408 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Anovia, 11. gen. 

 Body rounded or broadly suboval, convex, evenly punctate and 

 pubescent, the epipleura very vaguely and scarcely visibly impressed for 

 the femora ; protliorax distinctly narrower than the elytra, finely margined 

 at base and truncate at the scutellum, broadly and deeply emarginate at 

 apex; head with the eyes entire, only partially concealed by the prothorax, 

 tlie epistoma and labrum broadly and very feebly sinuate ; antennae short 

 and thick, 8-j<>inted, the club fusoid, with the joints compactly joined ; 

 maxillary palpi thick, the hst ]i\x\V strongly .securiform; prosternum 

 between the cox^e narrow, tumescent, rapidly sloping behind, the meso- 

 sternum with a transverse tumescent ridge at apex ; abdominal plates very 

 short, entire ; anterior tibiae flattened, their external edge longitudinally 

 impressed for the reflexed tarsi ; claws with a laminate internal tooth at 

 base. 



The type of this genus, which differs from Novius in its broadly and 

 deeply sinuate apex of the prothorax, is the following : 



A. virghialis, Wickh. — A cotype of this species from Chadbourne's 

 Ranch, Utah, was kindly given me by Prof Wickham. It was described 

 under the name Scymims virg'malis^ but the author recognized its generic 

 incompatibiiity. The specimens from St, George, Utah, seem to be 

 smaller, less suffusedly coloured and with rather straighter parallel sides 

 of the prothorax, but they have the sixth abdominal segment, as in the 

 cotype, well developed, and almost as long as the fifth ; this sixth segment 

 does not appear to differ much in the two sexes. I also have another 

 specimen, differing but slightly, from El Paso, Texas. 



Chilocorus, Leach. 

 In this genus the species orbus, Csy., is not a variety of biindnerus^ 

 nor confiisor a variety of cacti, as stated recently by Leng (1. c, 1908, p. 

 37, 38), but in each case specifically distinct. Fratei-nus, of LeConte, is 

 at least a well differentiated subspecies oi hivulnenis^ recognizable by its 

 smaller size and much less dilated form, as can be observed with greatest 

 ease in large series. Cacti, Linn., is a very much larger and more broadly 

 rounded species than co?ifusor, as clearly shown by some specimens in my 

 cabinet from Puebla, Mexico, and Honduras ; the latter occupies the arid 

 regions from San Diego to Nogales. I have recently seen a specimen of 

 fj-aternus taken at Nogales, Ariz, which is probably near its extreme 

 southern limit of distribution ; besides being smaller and narrower than 

 bivulnerus, the punctuation is much finer and feebler. 



