath with
white hair.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body blackish, punctured: head with a coppery tinge, and
covered with prostrate white hair: labrum honey-yellow: palpi
blackish : antennee piceous: thorax tinged with cupreous, with
dense, small punctures, and covered with white prostrate hair:
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scutel with prostrate white hair: elytra naked, with blue and
coppery reflections, confluently punctured, lateral edge deeply
arcuated: beneath covered with white prostrate hair: feet
piceous.
Length over one-fourth of an inch.
Much larger than C. dominicana Fabr., much more hairy
above, and the lateral edge of the elytra more profoundly ex-
eavated.
CHRYSOMELA Linn.
3. C. BARDA.—Green ; elytra with rounded whitish spots.
Inhabits Mexico. [198]
Body dark green, somewhat metallic, punctured : head with an
impressed angular line between the antennz: antennz honey-
yellow, at tip fuscous: labrum and palpi honey-yellow: thorax
irregularly, and in parts confluently punctured, particularly on
the sides; on the disk the punctures are sparse: elytra with a
cupreous tinge, and more or less arcuated and abbreviated series
of punctures, including the whitish spots; spots unequal, more
or less rounded, between twenty and thirty in number, yellowish-
white, the largest one on the humeral margin and bilobate, two
geminate ones at base, none on the sutural margin: wings carne-
: beneath tinged with cupreous, on the venter: feet honey-
ike.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
A common species, easily distinguishable from others.
GALLERUCA Fabr.
1. G. reprpA.—Sanguineous ; elytra blackish, bifasciate with
white.
Inhabits Mexico.
Head sanguineous : antennz white: thorax narrow, sanguine-
ous, with a transverse, slightly indented line, impunctured : ely-
tra blue-black, obsoletely and irregularly punctured ; a transverse,
bilobate, abbreviated band before the middle, and a transverse,
oval spot near the tip, yellowish-white : feet yellowish-white.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
Habit of G. 4-maculata Fabr., but not so much elongated.
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At first sight, without inspection of its generic characters, it
might be mistaken for a Lema.
2. G. cAvA.—Head with one, thorax with two impressed
dots. [199]
Inhabits Mexico.
Head punctured, sanguineous, beneath the antennz whitish ;
vertex with an impressed dot: antennz fuscous, or blackish,
basal joints whitish beneath: thorax sanguineous, punctured,
with two indented dots: elytra densely punctured, with a common
suture and vitta blue, the latter originating on the humeral tu-
bercle and abbreviated before the tip: pectus ferruginous: post-
pectus and venter black ; feet white.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Distinguishable from other species by the indentations of the
head and thorax, combined with the elytral vitte and irregular
puncturing.
The G. vittata Fabr. is common in Mexico.
ALTICA Geoff.
1. A. MELLICOLLIS.—Head black ; thorax yellowish; elytra
blue.
Tnhabits Louisiana.
Head blue-black, with rather large punctures each side, be-
tween the antennz convex, dark piceous: antenne black brown,
three basal joints honey-yellow beneath : palpi black : thorax pale
honey-yellow, punctures not obvious : scutel impunctured : elytra
dark violaceous-blue, with numerous, small, distant, not profound
punctures : pectus yellowish: postpectus blackish: venter black-
ish, last segment dull yellow : thighs honey-yellow : tibize black,
yellowish at base: tarsi black.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
Related to collaris Ilig., and collata Fabr., and particularly the
latter, from which it may be distinguished by its blue elytra and
immaculate face. A specimen was sent to me by Mr. Barabino,
from New Orleans. [200 |
2. A. CRENICOLLIS.—Yellowish ; thorax five-spotted ; elytra
with black vittee.
Inhabits Mexico.
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Body pale yellowish: antenne blackish; three basal joints
honey-yellow, with a black line above: vertex with a black spot
thorax with two small dots, and an abbreviated line arranged tri-
angularly, black, and a lateral, somewhat larger, oblique, oval,
indented black dot: scutel black: elytra impunctured, destitute
of striz; a common sutural black vitta, another in the middle,
somewhat narrower than the intervening portion, and a submar-
ginal one: pectus yellowish : postpectus and venter black, the
latter with yellowish margins to the segments : feet honey-yellow :
tibize and anterior and intermediate thighs with a black line.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Very closely allied to A. alternata Mlig., the form and propor-
portion of the elytral vitta being the same, but that species is
somewhat larger, and is altogether destitute of the lateral thora-
cic impressed dots.
3. A. CERACOLLIS.— White ; head black, elytra violaceous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body white, impunctured; head black, with an elevated line
below the antennz : antenne black, second and third joints white,
with a black line above: thorax immaculate: elytra violaceous,
burnished ; tarsi and tips of the tibize black.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Resembles the A. collaris Illig., (aanthomelas Dalman,) but
is much more closely allied to A. collata Fabr. It is somewhat
doubtful if it be a distinct species; but as I possess specimens
of the latter from Pennsylvania, Missouri [201] and Florida, all
correspond in having green elytra, white front, and other dis-
tinguishing traits, I have ventured to assign it a distinct name.
EHROTYLUS Fab.
E. 4-puncratus.—Testaceous, beneath black: thorax with
four black dots: elytra trifasciate with black.
Inhabits Missouri.
Erotylus 4-punctatus ? Oliv. Ene. Meth.
Head black : thorax testaceous, with an arcuated series of four
subequal black dots : scutel black : elytra testaceous, with regu-
lar series of impressed punctures, an interrupted band at base
composed of a large common spot, and a smaller longitudinally ob-
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long one originating on the humerus, an irregular band on the
middle, dilated on the suture, and a terminal, longitudinally ob-
long spot, black ; edge black: beneath black: pectus each side,
and a series of five spots on each side of the venter, testaceous.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
This insect I believe to be the L. 4-punectata Oliy. and as it
is but little known, I describe it more particularly to fix the spe-
cles.
[ Belongs to Ischyrus.—LEc. ]
LANGURIA.
L. sIMPLICICOLLIS.—Black ; head and thorax sanguineous im-
maculate.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body blue-black : head sanguineous : antennze blackish-fuscous:
thorax sanguineous, immaculate: elytra with [202] very dis-
tinct series of well impressed punctures: pectus and head beneath
sanguineous.
Length nearly two-fifths of an inch.
Much larger than L. Mozardi Latr., and with a proportionally
shorter thorax, in these respects corresponding with L. puncti-
collis nob., which it equals in magnitude, but has an immaculate
thorax, more profoundly punctured elytral striz, and black post
pectus and venter.
COCCINELLA Linn.
1. OC. munpA.—Elytra immaculate ; thorax black, with a white
margin and spots.
Inhabits North America.
Body black: head with dilated, white, inner orbits: labrum
honey-yellow : thorax with a white anterior and lateral margin,
and a white abbreviated line proceeding from the middle of the
anterior margin: a lateral white dot sometimes confluent with
the anterior margin: elytra immaculate, yellowish: tibize and
tarsi piceous.
Var. . Tibize and tarsi black.
Var. 8. Elytra sanguineous; head white; anterior pairs of
feet honey-yellow.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
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I have specimens in my collection from remote parts of North
America. Dr. Harris sent it to me from Massachusetts, and Dr.
Melsheimer from near Maryland. I have found it in the North
West Territory, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri, Florida, and
varieties a and 2, in Mexico. The name is taken from Melshei-
mer’s Catalogue.
2. C. DENTIPES Fabr.—Is common in Mexico, and I formerly
obtained an individual in the North West Territory.
; = . .
3. C. cacti Fabr.—This species occurs abundantly in Mexico ;
it certainly resembles very closely the stigma [203] nob., so
common in this country, and the renipustulata Miill., of Europe ;
but it is more than twice the size of either of those insects, and
may also be distinguished from the former, by the superior mag-
nitude of the rufous spot of which the form is transversely oyal,
whilst that of the stigma is orbicular.
SCYMNUS Herbst. (COCCINELLA F.)
S. TERMINATUS.—Black ; elytra, at tip yellowish.
Inhabits Louisiana.
Body black, polished, punctured : head honey-yellow : antenne,
club not much dilated, with numerous short hairs: thorax with
numerous short hairs: lateral margin honey-yellow : scutel acute
behind: elytra at tip yellowish: beneath piceous-black : pectus,
feet and venter behind, honey-yellow.
Length about two-twenty-fifths of an inch.
For this species I am indebted to Mr. Barabino.
1$35.]
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[From Boston Journal of Natural History, Vol. i. No. 3, pp. 210—305.]
Descriptions of new North American HYMENOPTERA, and Observations
on some already described.
Communicated Feb. 1835.
Family TENTHREDINETA.
ACORDULECERA Say.
Artificial character —Antenne filiform, 6-jointed, short ; radial
cellule one; cubital cellules three, the second smallest.
Natural character—Antenne six-jointed ; first and second
joints subequal, the second larger ; third joint longest but equal
to the following ones in diameter; remaining joints gradually
shorter; terminal joint not longer than the second: mandibles
arcuated, acute; a prominent tooth on their middle: labrum
prominent and distinct: radial cellule rather large: cubital
cellules three ; first elongated, as long [210] again as the second:
carpus large : tibize with one pair of spines at tip.
Obs. The family of which this new genus is a member, was
~ divided by Leach into nine Stirpes, all of which have nine or
more joints in the antennz excepting the first, second, and fifth.
Of these, two genera only, have 6-jointed antenna, viz., Zarca
and Perga Leach ; but both have clavate antennz and in many
respects are at variunce with the characters of the present insect.
In alater work, the ‘“ Entomologische Monographieen,”’ by Dr.
Klug, which that author has done me the favor to send me, are
the two new genera Pachylosticta and Syzygonia, both of which
have clavate antenne, and therefore, like the preceding, cannot
possibly include our insect.
A. porSALIS.—Black ; hypostoma, a base of the tergum and
feet whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
¢ 9 Black, with minute whitish hairs; nasus, labrum and
mouth white: mandibles rufous at tip: thorax with the anterior
segment, curving to the base of the wing, white; line of the in-
sertion of the wings white: wings a little dusky; nervures fus-
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cous: tergum pale yellowish on the basal disk, blackish brown
at tip: venter more or less yellowish-white, dusky or blackish at
tip: feet and coxe whitish-green.
Var. a. Feet and part of the costal rib green ; scutel and pos-
terior portion of the stethidium whitish. [211]
Var. 6. Thorax and abdomen entirely black.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
This insect is common.
HYLOTOMA Latr.
1. H. scurerrara.—Fulvous ; head and thorax, excepting
the humerus and scutel, blackish.
Inhabits United States.
@ Body reddish-yellow: head blue-black : thorax blue-black ;
each side before the wings, including the superior portion of the
pleura, reddish-yellow : scutel elevated, bright reddish-yellow :
metathorax with two oblique, oblong, white spots: wings dusky
violaceous : pectus, neck, incisures of the stethidium (and feet?)
blue-black : anal segments at tip black.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
Ido not remember in what part of the Union I found this
species. The feet in the specimen are mutilated.
2. H. cALcANEA.—Blackish ; thorax yellow; tarsi whitish at
base.
Inhabits United States.
Violaceous black : thorax with the anterior superior portion of
the pleura yellow; suture of the anterior segment, or collar,
blackish: wings dusky violaceous: tarsi at base white.
Length less than seven-twentieths of an inch.
I have also lost the particular locality of this species. They
do not correspond with either of the species described by Dr.
Leach. [212]
ATOMACERA Say.
Generic character.—Body rather short : antennee with but three
obvious joints; in the male ciliated: cellules, one radial, unap-
pendiculated ; three or four cubitals, the dividing nervure of the
first and second being obsolete: tibia destitute of a spine in
their middle.
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Obs. The name of Cryptus, applied by Jurine to one of his
genera, has been previously appropriated by Fabricius to a genus
of Ichnewmonides, and is altogether synonymous with Hylotoma
of Latreille, which is the anterior designation. It includes spe-
cies of at least three genera, all of which are distinguished by
tri-articulate antennz. It may be thus divided, with modified
characters.
Hytoroma Latr.—Radial cellule appendiculated : four poste-
rior tibize with a spine on their middle.
HT. roszx F.
ATOMACERA nob.—Radial cellule simple ; tibize destitute of a
spine on their middle.
Cryptus Jurine (by error.)—Antenne of the male biparted :
tibize destitute of a spine on their middle.
C. furcata F.C. Klugii, Leach, Xe.
1. A. DEBILIS.—Black ; tibia whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black, polished : antennee, cili# longer than the trans-
verse diameter of the antenne: mouth dull piceous: wings fuli-
ginous, a little paler at tip; first and [213] second cubital cellules
confluent: tibize, anterior pair dull pale yellowish.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
2. A. CELLULARIS.—Black ; abdomen rufous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Q Body black, polished : antenne distinctly and rather densely
ciliated with hairs, which are a little shorter than the transverse
diameter of the antenne: nasus, labrum and palpi whitish:
wings dusky violaceous ; cubital cellules three; the second very
small, hardly one third the length of the first, and but little
wider at its tip than at its base: abdomen entirely yellow-ru-
fous: feet, cox, trochanters and small base of the tibie, whitish ;
anterior pair of tibiz dull whitish.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
Much smaller than Hylotoma abdominalis Leach, which it ~
probably resembles.
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THULEA Say.
Artificial Character.—Antenne six-jointed ; last joint clayate.
Radial cellule one. Cubital cellules three. —
Natural Character.—The antenne are rather short, decidedly
clayate ; first joint very short, not longer than broad; second
joint at least as long again as the first and somewhat more ro-
bust, cylindrical; third rather longer than the Ist and 2d to-
gether, much more slender, cylindric, hairy; fourth minute,
shortest ; fifth about the length of the third, subcylindric, [214]
naked ; sixth slightly longest, nearly equal to the 3d and 5th, a
little dilated towards the tip ; scutel large.
Observations. —This is distinguished from the genera into
which Leach has divided Cimbex Fabr. by the number and con-
struction of the joints of the antenne, combined with the wing
cellules. It corresponds with Clavellaria in its one-jointed club,
but has one joint more in its antenne, and only one radial cellule.
It agrees with Zarea in the number of the joints of the antenne,
but not in the number which constitute the club, nor in the
number of radial cellules. With Perga it is related by the com-
parative magnitude of the scutel, and the number of joints of
the antenne, but differs remarkably in the proportions of the
latter, as well as in the number of cubital cellules. Pachylosticta
of Klug has a one-jointed club, but one joint less than the pre-
sent genus, and two radial cellules; and Syzygonia of the same
author, with a one-jointed club, has appendiculated radial cel-
lales.
T. nriGRA.—Body black: nasus and labrum green : spot before
the wings, wing-scale and feet yellowish-green.
Inhabits Mexico.
Length to the tip of the wings three-twentieths of an inch.
The smallest species I have seen of this family with clavate
antenne. [215]
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ALLANTUS Panz. Leach.
1. A. EptNoTus.—Black ; tergum with a white band at base ;
feet varied with white.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: mouth white ; tongue piceous: thorax with the
posterior edge of the collar, wing-scale, posterior edge of the scu-
tel, and two minute dots behind it, white; wings with brown
nervures : stigma somewhat inflated : tergum with the posterior
margin of the first segment white: feet white: coxa with a di-
lated line before and behind; anterior and intermediate thighs
and tibiz with a black line behind, tarsi dusky at tips of the
joints: posterior thighs black in the middle: tibia at base and
tip black: tarsi, first joint black, remaining joints black, white
at base.
Length % three-tenths, 9 less than two-fifths of an inch.
2. A. GonrPHORUS—Black ; abdomen rufous; scutel and tho-
racic triangle yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
% @ Body black: nasus emarginate, white: labrum orbicular,
and with the other parts of the mouth white: mandibles at tip
piceous: antenne basal joint white: thorax with a central tri-
angle and posterior margin of the collar white : scutel white with
a black band: wings hyaline; costal nervure and carpal spot yel-
lowish : nervures fuscous : abdomen honey-yellow: pleura with a
longitudinal vitta, and a line descending from the superior wing
white: feet white: anterior pairs with a black line behind the
thigh and tibia; posterior pair honey-yellow, base of the thigh,
spot on the middle of the tibia, tarsus, excepting the base of the
first joint and coxe white, the latter with a black line. [216]
Length three-tenths of an inch.
A female has the basal joint of the antenne almost black.
3. A. APICIALIS [APICALIS].—Black; antenne at the tip
white; abdomen honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: antenne, four last joints white : nasus profoundly
lunate, white : labrum obtusely angulated before, white : thorax,
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with the posterior margin of the collar and Wing-scale, white :
scutel white: wings hyaline; nervures black ; carpus white on
the basal half’: abdomen honey-yellow : feet honey-yellow : coxze
white.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
The white terminal joints of the antennz strongly contrast
with the remaining joints.
4. A. EpIcERA.—Black ; abdomen, base of the antenne and
feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body somewhat slender, black; antenna, first and second
joints yellow, the latter two-thirds the length of the first; third
and fourth joints yellow on the upper side: nasus deeply emar-
ginate, yellow-white: labrum suborbicular and with the mouth
whitish : mandibles piceous at tip: thorax, collar and wing-scale
yellow: wings hyaline; nervures black; carpal spot white on the
basal half: abdomen honey-yellow, basal segment black: feet
honey-yellow: cox white.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
Var. oa. Scutel dull yellowish.
5. A. cestus.—Black ; a white band at base of the tergum ;
pleura with a white spot.
Inhabits United States.
*% Body black, with large crowded punctures : antenne, [217]
first and second joints yellow: nasus hardly emarginate with a
lateral whitish spot: thorax with the posterior margin of the
collar white: pleura with a white spot on the anterior upper
part: wings tinted with fuliginous; nervures black ; carpal spot
wax-yellow : tergum with a dilated band extending to the lateral
sutures, white: feet white, a little varied with yellowish at tips
of the joints ; thighs black at base beneath.
? Anal segment white : posterior coxee at base black : posterior
thighs in the middle and their tibize at tip black.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Resembles the epinotus, but may be at once distinguished by
the white spot of the pleura.
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6. A. PANNOSUS.—Black; mouth white; feet varied with
white.
Inhabits Indiana.
%, Body black: nasus very deeply emarginate, white: labrum
suborbicular, truncate, subemarginate before, blackish on the
disk, or within the emargination of the nasus: mandibles black
at tip: maxillary palpi dusky in the middle of the basal joint:
thorax, posterior edge of the collar white; wing-scale blackish :
wings hyaline; nervures black; carpus on the inner half dull
wax-yellow: pleura immaculate; feet, anterior pairs white be-
fore, with a black line behind; coxe white: tarsi white with
dusky incisures; posterior pair black, incisures of the thighs,
band on the tibiz and base of the ultimate joints of the tarsi
white ; coxee white, with a black spot above and beneath.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
Y Coxe with a large black spot; posterior tibiz with a white
longitudinal line.
Length three-tenths of an inch. [218 ]
Much smaller than externus nob., Western Quarterly Re-
porter. [Ante, 1, 162.]
7. A. BARDUS.—Black ; thorax and anterior upper angle of
the pleura rufous.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body short, dilated, black: antenna, second joint nearly as
long as the first, but less dilated : front and vertex with impressed
lines: nasus not deeply emarginate: labrum rounded before :
mandibles piceous at tip: thorax and humeral portion of the
pleura honey-yellow: wings tinged with blackish-purple.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Belongs to the genus Selandria Leach. The short and di-
lated form is like that of ovatus L., and nigerrima Klug.
NEMATUS Jur.
1. N. VERTEBRATUS.—Green ; antennz and spots above black-
ish.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body pale green : vertex with a black spot: antennez black,
fuscous towards the tip ; second and third joints subequal ; nasus
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white, somewhat bilobate : labrum not very obtusely rounded be-
fore, a little indented on the disk, white: mandibles piceous at
tip: thorax trilineate with black : scutel black: wings hyaline ;
nervures blackish: costal nervure and carpus pale greenish : ter-
gum with a vitta of blackish spots, almost obsolete towards the
tip: tarsi dusky.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
2. N. INTEGER.—Greenish-yellow ; antennae, spots and tergum
black; costal edge not emarginate at the carpus. [ 219]
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body greenish-yellow: head with a dilated black vitta on
the vertex : antennz black : nasus whitish, not very deeply emar-
ginate : labrum white, depressed anteriorly, rounded before : man-
dibles piceous at tip: thorax with three much dilated, abbre-
viated, black vittee; an oblique black spot behind the scutel :
wings hyaline; costal nervure and carpus dull waxen ; no obvious
emargination on the costal edge near the carpus; nervures black-
ish : tergum black; lateral edge and posterior narrow margins of
the basal segments whitish : posterior pair of tibize and tarsi black.
Length over one-fourth of an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but the form is much more robust,
and that species has the usual emargination of the costal edge.
The present species has much more of the black in its color.
3. N. LONGICORNIS.—Black ; beneath, head and before the
wings whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black : head yellowish-white, a dilated black spot on the
vertex : antennex fuscous, joints elongated : thorax black, line be-
fore the wings and wing-scale whitish : wings hyaline, nervures
fuscous: carpus rather large, yellowish: beneath greenish, or
yellowish-white : pleura with two black spots beneath the wings,
the anterior spot longitudinal.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
EMPHYTUS Leach.
1. E. rarsatus.—Black ; tarsi and tip of the antenne white.
Inhabits Indiana. [ 220 |
? Body black : antennze with three and a half or four terminal
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joints white: nasus sublunate: labrum rounded at tip, white, or
with a dusky disk: palpi, terminal joints whitish: wing-scale
whitish : wings very slightly tinged with fuliginous ; carpus white
on the basal half: feet, tarsi and coxe white: anterior pairs of
of tibize white : posterior pair of tibie at base white.
Length nearly one half an inch.
In form it resembles the female A//antus atra I.., and the tho-
rax, as well as the abdomen is entirely black.
2. E. semicornis.—Honey-yellow ; tip of the antenne and
disk of the pectus black.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body honey-yellow: antennee, four terminal joints black :
nasus deeply emarginate: labrum and mouth pale yellowish, the
former rounded at tip: stemmata black: thorax with a dusky
line on the two middle lobes: seutel dusky on the posterior
edge: metathorax dusky near the seutel: abdomen immaculate,
rather paler at base and beneath : wings hyaline ; nervures black-
ish ; base of the carpus yellowish-white: pectus before and on
the middle black : coxe whitish: tarsi pale: posterior thighs and
tibiz blackish at their tips.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
A very distinct species, and easily recognized.
3. E. puarycerus.—Black ; tibiz and tarsi white; first and
second joints of the antenne short, equal.
Inhabits Indiana.
%& Body short, robust, black, polished : antenne rather robust,
compressed ; first and second joints remarkably short, when taken
together less than half the length of either of the others; re-
maining joints subequal, the third [221] hardly longest : mouth
dull piceous: wing-scale dull piceous: wings fuliginous, with a
violaceous tinge : feet white; thighs in the middle and coxze black.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
The joints of the antennz are shorter and more compressed
than those of any other species I have seen.
4, EK. RECENS.—Antenne, basal joint white; pectus and feet
white.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Head black; basal joint of the antennee, nasus, labrum and
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mouth white: thorax black, with a white collar and wing-scale :
wings hyaline, nervures fuscous : tergum, on the basal half, white,
with three dilated black bands slightly interrupted in the middle;
terminal half somewhat fulvous, with about two marginal black
spots and a larger double one each side near the tip; lateral pro-
cesses at tip obvious: pectus white: pleura with a dilated black
line: feet white ; intermediate tibiee and tarsi with a black line;
posterior thighs tinged with honey-yellow ; their tibia and tarsi
dusky or blackish.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
XIPHYDRIA Latr.
1. X. macuLtata.—Abdomen black with seven lateral white
spots.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black : head punctured on the front; with two small
spots above the antenne, anterior and inferior orbits extending
in a line behind the eye, base of the mandibles, and two lines
upon the vertex, white: thorax confluently punctured; about
four short lines on the disk, white; a white spot before the
wings: wings immaculate: [222] tergum with seven lateral,
emarginate, white dots: beneath, on the neck and pectus with a
few white spots: feet honey-yellow.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
This is undoubtedly much like the X. camelus Linn., which,
however, is destitute of spots on the disk of the thorax, the wings
are clouded towards the tip, and there are but six lateral spots on
the abdomen, the ultimate segment being immaculate.
2. X. BASALIS.—Black ; abdomen fasciate at base.
Inhabits Indiana.
@ Body black, polished: mandibles and palpi white: thorax,
anterior segment glaucous on the posterior margin: wings hya-
line ; first cubital cellule confluent with the first radial, having
only a rudiment of the dividing nervure: abdomen, two basal
segments honey-yellow, more or less intermixed with black: feet
honey-yellow ; posterior tarsi and tibize black, the latter white at
base.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Found in the latter part of May.
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LYDA Fabr.
L. ocREATA.—Yellowish-green, antennz and spots blackish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body yellowish-green: head with a spot on the stemmata
and three lines behind, blackish ; one or two brownish lines be-
neath the eyes and an obsolete one before the eyes: mandibles
piceous at tip: antennze black ; basal joint dull whitish beneath:
thorax with a transverse black line on the collar near the neck ;
another behind the collar; about four brown spots, of which the
inner [223] ones are smallest; a larger brown spot behind the
anterior wings: wings hyaline, with fuscous nervures ; carpus
greenish in the middle: tergum blackish, dull greenish in the
middle : tarsi and tibiz exteriorly dusky : posterior tibize blackish.
Length nearly two-fifths of an inch.
XORIDES Latr.
X. HUMERALIS nob.—Contributions of the Maclurean Lyceum,
p- 74, [ante, 1, 378] where I placed it, agreeably to Jurine, in
his genus Anoma/lon.
*% Antenne entirely black: tergum, first segment on each
side with two longitudinal impressed lines; second and third
segments each with an impressed oblique line each side at their
bases: trochanters partly white; anterior and intermediate feet
varied with whitish.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
BRACHYGASTER Leach. (EVANIA F.)
B. RETICULATUS.—Black ; first joint of the antenne, and an-
terior pairs of feet piceous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, reticulate with large punctures: antenne not
longer than the trunk, with close set, subequal joints ; first joint
subclavate, piceous, longest; second joint not longer than broad,
shortest, about half the length of the third: punctures on the
posterior face of the metathorax more dilated than those of the
thorax : wings hyaline; nervyures fuscous: petiole about as long
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as the abdomen, punctured: abdomen orbicular, polished, im-
punctured : feet, two anterior pairs piceous. [224]
Length about one-fifth of an inch.
I agree with Leach in the propriety of separating this group
from Hvania. In addition to the great dissimilarity of the neu-
ration of the wings, the proportional length of the posterior feet
and of the antenne is quite different.
PIMPLA F.
1. P. HuMIDA.—Black ; feet yellow ; thorax with white lines;
abdomen with white lateral spots.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, transversely rugulous; anterior orbits and palpi
white : thorax with rather large, transverse wrinkles ; wing-scale,
line before the wing, and two abbreviated dorsal lines white : wings
immaculate : nervures blackish ; stigma at base whitish; second
cubital cellule petiolated: scutel, posterior margin white: abdo-
men falcate ; segments, excepting the first, with a rather large,
rounded, whitish, lateral spot: oviduct at least as long as the
body; pectus and feet honey-yellow: tarsi whitish, incisures
dusky : tibia whitish, posterior pairs blackish at tip.
Length over half an inch.
Form and magnitude of P. pterelas nob., which, however, is
destitute of white spots and lines.
2. P.? prriotatus.—Black ; varied with yellowish-white ;
second cubital cellule minute, petiolated.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, densely punctured: hypostoma, mouth and an-
tennz beneath whitish : thorax with a wide, white line before the
wings : wings hyaline ; nervures blackish ; stigma whitish towards
the base; second [225] cubital very minute, the petiole being
elongated : scutel dull honey-yellow : tergum densely punctured ;
two basal segments with an elevated, abbreviated line; that of
the second segment parted into several at base, that of the first
segment dilated into a groove at base; basal segment with a
tubercle each side and an elevated line on the lateral margin,
continued on the second segment: pleura and pectus honey-yel-
low varied with white: coxe and trochanters white; posterior
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pair of cox honey-yellow: feet pale honey-yellow; posterior
pair of thighs at tip, their tibie from the middle to the tip and
their tarsi black: venter, in the middle, white.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
A small frontal escutcheon and sessile abdomen led me to
place this insect here, although the palpi are not dilated and the
wing cellules differ.
AGATHIS Latr.
1. A. porrra.—Black ; antenna, tibiz and tarsi yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body deep black, highly polished: head yellow: vertex,
front and eyes on the posterior margin, polished, black : antennz
honey-yellow: mandibles honey-yellow, black at base and tip:
posterior orbits and posterior margin of the vertex, yellow: occi-
put obscure honey-yellow: thorax with a double, yellow, central
spot, cordate spot on the scutel, abbreviated, transverse line be-
neath it, and posterior margin of the metathorax, yellow: wings
blackish-brown ; second cubital cellule quadrangular: tergum
with a yellow band on the posterior margin of the first and
second segments, slightly interrupted [226] in the middle: feet
honey-yellow : posterior thighs black: the tibiz pale, and tarsi
yellow.
? Thorax with a hardly visible, piceous vitta on each side of
the central spot ; abdomen towards the tip attenuated.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
2. A. oRNATA.—Black, varied with yellow; tergum yellowish,
fasciate with fuscous.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black, polished: head yellow, a black frontal spot
confluent with a black transverse line of the vertex, that is con-
tinued on the posterior margin of the eyes: antennz honey-yel-
low, somewhat dusky above: mandibles blackish at tip: thorax
with a broad, yellow margin, interrupted before, and double cen-
tral spot : scutel and two or three small spots beneath it yellow:
metathorax with a small spot behind the wing and posterior
margin yellow: wings fuliginous: stigma and costal nervure
honey-yellow ; second cubital cellule quadrangular: tergum yel-
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low, becoming greenish behind, segments with a broad blackish
band at base, the anterior bands broader: pleura with more of
yellow than black: feet yellow : cox varied with honey-yellow:
posterior thighs, their tibize at tip, and tarsi at tip, honey-yellow.
Length less than half an inch.
Resembles the preceding.
ICHNEUMON.
1. L. suturALIs.—Ferruginous ; scutel yellow; sutures black.
Inhabits North America.
Body pale ferruginous : antennze black beyond the [227] mid-
dle; trunk with black sutures: scutel more or less tinged with
yellow : wings tinged with ferruginous ; carpus yellowish ; ner-
vures blackish ; central cellule pentangular, the side on the radial
cellule rather smallest, basal and apical sides longest, not parallel:
metathorax with slightly elevated lines in the form of an H:
tergum with the apical sutures not black; basal segment with
two slightly elevated longitudinal lines: tibie, posterior pair
black at tip: venter, basal segment black; sutures not black:
oviduct not longer than the breadth of the anal segment.
Var. a. Front, scutel and basal joint of the tergum at tip,
yellow.
Var. 8. Sutures of the tergum not obviously black.
Var. y. Somewhat polished.
A common species, of which I obtained specimens in Mexico ;
it is also found in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Missouri. This
most resembles the ferrugator Swederus, (Trans. Stockholm Soc.
for 1787,) which I have not met with, unless this should prove
to be a variety of it, which is very doubtful and even improbable.
2. I. MALACUS nob. Contrib. Macl. Lyceum i. p. 72.—To
‘abdomen with an impressed line each side,” ought to be added
beneath the edge ; this is a character, however, common to many
species. The tergum, in a particular light, has a slight tinge of
blue. [Ante, 1, 876.]
3. I. MoruLus nob. (ibid. p. 73.)—Annulation of the antenne
beginning with the seventh or eight joint and ending with the
fourteenth. The tibie and tarsi are honey-yellow; and the ovi-
duct hardly extends beyond the tip of the abdomen.
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It resembles the ma/acus, and requires the additional descrip-
tion I have now given, to be distinguished from it. [228] I
have found this species in Indiana, Missouri and the North-west
Territory. The “acute angle” of the metathorax is prominent
spiniform.
4. I. ortosus nob. (ibid, p. 69.)—Occurs in Indiana and
North-west Territory.
It resesembles unifasciatorius nob. Amer. Entom. vol. ii. [ante,
1, 48,] but is rather smaller, the annulation of the antenne is
differently situated, and it has two abbreviated white lines on
the middle of the thorax.
5. I Brevicinctor nob. Amer. Entom. pl. 22.—Terminal
segment of the tergum with a large, white, rounded spot.
6. I. parata nob. Contr. Macl. Lye. p. 68.—The following
is a description of the opposite sex, and of some of its varieties.
Body black: head with yellow orbits, mouth and hypostoma :
antennz beneath dull honey-yellow ; basal joint beneath yellow :
thorax with two small‘abbreviated lines on the disk, line before
the wings approaching before, and wing-scale yellow: scutel
yellow: wings slightly tinged with fuliginous: nervures pale
brownish ; stigma dull honey-yellow; second cubital cellule pen-
tagonal, the two recurrent neryures with a short process near their
middles: metathorax with a dilated spot each side, often con-
fluent, and a small line under the scutel: tergum with four di-
lated yellow bands : feet yellow ; posterior thighs, excepting their
base and their trochanters, black; posterior tibiz at tip black.
Length over three-fifths of an inch.
Var. 2. Tergum with but two bands.
‘Var. 2. Metathorax immaculate behind.
Var. 7. Bands of the tergum contracted in the middle.
