SYNOPSIS OF THE LAMIIN^E. 119 



smoky brown, and se})arated by a tri-arenate line concave in front 

 and joining on each side a narrow black line dilated behind the hu- 

 merus ; the first joint of the hind tarsi is as long as the next two. 

 The latter character if considered aj^art from others would place 

 this species in LlopuK, but its general facies and the form of the 

 tubercle at the side of the thorax place it more naturally here.] 

 " Ham." 



I.. |>arviiM Lee, 1873, New Spec. Cerainb. (S. M. C. No. 264), p. 234 : Horn, Tr. 



Am. Ent. Soc. viii, 121. 

 Length 4 6 mm. ; .16-.24 mm. Habitat. — Canada, Pennsylvania. District of 



Columbia, Ohio, Kansas, Texas. 

 [Brownish testaceous, pubescence very fine, dense, dark cinereous ; 

 an acutely angulate, oblique white band on the elytra behind the 

 middle ; four or five minute flat facets on the disc of the thorax, 

 each punctured, often obsolete ; in well-marked examples there is on 

 each elytron four costulie each with a row of small tubercles bearing 

 short erect scales, these in other examples are more or less obsolete. 

 In western Pennsylvania examples the thorax is very dark, the 

 elytra pale olivaceous, with the scale-bearing points conspicuous and 

 the angulated band feebly visible or wanting ; not common.] " Ham." 



t.. biiistiis Lee. 18."j2. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. ser. 2, ii, 169; Klug., Dej. Cat. 3d 

 ed. p. 364 ; Chevrnlat, Exocentrus biustm. An. France, 1862. ser. 4. ii, 249. 

 Length 4-6 mm. ; .16- .24 inch. Habitat. ^Ci\\\&di&, Now York, New .Jersey, 



Virginia. Florida, Cuba, I^ouisiana, Texas, Illinois. 

 [Ek)ngate, narrow, brownish testaceous, pubescence silvery gray, 

 the sides of thorax beneath and of the elytra to middle, black ; a 

 large triangular area posteriorly conspicuously brown ; tarsi black. 

 Readily known by the table and the above characters.] " Ham." 



L<. albidiis Lee, 18.52, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. ser. 2, ii, 168. 

 Length 8. .5 mm. ; .34 inch. Habitat. — Arizona. 



[This species, from the description, resembles bitidas, but readily 

 distinguished by the erect, white hairs scattered over the surface ; it 

 is densely clothed with white pubescence vaguely variegated with 

 fulvous, the sides of the elytra and a large apical area infuscate.] 

 " Ham." 



L.. »iexgutta3iis Say, 1825 {Lamia), .Tour. Acad. Nat. Sci. v, 269; Lee. ed. ii. 

 328: Amniscus commixtus Hald., 1847, Tr. Am. Phil. Soc. x, 47; Iifbe.^ Dej., 

 Cat. 3d ed. 36; pnnctatm Hald., 1. e 49; Lee, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. ser. 2, 

 ii, 169; Fitch, Rep. iv. 26 (sep.). 

 Length 7-10 mm. ; .28-.40 inch. Habitat. — Canada, Massachusetts. New York. 

 New Jereey, Pennsylvania. District of Columbia, Ohio, Michigan, Wiscon- 

 sin, New Mexico. 



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