220 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xii. 



ness, eyes prominent. Thorax nearly as long as broad, narrower at base than apex, 

 sides gradually widening from apex to about basal third, then suddenly narrowing to 

 base, disk slightly convex, even, with a slightly impressed median line, somewhat 

 coarsely and densely punctate, a black median line and three or four spots on each 

 side from the middle to the base, the spots at sides more or less confluent. Elytra 

 nearly three times as long as the thorax, slightly widening towards apex, apices 

 separately rounded, very coarsely, irregularly punctured, the space between the black 

 median spots and the fascia devoid of these punctures, the base with a large black 

 spot on each, below the humeral umbone a smaller one, sometimes connected with 

 the basal spot, at about middle one oblique black spot on each side near suture, below 

 this two others, mostly connected assuming a zigzag form, at about apical two fifth a 

 broad black fascia of irregular outline, narrower towards suture. Anterior femora at 

 apex and anterior tibiae at base black, middle and hind tibiae sometimes with a black 

 fascia at middle. Anterior tibiae serrate, in the smaller specimens faintly. Length, 

 7-II mm. 



Brownsville, Texas. 



Types. — Four specimens in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute. 



I have taken a considerable number of this species, which is in my 

 experience the most common Clerid in this region. It occurred mostly 

 on Acacia flexicaulis and is a very slow insect. P. bilineicolle Chev. 

 and qiiadrisignattivi Spin, are allied to this species but the eleven- 

 jointed antennae and other characters separate it from these two ;. it 

 reseinbles P. atnabile Spin, also, but the markings, the form of thorax 

 and the elytral punctuation are different in the two species. 



The median impressed line of the thorax is variable in distinctness, 

 below this line is also sometimes a more or less elevated smooth space. 



The two genera Peloinum and Cregya are very feebly differenti- 

 ated, in Peloinum the tibiae are externally serrate and in Cregya 

 smooth, these differences are in some way bridged over by the above 

 described species, the serrulation is not very strong in the larger speci- 

 mens but extremely feeble in the smaller ones, and undoubtedly the 

 same will be the case in some of the Mexican or Central-American 

 species. Large specimens of Cregya vetusta Lee. have the front tibiae 

 outside irregular, not smooth. 



Enaplium granulatipenne, new species. 



Elongate black, elytra covered with small granules, red with two large black 

 spots on each side which are usually confluent. Head black, mouth parts red, 

 densely cribrately punctured ; antennas reaching to the middle of the elytra in the 

 male, first seven joints as long as the first joint of the club, black, the first 4 or 6 

 joints reddish beneath. Thorax a little broader than long, densely somewhat cribrately 

 punctured, sides arcuate, parallel for a very short distance at apex ; black, front and 

 hind angles narrowly red. Elytra distinctly broader than the thorax at base, sides 



