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ventral segment is broadly arcuate -emarginate, red: in the female 

 the same segment is bi'oadly and obtusely rounded, nearly 

 truncate at apex, and more or less piceous or l)lack. 



Enoclerus opifex Gorham 



Chriis (ipijcx Gorham, Biol. Ccntr.-Amer., Col., iii, p. loG, pi. vni, f. 3, 



1SX2. 



This Central American species has been recorded as occurring 

 in our fauna but once; in 191 P the writer recorded this species 

 as taken at Alpine, Texas. No further representatives have been 

 seen by me, but Mr. Chas. Liebeck has informed me that a 

 specimen of this species is in the collection of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, which was taken bj'- Messrs. 

 Hebard and Rehn at Alamogordo, New Mexico, July 1907. 



Enoclerus chapini new .species 



Moderately robust; feebly shining; red, occiput of head ])iceous, mctaster- 

 num and elytra black, the latter with the lateral margin from base to apex, 

 the elevated sutural margin, apical fourth, base somewhat narrowly at the 

 humeri but more broadly in scutellar region, red, a curved median fascia and 

 a small maculation at base, pale yellow; ventral abdominal segments red, 

 their i)osterior margins (except fifth and sixth), black; pubescence moderately 

 dense, the long pale hairs most evident at prothoracic flanks, base and apical 

 fourth of elytra. Head (including the eyes) distinctl}' narrower than j)rothorax 

 at wiliest part, finely but not very closely i)unctate. Prothorax as long as 

 wide, apex one-third wider than base, subapical constriction and tran.sverse 

 impressed line very nearly obsolete, ante-basal constriction and the sub-basal 

 transverse impressed line distinct; sides very feebly rounded, widest neai 

 base, strongly narrowing to about basal fourth, thence parallel to base; fine'y 

 and very sparsely punctate, morts densely so at the sides. Elytra moderately 

 depressed; sides straight, nearly parallel to apical third, thence broadly and 

 evenly rounded to the suture, the apices being conjointly rounded; very 

 coarsely, closely jjunctate, es])ecially in basal half of the elytra, at apex less 

 c()ars(!ly and more sliallowly punctate, in about the anterior two-thirds the 

 punctures are somewhat distinclly seriate, three ratlu>r f(M>bk^ costae being 

 l)resent ui)on each ("lytroii. I^eiiglh, 4.S nnu. 



Ai'izonn, (Moi'rison). Ilololnpc, a male (No. 009) in my 

 collection. 



Named in honor of Dr. Ivlward A. ('ha])in, who has contribu- 

 ted greatly to our knowledge of tiiis family. 



The specimen upon which this species is fonndctl bears a 

 slight reseni1)lan('e to h\ huliix va,i'. (ihriii)his l.cconte, and has 

 for many years Ix'cn placed witii tlial species in my cabinet, 



' ImiI. News, xxii, p. 120, 



