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



Amer., iii, Pt. 2, p. 183) states that they are apparently ten-jointed. 

 Schenkling (Gen. Ins., Cleridas, p. 104) describes them in detail and 

 states that they are ten-jointed; this the writer finds to be true of 

 the present species. The antennal funicle is seven-jointed, very short, 

 little more than one-fourth the total length of antennae; the basal 

 joint is large, slightly arcuate and more than one-third length of 

 funicle; second joint subpyriform, half as long as basal joint and less 

 stout ; joint three as broad as long, narrower than joint two ; joints 

 four to seven subequal in width to joint three, very short, closelv 

 united; three apical joints, very large, the first two joints produced 

 near the anterior apical angle into long, stout rami which overlap 

 the succeeding joint, apical joint long and rather slender. 



Pyticera quadripunctata Say. 



Enoplium quadripunctatum Sa3^ Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 Ill, 1823, p. 188. 



Enoplium quadrinotatum Hald., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 

 1853, p. 362. 



Mr. Charles Schaeffer (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xii, 1904, p. 221) 

 questions the distinctness of the above two species. The writer has 

 sought in vain for characters, other than the very feeble and vari- 

 able one of color, to distinguish these species, and, after as thorough 

 a study of the subject as the few specimens at hand permit, can only 

 conclude that they are synonymous. Say's name having priority, 

 it must, of course, be retained; for the convenience of collectors, how- 

 ever, it is deemed expedient to use the name proposed by Haldeman 

 for the variety which has the head and prothorax wholly or in part red. 



This variety occurs in Texas, while the forms with entirely black 

 head and thorax occur from Indiana to Texas but more commonly 

 northward. 



Chariessa texana Wolcott. 



Chariessa texana Wolc, Ent. News, xix, 1908, p. 72. 



In the entomological collection of the Field Museum of Natural 

 History there are two specimens of this species which the writer had 

 not seen prior to the publication of the original description. Both 

 the specimens are males and are of the varietal fonn mentioned in 

 the description; they vary greatly in size, one being 11. 5 millimeters, 

 the other 16.7 millimeters in length. 



In both specimens the margins of the elytra arc pale. In the 

 larger example the black orbicular muculations of the apical margin 



