A. B. Wolcott.
The Cleridae of the Stanford Expedition to Brazil.
Psyche 19(3):71-77, 1912.

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PSYCHE
VOL. XIX. JUNE, 1912. No. 3
THE STANFORD EXPEDITION TO BRAZIL, 1911. J. C. BRANNER, Director.
THE CLERIDB OF THE STANFORD EXPEDITION
TO BRAZIL.
By A. B. WOLCOTT,
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. Through the kindness of Mr. William M. Mann, the Clericke taken by him and his companion, Dr. Fred Baker, in the' upper Rio Madeira Country have been placed in my hands for identifi- cation.
So far as I know, no species of Cleridse has been recorded from the Rio Madeira Valley, hence, as might be expected, a goodly portion of the material submitted proves to be of species new to science.
Mr. Mann writes that "All the Cleridse, with the exception of a Necrobia from Santarem, were taken on the upper Rio Madeira. Up to the time that I reached the Madeira, I had about come to the conclusion that there were no Cleridse in Brazil. All the species taken, excepting Necrobia, were exceedingly active, some taking flight quite as readily as Cicindela." He has also supplied some extended information regarding localities, as follows : 1. Santarem, State of Para. At mouth of Tapajos. 2. Itacoatiara, State of Amazonas.
The town is situated on
north bank of the Amazon, and about forty miles below the mouth of the Rio Madeira.
3. Porto Velho, Rio Madeira, State of Amazonas. This place is located 7 kilometers north of the old town, San Antonia, which is just below the lowest falls of the Rio Madeira. 4. AbunA, Brazil. Located on Rio Madeira, nearly opposite mouth of Rio Abun4.
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Madeira-Mamore R. R. Company's Camps.
These are a.long the railroad which is being built along the river. All are in the State of Matto Grosso.
5. Madeira-Mamore R. R. Camp No. 39. On Rio Madeira, 284 kilometers from Porto Velho.
6. Madeira-Mamore R. R. Camp No. 41.
Located on Rio
Madeira, 306 kilometers from Porto Velho. 7. Madeira-Mainore R. R. Camp No. 43.
On Rio Mamore,
325 kilometers from Porto Velho.
1. Enoclerus lugubris Erichson. (Plate 6, fig. 1.) Clerus lugubris Erich.
Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, XIII, 1847, p. 85. Originally described from eastern Peru, it has since been re- corded by Herr Sigm. Schenkling as occurring in Bolivia. This
species warns taken at Porto Velho, Camp 39 and AbunA, most of the specimens were, however, captured at the last named place. The ante-apical, rounded, elytral maculation is in all the speci- mens a pale orange yellow; the color of this spot is given by Erich- son as "albidis," Schenkling states that these spots are "bald weisslich, bald orange-gelb, selten blutrot," and adds "der Hin- terleib rot, selten mit schwarzer Spitze, der Brust schwarz." All the specimens before me agree with the type as described in having the apical abdominal segments, in part at least, black, and the posterior femora pale at base.
2. Enoclerus inimicus sp. nov. (Plate 6, fig. 2.) Niger, sat nitidus, subtiliter punctatus, prothorace margine antico griseo pubescenfe, elytris sub-violaceis, fasciis quattuor jlavido-albis, prima et secunda obliquis parallelis, juxta suturam colligatis, tertia lata mediana, quarta obliqua arcuata ante apicem, pedi- bus nigris.-Long. 6-7.5 mm.
Rio Madeira, Brazil; Madeira-Mamore R. R. Camp 39. Moderately robust, rather shining, finely densely punctured, clothed with very fine, short, sparse, grayish pubescence with long erect black hairs intermixed. Head
black, front sparsely clothed with long grayish pubescence. Antennas black, basal joint beneath pale testaceous. Thorax black, broader than long, anterior margin .
densely clothed with grayish pubescence. Elytra dark violaceous, with four yel- lowish white fasciae, the first two of which are basal, oblique and parallel (one start- ing before, the other behind the humeral umbone), not quite attaining but united near the suture by a backward prolongation of the anterior fascia, the third median,