Var. 6. Short lines of the thorax confluent, so as to form a
lunate spot. [229]
Var. e. Short lines of the thorax obsolete.
A very common species. I have taken it in Missouri, Indiana,
Pennsylvania and N. W. Territory.
7. I. comprus.—Black ; tergum with a yellow band on each
segment.
Inhabits United States.
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Body black: head with yellow hypostoma, orbits and cheeks :
thorax with a line before the wings, two slender parallel lines,
nearly as long as the disk, on the middle, wing-scale, and often
a short line between the wing and scutel, yellow: scutel yellow :
wings tinged with fuliginous; second cubital cellule pentagonal,
the anterior recurrent nervure with a short process near the mid-
dle: metathorax with a short transverse line at tip of the scutel
and two dilated longitudinal spots, yellow : tergum with a dilated
yellow band on each of the segments, the 2d and 3d widest : feet
yellow, or honey-yellow.
with a whitish annulation rather beyond the middle line of
the antennee.
Length half an inch.
Resembles the preceding, but differs in many characters, as
the two descriptions will prove.
8. I. Navus.—Black ; orbits, line before the wings and lateral
margin of the scutel, yellow.
Inhabits United States.
2 Body greenish-black ; head with narrow yellow orbits: palpi
dull yellowish : thorax with a slender line before the wings yel-
low : wings a little fuliginous; nervures fuscous: scutel with a
yellow lateral margin : metathorax with a line beneath the scutel
generally interrupted into two distant dots: thighs at base and
tip, tibiee at tip, and tarsi, with a slight tinge of piceous: an-
tenne annulate. [230]
* Hypostoma and mouth yellow : feet with the thighs at base
and tip, tibize at tip and base of the joints of the tarsi, dull yel-
lowish.
Length from nine-twentieths to three-fifths of an inch.
May be distinguished from brevicinctor, unifasciatorius, and
otiosus nob. by its black scutel; and from morulus aud malacus
nob. by having a yellow line before the wings. I have found it
in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Louisiana.
9. I. pevrnctor nob. Amer. Entom. vol. ii. [Ante, 1, 48.]
It varies in having the seutel black and the feet entirely black.
Another variety has the tibie and tarsi ferruginous. My
largest specimen was sent to me by Dr. Harris.
Inhabits Indiana.
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10. I. pupricatus.—Black; abdomen rufous; metathorax
with yellow marks.
% Body black: hypostoma, palpi and orbits yellow: antennze
with a whitish annulus beyond the fifteenth joint: thorax with
the dorsal impressed lines not deep, and extending from the mid-
dle to the anterior margin ; a yellow line before the wings ;
wing-scale dull yellowish: scutel bright yellow, a little convex :
wings slightly tinted with fuliginous ; stigma dull honey-yellow ;
second cubital cellule four-angled ; the recurrent nervures with
slight processes : metathorax with a large yellow W behind, and
a yellow spot at tip of the scutel: tergum rufous; second seg-
ment not distinctly excavated at base each side; first segment
as long as the second, slender, black at base and tinged with yel-
low at tip: coxee having a yellow spot: thighs black, the two
anterior pairs varied with yellowish towards the tip: tibiz yel-
low; anterior pairs having a black line behind: posterior pair
black at [231] tip aud at the extreme base: tarsi yellowish, ter-
minal joint black at tip.
% Thorax with a quadrate yellow spot on the middle.
Length over three-fifths of an inch.
The form of the abdomen is that of an Alomya Panz., but the
wings are not remarkably short, nor are the antennz convoluted.
The markings of the metathorax are much like those of J. pec-
toralis nob.
11. I. resipuus nob. Contr. Macl. Lye. p. 73, resembles
suturalis nob., but is much smaller, with tricolored antenne.
CRYPTUS Fabr.
1. C. orpus.—Second cubital cellule incomplete ; thorax with
two dorsal yellow lines.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: orbits and hypostoma white: thorax with two
lines on the disk and collar white : scutel, transverse line beneath
it, and line each side at its base diverging towards the base of the
wings, white: wings hyaline; nervures fuscous; second cubital
cellule small, rounded, pentangular, the nervure of division from
the third cellule wanting : metathorax whitish with about three
black abbreviated lines: abdomen long, tapering to the base:
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tergum with the posterior margin of the first and second seg-
ments white ; remaining seements more or legs yellowish : eth
white, with a black furcate line: pectus and coxe white: fect
honey-yellow : posterior feet, coxee with a black line ; tarsi white ;
tibize at tip and base blackish.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
2. C. DISCITERGUS.—Whitish varied with black ; tergum
black, disk white. [ 232 ]
Inhabits Indiana.
Body white, slightly tinged with yellow: antenne black :
vertex with a black dot on the locality of the stemmata: thorax
with an abbreviated black vitta before, and another vitta on each
side, confluent upon the scutel, which is also black : metathorax
black on the disk: wings hyaline; nervures brown: tergum
polished, black, with a dilated whitish spot in the middle;
broadest rather behind the middle, and tapering to the base:
oviduct less than half the length of the abdomen: posterior
thighs with a blackish line each side: posterior tibie blackish
at base and at tip.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch.
Spins an oval, silken cocoon, of a white color slightly tinged
with reddish.
3. C. conquIsIToR.—Black ; tergum with the posterior mar-
gins of the segments white ; feet honey-yellow; posterior tibize
and tarsi with black joints.
Inhabits Indiana.
. Body black, punctured; palpi white; thorax, punctures
minute ; a longitudinal white line before the wings : metathorax
not distinctly punctured on the disk : wings very slightly tinged
with dusky; nervures blackish; stigma rather large, with its
base and tip whitish ; second cubital cellule oblique: tergum
densely punctured on every part; segments on their posterior
narrow margins white: oviduct about half the length of the ab-
domen: feet honey-yellow; intermediate and posterior tarsi
white, the joints black at their tips; posterior tibiz black, white
in the middle.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
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Resembles inguisitor nob., but the posterior margins of the
seements of the tergum are white. [ 233 ]
4. C. puctitis.—Second cubital cellule petiolated ; abdomen
falcate.
Inhabits Indiana. .
Body black; basal joint of the antennze beneath and mouth
whitish ; thorax without obvious impressed lines : wings hyaline ;
nerVures fuscous; second cubital cellule minute, petiolated : ab-
domen arcuated, slender at base, more dilated and compressed
towards the tip, but not truncate ; honey-yellow, dusky at base:
oviduct more than half the length of the abdomen, a little re-
curved, black : feet honey-yellow : anterior and intermediate coxz
and trochanters whitish ; posterior feet rather more dusky.
Length under three-tenths of an inch.
In the form of the abdomen and general appearance it resem-
bles Anomaton ejuncidus nob.
5. CO. TENELLUS.—Honey-yellow ; wings banded.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
9 Antenne blackish towards the tip: wings hyaline; a fuligi-
nous band before the middle, and a much dilated or double one
beyond the middle including the stigma; stigma triangular, and
with the nervures brown; radial cellule wide; second cubital
somewhat rounded, the exterior nervure wanting ; apical nervure
obsolete: metathorax beneath the scutel and at the insertion of
the abdomen black: abdomen arcuated, blackish at tip: oviduct
half as long as the abdomen.
Length ey three-tenths of an inch.
6. C. Inquisitor nob. Contrib. Macl. Lye. p. 71. —Tergum
rather densely punctured in every part ; segments with a trans-
verse, slightly indented, obtuse line in the middle : yenter whitish,
with black lateral spots. [ 234]
Var. x Much larger; oviduct hardly over half the length of
the abdomen.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
7. C. CALIPTERUS.—Wings yellowish, fasciate; central cel-
lule pentagonal.
Inhabits Mexico.
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Body pale ferruginous yellow: antennx black, ferruginous at
base, and with white semi-annulus on the middle: scutel with its
basal angles connected with the thorax by an elevated line:
wings yellowish, a black band before the middle, another beyond
the middle, connected in the form of av with the black apical
margin ; central cellule pentangular, its basal and apical lines being
nearly Genellel; ; inferior wings with a dot in the middle, and
apical margin blackish: tergum with the third segment dusky
or black at its base: oviduct black, nearly as long as the abdo-
men: posterior tibie blackish at tip.
Length less than three-fifths of an inch.
The remarkable resemblance which exists between the present
insect and the bifasciatus nob. in point of color, renders it neces-
sary, in order to prevent mistake, that we should observe that in
the bifasciatus the oviduct is not half the length of the abdomen,
and the central cellule of its wing joins the radial cellule in an
acute angle, its basal and apical lines being confluent at the
point of the junction with it.
8. C. cestus.—Wings hyaline, fasciate ; inferior wings dusky
at tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
2 Body rufous, almost sanguineous, opake : antenna, excepting
the two basal joints, black with a white annulus in the middle ;
wings hyaline, a blackish band on [235] the middle, abbre-
viated before ; another blackish band nearer the tip abbreviated
behind; tip, margin dusky ; second cubital cellule pentangular,
its basal and terminal lines not parallel: metathorax a little ru-
gose each side with a short compressed tubercle each side on the
declivity: tergum with the basal segment polished ; third seg-
ment black at base: oviduct nearly as long as the abdomen:
pleura with the incisures punctured : posterior tarsi a little paler.
Length half an inch.
This is very much like C. cal/pterus nob., but the wings are
hyaline ; the cellules somewhat different; the inferior wings de-
stitute of a central spot ; the body is of a deep rufous color, Xc.
9. CO. pLEURIVINcCTUS.—Black ; segments of the tergum mar-
gined with white.
Inhabits United States.
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Body black: thorax with a short line before the wings and
wing-scale yellow: wings hyaline, witha slight dusky tinge ; ner-
yures blackish; stigma rufous at the stricture ; second cubital
cellule quadrangular, somewhat oblique, meeting the radial cel-
lule in an angle: abdomen almost sessile: tergum with the first
segment excavated near the base ; densely punctured; all the seg-
ments with narrow, white posterior margins; oviduct exserted,
short, hardly half the length of the abdomen : feet honey-yellow;
posterior pairs with the knees, tips of the tibiae and each tarsal
joint black.
Length over half an inch.
*, Hind pair of feet with an annulus on the tibize and base of
each tarsal joint white.
The male is much smaller than the female. I obtained a fe-
male from a follicle of the common folliculate [236] Linnzan
Bombyx, with transparent wings, which were extremely abun-
dant a few years since in Maryland, causing much apprehension
for the safety of the trees of their choice. Some of them were
obtained for me by my friend Mr. Gilliams, for examination,
when I described them under the name of hyalina, but did not
publish the account.
10. C. GRALLATOR.—Ferruginous, with black sutures and
wings.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body ferruginous : head slightly yellowish on the orbits : man-
dibles black at tip: antennee dusky, before the tip yellowish :
thorax with two obsolete, parallel, yellowish lines ; sutures before
the wings and scutel black: wings violaceo-fuliginous ; nervures
blackish ; stigma ferruginous ; second cubital cellule rather large,
pentangular, the side of the radial cellule much the smallest ;
two bullz and recurrent nervures each with one: metathorax
with the sutures black; scutel rounded : abdomen clavate, faleate,
gradually narrowed to the base, somewhat polished ; posterior
margins of the segments obsoletely yellowish ; base of the seg-
ments or incisures black: pleura and pectus with black sutures ;
separating suture between the pleura and metathorax black, in-
cluding a yellow line : oviduct as long as the abdomen; posterior
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pair at tibia and tarsi paler than the thighs; posterior coxe
nearly as long as the thighs.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
This insect differs somewhat in appearance from its congeners.
The form of the abdomen, excepting that it is not compressed,
the fact that it originates higher upon the metathorax than the
others, and the elongated posterior coxa, give it a little the air
of a Fanus, but the numerously jointed antennie place it in this
family. [ 237 ]
11. CO. nuncrus.—Black ; abdomen excepting the base and
tip rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body black ; palpi white, blackish at tip; antenne 9 a long
white annulus in the middle ; thorax immaculate ; two impressed
lines: wings hyaline; nervures brown; stigma rather slender ;
second cubital cellule rather large, pentagonal, the two angles on
the radial nervure nearly rectangular ; recurrent nervures almost
rectilinear: tergum basal segment wholly or in part black ;
second, third and generally half of the fourth rufous or honey-
yellow ; remaining segments black : oviduct nearly half the length
of the abdomen : feet honey-yellow ; posterior pair of tibiee at tip
and knees black ; posterior tarsi pale yellowish.
Length about two-fifths of an inch.
I obtained many specimens from the larva of Attacus prome-
thea Linn. several years ago.
12. C. suscLAvatTus.—Black ; antenne subclavate, at base
and feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits United States.
Body black : antennz on the basal half piceous or dark honey-
yellow, dilating gradually towards the tip, terminal half dusky
or black ; first joint robust: thorax depressed on the posterior
disk, in which are longitudinally confluent punctures ; a slightly
elevated line before the bi-foveolate scutellar groove: wings,
radial cellule rather wide and short: cubital cellule pentangular,
sides subequal, angles at the radial cellule nearly rectangular : ab-
domen ? oval, honey-yellow, dusky or blackish at base and tip:
oviduct nearly half the length of the abdomen: feet honey-
yellow.
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Length under one-fifth of an inch. [238]
Approaches a little to the genus Helwigia by the form of its
antenne. I found one specimen in Pennsylvania and another in
this State. ;
13. C. Microprerus, 9.—Black; feet and middle of the ab-
domen rufous ; wings abbreviated.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body black : antennz, honey-yellow, with a paler yellow annu-
lation: palpi whitish: wings not reaching the tip of the meta-
thorax: metathorax concave behind; posterior angles a little
prominent: tergum polished, suboval; first segment black ;
second and third honey-yellow ; remaining segments black: ovi-
duct half the length of the abdomen: feet honey-yellow, paler
at their origin; posterior pair of thighs and tibia each at tip
blackish.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
This seems to be related to C. abbreviatus Fabr., but it has no
“ striga alba.”
OPHION Fabr.
1. O. purGATUS.—Honey-yellow ; two opake dots in the first
cubital cellule.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body pale honey-yellow, somewhat sericeous: antenne rather
longer than the body: orbits yellow, dilated before so as to oc-
cupy the greater part of the hypostoma : ocelli large, prominent:
wings hyaline; stigma slender; first cubital cellule with two
opake, subtriangular spots; second cubital cellule none: meta-
thorax with a single, raised, rectilinear, transverse line, near the
base.
Length about seven-tenths of an inch.
This is much like an insect sent me by Mr. Winthem [239]
as the ramidulus Fabr., which has also opake wing-spots, but is
black on the tip of the abdomen. The dilineatus nob., may be
distinguished from this species by having many raised lines on
the metathorax and by being destitute of the opake wings-spots.
The sexes are similar in color, and both have the opake wing-
spots, which is not the case in Mr. Winthem’s specimens of
ramidulus.
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2. O. GLABRATUS.—Honey-yellow ; a glabrous spot in the
large cubital cellule.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body dull honey-yellow: head bright yellow: antenne, mouth
and stemmata honey-yellow: eyes blackish: wings, first cubital
cellule beyond its middle with a longitudinally oval glabrous
space, but destitute of any opake spot: metathorax transversely
wrinkled near the petiole of the abdomen.
Length about four-fifths of an inch.
Much like purgatus nob., with a similar glabrous spot in the
cubital cellule, but this spot is destitute of any appearance of
the opake coriaceous spots which distinguish that species.
3. O. MuNDUS.—Black ; antenne, posterior tibize and _ tarsi
yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black : head with the front, nasus and anterior orbits
greenish-yellow: antennz fulvous yellow; three or four basal
joints above black ; the first joint beneath greenish-yellow : trunk
with rather dense, short hairs: wings purple-black : abdomen
much compressed: basal joint cylindrical; second segment as
long as the first, or a little longer, compressed towards the tip:
anterior pair of the feet yellowish before : intermediate pair with
a line before and base of the tibize yellowish : [248] posterior pair
with the tibia, excepting the tip, and the tarsi, excepting the
terminal joint, fulvous-yellow.
Length nearly one inch.
Resembles flavicornis nob., which, however, has the first seg-
ment of the abdomen considerably longer than the second. It is
also allied to morio Fab., but that species is described to have
the wings blue, tipped with brown, and the legs black, the ante-
rior ones testaceous.
4. O. BILINEATUS nob.—Contributions of the Maclurian
Lyceum, p. 70.
This is the analogue of the O. /uteus Fab.
5. O. BRACHIATOR.—Black; abdomen and feet yellowish; a
petiolated second cubital cellule.
Inhabits Indiana.
Antenne, first joint beneath, white : mandibles whitish, piccous
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at tip: palpi white; wings hyaline; stigma slender, blackish ;
second cubital cellule rather large, quadrangular, more or less
petiolated from the radial cellule, anterior recurrent, nervure a
little arcuated, not angulated and with a white bulla: second
recurrent nervure rectilinear, with a white bulla; metathorax
with an impressed longitudinal line, and a transverse raised one
at base ; abdomen honey-yellow ; first joint white at base; second
joint blackish above: feet, posterior pair honey-yellow, tarsi
blackish ; intermediate pair white, with honey-yellow thighs ; an-
terior pair white.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
I place this in the genus Ophion because of the compressed,
faleate abdomen, notwithstanding the existence of the second
cubital cellule. [2Z41}
ANOMALON Jurine.*
1. A. arrractus.—Black; feet and base of the abdomen
_ honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, somewhat polished: frontal orbits, part of the
hypostoma and mouth yellowish-white: thorax, line before the
wings and wing-scale whitish: wings hyaline; nervures fuscous,
towards the base whitish ; stigma whitish towards the stricture ;
second cubital cellule destitute of the exterior nervure ; recurrent
nervures each with a bulla: scutel pale yellow : metathorax with
a transverse pale yellow line beneath the scutel: abdomen
honey-yellow ; posterior half of the 4th segment and the remain-
ing segments black ; first segment sessile, with an arcuated groove
in which are many elevated lines; 2d segment with two less
arcuated ones ; 5d and 4th segments each with one of the grooves ;
all the yellow portion of the tergum has large close-set punctures :
feet honey-yellow, origin of the anterior pair pale yellow: pos-
terior tibia black towards the base, with a large white annulus ;
posterior tarsi black: pleura with a white line before: pectus
* JT place in this genus, those species that are destitute of the small
cubital cellule, and which have not the abdomen so compressed and
truncated, as to associate with Ophion.
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having an angulated white line: oviduct not extending beyond
the tip of the abdomen.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
2. A. EJUNCIDUS.—Ferruginous, reticulate with large pune-
tures ; pectus black.
Inhabits United States. [242]
Body ferruginous, with crowded, discoidal punctures, giving
the surface a reticulate appearance : head without obvious punc-
tures ; orbits tinged with yellow: antenne blackish ; first joint
yellowish beneath: thorax with a slightly impressed line before,
and another each side behind, obsolete; dilated sutures about
the scutel black: wings hyaline; nervures blackish; stigma
rather slender; second cubital cellule none, the enterior recur-
rent nervure obtusely arcuated; second recurrent nervure rec-
tilinear ; abdomen slender, dull honey-yellow, piceous black above
and at tip, without large punctures : oviduct as long as the basal
joint of the abdomen: feet dark honey-yellow: pleura above the
anterior feet with oblique lines: pectus black.
Length about two-fifths of an inch.
3. A. MELLIPES.—Black ; feet honey-yellow ; posterior thighs
armed with a spine.
Inhabits Indiana.
Anomalon mellipes nob. Contrib. Macl. Lye. p. 74.
2 Body black, polished: head with the distance behind the
eyes considerable: labrum dull piceous : palpi dull whitish : tho-
rax with the impressed lines rather deep, rendering the thoracic
lobes very distinct : wings with a slight dusky tint; metathorax
with an obvious spine on each side of the posterior declivity :
feet honey-yellow: cox and thighs robust, particularly those of
the posterior pair, of which the thighs are armed beneath near
the tip with a prominent spine : oviduct as long as the body, or
a little longer, somewhat compressed towards the tip.
Length nearly seven twentieths of an inch.
* Anterior and intermediate thighs rather less robust.
Length less than seven-twentieths of an inch. [243]
Has some resemblance to a Xorides, but the mandibles are
bidentate, and the metathorax and anterior part of the thorax
differ. It is a very distinct species. I have thought it may be
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useful to give the above more detailed and characteristic descrip-
tion than that quoted, which is too short and unimportant. A
good name for this species would be gladiator.
4. A. DeNsATUS—Black; thorax rufous; tergum densely
punctured.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with short, small hairs: above with a white spot ;
face, below the antennz, and mouth, pale yellowish: antennz
: thorax reddish-brown; with an abbreviated black vitta :
scutel reddish-brown : wings hyaline ; nervures fuscous ; stigma
yellowish : abdomen sublinear, not attenuated towards the base,
but in the first joint: tergum with dense, rather large, but not
profound punctures; posterior edges of the segments slightly
rufous: oviduct nearly half the length of the abdomen: feet dull
yellowish ; cox and trochanters whitish ; tips of the tibiz and
of the tarsi dusky.
Length ? over one-fifth of an inch.
5. A. RECURVUS.—Black ; feet honey-yellow ; posterior tibiae
and tarsi with black joints.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body rather slender, black : head not extended behind the
eyes: orbits, nasus and palpi white: thorax trilobate (as in Xor7-
des and Pimpla) with a white line before the wings: metathorax
long, convex: tergum equal in width, basal segment a little nar-
rower at base; segments subequal in length; first and second
segments with a transverse impressed line near the tip; remain-
ing segments, excepting the last, with a lateral, transverse, im-
pressed [244] line at their middles : oviduct less than half the
length of the abdomen, a little recurved at tip: feet honey-yel-
low ; intermediate and posterior pairs of tarsi white, the joints
black at their tips; posterior pair of tibize black, white in the
middle.
* much smaller: thorax tinged with piceous; hypostoma
white; pectus honey-yellow; feet paler than in the female.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The metathorax is convex as in Xorides, elongated, but the
head is transverse and not globular.
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6. A. LINEATULUS.—Black ; anterior pairs of feet honey-
yellow; tergum with minute lines.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, sparsely punctured: palpi whitish: thorax with
two deeply impressed lines, uniting behind: wings hyaline: ner-
vures fuscous : scutel at base with a dilated indentation: meta-
thorax with raised lines: abdomen gradually tapering to the
base: tergum on the three basal joints, with numerous, small,
longitudinal, raised lines ; fourth and following segments with
much more minute transverse ones: feet, anterior pairs entirely
honey-yellow ; posterior pair black, the incisures yellowish ; pos-
terior tarsi yellowish.
Length % over one-fourth of an inch.
This has some resemblance to medlipes nob., which, however,
has the posterior thighs thickened and with an obvious tooth on
their inferior edge.
The lineations of the tergum of the three basal segments dis-
tinguish this species.
7. A. DIVARICATUS.—Black ; tergum with two oblique, im-
pressed lines on each segment.
Inhabits Florida. [245]
Body black: wings with fuscous nervures, dull yellowish to-
wards the base: abdomen nearly sessile, minutely and densely
punctured ; first segment with two longitudinal, elevated lines ;
second, third and fourth each with two very obvious, impressed
lines, originating at the base and divaricating towards the pos-
terior angles: feet honey-yellow: posterior pair, thighs at tip,
tibize at tip and annulus near the base, and posterior halves of the
tarsal joints black.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
Has considerable resemblance to Ichneumon inquisitor nob., but
the impressed lines of the tergum are very oblique, and the
wings are destitute of the small second cubital cellule.
8. A. EMARGINATUS nob. Contrib. Macl. Lyceum, p. 76.—
This species is very remarkable by the prominence of the head
in front of the insertion of the antenne, which hence appear to
be situated in a deep foveola; this character, together with the
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very short, robust feet, proves a close relation to Alomya, to which
in fact I would refer the species, but that there is no appearance
of a second cubital cellule ; the antennee have thirty-six joints.
PELTASTES Illig.
1. P. potiincrorius.—Black ; two thoracic spots, scutel, and
bands of the tergum yellow; tibie black.
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Indiana.
2 Body black, densely and closely punctured: head
thorax with a yellow line before the wings: scutel quadrate :
lateral edge elevated; posterior margin, including the prominent
spines, yellow: wings with a tint of ferruginous ; nervures fus-
cous: stigma paler in the [246] middle: metathorax with a
short, transverse line beneath the scutel, and dot each side at tip
yellow: tergum slightly tinged with violaceous, particularly to-
wards the tip ; posterior margins of the segments yellow except-
ing the second and sixth, of which the former has the lateral
angle obscurely yellow: feet, anterior pairs honey-yellow; the
thighs black behind; posterior pair black, the thighs yellow at
base.
Length about seven-tenths of an inch.
% Basal joint of the antennz beneath whitish: frontal escutch-
eon on its lateral and basal margins, extending a short distance
upon the orbit, yellow: dilated joint of the palpi dull whitish :
metathorax with a yellow spot near the posterior coxe : coxe and
knees honey-yellow.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
The female was presented to me several years ago by Mr. Le-
sueur, who obtained it in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. It
is much like P. necatorius Fabr., but is considerably larger, and
that species is destitute of spots on the metathorax, and its pos-
terior tibiz are yellow.
The male was taken by myself in Indiana.
BANCHUS Fabr.
1. B. NervuLvus.—Black ; anterior pairs of feet and posterior
tarsi yellow. =
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black : mandibles polished at tip: tongue rather promi-
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nent: wings dark violaceo-fuliginous ; nervures blackish ; stigma
honey-yellow ; second cubital cellule quadrangular, attached to
the radial cellule by a slightly petiolated angle ; first recurrént
nervure with a prominent [247] process and a small white spot;
second recurrent nervure much undulated, margined with white
one half its length ; exterior nervure of the cellule with a white
spot: feet, anterior pairs, excepting the coxe and trochanters,
honey-yellow ; posterior pair black, their tarsi yellow. |
Length at least half an inch.
2. B. mquatus.—Black; antenne and feet, excepting the
hinder thighs yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black : antennz yellow, at tip and base a little dusky :
hypostoma with two slight lobes situated longitudinally, and with
the mouth and orbits yellow: thorax with a slightly indented line
each side before and another over the wings : wings violaceo-fuligi-
nous; nervures and stigma blackish, the latter with a whitish dot at
its stricture ; second cubital cellule pentangular, the two angles on
the costal side rectangular and the three corresponding sides
equal, the two anal sides shorter than equal, two sides with a
white spot, and the two recurrent nervures with each a white
spot: wing-scale and junction of the wings with the thorax honey-
yellow : feet, anterior pairs honey-yellow ; posterior pair with the
tibize and tarsi yellow.
Length about half an inch.
It has much resemblance to Agathis polita nob.
3. B. ruaiTrvus.—Second cubital cellule petiolated ; posterior
tibize annulate.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: antennz in both sexes black: mandibles and
palpi white : wing-scale white: wings hyaline; nervures black,
whitish at base; second cubital cellule very small, petiolated
from the radial cellule: metathorax [248] not obviously ex-
cavated behind, but with somewhat raised lines; abdomen ar-
cuated ; towards the tip rather abruptly clavate ; punctures very
small: oviduct as long as the tip of the abdomen: feet honey-
yellow, with a white reflection ; posterior tibiae white with black
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tip and base ; posterior tarsi black, base of the first joint white,
in the male the white of the posterior tibize is less obvious.
«Length from one-fourth to three-tenths of an inch.
I obtained a specimen from a very pretty cocoon which is
somewhat cylindric, white, with two maculated black bands.
ACAENITUS Latr.
1. A. pecorus.—Black varied with whitish ; posterior tarsi
whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body black: orbits white, interrupted above and before:
hypostoma white, nasal sutures black each side : mandibles black :
antennee with ten or twelve white joints beyond the middle : tho-
rax with the line over the wings, wing-scale, line before the
wings, and lateral and posterior margin of the anterior lobe white :
scutel white: wings hyaline, with a rounded fuscous spot at tip:
metathorax, a small spot under the scutel and behind whitish :
abdomen, posterior margins of the segments white; in profile
clavate ; dorsal view fusiform: yenter white; scale prominent,
acute: oviduct much longer than the abdomen: pleura varied
with yellowish: feet honey-yellow: posterior pair of coxe with
three large yellow spots ; incisures of the posterior thigh black ;
posterior tarsi whitish. [249 ]
Length nearly three-fifths of an inch.
% Orbits white uninterrupted: thorax more variegated with
white; antenne with about eight white joints: scutel with a
black disk, the white margin extending forwards in the form of
a V: metathorax black varied with white, spines prominent :
tergum, first joint on the lateral margin white as well as the tip:
second segment with a much arcuated line each side of the mid-
dle, curving forwards; remaining segments with the posterior
margins dull whitish ; venter blackish, somewhat banded ; pleura
whitish, with a black line under the wings; anterior portion
black with white lines; pectus pale PR ea he } coxe, poste-
rior pair with a black line.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
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2. A. MELLEUS.—Honey-yellow : antennew white, blackish at
base.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body honey-yellow ; head with a large black spot above the
antenne ; beneath the antenne yellowish ; antenne white ; basal
third above black ; occiput with a dusky spot; scutel yellow, the
sutures around it black: wings with a blackish tip; tergum,
sutures somewhat dusky ; tibize and trochanters yellowish.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
BASSUS Fabr.
1. B. sanctus.—Black ; metathorax, abdomen and posterior
feet sanguineous.
Inhabits Indiana.
@ Body black: palpi tinged with piceous ; thorax, pleura, pec-
tus, and two anterior pairs of feet immaculate ; [250] wings black-
ish-violaceous, with a hyaline literation in the middle; neryures
black: separating nervure between the first cubital and first dis-
coidal cellules widely interrupted; second cellule triangular ;
cubital cellule rather large ; metathorax and abdomen bright san-
guineous ; posterior coxze and thighs bright sanguineous, the in-
tervening trochanter black: posterior tibize dull sanguincous,
their tips dusky, their tarsi blackish ; oviduct nearly as long as
the body, ferruginous, with black valves.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
At first view resembles Bracon initiator F.
2. B. trmiraris.—Black ; feet honey-yellow.
Tnhabits Missouri and Indiana.
Body black; palpi white ; thorax longitudinally indented be-
hind the middle ; wings nearly hyaline, at base yellowish; ner-
vures fuscous ; stigma large ; first cubital cellule complete ; second
rather large, quadrangular; radial cellule also rather large ; feet
honey-yellow; posterior pair of tibiz whitish, their tips and an-
nulus near the base black ; posterior pair of tarsi black.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
Var. a. Maxillary palpi, first joint black.
2 Oviduct hairy, decurved, somewhat robust.
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3. B. erpposus.—Black ; nasus gibbous ; terminal joints of
the antennee short.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body somewhat polished, black; nasus with a prominent
gibbosity ; antennee with the joints of the terminal third not
longer than broad: wings slightly fuliginous: stigma robust ;
the abbreviated nervure at base stigma very robust and very
near to the costal nervure: tergum, second segment at base with
two large foveole; oviduct as long as the abdomen and thorax to
gether ; [251] feet, terminal half of the thighs and basal portion
of the tibiz dull honey-yellow.
Length hardly over one-tenth of an inch.
The smallest species I have met with.
BRACON Jurine, Latr.
} Separating nervure between the radial and cubital cellule arcuated ;
second cubital cellule not very much elongated.
1. B. pectinator.—Black ; abdomen yellowish ; wings black-
ish; cellules regular.
Inhabits United States.
Head rather large and robust, concave behind at the neck;
rostrum not prominent; thorax with the dorsal sutures dilated
and containing very obvious transverse lines ; the transverse su-
ture at base of the scutel with five elevated lines; wings dark
violaceous; second cubital cellule shorter and smaller than the
first, quadrangular; nervure forming the radial cellule rectili-
near ; oviduct exserted, black.
Length 9 to tip of wings nearly two fifths of an inch.
I am not certain whereabout this insect was captured, but I
think I obtained it in the N. W. Territory when engaged on the
northern expedition with Major Long.
It resembles the populator, but the rectilinear form of the
nervure of the radial cellule places it nearer rugator nob., and
initiator F.; from the former it is distinguished by the more sim-
ple surface of the tergum, and fromthe latter by the much shorter
second cubital cellule.
2. B. RUGATOR.—Sanguineous; head, wings and feet blackish ;
tergum wrinkled.
Inhabits Indiana.
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Rostrum distinct : head piceous; antenne black ; [252] tho-
rax polished ; wings purplish-fuliginous, with three or four ob-
solete, small, white spots; cellules regular; tergum with numer-
ous longitudinal, elevated lines on each segment; first segment
with the lines transverse and interrupted by a large, elevated
oval lobe on the disk, which has a longitudinal line and irregu-
lar ruge ; the lateral edge elevated ; second and third segments
with an oblique indented line at base each side; oviduct two-
thirds the length of the abdomen, black, clothed with short hairs ;
feet piceous-black.
Length 9 three-tenths of an inch.
The remarkable appearance of the tergum readily distinguishs
this species from populator nov., which it resembles. It has
a general resemblance to B. initiator Fabr.
3. B. ueBetor.—Black; head, thoracic lines, tibiae and base
of the abdomen honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished ; head pale honey-yellow; antennz, re-
gion of the stemmata, of the antennz and spot on the hypostoma,
black ; mandibles robust, black at tip ; thorax with two obsolete,
piceous, oblique lines confluent at the middle and terminating in
a spot each side of the scutel; wings dusky, nervures black ;
stigma rather large; nervure from the stigma, oblique to the
second cubital ; abdomen depressed, oblong-ovate ; cox, knees
and base of the tibize, yellowish-white : oviduct shorter than the
abdomen.
