324 MEMOIRS ON THE COLEOPTERA 



mm.; width 6.0-8.3 mm. Mexico (Durango to Federal District). 



Abundant. [Cetonia basalis G. & P.] *basalis G. & P. 



A Similar to basalis in every way but rather smaller, with the ground 

 color of the elytra a brilliant orange, the vestiture everywhere 

 more deeply fulvous and the subapical spot of the elytra divided 

 by the suture, forming two spots, neither of which seems ever to 

 quite attain the sutural carina; pygidium pale testaceous and 

 apparently never black as it is in basalis. Length (d" 9 ) 1 1.5-12.4 

 mm.; width 6.7-7.6 mm. Mexico (Guerrero), Baron. 



*crinicauda n. subsp. 



Form elongate, subrhomboidal; body black; clypeal apex truncate and 

 broadly reflexed; prothorax not shorter than wide, the sides oblique 

 and somewhat rounded, black, shining, sparsely punctate, the basal 

 and lateral margins flavate, the latter with a small black spot before 

 the middle; elytra opaque, slightly narrowed from the humeri, the 

 margin at the humeri, two broad fasciae and the apex flavate; sterna 

 and abdomen with pale hairs laterally. Length 16.5 mm. Lower 

 California (Cape San Lucas). [Euryotnia fascifera Lee.] 



fascifera Lee. 



A Form elongate-rhomboidal, broader and more parallel in the 

 female, shining throughout, polished black beneath and through- 

 out the legs and head; prothorax pale testaceous, the basal margin 

 very finely infuscate, less finely along the scutellum; surface with 

 four discal spots forming a trapezium, the two anterior the smaller, 

 also with a small black point near the sides before the middle; 

 elytra black, with two broad irregular transverse fasciae attaining 

 the sides but narrowly interrupted at the suture, and a transverse 

 apical' area, also interrupted by the suture, flavate, the first 

 fascia continued to the base outside the humeral callus, the py- 

 gidium black; upper surface glabrous, the pygidium and sterna 

 with very short sparse hairs, the abdominal segments each with a 

 :small oblique tuft of coarser hair at each side; head coarsely, 

 closely punctate, the clypeus subparallel, the apex broadly arcuate 

 and strongly reflexed, the apex rather less reflexed, more rounded 

 and with a feeble median sinus in the female; prothorax strongly 

 trapezoidal, with subevenly arcuate sides, a third or more wider 

 than long, the apex only two-fifths as wide as the base, subtruncate 

 and prominent at the middle, even more so than in Cotinis; 

 surface sparsely punctate, strongly laterally, very finely medially; 

 scutellum with a few minute punctures ranged parallel to each 

 side; elytra a third to two-fifths longer than wide, the two costae 

 narrow and feebler than usual, the punctures sparse, variolate, 

 for the most part serial, confused and much deeper on the flanks, 

 the latter with dense confused incised lines posteriorly, but only 

 within the last black fascia; pygidium with strong separated 

 oblique interlacing incised lines, umbonate near the apex in both 

 sexes; upper tibial tooth feeble in the male; hind tarsi much 

 shorter in the female. Length (cf 9 ) 14.3-16.5 mm.; width 7.4- 

 9.3 mm. Arizona (Cochise Co.). Three examples, showing no 

 variation trapezium n. subsp. 



