NOKTH AMERICAN APTEKA. 295 



Cyiiorta alboliiieata (Sorenseu) Weed. Plate vi. 



Cosmetus alholineutiis Soreuseu. Natur. Tidsskrift, ser. iii. vol. xiv, p. 592. 



Body 5 mm. long; 4 mm. wide. Legs: first, 8 mm.; second, 15 mm. ; third, 

 11 mm.; fourth 15 mm. General color dark reddish brown, with apical portions 

 of legs dusky. Dorsum striped with light yellow, as follows: a distinct V en- 

 closing the eye eminence and having a straight line running on dorso-meson 

 from base of V back to a rather wide, transverse, wavy line running across ab - 

 dominal scutum just back of the posterior pair of tubercles. Between the two 

 pairs of tubercles on abdominal scutum are two transverse lines, and on the side 

 margins of the scutum there is more or less blotching with yellow. These 

 blotches and the last-named transverse lines, and sometimes e%'en the line on 

 the dorso-meson, are often suhobsolete, represented only by scattered yellow 

 dots. Eye eminence very low and wide, with a longitudinal depression between 

 the black eyes and a few small tubercles over the eyes ; a pair of small, rounded 

 tubercles on abdominal scutum, slightly behind base of V ; another similar pair 

 about 1 5 mm. caudad of this front pair, the hind ones being about twice as large 

 as the front ones. There are a few small and scattered tubercles on the central 

 portion of the abdominal scutum, and its margins together with the margins of 

 the posterior abdominal segments (both on dorsum and ventrum) are much more 

 distinctly tuberculate, the tubercles being rounded and on the segments arranged 

 in transverse rows; a moderate tooth on outer dorsal surface of hind margin of 

 each posterior coxa. Mandibles and palpi similar to those of C. sayi. 



Described from many sj^ecimens ; Agricultural College, Missis- 

 sippi (H. E. Weed) ; Macomb, Miss. (F. S. EarleJ ; Morgan City, 

 La. (H. F. Wickham) ; southern Louisiana (H. E. Weed) ; southern 

 Illinois (H. Garman). 



Cyiiorta oruata (Say) Simon. 



Gonyleptes ornatum Say, Jour. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1st series, vol. ii, p. 63. 



Cynorta ornata Simon, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Belgique. 1879, p. 200. 

 Body 6 mm. long; 5 mm. wide; palpi 3.5 mm. long. Legs: first, 10mm.; 

 second, 18 mm. ; third, 14 mm. ; fourth, 19 mm. General color dark ferruginous 

 brown ; tarsi dusky, sometimes having a greenish tinge. Dorsum striped with 

 canary-yellow as follows: a distinct V enclosing eye eminence, the base of the 

 V being on dorso-meson half way between eye eminences and first pair of ab- 

 dominal tubercles and the sides reaching nearly to margin of cephalothorax at a 

 point as far cephalad as is the anterior border of eye eminence; from the base 

 of the V an interrupted line runs caudad almost to the large posterior tubercles, 

 the back half of this line is only indicated by isolated dots; just caudad of the 

 front pair of abdominal tubercles there is a transverse line extending nearly 

 two-thirds across the abdominal scutum, crossing the longitudinal line on dorso- 

 meson at right angles: half way between this line and the posterior tubercles 

 runs another similar line which is often interrupted on the dorso-meson. Start- 

 ing at the cephalo-mesal corner of the base of each of the posterior tubercles a 

 distinct line runs around the base behind, and then proceeds obliquely forward 

 and outward until it reaches near the margin, it then curves and proceeds ob- 

 liquely backwards to the margin. There is also an interrupted yellow blotch on 

 each outer margin of the abdominal scutum opposite the anterior transverse 



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