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exponent of ruficollis Say, in their uniformly more slender outline, 

 more elongate, less medially inflated prothorax and relatively less 

 narrowed apex; ruficollis is therefore a valid taxonomic unit, which 

 probably also has both red and black prothorax. 



Mr. Beutenmiiller also obtained additional specimens of Pseno- 

 cerus tristis Csy., on the Black Mountains of North Carolina, which 

 are in every way identical with the original type, showing that the 

 nature of the latter is in no way aberrational. There is a blackish 

 variety of the usually red-brown supernotatus , which may have been 

 confounded with tristis, but it does not resemble it in any way, 

 This black variety of supernotatus resembles the latter in general 

 form, size and markings, but the antennae are a little longer and 

 thicker and the first joint is more developed; the basal prominence 

 of the elytra is equally pronounced; this variety may be called 

 Psenocerus supernotatus var. funebris n. var.; it occurs abundantly 

 at Harrisburg, Pa. Supernotatus in a practically unvarying form 

 occurs from Long Island to Iowa. 



Strangalia maneei n. sp. Body rather stout, suboblong, feebly 

 convex, shining, black, the elytra each with a small elongate-oval red 

 spot at the middle externally; pro- and mesosterna and their side-pieces 

 and also the anterior and middle legs throughout, deep black; entire 

 remainder of the under surface bright red; posterior femora red, the tip, 

 the entire tibiae and tarsi deep black; head small, with rather close-set 

 punctures, the eyes large, virtually attaining the base; antennae nearly as 

 long as the body, slender, deep black, the fifth joint almost as long as the 

 two preceding combined and, as well as the succeeding joints, more densely 

 pubescent; prothorax campanulate, a little wider than long, the basal 

 angles very prominent laterally, nearly one-half wider than the head, very 

 convex, broadly impressed across the base but otherwise even, finely, 

 sparsely punctate and with extremely short erect black hairs; elytra 

 oblong, very feebly tapering, flattened above, dehiscent at apex, the 

 suture broadly rounding outwardly to the very faintly denticulate outer 

 angle; punctures coarse and deeply perforate, separated by two to three 

 times their diameters basally, finer, feebler, asperulate and close apically, 

 each with a very minute erect dark hair; abdomen finely and sparsely, 

 the metasternum and side-pieces less finely and very densely, punctate 

 throughout, the pubescence minute and very fine, pallid; legs long; basal 

 joint of the hind tarsi longer than the remainder, the third small, very 

 deeply and angularly notched. Length 8.6 mm.; width 2.7 mm. North 

 Carolina (Southern Pines), A. H. Manee. 



This species is allied to cruentata Hald., but differs in its smaller 

 size, in having merely a small lateral rufous spot on the elytra and 

 in the coloration of the under surface, the entire hind body being 



