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Show 374 APPENDIX C-^ INSECTS. STETHOXUS TRIANGULARIS, Say. At Tampico. MELOPS CONSTRICTUS. GHLfiKIXTS SBRICEUS. I « VICINUS. j AGONUM ERYTHROPUM. I P< ECILUS SCITULUS. ! 1 Were collected by Mr. Kern. TROCHALTTS EXPLANATUS, Le Conte. Or a closely allied species, was brought by Captain Stansbury. COTALPA GRANICOLLIS, Hald. PL. IX. Fio. 11. Hirsute, dark green, elytra reddish castaneous, feet black. Head, pronotum, scutel, and pygidium, green, and densely and confluently punctured. Elytra each with four indistinct impressed striae; surface irregular punctured, punctures confluent toward the sutures. Under parts, including the femora, green, and densely punctate; tibiae and tarsi, black. Length, eight lines. The body, above and below, with the elytra and feet, are irregularly hirsute, with whitish hairs. Valley of the Great Salt Lake. EUPHORIA CERNII, Hald. PL. IX. Fio. 10. Dark brown elytra, varied with pale flavous. Head and pronotum densely and coarsely punctured; antennae, palpi, and feet reddish- brown. Pronotum margined laterally and posteriorly with a narrow band of flavous; scutel black, with elongated shallow punctures, mostly toward the margin. Elytra each with a wide sutural and medial groove, irregularly maculated with dark brown and flavous in nearly equal proportions, the lateral and terminal with three sub- sutural spots; surface slightly punctate with longitudinal striae near the suture, and fine transverse rugosities laterally. Pygidium faintly rugulose, pectus blackish. Length, five lines. Collected by Mr. Kern, after whom it is named. |