AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 373 



Var. humeralis, Say, J. Acad, iv., 95, 8.— Black, humeral angles and a post- 

 medial dot red. 



Canada, Nova Scotia, New York, Middle and Western States, 

 Nebraska. New Mexico, Arizona. 



This variety is common in Europe, but exceedingly rare here. 



A. L.u«loviC8e, Muls. Mon., p. 36, 3.— Head and thorax whitish, that black 

 black posteriorly, this with five black spots ; elytra red, disc with a large black 

 dot; ventral segments and legs orange, those black on the middle. L. 1J lin. 

 North America. (Felix.) 



HAIOIOMA. Muls. 

 Antennae short, club close, last joint large, thorax with the sides 

 concave, base not margined, claws dentate. 



H. picta, (Rand*.) Bost. J. ii., 51, 30.— Oval, rather depressed, black; legs 

 orange, head yellow, with two interrupted frontal vitta black ; tborax scarcely 

 punctulate, very short, spotted with black and very variable; elytra closely 

 and distinctly punctate; underside black, prosternum and epipleurae yellow, 

 episternum black; mesosternurn and three sides pieces yellow, metasternum 

 black, episternum and epimera yellow. L. -17 inch. 



Hudson's Bay, Nova Scotia, Lake Superior, Wisconsin, Middle and 

 Southern States, Mexico. 



The elytra are entirely pale, or with a longitudinal narrow dark 

 line, aud a spot on either side, or almost black. The coxal plates 

 reach the margin and are not limited exterally. 



Ventral process not margined, metasternum margined, the angles 

 reflexed, tibiae hardly sulcate. 



II. eyanoplera, Muls. Trim., p. 825. — Sub-hemispherical, rufo-testaceous, 

 sides of metasternum infuseate; elytra blue-green, with the margin very nar- 

 rowly and a marginal spot immediately befc-e the apex fulvous, epipleurse in- 

 fuseate; antennae short, club darker, thorax faintly punctate, elytra closely 

 and clearly punctate; mesosternurn not emarginate. L. -22 inch. 



Arizona. (Ulke.) 



AXISOCAL.VIA, Crotch. 



Punctuation of elytra coarse, unequal, epipleurae not reaching the 

 apex, anterior tibiae not sulcate, ventral process and apex of meta- 

 sternum margined, thoracic epipleura foveolate for the antennae, scu- 

 tellum punctate, coxal line continued aloug the apical margin of the 

 first segment. 



A. 1 4-guttata, (Linn.) S. N., p. 367, 22 ; var. similis, Rand. Bost. J. ii., 50, 

 28: cardisce, Rand. 1. c, p. 32, 50. — Black, legs and sides of ventral segments 

 broadly orange, head orange or nearly black; thorax black, front and side- 

 margins orange, also often with a medial line and spot near the posterior an- 

 gles orange, distinctly punctate; elytra black, finely punctulate, with nurner 



TRAXS. AMER. ENT. S0C. (48) APRIL, 1873. 



