388 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ZOOLOGY, VOL. VII. 



(northern part, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Bernardino Mountains, 

 San Jose, Alameda County), and Texas (Brownsville), 



Cregya maculicollis Schaeffer. 



Pelonium maculicolle Schaef., Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., xn, 1904, 

 p. 219. 



"Form and size of Cregya vetusta Lee. [=leucoph(ea Klug]; 

 testaceous, clothed with semi-erect' pale hairs, thorax maculate with 

 black, elytra with base more or less black, on each side about middle 

 of disk three black spots, the two upper ones oblique and near the 

 suture, the two lower ones generally confluent, a broad black fascia, 

 narrower towards suture and irregular in outline, at about apical 

 two-fifths. Antennae eleven-jointed, half as long as the body in the 

 male, shorter in the female, club longer than the preceding joints 

 in the male, shorter in the female, last three joints black. Head 

 coarsely, densely punctured, black, with a longitudinal pale line, 

 variable in distinctness, eyes prominent. Thorax nearly as long as 

 broad, narrower at base than apex, sides gradually widening .from 

 apex to about basal third, then suddenly narrowing to base, disk 

 slightly convex, even, with a slightly impressed median line, some- 

 what coarsely and densely punctate, a black median line and three 

 or four spots on each side from the middle to the base, the spots at 

 sides more or less confluent. Elytra nearly three times as long as the 

 thorax, slightly widening towards the apex, apices separately rounded, 

 very coarsely, irregularly punctured, the space between the black 

 median spots and the fascia devoid of these punctures, the base with 

 a large black spot on each, below the humeral umbone a smaller one, 

 sometimes connected with the basal spot, at about middle one oblique 

 black spot on each side near suture, below this two others, mostly 

 connected assuming a zigzag form, at about apical two-fifths a broad 

 black fascia of irregular outline, narrower towards suture. Anterior 

 femora at apex and anterior tibiae at base black, middle and hind 

 tibiae sometimes with a black fascia at middle. Anterior tibiae ser- 

 rate, in the smaller specimens faintly. Length, 7-11 mm." (Schaef- 

 fer.) 



A topotype of this interesting species in the collection of the 

 author has the last three joints of the antennae black, but the base 

 of these joints and the apex of the eleventh are testaceous. The 

 thoracic markings are variable to some extent, the black median line 

 being reduced to a minute elongate spot; the lateral spots, which 

 are here two in number, are moderately large and well separated; 



