82 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xv. 



Neoclytus tenuiscriptus, new species. 



Red-brown, scutellum and three elytral fascice yellow. First two fasciae very 

 narrow and approximate, the first a little oblique, nearly straight and of uniform 

 width, bent forward a little at its outer end which is nearly perpendicular to the side 

 margin ; second fascia rather strongly anteriorly angulate near the suture, its outer 

 portion strongly oblique and slightly arcuate ; posterior fascia just behind the apical 

 fourth, wider than the others, of nearly equal width, oblique, and straight or slightly 

 posteriorly arcuate. Beneath thinly pubescent, lateral episternal spots as usual, hind 

 margin of metasternum and of first ventral segment narrowly yellow ; second ven- 

 tral more broadly margined with yellow especially externally. Prothoracic rugae 

 mainly confined to the median line, though with traces of lateral elevations in most 

 examples. Thighs strongly pedunculate, hind tibiae strongly compressed and moder- 

 ately dilated apically, femora not distinctly spinose at tip. Length 10-12^ mm. 



Southern California (Pasadena; Claremont). 



Quite closely related to approximatiis, in which however the elytral 

 bands are wider, especially the anterior and posterior ones near the 

 suture, and the spacing is also a little different. The elytral apices 

 are obliquely truncate in both species but a little more widely so in 

 approximatiis. 



Eudistenia, new genus. 



Elongate, subcylindrical ; palpi not very unequal, terminal joints longer than 

 wide, moderately dilated, truncate ; eyes moderately granulated, almost completely 

 divided, the upper lobe small. Antennae very slender, much longer than the body 

 in the $ , equal in length to the body in the 9 > not compressed, neither spined nor 

 tuberculate, sparsely hairy beneath, second joint very short, outer joints decreasing 

 in length. Prothorax a little wider than long, rather strongly constricted at base, 

 sides obtusely tuberculate posteriorly. Scutellum obtusely triangular, elytral apices 

 separately rounded. Prosternal process rather narrow but distinctly separating the 

 coxae, which are rounded and moderately prominent ; front and middle coxal cavities 

 angulate externally ; metasternal episterna narrow, not much wider in front. Legs 

 moderate, thighs not strongly clavate, tibial spurs short. 



This genus is founded on a fine large Californian species whose 

 immediate affinities are not entirely clear. There can be little doubt 

 that it should be placed in the Cerambycini though the eyes are less 

 coarsely granulate than is the rule in this tribe. The ligulals appa- 

 rently corneous, at least in part, and is broadly rather deeply emargi- 

 nate. This together with the distinctly visible front trochantins throw 

 it into the group (Ernes, with the members of which it agrees in the 

 aggregate quite as well as they agree with one another, departing 

 from the majority of them in the narrow more parallel metasternal 

 episterna, less unequal palpi and style of punctuation, which latter is 

 of the type prevailing in Brothylus. 



