180 CHARLES W. LENG. 



Abdomixalis group. 



Ahdomeu red; labial palpi pale at base ; head not hairy, striate rather coarsely 

 between the eyes, jjolished in front, wrinkled behind ; thorax cylin- 

 drical, feebly sculptured, a fringe of hair on each side above; elytra 

 rounded at apex, with a snbsutural row of fovese ; sparsely hairy 

 beneath, thorax glabrous beneath. 



Elytra feebly punctured abfl4»iiiiiiiilisi. 



Elytra strongly punctured, scabrous var. scabrosa. 



'j C. abdominalis Fab., 1801, Syst. El., i, 237 ; Herbst, Kfefer, x, 202 ; Dej. Spec, 

 i, 140; Lee. Aun. Lye, 183, pi. 14, fig 13; Lee. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, 

 xi, p. 57; Schaupp, I. c, p. 108, pi. 4, fig. 116. 

 Length 8-11 mm. =.32-. 44 inch. 



Habitat— 1^. J. (pine barrens), N. C, S. C, Ga., Ala., Fla. 

 July and August. 



This species occurs in the pine barrens of New Jersey in the sum- 

 mer when most of the other species have disappeared. A few indi 

 viduals linger into September. It occurs on paths through the [)ine 

 forest, preferring these shady paths to the more open spots, but it 

 also occurs on the East Plains, where the forest is only eighteen 

 inches in height, and seemed there to prefer the more depressed 

 parts of the road where the soil was darker. It is a weakly flying 

 insect and easily captured, but does not, in New Jersey, occur in 

 large numbers. 



Shining black, beneath blue, abdomen red ; elytral marking."^ con- 

 sist of two dots representing the middle band, one submarginal dot 

 behind them and a rather conspicuous apical lunule ; the dots are 

 often lacking, but the apical lunule persists in all the specimens I 

 have seen. Head glabrous, shining, smooth in front of the eyes, a 

 few coarse striae beside and between the eyes, behind them the sur- 

 face is feebly wrinkled ; labrum large, rounded in front, not evi- 

 dently toothed ; thorax cylindrical, nearly smooth, a fringe of white 

 hair on each side above ; elytra slightly narrowed in front, very 

 faintly punctured, with a row of shallow fovese near the suture, 

 apex broadly rounded, not serrulate. Beneath, the pleurae, coxte 

 and, for a narrow width, the sides of the abdomen are thickly 

 clothed with decumbent white hair, but the flanks of the thorax are 

 conspicuously bare and shining. 



J Var. scabrosa Schaupp, 1884, Bull. Br. Ent. Soc, vi, p. 108, pi. 4, fig. 117. 

 Length 10.5 mm. 



Habitat. — Fla. — My specimens are from Miami and Cedar Keys. 



June. 



