PSYCHE 
[August 
Specimens of this species with the front normally striate were early re- 
ferred by LeConte to semistriatus Say, while others of the same species (and 
afterwards so recognized by LeConte) in which the frontal striae were broken 
up or divided as they frecjuently are in some degree, served as the types of 
novemstriatus. The name is thus seen to be an unfortunate one, but must 
stand. Harris observed that in this species the dorsal and apical punctures 
are jdaced in shallow' foveae and therefore gave it the name qnadrifoveatus in 
MS. These foveae are, how'ever, often feeble or obsolete and Harris' name 
would therefore be but little better than LeConte's. 
Novenstriatns inhabits most portions of our territory from northern New 
England to Florida, and westw'ard to New Mexico. The following localities 
are know'n to me: New Hampshire, [Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New' York, 
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, North 
Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, Florida (Pensacola), Alabama (Mobile), 
Lousiana (Vowell's Mills — Leng.), Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, New' [Mexico 
(Cloudcroft, Viereck). 
7. N. nemoraUs n. sp. 
This and the following species differ conspicuously from all others of the 
5-striate group b}' the entire or subentire broad lateral yellow' stripe of the elytra. 
Both forms have hitherto passed as sylvaHcus, but the present one, which is 
known to me only from Northern New' England is quite readily separable from 
the true sylivticiis of the North Pacific coast fauna by the somew'hat larger 
head, slightly less transverse nmihorax, which is distinctly more narrow’ed 
behind and more coarsely punctate beneath, and by the slightly longer more 
oval elytra, which are almost ahvays a little more deeply striate. It may be 
seen at once that this sjjecies bears the same relation to sylvaticns that borealis 
does to acquaticus. It is of course quite possible that ncmoralis and sylvaticns 
are merely geographical races of one species, but the fact that no intermediate 
form, nor even :i specimen of either has ever been recorded from the three 
thousand miles of intervening territory makes it probable that they are now 
completely isolated and distinct, whatever their origin. Ncmoralis is in fact 
more nearlv related to the European biguftatns than to sylz'atiais, and I w'as 
once tempted to consider them identical. A careful comparison shows that 
luguttatus is a somewhat stouter insect, the prothorax a trifle more transverse 
and the elytra less elongate, with the second or broad interspace a little w'ider. 
.According to Putzey's description — the only one at hand — the yellow apical 
