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Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, in the collection of the Field Museum 

 of Natural History, agrees with the type in most respects, but has the 

 head, thorax, and base of elytra dull reddish, the entire ventral sur- 

 face of body, abdomen, and femora above red, the tarsi pitchy. 



The name bioculatus cited above was evidently a slip of the pen, 

 but owing to the fact that both names have appeared in a recent 

 paper as though pertaining to distinct species, it will serve, the writer 

 believes, a useful purpose to thus record them. 



Clerus bombycinus Chevrolat. 



Clerus bombycinus Chevr., Col. Mex., cent, i, 1833, fasc. i; Klug. 

 Abh. Berl. Akad., 1842, p. 295. 



Clerus cBfieicoll is Spin., Mon. Cl^r., i, 1844, p. 254, pi. 24, fig. i. 



A fine series of this species from Cuemavaca, Mexico, was sent 

 the author by Prof. Wickham. The specimens range in size from 

 6.5-8.7 millimeters. The color pattern is very constant, but the 

 color is quite variable, forms being represented in the series from those 

 with typical markings to almost entirely black specimens; in the 

 latter the whitish fascixe are distinct, but the median angulated fas- 

 cia is div-ided (except at the lateral margins) by the black into two 

 narrow fasciae; the base of elytra narrowly red, the red prolonged 

 at the suture and the flanks; the knees, tibiae, and tarsi very obscurely 

 testaceous. 



Clerus latefasciatus sp. nov. 



Form of opifex Gorh. Rufous, very shining; apical joint oi 

 maxillary palpi pitchy; antennae rufo-piceous, becoming gradually 

 darker towards apex, the club dull piceous, basal joint rufous; coxa, 

 trochanters, and metastemum with disk at middle and posterior 

 margin broadly pitchy black; tarsi entirely shining black; elytra with 

 a very broad black fascia which does not reach the extreme lateral 

 margin and which is narrowly interrupted at the suture. Pubescence 

 moderately dense, black, erect and semierect, with shorter semierect 

 and recumbent golden yellow hairs on head, flanks of thorax, legs, 

 and elytra; the golden yellow hairs most conspicuous on head. 

 humeral region of elytra, and ventral surface; abdomen moderatcly 

 clothed with silky, yellowish recumbent pubescence, with a few long 

 black hairs at apex. Head, including the eyes, narrower than the 

 thorax, finely sparsely punctate, front with two deep impressions 

 between the eyes. Thorax broad, narrower than elytra; disk sparsely 

 and finely but unevenly punctate; flanks very finely, sparsely punc- 



