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slightly curved, armed above and beneath on both margins with 

 piceous spines, those beneath smaller and placed more remote 

 from each other. Elytra fully developed, surpassing the tip of the 

 abdomen, the anterior half greenish, the posterior half brownish; 

 tympanum small, that of the left elytron the smaller and margined 

 with piceous; wings about as broad as long and very gently in- 

 fumate, when folded just reaching the tip of the elytra. Abdomen 

 moderately plump, dark brownish, apically growing lighter; 

 supra-anal plate small, vertical apically, obtusangularly rounded, 

 entire; subgenital plate moderately elongate, truncate apically and 

 furnished with a pair of elongate club-shaped apical styles, black 

 in colour; cerci short, stout and apically cut squarely off, the tip 

 slightly excavate and armed dorsally with a subapical tubercle. 



Measurements. Entire length of body from the front of the 

 head to the tips of the subgenital stylets, 33 mm.; pronotum, 7 

 mm.; elytra, 26 mm.; wings, 23 mm.; fore femora, 10 mm.; hind 

 femora, 20 mm.; width of hind femora at the widest part, 6 mm.; 

 of elytra at widest point, 7 mm.; three millimeters from the tip, 

 3 mm.; of wings at widest point, 21 mm. 



Type a single cf . Rio Charape, Peru, September 17, 1911. C- 

 H. T. Townsend, collector. Catalogue No. 15320 U. S. Nat- 

 Museum. 



ON SOME APPARENTLY NEW COLEOPTERA FROM 

 INDIANA AND FLORIDA. 



BY W. S. BLATCHLEY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. 



On of the most common of the Chrysomelid beetles taken in 

 Florida in February and March was Lema brunnicollis Lac, which 

 was abundant on the flowers and foliage of the thistle Carduiis 

 horridiilus Push. The first blossom of this thistle opened near 

 Sarasota on February 6th, and the first Lema was taken on the 8th. 

 They were found mating on February 16th. and again at Sanford 

 on March 28th. 



A careful comparison of these Florida specimens with those 

 from Indiana discribed under the name brunnicollis Lac. in my 

 "Coleoptera of Indiana", p. 1111, shows that the two are very dis- 

 tinct, the Florida example being much larger, with less convex 

 elytra and having the frontal tubercles less prominent, the thorax 

 less constricted at base, with two rows of coarse punctures along 

 the median line and with numerous similar punctures scattered 

 over the apical half. In colour the Florida specimens are darker, 

 the elytra being blackish blue and the thorax in most specimens 

 having the apical half clouded with greenish fuscous. These 

 differences were pointed out to the late Frederick Blanchard, 



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