% Abdomen whitish at base.
Length nearly one-tenth of an inch.
The antennz of the male are twenty-two-jointed and those of
the female are short, more robust, fourteen-jointed. The short,
thoracic piceous lines have sometimes a cruciform appearance by
being continued around the scutel. [253]
4. B. porsator.—Yellowish, antenne, three thoracic lines
and tip of the tergum, black.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body yellowish, somewhat fulvous, a little polished : antennx
short, rather robust, black ; area of the stemmata blackish : tho-
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rax with three distant black, short lines, the anterior one shortest
und impressed : wings hyaline, slightly dusky towards the base ;
cellules regular ; neryures brownish ; stigma triangular, yellow-
brown: tergum with a black dot on the first segment, and dusky
on the disk or towards the tip: pleura with a blackish line be-
hind the wing: pectus blackish on the disk: feet with the tarsi
dusky at tip.
@ Oviduct half as long as the abdomen.
Length to the tip of the wings less than three-twentieths of
an inch.
Much like hebetor, but is somewhat larger and more robust ;
it may be distinguished at first by its lighter color. As in that
species the first cubital cellule is wider by one-third than the
second at their junction, and the latter is hardly as long as the
first, in either sex.
5. B. arcurator.—Honey-yellow ; antennze, terminal joint
of the tarsi and oviduct, black.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body honey-yellow, somewhat polished: antennz black :
mandibles piceous : hypostoma with a transverse, dilated inden-
tation: stemmata blackish: thorax immaculate: wings very
slightly tinged with dusky; nervures blackish ; stigma yellowish
in the middle; second cubital cellule as long or rather longer
than the first, and nearly as wide at their junction : tergum of a
yather paler yellow than the thorax, and opake with minute
punctures or granules, oblong-oval : oviduct black, half as long
as the abdomen : tarsi, terminal joint blackish. [254]
Length to tip of wings over three-twentieths of an inch.
Of the same general habit with Achetor, but is considerably
larger, and may be known at once apart from it, by the equality,
at their junction, of the 1st and 2d cubital cellules, by the punc-
tured tergum, Kc.
6. B. vestiTor.—With prostrate hairs; basal joint of the
tergum bisinuate at tip.
Inhabits Mexico.
% Body with very numerous, minute, prostrate hairs; head
blackish, with dilated dull fulvous orbits; before the antenne
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more prominent than above, and convex: antenne dull yellow-
ish: thorax dull fulvous, with three dilated black lines, of which
the middle one is abbreviated before the middle: metathorax
dusky: wings hyaline: tergum yellowish, somewhat polished
towards the tip; lateral edge dusky ; first segment at tip bisin-
uate or three-angled : feet paler: thighs a little dusky.
Length of the body three-twentieths of an inch.
Somewhat resembles the preceding, but the hairy vesture dis-
tinguishes it from all the foregoing species.
7. B. scrurator.—Yellowish ; with prostrate hairs; 1st joint
of the tergum bisinuate at tip, black at base.
Inhabits Indiana.
Rather dull honey-yellow, with minute hairs: head more
prominent and paler beneath the antenne : antenne dull yellow-
ish: stemmata black: thorax with a slender black line each
side: pleura with a black oblique line under the wings: meta-
thorax black: wings hyaline; nervures pale brownish ; stigma
yellowish at base ; 2d cubital cellule shorter and narrower than
the first: tergum elongate sub-obovate, black at base, this color
extending paler on each side; middle of the disk towards the
base [255] pale yellow extending on the tip of the first segment,
which is sub-bisinuate or slightly three-angled ; second segment
as well as the first with an elevated line: oviduct not exserted
beyond the tip of the abdomen, black.
% Third and following segments of the tergum annulate with
black ; no elevated line on the tergum, nor three-angled appear-
ance of the tip of the first segment.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
Resembles vestitor, but is more slender, larger, and differently
marked.
8. B. ruautosus.—Honey-yellow; head, breast and three
lines on the thorax black.
TInhabits Indiana.
Body honey-yellow; head with rather wide and slightly im-
pressed punctures, which on the front are transversely confluent
into minute ruge : mouth obscure piceous : antenne obscure pl-
ceous, black towards the tip: thorax somewhat tinged with san-
guineous, and with three abbreviated, blackish vitte; behind
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the intermediate vitta is a rugous space, with a slightly elevated
line : wings hyaline ; nervures and carpus blackish ; cubital cel-
lules three; metathorax rugous, with an elevated line : abdomen
longitudinally rugous, oblong; with three larger segments, de-
creasing in length; and three smaller ones at tip, taken together
hardly longer than the third: pectus in the middle black.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
The magnitude of the three basal segments of the abdomen is
remarkable in this species.
9. B. TRANSVERSUS.—Granulated ; nervure from the stigma
nearly transverse.
Inhabits Indiana. [256]
Body densely punctured or granulated ; blackish-piceous: an-
tenn, mouth and feet honey-yellow: wings hyaline ; nervures
brown; stigma large; nervure from the stigma to the second
cubital cellule nearly transverse, so as to make the three angles
at its contact, equal : tergum dull honey-yellow at base ; first seg-
ment with two prominent, parallel lines; second segment oecu-
pying three-fourths of the whole surface: oviduct shorter than
the abdomen.
Length over one-twentieth of an inch.
The whole surface has a minutely granulated appearance, and
the nervure from the stigma is more than usually transverse,
having but a very slight obliquity. In having but two principal
segments to the abdomen, this species approaches the genus
Nigalphus, but the venter is not deeply vaulted as in that genus.
10. B. MELLIToR.—Honey-yellow ; antenne dusky.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body honey-yellow, yolished: antennee dusky: thorax im-
maculate ; wings hyaline; nervures fuscous ; stigma yellowish at
base ; 2d cubital cellule as long as the first, but somewhat nar-
rower than the greatest width of the latter: tergum short, oval,
not polished ; paler than the thorax, with minute, prostrate hairs;
second segment with an indented dot each side: oviduct black,
as long as the abdomen: tarsi, terminal joint blackish.
Length of the body three-twentieths of an inch.
The wing-stigma is sometimes almost entirely black. [257]
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tt Separating nervure areuated ; Second cubital cellule elongated ; the
nervure from the stigma inserted at its middle.
CELEREON.
11. B. 1nescaror.—Pale dull yellowish ; palpi and and feet
whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
@ Body dull yellow, with a slight intermixture of honey-yel-
low, immaculate : antenne blackish towards the tip: mandibles
piceous at tip; wings hyaline, with a very slight dusky tinge,
and yellowish at base; nervures of the middle of the wing and
disk of the stigma fuscous : abdomen oblong subobovate : oviduct
black, hardly half the length of the abdomen: palpi long, white:
feet white.
Length of the body two-twenty-fifths of an inch.
12. B. puttaTor.—Black ; abdomen at base and feet yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
@ Body black, a little polished : antennze towards the base ob-
scure yellowish, first joint pale honey-yellow: mouth pale pice-
ous : mandibles at tip blackish ; wings hyaline; nervures brown-
ish; stigma fuscous: tergum oblong sub-obovate, disk near the
base dark honey-yellow : oviduct longer than the abdomen, black:
feet pale honey-yellow.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
13. B. HonEsToR nob. Contr. Macl. Lye. vol. i. p. 78, belongs
also to this subdivision.
14. B. pavtutor.—Black ; abdomen short ; feet whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: head large: antenne fuscous, obviously longer
than the body: mandibles yellowish: palpi white: [258] wings
hyaline ; stigma elongated, slender ; second cubital cellule elon-
gated, having the nervure from the stigma inserted at about one-
third its length : abdomen short: oviduct very short : feet honey-
yellow, a little dusky towards their tips.
Length less than one-twentieth of an inch.
The second cubital cellule is elongated, but the descending
nervure from the stigma is inserted considerably behind the
middle.
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TOXONEURON.
15. B. viaror.—Sanguineous ; antenne, vertex, wings and
pectus black.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body rather pale sanguineous: antenn, vertex and dilated
frontal spot, part of the hypostoma and mouth, black : thorax
with indented lines ; a black spot on the middle sometimes obso-
lete or wanting : metathorax behind black: wings blackish-fuli-
ginous ; nervures robust, black ; stigma and costal nervure honey-
yellow: pleura, pectus and coxz black ; the former sanguineous
near the wings: tarsi at tip blackish: abdomen depressed.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
This species and the following differ from the type of the
genus Bracon in the from of the radial and third cubital cellules,
in consequence of the arcuation of the separating nervure.
It is much like populator nob., but among other characters it
may be distinguished by the yellowish carpal spot and costal
neryure, which are always black in the populator.
15. B. popunator nob. Long’s Exp. to St. Peters, Appendix,
p- 323, belongs to this subdivision. [259]
17. B. rrprator nob. ibid. p. 322, also of this subdivision.
18. B. exproratTor.—Black ; feet partly rufous.
TInhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished; with small, prostrate hairs: thorax
with the impressed lines not remarkably dilated ; the transverse
one punctured: wings dusky, stigma rather large: feet black ;
thighs rufous, excepting a small portion at base, posterior pair
entirely rufous; tibize rufous, black at tip.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
The thorax and head are much less hairy than those of tébiator
nob., and that insect has the wings dusky at tip only ; the pre-
sent also is a smaller species.
tttt Second cubital cellule confluent with the third.
ALIOLUS.
Abdomen of three principal segments.
19. B. rrrnopatus.—Yellowish-rufous; thorax and vertex
black.
Inhabits Indiana.
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Body rufous, tinged with yellowish : head black on the vertex :
antennz blackish, excepting the two or three basal joints ; about
as long as the body: mandibles black at tip: thorax ssraciched
trilobate, black, with an obsolete rufous central spot: seutel
black : wings hyaline ; nervures and robust carpus black ; second
cubital cellule confluent with the third ; inferior discoidal cellule
half as large as the central one: posterior tibia dusky except at
base: cox yellowish : abdomen oblong subovate, short, dusky
at tip; densely punctured, with three segments, decreasing in
length ; a small, almost concealed terminal segment. ‘
Length 4 one-fifth of an inch. [260]
The cubital cellules are but two, the second transverse nervure
being entirely wanting, and the nervure forming the anal side of
the cubital cellules is very slender ; the other nervures being
quite robust. If the genera throughout this order, are not to be
divided as in the Tenthredinete, I would propose the separation
of this and the following species, under the generic name of
Aliolus.
The character of the abdomen agrees with this genus; but the
neuration of the wings seems to agree rather better with Micro-
gaster.
20. B. rHoractcus.—Black ; thorax and feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
@ Head —————-: thorax honey-yellow, with two oblique,
lineated grooves; suture before the scutel much dilated and pro-
found: wings hyaline; radial cellule with the nervures as dis-
tinct as the others, regularly arcuated, without any angulation ;
second cubital cellule much dilated and destitute of the exterior
nervure: metathorax black: abdomen minutely punctured or
lineated at base, polished towards the tip, oval; second incisure
indistinct : oviduct longer than the abdomen : feet honey-yellow.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
MICROGASTER Latr.
1. M. enstcer.—Black ; feet and each side of the base of the
abdomen yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
2 Body black, with dilated punctures and minute hairs : mouth
honey-yellow: palpi white: thorax with a yellow wing-scale ;
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suture before the scutel impressed [261] and with elevated
iines: wings hyaline; neryures fuscous, light brownish towards
the base; stigma triangular, fuscous ; second cubital cellule des-
titute of the exterior nervure ; terminal neryures obsolete: ter-
gum with large close-set punctures; towards the tip somewhat
polished ; first segment with a yellow lateral margin, dilating a
little towards the tip; third segment with a yellow point on the
lateral margin: abdomen each side and beneath, except at tip,
yellowish: oviduct black, nearly as long as the abdomen, with
rather long hairs: feet honey-yellow; posterior tibiz, excepting
ut base, black : posterior tarsi blackish, with the incisures pale.
4 Coxe and anterior pairs of tibiz and tarsi whitish: poste-
rior tibiae, at tip only, dusky, at the extreme base whitish; se-
cond cubital cellule complete; terminal wing nervures distinct.
Length % over one-tenth, @ less than three-twentieths of an
inch.
2. M. MELLIPES.—Black ; thorax with oblique, lined sutures ;
feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black : hypostoma somewhat prominent along the mid-
dle: stemmata rather prominent: antenne beneath towards the
base piceous : mandibles honey-yellow : palpi blackish or fuscous :
thorax with two oblique impressed lines confluent behind, in
which are several transverse lines ; and a transverse more dilated
one at the base of the suture; wings hyaline ; nervure of the ra-
dial cellule as distinct as the others; second cubital cellule de-
stitute of its terminal nervure ; apical nervures less distinct than
the discoidal ones, but not obsolete: tergum somewhat fusiform,
polished, a little hairy at base and tip: venter at base honey-yel-
low, pale: thighs and cox honey-yellow: tibie and tarsi dusky.
Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch. [ 262]
Distinguished at once from the ensiger by the oblique thoracic
lines.
3. M. xy~ina.—Tergum at tip polished; sides of the venter
yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, much punctured: antennze brownish beneath :
palpi white: thorax destitute of oblique lines, but with the
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transverse, dilated, deeply indented groove at base of the
seutel, having small raised lines within, which are not very ob-
vious: wings hyaline: nervure of the radial cellule obsolete at
base; second cubital cellule destitute of the exterior nervure :
stigma triangular, fuscous: tergum oblong-oval, punctured, gla-
brous, and polished at tip; basal segment rather rough, the
lateral edge a little elevated and dull yellowish ; venter each side,
excepting at tip, dull yellowish : oviduct not exserted beyond the
tip of the abdomen: feet honey-yellow, tips of the posterior
thighs above slightly blackish.
Length nearly one-tenth of an inch.
It resembles the ensiger very much in its markings, but the
oviduct is not exserted. Great numbers are deposited together,
and they ultimately spin their cocoons and envelope them with
an exquisitely fine silky substance, which has been called “ ani-
mal cotton.”
4. M. conarecata.—Black ; thorax destitute of oblique, lined
sutures ; abdomen elongate, subfusiform.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
%, Body black : mandibles and palpi white: thorax destitute of
oblique, lined sutures ; transverse suture at the base of the scutel
dilated, profound: wings hyaline; radial cellule with the ner-
yure as obvious as the others; second cubital cellule rounded de-
stitute of the exterior [263] nervure ; apical nervures obsolete :
stigma triangular, fuscous: abdomen oblong, subfusiform, more
polished than the thorax; first and second joints densely punc-
tured or minutely lineated; the first joint pedunculiform, ar-
cuated, narrower than the second: venter along the middle pale
yellowish : feet honey-yellow : posterior tibiae at tip and posterior
tarsi dusky.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
Resembles medlipes, but the thorax has not the oblique, lineated
grooves, and the abdomen is more elongated and slender at base.
This basal segment, like that of the medlipes, has a slight tubercle
on each side.
In June, 1822, I obtained eighty-four individuals of this spe-
cies from the larva of a Sphynz.
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5. M. zonarta.—Black: feet and band on the tergum yel-
lowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body black, punctured : antennz fuscous ; beneath piceous,
dull; basal joint beneath honey-yellow: mouth honey-yellow :
palpi white: wings hyaline: radial cellule with the nervure not
strongly marked ; second cubital cellule very small, perfect: ab-
domen not elongated; each side and band on the middle of the
tergum honey-yellow: oviduct half the length of the abdomen,
black: feet yellowish ; posterior pair of tarsi dusky.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
The fasciated tergum is an obvious character.
6. M. canpata.—Black; stigma large, brown; feet honey-
yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
2 Body black: antenne beneath and mouth piceous: palpi
white : thorax with the suture before the scutel not much dilated,
but having the cross lines; wings hyaline; [264] nervures
whitish : stigma large, triangular, light brown; nervures of the
radial cellule not visible, or but slightly towards the tip ; second
cubital cellule destitute of the exterior nervure: tergum oval,
somewhat polished ; first segment punctured: oviduct nearly or
quite as long as the abdomen: feet honey-yellow : wing-scale yel-
low.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
The stigma of this insect is larger and the nervures paler than
those of any other species I have seen.
7. M. BissrIGMATA.—Stigma elongated, appearing double.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black, polished : antenne at base and mouth piceous :
thorax with two oblique sutures and one at the base of the scu-
tel: wings hyaline ; nervures pale brownish ; nervure of the ra-
dial cellule as distinct as the others, rectilinear, parallel with the
rectilinear part of the costal edge ; second cubital cellule desti-
tute of the exterior nervyure; stigma much elongated, the length
being obviously more than three times the greatest breadth,
brown; a stigma-like spot at the origin of the nervures of the
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discoidal cellule on the costal margin much smaller and distinct
from the stigma: abdomen elongate, subclavate, being slender at
base ; feet pale honey-yellow. !
Length about one-tenth of an inch.
The much elongated stigma and the small spot which precedes
it, being larger and more separate than usual, readily distinguish
this species.
8. M. CALLIPTERA.—Wings yellowish at base, bifasciate with
blackish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Stethidium black : feet honey-yellow : wings, at base and stigma
yellowish; a blackish band upon the two [ 265 | discoidal cel-
Jules; and another blackish band across the stigma, along the
descending nervure to the small second cubital and continued
dilating to the anal margin, where it is almost confluent with the
other band ; terminal third hyaline ; inferior wings blackish, yel-
lowish on the basal third, this color extending along the costal
margin.
This is larger than either of the preceding species.
CHELONUS Jur.
1. C. pARvus.—Black ; base of the antenne, and anterior
thighs yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body densely punctured ; antenne, first joint beneath honey-
yellow: palpi whitish ; thorax with dilated punctures, particu-
larly on the disk and anteriorly : scutel and metathorax with di-
lated punctures; the latter truncate behind: wings hyaline:
nervures blackish, pale at base: stigma large: second cubital
cellule small, subtriangular : abdomen without apparent sutures,
densely punctured ; the punctures longitudinally confluent into
wrinkles, which are more prominent at base ; venter profoundly
concave, excavated; cox:e black; trochanters whitish; thighs,
anterior pair honey-yellow ; the other pairs blackish ; tibiae whit-
ish, posterior pairs blackish at tip ; tarsi whitish.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
The neuration of the wings corresponds with the dentatus F.,
but the abdomen exhibits no more appearance of divisions than
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that of sulcatus Jur., and the yenter is very profoundly excava-
ted. The metathoracic spines are very short and obtuse.
2. C. sERICEUS nob., (Sigal/phus Long’s Ex. to [266] St. Pe-
ter’s, ii. p. 821.)—Agreeably to the generic characters given by
Jurine, this species as well as the following belongs to this genus,
on account of the undivided abdomen; still, however, the denta-
tas F., which has two distinct sutures on the tergum, is also re-
ferred by some modern naturalists to this genus.
3. C. BASILARIS nob., (Sigalphus, ibid. p. 322,) much like
parvus nob., but is larger, the second joint of the antennz, man-
dibles and feet, except at tip, are pale yellowish.
DIPLOLEPIS Geoff. Leach.
(Antenne filiform, joints cylindric. Three cubital cellules.)
1. D. armAtus.—Black ; antennze and feet ferruginous: scu-
tel with a conic spine.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished; antennz ferruginous: first joint not
longer than the third, black ; second joint globular, black ; third
and following joints cylindrical, subequal ; terminal joint rather
longest ; scutel with a prominent conic, acute spine; wings hya-
line: nervures pale brownish : feet honey-yellow ; venter on the
inferior edge honey-yellow ; thorax with two grooves ; collar and
first segment of the tergum with close-set raised lines.
Length to tip of wings three-twentieths of an inch.
The scutellar spine is very prominent, elevated and obvious,
as in Figites ediogaster Panz., but the thorax is not so much
sculptured as in that species.
2. D. 5-Linratus.—Black ; feet rufous; scutel with a spine.
Inhabits Indiana. [267]
Body black, polished ; antenne, first joint rather shorter than
the third ; scutel rough with about five raised lines; at tip a
broad, compressed, carinate, subacute spine: wings hyaline: ner-
vures brown: pleura and first joint of the tergum with close-set
raised lines: feet, excepting the inferior surface of the thighs,
dull honey-yellow.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
Aside from the color of the antenne and of the inferior surface
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of the thighs, the scutel differs from that of the preceding spe-
cies in being rugose, or with about five elevated lines, and its ter-
minal spine is much broader at the base and less conic.
3. D. IMPATIENS.—Black : feet ferruginous: scutel mutic,
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished, obsoletely tinted with piceous: antenna
piceous-blackish : mandibles ferruginous: seutel with the mar.
gin deeply depressed and rugose: the disk elevated, oval, with
an acute edge, within which, on the posterior half, is an indenta-
tion and a more slight indentation before it, each side of which
are two or three punctures: wings hyaline, nervures pale brown :
abdomen acute at the tip of the tergum : feet ferruginous or rather
piceous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
4. D. pepATus.—Black: feet yellowish: antennx piceous:
third joint long.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body polished, impunctured, black: antenne yellowish-piceous :
first joint not much longer than the second: third joint much
longest, equal to the fourth and fifth together, and a little arcu-
ated: remaining joints subequal, [268] oval-cylindric: nasus
with a longitudinal indentation each side before : mandibles pi-
ceous: thorax without dorsal grooves, but a simple one over the
wings : wings with a very slight obscure tint: nervures brown :
feet honey-yellow.
Length % less than one-twelfth of an inch.
Differs from the two preceding species by the elongated third
joint of the antenne.
5. D. stig¢Matus.—Black : feet yellowish: wings with a large
stigma.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body polished, black : antenna piceous: basal joint yellow-
ish: second joint closely ‘united to the first, shortest, almost
spherical: second and third joints subequal: wings hyaline,
nervures yellowish : stigma large, triangular: abdomen dull ru-
fous : feet pale honey-yellow.
Length about one-twentieth of an inch.
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FIGITES Latr.
(Antenne moniliform, thicker towards their extremities. Second
cubital cellule wanting. )
1. F. rmpatrens.—Black : mandibles and feet piceous.
Inhabits Indiana.
2 Body polished black : antenne piceous-black, two-thirds the
length of the body, with scattered hairs: beyond the sixth joint
moniliform: terminal joint ovate conic : mandibles piceous : area
of the stemmata a little elevated : behind which, on the occiput,
are oblique impressed lines: scutel with the margin depressed
and rugose, the disk oval, the: edge obscurely piceous, with an
indentation behind, within the edge: wings hyaline: nervures
yellowish: feet piceous.
Length three-twentieths of an inch. [269]
T am by no means satisfied with the only essential characters [
can find of the genera Diplolepis and Figites. The present spe-
cies closely resembles the Diplolepis impatiens nob. The scutel
has an indentation as in scute//aris Latr., and some other species.
2. F. MELLIPES.—Black ; feet honey-yellow ; wings ciliate.
Tnhabits Indiana.
9 Body black, polished: mouth piceous: antennz a little
hairy, piceous : wings hairy and ciliate ; more particularly ciliate
ut tip; nervures piceous: feet honey-yellow, somewhat paler at
base and including the coxe.
Length one-twenty-fifth of an inch.
LEUCOSPIS Fabr.
LL. FRATERNA Q.—Black, varied with yellow ; oviduct longer
than the abdomen.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, densely punctured: head with an obscure silvery
reflection before and on the front in the cavity of the antennz
bright green: vertex varied with obscure violet and greenish :
antenne, basal joint yellow anteriorly: collar margined each side
and behind with yellow and witha yellow transverse abbreviated
line on the anterior middle: thorax with an abbreviated line
over the wings and a transverse one on the scutel yellow: wings
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somewhat fuliginous: pleura with an oblique, yellow line over
the posterior feet: tergum, first segment with a dull ferruginous-
yellow band at base and a subterminal yellow one; on the madate
of the tergum on each side a transverse yellow spot ; a yellow band
on the posterior submargin of the penultimate segment; anda
double [270] yellow spot at tip of the ultimate segment: oviduct
longer than the abdomen, reaching almost to the seutel: tarsi
and anterior tibia ferruginous, the latter dusky on the middle :
intermediate tibiz and knees yellow, tinted with ferruginous be-
hind: posterior thighs dentated beneath, yellow at base and tip ;
tibia yellow before, somewhat ferruginous behind.
Length seven-twentieths of an inch.
% Tergum on each side anterior to the middle, a slightly
carinated line ; lateral yellow spot on the middle none; a yellow
band on the middle or a little posterior to the middle, and to-
wards the tip another yellow band; on the posterior declivity is
an abbreviated longitudinal yellow line.or spot; sides with a yel-
low spot or line interrupted from the extremities of the two pos-
terior bands; of the two spots the anterior one is sometimes
Wanting, and in some specimens is a lateral yellow joint near
the tip.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Closely resembles afinds nob., in color and markings, but be-
sides other differences the present species is larger and more
robust, and the oviduct is longer than the abdomen. A female
specimen was sent me by Dr. Harris, and I obtained several
males and one female in this State. Dr. Harris’s specimen
varies in having only a rudiment of the yellow spot of the mid-
dle of the tergum.
I have obtained them chiefly on the blossoms of the parsnip.
CHALCIS Fabr. Latr.
1. C. ama@nva.—Yellow, variegated with black.
Inhabits Indiana. [271]
Body with large, close-set punctures: yellow, slightly tinged
with green ; occiput and antenne, excepting the basal joint be-
neath, black: thorax quadrilinear with black, the intermediate
lines confluent at the middle, and all united by a transverse line
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behind and by a slender transverse line at the suture of the first
segment, on which the lines do not extend: scutel with a longi-
tudinal black line: metathorax, excepting at base, black : abdo-
men, petiole black, about one-third as long as the abdomen : ter-
gum moderately arcuated; each segment having a black band:
pleura black, about four yellow spots: posterior pair of feet with
their coxz at tip, maculated band, inferior edge and tip of the
dilated thighs, tip and base of the tibize, black; the thighs are
about the size of the abdomen, with six or eight large prominent
black spines, the superior one divided into three or four.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
A very handsome species; I obtained it from the pupa of a
Thecla.
2. C. pEBILIS—Dull honey-yellow; anterior pair of feet
whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Front yellowish towards the mouth ; a black line from the an-
tenn to the vertex: antennz dusky, paler beneath: thorax
punctured, with three black vitte ; scutel with a black line : be-
neath the petiole are two whitish spines: petiole as long as the
posterior coxe, blackish, whitish at the tips: abdomen polished,
the incisures blackish ; thighs nearly equal to the abdomen; tibize
whitish, blackish in the middle ; tarsi white.
Length three-twentieths of an inch. [272]
EURYTOMA Illig. Latr.
1. E. orpicutata.—Blackish; feet, excepting the middle of
the thighs, yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body brassy-black, reticulate with punctures: antennae, first
joint honey-yellow: scutel obtusely rounded at tip: suture at its
base not dilated : wings hyaline ; nervures brown, branch of the
radial nervure not longer than the part that extends beyond it
on the edge: abdomen in profile almost orbicular, glabrous,
polished ; petiole punctured, longer than the posterior coxz and
trochanters: feet honey-yellow: thighs, excepting at their origin
and extremity, black.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
The joint of the antennz are unequally gibbous.
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i_
2. E stuprosa.—Black ; terminal joint of the antennae as
long as the two preceding ones together.
Inhabits Indiana.
© Body reticulate with crowded punctures: antennz monili-
form, of eight joints, geniculate ; second joint shortest; third
joint hardly longer than the fourth, and gradually a little shorter
to the penultimate ; ultimate joint about as long as the two pre-
ceding ones together, conic-ovate, with a very slight appearance
of being three-jointed : thorax, anterior segment in breadth at
least equal to twice the length ; suture at the scutel not dilated :
scutel obtusely rounded behind: wings hyaline; neryure much
arcuated from the edge, its confluence with the edge about as
Jong as the branch, which is subclavate : abdomen polished, im-
punctured ; above oval; laterally orbicular; peduncle shorter
than the posterior coxze aud trochanters: knees and tips of the
tibie honey-yellow: [273] tarsi, particularly the two posterior
pairs, whitish.
Length less than one-tenth of an inch.
EULOPHUS Geoff. Latr.
1. E. pictapus.—Blackish metallic ; tibize and tarsi white.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body brassy blackish, more or less tinged with cupreous, pune-
tured: antenne larger towards the tip; terminal joint larger
than the preceding one, conic-compressed ; two long, slender
branches, originating near the base, and nearly as long as the
antenne; tergum tinged each side with green: feet blackish :
tibie and tarsi white.
Length nearly one-twentieth of an inch.
The terminal joint of the antenne in the female is consider-
ably larger than the others. .
2. BE. BASALIS.—Greenish ; feet, tip and base of the antenne
white.
Tnhabits Indiana.
9 Body granulated, brassy-green, with a slight violaceous re-
flection: antenne yellow-white, third, fourth and fifth joints
dusky: abdomen blackish-violaceous, basal disk whitish, and a
small whitish spot at tip: feet white, including the anterior
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cox: cox with a small, acute tubercle before : tarsi, terminal
joint dusky.
Length about one-fifteenth of an inch.
I anatved a number of the pup of this insect, congregated
together on the under side of a leaf’ of the buttonwood (Platanus
occidentalis 1.) They were of a blackish color, and adhered to
the leaf in a vertical [274] posture, by the extremity of the ab-
domen. Came out last June.
This is much lke #. damicornis Kirby, which, however, has
« shade in the middle of the wings; antennze not shaded in the
middle, and the posterior thighs of the female are dusky in the
middle. I have five females, but not one male.
The last joint of the antennze is evidently divided into three
segments.
3. EK. ntrcinus.—Black, with sparse, long hairs; feet and base
of the tergum yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black : antennze yellowish ; terminal joints dusky: mouth .
yellowish: thorax, head and wings at base, with long sparse
hairs : wing-scale honey-yellow : tergum on the basal disk yellow-
ish: feet, including, the coxe, pale yellow: venter on the disk
yellowish.
Length over one-twentieth of an inch.
Quite distinct from the preceding by the long hairs of the
head and thorax.
PERILAMPUS Latr.
P. PLATIGASTER.—Blackish ; face impunctured.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body brassy-blackish, ete : head polished, impunctured
before : occiput somewhat lineated transversely ; before the eyes
a little punctured: thorax with a glabrous, polished line each
side: scutel short, obtuse, rounded, slightly emarginate at tip:
wings hyaline; nervures brown; tergum quadrate, angulated
each side, simply arcuated above, shining blackish : feet blackish,
with a tinge of green: tarsi yellowish. [275 ]
Length about three-twentieths of an inch.
Differs from P. hyalinus nob. by color; and in that species the
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face is very obviously punctured, the scutel is larger and more
acutely emarginated, and the abdomen is elevated above, into
acute, transverse ridge.
an
TORYMUS Dalm. (MISOCAMPUS Klug.)
1. T. ocrEATUS.—Green, tinged with blue; base of the an-
tenn, tibize and tarsi whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body bright green, more or less tinged on the pleura, abdomen
and thighs with blue or purplish; reticulately punctured: an-
tenn black ; first joint before dull whitish : mandibles and palpi
piceous : scutel, on the posterior half with very small punctures :
wings hyaline ; nervure brown: abdomen polished, impunctured :
terminal joint 2 brassy: oviduct as long as the body, fuscous :
tibiz and tarsi whitish. .
Length one-tenth of an inch.
Resembles bedeguaris F., but is smaller, the abdomen and
thighs differently colored, and the minute puncturation of the
posterior half of the scutel strongly contrasts with the larger dis-
coidal punctures of the basal half. It inhabits the receptacle of
a Liatris.
The male has generally more of the purple tinge.
2. T. PAvIDUS.—Cupreous green; no large punctures ; tibiz
and tarsi yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body coppery-greenish, with the appearance of minute granules
or scales ; antennee black: hypostoma with the carinate line very
distinct : mandibles piceous: wings hyaline; nervure pale brown-
ish: abdomen bluish-green: [276] feet honey-yellow: thighs
bluish-green ; posterior pair of tarsi whitish.
Length % nearly one-tenth of an inch.
The surface has no large and obvious punctures like those
which distinguish the preceding.
SPARASION Latr.
S. FAMELICUS.—Slender; abdomen longitudinally lineated.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body much elongated, very slender; with small punctures ;
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black ; antenne, six basal joints dull yellowish, remaining joints
close set: second and third joints equal: mandibles piceous :
thorax with the anterior segment arcuated each side to the
wings ; two distant, dorsal, longitudinal impressed lines: wings
hyaline ; nervure not distant from the edge, branch, divaricating
from the edge, not dilated at its tip: metathorax with longitudi-
nal, eleyated lines: abdomen elongated, with numerous, longitu-
nal, parallel, elevated lines, both on the tergum and yenter: feet
honey-yellow.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
CERAPHRON Jur. Latr.
1. C. AaRMATUS.—Wings fuliginous in the middle; tergum
striate at base.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with rather distant punctures : thorax with three
longitudinal lines before, approaching behind : wings fuliginous
in the middle ; nervure, carpal spot and branch robust, fuscous ;
the carpal spot or stigma rather [277] large and truncated :
scutel with two small spines at tip: metathorax with a small
spine or tuberele each side: tergum depressed, with numerous
close set engraved lines extending to the middle of the length :
feet piceous ; thighs blackish.
Length more than one-tenth of an inch.
A very distinct species.
2. C. stTIGMATUS.—Lateral margin of the tergum extending
beyond the abdomen.
