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List Col. N. Amer., 1866; Henshaw, List Col. Amer. N. of 

 Mex., 1885, p. 82; Lohde, Cleridarum Catalogus, 1900, p. 103; 

 Fall, Occas. Papers, Cal. Acad. Sci., vm, 1900, p. 128; Schklg., 

 Gen. Ins., Cleridae, 1903, p. 108; Schklg., Deutsch. Ent. Zeit., 

 1906, p. 316. 



PeloniumfasciatumWolc., Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., vn, 1909, p. 25. 

 Elongate, piceous, shining; sparsely clothed with pale hairs, 

 longest on head and thorax; thorax piceous, margins rarely pale; 

 elytra with an ante-median, arcuate, pale fascia, sometimes obscure 

 or wanting. Antennae eleven-jointed, pale testaceous, the last three 

 joints (except at base) fuscous. Head piceous, densely punctate, 

 punctures annuliform. Thorax broader than long, narrower at 

 base than apex; sides subtuberculate at apex, moderately compressed 

 at apical third and strongly dilate at basal third, then suddenly 

 and rather strongly narrowing to base; disk convex; surface even, 

 at most with faint indication of elevated areas, densely punctate; 

 punctures shallow ; piceous ; apical and basal margins and the flanks 

 rarely testaceous. Elytra three times as long as thorax, feebly 

 widening posteriorly; apices separately rounded; punctures coarse, 

 deep, quadrate, and seriate, obsolete at apex; piceous with asneous 

 reflection; a pale testaceous fascia extending from the suture at 

 basal third arcuately forward to near the lateral margins which with 

 the suture and humeri are sometimes also obscurely testaceous; the 

 elytra rarely entirely piceous. Body beneath and abdomen piceous, 

 the latter rarely obscurely testaceous. Legs varying in color from 

 entirely pale to fuscous, the base Of femora and tibiae alone being 

 testaceous. Length 4.7-6.5 millim. 



Some examples of this species resemble at first sight ocnlata, 

 from which species it is, however, quite distinct. Dr. H. C. Fall 

 has recorded the capture in San Bernardino Mountains (California) 

 of an example which has the elytra entirely piceous. In a specimen 

 before the writer the fascia extends obscurely to the humeri which 

 are also testaceous. Another specimen, a female, from California 

 is much paler than in the usual form; the legs and antennas pale 

 testaceous, only the apical portion of the last three joints of the 

 latter being fuscous; the thorax pale reddish, with a vaguely limited, 

 obscure fuscous vitta extending from the apex to behind the middle ; 

 the elytra reddish testaceous especially at base, irregularly obscurely 

 infuscate in apical half; the paler ante-median fascia is, however, 

 quite distinct. Apparently a rare species. 



Hob. Washington (Orcas Island, W. M. Mann); California 



