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rounded internally, their arcuate margin becoming more externally oblique 

 anteriorly to the apical angles ; a very similar species, of which I only 

 have females at present, occurs at Alpine, Texas. 



Mr. Chas. Schaeffer (Sci. Bull., Br. Inst., Vol. i, p. 145) confuses 

 media/is, and inferentially also gemma, fastidiosa and coiispirans, with 

 'sexverrucata, Fabr., d^nd p?-ate!isis, Lee, must be closely related. But Mr. 

 Schaeffdr is mistaken in this, as a little closer observation would have 

 shown him that there are a number of distinct species, and, on consulting 

 Mulsant's description of sexverrticata (Spec, p. 639), which is a South 

 American insect, he would have read the following diagnosis : Briefly and 

 obtusely oval ; prothorax brown or red-brown, ornamented each side with 

 a yellow border ; elytra black or brown, each with three yellow spots, two 

 suborbicular near two-fifths of the length, the external bound to the lateral 

 border, the third subapical, obtriangular. The coloration of the pronotum 

 prohibits any close alliance with these Sonoran forms, and Gorham was 

 hasty in assigning those from northern Mexico to this species. It is a 

 common type in the fauna of Mexico, but includes many indubitable 

 species. Mr. Schaeffer seems of late to be somewhat solicitous concerning 

 the distinctness of Le?igi and ?otu?ida (Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Sept., 1908); 

 the two appear to me to be amply distinct species, indeed not even closely 

 related. 



II. imperialism n. sp. — Moderately broadly oval, very convex, polished, 

 black, rather finely but strongly, the elytra not very closely, punctate ; 

 head ( $ ) dull, black ; pronotum black, the sides yellowish-red, the pale 

 area longer than wide, parallel, with its inner margin bisinuate ; elytra 

 with the umboniform callus at basal fifth unusually pronounced, black, 

 each with a large evenly elliptical dull red spot, from a fifth to six-sevenths 

 of the length, and from inner fifth at apical fourth, where it approaches the 

 suture most closely, to wichin a short but appreciable distance of the 

 lateral margin ; under surface and legs black throughout. Length, 3.6 

 ram.; width, 2.8 mm. Mexico (Puebla). 



This very distinct species belongs to the same group as the Florida 

 regalis and Mexican panzosce. It differs from the latter in its more 

 elongate form, much less basal pale elytral area, and in having the sides 

 of the pronotum pale. 



H. oculifera, n. sp. — Broadly oval, convex, shining, strongly and 

 rather closely punctate, black, the entire head and a large subquadrate 



