May, 1910. Notes on Some Clerid^ — Wolcott. ^587 



List Col. N. Amer., 1866; Henshaw, List Col. Amer. \. ut 



Mex., 1885, p. 82; Lohde, Cleridarum Catalogus, 1900, p. 103; 



Fall, Occas. Papers, Cal. Acad. Sci., viii, 1900, p. 128; Schklg., 



Gen. Ins., Cleridae, 1903, p. 108; Schklg., Deutsch. Ent. Zeit., 



1906, p. 316. 



Pelonium fasciatum Wolc, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. See. vii, 1909, p. 25. 



Elongate, piceous, shining; sparsely clothed with pale hairs, 



longest on head and thorax; thorax piceous, margins rarely pale; 



elytra with an ante-median, arcuate, pale fascia, sometimes obscure 



or wanting. Antenn:e eleven-jointed, pale testaceous, the last three 



joints (except at base) fuscous. Head piceous, densely punctate, 



punctures annuliform. Thorax broader than long, narrower at 



base than apex ; sides subtuberculate at apex, moderately compressed 



at apical third and strongly dilate at basal third, then suddenly 



and rather strongly narrowing to base; disk convex; surface even. 



at most with faint indication of elevated areas, densely punctate; 



punctures shallow; piceous; apical and basal margins and the Hanks 



rarely testaceous. Elytra three times as long as thorax, feebly 



widening posteriorly; apices separately rounded; punctures coarse, 



deep, quadrate, and seriate, obsolete at ai:>ex; piceous with aeneous 



reflection; a pale testaceous fascia extending from the suture at 



basal third arcuately for\\'ard to near the lateral margins which with 



the suture and humeri are sometimes also obscurely testaceous; the 



elytra rarely entirely piceous. Body beneath and abdomen piceous, 



the latter rarely obscurely testaceous. Legs var^ang in color from 



entirely pale to fuscous, the base of femora and tibiae alone being 



testaceous. Length 4.7-6.5 millim. 



Some examples of this species resemble at first sight ocitlatu, 

 from which species it is, however, quite distinct. Dr. H. C. Fall 

 has recorded the capture in San Bernardino Mountains (California) 

 of an example w'hich has the elytra entirely piceous. In a specimen 

 before the writer the fascia extends obscurely to the humeri which 

 are also testaceous. Another specimen, a female, from California 

 is much paler than in the usual form; the legs and antennae pale 

 testaceous, only the apical portion of the last three joints of the 

 latter being fuscous; the thorax pale reddish, with a vaguely limited, 

 obscure fuscous vitta extending from the apex to behind the middle; 

 the elytra reddish testaceous especially at base, irregularly obscurelv 

 infuscate in apical half; the paler ante-median fascia is, however, 

 quite distinct. Apparently a rare species. 



Hah. — Washington (Orcas Island. W. M. Mann); California 



