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J. D. Sherman, Jr.); New Britain (Knab), Bridgeport (June, 

 1895, Knab), Connecticut; Pennsylvania (National Museum 

 collection). 



Type Catalogue No. 12572, U. S. National Museum. 



Cotypes in the collections of the U. S. National Museum and 

 of the author. 



This species is of striking appearance on account of the 

 reduction, both in number and size, of the discal spots of the 

 elytra and in fresh specimens this is enhanced by the brilliant 

 red discal color. It is even more robust in form than rhoda. 



Calligrapha amelia, new species. 



Closely related to Calligrapha philadclphica Linmeus. Form elong- 

 ate-ovate, convex. Color of the body and elytral pattern dark blue- 

 green, submetallic ; the legs, antennse and palpi ferruginous yellow ; 

 labrum, and the mandibles in part, ferruginous. Ground-color of the 

 elytra white with slight creamy tinge and, in sexually mature specimens, 

 with silvery luster. The elytral pattern is similar to C. philadclphica. 

 The sutural stripe is very narrow, usually green but shading to fer- 

 ruginous in some specimens. The subsutural stripe is broader, de- 

 tached, and does not attain the apex ; in some specimens it is abbre- 

 viated or interrupted posteriorly. Outside of the subsutural stripe, 

 medianly, is a long arcuate stripe which is usually more or less broken 

 in the middle. The humeral lunule is usually broken into four spots, 

 of which the posterior oblique one is the largest ; the spot enclosed 

 by the lunule is rather large, rounded or roughly lunate. The spots 

 upon the disc are heavy, more or less rounded, and about 12 to 15 in 

 number upon each elytron. The punctures limiting the pattern arc 

 moderately coarse, the markings slightly convex ; the punctuation of 

 the disc is rather coarse and sparse. The epipleura are pale with 

 ferruginous outer margin. The head and pronotum are obsoletely 

 alutaceous, coarsely but not densely punctured ; the punctures on the 

 sides of the pronotum tend to form pits and those upon the disc are but 

 little finer. 



Length, 6.5 to 9 mm. 



Food-plant: Alnus ruqosa (Du Roi ) K. Koch (serrulata 



Willd.). 



Localities : Washington, D. C. (1 June, Hubbard and 

 Schwarz, 20 May, 1906, Knab); Fort Washington (1 July, 

 Hubbard and Schwarz), Hyattsville (27 August, Knab), Mary- 

 land ; Pimmit Run (5 June, 1904, Knab), Glen Carlyn (30 

 May, 1906, Knab, 14 July, 1908, Heidemann), Great Falls 

 (27 June, 1909, Knab), Virginia; White Sulphur Springs, 

 West Virginia (A. Fenyes) ; New Jersey (J. B. Smith) ; Staten 

 Island, New York. 



