MAY, 1910. NOTES ON SOME CLERID.E WOLCOTT. 391 



Cregya mixta LeConte. 



Cregya mixta Lee., Smiths. Misc. Coll., vi, 1865, p. 98; Lee., List 

 Col. N. Amer., 1866; Gorh., Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1877, 

 p. 417; Henshaw, List Col. Amer. N. of Mex., 1885, p. 82; 

 Lohde, Cleridarum Catalogus, 1900, p. 103; Schklg., Gen. 

 Ins., Cleridae, 1903, p. 108; Schklg., Deutsch. Ent. Zeit., 1906, 



P- 3i7- 

 Cregya oculata % Henshaw, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., ix, 1882, 



P- 245- 

 Pelonium mixtum Wolc., Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., vn, 1909, 



P- 25- 



General form of oculata; pale yellowish testaceous; the head, 

 thorax, and elytra with piceous markings of variable extent; mod- 

 erately shining; clothed with erect and semierect fine pale hairs, 

 not noticeably longer on head and thorax. Antennae ten-jointed, 

 pale yellow; three terminal joints sometimes fuscous. Head testa- 

 ceous; the occiput and a large interocular maculation piceous; 

 rarely entirely piceous above and below; palpi pale; coarsely not 

 very densely punctate. Thorax slightly longer than wide, similar 

 in form to that of oculata, but much less suddenly and strongly con- 

 stricted at base, sides anteriorly a little more gradually narrowing; 

 disk at middle broadly flattened; surface nearly even, at middle 

 coarsely, rather densely and irregularly punctate; flanks densely 

 punctate; yellowish testaceous, bordered with piceous at the sides, 

 rarely with a small subbasal maculation each side of middle and a 

 narrow longitudinal one near apex. Elytra slightly more than twice 

 as long as thorax; sides feebly widening posteriorly; apices nearly 

 conjointly rounded; punctures coarse, deep, quadrate, and seriate, 

 rows of punctures terminating rather abruptly at about apical fourth, 

 obsolete at apex ; pale yellowish varying to testaceous ; humeri with 

 a large quadrate maculation which is sometimes prolonged poster- 

 iorly to and becomes confluent with a more or less broad irregular 

 post-median fascia; the latter sometimes extending very nearly to 

 apex, rarely reduced to a large irregular maculation on each elytron. 

 Body beneath pale testaceous, very rarely piceous; the abdomen 

 piceous; the first, second, fifth, and sixth segments often testaceous 

 'Legs pale yellow; the knees and tarsi rarely slightly fuscous. Length 

 3-4.2 millim. 



A difficult species to describe properly owing to the great varia- 

 tion in markings. Many specimens have, in addition to the elytral 

 markings given above, a small, ante-median, piceous spot at the 



