North' American LonQicornia. 141 



Ci/Uene robinue, Forst. 



Leptura rohini<e, Forst. Nov. Sp. Insect, p. 43 (1771). 



Ze;;/?<;rt ;<2r^«s, Drury, Illust. Ex. Insects, i. p. 91, pi. xli. fig. 2 ; ii. 



Index (1773). 

 C'allidiumjlexmsum, Fab. Syst. Eut. p. 191 (1775). 



Callidium angulatum, Fab. Syst. Ent. p. 192, wliich was 

 added to tlie above synonymy by Olivier (Encycl. Meth. v. 

 p. 262), may or may not be identical witli 0. robinue; but I 

 have satisfied myself that it is not the species wliich I now 

 describe. 



Cyllene caryce^ sp. n. 



=-CyUene picta, Horn (nee Drury), Tr. Amer. Ent. Soe. viii. p. 134. 

 = Clytua pictus, Packard, Guide to the Study of Insects, p. 497, fig. 485 ; 

 id. Forest Insects, p. 287, fig. 112. 



Dark brown above, marked with pale yellow or yellowish- 

 white pubescent bands — two on the head, four on the pro- 

 thorax, and seven on the elytra ; the first thoracic band 

 placed at the anterior border and very narrow ; the first and 

 second elytral bands almost directly transverse, the third 

 W-shapedj the fourth and fifth angulated and interrupted, 

 the sixth consisting of a rather strongly arcuated band on 

 each elytron, the seventh forming a border to the apex; 

 body beneath banded with yellowisli pubescence; metatho- 

 racic episterna marked each with two yellow spots, the 

 interval between which is of a dark brown colour and as wide 

 as or wider than either of the spots; legs reddish ; antenna? 

 dark brown, sometimes more or less reddisii in parts. 



cJ . Antennae rather thick, extending past the apex of the 

 elytra ; third to sixth joints subdentate posteriorly at the 

 apex ; pronotum with a small jiunctate area on each side 

 rather close to the anterior border; sides of prothorax very 

 finely and densely punctate. 



? . Anteniijc extending to tlie middle of the elytra, not 

 quite so thick as in the male. 



Length 10-22, breadth 3-7 mm. 



Hab. N. America. 



Although apparently very common in the United States 

 and Canada, this species is not well represented by North- 

 American specimens in the British Museum collection, and 

 I am at present unable to study the wlade extent of its varia- 

 tion. 1 liave selected two specimens ( J& ? ) from Virginia 

 as types of the species, and the following variations from the 

 type occur : — 



