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Type: Not examined by writer but H. J. Grant of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Sciences writes as follows: "Type No. 3794. Lectotype. 

 Male. Locality: Yuma. There are no other specimens of this species 

 in the Horn collection." Horn wi'ote: *'It occurs in New Mexico, 

 Texas, and Arizona, in the latter region near Yuma and vSanta Eita 

 Mts." 



Other localities: Arizona: Bear Valley, Atascosa Mts., F. G. 

 Werner; 9 miles west of Benson, F. G. Werner; Brown's Canyon, 

 Baboquivari Mts., F. G. Werner and G. D. Butler; Huachuca Mts.; 

 Marana, Butler and Werner; Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Nunen- 

 macher; 6 miles north of Nogales, 3500 ft., Werner and Nutting; 

 Oracle Junction, Werner and Nutting; 6 miles east of Peace, F. G. 

 Werner; Pima, 3000 ft.; 2 miles east of Ruby, F. G. Werner; Sabino 

 Canyon, Santa Catalina Mts., Werner and Nutting; 8 miles east of 

 San Vicente, F. G. Werner, A. A. Nichol, Tucson Mts., G. D. Butler. 

 Texas: El Paso. A^ew Mexico: Mesilla Park. 



Remarks: The semicostate elytra readily distinguish this species. 



Luperosonia schwarzi (Horn) 



Figuee: 4, a 



PhyllecAhrus schwarzi Horn, Proo. California Acad. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 6, p. 

 377, 1896. 



About 5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, moderately shiny, 

 although somewhat alutaceous, antennae heavy in male w^ith the last 

 three joints wider, middle tibiae notched near apex in male; pro thorax 

 with a depressed spot on each side; head and prothorax reddish brown, 

 the latter with piceous lateral darkening; elytra, legs, and under- 

 sm-face dark; elytra with faint irregular costae: the punctures with a 

 suggestion of irregular striation in basal half. 



Head smooth and shiny above the swollen frontal tubercles, a 

 slightly produced short carina between antennal sockets, deep orange- 

 brown with darker labrum. Antennae of male with the three basal 

 joints shining piceous, remainder densely pubescent with grayish 

 brown hairs, 2d and 3d joints short, 4th longest, last three joints 

 heavier and wider; in female, the joints longer and inore slender, 2d 

 and 3d joints together equalling 4th. Prothorax approximately one- 

 third wider than long, nearly rectangular, with onl}'- slightly rounded 

 sides, deep yellow-brown w^ith the sides piceous, on each side and in 

 middle of base a shallow depression; alutaceous and finely and incon- 

 spicuously punctate near base. Scutellum dark. Elytra long and 

 narrow with slight humeral prominences and faint irregular costae 

 near base, punctation with a tendency to becoming striate near base, 

 not very dense or coarse and becoming much finer near apex; surface 

 alutaceous but shiny, deep piceous. Epipleura vanishing at apical 

 curve. Body beneath entirely dark, legs dark except a little paler at 



