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tribute the silk evenly on all the uprights. It was impossible 

 not to admire the clumsy skill with which this uncouth creature, 

 for the first and only time in its life, wove its protective screen 

 and overcame the difficulties that hindered the operation. 



As more threads were added the fabric became finally so 

 opaque that it was no longer possible to see what was taking 

 place within. 



Just at this time another larva began operations beneath its 

 host and the previous observations were easily duplicated. 



The adults from both these larvae emerged July 22d, just 

 seven days from the time the larvae began to spin themselves in. 



A New Trichodes (Cleridae, Coleop.). 

 By J. WAGENER GREEN, Easton, Pa. 



Trichodes bicinctus n. sp. 



Moderately robust, elytra slightly broader behind middle. Color 

 black with greenish lustre, base of antennae, palpi, labrum, legs partly, 

 and sides of abdominal segments, pale. Antennal club reddish varying 

 to dark brown. Elytra reddish or fulvous, with antemedian fascia 

 interrupted at suture, a second and slightly wider fascia at apical 

 third, and apex narrowly, black. The apical black spot is concave 

 anteriorly and produced forward on suture and side margin, some- 

 times uniting with post-median fascia and completely enclosing a 

 rounded pale spot. 



Labrum entire or very slightly emarginate. Antennal club broadly 

 triangular. Front concave. Head and thorax finely, rather closely 

 punctured, the latter with slight median smooth space at base. Pubes- 

 cence fulvous, moderately long on thorax, short on elytra, longer near 

 scutellum. Elytra coarsely punctate, more finely toward base. Apices 

 rounded in both sexes. Body beneath and legs densely clothed with 

 long white pubescence. Penultimate ventral segment of male broadly 

 emarginate, as usual. 



Length 11-12 mm. 



Brewster County, Texas, about twenty miles south of Marfa, 

 July 14 to 25. Two males, a female in the collection of Mr. 

 Wenzel, of Philadelphia. Type in my collection. 



Resembles simulator, apirorns and hiholteatns in style of 

 maculation. Readily distinguished from the last by the apical 

 elytral spot, and from the first two by the pale antennal club. 

 Differs from all in the bicolored legs. The femora are more 

 or less pale beneath at base, the anterior and median tibiae 

 slightly paler at apex in the males, almost entirely reddish in 

 the female. 



