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spot or with these black spots confluent, forming an angulate fascia 

 which does not attain the lateral margins. Body beneath and ab- 

 domen black, varying to entirely yellow. Legs pale, the tarsi some- 

 times black. Length 4-5.5 niillim. 



Typical qnadrisignata has the head black; inner margin of eyes, 

 a frontal maculation and the mouth parts (except the mandibles) 

 pale; a large quadrate humeral maculation, a rounded one at apical 

 fourth, body beneath, abdomen, and tarsi black. In the form de- 

 scribed by Chevrolat as bilineicolle , the thorax is pale with two slightly 

 converging black lines; the humeral maculations are wanting and the 

 subapical spots form an angulated fascia; the club of the antenna? 

 and the tarsi are pale. Quadrinotata Chevr. was described from 

 Texas, but appears to have escaped the attention of students, as the 

 writer finds no mention of the species in any work or list dealing 

 exclusively with North American Coleoptera. In this form the 

 thoracic spots are small, more numerous than usual, those that are 

 subbasal are transversely arranged; the humeral maculation is 

 lunate, the maculation before the apex rounded; abdomen pale, 

 fasciate with black. 



Rev. Gorham (loc, cit., p. 190) expresses strong doubt as to bi- 

 lineicollis being distinct from quadrisignata. Material before the 

 writer shows that his doubt was well founded and that not only 

 bilineicollis but quadrinotata also should go to the synonymy, the three 

 forms being connected by intergrades so completely as to leave .no 

 reasonable doubt of their specific identity. 



Hob. Occurs from Texas (Brownsville) south through Mexico, 

 Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to Colombia. 



Orthopleura Spinola. 



The species of this genus are in a very chaotic condition and sadly 

 in need of the attention of some worker, to whom the types of the 

 various species are accessible. 



Orthopleura quadraticollis Spinola. 



Orthopleura quadraticollis Spin., Mon. Cle"r., n, 1844, p. 167, note 

 14, pi. xxxn, fig. 4. 



This species, for the determination of which we are almost en- 

 t'rely dependent upon the above cited figure, is listed both by Lohde 

 (Cleridarum Catalogus) and by Schenkling (Gen. Ins., Cleridae) as 

 being from Pennsylvania, but upon what authority the writer does 

 not know. Spinola failed to mention the country from which his 



