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the black portions clothed with short velvety black pubescence, and 

 with the fascia with sparse long black hairs. Length lo mm. 



Elko, Nevada. Type in cabinet of Prof. Wickham. 



A smaller specimen (8.2 mm.) which is not before me at 

 the present time is in the collection of the Illinois State Labora- 

 tory of Natural History. This specimen is from the "Pea- 

 body colln." and bears the locality label "Ut." and the name 

 label analis, from which it is entirely distinct. 



Enoclenis opifex Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Amer., Col., iii, 2, 1882, p. 

 156, pi. viii, f. 3. 



Two specimens of this interesting addition to our fauna 

 were taken at Alpine, Texas (4400-6000 ft.) by Prof. Wick- 

 ham. Gorham described opifex from Mexico, Guatemala and 

 Nicaragua. It is quite unlike any other species in our fauna. 

 The color is black, shining, the elytra red, a large rounded 

 subapical black maculation on each elytron sometimes confluent 

 at suture, the black bordered anteriorly by a narrow pale red 

 fascia, the extreme apex is black and with the legs is densely 

 clothed with gray hairs. The specimens before me are 7.5-8 

 mm. in length. Gorham gives the length of this species as 

 5.5-8 mm. 



Enoclerus analis Lee, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v, 1849, p. 20. 



This appears to be a much misunderstood species, others 

 than the proper species usually bearing this name in collec- 

 tions, while analis is as often placed under another name. I 

 have even found them placed as abruptits, a species to which 

 they bear but little resemblance. Analis is variable in regard 

 to the coloration of the legs and abdomen, the elytra are on 

 the contrary quite constant, being in all specimens examined 

 red at base and dark before the median fascia which has a 

 form not found in any other species occurring in North 

 America, and which is somewhat similar to that of rosmarus 

 but more deeply and regularly concave and greatly prolonged 

 posteriorly at the suture, reaching nearly, or quite to the sub- 

 apical fascia; the apex is black (pale in most specimens of 

 rosmarus) and the black space intervening between the pale 



