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B. intluMtabHis, sp. n.— Very close to B. ursina in size and coloring, 

 the punctuation is finer and the elytra have no trace of the two basal spots; 

 the two medial spots are distinctly before the middle and not on it as in B. 

 ursina; the posterior spot is small. L. -12 inch. 



£, , head, sides (broadly) and front margin of thorax yellow, a sharp yellow 

 tooth projects from the centre of the margin. 9> bead black, with an obsolete 

 orange spot. 



Illinois. 



B. Bollii, sp. n. — % . — Convex, rounded sub-globose, black, shining, legs 



and head yellow; thorax broadly yellow in front and on the sides (the black 

 color bilobed in front); elytra faintly punctate, each with five ill-defined yel- 

 low spots ^two basal, two medial, one sub-apical, free); the two basal ones are 

 partially confluent as are also the two marginal ones. L. -10 inch. 

 Var. — Spots suffused. 



Dallas, Texas. 



HYPERASPIS. 



Distinct from Brachyacantha by the simple tibiae, but agrees in all 

 other respect. //. floridana, Mills, (p. 1040), is evidently not a 

 Ilt/peraspis, and appears from description to be Scymnua amabilis, 

 Lee. 



H. lateralis. Muls. Trim., p. 65. — Rounded, sub-convex, shining black, 

 clearly punctate; elytra with marginal band from the humerus to the middle, 

 a diseoidal spot about the middle near the suture, and another sub-apical tes- 

 taceous yellow L. '12 inch. 



% , head, thorax with anterior margin (very narrowly) and side (triangu- 

 larly), anterior tibiae and tarsi yellow. 

 California. (Horn.) Mexico. 



II. fiitihriolata. Mels. Proc. Phil. Hi., p. 180; cincta, Lee— Black, rounded, 

 sub-convex, shining, punctate; with a tolerably broad marginal band testace- 

 ous. L. -10— -12 inch. 



% , head, thorax in front (narrowly) and on the sides yellow. 



Kansas, Lake Superior, Pennsylvania, California. 



Type of H. cincta is smaller and more rouoded, but does not differ 

 specifically. 



H. taMiiata, Lee. Proc. Phil, vi., 134, 10. — Black, shining, ovate, sub-con- 

 vex, punctate; elytra with a lateral irregular triangular spot testaceous red. 

 L. -10 inch. 



% , head in front, sides of thorax and anterior legs red. 



San Diego. (Leconte.j 



H. dissoluta, sp. n. — Very closely allied to H. fimbriolata, from which it 

 only differs by the narrow marginal band, which extends two-thirds of the 

 length of the elytra, and leaves a free sub-apical spot. L. "9 — 10 inch. 

 California, (Horn.) Lake Superior, ( Lecoute ) 



