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Labrum densely clothed with white hair hirtilabris. 



Labrum glabrous gratiONa.. 



C hirtilabris Lee, Traus. Am. Ent. Soc, 1875. v, 161; Horn, I.e., p. 239: 

 Schaupp, I. c, p. 102, pi. 4, fig. 96. 

 Length 9-10 mm.=.36.-.40 inch. 



Habitat. — Florida, sandy roads through meadows ; July to Sept. 

 New Symrna, Fla., May 6, Mr. Charles Dury. 



Bronzed brown ; elytra with a broad white border, feebly dilated 

 in the region of the humeral lunule, middle band broad, marked 

 with numerous dark points and lines, immediately behind it is a 

 dilation representing the apical lunule; there is also a small basal 

 spot. Body beneath, prothorax above and beneath, head above and 

 beneath the eyes clothed with decumbent white hair; labrum indis- 

 tinctly unidentate and also clothed with decumbent white hair. 

 Elytra strongly punctured in the dark spaces, % feebly sinuate, tip 

 obtuse, 9 more deeply sinuate, the sinuation limited in front by a 

 distinct angulation, tip obliquely truncate. 



€. gratiosa Guerin, Eev. Zool., 1840, p. 37; Lee. Trans. Am. Phil., xi, p. 59; 

 Horn. /. c, p. 240; Schaupp, I. c, p. 103, pi. 4, fig. 95. 

 Length 10-12 mm. =.40-48 inch. 



Habitat.— 8. C, Ga., Fla., Ala. Taken by Mr. Soltau, running 

 over sand in the hills covered with scrub oak, at Spring Hill, Mo- 

 bile, Ala. 



Brown bronzed; elytra white, the suture brown bronze, dilated at 

 base, with two sharply defined branches on each side. Head and 

 thorax densely clothed above and beneath with white hair, the latter 

 elongate cylindrical, with two subglabrous dorsal vittie; elytra 

 obliquely subsinuate in male, more deeply sinuate in the female, 

 very finely serrulate at apex ; beneath densely pubescent ; antenna 

 and legs very long, claws large ; labrum short, slightly advanced in 

 the middle, obsoletely unidentate ; trochanters rufous. Very close 

 to the preceding, from which it is distinguished by the glabrous 

 labrum and the sutural dark space and branches narrower. 



Lepida group. 



Flat and broad ; very hairy, but less so at the middle of the abdomen ; elytra 

 sinuate at apex, more deeply in 9 ; anus testaceous, legs pale, sutural 

 margin of elytra pale lepida. 



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