244 
Psyche 
[September 
on 7th interval 5 on basal three-fifths, on 9th interval 8-1 1 
rohusta 
Length 7-9.5 mm.; male apical antennal segment equal to next 
4^-5 segments, in female equal to next 3-3/2 segments; pro- 
thorax and legs testaceous or rufous, head piceous, elytra 
piceous or black, the elytra with a distinct bluish lustre; 
setigerous punctures on 3rd elytral interval 7-14, on 5th in- 
terval 7-12, on 7th interval either 2 at base or 6-8 all along, 
on 9th interval 5-13 croceicollh 
13. Setigerous punctures of elytra about the same size as the strial 
punctures: larger, 8-11.5 mm 14 
Setigerous punctures of elytra about twice as large as the strial 
punctures; smaller, 6.5~8.8 mm. 15 
14. Posterior margin of fifth ventral segment produced around a 
distinct fovea; male apical antennal segment equal to next 
4 2/3-5 segments, in the female equal to next 3 2/3-3 3/4 seg- 
ments; color paler, tending to brown rather than piceous, 
elytra tending to brown especially along sutural margins 
dolera n. sp. 
Posterior margin of fifth ventral segment simple, without fovea; 
male apical antennal segment equal to next 6/2-7 segments, 
in the female equal to the next 4 segments or slightly less; 
color darker, tending to piceous black, elytra sometimes slightly 
more pale and with very narrow brown sutural margins 
basalts 
15. Pronotum brownish piceous to piceous black usually concolorous 
with elytra; male apical antennal segment equal to next 5/2 
segments, in the female equal to next 3 1/3 segments, range 
Vermont to Wisconsin south to North Carolina and Tennessee 
gag atm a gagatina 
Pronotum testaceous to brownish rufous, head and elytra brown- 
ish piceous to piceous black; male apical antennal segment 
equal to next 5/2 -6/2 segments, in the female equal to next 
31/3 segments; range more southern, New York City to 
Alabama, also Michigan gagatina resplendens 
Statira snbnitida Leconte 
Statira subnitida Lee., 1866, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Wash., 167: 141-142. 
Types: lectotype cf (not 9 as Horn stated) no. 4749 and 1$ cotype 
collected by John Xantus at Cape San Lucas, Baja California, in 
M.C.Z. 
Range: Known only from Baja Calif ronia, Mexico, from the two 
