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with the false locality, (Pennsylvania,) has led several entomologists to suppose it intended 
for the preceding species: it is quite likely that Say at that time confounded them to- 
gether, but the expressions, “thorax very hairy,” and “band is divaricated on the margin, 
so as to join the anterior lunule,” lead me to refer the description to the present species. 
GROUP IX. 
One species of a slender form, with the labrum moderate, with the middle tooth pro- 
minent : palpi pale with black tips: head bald, slightly striate each side: thorax subcylin- 
drical, hairy atthe side. Elytra punctured, with long slender markings, medial band slightly 
bent, oblique, connected with a marginal white line; tips rounded finely serrate: those of 
the female very slightly suddenly dilated. Body beneath with dense not erect white 
hair, middle of pectus and abdomen glabrous. 
Affiliates with group xu, but the humeral lunule is not recurved, the trochanters are 
not red, and the head is not pubescent. Also with the next group—hbut the tips of the 
elytra are serrate, and the middle tooth of the mandibles is not smaller than the others. 
This group has most of the essential characters of the preceding, and is distinguished 
from C. baltimorensis by its slender form, and very elongated and oblique medial band; 
it leads through the next to others hereafter treated of, and interrupts the passage to 
group XI., which should properly follow group vm. 
27. C. tenuisignata, elongata, fusco-znea, capite glabro subtiliter granulato, prope oculos striato, thorace lati- 
tudine haud breyiore, subcylindrico, vix canaliculato, subtiliter granulato, pilis haud erectis ad latera parce vestito, 
elytris punctatis, antice parce granulatis ad apicem rotundatis serratis, spina suturali prominula, lunula humerali 
curyata, apicali antice inflexa, linea media elongata obliqua obtuse angulata in striga marginali que lunulas haud 
attingit oriente, tenuibus albis; subtus viridi-cenea, lateribus pube depressa dense vestita, pleuris cuprascentibus ; 
labro brevi albo unidentato, palpis sexus utriusque pallidis articulo ultimo eneo. Long. -48—-47. 
Leconte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. of New York, 5, 171, (1852.) 
? 0. californica Ménétriés, Bull. Soc. Imp. St. Petersb. 2, 52, (1843.) 
New River, Colorado Desert, California: found also in Texas on the Rio Grande by Mr. 
Schott, of the Boundary Commission, and by Dr. Berlandiére. The description given by 
Mr. Ménétriés of C. californica applies to this species so far as it goes, but it is extremely 
imperfect, and I do not feel authorized in suppressing the name given by me. I may 
add that Mr. Motschulsky, who possesses a specimen of C. californica, failed to recognise 
the species in my collection. In order, however, to save a reference to a rare work, I 
copy the original description. 
‘CG. californica, parallela, obscure ferruginea subtus albo-pilosa; elytris lunula humerali, apicalique integris, 
fascia media extus dilatata (lunulam humeralem fere attingente) intus hamulo oblique descendente albis; pedibus 
gracilioribus longissimis. 
“Cette espéce a quelque ressemblance ayec la C. spinigera Eschsch. de son Atlas zoologique, mais elle est 
