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regular and closely packed, scutellar stria short, interstices 

 smooth. L. .11. Texas (Belfrage, 436). Differs from C 7'it/t;;es 

 by the red abdomen and strongly punctate el^'tra. 



6. C. ? nana (Zimm. MSS.), sp. n. 



Narrow, ovate, blue-black, antennae and legs j-ello wish-red ; 

 frontal carina acute, vertex smooth ; thorax narrow, broader than 

 long, front angles deflexed, sides rounded in front, base trans- 

 versely broadly impressed, surface almost smoothl}^ shining ; 

 elytra irregularly, conspicuously punctate. L. .06. South Carolina. 



Epitrix, Foudr. 



Closely allied to Crepidodera ; thorax impressed at base, im- 

 pression terminating in a plica, surface pubescent. 



1. E. cucumeris (Harr.), Ins., p. 103. seminulum (Lee.)- 



Black, clothed with a short erect gray pubescence; antennae and 

 legs red, posterior femora iufuscate ; head and thorax shining, 

 that smooth, this sparsel}' but evidently punctate ; el^'tra punctate 

 striate. L. .06. Middle States. Yery destructive to the cucum- 

 ber vines, according to Harris (1. c). I cannot separate the Cali- 

 fornian example described by Leconte from this species. 



2. E. subcarinata (Lee), Pac. R. Rep., p. 68. 



Very nearly allied to the preceding, but entirelj' brass}' above, 

 more elongate, thorax more thickly punctate (but still shining), 

 basal impression less distinct. L. .07. San Francisco (Leconte). 



3. . fuscula (Zimm. MSS.), sp. n. 



Also very near E. cucumeris, but broader and equally black ; 

 but all the femora are infuscate, and the thorax is coarsely- and 

 densely punctate, so as to appear opaque; the basal impression is 

 distinct. L. .65. North and South Carolina (Zimm. n. 5443.) 



4. E. lobata (Zimm. MSS.), sp. n. 



This species is extremely close to E. fuscula, of which it has 

 the precise shape ; the thorax is not quite so densely punctate, 

 and the legs are entirely red ; it also is slightly smaller. South 

 Carolina (Zimm. n. 5675). 



5. E. hirtipennis (Mels.), Pr. Acad., iii. 105. 



Oval, entirely testaceous, body beneath darker, elytra ochreous 

 with a medial ill-defined brown fascia; thorax short, small, shin- 



