COLEOPTEKA ('lIl.'YSOMKI.m.K. 485 



Family CHRYSOMELIDyE Leach. 

 GALERUCELLA Crotch. 



I'l. L'. Fi-. 31. 



Gallrrn,;-:i,i ;nV,,i S.-n.lcl.. i;,-|i. l'r..-r. <;.-ol. Surv. C.n,.. 1-77 1-7-. 1 -.' 1-::|! (183 



A pair of rather poorly preserved elytra. parted at tin- tip, and showing 



IK 'tween and through them the outlines of the abdominal >e^inent> leple-e!l!- 

 a species of Chrysomelidse, which appears to \- most m-arlv allied to tin- 

 ^enns iii \vliich I have placed it and to be about tin- form of. and a little 

 smaller than, (r maritima LuC. Tin- el vfni an- uniformly piceous throughout, 



showing no marks of lighter-colored borders; tin-re an- taint indication-, ,,f 

 One or two marginal impressed lines in their outer halt', and the whole- sur- 

 face seems to have been very minutely punctate, more faintly and lim-lv 

 than in the existing species mentioned. The abdomen is verv ln-oadlv and 

 verv regularly rounded, snbovate, and at h-a.-t five segments of' similar 

 li'iiLTth can be determined. 



Breadth of the |..-iir of el\ tra at ba>e, 3.75 mnl ; length of elytra. . r )..". mm : 



breadth of abdomen, ."..L'.Y"" ; len--th of penultimate segment, 0.4 mm . 



Nine-mile Creek, British Columbia. One specimen. No. ilj I >r. (>. M. 

 1 >a wson). 



S Geoffrey. 



CRYPTOI r.riiAi.rs 



PI. 7, Fij;s. L".i, 37. 



Cryptocephalut rr.lu*tiu Somld., Hull. I". S. <;.,.!. (;.'.> k 'r. Surv. Ti-rr., IV, 7'.t (1878 



This species is fairlv represented bv a pair of specimens with their 

 reverses. < )m- pair exhibits the front, and by the drooping of the abdo- 

 men the under surface u f the insect with expanded el\tra ,me of them 



curiously foreshortened), the other the under surface only. The insect N 



broadly oval, and, except in beinjr much stouter, closely resembles ( ' ven- 

 iistu< l-'abr., with which it agrees in si/.e. The tlmrax, as ^ec-n mi a front 

 view, is arched, and the proportion of the h.-.id to the thorax is ,-is in the 



red-lit >pec;es mentioned. Tile elvtlM. which are the parts be.-t |in-*erved. 



