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Museum of Comparative Zoology were purchased from Jacoby by 

 Bowditch, are identical with LeConte's type of yura. I believe that 

 these are some of the cotypes of D. capitata and designate " North 

 Sonora" (i.e., Arizona) as the type locality. 



10. DISONYCHA PUNCTIGERA LeConte 



Plate 3, Figure 11 



? Altica quinquevittata Say, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 4, p. 88, 



1824 (" Missouri " ; type lost). 

 Disonycha punctigera LeConte, Smithsonian Contr. Knowl., vol. 11, p. 24, 1859 



(Kansas, near the Rocky Mountains; type in LeConte collection, Mus. 



Comp. Zool. ) . 

 Disonycha quinquevittata Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 16, pp. 203, 315, 



1889 (in part). 

 Disonycha neglceta Schaeiter, Joum. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 39, p. 283, 



1931 (Kansas; type in collection of Charles Schaeffer). 

 Disonycha, punctipennis Schaeffer, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 39, p. 284, 



1931 (Lake Okoboji, Iowa; type, U.S.N.M. No. 44118). 



Description. — Broadly oblong oval, feebly shining, elytra densely 

 punctate ; pale, occiput darkened, pronotum with 4 or 5 spots, elytral 

 vittae narrow, metasternum, apex of tibiae, and tarsi dark. Head 

 with interocular space more than half width of head; interantennal 

 area broad, slightly produced, tubercles not swollen but distinctly 

 marked; surface generally smooth and shining in middle with 

 some punctures, coarse but not confluent, on each side about fovea 

 near eye ; posterior edge of occiput, usually tubercles, often a streak 

 down carina, and labrum dark. Antennae dark with paler basal 

 joints, third joint shorter than fourth or fifth, which are subequal, 

 the fourth slightly longer. Prothorax scarcely twice as wide as long, 

 convex without depressions, narrowed anteriorly with arcuate sides; 

 surface alutaceous with fine punctation ; pale, usually with four spots, 

 the median stripe more or less obsolete or reduced to a spot. Scutel- 

 lum dark. Elytra broadly oblong oval, convex, humeri marked by a 

 short intrahumeral sulcus ; surface alutaceous, distinctly and closely 

 punctate ; vittae narrow, submarginal and sutural not united at apex, 

 usually submarginal not extending beyond median at apex. Body 

 beneath finely pubescent; jiale, with middle of metasternum and apex 

 of tibiae and tarsi darkened. Length, 6.3 to 7.6 mm; width, 3.3 to 

 4.4 mm. 



Type locality. — " Kansas near the Rocky Mountains." 



Distributio7i. — Illinois (Fort Sheridan) ; Kansas (Onaga, Reno 

 County, Riley County, Sylvia, Topeka) ; Nebraska (Lincoln) ; Iowa 

 (Lake Okoboji) ; South Dakota (Madison) ; Montana (Billings) ; 

 Colorado (Mancos, Platte Canyon) ; New Mexico (Aztec) ; Alberta 

 (E'lmonton). 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



