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palpi similarly colored ; eyes black : thorax sparsely pubescent : elytra golden- 

 sericeous : beneath and feet rufous or rufo-testaceous. 



Sometimes dark rufous; elytra with the apex, a spot on the middle and 

 an oblique one extending from the humerus to the suture, obsoletely pallid. 

 Perhaps, in accordance with the name liturata, the type of the species. 



14. M. lutea. Testaceous; eyes black. I 1. long. Pennsylvania. 

 Testaceous-yellow: antennae as long as the thorax, filiform, testaceous : 



thorax less pubescent than the elytra, hot profoundly bisinuate at the basal edge: 

 elytra rather attenuated and gaping, densely yellowish-pubescent : feet and be. 

 neath as above ; tips of tibiae and aculei of posterior ones black ; anal style mo- 

 derate, rather robust. 



15. M. ornata. Testaceous; thorax and elytra fuscous, the former with a 

 transverse band, the latter with the shoulders, testaceous. 1| 1. long. Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Slender, testaceous, sparsely pubescent : head testaceous, with the vertex and 

 mouth, dusky ; antennae slender, filiform, as long as the thorax : eyes black ; 

 palpi testaceous ; thorax short, dull reddish-brown, with a transverse, sublunate 

 testaceous band a little behind the anterior margin, attaining with the tips nearly 

 the anteri-angles ; scutel small, testaceous : elytra attenuated, very slightly 

 gaping, with a large, triangular yellowish humeral spot ; intermediate the apex 

 and humeral spots an obsolete whitish-pubescent fascia, which is dilated on the 

 suture: feet and beneath, rufo-testaceous, with the sides of the abdomen dusky; 

 anal style moderate, very slender. 



16. M. limbalis. Testaceous; disk of the thorax and a vitta on the lateral 

 margins of the elytra, black. 1| 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Very slender, testaceous, slightly pubescent : head testaceous, dusky between 



the eyes ; antennas, base testaceous ; eyes black ; palpi testaceous : thorax 



testaceous-yellow, with a dusky oval or rather rhomboidal spot on the disk ; an- 

 terior angles obsoletely dusky : elytra with lateral margins, suture and basal edge 

 black: feet and pectus, testaceous; abdomen dusky; anal style long, very r slen- 

 der. It is the Mordella limbata, Melsh. Catal. 



17. M. discoidea. Black: head and thorax rufous, the former with a black 

 spot between the eyes, the latter with a similar one on the disk : elytra with the 

 apex and two fascias ashy-brown. If 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Pubescent: head rufous, with a large blackish spot between the ey r es : 

 antennas and palpi, rufous, the former filiform : eyes brown or blackish : thorax 

 color of the head, with a black spot on the middle : scutellum dusky rufous : 

 elytra with the apex and two arcuated fascia?, ashy-brown : beneath and poste- 

 rior feet, color of the elytra or black; intermediate and anterior feet, color of the 

 thorax; anal style moderate. 



18. M. fulvicollis. Fuscous : head and thorax testaceous-yellow. 1 1. long. 

 Pennsylvania. 



Mordella fulvicollis, Melsh. M.S. 



Slender, brown, sparsely pubescent: head and thorax testaceous-yellow: 



antennae base and palpi, testaceous : scutel minute, testaceous : elytra with 



the apex indeterminately pallid : beneath and posterior femora, dusky brown, with 

 the tip of the abdomen, anal style, posterior tibiae and tarsi, and middle and fore 

 feet, testaceous ; anal style moderate, slender. 



