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ihe middle; brown, tinged with red, deeply striate-punctate, punctures trans- 

 verse, and continued to the apex; a common, dentate, white or yellowish fascia 

 behind the middle, and an angular similarly colored line behind the base of each: 

 beneath blackish : feet testaceous. As the eyes of this species are cmarginated 

 towards the front, it may belong to Spinola's division B or Clair ones Ichnoides, 

 but as the palpi and posterior feet of the only specimen in our collection are 

 lost, it is placed provisionally in the present genus. 



Tiianasimus, Latr. 



1. T. monilis. Black, shining ; thorax with the lateral margins rufous. 

 3 1. long ; 1. 1, wide. Pennsylvania. 



Clerus monilis, M. Catal. 

 '' thoracicus, " 



Black, shining, sparsely hirsute : head minutely and distantly punctured, with 

 an arcuated impressed line between the eyes, sometimes interrupted in the mid- 

 dle ; clypeus and base of mandibles, reddish ; labrum and tips of the latter, black; 

 antennas black, with the three joints of the clava distinct ; palpi unequal ; thorax 

 longer than wide, contracted at base, with sides slightly rounded ; an arcuated 

 transverse impressed line behind the anterior margin, and a straight one on the 

 hind margin ; a small round indentation each side of the middle ; black, with the 

 lateral margins broadly yellowish-rufous; elytra feebly widest behind the mid- 

 dle; shagreened, subglabrous; beneath and feet black ; antepectus rufous. 



2. T. bicolor. Rufous ; antennas, feet and abdomen black ; a white fascia on 

 the middle of each elytrum. 4 1. long; If 1. wide. Alabama? 



Yellowish-rufous, black hirsute, finely shagreened : eyes, antennce, mouth and 

 palpi, black: elytra each with a white transverse band behind the middle, edged 

 with black and curving backwardly near the suture : abdomen and feet black. In 

 the collection of Dr. Morris. Though I have met with no description of the present 

 or preceding species, yet both are doubtless described. The former was ques- 

 tionably considered by Say as Clerus thoracicus, Oliv., but the description of 

 that species by Olivier does not satisfactorily correspond with our monilis. 



Necuobia, Oliv. 



N. errans. Blue, shining ; antenna? and feet fuscous. If— 2 1. long. Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Dermestes violaceus, Melsh. Catal. 



Blue, blackish hirsute : head with numerous profound punctures, with the 

 mouth and palpi piceous ; antennae dark fuscous or blackish, piceous, with the 

 terminal joint ashy-brown : thorax densely and deeply punctulate, with a very 

 narrow impunctured medial space : elytra punctate-striate, punctures quadrate, 

 and together with the strice obsolete behind the middle, the interstices distantly 

 and very finely punctured: abdomen dull steel-blue: feet fuscous, with a 

 bluish reflection. Generically and specifically distinct from Corynttes viola- 

 ceus, L. 



Enoplium, Latr. 



E. himaculatum. Thorax dull rufous; elytra blackish, with a lunate white 

 spot near the middle. 4J 1. long ; If 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



