34 PROC. ENT. SOC. WASH., VOL. 21, NO. 2, FEB., 1919 



Miarus Stephens, 1831, 111. Brit. Ent., p. 15. 



Type campanulae Linnaeus, designated by Westwood, 1S40. 

 Cleopus Suffrian, 1854, Stett. Ent. Zeit., p. 94 (not Dejean 1821), 



(not Stephens 1829). 

 Cleopus Brisout de Barneville, 1862, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 4, 



vol. 2, pp. 663-668. Revision of genus. 

 Miarus Desbrochers des Loges, 1893, Le Frelon, vol. 2, No. 



10/11, pp. 15-18. Revision of genus. 

 Miarus Reitter, 1907, Verhandl. Naturf. Ver. Brunn, vol. (55, 



sep. pp. 43-49. Revision of genus. 

 Miarus Bovie, 1909, Genera Insectorum (Wytsman's), fasc. 92, 



pp. 16, 17. List of species in genus. 



Specimens of the type Miarus (Miarus) campanulae Linnaeus, 

 are at hand from Europe. 



The genus is divisible into two subgenera: 



Pubescence erect or suberect CLEOPOMIARUS, new subgenus. 



Pubescence decumbent, appressed MIARUS Schonherr 



Cleopomiarus, new subgenus. 

 Miarus LeConte, 1876, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., vol. 15, p. 221. 



Table of North American Species of the Subgenus Cleopomiarus. 

 All our species have mutic metafemora. 



1 . Pleural regions of thorax setose; prothorax with the erect sparse 

 hairs extremely long, bristling and conspicuous. Body stout, oblong, 

 convex, deep black throughout, the sparse vestiture hairy and 

 cinereous; beak slender, slightly arcuate, similar in the sexes though 

 a little shorter in the male, longer than the head and thorax in the 

 female; eyes widely separated; prothorax nearly as wide as the 

 elytra, very strongly narrowed from base to apex, with arcuate sides, 

 punctures coarse and separated; scutellum densely clothed with 

 short decumbent hair-like scales; elytra barely a fifth longer than 

 wide, very broadly, obtusely rounded behind, clad with long, erect 

 hairs; under surface with erect sparse cinereous hairs, shorter, denser, 

 and more decumbent on pleura; length 2.4-2.8 mm. . . EREBUS Casey. 

 Pleural regions of thorax squamose 



2 . Elvtral intervals thickly pubescent, very seldom with only a single 



row of setae 3 



Elvtral intervals usually with only a single row of white, almost 

 bristle-like setae, body elongate oval; sides of elytra parallel, elytra 

 much longer than broad; suture toward apex with a short comb of 

 hairs. Prothorax rounded on sides, broader than long (coitsnctns 

 Casey) MERIDIONALIS Brisout. 



3 . Elytra clothed with white and dark brown hairs intermixed, scutellum 

 densely white pubescent, pleural regions clothed with grey plumose 



