MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEW SPECIES 371 



kindly given me by Mr. J. D. Hood, of Washington. The species 

 may be placed near coccineus Csy., but is much larger and stouter 

 and differs in the very dense vestiture of the subbasal, and more 

 annulate outer, antennal joints, and in many other features of 

 form and structure. 



Tessaropa Hald. 

 Dysphaga Lee. 



The following species does not accord at all well with pub- 

 lished descriptions of tenuipes and it is therefore in all probability 

 as yet unrecorded in the literature of the Cerambycidse. Aurivillius 

 places the genus in a very different part of the series from that 

 determined by LeConte and Horn, in fact near Achryson and Oeme 

 in the Cerambycinse, where it seems more appropriately placed 

 also by reason of habitus, than anywhere in the Lamiinse: 



Tessaropa apicalis n. sp. Slender, deep black throughout the body 

 above and beneath, the elytra pale flavo-testaceous, the tips piceous- 

 black; head a little wider than the prothorax, densely punctato-scabrous, 

 with very fine median stria, deeply impressed between the antennae; 

 eyes large, very broadly divided, separated above by half their apparent 

 width; hairs very short, sparse and erect; antennae extremely slender and 

 filiform, a third longer than the body, so pale as to be almost translucent, 

 denser basally, clothed with very short erect hairs; basal joint stout, 

 twice as long as wide, black and densely rugose, the second joint very 

 short though distinct, three times as wide as long; prothorax cylindric, 

 just visibly longer than wide, truncate at apex and base, coarsely, densely 

 and confusedly punctate, with a slightly elevated transverse flat basal 

 area, which is minutely and transversely strigilate and having a small 

 medial puncture; elytra twice as long as the prothorax and, at base, 

 one-half wider, slightly cuneiform, each circularly rounded at tip, the 

 pale part shining, rugulose, bicostulate and finely, sparsely punctate, the 

 apical black part finely and densely rugose and more opaque; hind 

 wings not quite extending to the abdominal tip; legs pale, slender, the 

 tarsi very short, picescent, the posterior less than a third as long as the 

 tibiae. Length 7.8 mm.; width 1.35 mm. Pennsylvania (Harrisburg), 

 A. B. Champlain. No record of food plant is given. 



In tenuipes Hald., the head is said to be deeply impressed and the 

 elytra fuscous, obsoletely fulvous at base; less than apical third of 

 the elytra is dark in apicalis and this part is very differently sculp- 

 tured from the very pallid remainder of the surface. A second 

 Harrisburg specimen at hand, received with the preceding, said to 

 have been reared from the beech, is much smaller, with entirely 



