426 AMERICAN PACHYBRACHYS (cOLEOPTERA) 



length of the basal antennal joint in the male; ocular lines want- 

 ing; legs spotted, front claws of male not appreciably larger. 

 Length 2 mm. Georgia. 



The above short sketch is from a male example loaned to Mr. 

 Bowditch by the Halle Museum and is doubtless a genuine type 

 or cotype. The specimen is very small, not over 2 mm. long, 

 although Suffrian's measurements show that other examples of 

 the type series are larger. I have never seen an exact counter- 

 part of the type, but a small series of specimens in the National 

 Museum Collection agrees in all essentials and in general appear- 

 ance with the above diagnosis, except that in the single male the 

 ' small yellow spots are larger on the prothorax, and are more 

 numerous and not confined to the sides on the elytra; the eyes 

 also are more distant than my original sketch indicates, but it is 

 possible that I underestimated their distance apart in the 

 Suffrian type. In the females before me the pale spots are fewer 

 or nearly absent on the disk, nearly as in the type. The pale 

 sides of the prothorax are sparsely punctured or nearly smooth, 

 the pale pygidial spots are small or wanting. 



This species is closely related to carolinensis, and I would not 

 be surprised if the latter were only a paler form of Suffrian's 

 species. For the present it may perhaps be separated l\y the 

 color and the possibly slightly closer eyes. 



Distribution. — Georgia: type. North Carolina .■ Asheville. A nearly typical 

 example sent me by Colonel Casey. Virginia: Pennington Gap, July 21 (Hub- 

 bard & Schwarz). Maryland: Plummer's Island, June 28 to Aug. 15, "On 

 Pinus" (E. A. Schwarz). District of Columbia: (Hubbard & Schwarz). 



106. Pachybrachys varians Bowditch 



Robust, of medium size, predominantly yellow as a rule, the 

 standard spots black, variably developed, lustre dull; eyes rather 

 distant, more widely separated in the male than the vertical 

 width of their upper lobes; front without ocular lines; elytral 

 striae impressed, shield conspicuous; front claws of male small. 

 Ave. length 2.75 mm. Gulf States. 



Head a Httle wider than the thoracic apex, moderately strongly and closely 

 punctate in the dark areas, which are generally heavily marked. Eyes (cf ) 

 separated by about one and three-fourths times the length of the basal antennal 

 joint, and in the female by two to two and one-half times the length of the 



