uly, 1S92.] 



PSYCHE. 



285 



(Confirmed from page 274.) 

 des plantes at Paris, a 9 , and the 

 Philadelphia type of the same at 

 the Oxford museum, and from my 

 notes and sketches taken at the time 

 (1S65-66) I can have no doubt that the 

 two species are identical, an opinion 

 first advanced by Burmeister (Germ. 

 Zeitschr. ent., 2,54) and now generally 

 held. Burmeister's description ap- 

 peared at least a month before Serville's. 

 That the Brazilian specimen mentioned 

 by Serville belonged to a different spe- 

 cies is probable both from its geographi- 

 cal separation and because Serville 

 mentions that the inside of the hind 

 femora is of a deep blue, which might 

 have been taken from the Brazilian 

 specimen but is not true of the North 

 American species. 



This is a characteristic species of the 

 southern United States, where it ex- 

 tends everywhere from Florida to 

 Texas, and ranges as far north as Mary- 

 land, Pennsylvania (Serville), and New 

 Jersey in the east, Illinois as far north 

 as Union County (Thomas) or Rock 

 Island County (McNeill) where it is 

 rare, and in the west to Nebraska. 

 I have specimens before me from 

 various parts of Florida, Dallas, 

 Tex., Georgia, North Carolina, Vir- 

 ginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and 

 Nebraska. 



HlPPISCUS (H.) PANTHERIXUS Sp. 110V. 



Pale ochraceous, the head strongly tinged 

 with pale yellow, full and well rounded, 

 only moderately broad above ; vertex trans- 

 versely scabrous behind the scutellum which 



is broader than long, with distinct and some- 

 what elevated, though smoothlv rounded 

 bounding walls which rapidly converge on 

 the sides anteriorly, its front terminated bv a 

 transverse and deep foveolate sulcus sepa- 

 rating its body from the frontal costa ; pos- 

 teriorly the bounding wall is slight and a 

 feeble longitudinal carina passes through its 

 posterior half, the floor nearly smooth ; lat- 

 eral foveolae small, subrhomboid, distinct; 

 frontal costa rather deeply sulcate except at 

 extremities. Antennae fuscous, paler at 

 base. Pronotum not very stout, the posterior 

 lobe less expanded than usual, the median 

 carina impressed rather than cut by the an- 

 terior sulcus, and the effect heightened by its 

 partial suppression immediately behind said 

 sulcus and the formation of a slight discal 

 scutellum; surface rugose but not promi- 

 nently nor densely, the lateral canthi moder- 

 ately sharp and traversing the principal 

 sulcus; color ochraceous with a pale yellow 

 oblique stripe on either side of the metazona, 

 broad anteriorly and narrow posteriorly, 

 giving the metazona the appearance of a 

 greater expansion than it has. Tegmina 

 dark fuscous with strongly pantherine, trans- 

 verse, pallid or yellowish stripes which be- 

 come narrower and fainter in the semipel- 

 lucid apex ; in all cases they are continuous, 

 subequal, and traverse the whole or nearly 

 the whole of the tegmina outside the axillary 

 area which is fuscous except for one or two 

 partial bands adjoining those of the area 

 above but separated from them by the clear 

 pale yellow sutural stripe; an oblique pallid 

 discal stripe follows the descending portion 

 of the ulnar vein connecting the transverse 

 stripes at either end ; darker spots of the 

 marginal field blackish fuscous and conspic- 

 uous especially in middle of tegmina. 

 Wings pale lemon-yellow at base with a 

 rather broad dark fuscous stripe hardly nar- 

 rowing in the upper part of the anal field, 

 but narrowing with great regularity to the 

 anal angle which it reaches, leaving four 

 lobes of the margin intact; separated by a 



