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Abdomen at base narrowly, very feebly impressed along the flattened median 

 line and coarsely, very densely and conspicuously punctured throughout; 

 pronotum with some distinct impunctate callous areas. Body very 

 small, narrowly fusoid and convex, colored and sculptured otherwise 

 as in inconstans, the head ( 9 ) very small, with the eyes not prominent, 

 having a small pale spot adjoining the lower limb of the eyes; protho- 

 rax shorter and more transverse, at base nearly twice as wide as long, 

 the ante-scutellar impression unusually deep and very distinct; elytra 

 as in inconstans, the sides arcuate posteriorly to the truncature; last 

 ventral without trace of maculation in the type. Length ( 9 ) 10.7 mm.; 

 width 4.2 mm. New York (Adirondack Mts.) reducta n. sp. 



8 — More elongate, fusiform and less convex than in the preceding forms, 

 the maculation orange-red; head (9) as in inconstans, or (d^), with 

 the entire anterior part solidly pale, excepting two small black points, 

 the pale area deeply, angularly biemarginate posteriorly; prothorax 

 nearly to quite twice as wide as long, almost as in inconstans; elytra 

 gradually becoming oblique posteriorly but with the sides feebly arcu- 

 ate to the truncature, striate nearly as in inconstans, but with the punc- 

 tures of the intervals less coarse, the second interval from the side mar- 

 gins more prominently convex; abdomen sulcate as usual at base, not 

 very coarsely but strongly, moderately closely punctate, the spots of 

 the last segment very strongly, inwardly oblique. Length ( J^, 9 ) 1 1 -o- 

 14.5 mm.; width 4.2-5.6 mm. Michigan and Missouri. 



leporina n. sp. 



9 — Body black-bronzed, polished; under surface with a few pale decumbent 

 hairs; head confluently punctured, with several irregular confluent 

 smooth spaces; labial palpi, spot on the mandibles, labrum, lower 

 margin of the eyes and some frontal spots yellow; prothorax bisinuate 

 at apex and base, coarsely punctate, with several smooth spaces, the 

 lateral margin except basally, and part of the apical margin yellow; 

 elytra slightly furrowed, the furrows punctured, the intervals alter- 

 nately convex and plane, the sutural interval convex, forked at base, 

 the flat intervals most punctured but the convex the more coarsely; 

 surface with three equidistant and irregular yellow spots, arranged 

 longitudinally, and, nearer the base on the second ridge, there is a line 

 of confluent yellow dots; apices truncate; abdomen having a triangular 

 orange-colored spot at the sides of each segment, those on the last seg- 

 ment larger and irregular, the coxae also and under sides of the thighs 

 are partly of the same color. Length 15.0-16.0 mm. British- Amer- 

 ica (Latitude 65° and in the Rocky Mountains) nuttalH Kirby 



Body black; abdomen with two widely separated series of small pale spots 

 at each side; coxae and femora only extremely rarely exhibiting any 

 paler maculation lO 



10 — Form oblong-oval, moderately convex, deep black, without metallic 

 coloration above, feebly metallic beneath; head wholly bright orange, 

 with two rounded central black spots arranged transversely, the pos- 

 terior line of the pale area, between the upper limits of the eyes, with a 

 large median transverse sinus, the punctures generally well separated 



