1318 FAMILY LXI. MORDELLID.^. 



///(. Head, thorax and legs black or piceous ; pubescence of ely- 

 tra dark brown with light hair intermixed. INTEKMIXTA. 

 lib. Second joint of hind tarsi with two oblique ridges. 



i. Body yellow ; thorax with front half yellow with a median cloud, 

 basal half black. DECORELLA. 



//. Body black ; thorax black with two small spots on apical margin 

 reddish-yellow. BIPUSTULATA. 



mi. First joint of hind tarsi with three oblique ridges. 

 j. Second joint of hind tarsi with one oblique ridge. 

 A'. Piceous clothed with brown silken pubescence; elytra paler. 



PICIPENNIS 



A-A-. Head, thorax and legs reddish-yellow. FULVICOLLIS. 



./'./. Second joint of hind tarsi with two oblique ridges. 



I. Elytra black with a reddish or orange-yellow humeral spot. 

 m. Head reddish-yellow. MILITABIS. 



in in. Head black. SCAPULARIS. 



11. Elytra without distinct humeral spot. 



>i. Body reddish-yellow; base of thorax black. 2442. ORNATA. 



mi. Body black. 



o. Head wholly or partly reddish ; thorax brick-red, usually with 

 an oblong black spot near base. 2443. COMATA. 



oo. Head and thorax black; pubescence brownish-gray. 



2444. ASPERSA. 



2437 (7798). MORDELLISTENA TRIFASCIATA Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sri.. 



V, 1826. 243; ibid. II, 308. 



Body narrow, nearly parallel. Color given in key; head dull yellow; 

 legs and abdomen tinged with same hue. Length 2.3-2.8 mm. (Fig. 577, l>.) 



Putnam and Spencer counties ; scarce. May 24-July 25. 



2438 (7700). MORDELLISTENA LEPIDULA Lee.. Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci.. 



XIV, 1862, 48. 



Form of preceding. Color given in key; elytra with three black and 

 two yellow bands as in trif<iN<-i<it/i ; abdomen and hind tibia? and tarsi varied 

 with 1 thick. Length 2-3 mm. 



Pulaski and Monroe counties ; rare. June 19-June 25. Taken 

 From flowers of hercules club, Aralia spinosa L. 



2430 ("SOU). MORDELLISTENA LIMHALIS Melsh.. Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci.. 



II, 1845, 315. 



Slender, wedge-shaped. Large spot on front of head, disk and front 

 angles of thorax, suture and side margins of elytra blackish: legs, meta- 

 sternum and base of antenna 1 yellow: inesosternnm and abdomen blackish. 

 Length 3 mm. ( Fig. r>77, c. t 



Lake, Tippecanoe and Knox counties; scarce. June 4-July 5. 



