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are of generic importance, but differs specifically from both in 

 being proportionally narrower and more elongate, the prothorax 

 especially narrower, and in having the color pattern slightly dif- 

 ferent. The elytral bars are always much shorter and generally 

 much narrower. The subhumeral patch is decidedly oblique, not 

 transverse as it is in the other two, and but little more than a spot. 

 The general facies of the species implies a much closer relation- 

 ship to some of the European species like C. arietis L. or C. lama 

 Muls. The arrangement of the elytral markings is, however, 

 slightly different from either. 



Neoclytus clitellarius n, sp. 



Dark brown, antennae and legs reddish ; pilose, longer hairs, sparse, erect 

 and more evident on head, prothorax, base of elytra and beneath, the 

 shorter forming a closely appressed pubescence that is dense on the pro- 

 notum and elytra and somewhat sparser on underside, the pubescence of 

 both types gray on the head, sides of prothorax and ventral surface, else- 

 where brown except for the elytral maculations which are gray and con- 

 sist of a transverse lozenge-shaped saddle across the middle of the elytra, 

 two small spots on each elytron slightly posterior to middle and a quad- 

 rangular patch at the sutural apex. Head coarsely, closely punctate; the 

 antennae one half length of body. Prothorax as broad as long, distinctly 

 narrower than base of elytra, apex slightly arcuate and overlapping head, 

 sides gradually arcuate to base where slightly constricted, the disc with 

 median longitudinal area slightly though distinctly gibbous, the surface 

 rather closely punctate and granulate, the median granules faintly out- 

 lining transverse rugae. Elytra twice as long as broad, apices subtruncate. 

 Length 9.5 mm., breadth 3.25 mm. 



Type in my own collection, secured near Fallen Leaf Lake, 

 Lake Tahoe, Cal., July 18, 191 5. A second specimen was ob- 

 served among^the unnamed beetles in the Horn collection, in 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. 



This very distinct species is clearly defined by the saddle like 

 gray patch at the middle of the elytra and the four small spots 

 behind. The general color scheme is like that of no other mem- 

 ber of the Clytini with which I am familiar. The generic char- 

 acters are not well developed, the transverse rugae which are so 

 prominent a feature in most of the species of the genus being 

 here hardly indicated though the mid portion of the pronotum is 

 quite gibbous. Because of this last character, it could not be 



