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form and the different coloration of the upper surface separates this 

 principally from females of mutabilis. Of the latter I have quite a 

 number of specimens from Brownsville and New Braunfels, Texas, 

 but while the males are very variable in coloration, the females vary 

 very little and have the prothorax always more or less dull. 



Anomoea mutabilis Lac. 



I have taken this species in Brownsville, Tex., and have it also 

 from New Braunfels. The males are very variable in coloration. 

 Specimens occur which nearly agree with the description of A. rufi- 

 frons Lac. and I believe that the two are the same species. The most 

 extreme variation I have seen has the prothorax and head fulvous 

 the latter with the space behind the eyes and the occipital spots black, 

 legs pale, except the tarsi and front tibiae; elytra ochraceous with 

 suture, a median marginal blotch and an elongate discal spot about 

 middle of each elytron black. 



Anomoea hogei Jac. 



In Science Bull. Mus. Brookl. Inst., vol. I, p. 229, I reported the 

 occurrence of this Mexican species in our fauna of which I had two 

 males and three females from New Braunfels, Texas, and have since 

 seen more. Mr. Jacoby described it from one male and three females 

 and distinguishes this from the other species of the genus mainly 

 " by the absence of any dark markings above, the whole upper surface 

 being fulvous." My two females agree exactly with his description 

 but in one of the males the abdomen is black at sides and in the other 

 entirely black, the scutellum in the latter is also black but at apex pale. 

 The males have the front tibiae near apex more strongly curved than 

 in mutabilis and laticlava and the antennal joints in both sexes are 

 more transverse and stronger serrate than in the latter species. 



Anomoea (Gynandrophthalma) arizonica new species. 



Moderately elongate, nearly parallel ; shining, black, underside of an- 

 terior tibiae and tarsi, first three antennal joints and labrum pale; prothorax 

 with an obscure reddish cloud on the disk ; elytra blue with a relatively large 

 red basal spot, as in Saxinis omogera. Head between the eyes at middle with 

 a more or less distinct rounded impression ; shining and feebly punctate on the 

 occiput, otherwise somewhat rugose and more coarsely but sparsely punctate ; 

 antennae serrate from the fourth joint, the serrate joints transverse. Pro- 



