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Elytra less acutely acuminate, black vvitli three liancls and two basal 



spots yellow zebratus. 



Prothorax margined with hair at base, legs and antennae black. 

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

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

 meral angle and posterior Vfllow band, often missing . lunatus. 

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

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

 Prothorax more densely, less coarsely punctured; pubescence golden, 

 denser at base and tip. 

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

 perfect or obsolete, tip subobliciuely truncate and feebly bi- 



spinose velutinus. 



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



lugubris. 

 H.— Antenna; 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. 

 Antennee stouter, the sixth joint with large impression in J; elytra more 



shiiii'ig brunnicornis. 



Antenna? more slender, jomts 3—5 longer, sixth without impression in 



either sex sinuatus. 



C— Antenna? black rf , 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, tip sub- 

 truncate; legs yellow balteatus. 



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



Length 13 mm. = .52 inch. Hab.—Fla., Ga., N. C, Ala. 

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

 ajirigera Newn., Ent. p. 70. 

 Length 10—13 mm. = .40— .52 inch. Hab.—F\a.; Ga., N. C, N. Y., Pa. 

 This species is often confused with Leptiira zebra, from which 

 it may be readily separated by the prothorax being- only impressed 

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

 T. sparsus Lee, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 1878, xvii, p. 614. 



Length 9—10 mm. = .36— .40 inch. v%(^.— Mich., L. Sup., Wis., Ohio. 

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

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

 Length 9—10 mm. = .36— .40 inch. Hab.—V\?i., Ga., X. C , Te.xas. 

 T. velutinus Oliv., 1795, Ent. iv, 1, c; Hald., 1. Q..\ fugas P^ab.. 179S, Syst. 

 Ent. Suppl. p. 153; Hald., Proc. Ac. Phil, iv, p. 375; rhois¥ox?.\. 

 i. litt.; Schon, Syn. his. i, 3, p. 485, not. g; tcmiior Ky., Fn. Hor. 

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

 Length 10— 14 mm. = .40— .56 inch. Hab.—G-A., Fla., \'a., Pa., N. J., 

 N. Y., N. H.. Wis.. Dak., Ind. T., Can. W., La., Me.. Ohio. 



