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the elytra, along the suture and costae, and three or four irregular 

 and transverse projecting inwardly from the lateral margins; 

 elytra with rather more numerous irregular scratches at apex; 

 tibiae similar; elevated smooth line along the vertex rather more 

 obtuse. Length (cT) 13.7 mm.; width 8.4 mm. Canada (To- 

 ronto), R. J. Crew nigripennis Klages 



Form more elongate and of rather larger size, generally of a deeper 

 brownish-rufous above, almost similarly maculate with black, ex- 

 cepting that the pronotum is usually wholly black, rarely with a small 

 pale area medially at base and one near each side and at apex, the 

 vestiture and sculpture nearly similar; scutellum black, with two 

 long approximate reddish streaks from the base to beyond the 

 middle; elytra nearly similar but more elongate and with the sutural 

 angles finely spiniform, not obtuse as they are in inda; under surface 

 nearly similar, except that the broad convex mesosternal knob is 

 still more tumid; hind tibiae more coarsely and deeply punctate; 

 anterior tibiae with the teeth differing very markedly, being long, 

 slender, spiniform and arcuate in both sexes, only a little smaller in the 

 male but of the same general character as in the female. Length 

 (cf 9 ) 12.2-17.3 mm.; width 6.5-9.5 mm - New Mexico (Fort 

 Wingate), Arizona, Colorado (Boulder Co.) and Washington State. 

 Twenty-one examples rufobrunnea n. sp. 



The following species, which I have not seen, is appended some- 

 what doubtfully to this group: 



Body much less stout and more depressed than in inda and with less 

 distinct pubescence, the peculiar transverse mesosternal protuber- 

 ance similar. Body black, shining beneath, opaque above, the 

 elytra variegated with short transverse and sinuous luteous spots, 

 sometimes very few in number; clypeus coarsely, moderately 

 densely punctate, subquadrate, with rounded angles and slightly 

 reflexed truncate apex; vertex pilose and subcarinate; prothorax 

 nearly as long as wide, the sides feebly arcuate, the base emarginate 

 at the middle; surface coarsely punctate, more densely laterad and 

 very sparsely near the base, the pubescence short and sparse, piceous 

 in color, with a short median basal line and a partial vitta at each side 

 of the middle pallid; elytra with the costae rather vague, the intervals 

 biseriately and feebly punctate, irregularly punctured at the sides 

 and with irregular incised lines at apex; pygidium indistinctly 

 concentrically strigose; metasternum smooth medially, coarsely 

 strigose and sparsely pubescent toward the sides; abdomen very 

 sparsely punctate and with short pubescence; femora brownish, the 

 tibiae and tarsi piceous, the anterior tibiae bidentate (d 71 ) or tridentate 

 ( 9 ), the teeth short; antennal club of the male nearly twice as long 

 as in the female. Length 11.2-13.7 mm. Texas (Eagle Pass). 



schotti Lee. 



The species named rufobrunnea above is common in all our 

 collections but has heretofore been confounded with inda, as an 



