46 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



Glipa Lee. 



The only species known to me is narrow and cuneiform ; the scutellum is 

 rounded triangular, the anal style is short and subemarginate ; the hind tibiae 

 and tarsi are without ridges, except the short, subapical one of the former ; 

 the eyes are very finely granulated, the antennae tolerably strongly serrate, 

 and the last joint of the maxillary palpi very broadly securiform and mode- 

 rately thick, with the extremity hollowed out. 



Black, varied with cinereous hair, elytra with a narrow subbasal band ob- 

 lique inwards, and a broad one oblique outwards, brown pubescent, con- 

 nected along the suture and margined with cinereous pubescence, '35 '48. 

 Middle and Western States. Mordella hilaris Lay. . 1. hilaris Lee. 



Mordella Linn. 



The species of this genus are cuneiform ; the scutellum is triangular ; the 

 anal style generally long and slender ; the hind tibiae and tarsi are without 

 ridges, except the short, subapical one of the former ; the eyes are finely 

 granulated, the antennae are more or less serrate ; the last joint of the max- 

 illary palpi long triangular, very obliquely truncate, except in the male of M. 

 oculata, where it is broad and securiform, with the under surface clothed 

 with erect hairs, moderately thick and hollowed out at the extremity ; Spha- 

 lera Lee. founded upon M. melaena Germ, is not sufficiently distinct. 



The species are found on flowers. 



A. Anal style short truncate, antennae broadly serrate. 



Piceous, covered with sericeous brown hair, elytra with a double cinereous 



spot each side, behind the middle, "25 *30. Kansas. 1. 4-pu n c t at a Zee* 



Dull black ; thorax, pygidium and elytra sprinkled with small rounded 



spots of a silvery pubesceuce, elytra with a narrow, interrupted band behind 



the middle, composed of confluent spots, -13. Northern States. 



2. borealis. 

 B. Anal style long slender. 



A. Last joint of maxillary palpi scalene triangular. 



a. Pubescence above dark, without conspicuous markings : 



Deep black, finely pubescent, base of thorax broadly rounded at the mid- 

 dle, *2 *33. Middle, Southern and Western States. 3. melaena Germr. 



Above dull black, scutellum cinereous, beneath with fine grayish pubes- 

 cence, sides of breast and anterior margin of ventral segments clothed with 

 nearly white pubescence, -16 '23. N. Y., Canada, G-a., Oregon, California. 

 M. atrata Mels 4. scutellaris Fabr. 



Black, pubescence above brownish black, with single cinereous hairs inter- 

 mixed, beneath dull black, -12 '17. Southern and Western States. 



5. irrorata. 



b. Pubescence above black, with orange-colored spots : 



Occipital margin, base of thorax, with two short projections each side, ir- 

 regular spot surrounding the humerus, and a lunate spot near the tip of the 

 elytra clothed with bright orange-colored pubescence, '30. Florida. 



6. inflammata. 



Head grayish pubescent, thorax with reticulated lines of grayish yellow hair, 

 elytra with a curved basal spot, a narrow oblique one behind the humerus, 

 a rounded subsutural one at the middle, and a reniform spot one-fourth from 

 the tip, more or less fulvous pubescent, beneath spotted with cinereous pubes- 

 cence, "24 '28. Middle and Southern States. . 7. octopunctata Fabr. 



* Anaspis 4-punctala Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., 3, 276. 



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