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formly ferrugineous except the head, which is infuscate, mesosternum, 

 tibiae and tarsi piceous. Form as in tripustulatus DeG., head slightly 

 nitid, almost impunctate ; maxillary palpi black, last article inflated, 

 somewhat flattened, truncate and excavated at apex ; pronotum some- 

 what shining, almost impunctate ; scutellum very small ; elytra with 

 texture as in head and thorax; -ventral surface with sternum finely and 

 thickly punctured, except the mesosternum, which is smooth and very 

 nitid, ventral sternites finely, thickly and striately punctured except the 

 base of the segments, which are smooth ; fifth ventral rather deeply 

 notched ; legs with femora slightly rugose, tibiae smooth and sparsely 

 pubescent. 



Type $ in my collection. 



Type locality Lincoln Park Beach, Chicago, 111., (Wol- 

 cott). 



This form can be told at a glance from tripustulatus DeG. 

 by the absence of the sutural spot. I owe the type to the 

 kindness of my friend, Mr. Frederick Knab, of Washington, 



D. C. 



Genus HYPERASPIS Chevrolat. 



Hyperaspis lateralis, var. flammula n. var. 



Color, structure and ornamentation as in lateralis Muls., except that 

 the marginal vitta of each elytron is longer and is connected with the 

 common discal spot by an isthmus of the same color as the vitta and 

 spot ; this isthmus rises from a point at about the posterior third of 

 the vitta. 



Type $ 5 and one cotype ( 2 ) in my collection. 



Type locality Montana. 



Geo. Dist. Montana, 2 specimens ; Golden, Col. vii, 18. 

 09. one specimen (W. J. Gerhard). 



I have seen examples of this variety in several collections 

 in the east including the Horn collection of the American 

 Entomological Society. The $ 2 type was kindly given me 

 by Mr. Chas. Liebeck of Philadelphia, the cotype from Col- 

 orado by my friend Mr. A. B. Wolcott. In the latter the 

 elytral pattern shows slight signs of a reversion towards the 

 typical design. 



Hyperaspis wellmani n. sp. 



Color: Shining black, elytra with reddish yellow markings, disposed 

 similarly to those of lateralis Muls., except that the marginal vittae 

 distinctly increase in width posteriorly and do not reach as nearly the 



