144 LENG AND HAMILTON. 



HIPPOPSIS Seiv. 

 H. lemiliscatn Fab.. 1801 (SaperdiK. Syst. El. ii. 330; Casteln, Hist. Nat. ii, 

 1840, p. 493; Lee, Jour. Am. PhiL Soc. ser. 2fl, ii, 145; lineoln Serv., Encyc. 

 Meth. X, p. 336. 

 Leugth 10-13 rum. = .40-. .52 incli. Habitat. — New York to southern Florida 

 (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, District of C-olumbia, North Carolina), Georgia 

 westward to Texas and northward to Missouri and Ohio; Brazil. 



[This insect is long and slender, with antennae more than twice as 

 long as the body, % and 9 > ai^d fringed with hairs beneath ; color 

 of body pale brown ; thorax much longer than wide, two white lines 

 on each side ; elytra punctate in rows, each with three white lines. 

 This species breeds abundantly in the vines of Melothisa penduln at 

 Lake Worth, Florida, also in the stems of Coreopsis and Bidois 

 (species not determined ) ; in Avibrosla in Missouri (Riley).] " Ham." 



DORCASTA Pascoe. 

 D. ciiierea Horn, 1860 (AegiJopsis), Proc. Ac. Phil. xii. p. 571, pi. 8, fig. 7. 

 Length 7-10 mm. = .28.40 inch. HahUat.—TexiiS (San Diego). 



Body slender, antennae not longer than body, densely pilose. The 

 body is densely clothed with erect pubescence, with three yellow vittae 

 on the thorax, and two on each elytron, and from the distant punc- 

 tures proceed erect black setae. The color is piceous, pubescence 

 dark brown, except the elytral and thoracic vittae. The antennae 

 are, especially on outer joints, annulate witii white. 



SICYOBIUS Horn. 



S. brousii Horn, 1880. Trans. Am. Eiit. Soc. viii, p. 137. pi. ii, fig. 9. 

 Length 6.5-10 mm. ; .26-.40 inch. Habitat. — Western Kansas. 



Resembles, in form. Ataxia crijpta without the thoracic spines. 

 Beneath clothed with cinereous pubescence, denuded, forming small 

 black spots ; above clothed with pale ochreous pubescence, denser at 

 side of thorax and on the elytra with small s})ots of white, two of 

 which form slight oblique bands ; antonnie but little longer than 

 half the body, pubescent but not ciliaie. Taken on the wild gourd 

 (^Cacumis perennis) by Dr. H. A. Brous, after whom it is named. 



SPAL,.4COPSIS. 



[The tribe Hi})])()j)sini has the front very long and indexed. In 

 Spalacopsis this is seen in the extreme, the small mouth approxi- 

 mating the prothorax in front of the coxae, the vertex is anterior, 

 and the antenme, which are approximate at base, project forward in 

 life. The species in our fauna may thus be separated : 



