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piceous above, a little paler beneatli; mouth, tegulae and anterior angle 

 and a spot on pleura piceous ; legs yellow red ; middle tibia with a 

 cleft spur. 



Cleveland, Ohio. 



Six specimens (4 9 , 2 S ), received from Mr. J. Kirkpatrick, Cleve- 

 land O., taken from the pine in large numbers. The larvae were de- 

 scribed by him in the Ohio Farmer, Cleveland, Vol. IX, Nov. 24, 1860, 

 but unfortunately I have not access to the paper. 



1 1 . L. americanus. 



Lophyrus americanus, Leach, Zool. Misc. Ill, 1817. 

 Lepel., Mon. Tenth. 55, 158. 

 Fitch, Nox. Ins. iv, 59, 274. 

 "Antennas black, head luteous. Thorax luteous spotted with black, 

 abdomen deep luteous. Legs luteous. Wings hyaline, at base tending 

 to sub-fulvous. Antennas of the female 19-jointed. 

 Georgia. 9 Long 5 lin. exp. wings 9 lin." 



This is very much like L. pinctum, except in the number of joints 

 of antennas. 



12. L. Lecontei. 



Lophyrus Lecontei, Fitch. Nox. Ins. iv, 58, 273. Eiley, Prairie Farmer, May, 

 1868. Packard, Guide, p. 226. 



Length, $ 0.40—0.50. Br. wings, 0.70—0.82 inch. 

 9 . — Antennae 20-jointed, tapering, the processes at sides of the live 

 or six basal joints of flagellum longer than width of joints; final joint 

 as long as the preceding; nasus slightly concave; maxillary palpi 

 with third joint short and globose, sixth joint longer than fourth or 

 fifth; punctures coai'se, separated, most distinct behind the scutel; 

 color of body yellow-brown, antennas blackish ; metathorax and tergum 

 and a stripe down each side of venter black; tips of palpi yellow; 

 remainder of palpi, edges of anterior angle, pleura, outer edges of venter 

 and knees, waxen-white; wings faintly clouded; lanceolate cell with 

 oblique cross-nervure. 



% . — I have not seen the male. Mr. Riley describes it as follows : 

 " Antennae 24-jointed, having on one side seventeen large, and on the 

 other seventeen small branches, the second joint furnishing but one 

 stout branch and the terminal two also furnishing but one each. Thus 

 one counts twenty large branches on one side and seventeen small on 

 the other." Mr. Riley evidently is in some error here, as the antennae 

 are 22-jointed, as the second joint mentioned above is probably the first 

 joint of flagellum on third joint of antennae. 



Larva. — About one inch long; color dirty or yellowish-white, and 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. (4;5) JUNE, 1869. 



