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This is a very common circumpolar species found throughout the 

 greater part of North America, Europe, and Siberia. It is closely 

 allied to notata Castelnau and Gory, but can always be distinguished 

 from that species by the head being very denselj^ punctured, strongly 

 opaque, and never shining as in notata^ and the elytra is never 

 ornated with yellow markings. It is reported as living in various 

 species of spruce, pine, and fir. 



It was first described by De Geer from an unknown locality, and 

 later from Europe under a number of different names by various 

 authors. Eschscholtz (1829) places appendiculata Fabricius in his 

 new genus Melanofhila. Say (1823) described the same species 

 from Pennsylvania and the Western States under the name of 

 longipes^ and this name has been used in recording the species from 

 the West Indies. 



Chevrolat (1867) records the species from Cuba, in the collections 

 of Gundlach and Poey. Gundlach (1891) records collecting it at 

 " Brazo del Cauto," Santiago de Cuba. 



Specimens have been examined from the following West Indian 

 localities. Coll. S. C. Brimer: Camaguey, Cuba, Nov. 11. 1921 

 (Angelica Prieto). Coll. British Mus. : Two specimens labeled 

 "Haiti, Saunders 74-18." This species is not represented in the 

 Poey collection in Philadelphia, but there is a single example, 

 labeled No. 1053, in the Gundlach Museum in Habana. which has 

 not been examined by the writer. 



Genus TETRAGONOSCHEMA Thomson 



Tetragonoscliema Thomson, Archiv. Entom., vol. 1, 1857, p. 116. — Keere- 



MANs, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 168-169. 

 Pachypyga Steinheil, Atti. See. Ent. Ital., vol. 5, 1872, p. 564. 



Head rectangular, front depressed at middle and not narrowed by 

 the insertion of the antennae; epistoma narrow, short, and feebly 

 emarginate at the middle; antennal cavities rather large, rounded, 

 not concealed under a carina, and situated rather close to the inner 

 margin of the eyes. Antennae moderately long; first joint thick and 

 clavate; second and third short, obconic, and equal to each other in 

 length; fourth a little longer and triangular; following joints rather 

 robust, triangular, dentate on the inner side and armed with a 

 terminal poriferous fovea. Eyes large, elliptical, and parallel. 

 Pronotum wider than long, bisinuate in front, with the median lobe 

 angulate; sides more or less rounded, with the posterior angles 

 straight or obtuse; base distinctly sinuate. Scutellum triangular. 

 Elytra short, sinuate, subparallel, truncate at the base, broadly and 

 separately rounded at apex, and not covering the pygidium, which is 

 concave. Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternum and meta- 

 sternum. the lateral branches of the former subcontiguous. Meta- 



