OF AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO. 337 



A.—b. 



4. L. ciRcuMDATA. — Nigra, breviter parce pubescens, thorace elongatulo, subcampanulato, cribroso, elytris 



grosse punctatis, pallidis margine apiceque nigris. Long. -27. 

 01. 73, 4, 48. : Hald. 65. 



Pennsylvania ; rare. 



5. L. VAGANS. — Nigra thorace pubescente, globoso, antrorsum angustato, cribroso, elytris grosse punctatis, 



apice valde dehiscentibus, atitennis articulis 6 — 10 basi pallidis. Loitt. •42. 

 Variat. o. humeris sunguineo rufis : 01. 73, 46. 



)3. macula humerali, alteraque magna apicali rufis. 



y, elytris fulvo-rufis, sutura maculaque discoidali communi nigris. 



8. elytris fulvo-testaceis. 

 L. brevis, Kb. N. Z. 182. 



Pennsylvania and New York. 



B. 



6. L. 8-NOTATA. — Valde elongata, nigra nitida pube flava erecta parce vestita, thorace elongate, utrinque 



impresso, subtilius punctato, elytris thorace plus sesqui latioritus subparallelis minus dense punctatis, 

 maculis utrinque 4 seriatim posticis flavis, pedibus posticis basi cum tarsis flavis. Long. -45. 



Say J.A.N. S. 3,419. 



Leptura stidica, Nm. Entom. 



Var. L. i-pundata, Hald. 64. 



Nevi^ York, Pennsylvania and Mississippi. The variety is in Dr. Melsheimer's 

 collection : in it the two anterior pairs of spots are obsolete. 



7. L. viTTATA. — Elongata nigra nitida parce pubescens, capite dense punctato, plaga pone oculos Itevi, 



thorace elongata, postice impresso, parce punctato, densius ad latera, elytris parallelis, apice 

 subtruncatis, thorace latioribus, versus scutellutn impressis, minus dense grossius punctatis, subtilius ad 

 apicem, vitta lutea a basi ultra medium extendente. Long. '45. 



01. 73, 45. 



Leptura abbreviaia, Germ. Ins. Nov. 



L. semivittata, Kirby N. Z. 183. 



New York, Alabama. The third, fourth, and fifth joints of the antennae are equal. 

 The outline of the vitta is sinuous externally. The luteous color sometimes extends 

 to the margin. The female has a shorter and more inflated thorax. 



8. L. PUBERA. — Nigra nitida cinereo-pubescens, thorace convexo, lalitudine non longiore, subcampanulato, 



lateribus rotundato, dense punctato, parcius in disco, elytris subparallelis apice truncato-emarginatis, 

 grossius minus dense punctatis, subtilius versus apicem. Long. 3 — -37. 

 Say J. A. N. S. 5, 279. 



New York, Georgia, Lake Superior. The male has the thorax elongate and 

 scarcely rounded on the sides. 



