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Thorax and base of elytra red (.21 in.) rnficollis, Fabr. 



Thorax and elytra blue. 



Legs reddish (.21-25 in.) rtifipes, Fabr. 



Legs blue or blackish (.17-21 in.) violacea, Linn. 



Most of the papers treating of the North American Cleridse are sadly 



out of date, and, in addition, very difficult or expensive to obtain. . The 



list of titles following gives the chief of those that will aid the student : — 



1 841. Klug, J. C. F., Versuch einer systematischen Bestimmung und 



Auseinandersetzung der Gattungen und Arten der Clerii. Abh. 



d. Konigl. Akad. der Wissensch. zu Berlin, pp. 259-397, 2 pi. 



1844. Spinola, M. Essai monographique sur les Clerites. Genes, 2 



vols., pp. 386 and 226, 47 pi. 

 1849. Leconte, J. L. Synopsis of the Coleopterous Insects of the group 



Cleridse which inhabit the United States. Ann. N. Y. Lye, V., 



PP- 9-35- 

 1876. Horn, Geo. H. Synopsis of the species of Cymatodera and 



Trichodes of the United States. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, V., pp. 



220-232. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON COCCID^. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO. 



(i.) Lecanitcm, sect. Eulecanium. 



(i) Lecanium caryce, Fitch, var. canadense, v. no v. 



% scale smooth, shiny, red-brown, convex, malleate, but not or 

 hardly plicate. Length 4, breadth 3, height 2 mm., varying to length 5, 

 breadth 4, height 3 mm. (Some Maine specimens 6 mm. long.) Re- 

 moved from the twigs, the scales leave an oval white mark. (Nappan 

 scales are paler and more yellowish, also somewhat smaller. Posterior 

 incision perhaps a little longer ; scales also rather more tending to be 

 plicate.) 



$ scale ordinary, rugulose. 



? with 6-jointed antennae, formula 326154; 3 considerably longer 

 than the remaining joints put together ; i with 2 hairs ; 2 with 2 hairs at 

 its end, one especially long ; 3 with 2 hairs near its end; last joint with 

 several hairs, one especially long. (Nappan antennae practically the 

 same, but i larger ; 4 and 5 each show a hair ; 6 hardly so long, formula 

 3 (126) 54. Maine antenna show one long hair at end of 3, 2 with one 

 very long hair ; 2 a little longer than 4 ; 4 a very little longer than 5 ; 

 6 a little longer than 2 ; formula 36245.) Derm obscurely tessellated, 

 with large gland-pits. (In Maine specimens gland-pits frequently in pairs.) 



