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the striae much finer, feeble, with rather strong but very widely 

 spaced punctures throughout, the intervals only feebly convex; 

 sutural stripe behind the third fascia narrower, more abruptly 

 though very moderately, rhomboidally expanded at apex. Length 

 (9) 6.5 mm.; width 3.7 mm. Utah (Leeds and St. George), 



Wickham utense n. subsp. 



C Stouter and larger, nearly as in obliteratum but broader, the head 

 more strongly, closely and irregularly punctate; prothorax more 

 elongate, scarcely twice as wide as long, nearly similar in outline 

 and punctuation but relatively much smaller, the elytra more 

 inflated and rounded basally, the sides thence feebly converging 

 and straight to near apical third, with the elytral flanks above them 

 somewhat concave; striae and punctures strong, much closer in 

 the deep lateral series and visible nearly to the apices; sutural 

 dark stripe behind the third fascia parallel and straight at the 

 sides to the tip, fading out apically but not at all expanded. Length 

 ( 9 ) 7.0 mm. ; width 4.7 mm. New Mexico. 



subimpressum n. subsp. 



If the impressions of the elytral flanks should prove to be a con- 

 stant character, this feature, together with size, the more abruptly 

 narrowed prothorax and coarse close lateral striae and punctures of 

 the elytra, would undoubtedly prove subimpressum to be a very 

 distinct species, but it is difficult to decide with but a single speci- 

 men at hand. I also think that utense is in reality rather a species 

 than a subspecies, but am less convinced in regard to sonorce, the 

 status of which is probably truly varietal. My identification of 

 obliteratum is wholly through published descriptions. 



In the same way the forms clustering about gilce, Lee., may be 

 defined as follows : 



Broadly oval, pallid in color, the dark areas much reduced; dark area at 

 the base of the head with a bilobate median projection; prothorax 

 short, more than twice as wide as long, the sides strongly converging 

 from base to apex and feebly arcuate; surface coarsely, sparsely 

 punctured throughout its extent, having a median dark and greenish- 

 metallic transverse spot, continued laterally by a brownish area and 

 connected with the base at its ends; elytra moderately rounding at 

 the sides to the base of the prothorax, having a dark scutellar spot 

 narrowly extending along the base and prolonged backward laterally 

 in three short lines, the second fascia consisting of two spots, one 

 triangular, with the apex on the suture and one more quadrate and 

 lateral, the third fascia consisting of two external spots and one 

 subsutural, arcuately connected; suture narrowly dark throughout, 

 with a small rhomboidal apical dilatation; striae rather fine internally, 

 very deep and close laterally, the punctures strong, very close-set 

 in the lateral grooves; dark areas brown or feebly metallic-green; 



