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incised at apex; body moderately broad, narrower in the male, 

 blackish, sometimes rufescent, the elytra with cinereous pubescence 

 and numerous blackish punctures and with the basal region, a broad 

 oblique fascia before and another more solid but zigzag behind, the 

 middle, blackish and more or less comminuted; antennae (of) 

 two-fifths, or ( 9 ) one-fifth, longer than the body. Length to end 

 of elytra as in all such cases (c? 9 ) 9.0-13.3 mm. ; width 2.9-4.6 mm. 

 New Jersey to Lake Superior. Fourteen examples, [despecta Lee.]. 



fasciata DeG. 



A Similar in general form, sculpture and ornamentation but smaller 

 and of evidently narrower, more parallel form, with smaller pro- 

 thorax and somewhat shorter antennae ; ovipositor more slender but 

 otherwise similar; last dorsal ( 9 ) more rapidly cuneiform, more ex- 

 serted behind the elytra, with the apex narrower than in fasciata, 

 the ventral emargination similar. Length (cf 9 ) 9.5-13.0 mm.; 

 width 2.8-4.3 mm. New York (West Point), Wirt Robinson. 

 Apparently common and described from seven examples. 



reducta n. subsp. 



Last dorsal segment ( 9 ) very much shorter, broader and flatter, without 

 trace of median stria basally, the fifth ventral of the female having 

 the produced portion much less extended and with its apex shallowly 



and evenly sinuate 2 



2 Body in sculpture, vestiture and color very much as in fasciata, 

 rather narrow, parallel, subdepressed; head with a deep entire median 

 stria; antennae nearly one-half longer than the body, the joints cinere- 

 ous in nearly basal half; prothorax four-fifths wider than long, the 

 sides prominent and gradually obtusely angulate just before basal 

 third; surface with the cinereous hairs broadly replaced medially 

 and along the apex in great measure by short and sparser brown 

 pubescence, the punctures fine and sparse, with a series of coarse 

 punctures along the base; scutellum wider than long, subtruncate; 

 elytra but little more than twice as long as wide, with numerous 

 moderate brown punctures, asperulate basally, the cinereous ves- 

 titure replaced largely by brown at base, in a lateral spot before 

 basal third and in a sharply defined narrow transverse fascia at 

 apical third, which is but slightly oblique and but little distorted; 

 apices broadly, rectilinearly and transversely truncate, the angles 

 obtuse and blunt; erect hairs well developed; femora moderately 

 clavate (9), very strongly (cf); last dorsal (9) projecting behind 

 the elytra less than three times as long as wide, finely margined, 

 cuneiform, with feebly arcuate sides and blunt apex. Length (cf 9 ) 

 9.6-10.8 mm.; width 3.0-3.3 mm. Iowa (Keokuk) and New York. 



Three examples hebes n. sp. 



Body larger, more convex and much stouter, more densely and com- 

 pactly clothed with cinereous vestiture; color rather blackish-brown; 

 head with the impressed stria obsolescent on the front, the antenna? 

 (9) longer than the body, the joints cinereous basally as usual; 

 prothorax less than twice as wide as long, the lateral tooth at basal 

 two-fifths; surface densely cinereous, with a complex medial pattern 

 of four velvety-black spots, separated by a dark region, the sides 



