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Synopses of Cerambycidae .* 



By Charles W. Leng, B. S. 



GNAPHALODES, Thorns. 



A species belonging to this genus has occured in Texas. It should 

 be placed before Chion with the following definition: 



Prothorax with lateral spine behind tin- middle; antenna 1 densely fring- 

 ed beneath, inner angle of joints 4—7 spinose; elytra bispinose at tip, episterna 

 of metathorax wide, scent pores distinct. 



The scutellum is triangular, larger than in Chion, and the eyes are 

 less coarsely granulated; the prosternum is perpendicular behind, and the 

 mesosternum convex. The body is brown, uniformly clothed with gray 

 brown pubescence, paler and more dense on the scutellum. The species 

 may be considered an occasional visitor rather than a permanent addi- 

 tion to our fauna. 



G. trachyderoides Thorns. Class. Long. p. 236; acuticornis Chev. Dej. Cat. 

 page 152. 



CHION, Newm. 



Contains one species, a large grayish brown insect with rounded 

 prothorax, spined at sides and bispinose elytra. It varies greatly in color 

 and may or may not bear a yellowish arcuate blotch on each elytron be- 

 fore the middle. Length 25 — 37 mm. = 1 — 1.5 inches. Hab. America 

 borealis. 



C. cinctus, Drury, 111., 2. 1773. Ind. I, p. 85, t. 37, f. 6. Harris, In j. In>. 

 81; ruricola Gmel. ed Linn. I, 4, p. i860; rusticus Fab. Sp. Ins. I, 228; baUeatus 

 Deg. Mem. V, in, t. 14, f. 3; (jaraanicus Fab. Syst. Ent. 178; 4 spinosus Hald. 

 Tr. Am. Phil. Soc. X, 32. 



EBURIA, Sere. 



Contains several species of moderate size readily distinguished 1>\ 

 the two pairs of ivory spots on the elytra. We reproduce the Synopsis 

 offered by Dr. Leconte in 1873, and published in S.M.C., No. 264. 



A. — Middle and hind femora produced at tip into two acute spines; elytra bispinose 

 at tip; 

 a.— Front coxa? not angulated. fissure completely closed; prothorax abruptly con- 

 stricted before and behind, tuberculate and strongly armed on the sides; color 

 piceous; 



Body glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath, prothorax feebly grossly 

 punctured, elytra with very small ivory spots of which the medial pair and 



the outer basal one are frequently wanting Ulkei. 



Body densely and finely pubescent, prothorax with a few very large punct- 

 ures; elytral spots small, distant, outer basal one sometimes wanting, ely- 

 tral spines small stigmatica. 



* Synopses of the preceding genera will be found in the Bull. Brookl. Ent. Soc. 

 Vol. VII. 



