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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...and hardly interrupted by the suture; sutural edge a little elevated behind; venter very distinctly sericeous with yellowish hair. Length more than one-fifth of an inch. I obtained a specimen many years ago near Philadelphia, and we lately captured another in the North-Western Territory. DIRCEA Fabr. D. Tibialis.--Black, with short hair; base of the antennae and tibia yellowish. Inhabits North-West Territory. Body oval-orbicular, with very short hair, and irregularly and very minutely punctured; antenna, three basal joints obscurely pale rufous; clypeus a little dilated before the antennae and truncated; palpi dusky rufous; terminal joint rather abruptly conicacute; thorax convex, short, wide; lateral edge arcuated; angles rounded; scutel rather large, triangular; elytra destitute of stria); tip narrowed 283 and rounded; tibia pale rufous; posterior thighs much dilated, formed for leaping. Length three-twentieths of an inch. This appears to be Scirtes tibialis Guerin, Spec. Icon. An. Art. 3.--Lec SERROPALPUS Oliv. S.-i-MACULATUS.--Blackish-brown, sericeous; elytra with two yellow spots. Inhabits Arkansa and Missouri. Antennae and labrum dull testaceous; thorax, anterior margin obsoletely dull testaceous; scutel minute; elytra narrower behind; a large, very irregular yellow spot before the middle and another behind the middle of each; pectus and postpectus distinctly punctured; anterior tarsi dilated and covered beneath by very dense, short, yellow hair; remaining tarsi slender; venter dark red-brown, paler at tip. Length nearly seven-twentieths of an inch. This species appears to be of rare occurrence. Belongs to Dircaea--Leo. been described under different names by several authors; it has the same beautiful variable color upon the elytra, which induced Oli...

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