North' American Longicornia. 143 



and less dense on the apical fourth part. Metathoracic 

 episterna marked each with a deep longitudinal groove. 



Lengtl), S J 6-Gi rnin, 



Ilah. North America. 



The Ohriuvi ruhrum of Newman (?jntom. Maj?. v. p. 393, 

 1838), with which the above species had been identified by 

 Leng, does not belong to the genus Ohrium, but must be 

 placed in the genus Batyle as a synonym of B. suturalis, 

 Say, Journ. Acad. Phil. iii. p. 411 (1823). 



Leptura zebra, Oliv., whicli is placed in the genus Lej)ticra 

 in Ilenshaw's ' List of North-American Coleoptera,' should 

 be transferred to the genus Typocerus, Lee, to take the place 

 of the name zebratus, Fab. 



Leconte (' New Species of North-American Coleoptera,' 

 pt. ii. p. 214) gave the synonymy of this species correctly, 

 but unfortunately placed the names in the wrong order of 

 priority. The right order is as follows : — 



Typocerus zebra, Oliv. 



Leptura zebra, Oliv. Entom. iv. no. 73, p. 19, pi. iii. fig. 3.3 fl79o). 

 Leptura zebratus. Fab. Syst. El. ii. p. 364 (1801). 

 Leptura Carolina, Weber, Observ. Entom. p. 91 (1801). 



The genus Metkia, Newm., together with three other 

 genera — Idcemea, Horn, Stylo.vus, Lee, and Dysphaga, Lee. 

 — constitute the tribe Methiini in the classification of the 

 Coleoptera of North America given by Leconte and Horn ; 

 and in reference to it the authors write : — " This tribe con- 

 tains the lowest organized of the Lamiida? ; undifferentiated 

 forms, which exhibit strong relationship to CE'/neand its allies 

 among the Cerambycidge." This view as to the position of 

 the Methiini, although it received the sanction of Thomson 

 and Lacordaire, is, in my opinion, an untenable one ; and 1 

 think it well to repeat here my concurrence with the view of 

 Professor Lameere, as thus expressed : — " Quant aux 

 Lamiides, ils torment uiie unite systematique parfaite, si Ton 

 en retire les Auxesides^ et les IMethiides qui n'ont rien de 

 commun avec eux " ('' Etude sur la Phylogeiiie des Longi- 

 corncs," Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlv. p. 315, 1901). Tho 

 African Auxesides and the American Methiidcs, as I have 

 already pointed out (Distant's ' Insccta Transvaaliensia,' 

 pt. V. p. 108, 1904), agree completely with the Cerambycid 

 group Gemini, and ought to bo incorporated in that group. 

 They are quite out of place in tho Lainiidii?, and 1 can find 

 no reason for regarding them as transitional groups between 



