— 159— 



Elvtra less acutely acuminate, black with three hands and two basal 



spots yellow zebratus. 



Prothorax margined with hair at base, les^s and anteinue black. 



Elytra black, with a broad angulated yellow spot, sometimes divided, 

 extending from the base to the side margui, enclosing the hu- 

 meral angle and jiosterior yellow band, often missing . lunatlis. 

 Elytra black, with basal siwt and three transverse bands yellow, the 

 two anterior bands sometimes united at suture . . . sparsus. 

 Prothorax more densely, less coarsely pimctured; pubescence golden, 

 denser at base and tip. 

 Legs ferruginous; elytra brown, with four yellow hands, frequently im- 

 perfect or obsolete, tip sub-obliquely truncate and feebly bi- 



spinose velutimis. 



Legs black; elytra black, tip obliquely truncate and shortly acuminate. 



lugubris. 

 B. — Antennae brown; prothorax strongly punctured, much rounded on the 

 sides before the middle; elytra with four yellow bands, more or 

 less confluent, the anterior basal, the second and third frequently 

 connected near suture, tip subtruncate, not spinose; legs ferru- 

 ginous. 

 Antennae stouter, the sixth joint with large impression in -7; elytra more 



shining brunnicornis. 



Antennae more slender, jomts 3 — 5 longer, sixth without inijiression in 



either sex sinuatus. 



C. — Antennae black rj', partly yellow 9 : prothorax strongly punctured, much 

 rounded on the sides before the middle; elytra yellow, with base 

 and tip and three narrow bands black, often imperfect. Up sub- 

 truncate; legs yellow balteatus. 



T. badius Newn., Ent. 1841, p. 69. 



Length 13 mm. ^= .52 inch. Hal>. — Fla., Ga., N. C, Ala. 

 T. zebratus Fab., 1801, Syst. EI. ii, p. 364; Lee, J. A T. P. ser. 2, i p. 334; 

 aiirigera Newn., Ent. p. 70. 



Length 10 — 13 mm. = .40 — .52 inch. Hab. — Fla.; Ga., N. C, N. V., Pa. 



This species is often confused with Leptura zebra, from whicli 

 it may be readily separated by the prothorax being- onh' impressed 

 at base, while in L. zebra it is deeply excavated. 



T. sparsus Lee, Proc. Am. Phil. .Soc. 187S, xvii, p. 614. 



Length 9 — 10 mm. = .36 — .40 inch. Hab. — Mich., L. .Sup., Wis., Ohio. 

 T. lunatus Fab., 1801, 1. c. p. 360; Hald., Trans. Am. Phil, x, p. 63; araiata\\ 

 OHv., Ent. 1795, iv, 73, p. 32, t. 4, fig. 49. 

 Length 9 — lo mm. = .36 — .40 inch. Hab. — Fla., Ga., N. C , Texas. 

 T. velutinus Oliv., 1795, Ent. iv, 1, c; Hald., 1. c.\ fugas Fab., 1798, .Sy.st. 

 Ent. .Suppl. p. 153; Hald., Proc. Ac. Phil, iv, p. 375; r/wis Forst. 

 i. litt.; Schon, Syn. Ins. i, 3, ]). 485, not. g; tenuior Ky., Fn. l!or. 

 Am. iv, p. 181; nobilis Newn., Ent. p. 67. 

 Length 10 — 14 mm. = .40— .56 inch. Hab. — Ga., Fla., \'a.. Pa., N. L, 

 N. v.. N. H.. Wis., Dak., Ind. T., Can. \V., La., Me., Ohio. " 



