26 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 290 



Cryptocepltalus albicans Haldeman 



Figure 71 

 Cryptocephalus albicans Haldeman, 1849, p. 252. 



Pronotum: Usually light orange with disk and large basal triangular 

 area each side rather reddish, sometimes dull creamy yellow throughout ; 

 punctation dual, larger punctures minute to small. 



Elytra: Light orange or creamy yellow and with dark reddish to 

 black markings. Markings as follows: first stria usually dark at base 

 to dark throughout; second interval usually vaguely darkened at 

 base; second stria black to (and sometimes beyond) middle of elytra; 

 third stria sometimes dark at base; fourth stria usually dark at apex; 

 at side with complete black vitta from humerus to apex of seventh 

 interval, vitta sometimes reduced apically. With eight (sometimes 

 apparently nine) rows of punctures, sixth and seventh (or, when nine 

 rows, sixth, seventh, and eighth) rows confused; punctures as large 

 and dense as usual, distinctly smaller at elytral apex; inner and outer 

 rows distinct and clearly meeting at apex. 



Prosternum: Anterior margin broadly, not strongly lobed in female; 

 feebly lobed in male. 



Length 4.8 to 6.3 mm. 



Discussion. — The six Florida specimens before me have the elytral 

 intervals finely, transversely rugose; this significantly reduces the 

 shininess of the elytra. In two Georgia and three South Carolina 

 specimens, the rugosity is reduced to absent, and the elytra are dis- 

 tinctly shiny. The single Mississippi specimen has the elytra finely, 

 transversely wrinkled and shiny. Two specimens from Florida were 

 taken on Cassia species. 



Distribution. — Twelve specimens have been seen from Florida, 

 South Carohna, Mississippi, and Georgia. 



Cryptocephalus alternuns jungovittatus, new subspecies 



FiGTJKES 94, 115 



General: Body 1.64 to 1.74 times as long as wide; dorsal surface 

 shiny, lacking pubescence, most of ventral surface with short, sparse, 

 whitish pubescence. 



Head: Light orange or yeUowdsh, anteimal insertions and median 

 longitudinal line on vertex black, labrum dark reddish; front with 

 moderately coarse, small punctures, vertex anteriorly with a sHght 

 depression; clypeus sharply delimited at sides, feebly so at base, 

 distinctly broadest at apex, somewhat concave. Antennae a little 

 over two-thirds length of body in male, a little less than two-thirds 

 length of body in female. 



