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it probable that the species may in some localities breed in 
oaks of a different species. For this species and a fine series 
of C. elegans I am indebted to Mr. Ralph Hopping. 
C. pilosa Forster (Lampyris), Nov. Spec. Ins. Cent. i, p. 40 (1771) ; Oli- 
vier (Enoplium), Enc. Meth. vii, p. 490 (1782) ; Say (Znop- 
lium), Amer. Ent. iii, tab. 41, fig. 5 (1828); Klug ( Anoplium); 
Abh. Berl. Akad., 1842, pp. 104 and 360 mec., p. 113; Spinola 
( Pelonium), Mon, Clérites i, p. 356; tab. 34, fig. 5 (1844) ; 
LeConte (Felonium), Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., N. Y., v, p. 32 
(1849) ; Gorham (Pe/onium), Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., xxv, 
p. 417 (1877) ; Wickham, Can. Ent., xxvii, p. 252 (1895). 
C. pilosa var. onusta Say (Lnoplium), Amer. Ent. iii; tab. 41, fig. 1 
(1828) ; Say (2. marginatum ||), Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 
iii, p. 188 (1823) ; LeConte (Pelonium), Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., 
N. Y., v, p. 32 (1849) ; Wickham, Can. Ent., xxvii, p. 252, fig. 
20 (1895). 
Chariessa pilosa and its color variety are so well known and 
easily recognized as to render needless the giving of any char- 
acters other than those contained in the table of species. 
C, texana n. sp. 
Elongate, black, thorax ferruginous, apical margin each side of middle 
with rounded black maculation, sometimes united forming a short, broad, 
transverse apical band. Head and thorax coarsely and very densely 
punctured, pilose with long, erect yellowish hairs. Thorax slightly 
longer than broad, convex, disc feebly longitudinally impressed, sides 
parallel anteriorly. Elytra dark blue, sides nearly parallel, convex, 
moderately shining, the sutural margins strongly costate, the costae 
smooth and broad, each elytron with four more feebly developed costae, 
punctuation very coarse and dense at base, less deep and coarse toward 
apices, humeri very prominent, impunctate. Legs densely clothed with 
very long semi-erect hairs. Length 11-15 mm. 
Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas. Three specimens kindly 
given me by Mr. Willard Wooding. 
This species is most nearly allied to C. pilosa, from which it 
is distinct by the different form of the thorax and by the form 
of the entire insect, the elytra are more coarsely punctured and 
moderately shining, and it is a much larger species; the colors 
of thorax and elytra are also greatly different from those of 
pilosa. ‘The variety of this species is identical with the type 
excepting that the elytra are very narrowly margined, the pale 
margin being about half as wide as in C. pilosa variety onusta. 
