98 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 56. 



spots in each cell of the elytra. Size, female, 9 mm. long; male 

 shorter. 



Color, the dried specimens from which the description is made are 

 yellowish and grayish brown, indicating that in live specimens the 

 prevaihng color would be brown. The males are darker, being 

 more heavily dotted with black punctations along veins of elytra, 

 and also on vertex and pronotum. 



The species more nearly resembles sanguinolenta Spangberg than 

 any other member of the genus although it is distinctly different 

 even from it. 



Type.— Female, Hillsborough County, Florida. (Collection of U. S. 

 National Museum.) Cat. No. 21886. 



Allotype.— yLsle, Raleigh, North Carolina. Collected by Z. P. 

 Metcalf, July, 1909. (Collection of U. S. National Museum.) 



Paratypes.—l female, Plummer's Island, Maryland. Collected by 

 H. S. Barber. (Collection of Herbert Osborn.) One male, Glen- 

 carlyn to mouth Four Mile Run, Virginia, June 17, 1914. Collected by 

 W. L. McAtee. (Collection of W. L. McAtee.) One male, Raleigh, 

 North Carolma, June, 1909, collected by Z. P. Metcalf. (Collection 

 of U. S. National Museum.) 



26. GYPONA PUNCTICOLLIS Spingberg. 



Gypona pundimllis SpAngbero. K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 5, No. 3, 



p. 54, 1878. 

 Gypona quadri-notata SpAngberg, K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 5, No. 



3, p. 56, 1878. 

 Gypona alhosiqnata Uhler, Colorado Exp. Sta.. Bull. No. 31, 1895. 



The characters as given in the key are sufficient to readily distin- 

 guish this species. It somewhat resembles modesta Spangberg but is 

 much more slender or narrow in form and with not so many darkened 

 veins or irregular dark lines on the elytra. The vertex is short and 

 broadly rounding. The four small black spots along the anterior 

 margin of the pronotum and the blackened apex of the clavus are 

 also characteristic for identification. 



A cotype of Ulder's alhosignata is in the collection of the United 

 States National Museum. 



The species is known to occur from Massachusetts westward to 

 Kansas and south into Central America and the West Indies. 



27. GYPONA BIPUNCTULATA Woodworth. 



Gypona bipunctulata Woodworth, Illinois Lab. Nat. Hist. Bull., No. 3, p. 30. 



1887. 



This species resembles marginifrons Fowler in the short and has a 

 broadly rounding anterior margm of the vertex. The ocelli are 

 comparatively large and placed as in marginifrons. Bipunctulata 

 Woodworth is, however, somewhat smaller and lacks the distinctive 

 dark bordering of the veins of the elytra and the irregular dark 

 markings on the anterior border of the pronotum. There are two 



