Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 37 



Genus CALOSPASTA Lee. 



Calospasta imperialis n. sp. 



Color piceous. head and thorax testaceous, elytra and legs stramine- 

 ous, antennae varying from piceous to testaceous, pubescence sparse 

 and short throughout ; form small, slender and delicate, subparallel ; 

 head small, subglobose, sparsely and very minutely punctured, with a 

 small shallow depression at frons ; labrutn short, transverse, oblong, 

 finely and thickly punctured in the middle, labro-clypeal suture very 

 distinct ; clypeus short, transverse, with anterior angles rounded, punc- 

 tured like head ; maxillary palpi medium, slender, last article trun- 

 cate ; antennae medium, robust, article I short, slightly swollen, 2 

 bead-like, 3 almost equal to I and 2, cylindrical, 4-10 subequal, short 

 cylindrical, n a little longer and somewhat fusiform; eyes large, far 

 apart, almost entire. 



Pronotum long, somewhat cone-shaped, very strongly contracted in 

 front and slightly narrowed behind, posterior margin reflexed, a V- 

 shaped depression posteriorly at the middle, punctuation as that of 

 head ; scutelluni small, V-shaped, almost impunctate ; elytra slightly 

 widened behind, ora and nervures distinct, somewhat coarsely, irregu- 

 larly and rugosely punctured, separately and bluntly rounded behind ; 

 ventral surface very finely but distinctly punctured ; legs long and 

 slender, femora and tibiae punctured like ventrals, posterior tibial 

 spurs short and weak, the inner sharp, the outer blunt ; tarsi long and 

 slender ; claws long and weak. 



Length 6 mm., width 2 mm. 



Type in Wellman coll. Type locality Meloland, Imperial 

 Valley, California. 



Distribution. Imperial Valley, May, 1911, on wild hollyhock 

 (J. C. Bridwell, 9 specimens). 



This species is very distinct from anything in the genus yet 

 described. 



Genus MELOE L. 



Mcloe latrcillci Mars. = = M. pitrpurascens Germ. 



M. aenens Cast. == M. purpurascens Germ. 



M. maculifrons Luc. == M. inajalis L. var. 



Genus NEMOGNATIIA Illig. 



Nemognatha bridwelli n. sp. 



Color yellowish testaceous, antennae and last 3 articles of tarsi 

 piceous, pubescence medium in length, light yellow and very thick 

 and close, covering the entire insect ; head subtriangular, closely, 



