394 ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, 



Call. Cylindi'ides. Testaceum^ oculis nigris: prothorax nitidtis, 

 punctaUis, complanatus, obsolete S-foveotus: elytra punctata, 

 nitida, lineis hatid conspicuis : femora seimm incrassata: Cylin- 

 derae ^aXWddd^ fades. (Corp. long, 'o unc. ; lat. '075 unc.) 



These three species of Callidium inhabit North America, and 

 have been taken by Messrs. Foster and Doubleday. 



Genus. — Clytus, Fabricius. 



Clyt. humeralis. Piceo-niger ; os ferrugineum, mandibulis apice 

 nigris; fades flaw bivittata; antennce ferruginece ante apicem 

 fusees : prothorax niger, lateribits ferrugineis, marginibus 

 flams : scutellum nigrum niargine flavd : elytra nigra humeris 

 ferrugineis ; utroque elytro lineis 2flatis signato; linea prima e 

 scutello profe suturam paulisper descendit, deinde ad marginem 

 externam tendit ; secunda e marglne externa ad suturam ex- 

 tendit, inde ad marginem revertitur : pedes ferruginei, femori- 

 bus elongatis, incrassatis, extus nigris; metatibice arcuata\ 

 (Corp. long. "5 unc; lat. '\15 unc.) 



Inhabits the United States of North America. Mr. Double- 

 day took two species at Cincinnati. 



Clyt. Apelles. Prothorax flamdo-tomentosa, inimaculata; elytris 

 nigris, griseo flavoque signatis ; antennis jyedibusque nigris, 

 pubescentid argented lemter tectis. (Corp. long. '7 unc. ; lat. 

 •2 unc.) 



Head thickly covered with a yellowish pubescence : eyes brown : 

 antennae black, slightly clothed with a silvery pubescence, and un- 

 usually long for this genus: prothorax and scutellum clothed with 

 a thick yellow pubescence, and without spot: elytra black, having 

 a very distinct longitudinal elevated ridge on each near the suture ; 

 the upper portion of the space between this ridge and the suture 

 is greyish white, and the lower portion is occupied by a black spot, 

 a grey spot, a black spot, a yellow sj)ot, a black spot, and a silvery 

 apical lunule ; between the elevated ridge and the outer margin of 

 each elytron are four yellow markings, the first originates near the 

 scutellum, and proceeds downwards about a third of the entire 

 length of the elytron, where it meets a white line descending ob- 

 liquely from the shoulder ; these two united form a letter V ; the 

 second yellow mark originates at the shoulder, and descends along 



* Entom. Magazine, Vol. I. p. 509. 



