H. C. FALL 451 



Length 2.9 to 4 mm.; width 1.6 to 2.4 mm. 



Dislributio7i. — New Jerseij: (Licbcck); Da Ccsta, July 1, and Anglesea 

 (Wenzel). District of Columbia: (Wenzel). North Carolina: Wilmington 

 (Wenzel). Georgia: (Horn Coll.). Florida: Haulovor, March; Capron, April 

 3; Crescent City (all in Hub})ard and Schwarz Coll.); Jack.sonville (Liebeck 

 Coll.); Key West (Leng Coll.); Tampa (Van Duzee in Wickham Coll.). 



The head and pronotum are typically very finely alutaceous 

 and feebly shining, the elytra more or less distinctly minutely 

 transversely wrinkled, but in one female example from Alpine, 

 Texas, doubtfully referred, the upper surface is quite strongly 

 shining, with traces, however, of the fine sculpture. 



133. Pachybrachys virgatus I.cConte 



Rather large, yellow, prothorax with three entire black, or 

 more often black and brown, stripes, the middle one dilated 

 anteriorly; elytra with the suture, tAvo discal strii)es and the mar- 

 ginal bead black; integuments polished. Eyes widely distant, 

 separated even in the male by rather more than their own ver- 

 tical length; front without ocular lines; front claws of male not 

 enlarged. Ave. length 4 mm. Nebraska to Texas and Colorado. 

 Head rather coarsely, nearly uniformly punctate, a broad vertical plaga and 

 a small but broad inter-ocular spot , feebly or scarcely connected with the former, 

 black. Eyes in the male separated by fully two and one-half times the length 

 of the basal antennal joint, in the female by more than three times the length 

 of the basal joint. Antennae not very slender, in great part black, tenth joint 

 (cf ) three times as long as wide. 



Prothorax rather long, broadly arcuately narrowed from near the base, 

 scarcely dilated posteriorly, rather coarsely punctate, the punctures separated 

 by their own diameters medially, somewhat closer toward the sides, the side 

 margin narrowly smooth; lateral vittae of nearly uniform width, usually brown, 

 more or less overlaid with black, median vitta a little dilated in anterior half 

 and usually with a trace of a paler median line in the dilated portion. 



Elytra strongly shining, nearly regularly striate, the outer striae quite dis- 

 tinctly, the inner ones lightly impressed, punctures of the short scutellar striae 

 more or less confused, eighth stria without post-humeral interruption, inter- 

 spaces not or but very feebly and finely transversely wrinkled; shield wanting; 

 sutural vitta a little narrower than the discal ones, the latter subequal in width 

 to each other and to the intervening yellow stripes, outer vitta occupying the 

 seventh and eighth interspaces basallj', gradually changing posteriorly to the 

 sixth and seventh. 



Pygidium black in basal half, apex yellow. Body beneath black, last ventral 

 with pale apical margin. Legs cnitirely rufo-testaceous. 



Length 3.7 to 4.4 mm.; width 1.9 to 2.4 mm. 



TRAXS. AM. ENT. .SOC, XLI. 



