SUBFAMILY III. — ORTHOTYLIN^E. 



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York west to the Dakotas, Colorado and Texas. Not recorded 

 in the east south of New Jersey. The pubescence of upper sur- 

 face is easily abraded and older examples are almost wholly 

 glabrous. In those just emerged the black scale-like hairs 

 form spots as mentioned in the description ; often, also, nu- 

 merous smaller spots on the elytra. 



894 (1185). Ilnacora malina (Uhler) , 1877, 419. 



Head black, shining, the vertex in part dull yellow; elytra and basal 

 half of pronotum bright green ; front half of pronotum a broad stripe 



each side of scutellum and legs 



greenish-yellow; a large round 

 spot behind each callus, middle 

 of scutellum and under surface 

 in great part blackish ; mem- 

 brane dark brown, veins in part 

 paler. Joint 1 of antennae stout- 

 est, slightly longer than width 

 of vertex, fuscous-brown, pale 

 at base; 2 fuscous, three times 

 as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 dusky, sub- 

 equal in length, united slightly 

 longer than 2. Calli more 

 prominent with impression be- 

 tween them deeper than in stalii. 

 Elytra smooth, when fresh 

 sparsely pubescent with very 

 fine prostrate hairs ; middle of 

 corium often with an elongate 

 patch of black deciduous scale- 

 like hairs and sometimes with 

 a vague fuscous stripe along its 

 apical half. Length, 5.5 — 6 mm. 

 (Fig. 181). 



(Original). 



Common throughout Indiana, May 19 — Aug. 20. Swept 

 from foliage of Virginia creeper and poison ivy growing in low 

 alluvial soil ; aLso from herbage in dense woodland. Henderson, 

 Ky., June 15 (Marshall). Ranges from New England west to 

 South Dakota and Kansas and south to Maryland. Recorded 

 also from Texas and Mexico. The food plant, according to 

 Knight, is the rough-leaved goldenrod, Solidugo rugosa Mill., 

 growing in shaded damp places. 



895 (1181). Ilnacora divisa Reuter, 1876, 86. 



Pale greenish-yellow, vertex and front of pronotum often paler; head 

 with tylus, a median stripe on vertex and three lines or narrow stripes 

 on front, blackish; disk of pronotum with two small transverse spots of 



