May, 1910. Notes on Some Clerid^ — Wolcott. 375 



p. 317, pi. XXXI, fig. 2; Lee, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v. 

 1849. p. 18; 'Hom, Trans. Amer. Ent. See, v, 1876, p. 231; 

 Wickh., Can. Ent., xxvii, 1895, p. 249, fig. 17. 



Moderately robust, blue, shining, elytra fasciate with red or red- 

 dish yellow; head and thorax clothed with moderately long, rather 

 dense, grayish pubescence, much shorter and less dense on elytra. 

 Head finely, moderately densely punctate; antennae and palpi pale 

 testaceous, the former with the outer joints more or less infuscate. 

 Thorax slightly longer than broad; anterior constriction feeble; sides 

 gradually narrowing behind the middle, strongly compressed at base; 

 surface rather finely and moderately densely punctate. Elytra 

 sparsely, rather finely punctate; an annulate humeral maculation, 

 the flanks from the humeri to the middle, a median fascia, and a 

 slightly oblique ante-apical fascia red; the fasciae usually interrupted 

 at the suture. Length 7.2-9.5 millim. (Elytral markings, pi. VI, 

 fig. 29.) 



Nuttalli is quite similar in form and markings to typical orna- 

 tiis, but the color pattern is much less variable, the humeral annulate 

 markings are never prolonged posteriorly near suture, and the median 

 fascia is not usually oblique. The form of the antennal club and the 

 proportionately longer prothorax, the sides of which are more strongly 

 but gradually obliquely narrowed posteriorly, make this species easily 

 distinguishable from ornatits. 



Occurs in Florida, Louisiana, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, 

 Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Hlinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, 

 Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario. 



Trichodes apivorus Gennar. 



Trichodes apivorus Germ., Ins. Spec. Nov., i, 1824, p. 81; Klug, 

 Abh. Berl. Akad., 1842, p. 332; Spin., Mon. Cler., i, 1844. 

 p. 307, pi. xxx, fig. 4; Lee, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v, 



1849, p. 18; Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, v. 1876, p. 231 

 Wickh., Can. Ent., xxvii, 1895, p. 249. 

 Moderately robust, purplish or bluish black; elytra red, with two 

 broad fasciae and apex bluish or purplish black; feebly shining. 

 Head and thorax densely punctate, very densely clothed with fer- 

 ruginous hairs. Antennae piceous, rarely paler towards base; basal 

 joint usually red, with a large black spot above. Thorax distinctly 

 longer than broad; sides moderately constricted at apical third, 

 abruptly, strongly compressed at base; anterior transverse impressed 

 line distinct. Elytra red or yellow; pubescence pale, that of fasciae 