Inhabits Indiana. .
Body black, minutely punctured : antenna, first joint equal to
the four following joints taken together: thorax, anterior seg-
ment with the three impressed lines distinct: wings hyaline ;
stigma large, semi-orbicular, brown; nervure of the incomplete
radial eellule robust, brown, hardly longer than the stigma ; ter-
gum polished, slightly lineated at base; the segments extending
each side beyond those of the venter: anterior and intermediate
tibiee and tarsi piceous.
Length over one-twentieth of an inch.
These two species belong to the second division of Jurine’s
Ceraphron.
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bo
or
PROCTOTRUPES Latr.
1. P. opsoLeTus.—Black ; feet and antennxe honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body polished, black: antennz honey-yellow, simple, palpi
white : thorax with a yellowish wing-scale: wings hyaline; ner-
vure from the radial cellule continued to the middle of the wing ;
discoidal and anal nervures hardly distinct: feet honey-yellow :
oviduct about as [378] long as the first joint of the posterior
tarsi, gradually attenuating from the abdomen to the tip, and
continuing the curve of the tergum downward.
Length to the tip of the oviduct nearly one-fifth of an inch.
2. P. apruptus.— Black ; feet and first joints of the antennz
honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body polished, black: antennz rather short, with close set,
short, obvious hairs; two or three basal joints very obscurely
honey-yellow or piceous ; joints beyond the middle not twice the
length of their breadth : mouth obscurely piceous: wings hyaline ;
nervure of the radial cellule not extended toward the middle of
the wing; discoidal and anal nervures not obvious; wing-scale
dull yellowish : feet honey-yellow: oviduct curved rapidly down-
ward, almost deflected, not gradually attenuated, but somewhat
cylindric at base, and hardly longer than the basal joint of the
posterior tarsi. .
Length one-tenth of an inch.
3. P. pALLIpuS nob. Contrib. Macl. Lye. vol. i. p. 80.
This species is remarkable in having but a very short, bifid
process extending from the tip of the abdomen. ‘The sexes are
not well understood. Jurine says that the antenne have the
same number of joints, and that the pointed valves which termi-
nate the abdomen are nearly alike in both sexes. But the pre-
sent insect leads me to suppose that the male has not been
hitherto known. At the extremity of its abdomen are two very
short, parallel filiform processes, which are probably character-
istic of the male sex in this genus. It seems, therefore, possible
that the pallidus may prove to be of the same species as [ 279 ]
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P. caudatus nob., notwithstanding their great apparent difference.
But this cannot be determined without more specimens, and a
better acquaintance with them both.
Since the above was written, I have obtained many specimens
of this species, all corresponding in apparent sexual character,
excepting that in some the second joint of the antennz is so
far immersed in the first, as to be hardly visible; still as it is
not, in any, much exserted, this character is probably dependent
on the greater or less degree of contraction in drying.
CINETUS Jur.
C. MELLIPES.—Black ; feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body polished, black, hairy: antennze fuscous; basal joint
honey-yellow ; vertex tinged with piceous: mouth obscure honey-
yellow: thorax with two impressed lines: wings immaculate,
ciliate; neryures of the radial cellule extended a little towards
the base and centre of the wing; the two anal nervures very’
distinct ; stigma not obvious: abdomen, peduncle with longitu-
dinal, impressed lines; second segment very large, composing
the chief part of the abdomen: feet honey-yellow.
Length one-tenth of an inch.
BETHYLUS Latr.
1. B. cetiuLaris.—Black ; antenna, tarsi and anterior tibie
piceous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black : head with a raised line passing between the an-
tenne before: antenne piceous: wings with a very [280] slight
tinge of fuliginous ; nervures yellowish ; stigma double, fuscous ;
a small, additional, triangular cellule at the tip of the brachial
cellules ; abdomen polished: feet black ; tarsi and anterior pair
of tibize and tarsi piceous.
Length about one-tenth of an inch.
This species is remarkable by the supernumerary cellule.
2. B. muscotus.—Black ; antenne and feet yellowish ; abdo-
men depressed.
Inhabits Indiana.
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Body somewhat polished, impunctured, black : antenns dusky,
honey-yellow towards the base: mandibles honey-yellow ; thorax
with the anterior segment not much elongated ; dorsal impressed
lines very obvious: wings hyaline; radial nervure extended,
equally distinctly near to the tip of the wing; discoidal silinls
none: metathorax minutely and densely padietained or granulated
above, and minutely lineated each side: abdomen depressed,
polished, piceous black, distinctly petiolated: feet honey-yellow:
thighs a little dusky in the middle.
Length over one-twentieth of an inch.
This is the smallest species [ have met with.
3. B. pepatus.—Black ; antenne and feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with scattered hairs: antenna, particularly at
base, obscurely honey-yellow ; first joint long: thorax minutely
punctured : metathorax punctured and lineated : tergum polished:
feet dull honey-yellow.
Length over one-tenth of an inch.
This species and the following are remarkable for the brevity
of the inflected tip of the radial nervure, which is not at all
arcuated, but points obliquely inward. [281]
4, B. cenrratus.—Black ; tarsi and tip of the tibize obscure
piceous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished, with scattered hairs: antennze with an
obsolete piceous tint, excepting the basal joint: metathorax with
discoidal punctures and lineations : wings hyaline ; two brachial
cellules; a simple, short, oblique rectilinear inflection of the tip
of the radial nervure pointing towards the centre of the wing ;
nervures pale: tergum polished: tibiae and tarsi obscure pice-
; the latter blackish at tip.
arp less than three-twentieths of an inch.
This species is considerably larger than the preceding and
differs in the color of the antennz and of the feet.
COPTERA nob.
Artificial character.—W ings without nervures ; superior wings
folded and with a fissure at tip; abdomen of two segments.
1835.]
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Natural character.—Body moderately slender: head longitu-
dinally oblong, truncate or a little excavated before, over the in-
sertion of the antennz ; eyes lateral, rounded, entire: stemmata
three : antennee submoniliform, gradually enlarging a little to-
wards the tip; basal joint longest and dilated: wings without
obvious nervures ; superior wings large, folded longitudinally in
two, and at the tip of the fold witha profound fissure ; inferior wings
rather slender : abdomen composed of but two segments, of which
the basal one is somewhat petioliform : feet moderate. [282]
Observations.—This new genus differs from all others with
which I am acquainted, that have nerveless wings, by having
the superior wings doubled, by an equal fold, and at their tips a
deep and obvious fissure. I have, as yet, seen only the male.
©. porira.—Black ; feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body polished, black : head anteriorly rugose and biangulated :
antennee at base, excepting the first joint, piceous: thorax with
two impressed lines : wings with short hairs and ciliate: abdo-
men oblong-oval, basal segment with elevated lines.
Length about one-twelfth of an inch.
Taken on the window, July 20.
PSILUS Jur.
1. P. rerminatus.—Black; feet and base of the antennz
honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished, with a few, rather long, scattered hairs :
antenne thirteen-jointed, elongated, geniculate between the second
and third joints, honey-yellow ; first joimt in a frontal groove ;
second joint elongated, subfusiform, third joint cyathiform; re-
maining joints moniliform, equal to the eleventh joint, which is
abruptly dilated and with the twelfth equal, subquadrate, black ;
thirteenth joint subequal to the preceding, globose-ovate, black :
wings with short cilia, and with short hairs; [283] nervures
none; stigma triangular, black ; abdomen dull honey-yellow at
base ; first segment half as long as the thorax: feet honey-yel-
low.
Length over one-twentieth of an inch.
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Although the wings entitle this species to a place in Jurine’s
Psilus, yet the antennz are entirely different from those of the
type P. elegans, resembling considerably those of his P. antenna-
Zus.
2. P. ABDOMINALIS.—Antenne clavate, as long as the body ;
black, abdomen whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black : antennx broken at the second joint; first joint
one-fourth the whole length, whitish: second joint obconic:
terminal joint ovate-fusiform, longer than the three preceding
joints together ; wings very deeply ciliated: abdomen whitish,
particularly at base: tarsi whitish.
Length about one-fourth of an inch.
3. P. apIcatis.—Antennz at the tip of the head, which is a
little prominent.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished ; antenne as long as the body, fuscous,
with subquadrately moniliform joints; basal long joint honey-
yellow ; terminal joint not much longer than the preceding one ;
inserted at the tip of the head; beneath the antenne is a rather
broad prominence: costal nervure but little less than half the
length of the wing, triangular and black at its tip; feet honey-
yellow : petiole distinct.
Length one twenty-fifth of an inch.
It is probable that the present insect is related to the P. cor-
nutus of Panzer, but I have not the means of comparing. [284]
4. P. coLon.—Wings with a dusky dot before the middle.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished ; antenne nearly as long as the body;
terminal joint as long as the first and equal to the four preceding,
joints together : wings hyaline; an oval, dusky spot a little be-
yond the tip of the costal nervure and extending nearly across
the wing: costal nervure with its terminal half more dilated than
the basal portion and blackish ; tarsi and anterior pair of tibie
honey-yellow.
Length one twenty-fifth of an inch.
Readily distinguished by the dusky wing-spot.
1855.]
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ANTEON Jur.
A. TIBIALIS.—Black ; tibiae and tarsi dull yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body polished, black; metathorax punctured and with longi-
tudinal slightly elevated lines; tergum towards the tip with a
few, rather long black hairs; tibize and tarsi dull yellowish-
white.
Length about one-tenth of an inch.
HEDYCHRUM Latr.
1. H. opsotetumM.— Thorax on the disk very slightly
punctured ; abdomen entire at tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body green, varied with purplish; thorax on the disk tinged
with purple, and with sparse, slightly impressed punctures ; wings
fuliginous ; metathorax and pleura with discoidal punctures, and
a confluent blackish, double, indented [285] spot behind ; tergum
with a purple reflection, less obvious on the posterior segment ;
punctures slightly impressed, more obyious each side and on the
terminal segment ; terminal segment about equal to the preced-
ing, perfectly entire at tip: venter bronze: tarsi brown.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
Differs from ventrale nob., which has the terminal segment
slightly longer than the preceding one and very obtusely and
slightly emarginate at tip, and the thoracic punctures are not
sparse on the disk ; the sinwoswum nob. has a deep and acute
emargination at tip of the terminal segment of the tergum.
2. H. spEcULUM.— g Green; tergum and disk of the thorax
impunctured.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body green, varied with purplish: antennz, excepting the
first and second joints, blackish: head with discoidal punctures,
vertex and posterior margin impunctured: thorax impunctured,
polished, with an impressed, abbreviated line each side of the
middle: metathorax with discoidal punctures: wings fuliginous :
tergum impunctured, polished; terminal segment hardly half as
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long as the preceding one, obsoeltely punctured each side, at tip
obtusely emarginate: tarsi pale honey-yellow: venter brassy.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch. ’
The smallest species I have yet met with in this country.
PYRIA Lepel. & Serv.
P. rRipeNs L. & P.—Encye. Meth. Chrysis carinata nob.
Contrib. Macl. Lye. p. 82. [286]
FORMICA L.
A. First cubital cellule without recurrent nervure.
1. F. MeLLEA.—Honey-yellow ; scale truncate.
Inhabits Louisiana.
% Body entirely honey-yellow; eyes rather prominent, black,
short oval: wings very slightly tinged with yellow; nervures
yellow: scale robust, broad, truncate, and having a slight tuber-
cle each side before, less than half the height of the abdomen,
and not higher than the length of its base.
Length nine-twentieths of an inch.
Sent tome by Mr. Barabino. The small discoidal cellule, so
_ distinct in the wing of F. rufa F., does not exist in this species.
2. F. pauta.—@ Body piceous, more or less varied with
black; the piceous color prevails chiefly on the stethidium and
mouth : mandibles with larger and regular punctures ; between
the antenne a slender, impressed line: thorax with generally a
black line each side: scutel darker than the thorax: wings with
yellowish nervures: no recurrent nervure: inferior nervure of
the cubital cellule arising from the middle of the tip of the bra-
chial cellule; the terminal line of this latter cellule is nearly rec-
tilinear and transverse ; anal nervure rectilinear at base, angu-
larly undulated and slightly communicating with the tip of the
axillary nervure: abdomen black ; first segment often piceous :
feet honey-yellow: tibize and tarsi darker.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
% Entirely black, excepting the wings, which are like those of
the female: the thorax has a distinct, longitudinal impressed
line before, which sometimes exists in the female, but less dis-
tinct. [287]
1835. ]
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Length over one-fifth of an inch.
Inhabits Indiana. Common.
3. F. IMPARIS.—@ Body light honey-yellow, impunctured :
head small : eyes oval, black : mandibles, teeth black : wings very
slightly tinged with fuliginous ; no recurrent nervure; terminal
line of the brachial cellule angulated, the anal half being ob-
lique ; anal neryure robust to its tip, arcuated from its origin,
scarcely undulated, not communicating with the axillary ner-
vure: scale emarginate at tip, often deeply and acutely : tergum,
disks of the incisures a little deeper colored.
Length nearly three-tenths of an inch.
% Very small in comparison with the female; black; mouth
piceous: feet dull honey-yellow; thighs, excepting the knees,
black.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
This species is common in Indiana. The great disparity in
color and magnitude between the male and female, would deceive,
as to their specific identity.
They appeared in great numbers on the 2d of April; the males
swarmed around small bushes, alighting on the branches and leaves.
The females were but few.
B. First cubital cellule with a recurrent nervure.
4, F. sessriis.—Peduncle concealed by the abdomen.
Inhabits Indiana
Body blackish: mouth dull honey-yellow: antenne rather
long: thorax with the three segments very distinctly marked :
peduncle composed of a simple, oblong body ; destitute of a scale,
unless it be depressed and united to the surface of the peduncle,
concealed by the first segment of the abdomen: abdomen pro-
jecting over the peduncle, and having a deep and well defined
groove beneath the first segment for its reception : feet, except-
ing [288] at base, dull honey-yellow: wings with the discoidal
cellule, small, quadrate ; first cubital cellule not broader than the
radial, and bounded by a right line; nervure of the second
cubital cellule obsolete.
Length ? three-twentieths of an inch: nearer about one-tenth
of an inch.
The projection of the superior part of the basal segment of
[Vorrt.
OF NATURAL HISTORY. loo
the neuter abdomen is more remarkable than that of the fe
It probably belongs to the genus Polyerqus.
A variety is much paler, even honey-yellow.
male.
5. F. rRIANGULARIS.—Discoidal cellule subtriangular ; black-
ish-piceous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body blackish-piceous or obscure reddish-brown : hypostoma
convex and somewhat carinate: mandibles piceous : wings whit-
ish; nervures pale; discoidal cellule subtriangular, the superior
angle being very obtuse ; first and second cubital cellules not
separated by a petiole ; anal nervure abruptly angulated on the
anal submargin: scale rather thin, elevated ; tarsi honey-yellow.
% Body darker.
Length 9 over one-tenth of an inch; % about the same.
Var. o. Recurrent nervure none.
Var. 6. Recurrent nervure obsolete or incomplete.
Resembles sessilis nob., but the scale is obvious; the discoidal
cell is more triangular and the nervure of the second cubital is
obvious.
6. F. pistocata.—Yellowish ; anal nervure almost dislocated
at the anal emargination.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head black : hypostoma distinctly carinated : front [289] with
an acute, longitudinal, elevated line over the insertion of each
antenne and a slightly impressed line in the middle: antennz
and mandibles piceous: thorax honey-yellow, dusky before :
wings tinged with fuliginous ; nervures dusky and very distinct ;
recurrent nervure forming a quadrate cellule less than half the
size of the first cubital; anal nervure abruptly angulated near
the anal emargination of the edge, and almost dislocated in that
part, the terminal portion being arcuated at each extremity : scale
thick, prominent, obtuse, entire: abdomen blackish, with pros-
trate hairs, and sparse elevated ones and regular cilia on the
edges of the segments; first segment honey-yellowish at base,
without any indentation opposite the scale: feet honey-yellow.
% Trunk and scale entirely pale honey-yellowish : scapus of
1835.]
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the antenne, hypostoma and mouth pale yellowish: abdomen
somewhat piceous.
Length three-tenths, $ less than two-fifths of an inch.
Not uncommon in the forest, running rapidly upon the branches
and leaves of bushes.
7. F. supsericea.—Black, minutely sericeous ; abdomen im-
punctured.
inhabits Indiana.
Body impunctured, black, very minutely sericeous : thorax with
an impressed line before: wings dusky ; discoidal cellule about
half as large as the first cubital, a little narrower before : scale
obtuse, or widely rounded at tip, somewhat truncate.
Length % less than two-fifths, 2 over two-fifths of an inch.
My specimen of the female has the legs entirely black: and
of two males one has the legs honey-yellow, with the exception
only of the base of the coxee; and the other [290] also with
honey-yellow legs has the coxee, trochanters and even the base
of the thighs black. It is one of the large species called “ wood
ants.”
ATTA:
A. FERVENS Drury, vol. iii. p. 58, pl. 42, f.3.—I obtained a
female of this species in Mexico, and on comparison with an in-
dividual of the cephalotes sent me by Dr. Klug, I find it to be a
closely allied species. The color of the wings and their neura-
tion are the same ; but the body is more hairy or downy, and its
brown color is not so deep, (the color is much too black in my
copy of Drury, agreeing better with the cephalotes, than with
Drury’s description.) The head is not so large, so deeply in-
dented above, nor so acute at the posterior angles. The impressed,
longitudinal line on the anterior part of the thorax, so distinct
in cephalotes is not, or is scarcely visible in fervens. Judging
from these two specimens, I am convinced that the fervens ought
to be admitted into the modern books as a distinct species.
MYRMICA Latr. Klug.
1. M. tinEotaTa.— @ Black, more or less varied with pice-
ous: antenne subclavate; at tip clothed with dense, short,
whitish hairs: front with a longitudinal impressed line, termi-
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nating before ina small triangular impression between the
tennz ; the whole head, excepting the vertex, occiput and antenne,
striate with close-set very small lines, which are rather longer
on the mandibles: wings hyaline ; nervures yellowish-brown ; small
cubital cellule none: anterior segment of the petiole deeply
striate [291] longitudinally each side, decidedly longer than the
second which is subemarginate above: abdomen oval, truncate,
submarginate at base: pleura, striate like the head behind.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
% Much more slender; transverse incisure between the wings
more obvious ; segments of the petiole not so deeply divided.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
Neuter. Piceous, varying to black; abdomen cordate, almost
always black.
Length under three-twentieths of an inch.
This species is very common in various parts of the United
States, even in houses, and may be observed, by every one,
going in procession. The radial cellule is slender and elongated,
the including nervures being nearly parallel ; the inner nervures
does not quite attain the edge. The first cubital cellule is hardly
larger than the discoidal cellule, the recurrent nervure of which
enters the first cubital at the middle. Second cubital extending
to the tip of the wing.
an-
2. M. connuGATA.—Honey-yellow ; wings with three complete
cubital cellules.
Inhabits Indiana.
$ Body dark honey-yellow, almost piceous: antennz whitish ;
first joint not longer than the second and third together ; second
joint rounded, thickest: metathorax with two obtuse tubercles
instead of spines : wings hyaline; nervures and stigma pale yel-
lowish; second cubital cellule complete, nearly as long as the
first cubital and petiolated from the apical angle of the discoidal
cellule, which is oblong subquadrate ; the descending nervure
from the stigma enters the second cubital : abdomen, first [292 ]
joint somewhat gibbous at tip; second segment rounded: feet
whitish.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
Q@Somewhat darker than the male; metathoracic tubercles
1835.]
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spiniform ; first abdominal segment almost emarginate at the su-
perior tip; second segment short and wide ; first joint of the an-
tennze long; head anteriorly with numerous, approximate, im-
pressed lines.
Length one-fifth of an inch.
Appeared on the wing, July 19th.
3. M. opposira.
% Body black, minutely and densely granulated: antenne
dusky ; pale yellowish towards the tip; first joint slightly longer
than the second and third together ; second joint obtusely ob-
conic: hypostoma convex: mandibles piceous: thorax with a
glabrous line extending to the middle: wings dusky: second cu-
bital cellule turbinate, petiolated from the angle of the discoidal
cellule, its longitudinal nervures equally curved; nervure sepa-
rating the second and third cellules in a direct line with the ner-
vure from the stigma; discoidal cellule quadrate ; metathorax,
spines short, acute : abdomen polished, not obviously granulated ;
second node with an impressed line above, dividing the surface
into three slight lobes: venter and feet tinged with piceous.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
Neuter. Dull honey-yellow : head minutely lineated : antenne,
first joint long: stethidium rather largely granulated ; spines
prominent, acute, reaching nearly to the tip of the first node :
abdomen glabrous, polished; second node without impressed
line.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
4. M. 1nrLecTA.—Black : wings dusky; discoidal cellule ob-
long. [293]
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body a little hairy, lineated with impressed lines, which are
more distinct on the metathorax, black, sllghtly tinged with pi-
ceous : antenne witha piceous tinge ; first joint not longer than
the three following ones together : wings dusky ; discoidal nearly
as long again as broad; second cubital sessile, the separating
nervure from the first cubital rather abruptly inflected towards
the base, and nearer the base almost obsolete, the other including
nervure rectilinear ; separating nervures between the first cubital
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and radial, and the second and third cubitals, forming a broken
or slightly dislocated line, the former almost entering the third
cubital : metathorax without lineations on the posterior declivity,
the spines distinct : abdomen polished, without lines ; petiolar seg-
ments or nodes very distinct, subequal, the posterior one rather
larger and spherical : feet more obviously tinged with piceous at
base.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
The connexion between the radial and second cubital is very
slightly petiolated, and the separating nervure between the first
and second cubitals, is almost or quite angulated, and is less dis-
tinct towards its junction with the discoidal cellule.
5. M. pimrp1ata.—Body pale yellowish: thorax somewhat
tinged with piceous : wings with a very slight tinge of yellowish ;
discoidal cellule in length nearly twice its breadth ; feet filiform ;
separating nervure between the first and second cubital cellules
abruptly ending at the middle of the usual length, being entirely
wanting on the basal half.
_ Length over one-fifth of an inch.
6. M. MoLesta.— 2 Body pale honey-yellow, immaculate : an-
tennz with the two ultimate joints much larger [ 294 ] than the
others ; the terminal one as large again as the penultimate one:
wings whitish; smaller cubital cellule none; discoidal cellule
very small, less than half as large as the first cubital; first cubital
receiving the recurrent nervure near its base ; nervure of the ra-
dial cellule terminating abruptly before the tip: the two other
apical nervures feebly traced towards the tip and not reaching
the tip; metathorax unarmed.
Length less than three-twentieths of an inch.
This is called the “little yellow ant,” and is frequently found
in houses in great numbers. They sometimes eat vegetable food,
and some of my garden seeds have severely suffered from their
attacks. They also devour grease, olive oil, &c. Their sting is
like the puncture of a very fine needle. I placed a piece of
meat on a window board frequented by these little depredators ;
it was soon absolutely covered by them, and thus enabled me to
destroy thousands, every few hours that I returned to examine
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the bait, for several days, during which time their apparent num-
bers scarcely diminished.
7. M. mrnuta.—Pale yellowish; destitute of spines on the
metathorax.
Tnhabits Indiana. "
Body whitish-yellow: head rather large: antennz, terminal
joint three times as large as the preceding one: eyes small, black,
und placed low down: peduncle rather long : abdomen oval : very
pale honey-yellow.
Length (neuter) less than three-fifths of an inch.
[Is it not the same as the molesta 2—Ep. ]
This may possibly prove to be an Atta. I obtained only a
single specimen, which was found entangled in the nails and
tarsi of a specimen of Gorytes phaleratus nob., in my cabinet.
It does not appear to have a spine on any part, but there are a
few scattered hairs. [ 295 ]
MUTILLA Linn.
* Byes emarginate.
1. M. conrracta.—Black ; above ferruginous; wings black-
ish.
Tnhabits Arkansaw and Missouri.
Body entirely black beneath, inclusive of the feet: above fer-
ruginous-yellowish : head black below the line of the eyes: me-
tathorax, petiole, anterior and lateral declivities of the abdomen
black. % Anterior half of the first segment of the tergum black :
wings blackish-fuliginous, somewhat paler in the middle; second
cubital cellule wide beneath and contracted but not angulated at
the radial cellule; third cubital cellule so much contracted at
base that its extreme nervure is opposite to and joins the recur-
rent nervure.
Length about half an inch.
The neuration of the wings somewhat resembles that of the
maura FB. and is nearly the same as that of the erythrina Klug,
of Mexico. I obtained several specimens from Missouri, and Mr.
Nuttall gave me one from Arkansaw.
2. M. HEXAGONA.—% Black; abdomen honey-yellow.
inhabits Indiana and Missouri.
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Body black, much punctured, and with a slight reflection of
silvery hairs, particularly on the head, on the anterior segment
of the thorax and on the metathorax: thorax with four slicht,
impressed lines, and numerous confluent punctures : metathorax
reticulate with punctures, and with a slight groove from the base
nearly to the middle: wings dark purplish-fuliginous ; radial cel-
lule rounded at tip, not truncate; third cubital cellule [296]
rounded hexangular, with ‘abbreviated nervures from the two
outer angles; a white line passes through the cubital cellules,
and a white spot is in the outer discoidal cellule: abdomen rufous
or bright honey-yellow ; first or petiole segment black: feet sil-
very hairy.
Length from half an inch to nearly seven-tenths.
The neuration of the wings is much like that of the I. italica
F., even to the white line and small spot; but the third cubital]
cellule is still more regularly hexagonal and the radial cellule is
not truncate at tip like those of the italica and melanura Klug,
and many other species.
3. M. vietrans.—% Black; large abdominal segment, ex-
cepting its anterior and posterior margins, rufous.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body black ; with large, dense punctures: thorax with three,
somewhat elevated lines and a slight appearance of another each
side: wing-scale convex, lineate on the margin; the outer and
hinder margins lineated with minute, elevated, parallel lines :
wings purplish-black ; radial cellule truncate at tip ; first cubital
cellule bisected by a white line; second cubital gradually and reg-
ularly narrowed to the base, with an abbreviated white line at
tip; third cubital hexagonal, not contracted, the two exterior
angles with abbreviated nervures ; exterior discoidal cellule with
a white dot: metathorax discoidally punctured ; dorsal groove
extending beyond the middle ; large basal segment of the abdomen
with large remote punctures, smaller and closer on the sides,
bright rufous, its basal and terminal margins black.
Length over three-fifths of an inch.
Resembles M. italica F., but differs in greater depth of color
in the lineations of the wing-scale, greater length [297] of the
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metathoracic groove and the larger and distant puncturing of the
larger segment of the tergum. It is also larger.
* * Hyes entire or the emargination obsolete.
EpuHuta.
4, M. eryTHRINA Klug.—Searlet-red, beneath black; wings
blackish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body with dense, bright scarlet-red hairs above; beneath
black ; antennz and inferior part of the head black: wings
black-violaceous; radial cellule truncate at tip; third cubital
cellule pentagonal, contracted on the anal side, its apical nervures
almost obsolete : metathorax black: abdomen, anterior declivity
of the basal segment extending in an angle on the superior por-
tion of the segment, black; petiole black; venter with a slight
searlet-red band rather behind the middle. 9 with a black dot
rather behind the middle of the tergum.
Length about nine-twentieths of an inch.
I obtained a female of this species in Mexico, and Dr. Klug
has favored me with the sexes, differing in no respect from mine,
except in being a little larger.
5. M. scrupEA.—% Black; with dilated punctures ; tergum
with a whitish band.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, a little hairy, and having large punctures, which
on the stethidium and head are confluent and discoidal : mandi-
bles piceous before the tip; wing-scale also punctured: wings
slightly dusky ; nervures blackish : stigma not distinct, or none ;
second cubital cellule larger than the first ; the third largest ;
separating nervure [298] of the second and third cellules rectili-
near: metathorax reticulate with larger discoidal punctures and
having at base an oblong triangle: tergum, first segment short,
abruptly smaller than the second, petioliform, with discoidal
punctures, hairy, abrupt before, and on the anterior inferior tip
having an angle on each side; second segment with the punce-
tures rather distant, profound, with a band of whitish hairs on
the posterior margin: remaining segments with numerous whit-
ish hairs, and a dorsal elevated line.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
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Rather smaller than nigrita F., and may be distinguished by
the more dilated punctures; the basal segment of the abdomen
being suddenly smaller than the second, and shorter than in
nigrita ; by the abdominal band, and different configuration of the
wing cellules. The emargination of the eyes is very small and
acute.
6. M. aipnosa.—Black ; petiole as long as the second abdom-
inal.segment; wings dusky at tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black; with numerous gray, but not concealing hairs :
densely punctured ; punctures large on the head and trunk : wings
hyaline ; at tip and including the radial cellule, fuliginous ; stig-
ma moderate ; third cubital cellule incomplete; abdomen, first
segment petioliform, as long as the second, and somewhat gibbous
at tip, distinguished from the second by a deep stricture.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles scrupea nob., but is larger, has a stigma and longer
petiole. It is also like nigrita F., but is larger, with a much more
obvious stigma: wings dusky at tip; the petiole more gibbous at
tip, &e. [299]
TENGYRA Latr. King.
T. styG1a.—Black ; mandibles piceous at tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body entirely black, immaculate, punctured ; mandibles pi-
ceous at tip; near the tip one-toothed ; wings hyaline ; nervures
black, separating nervure of the first and second cubital cellules
wanting ; stigma obvious, black: abdomen, segments contracted
near the incisures: oviduct not extending beyond the terminal
processes and concealed beneath them.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Resembles 7. Sanvitali Latr., but is larger, with a much larger
stigma, and each abdominal segment is much more contracted
before its posterior incisure.
METHOCA Latr.
M. sicotor.— 9 Rufous; head and part of the tergum black.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body pale yellowish-rufous, polished: head black: antenna
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rufous, terminal joints piceous: mandibles and palpi rufous : tho-
rax, segments subequal: anterior and posterior ones convex, sub-
ovate, intermediate one with two slightly elevated convexities :
abdomen ovate-subfusiform: tergum with a transverse, triangu-
lar black spot at the tip of the second segment, another on the
third, the remaining ones confluent.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
The abdomen does not contract abruptly to the petiole but sub-
sides gradually. Van der Linden says that the species of this ge-
nus are the females of species of Tengyra. (Anh. des Se. Nat-
Jan. 1829, p. 48.] [300]
TIPHIA Fabr. Latr.
T. TaRDA.—Body polished, black, punctured: mandibles pi-
ceous in the middle: metathorax with three longitudinal lines,
and the minute lines on the margin of the posterior declivity
very regular and obvious: wings tinged with honey-yellow : ner-
vures brown ; stigma black: incisure of the first abdominal seg-
ment not very much contracted : second segment at its basal mar ~
gin with the minute longitudinal lines very regular and distinct *
palpi dull piceous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
The smallest species I have seen, and may be distinguished
from its American congeners by its size. The male has the me-
tathoracic¢ lineations more distinct. It is smaller than the femo-
rata of Europe.
MYZINE Latr. Klug.
1. M. namMaAtTUs.—Black ; thorax spotted and abdominal seg-
ments margined with yellow: the latter not abruptly emarginate
each side.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black, polished, with small pnnctures: nasus, labrum,
tip of the basal joint of the antennz, two spots between the an-
tenne and base of the mandibles yellow : collar on the anterior
margins interrupted in the middle and on the posterior margin,
yellow: thorax with a spot in the middle emarginate before, yel-
low: metathorax, a transverse yellow spot near the scutel and an
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obscure yellow, longitudinal spot each side at tip: tergum with a
perlaceous iridescence : on each segment a slender yellow [301]
band on the posterior submargin, a little undulated obtusely on
its anterior edge, not abruptly emarginated on each side; on the
anterior submargin of the segments an impressed transverse line :
pleura, a small yellow spot beneath each wing ; wings hyaline, a
slightly dusky margin at tip : feet, coxe with a yellow spot: tarsi,
excepting their tips: thighs at tip or a line above, and anterior
pairs of tibia yellow: venter five spotted each side.
Length from three-fifths to seven-tenths of an inch.
This is so much like M. subulata nob., that it is not without
much hesitation that I give it as distinct. It is, however,
much larger and more robust, and the form of the bands
of the tergum is different; those of the subulata being abruptly
notched each side of the middle as in the va/vulus Fabr., whereas
in the bands of the present species, instead of the abrupt notch,
is an obtuse and dilated undulation of the edge.
A variety occurs in Missouri, of which the wings are yellow-
ish, and the second recurrent nervure is confluent with the divi-
ding nervure of the second and third. cubital cellule.
2. M. suBULATUS nob. Sapyga, Western Quarterly Reporter.—
A variety inhabits Mexico in which the abdominal bands are less
abruptly emarginate each side.
SAPYGA Latr.
S. centrata.—Black, with yellow spots ; abdomen 5-banded.
Inhabits United States.
Body black : head ———-: thorax with a transverse spot
each side before, two on the middle, one beneath the superior
wing, and two large ones behind, yellow: [$02] wing hyaline ;
nervures fuscous: stigma brown: radial cellule fuliginous : ter-
gum, each segment, excepting the first, with a yellow, dilated
band on its middle and more or less interrupted: venter with a
transverse spot each side on the third, fourth and fifth segments:
feet yellow: thighs, except at the tip, black : tarsi honey-yellow.
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
Var.? ¢. Spots ferruginous.
Length nearly two-fifths of an inch.
