ART. 28 REVISION OF DISONYCIIA NORTH OF MEXICO BLAKE 33 



the collection of Ralph Hopping from Cochise County, Ariz,; and 

 2 in the National Museum, from the Organ Mountains, N. Mex.^ 

 and Chiricahua Mountains, Ariz. 



13. DISONYCHA CAROLINIANA (Fabricius) 



Plate 3, Figure 16 



Crioceris caroliniana Fabricius, Systeuia entomologiae, p. 122, 1775 (Carolina; 



Drury cnllectioi! ; type apparently IdSt). 

 Chrijsomela carolinknia Fabricics, Mantissa iiiseotorum, vol. 1, p. 75, 1787. 

 Oalleruca caroUuiana Fabricius, Entomologia systematica, pt. 2, p. 24, 1792; 



Systema Eleutlieratorum, vol. 1, p. 491, 1801. 

 ICistela svittata Fabricius. Entomologia systematica, pt. 2, p. 47, 1792. 

 ICistela vittata Fabricius, Systema Eleutlieratorum, vol. 1, p. 491, 1801. 

 fAltica caroUniana Oliviee, Bncyclopedie m^thodique, vol. 4 (vol. 1, Insects), 



p. 105, 1789 ; Entomologie, vol. 6, p. 684, 1808. 

 IHaltica caroJiviana Illiger, Mag. fur Insekt., vol. 6, p. 144, 1807. 

 Disoni/cha caroliniayia Chevbolat, Dejean Catalogue, p. 414, 1837. — Horn, 



Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 16, p. 315, 1889. 

 Disonycha quinquevittata Fabricius, in Gemminger and Harold, Catalogus cole- 



opterorum, p. 8497, 1876. 

 Disonycha pulchra Casey, Contributions, pt. 1, p. 51, 1884 (Chester, Pa.; 



U.S.N.M. No. 49224, Casey collection). 

 Disonycha alternata Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 16, p. 315, 1889 (as 



synonym; not H. alternata Illiger). 



Description. — Oblong oval, smooth, somewhat shining; pale with 

 darker antennae, two pronotal spots, placed near anterior margin, 

 dark sutural, median, and submarginal elytral vittae and dark 

 tibiae and tarsi. Head with interocular space considerably more 

 than half width of head ; interantennal area scarcely carinate, broad ; 

 tubercles not swollen ; surface smooth except for a few punctures on 

 each side about fovea ; entirely pale. Antennae dark with basal 

 joints a little paler, third, fourth, and fifth joints subequal, the 

 fourth slightly the longest. Prothorax fully twice as broad as long, 

 narrowed anteriorly with arcuate sides; convex; surface shining, 

 very indistinctly punctate ; pale with two spots placed near anterior 

 margin, these spots occasionally large and in one specimen coalescing, 

 Scutellum broadly triangular, dark. Elytra oblong oval, sides 

 rounded, humeri not pronounced or marked by intrahumorai sulcus ; 

 surface somewhat shining, under high magnification minutely alu- 

 taceous and finely and indistinctly punctate ; sutural and submarginal 

 vittae narrow and usually not quite uniting at apex, median vittae 

 only moderately wide. Body beneath finely but not conspicuously 

 pubescent; entirely pale except the darkened tibiae and tarsi, fre- 

 quently only apex of tibiae dark. Length, 5.8 to 6.5 mm.; width, 

 3.2 to 3.8 mm. 



Type locality. — " Carolina." 



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