THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. iO 



Zeugophora, Kunze. 



Three are reported from Canada. They are small 

 insects, somewhat of the form of Orsodachna, but 

 proportionately shorter and more robust. The 

 punctuation, especially of the elytra, is coarse and 

 the prothorax has a large tubercle on each side. Z. 

 abiiortnis, Lee, is black above, the antennae and 

 legs red ; it reaches the length of .16 in. Z. varians, Fig. 6. 



Cr. (Fig. 6), is a trifle smaller (.13-. 14 in.), and rather prettily coloured, 

 the thorax being mostly piceous above, with a yellowish median stripe ; 

 the elytra are dark around the margins, the disk being occupied by a 

 large oval or somewhat heart-shaped yellov/ish spot. Specimens of Z. 

 varians from the Pacific slope seem tolerably constant in having the 

 median yellow stripe of the thorax obliterated and the sides more broadly 

 pale, while the elytra have, in addition to the usual spot, a smaller 

 common sutural one of the same colour, near the tip. This is connected 

 with the anterior one by a narrow yellow line. Z. puberida, Cr., differs 

 from varians in having the thorax entirely yellow, the elytral yellowish 

 area ill-defined. The punctures are close together, the outer joints of 

 the antennjB black. A specimen has been sent from Toronto by Mr. 

 Crew. 



Syneta, Esch, 



Represented by S. ferrnghica, Germ. (.30-.32 in.), a yellowish or 

 reddish-yellow beetle of rather coarse sculpture. The thorax is angulate, 

 with three more or less well-marked teeth on each side. The elytra are 

 marked with four costte of various degrees of distinctness. It is often 

 beaten from hazel thickets. 



Tribe III. — Criocerini. 



A few Canadian beetles of neat form and usually striking coloration 

 belong here. The thorax is much narrower than the elytra, which are 

 punctate in rows. The two genera differentiate easily, thus, so far as the 

 species under consideration are concerned : — 



I^rothorax with a constriction about the middle, elytra striped. .Z^;«a. 

 Prothorax cylindrical, elytra spotted Crioceris, 



