CRYPTOCEPHALUS IN AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO 85 



Cryptocephalus simulans slniuJans Scbaeffer 



FiGUKK 47 



Cryptocephalus simulans Schaefifer, 1906, p. 231. 



Pronotum: Disk usually orange and clouded with brownish or 

 black, varying to black with two oblique elongate light basal spots and 

 with apical and lateral margins broadly creamy yellow to light orange; 

 with a small coarsely punctate dark to black spot on each side. Punc- 

 tation usually dual, small punctures sparse, larger punctures on disk 

 minute to small, distinctly larger at side. 



Elytra: Creamy yellow to light orange, each elytron with brown to 

 black, usually distinct markings as follows: on sutural stria; on second 

 interval, complete to broadly interrupted; on base, middle, and apex 

 of fourth stria; on humerus, this joining a more posterior spot on 

 sixth and seventh intervals; on sixth and seventh intervals behind 

 middle; at apex of seventh interval. With eight rows of punctures, 

 fifth sometimes, sixth and seventh always confused, sixth often much 

 reduced; punctures as large, dense as usual, finer at elytral apex; 

 inner and outer rows at apex distinct, usually clearly meeting. 



Prosternum: Anterior margin in female produced downward into a 

 broad, distinct lobe; male not examined. 



Length: 5.4 to 6.3 mm. 



Discussion. — There are two female cotypes in the U.S. National 

 Museum with type number 42307. The data are as follows: "Palmerly 

 Cochise Co. VII.25 Ariz." and "Palmerly Cochise Co. VI.21 Ariz."; 

 I hereby designate the former as lectotype. In the original description, 

 the locality of collection is given as Huachuca Mountains, Arizona. 

 Schaeffer gives the months of collection as June, July, and August, 

 but I find that none of his specimens in the USNM collection were 

 collected in August. 



Distribution.— All five specimens in the USNM collection are 

 females and were taken in Arizona. 



Cryptocephalus simulans conjungens Schaeffer 



Figures 49, 138 

 Cryptocephalus simulans conjungens Schaeffer, 1934, p. 460. 



Pronotum: Red to dark red, light markings creamy yellow to light 

 orange; usuaUy with two elongate, oblique, light basal spots (some- 

 times broadly joined, more often much reduced to nearly absent); 

 lateral margin rather narrowly light; apical margin narrowly light. 

 Punctation as in s. simulans. 



Elytra: Creamy yeUow to light orange, dark markings red to brown 

 or nearly black, pattern as that of s. simulans except stripe on second 



