SYNOPSIS OF THE LAMIINiE, 135 



l*0<]iO]VO€HERlJS Latil. 



The following synopsis follows that by Dr. Horn (Trans. Am. 



Ent. See. vii, p. 42) : 



Elytra truncate at tip and more or less dentate 1. 



Elytra rounded at tip 2. 



1. Legs and sides of elytra with long flying hairs; elytra with moderately large 



unibone at jniddle of base criiiitiis. 



Legs and elytra without flying hail's. 



Elytra with lateral costaj well marked and with a row of five or six tufts of 



erect bhick setie penicillatus. 



Elytra without lateral costte and tufts iiii.vt IIN. 



2. Elytra with moderately long hairs on the upper surface. 



Scape of antennai short, stout ; lateral spine moderate, elytral punctures 

 [obsolete at apical third] Oregon us. 



Scape of antennai slender, attaining thoracic spine, which is long and 

 acute volitans^ 



F. crinituM Lee. 1873, Xew Species (S. M. C. Xo. 264), p. 237. 



Length 7-!) nnn. = .2S-.3(j inch. Hahitat. — Vancouver Island; California. 



[This Species is different in facies from its congeners ; it is densely 

 clothed with ash-gray pubescence, a little dotted with white, but 

 without conspicuous spots, and the sides of the thorax are verv 

 strongly armed.] " Ham." 



P. |»enicillaf us Lee, 1850. Agass. Lake Sup. p. 234; Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. ser. 

 2. ii, 160. 

 Length 6 mm. ^ .24 inch. Hnhifat. — Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan. Lake 

 Superior, Colorado. 



[This species is piceous, densely clothed w-ith gray pubescence, 

 on the elytra behind the base ; the disc of the thorax is strongly 

 tuberculate; the antenna3 and feet are annulate.] "Ham." 



P. niixtus Hald., 1847, Tr. Am. Phil. Soc. x, 50; Lee, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. ser. 

 ii, 160; parvtdiis Lee, 1. e; simplex Lee, 1873, New Species (S. M. C. No. 

 264), p. 237. 

 Length 5 7 ram. = .20-.28 inch. Ilnbitat. — Canada, Maine, New Hampshire, 

 Massachu.setts. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, 

 Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, California, Arizona. 



[This species in general is piceous black, variegated with white 

 pubescence and hispid with sparse, erect black hairs. In mixtut< 

 there is a broad band of white pubescence before the middle from 

 the sides seldom attaining the suture and sometimes with a branch 

 to the base inside of the humerus, also a couple of narrow approxi- 

 mate fascia? on the declivity ; the elytra are striately punctured, a 

 little confused near sutiire. In simplex (the western form) the basal 

 band covers the suture extending forward inside of humerus, but 



TRAN.S. .\M. ENT. SOC. XXIII. MAY, 1896. 