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19121 Wolcott-The Cleridce of the Stanford Expedition 73 rather broad, starting at the margin and extending slightly obliquely to near the suture, the fourth subapical, strongly oblique, arcuate and widely interrupted at the suture. Body beneath and legs black, more densely pubescent than the upper surface.
Allied to E. ruficollis var. nigricollis Schklg., and E. subjunctus var. tristiculus Schklg., but having quite different elytral markings and the anterior margin of prothorax clothed with a band of dense gray pubescence, the latter arranged exactly as in E. hieroglgphi- cus Gorh. A comparison with typical specimens of the last named species (taken by H. W. Bates at Ega) show E. inimicus to be a narrower, more convex, quite differently marked species. \
3. Enoclerus deliciolus Gorham. (Plate 6, fig. 3.) Clems deliciolus Gorh. Cistula Entomologica, 11, 1876, p. 82. One specimen, Madeira-Ma,rnor& R. R. Camp 41. The type locality as given by Rev.
Gorham is "Amazon."
Schenkling records the species from Callanga, Peru, and states that the thorax is occasionally entirely black. In the individual at hand the head and thorax are bright red, while in the original description these parts are said to be "rusty red (in one example clouded with pitchy on the disc) clothed with a few dark col- ored setae." These setae are rather numerous and conspicuous in the fresh specimen and the tarsi are dark (pale in the type). The antenna1 club is peculiarly colored, being quite pale with the apical joint nearly white.
4. Phyllobaenus manni sp. nov. (Plate 6, fig. 4.) * Flaws, niiidus, capite viridi-nigro, antice rufo, ruguloso, antennis rzifo-piceis, arti- culis 1, 2, 8, 9, lo0, albidis, prothorace viridi-nigro, sparsim fortiter punctato, lateribus griseo-hirtis, elytris antice seriatim punctatis, maculis 6 nigro-violaceis guttis pareis albo-setosis ornatis, mesosterno nigro, pedibus flavis, femoribus posterioribus tibiisque extus nigro-macu1atus.-Long. 6.5 mm.
Rio Madeira, Brazil; Madeira-Mamore R. R. Camp No. 41. A very distinct species, resembling P. erythrocephalus Gorh. somewhat in form, but with the body broader at the middle. Head very finely rugulose, occiput with
a longitudinal finely impressed line. Thorax strongly convex, coarsely, sparsely punctate, densely so at sides and apex; flanks clothed with coarse, shaggy, gray hairs. Scutellum small, black. Elytra at base wider than the prothorax; sides broadly, evenly rounded from humeri to apex; basal half coarsely, seriately punc- tate, scutellar region and apical half very finely punctate, nearly smooth; color



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pale yellow, on each side two large, marginal, violet black maculations, one of which is post-humeral and very irregular in form, the other subapical and irregularly ovate. on suture at middle a transverse rhombus and anterior to and narrowly separated from this an elongate, anteriorly acuminate maculation extending nearly to the scutellum violet black; the maculations with very small spots of shining white hairs, the suture and apex rather densely clothed with similar hairs. 5. Epiphcelus bakeri sp. nov. (Plate 6, fig. 5.) Epip. principi Gorh. valde aflnis.
Capite proihoraceque tenuissime, fortiter punctulatis, nigris, nitidis, hoc lateribus albo-hirtis, elytris antice seriatim punctatis, nigris, basi testaceis, fascia mox pone mediana, sutura postice, maculaque magna communi ante apicem flavis, elytris ad suturam seriatim foveolatis, antennis fuscis, articulo basali flavo, corpore subtus (capite prothoraceque exceptis) pedibusque flavis.-Long. 5.7 mm. Rio Madeira, Brazil; Madeira-Mamore R. R. Camp 43. Head black, sparsely, coarsely punctulate, the front densely, almost rugosely punctate. Antennae fuscous, basal joint yellowish white. Thorax black, coarsely but very sparsely punctate; sides conspicuously clothed with long, dense, white hairs. Elytra black, basal fourth (except extreme flanks) testaceous; a submedian fascia (broad at the suture, narrow at the flanks), suture posteriorly and a large, common, ante-apical maculation, yellow; surface rather coarsely seriately punctate from base to fascia, behind which the puncturing is gradually finer, the outer rows longest and becoming obsolete at apical fourth; bordering suture each side a series of distinct, sparsely placed foveae, these extending from the base to the apex; pube- scence clothing the suture and the pale portions long, dense and whitish. Legs and body beneath (head and prosternum excepted) pale yellow, sparsely clothed with long, whitish pubescence.
Closely related to, but amply distinct from E. princeps Gorh., from which it may be distinguished by its much smaller size, its black head, the very sparsely punctate thorax, and the absence of a median, thoracic line of fine, ashy hairs, which at the sides like- wise do not enclose "a denuded spot."
6. Epiphloeus iracundus sp. nov. (Plate 7. fig. 1.) Niger, subnitidus, capite prothoraceque subtilissime punctato-ruqulosis, capite antice rufo, thoracis marqinibus antico et postico pallide-testaceis, elytris a basifere ad apicem usque subseriatim punctatis, macula basalt magna, fasciisque dziabus (prima mediana, secunda subapicali), angustatis, flams, abdomine piceo, antice rufo, pedibus flavis.- Long, 3.5-5 mm.
Rio Madeira, Brazil;
Madeira-Mamore R. R. Camps No. 41
and 43.
The type specimen from the first of these localities, a paratype from the last.




