150 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



°M. distinctus MacGillivray. 



°M. minutus MacGillivray. 



*M. tiliae Norton. Selandria tilicc Norton. Larva feeds on 

 linden. Farmington (E. N.). 



°M. nubilipennis Norton. Selandria nubilipennis Norton. 

 M. bipunctatus MacGillivray. Stonington, 16 May, 1906 

 (B. H. W.). 



°M. sequalis MacGillivray. 



°M. plicatus MacGillivay. 



°M. transversus MacGillivray. 



Paracharactus MacGillivray. 

 *P. rudis (Norton). Selandria rudis Norton. Phymatocera 

 rudis Norton. 



Mesonotum wholly rufous; body black, with the labrum 

 white, and the prothorax, mesonotum, and the metanotum in 

 part, rufous ; front legs below the knees, and the knees of the 

 middle pair, white, more or less infuscated; ocellar basin dis- 

 tinct ; median fovea broader than long. Length 6 mm. 



Connecticut (E. N.). 

 °P. obscuratus MacGillivray. 



Mesonotum black, except a small infuscated spot near the 

 bases of the wings ; body black, with the tip of the clypeus, the 

 labrum, the supraclypeal area, the angles of the prothorax, 

 the posterior third of the mesopleurae, and the front and middle 

 legs below the knees, yellow or rufous; ocellar basin indistinct. 

 Length 5 mm. 



Phymatocera Dahlbom. 



P. rufula Norton. Selandria rufula Norton. 



Body black, with the clypeus, labrum, and mandibles, 

 rufous, shading onto the front adjacent to the antennal sockets 

 and the proximal segments of the antennae; tip of the anterior 

 femora longer beneath, rufous shaded with fuscous ; head pol- 

 ished ; the antennal fovese wanting below the lateral ocelli, 

 replaced by a sharp ridge extending to the antennal sockets ; the 

 antennal sockets deeply and broadly notched above; the area 

 between the ridges concave, polished around the median ocel- 



