258 A RARE COLEOPTERA PAPKR OF T. W. HARRIS 



produced in [page 84] the form of a nearly rectangular, short tooth. Scutellum 

 not obtusely and regularly rounded at tip, but subacute. Elytra elongated, 

 somewhat oblong-quadrate, a little narrowed behind, slightly dilated at the 

 middle of the sides, glabrous, not rugose, but with minute superficial punctures, 

 and two longitudinal nearh* obsolete elevated lines on each; sutural tip with a 

 prominent spine. Body beneath glabrous, obsoletely punctured; breast with 

 short, silky, yellowish hairs. Legs glabrous, and with small, distant punctures. 

 Antenna^, in both sexes, with the same number of joints; in the male the third 

 and following joints are dilated, produced beneath, and imbricated, but not 

 emarginated at their tips; in the female they are long-obconic, compressed, 

 slender. Last ventral segment of the male deeply indented. 



"This large species differs from the brencornis, F. in not having the elytra 

 rugose nor confluently punctured; it is also of a more elongated shape, not so 

 much narrowed behind, the thorax shorter, the anterior tooth of which is 

 much more and the posterior one rather less prominent, and the terminal acu- 

 leus of each elytron longer. The brencornis is of a much darker color, and is 

 easily distinguished from it by its corrugated elytra. The Icrvigatus bears a 

 closer resemblance to the imfrricor7iis, L., but the antenna? of the male, like 

 those of the female, have only twelve joints, and the joints are not so large, and 

 so closely imbricated. The color is the same in both, and they are nearly 

 equallj' smooth; but the elytra of the imbricornis are not very distinctly acu- 

 leated. Our species probably approaches to the palparis, Say, which is de- 

 scribed as being black, with the last joint of the maxillary palpi very con- 

 spicuously longer than the preceding joint." (This is 5960 [Herxshaw], P. 

 pocularis Dalman.) 



Page 84. "21. Clytts nobilis. Plate I, fig. 7. 

 Black, thorax immaculate; each elytron with a large [page 85] yellow spot 

 at base, a minute one on the outer margin behind the shoulder, a larger one 

 before the middle, a transverse, slightly arcuated, slender band across the 

 middle, and between this and the tip two spots transversely imited. 



"Length from 80 to 90 hundredths of an inch. 

 C. yiohilis, Harris. Catalogue, p. — . 



" Halsey's Collection, No. 226. 



"Cabinet of the Boston Society, Xat. Hist. No. — . 



"This fine and strongly characterized species varies considerably in the size 

 and distinctness of the elytral spots. Of five specimens, known to me, three 

 have the arcuated band interrupted into three transverse spots, which, how- 

 ever, run together. In one there was the addition of a small, transverse, very 

 faint spot just before the tip of each ehi;ron; and, in another, the band and all 

 the spots were obsolete, except the round one before the middle of the disc. 

 Four of these specimens were taken upon Blue Hill in Massachusetts; Mr. 

 Halsey's specimen was captured in Hartford, Connecticut. 



" It is closely related to the Clytus speciosus, first described by Mr. Say in 

 the Appendix to Keating's 'Narrative of Major Long's Expedition to the source 

 of the St. Peter's River, &c.'\ subsequently described and figured in his 'Amer- 

 ican Entomology ' ; and still more recently a figure of it has been published in 



