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wider than long, broadly rounded, densely clothed with coarse reclined 

 but not decumbent, yellow-brown hair, narrowly parted along the middle 

 by a glabrous line; elytra one-half wider than the prothorax, two and 

 one-half times as long as wide, rounded at apex, the sutural angles rounded; 

 surface without trace of fine elevated lines, coarsely, deeply, subgranularly 

 punctate, the punctures well separated, gradually smaller apically; under 

 surface and legs densely clothed throughout with similar short brownish- 

 ochreous hairs; last ventral broadly, feebly sinuate at apex in the type. 

 Length (cf ) 23.5 mm.; width 7.2 mm. Rhode Island (Watch Hill). 



This species is allied to pulverulentus and laurenticus, but is much 

 stouter and has not even the faint semblance of nubilous fasciae 

 there traceable; it also has the condensed ochreous spots of the 

 elytra larger and more conspicuous and the punctures much coarser. 

 It is named in honor of Col. Wirt Robinson, Professor of Chemistry 

 and Geology at the Military Academy, who very kindly. placed his 

 unique specimen in my collection. 



Within a few days I have been able to study two female speci- 

 mens of Oberea flavipes Hald., taken by Mr. Hood on Plummer's 

 Island, Md. ; they show at once that flavipes is a valid and isolated 

 species. The body is intense black almost throughout above and 

 beneath, but has a grayish bloom due to the close-set whitish hairs; 

 the elytra are irregularly flavescent near the scutellum and the 

 epipleura near the base and the legs throughout are bright brown- 

 ish-flavate; the head and prothorax above and beneath are deep 

 black. The two callous spots on the pronotum are visible by reason 

 of their convexity and lack of punctuation. It belongs to the 

 bimaculata series. 



Haldeman's entire description of my ops Hald., is this: "yellow; 

 antennas, eyes, a spot upon each side of the pronotum, lateral 

 elytral vittae, and tarsi, black"; the description was made from a 

 drawing in the cabinet of Major LeConte, and a penciled note by 

 J. L. LeConte indicates that it was taken at Tolula, in June. Tolula 

 is apparently in northern Georgia. 



The original description of Oberea tibialis Hald., (Phytcecia) is: 

 "Black; anterior tibiae and half the femora rufous; 4,^4" long; 

 (elytra 3,) i wide. Pennsylvania. Cab. Melsheimer. Slender, 

 eyes black, orbits with cinereous hairs: thorax somewhat hairy: 

 elytra gradually tapering, flattened above, obliquely truncate at 

 tip on the inside: medial femora slightly rufous at tip, on the pos- 

 terior side: beneath slightly cinereous." 



T. L. Casey, Mem. Col. V, Nov. 1914. 



