RUTELIN^E QI 



near basal third; head larger, fully one-half as wide as the prothorax; 

 pygidium nearly as in the male but not quite so convex. Length 

 (d 71 ) 19.5, (9) 20. 6 mm.; width (cf) 12.4, (9) 13-5 mm. Virginia 

 and New York (Peekskill) vernicata n. sp. 



6 Body oblong-oval, more elongate than in any of the preceding, convex, 

 shining, dark red-brown to pale ochreous-yellow above, the anterior 

 parts with feeble metallic lustre, black, with greenish lustre and with 

 plentiful gray pubescence beneath, the legs pale, with black tarsi; 

 head large, distinctly more than half as wide as the prothorax, the 

 eyes relatively small as usual; clypeus as in the preceding species 

 but more sinuato-truncate apically, with broadly rounded angles 

 and sides which diverge perceptibly thence to the base, the finely 

 reflexed periphery and the transverse suture finely black; mentum 

 with the posteriorly converging anterior ridges better developed 

 than in the preceding species; prothorax nearly as in lanigera in form 

 and sculpture but with better defined and rather more prominent 

 apical, and much more broadly rounded basal, angles; elytra a 

 fourth to fifth longer than wide, slightly wider than the prothorax, 

 parallel, with feebly arcuate sides, which are more inflated, subpromi- 

 nent and discally tumid near basal third in the female, the apex 

 moderately obtuse; punctures fine, well separated, confused but with 

 two double series on each generally well defined; lateral impressions 

 nearly as in lanigera; pygidium yellow, peripherally black, the fine 

 sparse punctures bearing short erect hairs, the ground minutely 

 rugulose and alutaceous; intermesocoxal tubercle shining, small. 

 Length (cf 9 ) 18.0-22.0 mm.; width 10.0-12.3 mm - Arizona. 

 Abundant consobrina Horn 



7 Form oblong-oval, pale brownish-flavate above, without a trace of the 

 anterior metallic opalescence of all the preceding species, the under 

 surface shining, black, without metallic lustre; legs pale testaceous, 

 the tarsi deep shining black; inferior pubescence less plentiful than 

 in lanigera, still sparser on the abdomen than in that species, except 

 at the sides; head notably small, barely two-fifths as wide as the 

 prothorax, nearly as in lanigera, except that the angles of the clypeus 

 are still more broadly rounded and the thin elevated black margin 

 ends abruptly at a greater distance from the base; mandibles simi- 

 larly very thin and lamellate as in lanigera, without the inferior 

 tooth of consobrina; prothorax of a different outline, less than twice 

 as wide as long, widest behind the middle, where the sides are a 

 little more rounded, thence much narrowed to the apical angles, which 

 are short and rounded, the basal obtuse and rounded; base broadly 

 rounded, the lobe barely at all indicated; surface minutely and re- 

 motely punctulate, the punctules becoming more visible and in part 

 densely confluent near the sides; just within the edge posteriorly, 

 there is an evident parallel impression; scutellum broadly ogival, 

 nearly smooth, black along the apex; elytra barely visibly longer than 

 wide, oblong, nearly one-half wider than the prothorax, very obtusely 

 rounded at tip, the parallel sides broadly and evenly arcuate; lateral 

 impressions broad and shallow, not prolonged posteriorly; punctures 

 fine, sparse and confused, with the usual two double lines evident; 



