BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATTJRAI, SCIKNCFS 509 



Clastoptera proteus Fitch. 



Dr. Fitch divides this species into four "subspecies", flavi- 

 collis, cincticollis, macidicollis and nigricollis, but, as pointed 

 out by Dr. Ball, he has selected for characters mere color vari- 

 ations which occur in each of the three varieties of proteus and 

 I do not see how we can retain the names for anything, and 

 propose to follow Dr. Ball in dropping them in spite of the law 

 of priority. Ball's division of this species into three subspecies 

 or varieties as I call them [flava, vittata and nigra), seems to 

 be founded on constant and natural characters but I cannot 

 accept his names. The name flava seems to be a straight 

 synonym of sa int-cyr i Prov. , vittata is good, while nigra is a 

 synonym of pint Fitch. The latter name is also preoccupied 

 by nigra Germ, from Brazil (not atra as stated by Fitch. 

 Telamona subfalcata n. sp. 



Size and aspect of compact a Ball but distinguishable by the 

 acute, almost falcate, posterior angle of the crest and the dotted 

 elytral nervures. Length 9 mm. 



Head short, its base strongly sinuated; apical margin of the cheeks 

 deeply sinuated; base of the clypeus deeply inserted in the face, its sutures 

 distinct, regularly rounded; apex arcuated, little produced, the lateral lobes 

 scarcely distinguished. Humeral angles more produced than in compacta, 

 subacute. Crest oblong, about twice as long as high; anterior margin 

 sloping regularly from the metopidium, without a sinus at base; superior 

 edge straight and horizontal; posterior vertical or almost overhanging; 

 anterior angle rounded, posterior acute, subfalcate; posterior process acute, 

 attaining the tip of the elytra in the female, nearly so in the male ; the sides 

 with about three irregular elevated nervures, the upper subobsolete. 



Color testaeeous-cinerous, obscurely mottled with brown which color 

 forms a broad band across the hind margin of the crest; dorsal carina 

 irregularly dotted or blotched with black and there is a cluster of similar 

 points on the humeral angles anteriorly. Lower surface of the anterior and 

 intermediate femora and outer face of the tibiae banded with fuscous or 

 black ; apex of the hind femora with a black spot. Elytra coriaceous and 

 punctured at base, the main nervures pale varied with black; apical cloud 

 clearly defined, almost black, covering about two-thirds of the apical cell. 



The color of the male is more whitish with the brown band more dis- 

 tinct and on the metopidium is a suggestion of a large brownish annulus 

 which becomes trilobate on the base of the crest. The usual three black 

 points over the eyes seem to be wanting in this species and the round im- 

 pression at the base of the crest posteriorly is deep and blackish. 



Described from three examples: one male taken at Bel- 

 leair, Fla. , by Mrs. Slosson, and two females taken by Mr. J. C. 

 Bradley at St. Simon Isd., Georgia, about May 1st, 1911. 



