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sparsus Lec. and usually found in collections under that 
name, is the common species described here as hopkinst. 
Many years ago Dr. A. D. Hopkins, after whom the species 
is named, indi ‘ated that the common Pityogenes in pine, 
probably the one discussed here, was not the true sparsus. 
The type in the Leconte collection, now in the Agassiz 
Museum at Cambridge, Mass., is a male of the species now 
known as balsameus Lee.; the second specimen in the 
Leconte series is a male of phagiatus Lec.; numbers three 
and four are females and number five is a male of hopkinst ; 
number six is balsameus; numbers eight, nine and ten are 
hopkinst. 
Pityogenes lecontei n. sp. ‘The seventh specimen in the 
Leconte collection, is a distinct species, a female, closely 
allied to hopkinsi, from which it is readily distinguished by 
the different frontal pit. The front is shining, granulate- 
punctuate; with two elongate, approximate foveae, with a 
combined outline longer than wide, situated on the median 
line at the base of the epistoma; the pits separated by a 
narrow median carina; the frontal hairs sparse and fine; the 
elytral pubescence is fine and very short, perhaps abraded. 
Leconte’s description of his type, ‘‘ Head densely pilose, 
with long yellow hair, prothorax ; anterior margin 
fringed with hairs which are half as long as the thorax ;” 
applies well to the type, the first specimen of the series now 
in the Leconte collection, and to the male of balsameus Lec., 
but does not apply at all to the species described here as 
lecontet, nor to the species hopkins:.. It appears certain that 
the descriptions of sparsus Lec., and balsameus Lec., were 
written from the same species and since sparsus is the older 
name it must replace balsameus. 
