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differs from that species in tiie relative length of the last antennal 

 joint and the different punctuation and sculjjture of prothorax and 

 elytra. The thorax is clear red without spot and the elytra is black- 

 throughout, though there is at about middle of lateral margin a small 

 indefinite space of dark brownish color, suggesting the possibility 

 that specimens may occur with a pale lateral spot as in the other 

 species. 



Mr. Wolcott in Publ. Field Mus. Xat. Hist., Zool. ser., \'ol. VII, 

 p. 341, places pallipcs as a synonym of calif ornica with the following 

 remarks: "specimens of calif ornica in the author's collection from 

 Brownsville, Texas, agree in every detail with the brief description 

 of the recently described variety pallipcs. the type of which is also 

 from Brownsville, Texas, hence they are united." 



.A.S far as his specimens are concerned the remarks are correct, 

 but he made the mistake of wrongly identifying his Brownsville speci- 

 mens as calif ornica. In regard to coloration both pallipcs and cali- 

 fornica are very similar but differ decidedly in the number and shape 

 of the antennal joints, especially in the female. Fall in his descrip- 

 tion calls attention to the difference in the number of antennal joints 

 of tcnninata and calif ornica. and Wolcott, in the jiublication cited, 

 p. 342, remarks under tcnninaia that the antennal joints of the males 

 of calif ornica and snbsfriata are eight-jointed and ten-jointed in 

 tcnninaia. but Wolcott never took the trouble to examine the antennal 

 joints of his Brownsville specimens, simply identifying it as ca/j/or«;ca 

 on the similaritv of coloration. The antennal joints in pallipcs are 

 very distinctly ten-jointed in both sexes, while in calif ornica the 

 antenn;e are nine-jointed at least in the female and possibly in the male 

 also. 1 did not care to handle very much the only two small male 

 specimens before me, of which one belongs to Mr. Fall, but there 

 seem to be four small joints between the second and the last three 

 joints. The four or five antennal joints preceding the last are grad- 

 ually enlarged in rnficollis, tcnninata and pallipcs, while in calif ornica 

 only the two joints i)receding the last are enlarged and very ab- 

 ruptly so. 



I described pallipcs as a variety of tcnninaia. but 1 am convinced 

 now since seeing more material of the three species, that it is entitled 

 to specific standing. 



In regard to coloration, the few specimens of calif ornica which I 



