362 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. VII. 



Clerus vulneratus Klug. 



Clerus vulneratus Klug, Abh. Berl. Akad., 1842, p. 302. 



This, in the writer's opinion, is as handsome a species of Clerus 

 as an}'- known from North America. Two specimens were taken at 

 Cuemavaca by Prof. Wickham. The general color is dark blue, the 

 antennae and palpi black. Both specimens have the ground color 

 of elytra coppery (as it was in Rev. Gorham's specimen from Parada, 

 Mex.), and have the bright sanguineous red fascia widely interrupted 

 at the suture; at the lateral margins the red extends posteriorly to 

 nearly twice the width of fascia elsewhere. The ashy pubescence 

 clothing the elytral apices is quite conspicuous. 



Clerus quadrisignatus Say. 



Clerus qitadrisignatus Say, Host. Jour. Nat. Hist., i, 1835, p. 6. 



Dr. George H. Horn (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, iv, 1893-94. 

 p. 331), records this species from San Jose del Cabo, Lower Cali- 

 fornia. A specimen from the same identical locality given the writer 

 by Prof. Wickham differs greatly from the typical form in coloration . 

 being nearest to the variety laticinctus Lee, from "Colorado River 

 and Sonora." The specimen at hand is red to a greater degree and 

 extent than in laticinctus, being entirely of a rather pale red, the 

 venter and abdomen pale yellow, the elytra wholly red excepting a 

 broad median and a narrower subapical fascia which are white, the 

 median fascia ver}^ narrowly bordered with black, the antennae and 

 legs entirely red. As no difference of form, sculpture, etc., exists be- 

 tween this and typical specimens, the author refrains from follow- 

 ing the all too common practice, that of giving a name to mere color 

 varieties. 



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Clerus thoracicus Olivier. 



Clerus thoracicus Oliv., P^nt., iv, 1795, no. 76, p. 18, pi. 2, fig. 



22 a, b. 

 Clerus cyanipennis Klug, AVjh. Berl. Akad., 1842, p. 307. 

 Thanasimus monilis Melsh., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 11, ]S45. 



P- 307- 

 Systenoderes dastoides White, Cat. Cler. Brit. Mus., 1849 p. 50. 

 Pcecilochroa cyanipennis Chevr., Mdmoire, 1876, pp. 5, ct 12. 

 Pcecilichroa llaagi Chevr., 1. c, p. 12. 

 Cleronomous ornaticollis Lee, Trans. Amor. lint. Soc, viii, 1880, 



p. 194. 

 As indicated by the .synonymy, thoracicus is quite variable in 



