SYNOPSIS OF THE LAMIIN/E. 167 



castaneous tlir(>u<rlu)ut, sparsely mannorate on the tliorax and elytra 

 with denser spots of pale yellow ; antennie longer than the body, 

 joints 3-5 strongly spi nose, 8-11 earinate ; thorax with a median 

 and two basal callosities; elytra truncate, the outer spine obtuse, the 

 inner more acute ; femora not spin(>se, posterior tibiie earinate. In 

 tile table this may be placed next irroratum. 



Elapliidion levellci Casey. 1. c. p. 29. 



Lt'iiglb IS iimi. = .72 inch. Habitat. — Arizona. 



Described from a single mutilated male as of the form and size of 

 pubescens, next to which it may be placed in the table. Elongate, 

 slender, parallel, dark rufo-castaneous, shining, pubescence silvery 

 white, uniform on thorax and scutellum, but forming on each elytron 

 four vittre ; antennie wanting ; thorax longer than wide, densely 

 coarsely punctured on the disc, rufous towards the sides ; elytra 

 coarsely sparsely punctured at b'ase, gradually finer to apex, trun- 

 cate, bispinose ; femora not spinose. 



The following species has the four posterior femora obtu.sely uni- 

 spinose at tip and may follow mncronatiun in the table. 



Elsi|>lii<li4»ii inufatiiiu Galiiiii, 1890, Ann. iuul Mag. Nat. Hist. scr. (J, vol. 



vi, ;w. 



E. fomeniosHin 9 Chev., 18(52, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, ii, 260. 



Length 16 20.5 mm. = .64.80 in<!li. Habitat. -Culia, Florida (Key West). 



" Castaneous, covered with dense gray pubescence, disc of thorax 

 with five tubercles, the median cariniform, the posterior two more 

 or less obsolete ; elytra densely punctate at base, punctuation behind 

 middle obsolescent, each with the humerus and a sub-denuded dorsal 

 spot near the middle castaneous and bispinose at apex ; antenme 

 with joints 3 and 4 unispino.se, 5-10 bispinose." [T. R.] 



"Under the name E. toweiifo-vtm, Chevrolat included two very 

 distinct si)ecies ; the females which he has described are the females 

 (>f the p»resent species, the male of wliicii 1 saw in the possession of 

 Dr. Horn when here on a visit to England. Two female examples 

 from St. Domingo, which are undoubtedly the females of E. tomen- 

 to.ium, are in the British Museum, and, except in the nuich shorter 

 antenn;e, j)resent no differences of imj)ortance from the male. Like 

 it they have the pro.sternum truncated and vertical behind. In E. 

 mutatum the prosternum is feebly arched and almost flattened behind 

 * * *. The spines at the apices of the joints of the anteiuue do 

 not stop with the seventh joint as Chevrolat's description i^eems to 

 imply, but gradually becoming smaller, are met with up to the tenth 



TRANS. .^M. ENT. SOC. XXHI. . MAY, 1896. 



