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is evidence of a longitudinal medial callosity or raised line, stronger 

 near the base. Elytra rather short, moderately tapering, apex 

 truncate with a strong, sharp, external spine and a short sutural 

 denticle. Surface rather finely punctate and granulate, this sculpture 

 showing best in a light colored transverse band of irregular shape which 

 extends across in the neighborhood of the basal third, this band having 

 arcuate fore and hind margins which converge so as to make it nar- 

 rower at the suture. In this light area are seen moderately long 

 scattered black hairs. Abdomen, as preserved, long enough to extend 

 beyond the elytral tips but perhaps unnaturally distended. Legs 

 wanting, excepting one belonging to the posterior pair which is of 

 only moderate length, the femur not strongly cla\ate, tarsal joints 

 not expanded, the first scarcely equal to the next two. Length, from 

 apex of mandibles to that of abdomen, 19 mm.; of elytron, excluding 

 spine, 9.60 mm.; of seven proximal joints of antenna 8.40 mm. 

 Width of elytron at middle of band, 3 mm. 



Described from a single specimen with counterpart. 



Type.— No. 2,.5S5, 2,5S6 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 11,795 

 and 12,419 S. H. Scudder Coll.). 



In this specimen, the elytra and hind wings are both spread but the 

 secondaries are not clear enough to make a description feasible. The 

 drawing does not show the latter. The generic reference is to be 

 understood as applying broadly but the insect shows so many features 

 that are common in the Clytini as to make the assignment plausible 

 at any rate. These characters are the large rounded prothorax, the 

 shape of the head and mandibles, the rather short, spinose antennae, 

 the short elytra, armed at apex and with transverse maculation, and 

 the long abdomen. On the whole, I am inclined to place it near 

 Cyllene rather than with any of the other genera that I know, though 

 the hind tarsi are more like those of Clytus (for example the recent 

 C. lanifer), but have chosen the term Clytus as being, in its broad 

 sense, more inclusive. The anterior coxae are well separated and the 

 prosternum is fairly broad. 



Gaurotes striatopunctatus, sp. nov. 

 Plate 9, fig. 3. 



Form rather robust. Head small, eyes not prominent. Antennae 

 well over half the length of the entire body, not specially modified in 

 any way, the joints beyond the second subequal as far as can be seen. 



