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from Del Norte Co., northern California, and from Prof. 

 Wickham I have received a specimen for identification which 

 is labeled \'ernon, B. C. In all these, as in the type, the red 

 humeral markings are strongly limited and of the same form. 



Enoclerus quadriguttatus var. rufiventris Spin., Mon. Cler., I, 1844, 

 p. 264, pi. xxiii, f. 3. 



A specimen of this variety from Mt. Katahdin, Maine, 5,000 

 feet, sent for examination by Prof. Wickham has the usual 

 coloration of this variety excepting that the apical margin of 

 the prothorax is dull testaceous and the median elytral fascia 

 is bright orange-yellow ; a subapical fascia of the same color 

 is less evident, being more thoroughly hidden by the dense 

 grayish pubescence clothing this part. 



Enoclerus bombycinus Chevr., Col. Mex., cent. I, fasc. 1, 1833, No. 

 42. 



Three specimens from Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico, sent 

 by Prof. Wickham, are as variable in size as the examples 

 from eastern Mexico, but remarkably constant in coloration. 



Enoclerus spinolae Lee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vi, 1853, p. 

 230. 



A specimen of this species taken by Prof. \\'ickham at 

 Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico, has the post median fascia 

 nearly complete, the interruption at the suture being very nar- 

 row. 



This species has on two or more occasions been recorded as 

 occurring in Mexico, but no definite locality has been given. 



Enoclerus acerbus sp. nov. 



Closely allied to ichneiimoneiis Fabr., from which it differs as fol- 

 lows : Form broader and depressed, head and prothorax rather coarse- 

 ly rugose, elytra very finely confluently punctate, the general color 

 black, a broad median fascia and the abdomen yellow. Head, pro- 

 thorax, base of elj^tra and legs clothed with long erect and semi-erect 

 greyish hairs ; these are wanting upon the disk of the prothorax where 

 they are replaced by very short, dense black pubescence and longer 

 black hairs. Elytra black, a broad median fascia yellow, the anterior 

 and posterior margins of fascia sub-parallel but arcuate upon each 

 elytron, the convexity being toward the base of elytra, a sub-apical ob- 

 lique fascia composed of short greyish pubescence as in ichneumotieus. 



