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it' probable that the species may in some localities breed in 

 oaks of a different species. For this species and a fine series 

 of C. elegans I am indebted to Mr. Ralph Hopping. 



C. pilosa Forster (Lampyris], Nov. Spec. Ins. Cent, i, p 40 (1771) ; Oli- 

 vier (Enoplium), Enc. Meth. vii, p. 490 (1782) ; Say (Enop- 

 liuin), Amer. Ent. iii, tab. 41, fig. 5 (1828) ; Klug (Enop/iinti}; 

 Abh. Berl. Akad., 1842, pp. 104 and 360 nee., p. 113 : Spinola 

 (Pelonium), Mon. Clerites i, p. 356; tab. 34, fig. 5 (1844) ', 

 LeConte (Pelonium), Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., v, p. 32 

 (1849) ; Gorham (Pelonium), Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., xxv, 

 p. 417 (1877) ; Wickham, Can. Ent., xxvii, p. 252 (1895). 



C. pilosa var. onusta Say (Enoplimn}, Amer. Ent. iii; tab. 41, fig. i 

 (1828) ; Say (E. marginatum \\ ), Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 

 iii, p. 188 (1823) ; LeConte (Pelonium], Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., 

 N. Y., v, p. 32 (1849) ; Wickham, Can. Ent., xxvii, p. 252, fig. 



20 (1895). 



Chariessa pilosa and its color variety are so well known and 

 easily recognized as to render needless the giving of any char- 

 acters other than those contained in the table of species. 



C, tcxana n. sp. 



Elongate, black, thorax ferruginous, apical margin each side of middle 

 with rounded black maculation, sometimes united forming a short, broad, 

 transverse apical band. Head and thorax coarsely and very densely 

 punctured, pilose with long, erect yellowish hairs. Thorax slightly 

 longer than broad, convex, disc feebly longitudinally impressed, sides 

 parallel anteriorly. Elytra dark blue, sides nearly parallel, convex, 

 moderately shining, the sutural margins strongly costate, the costae 

 smooth and broad, each elytron with four more feebly developed costae, 

 punctuation very coarse and dense at base, less deep and coarse toward 

 apices, humeri very prominent, impunctate. Legs densely clothed with 

 very long semi-erect hairs. Length 11-15 mm. 



Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas. Three specimens kindly 

 given me by Mr. Willard Wooding. 



This species is most nearly allied to C. pilosa, from which it 

 is distinct by the different form of the thorax and by the form 

 of the entire insect, the elytra are more coarsely punctured and 

 moderately shining, and it is a much larger species ; the colors 

 of thorax and elytra are also greatly different from those of 

 pilosa. The variety of this species is identical with the type 

 excepting that the elytra are very narrowly margined, the pale 

 margin being about half as wide as in C. pilosa variety onusta. 