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19121 WolcoH-The Cleridoe of the Stanford Expedition 75 Head finely, densely, rugosely punctate, black, front red. Antennae with joints 1, 6, 7, 8, and 11 yellowish white; joints 2, 3, 4, and 5 rdo-piceous; joints 9 and 10 fuscous. Thorax finely, rugosely punctate; color black, anterior and posterior margins pale testaceous. Elytra rather coarsely, very vaguely seriate-punctate; color black with a large, longitudinal maculation starting at the base (where it occu- pies all the space between scutellum and the humeri) and extending to basal fourth, a median and a subapical fascia, both of which are interrupted at the suture and do not attain the flanks, yellow. Abdomen piceous, two or three basal segments red. Legs yellow, sparsely pubescent. To judge by the descriptions of E. sexplagiatus Kuw., and ~
E. pardus Schklg. (no specimens of either being available for com- ,
parison), the new species appears to be an intermediate form, but still entitled to specific rank. E. iracundus differs from both the above mentioned species in elytral sculpture, manner and form of the markings, and the color of the antennae and the abdomen. From E. sexplagiatus it differs further in having the front and hind margins of the prothorax pale. In E. parvulus the hind legs are largely black, not entirely pale yellow as in the present species. 7. Ichnea marginella Klug. (Plate 7, fig. 2.) Enoplium marginellum Klug. Clerii, 1842, p. 376. (circumcincta Chew.; eno-
plioides Spin.; pubescens Spin.)
This is an extremely variable species and one of very wide dis- tribution. The original types of the species came from Par& Brazil; the species is now known from other places in that country (Jatahy, Amazon and Itaituba). There are also records showing it to occur in southern Peru (Vilcanota), French Guiana, Vene- zuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Mexico. Three specimens before me are all from Madeira-Mamore R. R. Camp No. 43 and vary but little inter se. Two of the specimens are typical in every detail except that the scutellum is not "albi- dum," but fuscous, being concolorous with the elytra. The other specimen has the vertex (as well as the front) of the head very white, the sutural margin of the elytra less distinctly bordered with pale color, the abdomen entirely pale yellow, and the tibiae and tarsi totally fuscous.
8. Ichnea sericea Klug. (Plate 7, fig. 3.) Enoplium sericeum mug. Clerii, 1842, p. 373, pi. 11, fig. 16.



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Known only from "Brazil." Two specimens were sent, both of which are from Madeira-Mamore R. R. Camp No. 41. Neither
of the specimens differs in any way from the type as described. 9.
Ichnea humeralis Spinola var. irrita nov. (Plate 7, fig. 4.) Elongata, subnitida; elytris sub-violaceis, vittis duabus una laterall una discoidali ad basim conjhentibus pallide flavis.-Long. 5.5-8.5 mm. Rio Madeira, Brazil; Madeira-Mamore R. R. Camps No. 41 and 43.
Type and paratypes from the latter place. Differs from the typical form in having the lateral margins of the elytra narrowly bordered with pale yellow, the pale margin usually extending to apical fifth, rarely reaching only to about the middle of the elytral length. Ground color of the elytra slightly variable, usually dark violet, some times nearly black, rarely with a dis- tinct coppery luster.
Apparently an abundant species, to judge by the extensive series taken by the expedition. Singularly enough there is not a single example of the type form in the entire lot. 10. Pyticera flavicollis Gorham. (Plate 7, fig. 5.) Pyticeraflaricollis Gorh. Trans. Ent. SOC. Lond., 1877, p. 416. The original types of this species were taken at Ega and San- tarem, Brazil, by Mr. Henry W. Bates.
Herr Sigm. Schenkling
has since described a variety from Bolivia (Yungas de La Paz), to which he has given the name suturalis.
A single specimen of this rare and interesting species from Abun%, Brazil, was sent me. The specimen is 9.5 mm. in length, being somewhat larger than the types which are 6-8 mm. in length. The specimen in some ways nearly agrees with the variety sutura- Us, the length of which is given as 11 mm., and in which the suture of the elytra from scutellum to the middle is yellowish red. The specimen before me has the same part of a dull testaceous color, being not at all conspicuous and in feeble contrast with the black ground color. The head is uniformly yellowish red, the inflexed elytral margin, the cox= and trochanters, the sides of abdomen wholly, and the basal segments in part, yellow. The legs black, with the exception of the front pair, which are rufo-piceous.



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WOLCOTT-BRAZILIAN CLERIDB
PSYCHE, 1912. VOL. XIX, PLA.TE
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1. Enoclerus lugubris Erich. 2. Enoclerus inimicus sp. nov. 3. Enoclerus de1zcioin.s Gorh. 4. Phyllob~nus manni sp. nov.
5. Epiphlsus bakeri sp. nov.
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PSYCHE, 1912.
VOL. XIX, PLATE 7
WOLCOTT-BRAZILIAN CLERIDB.
1. Epiphlaws iracundus sp nov. 2. Ichnea maryinella King. 3. Ichnei serzcea Klug. 4. Ichnea humeralis Spin., var. irrita nov. 5. Pvticera flanicollis Gorh.



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