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Elytra: Dark, shining metallic green or blue, epipleuron yellow to 

 (more often) dark reddish. With nine rows of punctures, rows six, 

 seven, and eight confused, punctures as large, dense as usual, finer 

 apically as usual; inner and outer rows distinct to shghtly confused at 

 apex, usually meeting. 



Prosternum: Anterior margin in male distinctly produced into a 

 broadly V-shaped lobe; female with anterior margin rather produced 

 into a broad lobe. 



Length: 4.2 to 5.4 mm. 



Discussion. — The two Schaeffer cotypes are in the U.S. National 

 Museum, both are females from Pinal Mountains, Arizona; they bear 

 the type number 42280. The specimen with Schaeffer's determination 

 label is hereby designated the lectotype and is so labeled. 



Pallister (1953, p. 30) described the subspecies arizonensis schrammeli 

 from Durango, Mexico. 



Schaeffer (1906, p. 233) recorded the species from oak. 



Distribution. — Twenty-six of the 28 USNM specimens are from 

 southeast and north central Arizona; one is from Alpine, Texas, and 

 another is from Mescalero, New Mexico. 



Cryptocephalus astralosus, new species 



Figures 96, 114 



General: Body about 1.8 times as long as wide; dorsal surface 

 distinctly shining, lacking pubescence; most of ventral surface Avith 

 short, sparse, whitish pubescence. 



Head: Dull light orange; front and clypeus with moderate sized, 

 rather dense punctures; clypeus not sharply delimited at sides or base, 

 distinctly broadest at apex. Antennae of male about three-fourtlis 

 length of body, first four segments dull orange, outer seven dark brown. 



Pronotum: DuU light orange, with darker speckHng except in broad 

 transverse, oblique band at base, anteriorly on each side, and at apex. 

 Punctation dual, smaller punctures minute and sparse, larger punctures 

 smaU, not dense. 



Elytra: Dull fight orange, humerus faintly darker, punctures dark. 

 Each elytron with nine rows of rather large punctures, these much the 

 largest at about center of elytron (sometimes sixth row reduced and 

 evidently with eight rows); rows six, seven, and eight more or less 

 confused; punctures much smaller apically; inner and outer rows 

 distinct and clearly meeting at apex. 



Ventral surface: Prosternum, mesosternum, and legs dull fight 

 orange; metasternum and most of abdomen dark brown to nearly 

 black; first abdominal segment at middle orange, sides of each segment 

 with fight, sometimes vague spots. Pygidium with median carina, 

 carina and margins black or dark, sides yeUowish to orange. Anterior 



