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base wider than thorax, scabrous, reddish yellow in $ , with oval 

 piceous spot on middle of suture in $ ; last ventral segment of $ 

 notched. Length 8 mm. 



8. Calospasta schwarzi Wellm., sp. nov. 



C. nigra; capite (oculis et oris partibus exceptis} elytrisque flavo- 

 rufis. Caput inter oculus valde canaliculatum. Thorax angustus lati- 

 tudine longior. Scutellum subtiliter rugulosum. Elytra oblonga, rugulo- 

 sa. Pcdes pallido-pubescentes, femora dense punctulata; $ tarsi antici 

 articulis tribus primis gibbosis, longitudinaliter non sulcatis. Long. 

 Corp. 8.5 mm. Lot. elytr. 3 mm. 



Hab. Panamint Valley, California, ab A. Koebele, Apr., 

 1891, collecta. 



Typ. Cat. No. 12,129, U. S. N. M. 



Black, head (except eyes and mouth parts) and elytra yellowish red. 

 Head almost smooth, very sparsely and feebly punctulate, longitud- 

 inally broadly channelled in front, vertex somewhat raised. Antennae 

 not closely joined together, second joint very short, third distinctly 

 longer than fourth, black except third joint has the upper surface of 

 its basal half reddish. Eyes as in histrionica G. Horn. Last joint 

 of maxillary palpi obliquely truncate. Thorax rather narrow, longer 

 than wide, almost smooth, very sparsely and feebly punctulate and with a 

 few minute scattered hairs. Scutellum triangular, finely rugulose. Elytra 

 oblong, rather square at humeral and apical angles, rugulose, with a 

 few very small white hairs Legs rather closely beset with small, 

 fine pale hairs, the femora pretty densely punctulate. The first three 

 tarsi of the $ front legs are gibbose but not excavated; under surface 

 of body sparsely beset with pale hairs which are longer than those on 

 the legs. 



A very distinct species. Its closest ally is histrionica G. 

 Horn from which it may be told at once by the $ anterior 

 tarsi not being sulcate and by its concolorous elytra. 



I take much pleasure in associating this interesting species 

 with the name of Mr. E. A. Schwartz of Washington, D. C., 

 to whom American coleopterology owes a great debt. 



9. Calospasta sulcifrons Champ., Biol. Centr..Amer., Col., iv, 2, p. 394. 

 Calospasta sulcifrons Champ., Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1899, p. 170. 



I have not seen this species. Champion's description gives 

 the head and thorax as reddish yellow with vertex and median 

 stripe to thorax black; elytra black with broad reddish yellow 

 margin to base and sides ; underside metallic. The head and 



