178 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 
282: ‘Yellow space at apex of elytra not impressed.” In a large 
series of males, | start with the typical male form as defined above. 
Then one with the faintest trace of an impression, and so on, 
more and more defined, until one is reached with a well defined 
impression, close to the suture but not attaining apical angle. 
When Le Conte described C. canaliculata, Smith. Mis. Collections, 
pt. I, p. 143, only a single one (type) was known. During 
1880, I collected hundreds on the blossoms of “white thorn” and 
“buckeye,” but all were females. They varied from the type in 
color as follows: Thorax rufous, elytra black, and legs black. 
The legs in the type were pale, thorax and elytra black, legs pale, 
and black all over. Surely if C. pulchra and fulvipes are good 
species, several could be made of canaliculata. Since 1880 I have 
secured several males. They have the apices of elytra broadly 
tipped with pale. Why the males should be so extremely rare, I 
do not know. At certain “haw” trees when in blossom, by hold- 
ing my umbrella inverted under the branches and striking them 
a hard blow with a stick, Corphyra would shower down, hundreds 
to a tree, and yet the larve are to me absolutely unknown, nor 
have I the slightest idea where to look for them. 
XYLOPHILUS. 
X. basilis Lec. X. fasciatus Mels. 
X. nebulosus Lec. X. piceus Lec. 
MACRATRIA. 
M. murina Fab. 
NOTOXUS. 
N. bicolor Say. N. monodon Fabr. 
N. bifasciatus Lec. N. anchora Hentz. 
TOMODERUS. 
T. constrictus Say. 
DILANDIUS. 
D. myrmecops Csy. 
I took this singular species from under a flat stone, Nov. 17. 
ANTHICUS. 
A. obscurus Laf. A. floralis Payk. 
A. sturmii Laf. A. cervinus Laf. 
A. formicarius Laf. A. pubescens Lec. 
A. cinctus Say. 
The synopsis by Le Conte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Science of Phil., 
vol. 6, p. 9, is very old, being publishing in 1852, since then Dr. 
Horn has published good synopsis of Corphyra and Notoxus 
Trans., vol. x, 1883. Maj. Casey has paper on Anthicide, Col. 
notices in Annals of N. Y. Acad. Sciences, vitI, p. 624. 
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