DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 209 



nigripennia Lee. y. Black ; varies with 1, legs yellow ; 2, prothorax yel- 

 low ; 3, prothorax yellow with two black spots, various Lee. £. Testa- 

 ceous, bead dusky, fusciceps Lee. 2. bivittata {Say). 

 Blackish-blue, elytra more coarsely and sparsely punctured (pubescent ?) 



lateral angle of prothorax ohtuse but less prominent. 3. atka Lee. 

 Greenish-bronze, pubescent, elytra coarsely and sparsely punctured 

 (general form less stout, and lateral angle of prothorax more rounded, 

 and less prominent). 4. sub.'enea Lee. 



b. Prothorax with the lateral angle rounded, not prominent, sides 

 straight and parallel behind ; 

 Testaceous (feebly pubescent ?) punctures of elytra irregular toward the 



base. 5. piNouisn.sp. 



Dark metallic, pubescence soft and long, elytra more densely punctured, 

 more finely towards the tip. Varies, dark-blue, tumida Lee. ; black, 

 lufjens Lee. ; blue with longer and better preserved pubescence, molli- 

 pilosa Lee. ; dark testaceous, sides blackish-bronze, fusca Lee. Smaller, 

 elytra less densely punctured, californica Lee. ; with elytra brighter 

 blue, subcyanea Lee. 6. tdmida Lee. 



B. More elongate species, antennae on a line with the front margin of the 

 eyes, slender, 4th joint scarcely shorter than 5th; prothorax 

 campanulate, constricted before and behind, hind angles fre- 

 quently prominent, tarsi longer and more slender, with 3d joint 

 rather more broadly bilobed ; 1st and 2d joints of hind tarsi 

 not brush-like beneath, (precisely as in Leptura). 

 a. Disk of prothorax convex, channelled ; elytra rounded at tip ; 

 bind angles of head obtusely rounded except in 10 aud 11 ; 

 Prothorax wider than long ; 



Hind angles not prominent, elytra more densely punctured, with a red 



humeral spot. 7. militaris Lee. 



Hind angles distinctly prominent, elytra less densely punctured, black 

 sometimes testaceous, a. Elytra with testaceous vittae, dorsalis Lee. 

 Subpilosa was founded on abraded specimens; lupina Lee, on one in 

 which the long pubescence is preserved. 8. subpllosa Lee. 



Prothorax longer than wide, more strongly constricted in front; 

 Elytra more sparsely punctured ; 



Sides of head parallel behind the eyes. a. Elytra entirely black. 

 #. Elytra with testaceous vittae. y. Elytra testaceous, margin 

 black, marginalis Lee. 9. loxgicorms Kirby. 



Sides of head oblique behind the eyes ; hind imprersion of prothorax 

 deeper ; 

 Prothorax more densely punctured. 10. vincta Lee. 



Prothorax shining, less densely punctured. 11. ligata n. sp. 



Elytra more densely punctured with short pubescence, base red ; head 

 and prothorax clothed with golden hair, the former feebly, the latter 

 strongly constricted at base. 12. basalis u. sp. 



