Xiv MONTHLY PROCEEDINGS. 



hut this is by no nieauri rare in noi'iually marked specimens of con- 

 vexa ; the elytra are entirely black, except tw(j marginal yellow spots 

 on each elytron, one a little before, the other behind the middle ; 

 these are the ends of the yellow bands seen in convexa. 



Leptura brevicornis Lee. This sj)ecies was described from a female. 

 At the present time b(jth sexes are before me. In the female the 

 antennae are short, gradually thicker to tip, extend but little beyond 

 the humeri and are 11-jointed, while in the male the antenna are as 

 long as the body, slender and subserrate (as in Ganmle^isis) and with 

 the eleventh joint almost divided. The male insect is also much 

 smaller than the female, the elyti'a more densely but less coarsely 

 punctured. 



Leptura sexmaculata Linn.. The species mentioned by Dr. Le- 

 Conte in his table (New Species, 1872) agrees well with the figure 

 given by Olivier, but vexatrix Mann., is erroneously placed as a 

 synonym. The latter species more closely resembles conve.va in its 

 markings, but is a much more slender species, with tlTe apices of the 

 elytra obliquely truncate. L. vexatrix Mann., should be restored 

 to a place in our lists following sexmaculata. 



Haltica inaerata Lee, is simply a color variety of ignita III. 



The following synonymy has been otherwise observed : 



Metachroma cuprea Provancher, Nat. Canad. x, p. 383, is Scelo- 

 donta nebulosa Lee. Through the kindness of I'Abbe Provancher 

 I have been enabled to examine the type. 



Brumus septentrionis Weise, Stett. Zeit. 1885, p. '40^, is Exocho- 

 nms marginipennis Lee, and the variety in which the elytra are in 

 great part red, the suture black and abruptly dilated at apex, on 

 each elytron two black spots. 



In the Revue d'Entomologie, 1885, p. 134, Mr. Fauvel indicates 

 the possible identity of Direoxt fuma Lee. with Phkeotrya Vandoueri 

 Muls. I have recently received, through the kindness of Mr. Fauvel, 

 a specimen of the latter, and am happy in confirming his supposition 

 by direct comparison. The question of the generic name remains 

 to be settled. From the remarks of Mr. Fauvel it seems that Dirccea 

 Fab., is purely a synonym of Serropalpus and Phloeotrya was pro- 

 posed by Stephens for the species co;isidered by his cotemporaries as 

 Dircsea. As Mr. Fauvel is doubtless correct, the name Dircrea in 

 our lists should be replaced by Phlceotrya and the specific name 

 fusca Lee. by Vaudoueri 3fuls. 