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T have hardly a doubt that the individual here given asa
variety is a distinct species; but as my specimens are much
mutilated, I am unwilling to venture to separate them.
POMPILUS Fabr. Latr.
1. P. caLiprerus.—Wings bifasciate; antenne and feet
honey-yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished, slightly pruinose : antennze honey-yellow,
a little dusky towards the tip: nasus, at tip, mandibles and palpi
honey-yellow: wings hyaline, with a blackish band on the mid-
dle and a much broader one crossing the second and third cubital
cellules ; the latter hardly reaches the anal margin ; basal series
of transverse nervures dislocated at the externo-medial nervure:
feet honey-yellow ; tarsi with the ultimate joint blackish; inter-
mediate and posterior pairs of feet more or less varied with
blackish.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
A very pretty species, of which [ have as yet obtained but
two specimens. It is probably allied to the bifasciatus Fabr.
2. P. ancHITEcTtuS.—Dark purple ; wings hyaline. [303]
Inhabits Ohio. ;
9 Body dark bluish-purple, somewhat hairy: head black in
front, with short, dense, yellowish-cinereous hair: mandibles at
tip piceous: wing-scale dark piceous: wings hyaline, nervures
blackish: second and third cubital cellules not unusually con-
tracted at the radial cellule, but almost equal in that part, feet
black : tergum, anal segment polished.
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
This insect forms neat mud nests under prostrate logs and
stones. They consist of short cylinders, agglutinated together
alternately, and each composed of little pellets of mud, com-
pressed, or rather appressed to each other. When these are
adjusted to their places on the edge of the cylinder, each has a
fusiform shape and the slender end of one laps over that of
another, and the convex part of the pellet of the succeeding
layer is placed against this duplicature so as to restore the equal-
ity of the edge. This arrangement gives the surface an alternate
appearance.
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The basal series of transverse nervures is very slightly dis-
located.
3. P. BiguTTaTus Fabr.—The individual described by Fabri-
cius appears to be a female. Coquebert gives its length at nine-
twentieths of an inch, but it sometimes exceeds half an inch in
length. The male is over three-tenths of an inch in length ; it
is destitute of the anterior white striga of the thorax, and the tip
of the tergum has a white reflection; the posterior half of the
metathorax also has a white reflection. The basal series of trans-
verse nervures is not dislocated, in this species.
4. P. teprpus.—Black ; abdomen and wings purplish. [304]
Inhabits Mexico.
%, Body black, slightly sericeous: wings dark purplish ; sec-
ond and third cubital cellules a little narrowed at the radial cel-
lule, particularly the latter, which is less than two-thirds the
length of the second cellule, in that part; basal series of trans-
verse nervures not dislocated ; metathorax with a very slight re-
flection of purplish, and without any impressed line; the poste-
rior edge obviously reflected ; tergum with a distinct purplish re-
flection ; beneath black; in a favorable light a very slight pur-
plish reflection may be perceived on the thighs.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
5. P. 5-Noratus.—Tergum on the second segment with two
white spots; third segment with a white interrupted band.
Inhabits Indiana.
9 Body black; head with a slight white reflection before ; and
a very slender white line on the posterior orbit: wings on the
apical margin black; basal series of transverse nervures not dis-
located ; tergum with a white dot each side before the middle, on
the second segment: third segment with a white, interrupted
band at base, on the fourth segment at base is an obsolete, whit-
ish spot each side, sometimes wanting ; anal segment with a white
spot at base.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Resembles biguttatus Fabr., but is distinguished by the two or
four more white spots on the tergum, as well as by the white spot
on the anal segment.
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7. P. MELLIPES.—Black ; feet yellowish rufous.
Inhabits Indiana.
2 Body black, somewhat sericeous with silvery hairs; anten-
nz, joints long, distinct ; mandibles piceous at tip: [305] palpi
whitish : wings hyaline; third cubital cellule very little con-
tracted before, larger than the second; first recurrent nervure
entering the second cellule at the middle; basal series of trans-
verse nervures dislocated; feet bright honey-yellow, the cox
only black.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
8. P. (Miscus) cornicus [conicus].—Black ; wings a little
dusky ; basal line of transverse nervures widely dislocated by the
externo-medial neryure.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body black, immaculate ; wings dusky; nervures blackish ;
second cubital cellule somewhat conic, the anterior basal nervure
entering the radial cellule in a much arcuated direction, so as not
to form an angle with it; third cubital cellule not much con-
tracted anteriorly ; basal series of transverse nervures widely dis-
located, that portion which is between the externo-medial and
anal nervures is equal to the length of the dislocation ; abdomen
polished ; mandibles at tip piceous.
Length less than one-fifth of an inch.
4 Wings less obscure ; anterior tibie and tarsi obsoletely dull
yellowish.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
9. P. (Miscus) PeTIOLATUS.—Tergum fulyous near the base ;
third cubital cellule petiolated.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body black, a little sericeous: wings blackish ; third cubi-
tal cellule decidedly petiolated: tergum with the terminal half
of the first segment, and the greater portion of the second seg-
ment yellowish-fulvous.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
The petiolated character of the third cubital cellule resembles
that of P. niger Fabr. The basal series of transverse nervures is
distinctly dislocated. [306]
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[Continuation from Boston Journal of Natural History, vol. 1, May, 1837
\ >
No. 4, pp. 361—416, ]
MERIA Jur.
M. costatTa.—9Q Black; tergum with yellow bands and two
spots.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: head above the antenne with a transverse line,
slightly interrupted in the middle, an orbital line, and short line
behind the eyes, yellow: mandibles piceous: thorax with two
transverse spots before, a small, triangular one above the wing-
scale, a transverse one behind the scutel, and a bilobed one each
side behind, yellow ; each side of the middle of the thorax are
two abbreviated, somewhat oblique, impressed lines : metathorax
with a double yellow longitudinal side and obvious transverse
ruge: pleura with a triangular spot under the superior wings,
a small oblique line over the intermediate feet, yellow: wings
with a brown costal margin: tergum [362] with a yellow band
on the middle or before it, of each segment, excepting the last ;
the second band interrupted into two transverse, oval spots :
venter with a longitudinal, lateral spot on the second segment
and a transverse lateral one on the third, yellow; tarsi and in-
termediate and posterior pairs of tibie piceous; a yellow spot
on the posterior coxe.
Length half an inch.
Vara. Middle of the thorax with a small double yellow spot.
The observations which I had occasion to make relative to the
generic affinities of Plesia marginata nob., are exactly applica-
ble to this species. It agrees precisely with Jurine’s character
of Plesia, but differs from Mizine Latr. by having the mandibles
entirely destitute of teeth, a character which it has in common
with Meria Ill., but the form of its wing-scale, will not admit of
its being referred to the latter genus; [ have, however, in this
instance, been guided by the characters laid down by Latreille
in the Régne Animale (first Edition).
2. M. marainaTa.—Plesia marginata nob., Western Quar-
terly Reporter.
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3. M. cotztaris.—Collar with an interrupted band and two
spots yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black : head with two spots above the antennz, frontal
orbits, and dilated line behind the eyes, yellow: mandibles dark
piceous, black at tip: collar with an interrupted band on the
posterior margin and two spots before yellow: thorax with a
small yellow spot above the wings: wing-scale dull honey-yellow
with a yellow spot: wings yellowish, fuliginous, dusky on the
costal margin towards the tip; behind the scutel is a transverse
[363] yellow line: metathorax somewhat sericeous, without any
appearance of rugee, and with two yellow longitudinal spots : ter-
eum with a somewhat varied reflection; first and second seg-
ments with a lateral yellow spot, (those of the former probably,
in some specimens, obsoletely connected) ; third and fourth seg-
ments with a lateral basal yellow spot, connected by a slender
line ; fifth segment with an obsolete yellow lateral spot: pleura
with a yellow spot under the anterior wings : feet, anterior knees
and tibial dilated line yellow; intermediate and posterior tibiz
and all the tarsi ferruginous : anal segment above minutely line-
ated, and at tip, dull ferruginous.
Length over three-fifths of an inch.
This species is larger than costata nob., which it much resem-
bles, but may be distinguished by the sericeous appearance of
the metathorax and the absolute destitution of rug on that part ;
in the costata also, the lateral spots of the metathorax are double.
SCOLIA Fabr.
1. S. epHippi1umM.—Black ; tergum bifasciate with fulvous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black: wings dark violaceous ; cubital cellules two, the
second receiving two recurrent nervures, and with an abbreviated
nervure proceeding from its base towards the tip of the wing:
tergum violaceous-black; second and third segments fulvous,
with a narrow basal and terminal black margin ; beneath black :
venter slightly tinged with violaceous: thighs not remarkably
robust.
Length % over one inch and one tenth.
A large and fine species. [364]
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2. 8. puBIA.—Black; abdomen ferruginous behind with two
yellow spots on the third segment.
Inhabits United States.
Body black: head and thorax immaculate : wings dark violet
blue: cubital cellules two, with no appearance of more than
one recurrent nervure: abdomen, first and second segments
black; remaining segments ferruginous; more hairy, somewhat,
than the others; the third segment, however, more or less tinged
with blackish and with two transversely oval, a little oblique,
bright yellow spots.
- Length four-fifths of an inch.
A very fine, though rather common species, in various parts of
the Union.
3. S. CONFLUENTA nob. Western Quarterly Reporter.—I think
it highly probable that Drury’s fig. 5, pl. 44, vol. i, is intended
for this insect. I was deterred from quoting this figure in con-
sequence of its yellow head and four-banded tergum; but the
head is truly, on its front and base, covered with yellowish
cinereous hair, as well as the anterior part of the collar; this
may agree with Drury’s observation that the “head is of a pale
yellow, in front” and “the neck is hairy and of a lemon color.”
The species also probably varies in having four yellow bands.
Drury’s figure is that of a female, and my specimen agrees with
it in Having an immaculate thorax and scutel, as in the fossulana
Fabr., which I believe to be in reality the female of this same
species, and of course the same as that of Drury; whereas he
quotes Drury’s figure as that of radu/a F. which appears to be
the male, if I may judge by the “ thorace maculato” and other
corresponding characters. I have no index to the first volume
of Drury, but Fabricius quotes the figure as [365] Sphex plum-
pes Drury. If this be correct, Drury has the priority, and the
name and synonyms, will stand thus :
Scolia plumipes Drury.
“ fossulana Fabr. (female).
“ radula Fabr. (male).
s confluenta Say, (female).
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CEROPALES Lat.
1. C. INTERRUPTA.—Black, spotted and banded with yellow ;
wings dusky; antennz and feet honey-yellow; tarsi yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
Antennze honey-yellow; first joint, bright-yellow: labrum yel-
low, black at base: Lypostoma yellow, with a quadrate spot and
incisures black: orbits dilated, yellow, interrupted above: tho-
rax impunctured ; margin of the anterior segment all around,
longitudinal spot each side of the scutel and transverse spot be-
hind the scutel, yellow: metathorax at tip bifasciate with yel-
low, posterior band clavate each side on the pleura: wings fuli-
vinous, particularly on the cubital cellules and tip: abdomen fer-
ruginous, varied with obsolete yellow and black bands ; and with
two yellowish spots on the first segment: pleura with a spot be-
hind the wings and a larger one over the intermediate feet, yel-
low: coxee varied with yellow: thighs honey-yellow, black at
base: tibiee honey-yellow, yellow at base: tarsi yellow.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
Closely allied to fasciata nob. but the thorax is not distinctly
punctured, the wings are dusky, &c. [366]
2. C. aApicaLis.—Black ; wings black at tip; abdomen witha
rufous band ; tip white.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: hypostoma hoary : collar on the posterior margin
white : wings hyaline with a fuliginous tip, in which is an ob-
solete hyaline spot or band: metathorax dull silvery; abdomen
rather slender towards the base; second segment, excepting on
its posterior margin, fulvous; anal segment white: posterior
tibiae with a white line on the posterior side: intermediate and
posterior tarsi with the second, third and fourth joints white,
with black tips.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
CHLORION Latr.
(. “CANALICULATUM nob. (Ampulex) Western Quarterly Re-
porter, vol. ii. p. 76.
The name Chlorion has priority over that of Ampulex given
by Jurine.
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BEMBEX Fabr. Latr.
1. B. Lonarrostra.—Rostrum extending beyond the inser-
tion of the intermediate feet ; superior: wings with the marginal
and last submarginal cells divided by a very distinct space.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black, with short, dense, white hair: antenne tinged
with piceous; first joint white beneath: anterior orbits dull
white : nasus whitish, with two black spots: tergum white, with
a bilobate, black spot at base: rostrum honey-yellow; extending
nearly to the origin of the posterior feet: collar, anterior and
posterior margins white: [367] thorax with a very small ful-
yous, abbreviated line each side of the middle, and a small,
double, fulvous spot behind the middle: scutel with a white
lateral spot : metathorax with a white line at base and an oblique
one each side towards the tip: tergum varied with yellow and
black or green and black; the posterior margins of the segments
dullrufous ; about four distinct black spots : feet honey-yellow :
thighs black beneath : tarsi paler: venter honey-yellow, with a
black spot before the anterior spine.
Length from seven-tenths to four-fifths of an inch.
With the short maxillary palpi and the one-toothed mandible
of Bembex, this insect has the radial and last cubital cellules as
widely separated at their tips as in Monedula. The proboscis is
not folded, but extended horizontally beneath the body. These
characters may justify the formation ofa distinct genus, or at
least of a division, under the name of Steniolia.
2. B. rascrata Fabr.—A male in my cabinet has six bands
upon the tergum and two spots on the ultimate segment: the
first band is double the width of that of the female, and is inter-
rupted by a very small space only ; second band not interrupted,
but its two lunules are so continued as to inclose two black spots ;
third band with the lunules not or hardly interrupted ; fourth
and fifth bands interrupted ; sixth band entire, undulated: spots
on the ultimate segment, orbicular; the female has but five
bands.
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GORYTES Latr.
G. PHALERATUS.—Black, sericeous, varied with yellow ; wings
dusky.
Inhabits Indiana. [368]
Body blackish, impunctured : head golden sericeous : antenne,
basal joint yellowish: nasus and mouth, excepting the tip of the
mandibles, pale yellow: thorax, posterior margin of the collar,
abbreviated line over the wings, and wing-scale, yellow: scutel
yellow: wings dusky, purplish-fuliginous, tinged with yellowish
towards the base ; stigma small ; second cubital cellule obviously
hexagonal: metathorax with two large, oblong-oval, yellow spots ;
triangle at base destitute of small lines and with but a single
impressed line: tergum, basal segment yellow; posterior narrow
margin, and lobed spot on the disk communicating with the base,
black : second segment yellow on the posterior margin, the yel-
low rather dull and a little undulated on its inner edge: third
and fourth segments with obsolete yellowish posterior margins:
pleura somewhat silvery sericeous, with three almost confluent
yellow spots in a line with the collar: feet pale, honey-yellow ;
thighs and coxee, with more or less of black above.
Length about half an inch.
This is a large species. The character which Jurine mentions
as common to all the species, of having behind the scutel a tri-
angular space, in which parallel lines are sculptured, is so modi-
fied in this species as to present the triangle with only a simple
longitudinal impressed line.
NYSSON Latr.
N. aurinotus.—Black ; metathorax two-spined; tergum with
three lateral spots.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, punctured: head before with a slight yellowish
sericeous reflection; mandibles piceous ; collar [369] with an ob-
scure golden margin, terminating in a spot: metathorax with a
golden spine each side, ina golden spot: wings dusky : tergum
on the posterior edges reflecting whitish ; at base of the first seg _
ment, obscure golden sericeous; posterior margins of the first,
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second and third segments, each with a yellow band widely inter-
rupted in the middle, the anterior one largest: feet honey-yel-
low : thighs black at base.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Readily distinguishable from N. 5-spinosus nob. Resembles N-
interruptus F. but the areole of the metathoracic spines are not
gilded in that species.
PSEN Latr.
1. P. Metiipes.— Black, with a silvery reflection ; antenne
at base, tibize and tarsi piceous.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: head beneath the antennz yellowish-silvery : oc-
ciput with a silvery reflection: antenne to the seventh joint
honey-yellow: mandible piceous: thorax with longitudinally
confluent punctures, a slender transverse line before, four or six
obsolete spots near the scutel and two large obvious ones near
the insertion of the petiole of the abdomen: wings hyaline ; ner-
vures black stigma brown ; second cubital cellule receiving both
recurent nervures: abdomen immaculate, with a few hairs to-
wards the tip; petiole as long as the posterior tarsi or rather
longer, arcuated, piceous: tibize and tarsi piceous or honey-yel-
low ; anterior pair with dense, short, golden hair.
Length nearly eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Very similar in form and color to P. atratum Fabr., [370]
which, however, has the second and third cellules each receiving
a recurrent nervure, and the petiole is proportionally rather
shorter.
2. P. LEucopus.—Black; hypostoma silvery: tarsi white.
Inhabits Indiana.
Q Body black, with a slight silvery reflection: antennz im-
maculate: hypostoma entirely silvery : thorax with minute, lon-
gitudinal lines on the disk: wings hyaline: nervures blackish ;
second cubital cellule receiving the two recurrent nervures: ter-
gum impunctured, polished; petiole slightly arcuated, rather
shorter than the posterior tarsus: tarsi white, dusky towards the
tip.
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Length over three-tenths of an inch.
s Lines of the thorax only visible at base and tip.
Length over one-fifth of an inch.
LYROPS Illig.
} Stemmata, one.
1. L. ARGENTATA Beauy.—Black; tergum, segments mar-
gined with dark glaucous ; metathorax with a few wrinkles on
the posterior lateral margin.
Inhabits the United States.
@ Body black: collar having a gradually elevated angle on
the middle: wings slightly dusky ; a darker band at tip; by an
obliquely transmitted light, opalescent, varying to purplish, and
at tip, in the darker portion, tinged with green; recurrent ner-
yures entering the second cubital cellule very near to each other,
but little more than their own width apart: metathorax, poste-
rior lateral edge wrinkled transversely : tergum, posterior mar-
gins of the [871] segments dark glaucous, without any bright sil-
very reflection : posterior pair of tibize at tip behind, with a fer-
ruginous spot. & More slender, wrinkles of the metathorax less
obvious, and the recurrent nervures at their entrance into the
second cubital cellule not quite so close together.
Length 9 nearly half an inch.
The color of the wings, by a particular, obliquely transmitted
light, is very beautifully perlaceous and somewhat iridescent.
2. L. peprica.—Black ; tergum fasciate with glaucous, re-
flecting silvery.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body black; reflecting silvery, particularly on the head and
feet : palpi piceous-yellowish : collar silvery on the posterior mar-
gin ; thorax and scutel having their sutures reflecting silvery :
wings hyaline; nervures honey-yellow ; recurrent neryures mod-
erately near each other at their junction with the second cubital
cellule: tergum, segments excepting the ultimate one, on their
posterior margins glaucous reflecting silvery : anal segment with
a bright golden reflection: feet black, reflecting silvery ; last
tarsal joint rufous.
Length over half an inch.
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% Head and base of the mandibles with a golden reflection:
anal segment reflecting silvery.
Length under half an inch.
The black tibize and tarsi will at once distinguish this species
from aurulenta F., than which it is also smaller.
3. L. AuruLENTA F. (Larra) Syst. Piez. p. 220. [372]
LYRoDA.
t t Stemmata, three.
4, I. TRiL0oBA.—Deep black, immaculate: head anterior to
the antennz with a slight silvery reflection: mandibles dull ru-
fous towards the base ; collar somewhat trilobate, or haying above
an obvious angle in the middle and a more obtuse one on each
side ; thorax having a distinct, impressed, longitudinal line be-
fore; wings purplish fuliginous, almost opake; recurrent ner-
vures rather distant at their junction with the second cubital cel-
lule ; tergum in a particular light, more obviously sericeous on
the posterior margins of the segments.
Length over half an inch.
This has very much the appearance of Larva xthiops nob., but
is much larger. In that species also the collar is emarginate in
the middle, the wings are but very slightly tinted, and the recur _
rent nervures approximate at their junction with the second cu-
bital cellule; it has but one ocellus, and the mandibles are not
obviously armed with a tooth on the inner edge.
5. L. susrra.—Black; tergum, segments margined with a
whitish reflection ; metathorax wrinkled above.
Inhabits Indiana.
@ Body black: head before with a somewhat silvery reflec-
tion: collar with an abruptly elevated angle in the middle ; wings
at tip dusky; recurrent nervures entering the second cubital
cellule, at a distance from each other; third cubital cellule but
little narrowed : metathorax with small, transverse wrinkles on
the disk as well as on the sides: tergum, posterior margins of
the segment with a silvery reflection.
Length [373]
Resembles caliptera, but may be distinguished by the greater
width of the third cubital cellule; by the greater distance he-
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tween the recurrent nervures at their entrance into the second
cubital, and by the more wrinkled metathorax.
TRYPOXYLON F. Latr.
1. T. poritus.—Black ; very highly polished: without any
silvery reflection ; thorax and scutel with a slightly impressed,
longitudinal line: wings black-purple, almost opake : abdomen
rather less slender at base than that of 7. figulus F., but the ba-
gal joint is rather abruptly slender on its basal half; this segment
has an abbreviated, impressed, longitudinal line before its tip ;
second segment with a similar line before its middle: on the
head and stethidium are very numerous, small punctures, but
none on the abdomen: posterior tarsi white, first joint at base,
and pulvilli blackish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Length nine-tenths of an inch.
Judging by memory, as I have not his work here, this is prob-
ably the albitarsa Beauvois, but although it agrees with the short
description of Fabricius, yet I greatly doubt if it is the albitarsa
of this author, who gives its native country as South America, on
the authority of Mr. Smith and of the Museum of Mr. Lund,
from whom and from Mr. Sebestedt he obtained an opportunity
to describe a great number of Hymenoptera of that portion of our
hemisphere; and but two species from North America. For
these reasons I have been led to consider the albitarsa F. as
South American; and as Latreille says that every thirty degrees
of latitude exhibits a total change [374] in the insect productions,
T give a new name to this species.
2. T. cLAvATUS.—Abdomen at base slender and a little nodu-
lous; wings at tip dusky.
Inhabits United States.
Body black ; head and stethidium with silvery reflection : wings
hyaline, terminal margin dusky : abdomen clavate: the first and
second joints petioliform, a little nodulous at their tips: posteri-
cr tarsi white ; the terminal joint and base of the first joint black ;
* with a spine on the posterior trochanter.
Length about nine-twentieths of an inch.
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Var. «. Terminal joints of the tarsi blackish ; a yellow band
at base of the second segment of the tergum.
Judging from memory, as in the preceding instance, I suppose
this to be the fuscipennis Beauvois, but not that of Fabricius, for
the reasons there adduced. I may also state that this species
does not correspond with Fabricius’ description in having “ale
nigrz cyaneo parum nitide,” neither does it agree with “ Pedes
- higri tarsis albis’”’ inasmuch as the posterior pair only are par-
tially white.
3. T. CARINATUS.—% Black: head and stethidium with sil-
very reflection : a prominent, acute carina between the antenna,
divaricating above the antenne into two carinz : antennz emar-
ginate beneath towards the middle: wings hyaline: a slight tint
of dusky at tip: tergum gradually attenuated to the base; three
first incisures a little contracted; feet, anterior pair of knees,
. tibize and tarsi yellowish ; intermediate knees and tarsi yellowish
‘in the middle above dusky ; posterior tarsi obscurely yellowish
towards the tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Length three-tenths of an inch. [375]
Remarkable by the carina of the head and the emarginate an-
tenn. It is much smaller than the jigulus F., and its abdomen
is formed as in that species.
OXYBELUS Latr.
1. O. EMARGINATUS.—% Black ; scutellar spine emarginate ;
tergum 4-spotted.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with a slight silvery reflection, particularly on the
anterior part of the head: antennz dull yellowish at tip: wing-
scale honey-yellow: wings hyaline: scutel with a dilated process
widely emarginate at tip, and a lateral sublanceolate, decurved,
acute, white one; tergum, first segment with a longitudinal, in-
dented line, and a transverse, abbreviated, white line at tip each
side; second segment also with a similar line: tarsi pale honey-
yellow: anterior thighs yellow at tip: tibia yellow; posterior
pair black, yellow at base.
Length three-twentieths of an inch.
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2. O. 4-noratus nob. Long’s Expedition.
The male is almost destitute of spots on the second segment of
the tergum, and all the tibiz have a white line.
This species resembles the O. trispinosus Fabr., but that insect
may be distinguished by the dilated figure of the spot on the basal
segment of the tergum and by the tibizw being entirely honey-
yellow.
3. O. LaTus.—Line on the collar, on the scuteland five lateral
spots on the tergum yellow.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black, punctured; head with a slight silvery reflee-
tion: antenne ferruginous: mandibles yellow, piceous [876] at
tip: collar with a transverse, somewhat undulated yellow line,
interrupted in the middle : scutel with a double, transverse, yel-
low spot ; metathorax with the middle spine simple; the lateral
ones depressed, whitish, margined on the inner side with bright
yellow : tergum with five yellow spots on each side: knees, tarsi _
and tibie yellow, the latter with a dilated black line on the inner
side.
Length nearly one-fifth of an inch.
Smaller than mucronatus F., which is destitute of the scutellar
line. It may be distinguished from the preceding species, by the
yellow color on the collar and scutel.
CRABRO Fabr.
(©. CONFLUENTUS [CONFLUENS ].—Black, with large confluent
punctures ; tergum interruptedly fasciate.
Inhabits Indiana.
Q Body black, densely and confluently punctured, particularly
on the stethidium, where they are sometimes longitudinally con-
fluent, so as to exhibit lines between them; they are largest on
the metathorax ; hypostoma and anterior orbits behind the basal
joint of the antennez, silvery : antenne, basal joint yellow; sec-
ond joint honey-yellow ; collar yellow, slightly interrupted in the
middle: scutel with a large, transverse, yellow spot; a yellow
transverse line behind it; wings slightly tinged with dusky :
abdomen oval, rather abruptly narrowed at base: tergum with
the incisures contracted, the segments being conyex; approxi-
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mately punctured ; segments on their middles, each with an equal
band which is interrupted for only a narrow space at the middle :
pleura with a yellow spot at the humerus: knees, tibia and tarsi
yellow: venter immaculate. [377]
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
% Spot of the scutel interrupted or wanting ; antennz beneath,
dull honey-yellow; the two posterior bands of the tergum gene-
rally confluent in their middles; abdomen longer and more slen-
der than that of the female.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The sexes are more readily distinguished by the tip of their
abdomen than by the antenne. I have nine males and three fe-
males: two of the latter measure two-fifths of an inch. The
punctures of this species are larger and more dense than in our
other species.
C. ancuatus.—Metathorax with numerous parallel lines ; ter-
gum with yellow spots and bands.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with minute, dense punctures: front with a wide
glabrous interval between the silvery orbits: antennz, basal joint
yellow, with a black line near the inner base ; sixth joint arcua-
ted, a little prominent inwardly at tip: hypostoma yellowish-sil-
very: thorax with a slightly interrupted line on the collar, of a
bright yellow; a yellow transverse line beneath the scutel : wings
a little tinged with dusky: metathorax with numerous, small,
parallel lines, arcuated at base, and transversely rectilinear be-
hind, extending upon the pleura beneath the wings: pleura with
two small yellow spots before: tergum with an oblique some-
what arcuated, yellow spot each side of the first segment; an
oblique elliptic one on the second segment each side ; a reclivate,
transverse, lateral yellow line on the third; remaining segments
each with an entire, slightly undulated, slender greenish-yellow
band: anal processes acute, very deeply and regularly ciliated :
feet yellow: coxe and trochanters black: thighs at the base
black ; the black portion very small on the anterior [378] pair,
but on the posterior pair extending on the inferior surface to
the tip: venter immaculate.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
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STIGMUS Jur. Latr.
1. S. PARALLELUS.—This species resembles the fraternus nob.
but it may be distinguished by the following comparative char-
acters. The posterior thighs and middle of the tibiz are black.
The stigma is a little smaller. The dividing nervure of the first
and second cubital cellules is parallel to the posterior nervure of
the second discoidal cellule ; whereas in the fraternus, the latter
is more oblique.
The size is much the same.
Inhabits Mexico.
The Stigmus fraternus, is not uncommon in Indiana, and as in
the present species, the hypostoma of the male is somewhat sil-
very.
2..S. pusi~Lus.—Petiole obsolete: second cubital cellule
large.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished: head before, and mouth, including the
mandibles, whitish: antenne honey-yellow; basal joint before,
whitish : wings hyaline; nervures pale brownish ; stigma fus-
cous; second cubital cellule large, somewhat longer than broad :
feet honey yellow; posterior pair blackish ; abdomen with a very
short petiole, almost sessile.
Length about one-twelfth of an inch.
This is much the smallest species I have seen. The dividing
nervure of the first and second cubital cellules is exactly opposite
to the posterior nervure of the middle discoidal cellule. The
hypostoma of the female is black. [379]
PEMPHREDON Latr.
1. P. MARGINATUS.—Black ; antennze at base, mandibles and
feet honey-yellow.
Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body polished; antenne blackish; first and second joints
honey-yellow; the former as long as the second and third to-
gether, which are nearly equal: mandibles honey-yellow, not
very obviously denticulated at tip: wings tinted with fuliginous;
nervures brown; stigma fuscous, not much dilated; nervures of
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the second cubital cellule and second recurrent nervure margined
with whitish, the latter abbreviated before the anal tip: abdomen
subsessile ; with the exception of the first segment, piceous
blackish : “feet honey-yellow.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
The second cubital cellule is somewhat larger than usual, and
the nervures which form it, as well as the second recurrent ner-
vure, are less distinct than usual.
2. P. annuLATUS.—Black; mandibles white; feet yellowish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, polished, minutely punctured: antennz, basal
joint white ; second joint piceous: nasus prominent in the mid-
dle: mandibles and palpi white: wing-scale dull honey-yellow :
wings hyaline; nervures blackish, tinged with yellow at base;
first and second cubital cellules receiving their appropriate re-
current nervures: metathorax with larger punctures and lines:
abdomen polished, impunctured, subsessile, the petiole being very
short: pleura with a small whitish dot under the wing-scale :
feet honey-yellow.
Length one-fifth of an inch. [380]
*% Hypostoma silvery: nasus rounded: antenne annulate,
one-half of each joint being yellowish.
Length over three-twentieths of an inch.
ALYSON Jur.
1. A. opposrrus.—Black ; feet honey-yellow; tergum with
two yellow spots.
Inhabits Indiana.
@ Body black : mouth, hypostoma and anterior orbits yellow :
antenne at base beneath yellow: thorax with an obsolete yellow
spot before the wings each side: wings very slightly tinted with
dusky, more particularly in an obsolete band toward the tip: ner-
vures fuscous: stigma brown: recurrent nervures entering the
petiolated, cellule exactly opposite to its bounding nervures:
spines very short: feet honey-yellow: tergum polished, first
segment honey-yellow; second segment with a large, lobately-
rounded, bright yellow spot each side at base; the base is also
obsoletely honey-yellow.
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% Antenne, terminal joint as long as the first, arcuated : wings
not distinctly tinted with dusky except in the radial cellule : ab-
domen, with the exception of the two yellow spots, black: tarsi
paler than the tibiz and thighs.
Var. a. Yellow spots of the tergum obsolete.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
In form, size and color, very similar to A. spinosus, (Pompitlus,)
Panzer. But in that species the feet are blackish, &e.
2. A. MELLEUS.— Honey-yellow; head, pectus, and tip of
the abdomen black.
Tnhabits Indiana.
Thorax honey-yellow: head black : mouth, anterior [381] orbits
and basal joint of the antennz excepting a line on the exterior side,
whitish: region of the scutel dusky: wings with a dusky band:
metathorax honey-yellow, with the elevated lines rather slender ;
the lateral lines of the dorsal area arcuated : tergum with the first
and second segments honey-yellow, the latter with a lateral
whitish spot ; remaining segments blackish; anal segment ob-
scure piceous: pectus black: feet, excepting the base of the
posterior coxze, honey-yellow.
Length under one-fourth of an inch.
The prevailing honey-yellowish color distinguishes this spe-
cies ; and the metathoracic lineations are much finer than those
of the preceding species. The lateral lines of the dorsal area of
the metathorax in the oppositus are nearly rectilinear.
CERCERIS Latr.
1. C. rumrpennis.—% Black; tergum with a broad band
and very narrow ones; wings blackish.
TInhabits Indiana.
Body black, densely punctured: head with a golden, suborbi-
cular, orbital spot beneath the line of the antennze, and dense
golden cilie each side at the mouth; antennz entirely black:
collar with two yellow spots: behind the scutel a transverse,
yellow line: wing-scale with a small yellow spot: wings black-
ish ; first recurrent nervure entering opposite to the dividing
nervure of the first and second cubital cellules : tergum, incisures
wide ; first segment rounded ; second with a broad, equable, ter-
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minal band; remaining segments with each a terminal capillary
band, more or less interrupted in the middle; posterior band
wider and somewhat irregular: tibiw yellow pale, [$82] on the
inner side and tip of the exterior side black : tarsi, anterior pair
dull yellowish ; posterior pairs, except at base, blackish : venter
immaculate.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
Resembles C. deserta nob., but aside from other differences it
may be distinguished by that species having somewhat clearer
wings, and the inosculation of the first recurrent nervure being
opposite to the middle of the second, or petiolated cubital cel-
lule; the antenne also in that species are yellowish before,
towards the base ; the scutel has two spots in addition to the
yellow line behind it, and the bands of the tergum are always
broader than in the present species. The fallax nob. differs in
having the transverse yellow line on the scutel in a direct line
between the origin of the posterior wings; whereas in the pre-
sent species it is behind the scutel.
