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clavate, the club commencing with the twelfth or thirteenth joint. Eyes 

 very oblique, elongate-ovate, pointed above. 



Color. — Yellowish and brown in stripes. Face yellowish, the corners 

 of the mouth piceous. A narrow, yellow sti-ipe runs back from each eye to 

 the pronotum, bordered on each side witli light-brown, the upper fixding on 

 the upper edge to yellowish ; a pale-brownish stripe along the middle of the 

 occiput. Antennse pale at base ; club black on one side and pale on the 

 other. Carinse of the pronotum yellow, the interspaces of the disk brown- 

 ish ; posterior lobe on the sides marked with lilack punctures and minute 

 angular yellow raised lines ; some yellow stripes on the sides. Elytra trans- 

 parent, somewhat fuliginous, with a dusky spot or two on the disk near the 

 base. Wings transparent and almost uniformly fuliginous, though not clouded. 

 Posterior femora yellowish, with two or three oblique dusky bands on the 

 upper portion of the exterior face ; apex black. Posterior tibiee with knee 

 black ; a broad white ring just below the knee ; rest dusky, but the upper 

 (posterior) side shows minute abl>reviated alternate rings of black and white; 

 the base of the spines white, tips black. Tarsi a dusky yellow. 



Dimensions. — 9 Length, 1.3 inches ; pronotum, 23 inch ; elytra, 1 inch; 

 posterior femora, 0.86 inch; posterior tibia?, 0.77 inch, ^j Length, 1 inch; 

 elytra, 0.75 inch ; posterior femora, 0.65 inch ; posterior tibiaj, 0.62 inch ; 

 pronotum, 0.13 inch. 



Hab. — $ Baltimore, Maryland (Uhler) ; Northern Illinois (Walsh) ; 

 Southern Illinois, District of Columbia, Kansas (Thomas). $ Southern 

 Illinois (Thomas). 



9 Figured, Glover, Ills. Am. Ent. Orth., PI iv. Fig. 13. 



St. siibcomspersus, Walk., Cat. Dermap. Salt., iv, 755. 



Male. — ^Tawny, paler beneath. Head and pronotum with several parallel 

 indistinct brownish lines. Head with a pale testaceous line on each side, 

 which is continued on the fore part of each lateral carina of the pronotum ; 

 front (face) punctured, with four distinct carinse, the outer pair more divergent 

 toward the margins of the face than the inner pair ; the foveolre of the 

 vertex distinct, linear. Antenna; nearly cylindrical, testaceous toward the 

 base. Pronotum with three slight carinse, the lateral pair straight, parallel 

 to the middle one; hind border rounded. Abdomen testaceous, with a short, 

 broad, brown streak on each side proceeding from the base. Hind femora 



