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diskal; 2nd, reddish-brown, covering the humeri; 3rd, yellow, very wide, 
fused at the suture and on the sides with the 5th, which is wide, the two 
enclosing the 4th, which is reduced to a transverse black spot on each 
elytron; the 6th, black, wide, with cephalic and caudal margins concave; 
the 7th, a large, yellow spot; the apices dark red to black. 
In addition to the type in the Canadian National collection, one male 
has been examined in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, from Wash- 
ington county, Utah. 
This male is paler than the type; the head, antennse, legs, and pro- 
notum pale red; the elytra yellow with transverse markings, humeri 
reddish, median spot, postmedian band, and apex piceoiis; antennas with 
segments 5 to 10 distinctly serrate and notably stout, the impressed areas 
on segments 6 to 11 very narrow; length 14 mm., width at base of elytra 
4 • 5 mm. 
Type locality: Fort Wingate, N.M. 
CHARISALIA Csy. 
1913, Mem. on the Coleop., vol. IV, p. 247. 
Prosternum convex; pronotum very stout, wider than long, trapez- 
oidal, not constricted behind, with hind angles acute, conical, and prom- 
inent, fitting over the humeri; elytra wide, parallel or somewhat inflated 
behind; antennae normal, without poriferous impressed areas; eyes small, 
tempora strongly inflated; first segment of hind tarsi not pubescent 
beneath; allied to Euryptera. Genotype, (Leptura) americana Hald. 
CharisaMa americana Hald., 1853, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., vol. X, p. 63. 
Original description: 
“246. americana. Black, head and prothorax rufous, with fulvous hair; elytra 
parallel, slightly obliquely truncate. 
4$"' long; It'" wide. Pennsylvania. Leptura americana , Mels. Cat., No. 836, 
Stenura fidvicollis. Dej. Cat. 
Head rufous, eyes, antennas, and maxillary palpi black, the last with the articulations 
tipped with yellowish; a transverse, impressed line above the clypeus, and another behind 
the antennae, the impressed frontal line uniting them; prothorax swelled above, very wide 
posteriorly, a large, transverse depression each side of the middle, on the posterior margin: 
elytra thickly covered with piliferous punctures; venter with a fulvous tinge, and clothed 
with fulvous hair.” 
This very distinct species is apparently rare in collections and the 
name is in many cases applied to capitata Newm. The length is approxi- 
mately 11 mm.; black with the head and pronotum red, eyes small, tem- 
pora inflated; pronotum trapezoidal, wider • than long, sides strongly 
arcuately constricted in front, hind angles conical and protuberant , the disk 
convex and feebly punctured; the elytra slightly wider than the pronotum, 
the sides parallel or somewhat wider behind, the punctation close, deep, 
and moderate in size, the pubescence very fine but distinct; broadly 
rounded or subtruncate and slightly dehiscent at the apex. 
Two specimens have been before us and others have been studied in 
the Leconte, Casey, Knull, Wenzel, and U.S. National collections. In 
the Leconte collection there are three specimens, one male and two females, 
from “111.,” “Gulf States,” and “Central Valley.” In the Casey collection 
there are four examples, one male from Illinois, and three females, one 