2. C. sexTA.—A broad band on each segment of the tergum ;
metathorax with a lateral spot.
Inhabits Missouri.
Body black; head before, base of the mandibles and basal
joint of the antenne beneath, yellow; third joint of the antennz
dull honey-yellow : collar with two large yellow spots: wing-
seale and transverse line behind the scutel yellow; the triangular
impunctured space behind the transverse line very obvious, with
oblique lines and a longitudinal one in the middle: wings a little
fuliginous particularly on the margin and tip; nervures brown ;
stigma yellow ; recurrent nervure of the second cubital cellule
entering at its middle : metathorax with a large, oval, longitudi-
nal, yellow, lateral spot: tergum with a broad yellow band on
each segment; that of the first or petiolar segment slightly in-
terrupted in the middle; the two ultimate ones almost ferrugin-
ous: feet honey-yellow, [383] more or less varied with bright
yellow: venter with interrupted bands.
Length over half an inch.
This was given to me by Nuttall. With the exception of
frontata and bidentata nob. this is the largest North American
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species I have seen, and the much more dilated bands of the ter-
gum are distinctive.
PHILANTHUS Fabr. Latr.
P. soLttvacus.—Black, with small punctures ; tergum fasciate
on each segment.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black; punctures numerous, small: hypostoma, an-
terior orbits, to the emargination, and large spot above the inser-
tion of the antenne yellow: collar, margin yellow, slightly in-
terrupted in the middle: stethidium immaculate: wing-scale
yellow: wings very slightly tinged with dusky; nervures fus-
cous, towards the base and stigma honey-yellow: tergum, seg-
ments having each a greenish yellow band on the posterior sub-
margin, that of the first segment largest, the others subequal ;
sixth segment immaculate: pleura, pectus and venter immacu-
late : knees, tibize and tarsi yellow: posterior pair of tibiee with
a spot on the posterior tip and their tarsi above tinged with fer-
ruginous.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
RYGCHIUM Spinola.
1. R. BALTEATUM.— @ Black, thorax and head varied with
ferruginous ; tergum with a yellow band.
Inhabits Indiana. [384]
Body black, punctured: head ferruginous; region of the
stemmata, black: antennze black, first and second and half of
the third joints ferruginous: thorax with a broad ferruginous
margin, including the scutel, and with more or less of ferrugin-
ous in the middle; anterior margin with a slender yellow line
interrupting the ferruginous margin: wings black-violaceous:
feet yellowish: thighs dusky at base: tergum, first segment im-
punctured, on the posterior margin a yellow band abruptly dilated
each side ; second segment slightly punctured at base, posterior
indented, with large punctures, and dull ferruginous; remaining
segments punctured.
Var.a. Behind the scutel a transverse, yellow, abbreviated
line.
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Var. 6. Posterior margins of the terminal segments of the
tergum o bsoletely ferruginous.
Var. x. The ferruginous color predominates having but a
small portion of black on the thorax; the tergum is ferruginous
with only a line of black on the first segment, and a triangle of
black at base of the second segment ; but the yellow band on the
first segment is still visible though less obvious.
Length over four-fifths of an inch.
Not a common insect.
2. R. 5-rascratum nob. (Pterochilus,) Appendix to Long’s
second Expedition. [am not sure of the generic place of my
specimens as they have lost their trophi. [Ante 1, 234.]
3. R. crypricum nob. (Odynerus,) Western Quarterly Re-
porter. [Ante 1, 168.]
4. R. ANNULATUM nob. (Odynerus,) Appendix to Long’s
second Expedition. [Ante 1, 235.] [385]
ODYNERUS Latr.
1. O. QUADRISE cTUS.—Black ; trunk before and behind, tergum
before and a band, white.
Inhabits United States.
Body black, punctured: head with a small spot above the in-
terval of the antenne, line on the basal joint of the antenne,
superior lateral margin of the clypeus and slight spot on base of
the mandibles obscure white: thorax, a bi-lobed band on the an-
terior margin, spot beneath the wing, triangular spot each side
on the scutel, transverse line behind the scutel, behind that again
on each side is a very large triangular spot extending down al-
most to the origin of the abdomen, white; edge of the posterior
declivity of the metathorax with a slight bifid, transverse, denti-
culated crest: wings dark violaceous: tergum, first segment
white, with a dorsal, triangular, lobated black spot communi-
eating with the black anterior declivity ; second segment with
an undulated, dull white band behind, and an obsolete, very small
spot of the same color each side before the middle: feet with
short, whitish sericeous hair.
Length over seyen-tenths of an inch.
1837.]
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This is much like the quadridens Linn., which is a true Ody-
nerus, but it is destitute of the metathoracic spines of that spe-
cies, and besides other differences it has a band on the second
abdominal segment. This latter character not being very obvi-
ous may readily have been overlooked by Fabricius.
The male differs but little from the female ; my specimens
have two additional white spots on the anterior portion of the
nasus. .
2. O. ocuLatTus-—% Black, tips of the abdominal segments
and two points on the second segment, yellow. [386]
Inhabits Ohio and Missouri.
Body black, with dense, rather large punctures: clypeus yel-
low, emarginate at tip: mandibles yellow, honey-yellow at tip:
antenne, basal joint yellow, with a black line above: front with
a yellow line from the base of the antennge, into the emargina-
tion of the eye, and a small spot above the interval of the an-
tenn, yellow ; thorax, a bilobed spot on the anterior margin,
wing-scale and small spot beneath it, and transverse spot behind
the scutel, yellow: wings dusky: tergum not so grossly punc-
tured as the thorax ; first segment with a yellow posterior mar-
gin; second with a yellow small dot each side, and yellow poste-
rior margin extending around the venter; remaining segments
obsoletely margined at tip with yellowish: feet yellow; thighs
black at base.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
Like the acutus Latr., but may be distinguished by its more
gross puncturing, as well as by the yellow dots on the tergum.
A variety from Missouri, has the feet all yellow.
3. O. QUADRIDENS Linn. ( Vespa,) Syst. Nat. ; Amoen. Acad.
cinerascens abr. The remark “size of parietina”’ may refer to
the male.
4. O. uncinaTA Fabr. (Vespa,) Syst. Piez. p. 25.—Fabri-
cius mistook this species for the quadridens l.., which is our
largest and most common species, and sufficiently distinguished
from the present, besides the denticulated metathorax, by many
characters ; and the following is a detailed description of it.
? Black; tergum with a yellow band.
Inhabits Indiana.
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Body black, punctured: head, short line behind the eye
above the interval of the antennz, one exterior [387] to the an-
tenne, one each side on the clypeus, and antennxy beneath
brighter towards the base, dull fulyous : mandibles on the en.
rior margin, honey-yellow; thorax, bilobed spot on the anterior
margin and transverse line behind the scutel, yellow: wing-scale
piceous, black on the inner margin: wings blackish-violaccous:
tergum, first segment on the posterior margin with a yellow band
abruptly dilated each side; second segment at tip with much
larger and ‘confluent punctures: feet orange: thighs, except at
the knee, black.
Length three-fifths of an inch.
Differs from any of the varieties of our parietinus Linn., |
have seen, though it is nearly allied to that species.
dot
9. Q. ANorMIS S. (Humenes) Long’s second Expedition, pro-
bably belongs to this genus, but as the head of my specimen is
destroyed, I cannot be certain whether it may not be a Pterochei-
lus Klug. It is like the oculatus 8.
LETHUS F. Latr.
L. spINIPES.—Black ; clypeus broader than long; first abdo-
minal segment somewhat white at tip.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, punctured : clypeus much wider than long : wings
dark violaceous: tergum slightly punctured; peduncle rather
slender, somewhat gibbous, with an indented spot above, near
the tip, terminal margin with a piceous, dentate band ; second
segment with a distinct neck at base ; posterior margin abruptly
and smoothly impressed ; and with the remaining segments im-
maculate: tibize, posterior pairs spinous behind. [388]
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
Differs from L. cyanipennis F., which it seems to resemble
most, in being smaller, more polished, having no testaceous at
base of the petiole or on the sides of the metathorax ; the wings
also are less opake.
1837.]
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POLISTES Latr.
1. P. MetRicA.—Ferruginous ; abdomen black; wings dark
violaceous.
Inhabits United States.
Body ferruginous: antenne, fuscous; first and second joints
ferruginous beneath ; five or six last joints fulvous beneath : hy-
postoma with a few distant yellow, short hairs, notsericeous ; at the
middle of the tip, alittle prominent : thorax, witha black dorsal line
abbreviated behind, each side of which is an obsolete line confluent
behind, exterior to which at base is a black line attenuated
before and abbreviated : wings dark violaceous : feet black ; tibize
within, excepting the posterior pair; knees and tarsi yellowish :
abdomen black; first segment obsoletely piceous each side and
on the posterior edge: second segment also with obscure ferru-
ginous on each side, sometimes obsolete. :
Length over four-fifths of an inch.
Resembles the annularis Fabr., but the ferruginous color is
more prevalent; the hypostoma is not sericeous, a little more
prominent in the middle; the basal abdominal segment is some-
what larger and destitute of the annulation. JI have obtained it
abundantly in Indiana and Mr. Barabino sent it to me from New
Orleans.
2. P. AREATA.—Thorax black bilineate and margined with
yellow. [389]
Inhabits Mexico.
Head yellow: nasus with black sutures and line before from
the middle, bifarious near the antennz: mandibles piceous at tip :
antenne reddish-brown, darker above, and on the first joint yel-
low beneath : vertex black, of which two broad lines descend to
the antenne and one descends each side, for a short distance,
posterior to the eyes; a yellow oblique line from the summit to
the tip of the eyes; thorax black, with two yellow vitte: collar,
with an abbreviated line before the wings, and a transverse ante-
rior one, black ; wings slightly ferruginous on the costal margin :
scutel and segment beneath it yellow, the former black in the
middle : metathorax yellow, a black vitta, and lateral basal spot :
abdomen, first segment petioliform, as long as the second : tergum
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black, segments on their lateral and terminal margins yellow, the
latter undulated before ; second segment yellow also at base ; be-
neath yellow, with black incisures : feet yellowish } posterior pair
darker behind : venter yellow, with two or three slender obsolete
dusky bands.
Length less than half an inch.
3. P. vatipaA.—Yellow; middle of the thorax and base of the
segments of the tergum ferruginous.
Inhabits Mexico.
? Body dull yellow, with ferruginous sutures: head above,
and antenne at base, ferruginous: thorax on the disk ferrugi-
nous: wings yellowish ferruginous: tergum with the segments
ferruginous at base : venter greenish-yellow, at base ferruginous :
feet ferruginous ; coxe and part of the thigh yellow.
Length over one inch.
A large and rather robust species. The male is more exclu-
sively ferruginous with the posterior pairs of tarsi whitish; the
head in my specimen is destroyed. [890]
4. P. MELLIFICA.—Wings yellowish; abdomen fasciate.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body blackish, sericeous, with a slight golden reflection : ely-
peus not acute, but almost rounded at tip: mandibles at tip pi-
ceous ; thorax with a distinct, longitudinal, impressed line be-
fore, extending to the middle: wings yellowish; dusky at tip :
seutel truncate at tip, or rather very obtusely emarginate: meta-
thorax almost vertical, with a distinct, prominent, robust angle
each side ; abdomen, first segment, small and short ; second great-
ly the largest; all margined behind with orange yellow: venter
with all the margins yellow excepting the basal one.
% Basal joint of the antennz beneath yellow : nasus very se-
riceous, having a whitish reflection : coxe and trochanters yel-
lowish-white.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
Not being able to find my notes relative to this species, I can
only state, that near Jalapa, my attention was attracted by a
group of Indians, who were eating honey from a paper nest,
which was then so far dissected in their repast, that I could not
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ascertain its proper form. The honey had a pleasant taste, and
as far as I could gather from their gestures, the nest was obtained
from a tree. Some of the specimens above described I found
crawling feebly away, and others I extracted frem the cells in a
perfect state.
The trophi agree with those of the P. nigripennis Oliv., except-
ing that the obliquely truncated portion of the mandibles is a lit-
tle longer, and the terminal joint of the labial palpi is equal to
the preceding joint.
I had made the above description and remarks before an op-
portunity offered to compare the individuals with Latreille’s de-
scription of his P. lecheguana (Ann. des [391] Sc. Nat. tom. 4,
p- 835,) which I find it closely resembles, and to which I should
refer it, but for the character attributed to that insect of having
only the “bord posterieur des cing premiers anneaux de l’abdo-
men jaune,” whilst all the segments of the tergum of our species
are margined with yellow, and the anal segment is also of that
color, in all the specimens which I have seen; all the segments
of the venter, moreover, are margined with the same color ex-
cepting the basal one. These differences induce me not to with-
hold this description, as we may reasonably infer that others
exist, which can be detected only by comparison. Whether this
species is the artificer of either of the nests figured by Hernan-
dez and copied by Latreille in Humboldt’s Zoology, I cannot
determine, but it seems highly probable. The observation of La-
treille relative to the insects that construct those nests, (or at
least one of them, for they are very unlike each other) seems ju-
dicious, that “ j’ai lieu de soupgonner que ces insectes sont iden-
tique ou peu differens,” from his P. lecheguana. !
COLLETES Latr. Klug.
C. INZQUALIS.—Labrum with four indentations near the base.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body black with pale cinereous hair: labrum on the basal
half, with four obvious indentations ; thorax with the hair dusky
on the disk; wings hyaline; nervures fuscous: tergum with
very short dusky hair; that of the anterior portion of the basal
segment, and on each side of that segment, longer and whitish or
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pale cinereous ; posterior margins of the segments with white
hair, beneath [392] which the surface is dull piceous at tip ;
basal segment with a longitudinal impressed line at base: venter,
segments on the posterior margin with dull whitish hair. |
Length about half an inch.
*% With more dense and obvious hair on the front.
Length less than half an inch.
Tn warm days of March and April, this species may be ob-
served flying about near the surface of the earth.
SPHECODES Latr.
S. conrerTus.—Black, abdomen rufous, black at tip ; pune-
tures dense.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black, with close-set punctures: head rather small with
whitish hairs ; mandibles piceous black: thorax, middle thoracic
longitudinal line very distinct, punctures equally close-set: scu-
tel with the impressed line, continued from the thorax: wings
hyaline : abdomen polished: three basal joints rufous; remain-
der black.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Resembles the gibbus F., but is smaller ; with a proportionally
smaller head and much more dense puncturing on the thorax
and scutel.
HYLAUS Latr.
H. moprestus.—9? Black, opake: abdomen polished: hypos-
toma on each side with a triangular whitish spot: collar with an
abbreviated, transverse, yellowish line each side: pleura with a
yellowish spot under the humerus: wings hyaline, with blackish
nervures : feet with whitish knees. [393]
Length over one-fifth of an inch.
% Head beneath the insertion of the antenne, pale yellow:
antenne beneath dull ochreous: basal joint beneath, pale yel-
low: collar immaculate: tibiz and tarsi pale yellowish, the
former with a black spot near its tip.
Length about one-fifth of an inch.
The spots on the head of the female, are like those of 17. var-
egatus F., but it is a very different species.
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ANDRENA Fabr. Klug.
A. VALIDA.— Entirely black, immaculate; hair very short,
dense, giving to the thorax and head a velvet-like appearance :
head with the hair of the cheeks, tip of the nasus and outer in-
ferior edge of the mandibles longer: mandibles with a rather
strong tooth before the tip: wing-scale glabrous: wings purplish-
fuliginous, the darkest portion at tip ; stigma honey-yellow : me-
tathorax, surface not concealed by hairs, with separate punctures
and except at base, canaliculate in the middle ; at base is a trans-
verse space of much larger, confluent punctures, behind which
space is a narrow glabrous space at the origin of the groove;
lateral margin hairy: tergum with very short hairs not conceal-
ing the surface ; first segment concave and deeply canaliculate
on the anterior face ; segments with a transverse, impressed, sub-
marginal, posterior line; on the first and second are two: venter,
segments with long, rather dense hairs.
Length seven-tenths of an inch.
A large and fine species. [394]
HALICTUS Latr.
1. H. niaricornis Fabr. (Centris.) This appears to be the
male of H. viridula Fabr. (Megilla), and the same as H. nigri-
cornis Coqueb. (Andrena) and H. sericea Forster.
2. H. rapratus.—? Green ; metathorax behind with a radi-
ated disc.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body green, polished ; hairs numerous, short, cinereous, not
obscuring the general color: antenne black, more or less tinged
with piceous, particularly beneath: nasus before black, ciliate ;
labrum piceous: mandibles yellow towards the base, piceous at
tip: wings tinged with fuliginous; nervures brownish, supple-
mentary nervure at tip of the radial cellule very distinct: meta-
thorax at base having numerous, elevated longitudinal or oblique
lines ; on the posterior declivity is a somewhat orbicular disk,
distinguished from the general surface by an elevated line equally
distinct all around; it is radiated with elevated lines: tergum
sometimes tinged with blue or purplish; each segment with a
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slight inequality or impressed transverse line, near the middle:
feet dark piceous ; tarsiand knees somewhat paler.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
3. H. LABROSUS.— 9 Greenish ; tergum purplish, sezments
margined with blackish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body green, with a purple reflection: antenne black: nasus
at tip blackish: labrum black, much elevated at the middle of
the tip ; the elevation grooved before ; mandibles black, tinged
with piceous at tip: wings hyaline, Preis tinged with edie
ous; nervures fuscous: metathorax [395] with the including
line of the posterior disk, prominent only towards the petiole :
tergum darker purplish than the thorax; the broad posterior
margins of the segments, blackish: feet, purplish and blue:
tarsi blackish-piceous.
Length about two-fifths of an inch.
About the size of the preceding, from which it differs mate-
rially in color, and in the sculpture of the metathorax.
4. H. purus.—Green ; first recurrent nervure confluent with
the dividing nervure of the second and third cubital cellules.
Inhabits United States.
2 Body green, polished, tinged with brassy or cupreous: an-
tennze black : labrum and mandibles piceous, the latter sometimes
almost honey-yellow: metathorax at base lineated; no distinet
posterior disk, but the groove is well impressed, and there are
often near the petiole, a few, obsolete, raised, converging lines :
wings hyaline, very slightly dusky at tip ; nervures brown; radial
nervure fuscous ; stigma pale yellowish; second recurrent ner-
vure exactly uniting with the tip of the dividing nervure of the
second and third cellules: tergum obviously varied with brassy ;
posterior slender margins of the segments dark purplish or black-
ish, sometimes not obvious: feet dull piceous: venter dull pi-
ceous.
Length less than three-tenths of an inch.
%, Head, thorax and metathorax, greenish-blue : mandibles
and labrum, dull honey-yellow: thighs obviously tinged with
bluish-green: venter on the middle segments green.
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Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
A very common species. I have found their nests in [896]
the soft, decomposing sap-wood of the Oak and Hickory, between
the bark and the solid wood. Their cells are oval, horizontal,
not symmetrically disposed, though many are parallel. These
cells are composed of particles of the decayed wood, agglutinated
together. Each cell contains an individual, subsisting on a yel-
low pollen, enclosed with it by the parent. In the same assem-
blage are the young of all ages to the perfect insect.
The male varies in having the tibiz and tarsi yellowish-white,
with more or less of green on the middle of the posterior tibiz.
The preceding species, distinguished by their polished green
color, are also remarkable by the very obtuse emargination of
their eyes, or, in other words, the curvature of the inner side of
the eye: they might very properly constitute a division of the
genus.
5. H. nraarus.—Black; tergum banded with whitish.
Inhabits United States.
2 Body black, with whitish cinereous hairs on the head and
stethidium : wing-scale honey-yellow : wings hyaline, tinged with
yellowish towards the base; postcostal nervure black ; first re-
current nervure entering the second cubital cellule near, but not
at the dividing nervure : metathorax at base having the depressed
surface granulated or very minutely lineated; posterior face sub-
orbicular, slightly concave : tergum haying the posterior margins
of the segments white with prostrate hair, beneath which the
surface is piceous: venter a little hairy; posterior margins of
the segments obscurely piceous: feet tinged with piceous, paler
towards their tips; the posterior with pale ferruginous hair.
Length about three-tenths of an inch.
s, Antenne beneath, ochreous, excepting the first and [397]
second joints: nasus, labrum and middle of the mandibles, yel-
low: wings with the nervures darker: tergum not so very obvi-
ously banded: feet black; tibizxe and tarsi, yellow; the former
having a black spot on the anterior middle of the posterior pairs.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
A very abundant species. The male is a little longer than the
female.
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OF NATURAL HISTORY. 775
The scutelliform base of the metathorax is mor
tured with slightly elevated, longitudinal lines.
5. H. PARALLELUS.—Black ; tergum banded :
ferruginous.
Tnhabits Indiana.
? Body black, somewhat hairy ; hairs yellow-cinereous : nasus
ciliate with ferruginous hairs which extend over the labrum :
antenne with the third joint but little longer than the fourth :
wings pale ferruginous, dusky at tip; second cubital cell quad-
rate, the basal and terminal nervures being quite parallel : ter-
gum, each segment with a very obvious posterior margin of
whitish-yellow hairs: feet ferruginous, the base of the thighs
and coxze more or less blackish.
Length less than half an inch.
CERATINA TLatr.
C. puptA.—Blue ; much punctured.
Inhabits Indiana. ;
2 Body deep blue, densely punctured, a little polished: an-
tenne black : nasus with a white spot, sometimes obsolete: tho-
rax with an impressed line; disk with few punctures and more
polished : wings but slightly dusky ; nervures blackish: wing-
scale dark piceous, impunctured : [398] tergum more densely
punctured towards the tip; basal segment on the anterior face
impunctured, polished ; remaining segments with a distinct line
on their anterior submargins, curving backward on each side;
between this line and the basal edge, particularly on the third
and fourth segments, the surface is but little punctured and is
polished, resembling a small segment: feet blackish, with pice-
ous tarsi and whitish hair: pleura with a small yellow point
under the wing-scale.
Length a little over three-tenths of an inch.
% Nasus and quadrate spot on the labrum, white ; anterior
tibiz whitish on their exterior edge.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
The spots on the nasus, labrum and pleura, as well as the line
on the tibie in the male corresponds with those of the male of
C. albilabris F., but the general color is altogether different. A
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variety? is destitute of the spot on the labrum and has but avery
small spot on the nasus.
The maxillary palpi sometimes appear to have six joints.
Tam not sure that the male above described, is that of the
present species.
STELIS Panz.
S. opEsA.—Black, varied with yellow ; wings iy segs
Inhabits Indiana.
Body robust, convex, punctured, black: nasus, mandibles at
base, orbits anteriorly and abbreviated line behind, yellow: tho-
rax with a yellow, arcuated line each side extending on the ante-
rior margin: scutel somewhat indented [399] towards the tip,
margined behind with yellow, which is slightly interrupted in
the middle: wings fuliginous; nervures fuscous: tergum, six
yellow bands, the anterior one widely interrupted, the others
gradually less so to the penultimate one which is confluent ; the
ultimate one broadest, entire: venter yellowish at base : feet yel-
lowish ; thighs and posterior face of the tibie partly black.
Length over one-fourth of an inch.
In the abdominal markings it resembles some species of Anthi-
dium, but the maxillary palpi have two joints.
OSMIA Panz. Latr.
1. O. rigNARIA.—Dark bluish; thorax and base of the ter-
gum, with cinereous hair.
Inhabits United States. ,
2? Body very dark bluish: head with. cinereous hair: nasus
very profoundly emarginated: antenne black : thorax with cine-
reous hair ; wing-scale black-piceous: wings with a slight fuli-
ginous tinge, particularly on the costal half of the radial cellule ;
nervures blackish : tergum, basal segment with cinereous hair ;
remaining segments with short blackish hair; anal segment
blackish : beneath a little darker than above: feet and ventral
hair blackish.
Length about nine-twentieths of an inch.
% Hair of the head before dense, rather longer, and whitish ;
pectus, pleura and feet with cinereous hair; venter blackish ;
nasus very slightly and obtusely emarginate.
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Length about seven-twentieths of an inch.
A common species, nidificates in old wood. Forms a [400
dilated oval cocoon of a ferruginous color. It seems to approach
Megilla metallica Fabr., which however is said to be large, black-
bronze, with white wings.
2. O. Bucconis.—Black ; tergum with slender white bands.
Inhabits Indiana.
? Body black, with rather short gray hairs, and obvious
dense punctures: head rather large, long between the eyes and
thorax : nasus entire: mandibles with a patch of dense prostrate
hairs near the tip: wings hyaline : nervures fuscous : wing-seale
piceous: tergum with short, blackish hairs; segments rather
convex, narrow, white bands of prostrate short hairs, wider each
side ; towards the posterior extremity with numerous white, short
hairs, obvious in profile ; posterior tarsi with longer hairs, tinted
with ferruginous: venter with fulvous hairs.
Length over three-tenths of an inch.
% Resembles the female, but is smaller, and the tail has four
distant denticulations.
Length one-fourth of an inch.
CQALIOXYS Latr.
1. C. 8-pENTATA nob. Appendix to Long’s Expedition, p.
358. [Ante 1, 239.]
Body rather more slender than that of the male ; the abdo-
men conic and polished; head before a little pruinose, with
short hairs; thoracic lines white and less obvious than in the
male ; feet black ; tibize and tarsi more or less piceous ; tergum,
with the bands white and all of them single, those of the male
are tinged with yellow.
The Anthophora bidentata F., which is said to be [401] a
Celioxys, is described as having the abdomen brown and with
only two spines.
The antenne of the tail of the 8-dentata, resembles that of
Q. conica I., but the middle spines are much more robust and
obtuse; the bands are more distinct and the abdomen opake in
the male.
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2. C. ALTERNATA.—Bands of the tergum alternately inter-
rupted ; 4% tail 10-spined.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black, punctured; the punctures not much crowded :
head with short, white hair, almost naked on the vertex : front
with long, white, dense hair: antenna, tip of the basal joint ob-
scurely piceous: thorax an interrupted, arcuated, white line be-
fore, curving over the wings; a line before the scutel, and an-
other at its tip, white: wing-scale dull honey-yellow: wings
yellow fuliginous, more dusky at tip: tergum polished, punctures
more sparse than on the thorax; segments, particularly the
basal ones, white on their posterior margins; and each segment
excepting the ultimate and basal ones, with a white interrupted
band before the middle; tail concave above, with about ten
spines: feet black, more or less piceous: venter banded with
white.
Length over two-fifths of an inch.
2 Hair on the front, short; wings destitute of the yellow fuli-
vinous color, excepting on the stigma.
Length over half an inch.
_ NOMADA Scop. Latr.
1. N. vincta.—Tergum with yellow bands, which are obso-
letely margined with ferruginous.
Inhabits Indiana. (402)
Body black: head beneath the antenne, ferruginous: orbits
yellow: antenne ferruginous, dusky about the middle; termina!
joint paler: collar yellow: thorax each side over the wings, with
a dull ferruginous margin ; before the wings a yellow spot : wing-
scale honey-yellow: wings slightly dusky, particularly the ter-
minal margin : nervures honey-yellow : scutel subbilobate, yellow
line on the middle, posterior margin ferruginous: metathorax
near the scutel with a transverse line and an irregular, longitudi-
nal, quadrate spot each side behind, yellow: tergum with a yel-
low band, gradually contracted towards the middle, and obsoletely
margined with ferruginous, before the middle of each segment ;
anterior band a little undulated or denticulated : pectus with a
triangular, yellowish spot over the fore-feet : coxee, with a yellow
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spot: thighs ferruginous, blackish behind : tibia and tarsi ferru-
ginous and yellow: venter with two yellowish bands ; towards
the tip, honey-yellow.
Length $ nine-twentieths of an inch.
& Ferruginous; orbits and head before, yellow; antenne
blackish towards the tip ; first joint yellow beneath ; collar, line
over the wings, two obsolete ones in the middle, wing-seale ex-
cepting a dot in the middle, yellow; scutel undivided, yellow ;
metathorax in greater part, yellow ; abdomen yellow, posterior
margins of the segments black, submargins ferruginous. Rather
more slender than the female.
2. N. BisiagnaTA nob. Appendix to Long’s second Expedi-
tion.—The male has the head black, with the nasus and mouth
yellow ; antennze beneath, rufous ; the thorax has hardly any ap-
pearance of ferruginous; but the scutel in some specimens is of
that color; the thighs, particularly [403] the posterior pair have
more black than those of the female. [Ante 1, 239.]
Var. Abdomen rufous, immaculate.
EPEOLUS Latr.
Hi. FUMIPENNIS.—Black ; thorax bilineate, ferruginous all
around.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body densely punctured, black: head carinate between the
antenne: antenne honey-yellow at base, beneath: labrum with
an obsolete, minute, ferryginous dot each side : mandibles honey-
yellow at base: thorax with two slender whitish abbreviated lines
and whitish lateral edge: collar with a ferruginous disk, con-
tracted in the middle ; a ferruginous dot before the wings : wing-
scale and scutel ferruginous: wings fuliginous: tergum, first
and second segments with a yellow band, the first broader and
widely interrupted ; remaining segments with a whitish band,
the last segment with the addition of an obscure rufous terminal
margin: tibiz and tarsi honey-yellow.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
The /unatus nob. also has a bilineated thorax, but it is a larger
species, has a whitish spot around the base of the antenna ;
lunated spot at base each side of the tergum, &c. Smaller than
mercatus F. and scutellaris nob.
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MACROCERA Latr.
1. M. osnrqua.— $ Thorax with yellowish hair; tergum
fasciate, second segment with an oblique band.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black: head and stethidium with long, dull yellowish
[404] hair: hypostoma and labrum yellow: antenne, excepting
the basal joint, beneath piceous: mandibles yellow at base, with
a piceous spot, honey-yellow in the middle and blackish at tip:
wings slightly fuliginous; nervures dusky: tergum, first seg-
ment at base, with hair as on the thorax ; second segment with a
broad basal margin of whitish prostrate hair, and a narrow oblique
one on the middle; third and fourth segments with oblique
bands of the same color on their middles; fifth with the band
obvious and a little oblique, intermixed with longer hairs.
Length nearly three-fifths of an inch.
I have numerous specimens, all of which are males. The hair
of the head and thorax is slightly tinted with ferruginous.
2. M. Brnorata.—Black ; wings blackish.
Inhabits Indiana.
9 Body black : head and thorax, particularly the latter, with
short hair, that of the occiput and behind the scutel a little
longer: labrum with prostrate hair: wings blackish violaceous :
tergum on some parts, with a slight purplish reflection ; fourth
segment with a transverse-quadrate white spot of prostrate hair
on each side, upon its posterior margin: posterior tibie and tarsi,
with the long hairs whitish.
Length about nine-twentieths of an inch.
s, A little smaller than the female; nasus and labrum pale
yellow ; antennz beneath, dirty yellowish; wings not so dark as
in the female ; tergum immaculate.
Although it has some points of specific similarity with the
preceding, yet it differs so widely from it in other respects, that
with much hesitation, I have concluded to give it a distinct
place. [405 |
3. M. protnosa.—Tergum with much dilated white bands ;
double on the second segment ; hair on the thorax yellowish.
Inhabits United States.
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% Body black: stethidium clothed with yellow-ferruginous
hair : head, hair on the superior part like that of the titi «
nasus with a large, yellow, transverse spot before: labrum with
prostrate whitish hairs, and generally an obscure yellowish, longi-
tudinal line : antennee, rather short, beneath excepting the ree
joints, dull piceous: wings hyaline : tergum, first segment, ex-
cept at its tip, hairy like the thorax; second segment with a
white band at base and another on the posterior submargin,
united at the sides; posterior margin and transverse middle
black; third and fourth segments white with black posterior
margins; remainder white ; tarsi ferruginous.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
@ Antenne, color as in male: nasus immaculate : posterior
feet with long ferruginous hair.
Length nearly half an inch.
A common species ; at first sight somewhat like obliqua nob.
which however is much larger, the bands of the tergum much
narrower and more oblique than in the present species. In
magnitude this species does not seem to differ widely from that
which Drury names annularis ii. pl. 387, f. 7. That figure is,
however, a very uncertain one, even as respects its genus, and in
my copy of the work, does not at all agree with the description
which accompanies it.
The bands of the tergum have a pruinose appearance in con-
sequence of the shortness of the hair of which they are composed.
The antennz of the male do not reach the posterior extremity of
the thorax. [406]
4, M. rusticaA.—Tergum with white bands, double on the
second segment; hair of the thorax whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
% Body black, with whitish hair: antennze longer than the
stethidium ; beneath, excepting the three basal joints, dull pice-
ous: nasus white: thorax with whitish hair: wing-scale black :
wings hyaline ; nervures fuscous: tergum, first segment, except-
ing at its tip, hairy like the thorax; bands white, not much di-
lated ; second segment with one at base and another behind the
middle, confluent each side ; remaining segments with a band on
the middle of each: tarsi towards their tips ferruginous.
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Length under seven-twentieths of an inch.
2 Body much more robust ; less hairy ; but the bands of the
tergum are rather wider, sometimes almost interrupted in the
middle; hair of the posterior feet yellowish ; antennz rather
short ; nasus black.
