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more obese than in cingulatus, the coloration similar; prothorax 

 much narrower at base than at apex, short, two-thirds ( 9 ) to three- 

 fifths (c?) wider than long, less narrowed basally in the latter sex, 

 less strongly punctured and more densely pubescent than in the 

 preceding; elytra less strongly punctured than in cingulatus, the 

 punctures basally coarser and closer but not at all graniferous 

 except near the humeri, which are subinflated in the male, the 

 vestiture and small ferruginous spots nearly similar, except that the 

 cinereous hairs of the band continue to the base, the band not being 

 at all defined anteriorly and much more feebly so posteriorly than in 

 cingulatus. Length (cf 9 ) 15.2-15.5 mm.; width 4.7-5.0 mm. 

 North Carolina (Southern Pines), Manee praecidens n. sp. 



As in many other parts of the Cerambycidae, such for instance as 

 Pogonocherus, Pilema and others, the female has more radical and 

 diversified sexual abdominal characters than the male and is more 

 useful in taxonomy. Trinodatus of the above table is identified 

 in our lists as putator Thorns., but it is not that species, as shown 

 by its much smaller size and by the color of the elytral spots, which 

 are whitish in putator; the latter species belongs exclusively to the 

 tropical fauna of southern Mexico and Central America.* Texanus 

 Horn is a species so distinct from cingulatus, that it is rather sur- 

 prising any suggestion of identity should have been made; sub- 

 tropicus is probably the Brownsville form, placed by Mr. Schaeffer 

 in his list as texanus Horn ; it is however amply distinct in vestiture, 

 sculpture, sexual characters and size. 



It is remarkable that no reference seems to have been made to 

 the very abbreviated legs in Oncideres, the extremely short hind tibiae 

 being very much more abbreviated than the tarsi. 



Tribe HIPPOPSINI. 

 Spalacopsis Newm. 



This is one of the most singular of the Lamiid types in its ex- 

 tremely slender body, with the elytra generally longer than the 

 abdomen and in the long retracted front, with very prominent 

 porrect vertex bearing the antennae and small entire rounded eyes; 

 it is the most highly specialized of the tribe. The species are evi- 

 dently numerous in southern Florida and in Cuba; those in my 

 cabinet to which I have added suturalis by quotation from the 

 original description being definable as follows: 



* Bates Biol. Cent.-Amer. Col., V, p. 367. 



