2O6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Sept., *O2 



Casey, munda Say and polita Casey. I have many specimens 

 including ones from the exact localities these forms are said to 

 come from, and I confess to a total inability to separate them 

 from sanguinea Say (see Biolog. VII, p. 170-71). 



Cleis w/;w and hudsonica Case} 7 are varieties of C. picta Rand. 



I find it impossible to separate my series of Analis i^-pnnctata 

 Oliv. and mali Say ; the latter is undoubtedly a synonym. 



Ncomysia interrupta Casey seems the same as Iwrni Cr. my 

 specimens indicate that raudalli Case} 7 is a variety of pullata 

 Say. 



I am unable to trace the differences of his new species ot 

 Psyllobora. 



In E.voc/iomns, p. 109, speaking of the forms cliildrcni to 

 crfhiops, it is said they may be regarded as derivatives of the 

 marginipennis type but specifically distinct. I have the three 

 forms childreni, latiusculus andfasriatus ; then I have an example 

 from Yuma, California, which has the elytra of childreni sanA. the 

 thorax of fasriatns, except that in one the anterior black elytral 

 markings are connected with the posterior, bringing up against 

 specimens of marginipennis from St. Louis and Florida. 



Chilocorus biinilncrns Muls. is said to occur as far west as Iowa, 

 and there are three new California species. I have examples from 

 California, Oregon and Colorado, which I cannot call anything 

 but bivulnerus, and the specimens which I have marked off as 

 the new species seem to be rather shadowy. Cacti Linn, is 

 spoken of as from Honduras, but Texan specimens seem 

 plenty. Gorham in Biolog. VII, p. 175, gives California and 

 Texas as localities. 



Axion pilatci Muls. is noted as probably distinct from pla^ i- 

 alion Lee. because of its red abdomen. I have an example of 

 pilatei from Texas which has a red abdomen with a central 

 black cloud. C. $-pustulatuni D. G. I have from Missouri, 

 Texas, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 



Rrachyacantha illustris Casey -- alb ifron s Say ; decora Casey 

 - crythrocephala Muls. I have a pair of this species from 

 Orizaba, Mexico, in cop., which has the "confluent pale 

 spots" entirely separate in the <? and confluent in the 9. I 

 do not find any difference between io-pi/stiilafn Mels. and /V\- 

 tudo Casey or social is Casey and dcnlipcs Fab. 



