118 LENG AND HAMILTON, 



hescent, the denuded lines mentioned in the table may either be 

 present or absent ; the scutellum is frequently bordered with black 

 from denudation ; the antennie and feet are annulated with brown.] 

 '< Ham." 



li. terrseeolor Horn, 1880, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. viii, 122; transversatiui X Lee, 

 Lee, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii, 414. 

 Length 9-12 ram. ; .36-.48 inch. Habitat. — Florida (Bay Biscayue, Lake Worth). 



[Elongate, broad, luteous brown, densely clothed with luteous pu- 

 bescence, a faint darkish cloud and a narrow arcuate fascia behind 

 middle, sometimes obsolete ; thorax short, median tubercle indicated 

 by a cluster of coarse punctures,, a row of coarse punctures across 

 base and apex ; each elytron with four rows of small pubescent tu- 

 bercles more or less obsolete ; the antennse are annulate and spotted 

 on the upper side. 



Breeds in the bark of stumps and logs of i-ecently cut mastich 

 {Slderoxylon palliduin), also in the rubber or banian (Ficus pediin- 

 culatus) ] " Ham." 



li. planiflorsuM Lee, 1873, New Species, Ceramb. (S, M. C. No. 264), p. 234. 

 Length 9 mm. ; .36 inch. Habitat. — Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Michigan. 

 [More convex than any of the preceding, densely clothed with fine 

 gray })ubescence, often silvery white in southern examples, a blotch 

 along the sides of the elytra (sometimes obsolete j and an oblique, 

 interrupted fascia on the declivity, dark ; thorax with a small, de- 

 nuded tubercle on middle of disc, and three or four smaller ones 

 anteriorly, sometimes scarcely evident ; elytra with a slightly flat- 

 tened area at base limited by a more or less evident carina. The 

 oblicjue fascia is sometimes complete and conspicuous, and the area 

 beliind it fuscous ; the posterior trochanters in the male are acute 

 and slightly [)rolonged ; varies in appearance.] " Ham." 



li. uebiilosns Horn, 1880, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. viii, 122. 

 Length 12..") mm. ; 50 inch. Habitat. Nevada. 



[Rather convex, clothed with dark gray pubescence, an indistinct 

 angulate band of paler pubescence at middle of elytra and a dark 

 spot on each side ; the thorax is one and one-fourth wider than long, 

 while in all the other species it is from one and one-half to twice 

 wider.] " Ham." 



Li. arcuatUii Lee, 1878, Proe Am. Phil. Soc. xvii, 414. 

 Length 8 mm. ; .32 inch. Habitat. — Florida (Tam]>a). 



[This species may easily be recognizetl by the silvery gray hair on 

 the anterior two-thirds of the elytra, while the posterior third is 



