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tion; cotypes (three) in the collection of the University of 

 Nebraska. 



For the privilege of examining the above specimens, as well 

 as the other Clerid material in the collection of the University 

 of Nebraska, I am under deep obligations to Prof. L. Bruner 

 and Mr. Charles H. Gable. 



Hydnocera gerhardi sp. nov. 



Very slender, shining, sparsely clothed with short, fine pubscence, 

 black, head and thorax rufo-piceous, apical and basal margins of the 

 latter dull rufous, lower part of front, mouth, antennae, elytra, legs 

 and last abdominal segment pale yellow. Head (including the very 

 prominent eyes) as wide as elytra at base, nearly smooth (very finely 

 and very sparsely punctulate). Thorax much longer than wide, sub- 

 cylindrical, subapical constriction moderate, surface alutaceous, disk at 

 middle very finely rugulose. Elytra elongate, humeri feeble, parallel, 

 not shorter than the abdomen, entirely pale yellow, coarsely, deeply, 

 rather densely, partially confluently punctate, apices separately, rather 

 acutely rounded, strongly serrate, dehiscent at suture. Legs elongate, 

 pale yellow, outer joints of tarsi fuscous, posterior femora extending 

 to tip of elytra. Length 4.8 mm. 



Yuma, Arizona. Collected by Wesley D. Lipe. 



A very elongate species, in fact more slender than any other 

 known to me ; it is perhaps nearest allied to bicolor Lee., from 

 which it is, however, very distinct, the size being very nearly 

 twice as large, the head not at all rugose, the elytra densely, 

 not sparsely punctate, the apices not tumid, and the colora- 

 tion is different. 



Named in honor of my friend Mr. William J. Gerhard. 



FLATTERED., First Fly "Have you seen that new encyclopedia'" 

 Second Fly "No. Ts there anything about us in it?" 

 First Fly "Certainly; an entire page is devoted to us the fly-leaf." 

 Newspaper. 



Mr. JAMES CANTLIE. hon. secretary of the Pellagra Commission, has 

 received, as we learn from the London Times, the following telegram 

 from Dr. Sambon, dated Rome, May 13 : "The pellagra field commis- 

 sion has definitely proved that maize is not the cause of Pellagra. The 

 parasitic conveyor is the SimuKum reptans." (Front Science.} 



