2 MB. J. 8. BALT ON SOME SPECIES OP GALEBTTCIN 2E . 
well as others which, from want of sufficient material, I have not 
had the opportunity of studying, having been omitted. 
The Synoptical Table given below will, I trust, be of use to the 
future student of the genus. 
Table of Species. 
Males. 
I. Antennas filiform. 
A. Elytra transversely depressed or excavated below 
the basilar space. 
a. Apical segment of abdomen trilobate, the middle 
lobe oblong or oblong-quadrate, its surface 
deeply concave or sulcate longitudinally. 
a. Antennae (the base sometimes excepted) black or 
fuscous. 
a 1 . Elytra entirely black. 
b 1 . Breast black, the abdomen fulvous or 
flavous 1. nigripennis. 
b 2 . Breast and abdomen rufo-fulvous 2. melanopus. 
a 2 . Elytra black, with flavous bands or markings. 
c\ Pygidium fulvous 3. albofasciata. 
c l . Pygidium black 4. pygidialis. 
b. Antennae fulvous or flavous, rarely stained 
towards the apex with fuscous, basal joints 
sometimes fuscous or black. 
6} . Elytra entirely black. 
e 1 . Body broadly ovate 5. melanoptera. 
e 2 . Body oblong-ovate 6. atripennis. 
d 2 . Elytra black, the extreme basal margin rufous. 7. lata. 
d 3 . Elytra black, their apices to a greater or less 
extent rufous 8. rosea. 
d i . Elytra black, with flavous markings 9. instabilis. 
b. Apical segment of abdomen trilobate, middle lobe 
quadrate or subquadrate, its disk plane or only 
slightly concave. 
a. Thorax rufous or flavous. 
f 1 . Elytra entirely black 10. Boisduvali. 
f' 2 . Elytra black with flavous markings. 
g 1 . Body not exceeding 4 lines in length 11. propinqua. 
g 2 . Body 5 lines or more in length 12. rubrozonata. 
f 3 . Elytra flavous, with black patches or markings. 13. approximata. 
/ 4 . Elytra flavous, the posterior half black 14. postica. 
f 5 . Elytra entirely flavous 15. testacea. 
b. Thorax black 16. flaviventris. 
B. Elytra not transversely depressed or excavated 
below the basilar space. 
a. Trilobate apex of abdomen with its middle lobe 
deeply concave or longitudinally sulcate. 
h x . Elytra flavous, unicolorous. 
t 1 . Antennas, at the base excepted, nigro-fuscous. 
j 1 . Legs entirely flavous 17. abdominalis. 
j 2 . Four hind legs black 18. Fabricii. 
t 2 . Antennas flavous or fulvous. 
k l . Scutellum black or nigro-fuscous. 
I 1 . Thoracic sulcation deeply excavated 
on the middle disk, obsolete or in- 
terrupted towards the lateral margin. 19. nigroscutata. 
