Sept.-Dec, i9::o.] BaREER AND ElLIS : ThE FaMILY CuPEDID.E. 205 



suddenly narrowed in front, with the sides strongly elongated and a large 

 median elevation which has a deep rhomboidal excavation ; elytra with rows 

 of moderate sized quadrate punctures, 3d interspace more convex, 5th, 6th 

 and -th forming an obtuse costa, 2d and 4th flat. Length .45 inch or 11 mm. 



■' San Diego, Cal. A specimen kindly given to me by Mr. Ulke. 

 This species resembles the figure of C. latrcillei Solier (Lacordaire, 

 Gen. Col. Atlas, pi. 47, fig. 2) in the form of the antennae. It differs 

 conspicuously from our other species by the large posterior lobes of 

 the head and the different sculpture of the prothora.x." 



Specimens seen from So. California. Occurs also in Ariz. 

 (Leng.) Length from 8 mm. to 9.4 mm. 



Cupes concolor Westwood. 



Westwood (3) ; Blatchley (24) ; Snyder (^27). 



cinera Say. 



Say (4) ; Cast. (5). 



trilineata Melsh. 



Melsh. (6). 



" Elongate, slender, subdepressed. Pale brownish or ash gray, densely 

 covered with small scales; elytra with darker oblong dashes or blotches, which 

 form three indistinct undulated bands. Antennae nearly as long as the body. 

 Head with four feebly separated tubercles, with a narrow impressed line be- 

 tween them. Thorax wider than long, about half the width of elytra ; disk 

 with a median longitudinal carina and a deep impression each side; side mar- 

 gins abbreviated near the front and hind angles. Elytra with rows of large 

 quadrate punctures ; intervals convex, the alternate ones higher. Length 

 7-1 1 mm." 



Specimens e.xamined from " Middle States," " Central Valley," 

 Indiana, Mass.. and X. H. Occurs also in Ga., Fla., Md., Mich.. Pa., 

 N. Y. (Leng.) 



Cupes oculatus Casey. 



Casey (13) Blatchley (24). 



" Form nearly as in concolor but less elongate, pale, yellow-brown, with 

 indefinite sublineate spots of dark brown on the elytra ; integuments throughout 

 densely scaly. Head scarcely wider than the prothorax ; sides above near the 

 eyes longitudinally tumid, the elevation divided transversely at the anterior 

 limit of the very large convex eyes ; median line fine, coarse anteriorly ; tem- 

 pera very short. Prothorax fully H wider than long, rectangular and nearly 

 straight in basal H, becoming feebly convergent and arcuate towards base; 

 disk elevated along the middle, with a fine median line, broadly rcflexed at the 

 base, also deeply concave at each side of the middle. Scutellum well devcl- 



