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interval often reduced but not completely interrupted. Punctation as 

 in s. simulans, except punctures darkly pigmented, usually larger. 



Prosternum : Anterior margin in both sexes produced ventrally into 

 a distinct, broad, rather pointed lobe. 



Length: 5.1 to 6.5 mm. 



Discussion. — The male holotype and five male and one female 

 paratypes are in the U.S. National Museum; the former bears type 

 number 69095. The data on these seven specimens follows: "Brewster 

 Co., Tx., Chisos Mts., VI, 10-12-08, Mitchell and Cushman Coll." 



The Mexican species maculipennis Suffrian is similar to s. conjungens. 

 They differ in that the humeral and posthumeral spots of the elytra of 

 s. conjungens unite to form a pipe-shaped spot; those of maculipennis 

 do not meet or join to form an elongate spot. Also maculipennis has 

 a small subhumeral spot; s. conjungens does not. The maculipennis 

 series consists of ten specimens. 



Collection records list the host as Salvia, and Salvia vinacea Wooten 

 & Stanley. 



Distribution. — The 27 specimens in the USNM collection are all 

 from Texas. 



Cryptocephalus simulans eluticollis Schaeffer 



Figure 48 

 Cryptocephalus simulans eluticollis Schaeffer, 1934, p. 460. 



Pronotum: Orange to light orange with a dark red spot at each side 

 and two elongate, oblique basal spots; broad lateral margin and 

 narrow apical margin distinctly to somewhat lighter; margins some- 

 times vague. Punctation much as that of s. simulans but larger punc- 

 tures a little larger, coarser. 



Elytra: Light orange, markings dark red to brownish, much as 

 those of s. simulans, usually more vague and less developed; apical 

 spot on second interval rather vague to absent. Punctation as that of 

 s. simulans. 



Prosternum: Anterior margin in both sexes produced ventrally into 

 a distinct, broad rather pointed lobe. 



Length: 5.0 to 5.8 mm. 



Discussion. — The three type specimens are in the U.S. National 

 Museum and were taken at Hot Springs, Arizona, by Barber and 

 Schwarz, the male holotype on "21.6" and one male, one female 

 paratypes on "28.6." The holotype has been assigned number 69096. 



By its description and illustration, the Mexican species C forreri 

 Jacoby (1889, p. 106) seems closely related to s. eluticollis (if not 

 synonymous with it). A specimen in the collection determined by 

 Monros as forreri is nearly identical with s. conjungens. I believe that 



