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CLYTUS Fabr. 



1. C. CiiARUS. — Thorax yellow, with three black dots; elytra 

 black ; base, band behind the middle, and tip yellow. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body covered with short, dense, prostrate hair : head black ; a 

 band on the vertex curving under the head, an abbreviated line 

 above the antenna), and front yellow : thorax yellow, with three 

 dorsal, transverse, abbreviated, [194] parallel, blackish bands : 

 elytra black ; basal third a narrow, undulated band behind the 

 niiddle, and tip in which is a small black spot, yellow ; a black 

 dot on the humerus : beneath yellow sutures and feet black. 



Length nine-tenths of an inch. 



Somewhat like C. dcrorus Oliv., and speciosus nob., but the 

 bands of the elytra and other characters are essentially different. 

 I first observed it near the end of August. It is a remarkably 

 fine insect. 



[Belongs to Arliopalus as enlarged by me.] 



2. C. CAPREA nob. — Occurred at New Orleans. 



STENOPTERUS Illig. (NECYDALIS Fabr.) 



S. SANGUlNlCOLLls. — Blackish, thorax sauguineou.s. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black, with cinereous hairs, punctured : thorax sanguine- 

 ous, inequal, with three more obvious elevations : elytra with a 

 longitudinal, slightly elevated line; disk obscurely tinged with 

 brownish: feet yellow; club of the thighs and tip of the tibiae 

 black. 



Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 



It is more slender than S. prseuntusYtihi'.; but the thoracic 

 and elytral elevations are somewhat similar. 



MOLORCHUS Fabr. 

 M. MKLiTus. — Black; abdomen, feet and basal joint of the 

 antennae honey-yellow. 

 Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black : head indented between the antennaj : antennae 

 about as long as the body, basal joint rufous; thorax subcylindric, 

 contracted before the middle, and with an indented longitudinal 



[Vol. I. 