Length nearly two-fifths of an inch.
A smaller species than pruinosa and much like it; but it may
be distinguished by the much longer antenne of the male, by
the nasus being all white, and by the whitish or almost uncolored
hair of the head and thorax.
When recent, the color of the eyes is light blue, with three or
four transverse, moveable series of longitudinal dark spots.
MEGACHILE Latr.
M. potticaris.—% Anterior tarsi dilated, deeply ciliated, ap-
pendage rather long; spines of the anterior coxe yellow. —,
Inhabits Louisiana.
Body not very hairy, black: wings with a slight fuliginous
[407] tint, particularly at tip: tergum oblong sub-quadrate :
anal segment with a sinus in the tip, each side of which are
small inequalities of the edge: anterior feet, coxe with promi-
nent yellow spines, rufous on the exterior tip; thighs yellow,
black at tip and base; tibice black, yellow within and at tip, on
the posterior tip a very short, acute spine; tarsi much dilated
and deeply ciliated behind, yellow-white, covered in their great-
est part by a yellow broad scale, which is honey-yellow at tip’; ;
nails honey-yellow : intermediate tarsi cordate, the lobes of one
side more prominent.
Length eleven-twentieths of an inch.
Mr. Barabino sent me this species. It differs in many respects
from the M. /atimanus nob. (Western Quarterly Reporter) which
has in that species the anterior coxz black; the appendage of
the anterior tarsi shorter, &c., but it is perfectly congenerie with
it, as well as with Anthophora lagopoda Fabr., if I may judge
by the similarity of the anterior feet, though it certainly ap-
proaches S¢eles in the paucity of ventral hair. The maxillary
palpi of /attémanus have the second joint rather longer than the
first.
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M. BREVIS.—Black ; not remarkably hairy; anterior tarsi
simple; abdomen short.
Inhabits Indiana.
& Body black, somewhat polished: head densely covered
with long, yellowish hairs in front: thorax with whitish hair.
sometimes tinged with yellowish, and not concealing the surface :
wings a little fuliginous, tinged with violaceous: venter not, or
hardly longer than broad: tergum with small, dense punctures,
and a narrow, white band on each segment; anal segment trans-
versely concave, at its tip emarginate, in the middle and on each
side, [408] the edge has several small denticulations : anterior
tarsi simple: tarsi piceous at their tips.
Length less than two-fifths of an inch.
@ A little larger than the male; with very little hair on the
front ; abdomen short conic-oval ; venter hairy.
Length two-fifths of an inch.
The male of this species closely resembles that of pugnatus,
so much so, that it might readily be considered as the same ; but
the anterior tarsi are not dilated, and the abdomen, although
similarly terminated, is remarkably shorter.
M. puaNnatus.—Black ; anterior tarsi dilated in the male,
with the first joint prolonged at its anterior angle beyond the tip
of the second joint.
Inhabits Indiana.
*, Body black, not densely hairy : head densely covered with
long whitish hairs in front: thorax with whitish hair not con-
cealing the surface: wings fuliginous, tinged with violaceous ;
venter longer than broad: tergum with small, dense punctures ;
and a narrow white band on each segment; anal segment trans-
versely concave, at its tip emarginate in the middle, and on each
side the edge has several small denticulations: anterior tarsi
whitish, dilated, and ciliated; anterior tip of the basal joint pro-
longed a little beyond the tip of the second joint, and its whole
length excavated before; anterior tip of the second joint alse
prolonged almost to the tip of the third joint; fourth joint not
dilated : anterior tibiz with dilated crowded punctures : anterior
cox, each with a prominent, black spine: intermediate and
posterior tarsi piceous at tip.
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Length over two-fifths to nearly half an inch.
Y Frontal hair shorter and less conspicuous; anterior feet
simple ; venter with dense yellow hair.
Length over half an inch. [409]
It is smaller, much more slender and much less hairy than
either latimanus, or pollicaris nob., and has a somewhat different
habit.
ANTHOPHORA Latr.
1. A. AsrupTA.—% Black ; thorax with cinereous hair; nasus
and labrum whitish.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body robust : antenng on the anterior side of the basal joint,
whitish : nasus, and each side of it to the eye yellowish, a little
tinged with fulvous in the middle: labrum pale yellowish, hairy :
mandibles having a whitish spot near their outer base: thorax,
pleura and pectus, clothed with whitish cinereous hair: wings
hyaline ; nervures ‘fuscous; stigma not at all dilated: pleura
with an oblique line of black hairs passing downward and back-
ward from the posterior wings: tergum with much shorter and
less dense hair than that of the thorax, and black; that of the
basal segment a little longer, and near the metathorax partaking
of the color of the hair of that part: feet black ; the longer hairs
of the anterior pair are whitish.
Length over half an inch.
It is less robust than A. pilipes F. and is equally well clothed
with hair on the anterior part of the body, but the transition of
color between the hair of the thorax and that of the tergum is
much more abrupt. It has much the appearance of a small hum-
ble-bee and also resembles Andrena thoracica F.
2. A. rronTATA.—Thorax with yellowish hair; hypostoma
and basal joint of the antenne beneath, and spot at base and
near the tip of the mandibles, yellow.
Inhabits Louisiana. [410]
% Body black: hypostoma yellow and with yellow hair: an-
tennee with the inferior longitudinal half of the basal joint yel-
low, and with dense yellow hair : nasus yellow, with yellow hair:
labrum black, covered by the hair of the nasus: mandibles with
[Vol. I.
OF NATURAL HISTORY. 785
a yellow oval spot at base anda slender obsolete one near the
tip: maxilla with an obsolete yellowish spot before the palpi :
palpi with a few rigid hairs; terminal joint one-third the length
of the preceding joint : tongue ferruginous : vertex in the middle,
having a few yellow hairs : thorax with dense, long, yellow hair :
wing-seale blackish: wings with a slight dusky tint; nervures
black, exterior recurrent nervure entering the outer cubital
eellule directly opposite to the outer nervure of the cellule : ter-
gum hairy; hairs black, rather long; a few yellow hairs towards
the middle of the first segment : anterior feet with yellow hair on
the posterior edge: hind feet, hairs not much elongated.
Length half an inch.
Sent to me by Mr. Barabino. Differs from the abrupta nob., in
being less robust, the hair of the thorax being pale yellow, and
the mandibles having a white spot near their tips.
3. A. TAUREA.—Thorax pale, with a dusky central spot, from
which proceed two lines to the anterior angles.
Inhabits Indiana.
Body black with whitish cinereous hair: head, hair on the
vertex dusky: thorax with whitish hair; a large, obvious, cen-
tral, dusky spot, with a line curving from it to each anterior
angle of the thorax: scutel, hair dusky: metathorax and first
segment of the tergum, with cinereous hair; remaining segments
of the tergum with the hair very short and black, excepting on
the posterior margins which are pure white: ? ultimate segment
with [411] a glabrous, subcarinate, triangular, oblong space
above : wings hyaline; nervures fuscous ; stigma not suddenly
dilated: terminal third of the radial cellule slightly separated
from the edge of the wing; terminal nervure of the third
cubital cellule inserted at the middle of the nervure of the radial
cellule.
Length g about two-fifths; ? half of an inch.
The thoracic spot will readily distinguish this species. The
manners and habits of the species may be likened to those of the
A. parietina Latr. It digs a eylindrical hole in compact clay or
adhesive earth on the side of a bank, orin earth retained amongst
the roots of an overturned tree. The hole is two or three inches
in depth. The sides and bottom are of a dark brown color, quite
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smooth and somewhat polished, containing a quantity of white
pollen, considerably larger than the artificer itself. The entrance
consists of a cylinder extending downwards from the mouth of
the hole, more than an inch in length, and consisting of small
pellets of earth compacted together, very rough on the exterior
and smooth within. A species of Odynerus was numerous in
the same locality in which I observed the above, and sometimes
entered the holes ; but the exterior cylinder does not agree with
that which is attributed to O. muraria Latr. which Kirby and
Spence inform us is composed of “ little masses so attached to
each other, as to leave numerous vacuities between them, which
give it the appearance of filagree-work.” Many of the tubes of
the taurea, have a fissure above, throughout the whole length ;
resembling in this respect the shell Stliguaria. It does not
agree with Fabricius’ description of Melecta remigata. [412]
XYLOCOPA Latr.
X. cARoLINA Fabr.—This species was referred by Fabricius
to the genus Centris, and is even now generally considered as be-
longing to that genus. But doubting the accuracy of that
arrangement, I found on examination, that the labial palpi are
rectilinear, the terminal joints being in a right line with the
others, and the maxillary palpi are six-jointed. The} mandibles
have only one large tooth, which is on the inner side. The cir-
cumstance of Fabricius referring to Drury’s fig. 1, pl. 43, of vol.i,
for Bombus virgineus Linn., leads me to suppose that he had
this species also in view in that description. Butas that deserip-
tion in the Syst. Piez. p. 346, agrees very well with one of our
largest and finest species of Bombus, rather than introduce a
new name, I would transfer the quotation of Drury’s figure to
the description of Y. carolina, (Centris), F. I add the follow-
ing description of it, which I formerly drew out, with the name >
of valida, under the belief that the carolina, is really a Centris,
and therefore altogether different.
Blackish ; a prominent, compressed, obtuse tubercle between
the antenne; thorax hairy.
Inhabits United States.
9 Body black, tinged with purplish: head with close set,
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OF NATURAL HISTORY. 787
discoidal punctures; an obvious, compressed tubercle between
the antennz, rounded at its tip: labrum conic: thorax tinged
with greenish ; with pale yellow hair, except on the saddle :
wings fuliginous, subopake at tip: tergum tinted with very ob-
scure green: basal joint covered with pale yellow hairs: pleura
beneath the wing, with yellow hairs.
Length about four-fifths of an inch. [413]
% Nasus white. The tubercle of the head is very distinct.
Common in the Union. The males may be distinguished by
their larger and more approximate eyes and white nasus. It
varies in having the hair of the thorax and of the first abdominal
segment, almost ferruginous.
2. X. LATERALIS.—Violaceous; abdomen with a posterior
lateral cinereous spot.
Inhabits Mexico.
% Body blackish-violaceous: head black: nasus and labrum
white : antennze with an anterior white line on the radical joint :
gene with a few gray hairs : wings, first recurrent neryure enter-
ing the third cellule within the distance of its own breadth from
the nervure of intersection of the third cellule: abdomen, each
side near the tip with a cinereous spot of hair, extending up-
wards on each side of the venter, but becoming obsolete towards
the base.
Length over seven-tenths of an inch.
BOMBUS Latr.
1. B. sonorus.—Yellow; head, thoracic band and abdomen
behind black.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body yellow: head black: thorax with a broad black band in
the middle: wings violaceous-black: tergum with the first,
second and third segments yellow, the others black: beneath
black.
Length 9 four-fifths of an inch.
Resembles the fervidus Fabr. so closely that it may readily be
mistaken for it, but that species has only two segments of the
tergum clothed with yellow hair; that of [414] the second one,
however, is so much elongated as to conceal a considerable por-
1887.]
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tion of the next segment. The color is a much deeper yellow
than that of fervida.
2. B. EPHIPPIATUS.—Black ; pleura and base of the tergum
yellowish.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body black: pleura pale yellow: wings dusky, tinged with
violaceous: tergum pale yellow towards the base ; this color is
gradually narrowed behind and terminates on the third segment,
forming somewhat of a semioval, with its base to the thorax and
confluent with the color of the pleura.
Length less than half an inch.
3. B. TeRNARIUS.—Yellowish; thorax fasciate; tergum ful-
yous in the middle.
Inhabits Indiana.
Head black: thorax with dull yellowish hair, and a blackish
band on the middle: wings with a slight yellowish tinge; ner-
vures fuscous : tergum fulvous on the second and third segments;
first and fourth segments yellowish ; remaining segments black.
Length % nearly three-fifths of an inch.
TRIGONA Jurine, Latr.
1. T. pringeata.— O Blackish ; antennze, beneath, labrum
and two lines on the nasus pale.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body piceous black ; flagellum of the antennz beneath, obsolete
narrow anterior orbits, two rather broad lines on the hypostoma,
labrum and mandibles somewhat pale: wings hyaline, slightly
tinged with fuliginous towards the base; cubital cellules obso-
letely divided into three by two [415] hardly perceptible ner-
vures ; ultimate cellules hardly attaining to the tip of the wing ;
the second receiving the recurrent nervure: feet not different
in color from the body; posterior tibie with the cilis of the
edge sparse.
Length less than one-fourth of an inch.
It is somewhat smaller, and less robust than the ruficrus Latr.
of which the posterior tibize are densely ciliated. I am indebted
to Dr. Klug for a specimen of the rujficrus: and it is very differ-
ent from the amalthea and spinipes Fabr. My specimens are
[ Vol. I.
OF NATURAL HISTORY. 789
workers, and I did not find the nest or ascertain the kind and
importance of the honey they make. The generic name is almost
too much like Trigonia of Conchology, but as the pronunciation
differs it can remain.
2. T. tigata.— © Blackish ; abdominal segments margined
with ochreous.
Inhabits Mexico.
Body brownish-black, hairy; antenne beneath, particularly
the basal joint, anterior half of the anterior orbits, line distin-
guishing two lobes of the hypostoma and mouth, dull yellowish :
wings slightly tinged with fuliginous, particularly towards the
base ; nervures of the cubital cellules like those of the bilineata
nob., but the first one is much more distinct: tergum shortly
hairy; posterior margins of the segments ochreous: feet dull
honey-yellow ; tip of the posterior tibize and base of the first tar-
sal joint black.
Length about two fifths of an inch.
Of this I obtained but a single specimen, which is a worker.
It is widely different from the preceding species, particularly in
being hairy, and is much larger and of a somewhat different
habit. I have carefully compared it with Latreille’s descriptions
and figures of Melipona [416] favosa Illig., scutellaris Latr., fas-
ciata Latr., interrupta, Latr., and other species as given in Hum-
boldt’s Zoological Observations ; and even should it be referred
to that genus notwithstanding its denticulated mandibles, I have
endeavored to draw out such characters as may distinguish it
from them. Latreille, however, says of Melipona, “ Mandibles
sans dentelures apparentes ” which entirely includes this species,
although it agrees in habit.
1837.]
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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
in note, for Weidmann read Wiedemann.
line 6, for TERGIs[sA] read TERGIS[S]A.
after description of F. scUTELLARIS, add :
[A distorted specimen probably belonging to Platynus
(Agonum) melanarius. Similar distortions are found in other
species. —LEc. ]
line 7 from bottom, for Copdotomus read Coptotomus.
to note after E. opesus, add:
at all approaching this species in size.—Lec. ]
line 6 from bottom, for Sp#ripium read SPHARIDIOM.
line 8, for AXTRICATA read EXTRICATA.
line 7 from bottom, for Zchnomera read Ischnomera.
line 21, for Errhinus read Erirhinus.
line 19, for Cucunto read Curcuio.
line 18 from bottom, for stIATA read STRIATA.
line 15, for Criaceris read Crioceris.
line 7 from bottom, for PENICILLATUS read PENICELLATUB.
line 16, for Hydaticas read Hydaticus.
after description of C. sacrata dele note, and add:
[Belongs to Telephorus.—L«c. ]
line 11 from bottom, for primona read primoria.
line 4 from bottom, for fascidita read fastidita.
after description of F. pEcora, add:
[Also a Platynus.—LEc. }
line 17, for 15-puncratus read 12-puncratus.
line next to bottom, for Fabr. read Latr.
after remarks on C. Bipvstunata, add:
[This is the insect afterwards considered by Dejean the
same with the Brazilian C. crenata, but is known at present
as. Aspidoglossa subangulata.—Lkc. ]
line 8 from bottom, for T. faber read T. brunneus.
in line 22, add [158].
line 6, for MARGINILIS read MARGINALIS.
line 6 from bottom, for mELITUS read MELLITUS.
to title in line 1, add May, 1836, and change the date at
bottom of pages 673—745, to 1836.
INDEX TO VOLUME II.
Abax coracinus
Acaenitus decorus
melleus
Acanthia interstitialis
Acanthocerus aphodiodoides
globosus
laevistriatus
Acanthocinus quadrigibbus
Acanthoderes quadrigibbus
Acheta exigua
Acilius mediatus
Acmaeodera ornata
pulchella
tubulus
Acordulecera dorsalis
Acrydium flavovittatum
Actenodes acornis
Acupalpus conjunctus
consimilis
debilipes
elongatulus
lugubris
misellus
obsoletus
partiarius
pauperculus
rotundicollis
tantillus
testaceus
Adelocera auxrorata
avita
brevicornis
discoidea
impressicollis
obtecta
Adimonia externa
rufosanguinea
tuberculata
Adrastus quietus
recticollis
Aeschna clepsydra
constricta
fraterna
furcillata
504,
109,
Aeschna heros
janata
Junius
multicincta
obliqua
4-guttata
stigmata
vinosa
Aethus bilineatus
Agabus ambiguus
arctus
erythropterus
gagates
infuscatus
nitidus
obtusatus
seriatus
stagninus
striatus
striola
Agathidium pallidum
Agathis polita
ornata
Agonoderus lineola
pallipes
Agrilus arcuatus
bilineatus
cogitans
fallax
geminatus
granulatus
lateralis
otiosus
politus
pusillus
putillus
ruficollis
Agonum cupripenne
errans
Jemoratum
foveicolle
limbatum
luctuosum
morosum
388
391
388
388
392
391
393
390
242
511
511
509
513
511
512
513
511
513
511
513
231
684
684
465
466
596
596
598
596
105, 595
104, 596
103, 596
597
596
596
597
595
475
536
AT6
481
536
481, 536
469
792
Agonum nutans
obsoletum
8-punctatum
orbicolle
palliatum
punctiforme
rufipes
striatopunctatum
suturale
Agrion antennata
anomalum
apicalis
hastata
venerinotatum
verticalis
Agriotes mancus
striatulus
truncatus
Akis muricata
Aleochara bilobata
bimaculata
exigua
falsifica
fasciata
fuscipes
indentata
lustrica
minima
nitida
obscuricollis
propera
4-punctata
semicarinata
simplicicollis
verna
Aleodorus bilobatus
Allantus apicalis
bardus
cestus
epicera
epinotus
goniphorus
pannosus
Allecula nigrans
obscura
Altica bimarginata
centralis
ceracollis
crenicollis
gibbitarsa
mellicollis
nana
picta
5-vittata
senilis
scripticollis
suturella
triangularis
ATA,
101,
INDEX.
536
536
476
Altica vians
uniguttata
Alphitophagus bifasciatus
536 | Alyson melleus
536 oppositus
536 | Amara angustata
481 avida
536 basillaris
535 confinis FS
410 | dolosa
409 furtiva
410 grossa
409 impunctata
‘409 impuuncticollis
408 indistincta
111 lucidula
111 luctuosa
111 musculis
149 obesa
589 sera
585 | Amblychila cylindriformis
589 | Amnestus spinifrons
588 | Amphasia fulvicollis
585 interstitialis
585 | Amphicrossus ciliatus
586 | Ampulex canaliculatus
585 | Anaphia
585 pallida
588 | Anaspis rufa
585 4-punctata
587 triloba
586 | Anax Junius
587 cincticollis
587 collaris
588 | Anchomenus coracinus
589 corvinus
676 decentis
678 decorus
677 | deplanatus
677 | extensicollis
676— gagates
676 | marginalis
678 Ancylochira decora
308 | striata
308 | ultramarina
226 Ancyronyx variegatus
228 Andrena valida
669 Anisodactylus agricola
668
baltimorensis
cenus
carbonarius
dilatatus
letus
luctuosus
merula
rusticus
St. Crucis
striatus
772
461, 545
461, 545
462, 545
460, 545
Anisodactylus tristis
_ Anobium bistriatum
carinatum
gibbosum
notatum
tenuestriatum
Anomala binotata
cincta
gemella
Anomalon attractus
densatus
divaricatus
ejuncidus
emarginatus
humeralis
lineatulus
mellipes
recurvus
Anomoglossus emarginatus
pusillus
Anopheles crucians
Serruginosus
punctipennis
5-fasciatus
Anoplitis scapularis
Anteon tibialis
Anthraxia quercata
viridicornis
Anthicus basillaris
bifasciatus
bizonatus
cervinus
cinctus
collaris
constrictus
impressus
labiatus
lugubris
pallidus
politus
terminalis
Anthocomus circumscriptus
flavilabris
scincetus
terminalis
Anthophagus brunneus
verticalis
Anthophora abrupta
frontata
taurea
Anthrax analis
alternata
caliptera
edititia
irrorata
lateralis
limatulus
morioides
105,
INDEX.
460
281
120
280
281
281
301
654
654
696
698
699
697
Anthrax Oedipus
scripta
Simson
Anthribus alternatus
bimaculatus
capillicornis
coffee
limbatus
lugubris
notatus
4-notatus
tomentosus
variegatus
Apate basiliaris
bicaudatus
bicornis
punctatus
Apenes sinuata
Aphanisticus gracilis
Aphonus tridentatus
Aphodius bicolor
concavus
femoralis
innexus
oblongus
serval
strigatus
tenellus
terminalis
vittatus
Aphrophora bilineata
obtusa
parallela
quadrangularis
4-notata
Apion rostrum
Sayi
Apocellus sphericollis
Aporosa rostrata
Aradus 4-lineatus
Arecerus coffe
Ardistomus viridis
Aretharea helluonis
Arhopalus charus
Asaphes bilobatus
baridius
decoloratus
hemipodus
memnonius
ruficornis
Asclera punticollis
ruficollis
thoracica
Asida anastomosis
opaca
polita
Asilus sericeus
vertebratus
180,
316
316
571
313
451
664
611
161
151
150
151
794
Ateuchus ebenus
nigricornis
obsoletus
viridis
Athous exqualis
discalceatus
pyrrhicus
vagrans
Atimia confusa
tristis
Atomacera cellularis
debilis
Atomosia glabrata
Atta fervens
Attagenus cylindricornis
megatoma
spurcus
Attelabus pubescens
rhois
scutellaris
Aulonium parallelopipedum
Babia 4-guttata
Baccha costata
fuscipennis
Betis arida
interpunctata
obesa
verticis
Banchus equatus
fugitivus
nervulus
Bassus gibbosus
limitaris
sanctus
Baridius interstitialis
Batrisus riparius
Bdella oblonga
Belonuchus ephippiatus
Bembex fasciata
longirostris
Bembidium coxendix
inequale
inornatum
affine
antiquum
contractum
decipiens
dorsale
ephippiatum
fallax
flavicauda
honestum
incurvum
inornatum
levigatum
levum
nigrum
INDEX.
134 ; Bembidium nitidulum 550
133 oppositum 501, 553
133 postremum 551
648 proximum 502
602 punctatostriatum 498, 549
604 rupestre 504
602 semifasciatum 552
602 sigillare 499, 551
334 4-maculatum 501
334 stigmaticum 499
674 tetracolum 503, 551
674 troglodytes 503
66 tripunctatum 553
734 ustulatum 504
290 variegatum 503
290 | Beris fuscitarsis 52, 353
290 | Berosus striatus 293
315 | Bethylus cellularis 726
315 centratus 727
315 musculus 726
324 pedatus 727
Bibio albipennis 69
208 articulatus 69
357 heteropterus 69
86 orbatus 69
412 pallipes 68
411 | Blaps acuta 152
412 zequalis 657
412 carbonaria 152
701 celsa 657
701 extricata 153
700 hispilabris 152
704 impolita 656
703 maura 656
703 obscura 152
177 obliterata 657
236 obsoleta 153
19 opaca 154
563 parva 658
751 ruida 656
751 suturalis 152
97, 559 tricostata 154
97, 549 | Blapstinus interruptus 155
502 | Bledius 100
501 cordatus 577
498 emarginatus 577
500 | Boletobius angularis 58
501 cincticollis 581
499, 550 cinctus 102
553 obsoletus 580
501 pygmezus 580
502 venustus 580
498, 550) Boletophagus corticola 305
554 | Bombus ephippiatus 788
502 sonorus 787
499, 550 ternarius 788
503 | Boros unicolor 305
500, 551 | Bostrichus bicaudatus 181
Bostrichus bicornis
exesus
fasciatus
pini
- politus
xylographus
Brachiacantha albifrons
Brachinus alternans
cyanipennis
fumans
stygicornis
Brachycerus humeralis
Brachygaster reticulatus
Brachys gracilis
ovata
purpurea
tesselata
Brachystylus acutus
Brachytarsus alternatus
brevis
limbatus
obsoletus
tomentosus
variegatus
Bracon argutator
dorsator
explorator
hebetor
honestor
inescator
mellitor
paululor
pectinator
populator
pullator
Tugator
rugulosus
serutator
thoracicus
tibiator
transversus
trilobatus
vestitor
viator
Bradycellus atrimedius
autumnalis
rupestris
vulpeculus
Bruchus discoideus
Bryaxis dentatus
Buprestis acornis
atropurpurea
campestris
confluens
culta
cyanipes
dentipes
divaricata
INDEX:
180
317
318
319
318
318
233
630
91
439
527
316
682
599
598
599
598
174
314
315
314
315
315
315
706
705
710
705
709
_ 709
708
709
704
710
709
704
707
707
711
710
708
710
706
710
466
473
505, 508
458
171
236
592
103
106
103
592
106
591
105, 590
Buprestis geminata
geranii
gibbicollis
granulata
hybernata
ignara
impedita
lateralis
liberta
longipes
lurida
obscura
ornata
pulchella
6-guttata
tubulus
ultramarina
virginica
viridicornis
volvulus
Buthus
vittatus
Byrrhus alternatus
Byturus unicolor
Calandra compressirostris
Calathus gregaria
Calleida decora
marginata
purpurea
smaragdina
viridipennis
Calepteryx exquabilis
maculata
opaca
virginica
virgo
Callidium amcenum
brevilineum
cucujiforme
discoideum
fulvipenne
ignicolle
pallidum
sexfasciatum
suturale
Callisthenes luxatus
Calobata antennepes
pallipes
Caloptenus bivittatus
Semoratus
Calosoma calidum
externum
leve
longipenne
luxatum
obsoletum
scrutator
796
Calyptocephalus bifarius
Camptorhina atricapilla
Campylomyza scutellata
Cantharis angulatus
basillaris
bidentata
bilineatus
fraxini
invalida
jactata
laticornis
ligata
lineola
modestus
nigricornis
parallela
percomis
rotundicollis
rufipes
scitula
tomentosa
tricostata
Canthon ebenus
nigricornis
obsoletus
viridis
Carabus carinatus
depressus
externus
Surcatus
Gory
interruptus
ligatus
limbatus
lineatopunctatus
pallipes
serratus
sylvosus
vinctus
Cardiophorus cardisce
convexus
curiatus
erythropus
Carpophilus brachypterus
florakis
niger
pallipennis
unicolor
Casnonia pennsylvanica
rufipes
Cassida bivittata
cribraria
erythrocera
unipunctata
Catops basillaris
opaca
simplex
vittatus
278,
493,
"494,
494,
403,
206,
INDEX.
635 | Cecidomyia destructor
144 | Centronipus calcaratus
44 rufipes
117 |} Cerambyx solitarius
117 | Ceraphron armatus
637 destructor
118 stigmatus
118 | Ceratina dupla
635 | Ceratopogon scutellatus
277 | Cerceris fumipennis
278 sexta
276 | Cercopis bicincta
277 obtusa
116 quadrangularis
169 | Cereus niger
277 pallipennis
636 | Cercyon
276 apicale
118 | Cermatia coleoptrata
278 | Ceropales apicalis
275 interrupta
635 | Cerylon castaneum
134 | Cetonia barbata
133 inda
133 vestita
648 | Chalcis ameena
529 debilis
449 | Chalcolepidius viridipilis
529 | Chaleophana picipes
465 | Chalcophora liberta
494 virginica
528 | Chauliognathus marginatus
529 | Chelifer muricatus
493 oblongus
589 | Chelonus basillaris
465 parvus
529 sericeus
492 | Chelymorpha cribraria
528 | Chironomus devinctus
604 festivus
110 geminatus
609 glaucurus
109 lineatus
289 lineola
124 lobifer
125 modestus
124 stigmaterus
288 tznionotus
447 | Chlenius estivus
524 circumcinctus
207 cobaltinus
207 congener
341 elegantulus
666 emarginatus
124 impunctifrons
289 laticollis
289 lithophilus
347 nemoralis
486,
Chienius pensylvanicus
pubescens
pusillus
sericeus
soccatus
solitarius
tomentosus
vicinus
vigilans
virens
viridanus
Chlorion canaliculatum
Chlorops proximus
Choridium capistratum
Chrysis carinata
Chrysobothris dentipes
hybernata
sexguitata
sexsignata
ultramarina,
Chrysomela barda
basillaris
dissimilis
flavomarginata
formosa
hybrida
multipunctata
auripennis
obsoleta
ceruleipennis
polygoni
spiraeze
trivittata
Chrysopa euryptera
oculata
Chrysops 4-vittatus
Chrysotus abdominalis
concinnarius
; nubilus
Cicada aurifera
dorsata
hieroglyphica
marginata
parvula
pruinosa
rimosa
synodica
vitripennis
Cicindela
abdominalis
albohirta
10-notata
dorsalis
12-guttata
formosa
fulgida
hirticollis
limbata
INDEX.
487 | Cicindela marginalis
488
485, 531
483
532
487
483, 531
488
531
531
485
750
730
132
731
591
104, 591
marginata
micans
obliquata
obscura
obsoleta
pulchra
punctulata
purpurea
pusilla
repanda
rugifrons
scutellaris
6-guttata
signata
tristis
unicolor
unipunctata
variegata
violacea
vulgaris
217 | Cinetus mellipes
217 | Cistela amoena
218 atra
217 basillaris
216 brevis
216 erythroptera
217 fraterna
217 obscura
342 sericea
342 | Clerus humeralis
342 nigrifrons
343 nigripes
414 oculatus
414 pallipennis
54 4-signatus
362 rosmarus
361 sanguineus
361 trifasciatus
252 undatulus
252 unifasciatus
* 371 | Clivina bipustulata
251 globulosa
253 lineolata
251 pallida
372 pallipennis
253 4-maculata
372 rostrata
419 rufescens
434 sphericollis
2, 424 viridis
1, 432 | Clypeaster fasciatus
1, 426, 522 | Clytus annosus
caprea
charus
confusus
hamatus
supernotatus
797
429, 523
798
Clythra mucida
4-cuttata
Cnemidotus 15-punctatus
~ Coccinella abdominalis
-~ albifrons
binotata
-— bioculata
— bipunctata
cacti
dentipes
~ humeralis
~labiculata
—lugubris
—lunatomaculata
~~ mali
munda
notans
-~ parenthesis
~-15-punctata
—tibialis
= tridens
~~ 20-maculata
undulata
pullata
~ normata
~ proba
Coeliodes acephalus
Celioxys alternata
8-dentata
Celomera coryli
Colaspis aterrima
convexa
10-notata
denticollis
dubiosa
favosa .
interrupta
ovata
pallida
picipes
pretexta
puncticollis
6-notata
striata
4-notata
Colastus semitectus
Colletes inequalis
Colydium bipunctatum
lineola
longiusculum
parallelopipedum
Colymbetes ambiguus
bicarinatus
calidus
discolor
erythropterus
fenestralis
glyphicus
INDEX.
666 | Colymbetes gutticollis 556
208 interrogatus 557
518 Maccullochii 508
— 233 nigricollis 272
— 233 nitidus 511
= 346 obtusatus 513
~- 233 seriatus 511
— 233 stagninus 513
= 67 teniolis 556
= 671 venustus 98, 512, 557
~ 234] Conops marginata 73
— 232 nigricornis 74
- 232 sagittaria 73
- 232 tibialis 363
~ 232] Conurus cinctulus 583
~~ 670 crassus 582
~ 346 | Copelatus 10-striatus 513
~ 232 glyphicus 513
~ 232] Copris anaglypticus 131
— 233 colonica 649
— 232 histeroides 132
~ 234 incerta 649
~ 231 procidua 650
= 346 gquadridens 650
- 346 triangularis 132
~ 347 | Coproporus ventriculus 583
173 | Coptera polita 728
778 | Coptotomus interrogatus 98, 512, 557
777 serripalpus 558
220 | Copturus oculatus 172
212 operculatus 173
212 | Cordulia obsoleta 402
213 tenebrosa 395
215 | Corduligaster fasciatus 392
214 | Cordylura qualis 366
214 | Corethra punctipennis 43
215 | Coreus alternatus 243
211 armiger 244
211 lateralis 245
211 ordinatus 244
211 | Corixa alternata 251
212 interrupta 250
213 | Corthylus fasciatus 318
212 | Corticaria 8-dentata 183
213 | Corymbites pyrrhos 602
288 sulcicollis 602
770 hamatus 605
183 fallax 606
324 vernalis 607
324 hieroglyphicus 607
324 | Crabro arcuatus 759
510 confluens 758
512 | Cratacanthus pensylvanicus 544
508 | Cratonychus 621
511 corticinus 113
509 | Cratoparis lugubris 313
509, 557 | Crypticus obsoletus 155
512 | Cryptobium bicolor 570
Cryptobium cinctum
latebricola
Cryptocephalus abdominalis
nigricornis
fasciatus
punctipes
femoratus
recurvus
bivittatus
confiuens
4-maculatus
Cryptohypnus abbreviatus
choris
dorsalis 108,
pectoralis
silaceipes
Cryptops hyalina
postica
6-spinosa
Cryptorhynchus oculatus
operculatus
Cryptus calipterus
cestus
conquisitor
discitergus
ductilis
grallator
inquisitor
micropterus
nuncius
orbus
pleurivinctus
subclavatus
tenellus
Ctenophora abdominalis
fuliginosa
Cucujus biguttatus
modestus
Culex damnosus
punctipennis
5-fasciatus
taeniorhyncus
triseriatus
musicus
Cupes cinerea
concolor
trilineata
Curculio acutus
auricephalus
Cuterebra noxialis
Cybister dissimilis
fimbriolatus
Cyclonotum exstriatum
Cydnus bilineatus
spinifrons
Cychrus bilobus
elevatus
stenostomus
INDEX.
