84 THE SPECIES OF THE GEXUS MELAXOPLUS. [Jan. 15, 



Washington; others occur in Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana 

 and Texas, while the last ranges across the continent from New- 

 foundland and New Jersey in the east to Oregon and Washington in 

 the west, and centrally from the Saskatchewan to Colorado. They 

 are: attenuaiits sp. nov., amplectens sp. nov., saltator sp. nov., 

 rotiitidipennis Scudd., obovaiipejinis Blatchl. {longicornis Sauss.?), 

 juvencus sp. uov., fascial us Barnst. {borealis Scudd., rectus Scudd., 

 curtus Scudd.), and borealis Fieb. {seplentrionalis Sauss.). 



AUeni series. Two species are known, alleni sp. nov., from Iowa 

 and Dakota, and snoiaii s^. nov., from New Mexico. 



Femur-rubrum series. A dominant and homogeneous group with 

 five species spread over the continent from Atlantic to Pacific, from 

 central Labrador to central Florida, and from the McKenzie river 

 to Texas and central Mexico. No other series has quite so wide an 

 area of distribution. The species are the following : plumbeus 

 Dodge, femur-rubrum DeGeer {erylhropus Gmel., sanguinolentus 

 Prov., devorator Scudd., ////^r/^/' Scudd. ), propinquus McNeill MS., 

 extremus Walk. {Junius Dodge, parvus Prov., leucosloma Kirby ?), 

 and itwnlicola Brun. MS. 



Cinereus series. Six species are with one exception found only 

 in the extreme southwestern States, but that exception (the typi- 

 cal species) extends the range to Idaho, western Nebraska and 

 Louisiana. The species are: bispinosus sp. nov., ierminalis sp. 

 nov., cyanipes Brun. MS., cinereus Scudd., complanalipes sp. nov., 

 and canonicus sp. nov. 



Angustipennis series. The four species occur from Iowa to 

 Utah and from Montana and Manitoba to Texas, though one 

 ranges east to Ontario. They are comptus sp. nov., coccineipes 

 sp. nov., angustipennis Dodge, and impiger sp. nov. 



Packardii series. The five species are all found west of the 

 Mississippi from British Columbia and Assiniboia to Central 

 Mexico, but occur in California only in the north. They are 

 packardii Scudd. {fasciatus Scudd.), foedus Scudd., corpulentus 

 Brun. MS., co?tspersus sp. nov., and compactus Brun. MS. 



Texan us series. This group also contains five species, all oc- 

 curring west of the Mississippi, except one found in the upper 

 Mississippi region. They are dumicola Scudd., variabilis Brun. 

 MS., lepidus sp. nov., blatchleyi s^i. nov. {occidentalis Brun., viola 

 Blatchl.), and texanus Scudd. 



Plebejus series. The five species are distributed among brachyp- 



