604: BOSTON JOURNAL 



CLYTUS Fabr. 



1. C. CllARUS. — Thorax yellow, with three black dots; elytra 

 black ; base, band behind the middle, and tip yellow. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body covered with short, dense, prostrate hair : head black ; a 

 band on the vertex curving under the head, an abbreviated line 

 above the antennae, and front yellow : thorax yellow, with three 

 dorsal, transverse, abbreviated, [194] parallel, blackish bands r 

 elytra black ; basal third a narrow, undulated band behind the 

 middle, and tip in which is a small black spot, yellow ; a black 

 dot on the humerus : beneath yellow sutures and feet black. 



Length nine-tenths of an inch. 



Somewhat like C. decorus Oliv., and sjyeciosus nob., but the 

 bands of the elytra and other characters are essentially different. 

 I first observed it near the end of August. It is a remarkably 

 fine insect. 



[Belongs to Arhopalus as enlarged by me.] 



2. C. CAPREA nob. — Occurred at New Orleans. 



STENOPTERUS Illig. (NECYDALIS Fabr.) 



S. SANGUINICOLLIS. — Blackish, thorax sanguineous. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black, with cinereous hairs, punctured : thorax sanguine- 

 ous, inequal, with three more obvious elevations : elytra with a 

 longitudinal, slightly elevated line ; disk obscurely tinged with 

 brownish : feet yellow ; club of the thighs and tip of the tibios 

 black. 



Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 



It is more slender than *S'. prseuiitm Fabr. ; but the thoracic 

 and elytral elevations are somewhat similar. 



MOLORCHUS Fabr. 

 M. MELITUS. — Black ; abdomen, feet and basal joint of the 

 antennce honey-yellow. 

 Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black : head indented between the antenna) : antennae 

 about as long as the body, basal joint rufous ; thorax subcylindric, 

 contracted before the middle, and with an indented longitudinal 



[Vol. I. 



