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at Washington and the type series. The pronotum has the apical and 
basal constrictions strongly impressed only on the dorsum, and the elytra 
have two more or less strongly marked costae. 
This species is larger than any other North American species of the 
genus known to us, excepting emarginata Fab. and gigas Lee. and individ- 
uals of obliterata Hald. 
Eleven specimens were before us from Sierra Nevada mountains in 
central California and one from Oregon. 
Type locality, anthracina Lee.: Oregon. 
Type locality, subcostata Fall: lake Tahoe, California. 
(4) Leptura abdominalis Hald., 1847, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., (2), vol. 10, 
p. 63. 
atrovittata Bland., 1864, Proc. Ent. Soc., p. 255, ( 9 ). 
length 14 mm. The shape is peculiarly convex longitudinally and 
cuneiform. The male is black, except the abdomen, which is red, and the 
six distal joints of the antennae, which are annulated. The female is 
testaceous with the antennae annulated as in the male ; the pronotum with 
two large black spots or entire central area black; elytra with wide, entire, 
lateral vittae, and sutural black vittse narrowing from the base to a point 
just beyond the middle, the diskal red band extending from the humeri 
obliquely to the suture behind the middle and thence to the sutural angle 
of the apex; the lateral margin red; the legs bicoloured, black on the 
apical portion of the femora and tibiae. 
Five specimens have been before us, one from Georgia and one from 
New Jersey, sent for examination by Mr. Chas. Liebeck, and three from 
Alabama. Several others have been seen in collections. In the Leconte 
collection are one black male and two bicoloured females. This is an 
exceedingly rare species, represented in very few collections. Mr. J. N. 
Knull has reared it from Taxodium. 
Habitat: Atlantic States, Michigan, New Jersey to Georgia, Alabama, 
and Mississippi. Other localities given in literature, Louisiana and Texas. 
Host plants: Juniperus (Felt), Taxodium distichum (Knull). 
Type locality: none given. 
(5) Leptura kerniana Fall, 1907, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., vol. XXXIII, p. 249. 
Length 11 mm. The original description is quoted here in full. Only 
the type is known. 
“Leptura kerniana Fall. Form of propinqua, and allies, black, elytra and abdomen 
dull rufous, legs rufous, tarsi and tips of the tibiae blackish; pubescence short, greyish on 
the prothorax and beneath, blackish on the elytra. Head obsolelely sparsely, finely 
punctate, median line impressed; antennae entirely black, a little more than three-fourths 
the length of the body ( &), the joints proportioned as in propinqua. Prothorax as wide as 
long, exclusive of the posterior angles, which are strongly acutely produced; sides ainuately 
convergent from the base to a somewhat tuberculiform prominence in front of the middle, 
thence straight and rapidly convergent to apex; apical constriction and posterior depres- 
sion well marked, median line concave; disk rather finely but not closely punctate. Elytra 
strongly narrowed behind, finely sparsely punctate and immaculate, apices obliquely 
truncate, the outer angle acute but not spiniform. Length II mm. Described from a 
single male specimen taken by Mr. F. S. Daggett on the Kern river (elevation 6,000 feet), 
California. 
The fifth ventral is broadly but not deeply arcuately emarginate, the limiting angles 
acute. In propinqua the fifth ventral is much more deeply emarginate. The unspotted 
elytra and coloration easily distinguish the present species from any of those nearly 
related.” 
Type locality: Kern river, California. 
