134 Mr. G. C. Champion’s Notes on 
brownish-black pubescence, the whitish pubescence condensed on 
the elytra into a narrow, conspicuous, sharply-angulated, common, 
submedian fascia, which is preceded by two dark spots and followed 
by a broad, common, transverse, saddle-shaped blackish-brown 
patch; the surface also set with very long, erect, scattered whitish 
hairs and black setae, the latter condensed into three large fascicles 
on the elytra (one at the suture before the middle, and one on the 
disc of each towards the apex) and two smaller tufts on the dorsal 
hump of the thorax. Antennae long, rather slender, the three 
joints of the club elongate, the terminal joint longer than the pre- 
ceding. Thorax arcuato-explanate anteriorly, sinuate at the sides 
behind, densely punctate, the dorsal hump abrupt. Elytra much 
wider than the thorax, moderately long, parallel, conjointly rounded 
at the apex; with rows of closely placed coarse transverse punctures. 
Length 43, breadth 22 mm. (? 3.) 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Sallé). 
One specimen, with the dense whitish woolly vestiture 
somewhat matted and discoloured, but nevertheless leaving 
the sharply angulate submedian elytral fascia (which 
extends some distance down the third interstice, and is 
followed by one of the tufts of black setae) very conspicuous. 
Near T. w-album, Gorh., but with the tufts of black setae 
on the disc of the elytra towards the apex much longer, 
the common W-shaped mark broader, and preceded and 
followed by sharply-defined dark patches. This is one 
of the examples quoted by Gorham under 7. amperator, 
the insect having been thus labelled in the Sallé collection. 
T. sellata, Horn, from Lower California, has somewhat 
similarly marked elytra. 
*Trichodesma texana. 
Trichodesma texana, Schaeff., Canad. Ent. xxxv, p. 263 
(1903); Fall, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxi, pp. 172, 
175 (1905). 
Hab. Nortu America, Texas; Mexico, Matamoros. 
This species has the elytra densely clothed with whitish 
pubescence to the apical fourth, which is more sparsely 
clothed with fulvous hairs; the thorax strongly sinuate at 
the sides behind and with four blackish spots on the dorsal 
hump; and the anterior tufts of black hairs on the elytra 
almost wanting, the posterior tufts small but obvious, the 
dark ones in a transverse line at the apical fourth. T. sor- 
dida, Horn, from Texas, has also been taken at Brownsville, 
