NORTH AMERICAN COLEOPTBRA. 151 



CLERIDJE. 



TIL,L,US Oliv. 



T. occidentalis Gorham, Biol. Cent. Am. iii, pt. 2, p. 129, PI. ix, fig. 1. 



This species occurs in Texas and Arizona. It is rather small (3-5 mm.) 

 slender in form, color usually piceous, the elytra with a small oval ivory- 

 like spot at base and an oblique band of similar color at middle. The 

 color varies, being in most cases entirely piceous except the spots and 

 band, but specimens are before me entirely reddish yellow with only the 

 portion of the elytra behind the band piceous. Rarely the basal ivory 

 spot is indistinct. 



Unaware of the above name the species has been labeled luetus in Dr. 

 LeConte's cabinet. 



COIiYFHUS Spin. 



C sigiiaticollis Spin. Clerites i, p. 1.35. 



C cinctipennis Spin. id. p. 1.36. 



These two species are said by Spinola to have been collected in Cali- 

 fornia. By reference to the above cited descriptions, the specimens were 

 obtained from the Dupont collection. I have already on several occa- 

 sions indicated the erroneousness of the localities given by Dupont, and 

 now these two seem to be rather abundant in the eastern regions of 

 Mexico. 



I am quite sure that all the Dupont specimens attributed to California 

 are from southwestern Texas and the adjacent regions of Mexico. 



The two species above cited should be stricken from our lists. 



Two other species are mentioned by Spinola: C. rufipennis (p. 136) 

 and C. interceptus (p. 137) as from California. These also are Dupont 

 specimens, but no mention is made of them in the Biologia, and, as with 

 the preceding two species, the locality is probably doubtful. 



CYi?I.4TODi:R4 Gray. 



V'. tiirbata n. sp. — Rufo-testaceous, elytra piceous with a broad fascia slightly 

 ante-median and apical fourth rufo-testaceous. Antennae slender, a little longer 

 than the head, joints 2-3-4 short, conical, equal, joints 5-10 longer than these, 

 joint 11 one-half longer than the tenth. Head rather coarsely not closely punc- 

 tate. Thorax cylindrical, nearly twice as long as wide at apex, slightly narrower 

 at base than apex, behind the middle on each side compressed, surface sparsely 

 punctate, sparsely clothed with erect yellowish hairs, ante-scutellar impression 

 feeble. Elytra wider than the thorax, parallel, apices conjointly rounded, disc 

 with rows of coarse, closely placed punctures which are graduall}' finer to the tip, 

 intervals narrower than the rows of punctures, surface sparsely clothed with semi- 

 recumbent and with erect yellowish hair. Body beneath sparsely punctate. Legs 

 somewhat roughly punctured. Length .16-. 26 inch; 4-6.5 mm. 



