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nearly as in snowi, except that the short hairs, which are less dense and 

 more easily denuded, are wholly cinereous, disposed in two feeble sub- 

 basal fasciae, then a broader one and thence in three broad subequal 

 transverse spots, not attaining the carina, through the remainder of the 

 length to the apex, the depressed sutural area cinereous, the integument 

 under the fasciae pale; apices as in snowi but more obliquely truncate; 

 legs much more sparsely clothed. Length 12.5 mm.; width 3.8 mm. 

 New Mexico (Magdalena Mts.), Snow. 



The type is probably a male, as the fifth ventral is truncate, but 

 the antennae are more as in the usual female. It differs from 

 snowi very much in the form of the prothorax, more slender antennae 

 and wholly cinereous elytral vestiture. The type was sent to me 

 as ornata, var. lutosa, as was also the type of snowi, but they are 

 very far from being that species or in any way mutually identical. 



In my opinion the species described by LeConte under the name 

 infausta, is identical with decora Oliv., the figure of the latter given 

 by Laporte and Gory having accidentally lost the median fasciae 

 of the elytra; it is distributed from Georgia to Kansas, Nebraska 

 and New Mexico, as shown by the series in my cabinet and does 

 not vary in its sharply outlined elytral fasciae, six or seven in num- 

 ber, any more than the notably constant robinia; it is an entirely 

 distinct species from cliara Say. The following is an allied species, 

 which is however distinctly different: 



Cyllene angulifera n. sp. Much narrower than decora (infausta Lee.) 

 and more convex, pale reddish-brown in color throughout perhaps some- 

 what immature, though with no additional evidence of immaturity than 

 the pale color; head with the raised interantennal surface indistinct 

 and feeble, broadly triangular; antennae (9) filiform but rather stout, 

 barely one-half as long as the body, the second joint fully one-half as 

 long as the third, which is as long as the fourth and somewhat thicker, 

 both much shorter than the fifth; prothorax nearly one-half wider than 

 long, the sides parallel, evenly and strongly arcuate, feebly sinuate at the 

 base, the basal constriction laterally very feeble; surface finely, evenly 

 sculptured and with close, dusky-cinereous pubescence, crossed by three 

 entire cinereous-white fasciae, the anterior separated from the second by 

 twice the distance separating the latter from the basal fascia; elytra 

 with fasciae as in infausta, except that they are wholly cinereous in color, 

 that the third is much more sharply and posteriorly angulate and that 

 the fifth is continuously transverse, not broken at the carinse, the latter 

 being obsolete; apices obliquely truncate, not dentate; abdominal 

 segments less pubescent basally and along the middle; legs short and 

 slender. Length (9) 13.0 mm.; width 3.8 mm. Kansas. 



To be known at once from decora by its narrower, more convex 

 form, subobsolete constriction of the prothorax, barely traceable 



