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As to the synonymy of 5*. nnicolor Fab. and S. hcros Harris, 

 first announced by Dr. Leconte, a few words may be added. The 

 type of nnicolor is said to be in Glasgow, where it was last examined 

 by Schaum,^ who endorsed Dr. Leconte's opinion that the two were 

 synonymous, but only states that nnicolor is a splendid big Scaphi- 

 notns. Olivier figures- nnicolor, the figure representing, according to 

 Roeschke, a female of 29 mm. length, which in respect of size agrees 

 with heros. This figure also agrees w'ith hcros in the form of the 

 thorax and in the absence of lateral sinuation of elytral margin; but 

 heros being apparently confined to the region west of the Allegheny 

 Mts., one cannot accept the synonymy of nnicolor and hcros without 

 assuming that the Fabrician type came in 1787 from a region then 

 populated by Indians and scarcely ever visited by white men. It 

 seems more probable that the type of nnicolor came from the Southern 

 Atlantic states, whence most of the early American material was 

 sent to Europe. For a time the name nnicolor was used for the large 

 dark variety of clevatns found in the southern states, and a reexami- 

 nation of the type may revive that view, which Avas indeed first sug- 

 gested by Fabricius himself. The weight of authority, however, 

 Schaum, Leconte, Roeschke, and the measurement indicated by 

 Olivier's figure, support the accepted synonymy; and since shoc- 

 makcri cannot be reconciled with the description and figure and 

 hcros comes from too improbable a locality I prefer to cite nnicolor 

 as the species and shocmakcri and hcros as subspecies, separated 

 structurally and geographically as stated. The status of nnicolor 

 must, in spite of the authorities, remain doubtful until the type can be 

 reexamined and compared with shocmakcri; but in any event the 

 name hcros, proposed by Dr. Harris for the Ohio and Indiana form, 

 must be revived as a species, if nnicolor proves to be a race of 

 elevatus, or as a subspecies if the type of nnicolor proves to be 

 possessed of the characters ascribed to that species. 



1 Stctt, Ent. Zig., 1S48. p. 335. 



2 Ent., Ill, No. 35, pi. 6, fig. (>2. 



