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Synopses of Cerambycidae 



Bv Chas. W. Lekg, B. S. 



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 TRAGIDION, Sen: 

 Contains three species in which the prothorax is moderately punc- 

 tured and the scutellum small, broad y triangular, almost rounded. The 

 thorax and elytra are conspicuously pubescent concealing the punctures. 



SYNOPSIS OF TRAGIDION. 

 Elytra sulcate. 



Hind tarsi wider; aiitennie annulate annulatum. 



Hind tarsi narrower, antennae black coquus. 



Elytra even, not sulcate armatum. 



T. annulatum Lee. Proc. Acad. Phil. 1S58, p. 83. Length .80 in. = 20 mm. 

 Mab. Arizona, Cal., Texas, N. Mex. 



Black, antennae yellow with scape and tip of each joint black, 

 elytra densely clothed with fulvous pubescence, basal line and humeri 

 black. (PI, III, f. 10.) 



T. coquus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. X, p. 393; Lee. J. A. P. ser. 2, II, 1850, p. 

 10; lyneeiim Fab. Syst, Ent. p. 191; Oliv. Ent, IV, 67, p. 37, t. 14. f. 97- Casteln 

 Hist. Nat. II. p. 452; Melsheimeri Germ, Ins. Spec. nov. p. 502. Lengjth .60 in.= 

 15 mm. Hab. Atlantic and Southern States, Tex., Col. 



Var . fulvipenne Say, Journ. Ac. Phil. Ill, 1823, p. 414; Lee. Journ. Ac. P. ser. 

 2, II, p. 10. Length i in. = 25 mm. Hab. Ills., Col., N. J., Utah, La., Mo., Tex. 

 Arkansas. 



T. coquus is entirely black except a spot of orange on each elytron 

 near the base, 



T.fulvipenne is larger and the elytra are entirely clothed with ful- 

 vous hair. 



A specimen in the collection of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, has the elytra 

 suffused with black, except where the spots occur in coquus. presenting a 

 form precisely intermediate. 



It is now considered a variety oi coquus. 

 T. armatum Lee. J. A. P. V, i, 1858, p. 25; Lacord. Gen. Col. IX, 1869, p. 

 174. not. Length I in. = 25 mm. Hab. California, Texas. 



Color as in annulatum, but the elytra are smooth and the lateral 

 spine of thorax is even more marked than in the other species of the 

 genus. 



PURPURICENUS, Serv. 



Thorax coarsely punctured with a small lateral spine. Scutellum 

 moderate, broadly triangular, acute at tip. Elytra not pubescent. 

 S YNOPSIS OF F URP UIUCENUS. 



Thorax entirely black humeralis. 



Thorax black, disk red dimidiatus. 



Entomologica Americana, Vol TI, 12 July 1886. 



