SYNOI^IS OF TIIK LAMIIX.E. 169 



Aiicijlocera hrevicornis Casey, 1898, An. N. Y. xVctul. Sci. vii, 585, 



is the female of Elytroleptus divisus Lee. 



Traj^idioii aiiripenue Casey, An. X. Y. Acad. Sci. vii, oSfi. 



LcDiTtli 11 'in iiini. = ..')(> .SO inch. Ilnhitdt. — Arizona, southwestern Utali. 



Described l»y the author as parallel, convex, black, the elytra 

 bright golden-yellow, e.xce})! at basal margin, j)ubescence recumbent 

 assuming the color of the surface; untennie slender, one-half longer 

 than the body ; thorax wider than long, acutely tuberculate on the 

 sides behind the middle, disc with five tubercles ; elytra each with 

 five strong narrow ridges, the fourth joining the fifth before middle ; 

 legs slender, hind tibise somewhat dilated. 



Mr. Casey regards fulvipenne Say as a species, but whatever view 

 may be entertained will not aftect the following table by Mr. Casey. 



Third joint of the hind tarsus not longer, but seldom visibly wider than the 

 second ; elytra corrugated. 



Antenna; more or less pale, the swollen apices of the pale joints black and ab- 

 ruptly more densely pubescent. 



Antenuie entirely black toward apex; elytra strongly narrowed from base to 

 apex ; large species, the black hairs of the pronotnni and legs with a 

 strong cobalt-blue retlec^tion aiiiiiilatiiiii. 



Anteniue pale throughout, the apices of all the joints black; elytra i)arailel ; 

 size smaller, black ; the hairs without blue reflection ; hind tibite mod- 

 erately dilated and conipre.ssed aiiripeiine. 



Anteunie black throughout; ajiices of the joints feebly swollen, but no! more 



densely pubescent. 



Third joint of the hind tarsus scarcely shorter than the second; ])osterior 



til)i:e not distinctly modified ; elytra varying from black with a small 



fulvous spot behind the humeri to completely fulvous, except at the 



basal margin COqiiiiN. 



Third joint small, very much shorter than the second ; posterior tibise broader, 

 strongly compressed, elytra fulvous throughout, except at base. 



rulvipeiiiie. 

 Third joint of hind tai-sus distinctly longer and sometimes wider than the second ; 

 elytra not corrugiited, parallel, each with three feeble and minutely 

 costuliform lines; pronotal punctures in the male minute and dense, 

 but becoming abruptly coarse in an apical band, the posterior trans- 

 verse margin of which is nuiltisintiate : in the female minute and 

 dense throughout ai'iiialum. 



Batylt^ eylindrella Casey, 1893, An. N. Y. Acad. Sci. vii, 587. 

 Length 9..'S mm. = .38 inch. Habitat. — Texas (Kl Paso). 



Described as bright red throughout, except the post-sterna, part 

 of the tarsus, the apical part of the antennie and tip of hind femora 

 dark ; dittering from snturalii by its more elongate form, shorter and 

 coarser pubescence, which is pale and not black, less punctate head 

 and longer legs. 



TEANS. AM. EXT. SOC. XXIII. (22) .JUNE, 1896. 



