RUTELIN/E 1 1 



finely punctate throughout their extent; the hind tarsi are slender, 

 slightly longer than the tibiae and the surfaces of the joints are also 

 punctate. The type may be described as follows: 



Body strongly cuneiform, convex, shining, testaceo-rufous, the elytra 

 more flavate, with a broad common sutural vitta of pale piceous and 

 not quite attaining the apex, glabrous above, the sterna and middle 

 femora with abundant long coarse yellow hairs; head rather small, 

 not quite half as wide as the prothorax, finely, closely punctate 

 throughout as on the clypeus, the occiput smoother, the suture rather 

 fine but impressed; clypeus transverse, large, three-fourths wider 

 than long, the sides nearly straight, feebly converging from the base 

 to the broadly rounded angles; eyes moderate, not very convex; 

 antennae of the usual structure, the club in the type distinctly 

 shorter than the stem; prothorax not quite twice as wide as long, 

 the sides parallel and nearly straight in basal, converging and 

 almost straight in apical, half; the angle rounded; apex sinuate, the 

 angles prominent; base broadly lobed, with fine entire bead, the 

 angles slightly obtuse and rather broadly rounded; surface minutely 

 but distinctly, evenly and rather closely punctate throughout; 

 scutellum well developed, punctured like the pronotum; elytra fully 

 two-fifths longer than wide, dilated posteriorly, broadly and obtusely 

 rounded at apex, the striae broadly and very feebly impressed, the 

 intervals flat, two of them feebly convex, the surface between the 

 two feeble convexities with three fine irregular series of very small 

 feeble punctures, the punctures of the lateral series very fine but 

 evident, of the others fine and rather uneven; second interval 

 moderately wide and with confused scattered fine punctures; basal 

 parts confusedly and finely punctured throughout, with all striae 

 effaced; pygidium convex, with moderately small and distinct though 

 shallow close-set punctures. Length (9 ) n.o mm.; width 5.8 mm. 

 Mexico (Colonia Garcia, Sierra Madre Mts., Chihuahua), Towns- 

 end *cuneata n. sp. 



I do not recognize any species mentioned by Bates that can be 

 considered allied to this ; the sinuation of the clypeal apex, although 

 slight, is real and not accidental and is one of its conspicuous 

 external features. 



Anomala Samouelle. 



This is an enormous and unwieldy cosmopolitan complex of 

 species, which might be divided generically, even if on somewhat 

 arbitrary lines, for the sake of convenience. The authorship of 

 the name seems to be in some doubt and I have adopted the deter- 

 mination of Bates. The body is of very varied form, coloration, 

 lustre and thickness of the integuments and the American species, 



