GALERUCINE BEETLES BLAKE 93 



Type: In British Museum (Natural History), collected at Parand, 

 BrazU. 



Remarks: What appears to be a paratype of this is in the Bowditch 

 collection, 1st Jacoby collection, Museum of Comparative Zoology. 

 No females have been examined. 



Luperosoma parallelum (Horn) 



Figure 4,6 

 Phylledhrus parallelus Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 20, p. 126, 1893. 



About 5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, rather flat, moderately 

 shiny although alutaceous, and with shallow, not dense elytral puncta- 

 tion; head reddish brown, deeper brown over occiput, pro thorax pale 

 yellowish brown, elytra piceous with pale margin, legs and antennae 

 pale, the former with dark streaks, abdomen and part of breast 

 piceous; antennae in male enlarged at end, and middle tibiae notched 

 near apex. 



Head with deeper reddish brown color over occiput becoming pale 

 yellow down front, alutaceous and obsoletely punctate, with swollen 

 frontal tubercles and slightly produced carina between antennal 

 sockets. Antennae pale except basal joint, with a deeper brown on 

 upper surface, 2d and 3d joints short, 4th longest of all, thence 

 gradually diminishing in length to terminal joint, which in male is 

 enlarged. No female examined. Prothorax about a third wider than 

 long with sides nearly straight, only slightly curved, anterior angles 

 toothed, basal angles obliquely cut, disk wath semicircular depression 

 in basal half and a smaller one in middle of anterior half; pale yellow, 

 often with spot or widely brown or piceous areas on each side. 

 Scutellum reddish brown. Elytra somewhat depressed, shining 

 although distinctly alutaceous and with scattered shallow punctures, 

 deep piceous except the pale lateral (not apical) margin, sometimes 

 shghtly paler along sutural edges. Epipleura pale. Body beneath 

 with breast brownish, abdomen even deeper brown, legs pale with a 

 dark streak along upper side; middle tibiae of male notched near 

 apex, first tarsal joint of anterior legs in male short; middle and 

 posterior tibiae with fine spine at apex. Claws appendiculate. 

 Length 4.3-5.2 mm..; width 1.8-2 mm. 



Type : Not examined by the writer, but H. J. Grant of the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Sciences writes as follows: "Type No. 3792. 

 Labeled holotype. Sex not indicated. Locality: 'Tex.' In the 

 Horn collection there are two additional specimens — one with no data; 

 one labeled simply 'Tex.' " l^lfe' 



Other localities: Texas: Round Mountain (Fall collection); 

 Douglass, H. S. Barber; College Station, W. D. Pierce. Oklahoma: 

 Ardmore, C. R. Jones. Kansas: West Kansas, Popenoe; Onaga, 



