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tent of its orange or red markings, the median narrow line of 

 scutellum being often absent. 



The typical form of anchorago as described above has been 

 often referred to by American authors as var. pulchellus West- 

 wood (1837, 42), but I can find no definite mention of its oc- 

 currence in the States north of Florida. However, two color 

 varieties besides the typical form occur in our territory and 

 may be separated as follows : 



KEY TO VARIETIES OF ST1RETRUS ANCHORAGO (FABR.). 



a. Color above black and red or black and orange, not uniform blue. 

 b. Pronotum black, with front and side margins broadly red or orange. 



125. typical anchorago. 



bb. Pronotum red, with front margin, a broad median stripe and two 



spots each side, steel-blue or black. 125a. var. personatus. 



aa. Color above a uniform dark blue. 125b. var. violaceus. 



125a (207c). Stiretrus anchorago personatus (Germar), 1839, 16. 



This variety is very close to typical anchorago, from which it dif- 

 fers mainly by the characters given in key and by having an irregular 

 transverse dark spot on the middle of the pale basal one of scutellum. 



Mobile, Ala., Aug. 23 (Barber). Described from Mexico. 

 Uhler (1878, 369) records it from Pennsylvania. 



125b (207d). Stiretrus anchorago violaceus (Say), 1828, iii; I, 94. 



Uniform dark violet-blue above and beneath; a median spot on 

 second and third ventrals and the ventral spine yellow; antenna? fuscous 

 with a bluish tinge; beak and tarsi brown. Length, 11 mm.; width, 7 mm. 



Ormond and Dunedin, Fla., April 4 — 17. Say's type was 

 from St. John's River, Fla., and Barber records it from seven 

 additional stations, between St. Augustine and Lake Okeecho- 

 bee, that State. Van Duzee (1909, 158) says that one of two 

 specimens taken by him at Sanford "was of a deep violet-black 

 color; the other was tinged with steel-blue and green." This 

 variety is mainly southern in distribution, though Uhler (1876, 

 281) says that it has been taken once near Philadelphia; also 

 in Georgia and Texas. 



126 (207a). Stiretrus fimbriatus (Say), 1828, iii; I, 93. 



Differs from anchorago mainly in size and in the color and 

 sculpture of the upper surface. Head reddish-brown ; pronotum dull 

 yellow with a wide median reddish-brown stripe extending from apex 

 to base, this with a projection each side in front of middle; also with 

 three brown spots each side on basal half. Scutellum yellow with a 



