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of each elytron near the scutellum. The black area is small in one 

 and fairly large in the other; the latter individual approaches the con- 

 dition in b. binominis. The lectotype has no indication of black at the 

 elytral base, but the cotype has a faint indication of black. 



Distribution. — All four specimens seen are from Florida; the two 

 that are not types are from Paradise Key and Tampa. 



Cryptocephalus hinotatus, new species 



Figures 13, 97, 112 



General: Body 1.66 to 1.80 times as long as Avide; dorsal surface 

 moderately shining, lacking pubescence, ventral surface with short, 

 sparse, whitish pubescence. 



Head: Dull light orange, vertex and antennal insertions darker 

 orange; front with rather small, indistinct punctures; clypeus flat, 

 sides sharply delimited, less distinctly so at base, distinctly broadest 

 apically; antennae of male as long as body, those of female about 

 two-thirds as long as body, orange to light brownish throughout. 



Pronotum: Basic color light orange; male with four longitudinal 

 dark reddish stripes, not sharply delimited, often a little abbreviated 

 and somewhat irregular, outer two may be interrupted medially; 

 female with development of dark markings variable, sometimes with 

 four rather abbreviated, irregular stripes, usually much reduced, often 

 with traces of stripes or just basal traces of outer stripes (holotype), 

 or absent; punctation usually dual, with small punctures dense, larger 

 punctures rather large and slightly to distinctly coarse, sometimes 

 with larger punctures very coarse and surface rather rugose and 

 obscuring small punctures. 



Elytra: Light orange with punctures dark reddish to nearly black. 

 Punctures best developed in some males, these with seven or eight 

 rather easily traced rows; most males and nearly all females with 

 punctures quite confused and forming distinct rows only apically, 

 sometimes basally also; adjacent discal punctures sometimes irregu- 

 larly connected by pigment; punctures smaller at apex; inner and 

 outer rows distinct and usually clearly meeting. 



Ventral surface: Nearly uniformly light orange throughout, legs with 

 apices of femora more or less light orange, remainder of legs darker 

 orange to nearly reddish; presternum of male with anterior margin 

 produced into a broad lobe, female with anterior margin feebly, 

 broadly produced; pygidium longitudinally carinate, light orange, 

 rather coarsely punctate. 



Length: 4.1 to 5.0 mm. 



Type data. — The species is described from ten specimens. The 

 holotype (female, USNAl type number 69248) was taken at Yuma, 

 Arizona, in June, 1909 by A. McLachlan. The allotype, four male and 