570
570
208
208
209
209
210
210
210
210
210
Cychrus unicolor
Cymatodera bicolor
inornata
longicollis
undulatus
Cymindis complanata
decora
laticollis
pilosa
platicollis
pubescens
purpurea
pustulata
sinuata
viridipennis
Cyphon discoideus
ovalis
ruficollis
Cytilus varius
Dacne heros
Daptus incrassatus
Dasypogon abdominalis
argenteus
cepphicus
cruciatus
politus
6-fasciatus
trifasciatus
Dasytes
Dectes spinosus
Delphax tricarinata
Dendrophilus punctulatus
Dexia analis
vertebrata
Dermestes marmoratus
Diabrotica tricincta
Diaperis bifasciata
excavata
Dicelus chalybeus
dilatatus
elongatus
furvus
ovalis
purpuratus
sculptilis
splendidus
violaceus
Dicerca divaricata
lurida
obscura
Dicrepidius soleatus
binus
Didymops Servillet
Dilophus orbatus
spinipes
stigmaterus
stygius
799
490
282
638
283
283
446, 526
489
489, 533
533
533
488, 533
489
800
Dilophus thoracicus
Dioctria 8-punctata
Diopsis brevicornis
Diozodes pallida
Dipolepis armatus
impatiens
pedatus
5-lineatus
stigmatus
Diplotaxis carbonaria
frondicola
liberta
sordida
testacea
Discocephala abdominalis
rufiventris
Ditoma 4 guttata
Dolichopus abdominalis
cupreus
cuprinus
femoratus
obscurus
patibulatus
sipho
unifasciatus
Donacia zqualis
confluens
metallica
quadricollis
pusilla
rufa
subtilis
sulcicollis
Dorcaschema alternatum
nigrum
Dorcus brevis
parallelus
Dorcatoma simile
Dorthesia fasciata
flavicornis
Deryphora 10-lineata
3-maculata
Dryobius 6-fasciatus
Dytiscus biguttulus
bimarginatus
calidus
confluens
fimbriolatus
habilis
liberus
mediatus
Ooligbukia
teeniolis
thoracicus
verticalis
Ebeus apicalis
pusillus
INDEX.
71
63
3
193
716
717
Eburia 4-geminata ,
Ecyrus dasycerus
Edrotes rotundus
Elaphidion mucronatum
Elaphrus cicatricosus
fuliginosus
riparius
ruscarius
Elasmocerus terminatus
Elater abbreviatus
abruptus
acanthus
agonus
apicatus
areolatus
armus
attenuatus
auripilis
auroratus
avitus
baridius
basilaris
bellus
bilobatus
binus
bisectus
eardisce
ehoris
cinereus
circumscriptus
elaricollis
clypeatus
communis
convexus
eorticinus
eucullatus
euriatus
eylindriformis
decoloratus
dilectus
discalceatus
discoideus
discoideus
dorsalis
ectypus
erythropus
extriatus
fallax
fenestratus
finitimus
fissilis
geminatus
hamatus
hemipodus
hieroglyphicus
impressicollis
inflatus
insipiens
4917,
112,
108,
113,
108,
Elater inquinatus
levigatus
lepturus
limbalis
linteus
lobatus
manecus
marmoratus
memnonius
mendica
morio
muscidus
nigricollis
obesus
oblessus
obliquus
obtectus
operculatus
pectoralis
pennatus
pertinax
piceus
pyrrhos
quietus
rectangularis
recticollis
rubricollis
sanguinipennis
scapularis
semivittatus
soleatus
sulcicollis
tenax
triangularis
unicolor
vernalis
vespertinus
viridanus
viridipilis
\ viridis
Elmis cinctus
4-notatus
Eleodes
Emathion atropos
frontosus
Embaphion muricatum
Emphytus platycerus
recens
semicornis
tarsatus
Empis cilipes
5-lineata
scolopacea
Encyclops ceruleus
pallipes
Endomychus biguttatus
lineatus
Engis confluens
114,
114,
111,
109,
109, 611,
115,
115,
113,
110,
152,
INDEX.
611
600
619
601
603
610
Engis heros
4-maculata
Enoplium damicorne
dislocatum
distrophum
laticorne
marginatum
oculatum
4-punctatum
thoracicum
Epeolus fumipennis
Ephebus limbatus
Ephemera hilaris
Ephydra hians
Epicerus imbricatus
Epierus nigrellus
Epiphanis canaliculatus
Epitheca cynosura
semiaquea
Epomis tomentosus
Epophthalmia cinnamomea
Epuraea rufa
Erioptera caliptera
caloptera
Eriphus discoideus
ignicollis
suturalis
Erirhinus constrictus
Eristalis trifasciatus
Eros canaliculatus
coccinatus
humeralis
marginellus
modestus
mundus
obliquus
sculptilis
Erotylus hispidus
4-punctatus
Erythreus mamillatus
Evarthrus constrictus
heros
sigillatus
unicolor
Eucnemis ameenicornis
atropos
calceatus
clypeatus
cylindricollis
frontosus
heterocerus
humeralis
muscidus
obliquus
quadricollis
ruficornis
triangularis
unicolor
802
Euderces pini
Eulophus basalis
dicladus
hircinus
Eumolpus barbatus
crypticus
hirtus
pini
Eumorphus angulatus
distinctus
Euparia strigata
Eupogonius vestitus
Eurychora inequalis
Eurydactylus tomentosus
Euryderus zabroides
Euryptychus heterocerus
Eurytoma orbiculata
studiosa
Eurytrichus agilis
terminatus
Eusattus reticulatus
Eustrophus tomentosus
Euschides opaca
polita
Falciger acephalus
Falagria bilobata
Feronia adoxa
angustata
atrimedea
autumnalis
basilaris
caudicalis
chalcites
cincticollis
complanata
convexicollis
constricta
coracina
cupripennis
decens
decora
deparea
errans
extensicollis
Sastidita
gregaria
heros
honesta
hypolithos
impunctata
impuucticollis
interstitialis
limbata
lineola
longicornis
lucidula
luctuosa
475,
94,
INDEX.
201 Feronia lucublanda
721 maculifrons
721 moesta
722 morosa
341 musculis
215 muta
341 nutans
341 obesa
347 oblongonotata
347 obsoleta
137 obscura
332 ochropeza
655 8-punctata
483 pallipes
544 parmata
624 permunda
720 placida
721 punctiformis
458 recta
473 relicta
148 rugicollis
305 scutellaris
151 sigillata
151 stygica
submarginata
173 superciliosa
590 tartarica
472 terminata
463 tristis
466 ventralis
473 vidua
462 unicolor
480 | Figites impatiens
479 mellipes
476 | Flata bivittata
470 bullata
537 conica
540 humilis
539 nava
474 opaca
477 pallida
477 pruinosa
539 quinquelineata
94 stigmata
478 | Formica dislocata
475 imparis
472 lauta
93 mellea
475 sessilis
482 subsericea
471 triangularis
463 | Formicaleo gratus
480 obsoletus
473 | Fornax calceatus
464 eylindricollis
466 | Fulgora sulcipes
480 | Galerita americana
481,
92,
Galerita Janus
Galleruca attenuata
atripennis
atriventris
cava
circumdata
coryli
discoidea
decorata
dorsata
externa
lepida
longicornis
meraca
Olivieri
puncticollis
4-maculata
rufosanguinea
tricincta
tuberculata
Gamasus antennepes
juloides
musculus
nidularius
spinipes
Gambrinus armus
Gaurotes cyanipennis
Geophilus attenuatus
rubens
Geopinus incrassatus
Geotrupes excrementi
filicornis
Glycia purpurea
Glyptoscelis hirtus
Gomphus fraternus
stigmatus
Gonia frontosa
Gonyleptes ornatum
Gorytes phaleratus
Gryllus equalis
bivittatus
nubilus
Gynacantha quadrifida
Gynandropus americanus
hylacis
Gyrinus americanus
analis
emarginatus
limbatus
obtusus
parcus
vittatus
Gyrohypnus assimilis
consentaneus
Gyrophena dissimilis
vinula
Halictus labrosus
519,
520,
INDEX,
446) Halictus ligatus
222
nigricornis
parallelus
purus
radiatus
Haliplus 12-punctatus
triopsis
Harpalus agilis
agricola
assimilis
amputatus
badius
baltimorensis
bicolor
cenus
caliginosus
carbonarius
compar
dichrous
erraticus
faunus
faunus
herbivagus
hylacis
iricolor
iripennis
mexicanus
nigripennis
obscuripennis
ochreatus
opalinus
paradoxus
pensylvanicus
rusticus
similis
terminatus
viridis
viridizneus
vulpeculus
Hedychrum obsoletum
speculum
Hegeter punctatus
Helodes fragilis
marginicollis
obsoleta
ruficollis
trivittata
Helomyza 5-punctata
Helophorus lineatus
Helops aratus
cisteloides
politus
pullus
tenuicollis
tenebrioides
Hemicrepidius Thomasi
Henous confertus
texanus
803
774
772
775
773
772
518, 56)
804
Hetzrina americana
Heterocerus pallidus
pusillus
Heterophaga rufinasus
Hetcemis cinerea
Hippodamia lunatomaculata
parenthesis
15-punctata
Hispa atricornis
collaris
cyanea
flavipes
inequalis
lateralis
obsoleta
pallida
rosea
scapularis
Hister zequalis
alternatus
arcuatus
bifidus
bimaculatus
earolinus
conjunctus
depurator
fraternus
frontalis
immunis
indistinctus
mancus
memnonius
nigrellus
obliquus
palmatus
parallelus
punctulatus
sedecimstriatus
sordidus
subrotundus
transversus
vernus
Hololepta equalis
fossularis
Homalota exigua
indentata
minima
Hoplia primoria
trifasciata
tristis
Horia sanguinipennis
Hybos thoracicus
Hydaticus bimarginatus
brunnipennis
Sfulvicollis
liberus
meridionalis
Hydnocera humeralis
INDEX.
407 | Hydnocera pallipennis
127
128
659
331
232
232
233
666
206
206
206
206
204
205
205
205
205
269
270
262
262
264
269
265
261
266
266
261
263
267
261
264
264
267
“268
269
263
269
265
270
266
271
271
589
586
589
301
301
301
166
68
556
272
556
272
508
122
punctata
serrata
unifasciata
verticalis
Hydrachna triangularis
Aydrium levigatum
Hydrobius subcupreus
Hydrocanthus atripennis
iricolor
Hydrochares obtusatus
Hydrophilus castus
exiquus
exstriatus
fuscus
lateralis
mergus
nimbatus
obtusatus
rotundus
striatus
subcupreus
triangularis
Hydroporus afinis
bifidus
catascopium
dichrous
discicollis
fasciatus
interruptus
lacustris
nanus
nudatus
niger
oppositus
proximus
parallelus
pubipennis
pulicarius
punctatus
sericatus
velutinus
undulatus
Hyleus modestus
Hylecetus lugubris
Hylesinus aculeatus
Hylochares nigricornis
Hylotoma calcanea
scutellata
Hylurgus dentatus
Hyperaspis elegans
normata
proba
Hyphydrus punctatus
Jassus acutus
clitellaria
immistus
130,
99, 516,
98,
99,
Jassus inimicus
irroratus
novellus
olitorius
sanctus
seminudus
subbifasciatus
verticis
Ichnea laticornis
Ichneumon suturalis
malacus
morulus
otiosus
brevicinctor
parata
comptus
navus
devinctor
duplicatus
residuus
Ilybius fenestralis
Imatidium cyaneum
17-punctatum
Ips bipunctatus
confiuens
Dejeanii
sepulchralis
obtusa
4-maculata
4-signata
vittata
Isarthrus spretus
Ischnomera carinata
Ischyrus 4-punctatus
Isomira sericea
Julus annulatus
impressus
lactarius
marginatus
punctatus
pusillus
Ixodes annulatus
crenatus
erraticus
fuscus
orbiculatus
punctulatus
scapularis
variabilis
Laccophilus fasciatus
maculosus
proximus
Lachnocrepis parallela
Lachnosterna balia
ephilida
hirsuta
hirticula
125,
514,
INDEX.
382
384
384
385
383
383
385
383
641
685
685
685
686
686
686
686
687
687
688
805
Lachnosterna lanceolata 142
longitarsa 142
tristis 143
Lacon rectangularis 620
Lemophleus biguttatus 327
modestus 660
Lagria 327
Lamia aculifera 186
alpha 329
aspersa 187
dasycerus 328
faceta 329
6-guttata 328
macula 327
spinosa 330
Lampyris angulata 273
bifaria 635
centrata 274
nigricans 115
pyralis 274
reticulata 274
ruficollis 273
scinctillans 275
trilineata 634
Languria puncticollis 225
simplicicollis 670
3-fasciata 225
Laphria fulvicauda 66
glabrata 66
macrocera 67
saniosa 355
sericea 67
tergissa 67
Larra aurulenta 755
Lathridius pubescens 325
8-dentatus 183
Lathrobium armatum 568
bicolor 570
cinctum 569
confluens 571
dimidiatum 570
millepunctatum 571
similipenne 568
sphericolle 570
Lebia analis 445, 527
atriventris 443
axillaris 445
fuscata 527
ornata 444, 527
platicollis 445
tricolor 442
viridis 445, 527
vittata 443
Leia bivittata 351
Lema collaris 203
melanocephala 340
trilineata 203
trivittata 203
806
Leptis albicornis
basilaris
fasciata
fumipennis
ornata
plumbea
punctipennis
quadrata
rufithorax
vertebrata
Leptogaster annulatus
histrio
Leptostylus aculifer
commixtus
6-guttatus
macula
Leptotrachelus dorsalis
Leptura bicolor
bivittata
cerulea
cylindricollis
lineola
lugubris
nigrella
8-notata
proxima
pubera
4-punctata
rubrica
ruficollis
scalaris
sphericollis
stictica
Leptus aranez
hispidus
Lestes basalis
eurinus
rectangularis
undulata
Lethus spinipes
Leucospis fraterna
Libellula acuta
axilena
basalis
Berenice
bifasciata
cerulans
carolina
chlora
cynosura
domitia
eponina
exusta
ferruginea
hymenza
imbuta
Leda
luctuosa
INDEX.
56 | Libellula Lydia
55 maculata
56 maculiventris
56 obsoleta
54 polysticta
56 pulchella
55 quadrupla
55 rubicundula
56 semicincta
56 semifasciata
68 simplicicollis
68 tenebrosa
186 tenera
328 tenuicincta
328 ternaria
328 transversa
trimaculata
197 versicolor
195 vesiculosa
336 | Ligyrus relictus
Limnobia cinctipes
fasciapennis
humeralis
livida
macrocera
rostrata
tenuipes
Limnochares extendens
Limonius agonus
armus
auripilis
basillaris
cylindriformis
ectypus
Liopus alpha
aspersus
facetus
spinosus
Liparus imbricatus
sulcirostris
tesselatus
vittatus
Lissomus extriatus
Listroderes caudatus
Litargus didesmus
6-punctatus
Lithobius spinipes
Lithocharis confluens
corticinus
Lithodus humeralis
Lobiopa 6-maculata
Loncheea polita
Lophoglossus tartaricus
Loxandrus rectus
Loxocera cylindrica
Lucanus brevis
lentus
parallelus
395, 397
397
402
402
402
396
398
400
401
397
401
112, 602
114, 601
482, 534
Lucanus placidus
Ludius abruptus
attenuatus
Luperus meraca
Lycoperdina ferruginea
vestita
vittata
Lyctus geminatus
hematodes
reflexus
Lycus canaliculatus
modestus
obliquus
sanguinipennis
terminalis
Lyda ochreata
Lygeus bicrucis
eurinus
5-spinosus
reclivatus
trivittatus
Lyrops argentata
aurulenta
peptica
subita
triloba
Lytta nea
albida
articularis
ferruginea
immaculata
luteicornis
maculata
Nuttalli
polita
reticulata
segmentata
sphericollis
Machilis variabilis
Macrocera binotata
obliqua
pruinosa
rustica
Macronychus glabratus
variegatus
Macrotelus terminatus
Madarus undulatus
Magdalinus armicollis
Malachius apicalis
bipunctatus
circumscriptus
ceruleus
flavilabris
nigriceps
nigripennis
pusillus
scincetus
INDEX.
302
600
600
344
348
348
347
323
323
322
632
631
632
116
116
Malachius terminalis
tricolor
vittatus
Mallodon cilipes
dasystomus
simplicicolle
Malthinus marginalis
latipennis
Manticora cylindriformis
Matus bicarinatus
Medeterus lateralis
punctipennis
Megacephala carolina
Megachile brevis
pollicaris
pugnatus
Megalostylus laticollis
Megatoma ornata
Melanactes morio
Melanophila appendiculata
atropurpurea
: longipes
Melasis nigricornis
piceus
ruficornis
Meloe angusticollis
conferta
Melolontha aphodioides
balia
binotata
10-lineata
ephilida
frondicola
hirsuta
hirticula
integra
iricolor
lanceolata
liberta
longitarsa
meesta
pilosicollis
sericea
sordida
tristis
unifasciata
vespertina
Melophagus depressus
Membracis arquata
belligera
calva
festina
goniphora
inornata
marmorata
mera
4-vittata
semicrema
808
Membracis subulata
tartarea
vau
Meria collaris
costata
marginata
Merodon barda
Mesembrina pallida
Metachroma interruptum
quercatum
Methoea bicolor
Metonius ovatus
purpureus
Microgaster bistigmata
calliptera
carpata
congregata
ensiger
mellipes
xylina
zonaria
Micropeza pallipes
Microrhagus humeralis
triangularis
Microrhopala collaris
Milesia barda
Mictis alternatis
Miltogramma trifasciata
Molorchus bimaculatus
mellitus
Monilema annulatum
inequale
Molosoma latipes
Monocrepidius bellus
dorsalis
dilectus
bisectus
lividus
lobatus
vespertinus
Monophylla terminata
Mordella attenuata
bidentata
hilaris
marginalis
oculata
4-punctata
scapularis
serval
triloba
trifasciata
Morio Georgiz
monilicornis
Mutilla contracta
erythina
gibbosa
hexagona
scrupea
111,
109,
113,
INDEX.
378 | Mutilla vigilans
376 | Myas coracinus
378 cyanescens
748 | Mycetina vittata
747 | Mycetophagus didesmus
747 flexuosus
358 punctatus
366 6-punctatus
215 | Mycetochares basillaris
214 fraterna
741 | Mycetophila discoidea
598 ichneumonea
599 nubila
714 | Mycetoporus lepidus
714 | Myodes fasciatus
714 flavicornis
713 | Myopa biannulata
711 longicornis
712 stylata
712 vesiculosa
714 | Myochrous denticollis
84 | Myrmeleon gratus
629 roseipennis
628 | Myrmica corrugata
206 dimidiata
357 inflecta
244 lineolata
365 minuta
202 molesta
626 opposita
187 | Myzia pullata
663 15-punctata
578 | Myzine hamatus
614 subulatus
108
613 | Nacerdes melanura
614| Nausibius dentatus
114 | Nebria pallipes
114 | Necrophorus orbicollis
614 | Nematus integer
638] ° longicornis
308 vertebratus
164) Nemognatha atripennis
661 immaculata
165 minima
661 | Nemoletus paltipes
164 polyposus
164 | Nitidula brachyptera
662 geminata
164 8-maculata
308 rufa
453 semitecta
454 6-maculata
738 undulata
740 unicolor
741 unilineata
738 ZiCZaAc
740 ‘Nomada bisignata
Nomada vincta
Noterus bicolor
Nothopus zabroides
Notiophilus eneus
porrectus
semistriatus
Nysson aurinotus
Oberea oculaticollis
Obrium pallidum
Ochodeus americanus
musculus
Ochthera empidiformis
Ocypete comata
Ocyptera arcuata
Ocypus ater
Odacantha dorsalis
pensylvanica
Odontzus filicornis
musculus
Odynerus annulatus
anormis
crypticus
oculatus
quadridens
quadrisectus
uncinatus
Oedemera apicalis .
fraxini
puncticollis
ruficollis
vestita
Oedionychis gibbitarsis
scripticollis
vians
Oestrus
hominis
Olfersia albipennis
Olibrus pallipes
Oligota pedicularis
Olisthopus cinctus
parmatus
Olophrum rotundicolle
Omalisus coccinatus
humeralis
marginellus
mundus
obliquus
sculptilis
Omalium marginatum
rotundicolle
Omaseus nigrita
picicornis
Ommatus tibialis
Omophron labiatum
Lecontet
tesselatum
Omorgus scutellaris
498,
497,
ATA,
INDEX.
778 | Oncideres cingulatus
561 | Onthophagus incensus
544 ovatus
530 viridicatus
530 | Onthophilus alternatus
530 | Oodes ? parallelus
752 | Opatrinus notus
Opatrum interruptum
189 notum
193 pullum
652 striatum
652 | Ophion bilineatus
85 brachiator
23 glabratus
365 mundus
567 purgatus
447 | Ophonus interstitialis
446 | Ophryastes sulcirostris
126 vittatus
652 | Oribita concentrica
765 glabrata
767 | Ornithomyia confluens
765 nebulosa
766 pallida
766 | Orsodacna aspatica
765 tripla
766 vittata
660 | Ortalis ligata
160 marginata
161 trifasciata
160 vau
161 | Osmia bucconis
225 lignaria
226 | Osmoderma eremicola
226 | Osorius latipes
32 | Oxybelus emarginatus
33 letus
87 4-notatus
230 | Oxyporus stygicus
589 | Oxytelus armatus
537 cordatus
537 fasciatus
579 emarginatus
633 melanocephalus
633 nitidulus
633 pallipennis
633 rugulosus
634 sculptus
633
579 | Pachybrachys abdominalis
579 nigricornis
480 luridus
470 | Pachyscelis
63 | Pachyta Ione
495 Leonardi
95 Servillet
97 | Pachnephorus 10-notatus
140 | Pactostoma anastomosis
304, 6
810
Pederus binotatus
cinctus
corticinus
discopunctatus
longiusculus
Panageus crucigerus
fasciatus
Pangonia incisuralis
Pangus caliginosus
Parandra polita
Paratenetus pubescens
punetatus
Paria aterrima
4-notata
sexnotata
Paromalus equalis
conjunctus
Pasimachus depressus
elongatus
subsulcatus
Patrobus americanus
longicornis
Pedetes acanthus
cucullatus
scapularis
Pedilus collaris
impressas
imus
labiatus
lagubris
marginicollis
nigricans
rufithorax
Pedinus suturalis
Pelor avidus
Peltastes pollinctorius
Pentatoma arborea
clanda
exapta
faceta
punctipes
Pemphredon annulatus
marginatus
Penthetria heros
Pericompsus ephippiatus
Perilampus platygaster
Peryphus scopulinus
Phalacrus pallipes
penicellatus
Phalangium dorsatum
grande
nigrum
vittatum
Phanzus ‘forrens
triangularis
Phasia atripennis
jugatoria
Phausis reticulata
467,
467,
INDEX.
99 | Phengodes plumosa
572 testaceus
571 | Phelister subrotundus
572 vernus
592| Philanthus solivagus
489 | Philhydrus rotundus
490 | Philonthus apicalis
53 blandus
544 cyanipennis
662 dimidiatus
325 hematurus
385 ventralis
212 umbratilis
214 | Phlegon heterocerus
213 | Photinus angulatus
269 nigricans
265 pyralis
449 scinctillans
449 | Phyllobrotica decorata
449 discoidea
534 longicornis
534 atripennis
616 atriventris
613 cristata
615 | Phyllobenus dislocatus
311 transversalis
312| Phyton limum
311 | Piarorhinus scutellaris
313 | Pimelia rotunda
311 | Pimpla humida
311 petiolata
311 | Pinacodera platicollis
311) Pinophilus latipes
155 | Platycerus quercus
541 securidens
700 | Platydema excavatum
239 | Platynus blandus
240 cincticollis
240 cupripennis
242 decens
241 decorus
761 errans
760 erythropus
352 extensicollis
553 hypolithos
722 limbatus
551 maculifrons
230 nutans
230 8-punctatus
13 placidus
14 punctiformis
14 | Platyomus auriceps
13 | Platypus compositus
132 | Platysoma carolinum
132 frontale
363 parallelum
364 | Platyura subterminalis
Plegaderus transversus
Plesia marginata
Podabrus basillaris
modestus
rufiolus
tomentosus
tricostatus
Podura bicolor
fasciata
iricolor
Poecilonota cyanipes
Poecilus chalcites
convexicollis
lucublandus
monedula
Sayi
Pogonus rectus
Polemius laticornis
Polistes areata
mellifica
metrica
valida
Pollaclasis ovata
Polydesmus granulatus
serratus
Polyphylla 10-lineata
Pollyxenus fasciculatus
Pompilus architectus
biguttatus
calipterus
conicus
lepidus
mellipes
petiolatus
5-notatus
Priocera inornata
Prionus cilipes
dasystomus
emarginatus
palparis
Pristodactyla americana
impunctata
Proctotrupes abruptus
obsoletus
pallidus
Promachus vertebratus
Prometopia undulata
Promus opacus
Psammodius interruptus
Pselaphus carinatus
dentatus
riparius
Pseu leucopus
mellipes
Psenocerus pini
supernotatus
Psilopus femoratus
patibulatus
Sayi
INDEX.
747
116
117
278
276
636
475, 537
482, 534
184, 663
Psilopus sipho
unifasciatus
Psilus abdominalis
apicalis
colon
terminatus
Psyllobora 20-maculata
Pierochilus 5-fasciatus
Pterostichus abjectus
Ptilinus ruficornis
serricollis
Ptinus humeralis
Ptosima gibbicollis
luctuosa
Pycnomerus hematodes
reflexus
Pyria tridens
Pyrochroa infumata
inornata
Pyropa furcata
Pytho pallida
Quedius capucinus
fulgidus
Reduvius raptatorius
spissipes
Rhaeboscelis cogitans
Rhagium cyanipenne
trivittatum
Rhamphomyia cilipes
5-lineata
rufirostris
Rhingia nasica
Rhipiphorus bicolor
limbatus
Sayi
Rhopalophora longipes
Rhynchaenus armicollis
caudatus
constrictus
interstitialis
lineaticollis
undulatus
Rhyssematus lineaticollis
Rugilus dentatus
Rygchium annulatum
balteatum
crypticum
5-fasciatum
Ryphus alternatus
marginatus
Sacium fasciatum
Sandalus brunneus
petrophya
Saperda alternata
bivittata
104,
812
Saperda calcarata
candida
cinerea
cingulata
fuscipes
inornata
mutica
nigra
obliqua
oculaticollis
pergrata
puncticollis
‘ trigeminaia
trilineata
vestita
Saprinus
Sapromyza bipunctata
connexa
Sapyga centrata
subulata
Sargus trivittatus
viridis
Scaeva affinis
concava
emarginata
geminata
marginata
obliqua
polita
quadrata
Scaphidium 4-guttatum
4-pustulatum
Scaphisoma convexum
Scarabaeus latipes
relictus
trideatatus
Scarites depressus
subterraneus
Scatophaga furcata
Scenopinus nubilipes
Sciara exilis
femorata
unicolor
Sciophila fasciata \
Schizogenius lineolatus
sulcifrons
Sclerocerus linearis
rigidus
Scolia confluens
dubia
ephippium
plumipes
Scolopendra marginata
viridis
Scolytus muticus
4-spinosus
Scymnus terminatus
Selenophorus caliginosus
INDEX.
190
191
331
339
331
189
191
330
332
189
190
189
189
331
331
266
367
367
743
743
355
Selenophorus iripennis
varicolor
Serica iricolor
sericea
vespertina
Sicus fenestratus
Sigalphus basillaris
sericeus
Silis bidentata
longicornis
percomis
Silvanus dentatus
Simulium venustum
Sinoxylon basillare
Silpha caudata
lapponica
ramosa
truncata
tuberculata
Smileceras solitarium
Smodicum cucujiforme
Smynthurus guttatus
Sparasion famelicus
Sphecodes confertus
Spheracra dorsalis
Sphaeridium apicale
mellipes
nigricolle
ocellatum
praetextatum
Staphylinus apicalis
ater
blandus
connexus
cyanipennis
dimidiatus
ephippiatus
inversus
iracundus
tachiniformis
viduatus
violaceus
umbratilis
Stelidota geminata
8-maculata
Stelis obesa
Stenaspis solitaria
Stenochia terminata
Stenocorus longipes
mucronatus
4-geminatus
rigidus
Stenolophus cinctus
conjunctus
ochropezus
partiarius
Stenopterus sanguinicollis
Stenostola pergrata
278,
122,
157,
Stenotarsus hispidus
Stenus colon
femoratus
flavicornis
geniculatus
4-punctatus
stygicus
Stichopogon trifasciatus
argenteus
Stigmus parallelus
pusillus
Stilicus dentatus
Stomis americana
granulata
Stratiomys goniphora
trivittata
Stygia elongata
Sunius binotatus
longiusculus
prolixus
Suphis bicolor
gibbulus
Synchita granulata
4-guttata
Syneta tripla
Syrphus
ectypus
mutuus
stegnus
Tabanus annulatus
molestus
stygius
Tachydromia fenestrata
Tachinus atricaudatus
cincticollis
cinctus
fimbriatus
fumipennis
humidus
trimaculatus
ventriculus
Tachyporus acaudus
arduus
brunneus
crassus
faber
fimbriatus
fumipennis
jocosus
moestus
opicus
ventriculus
Tachys flavicauda
incurvus
inornatus
levus
proximus
102,
INDEX.
348
574
574
Tachys tripunctatus
Tachyta picipes
Tanypus annulatus
tibialis
Taphrocerus gracilis
Telephorus angulatus
Benettii
bilineatus
dubius
fraxini
nigriceps
nigrita
rufipes
scitulus
Tenebrio badius
calearatus
interstitialis
suppressus
tenebrioides
terminatus
reflexus
rufipes
rufinasus
Tengyra stygia
Tetraopes canteriator
tetraopthalmus
tornator
Tettigonia basillaris
bifida
comes
hieroglyphica
limbata
mixta
mollipes
obliqua
occatoria
8-lineata
4-vittata
trifasciata
versuta
Thanasimus abdominalis
nubilus
trifasciatus
undatulus
Thaneroclerus sanguineus
Tharops obliquus
ruficornis
Thecesternus humeralis
Thereva albifrons
corrusca
nigra
tergissa
Throscus constrictor
Thylacites tesselatus
Thulea nigra
Tillus bicolor
terminatus
undulatus
108, 626
814
Tingis oblonga
Tinopus longipes
Tiphia tarda
Tipula annulata
annulicornis
collaris
costalis
cunctans
macrocera
trivittata
Tmesiphorus carinatus
Torymus ochreatus
pavidus
Tomicus calligraphus
pini
xylographus
Tomoderus constrictus
Tostegotera lanceolata
Toxomerus notatus
Toxotus atratus
cy lindricollis
dives
trivittatus
Trachys ovata
tesselata
Tragidion coquus
Trechus conjunctus
Jlavipes
rupestris
Trichestes ephilida
Trichius eremicola
Trichodes apivorus
Nuttalli
ornatus
verticalis
Trichopoda pennipes
Tridactylus apicalis
Trigona bilineata
ligata
Triplax biguttata
melanoptera
sanguinipennis
thoracica
Tritoma angulatum
basalis
cinctum
pulchrum
unicolor
vittata
Trogoderma ornatum
INDEX.
248 | Trombidium scabrum
201 sericeum
742 | Tropideres bimaculatus
49 | Trox capillaris
350 porcatus
49 punctatus
48 scutellaris
48 striatulus
48 terrestris
50 alternatus
235 globosus
723 splendidus
723 | Trypeta caliptera
318 elécta
alone obliqua
318 | Trypoxylon carinatus
309 clavatus
142 politus
81
197 | Uloma ferruginea
197
197 | Volucella marginata
200 postica
598 violacea
598
195 | Xantholinus cephalus
504 emmesus
505 hamatus
505 Kiesenwetter
298 obscurus
141 | Xiphydria basalis
640 maculata
640 | Xorides humeralis
120 | Xya apicalis
640 | Xyletinus sericeus
364 | Xylocopa carolina
239 lateralis
788 | Xylophagus fasciatus
789 triangularis
228 | Xylota arquata
229 | Xyloteres politus
229 | Xystropus amoenus
229
345 | Zabrus avidus
230 | Zenoa picea
345 vulnerata
345 | Zodion abdominalis
345 fulvifrons
347 | Zonitis bilineata
291 ' Zophosis reticulata
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eal
Ent.
re
Say, Thomas, 1787-1834.
American entomology : a
description of the insects
of North America, with ill-
ustrations drawn and colored
after nature.
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