198 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. iv. 



humerus to behind the middle, a small round spot on the side of the disc 

 and another one near apex ; epipleura and an elongate marginal spot just 

 behind the middle also dark. (Southern Ariz.) Z. opifera Stal. 



Elongate oval, feebly convex, brown, slightly bronzed ; elytra pale with a broad 

 sutural vitta, epipleura and spots aeneous ; two larger basal spots, the 

 exterior one emarginate behind, a small spot at the suture before middle, 

 a larger one, strongly arcuate, behind the middle and many smaller ones 

 posteriorly. (Tex., N. Mex., Ariz.) Z. piceicoliis Stal. 



Elongate oval, feebly convex, greenish black. Elytra pale ; epipleura, a broad 

 sutural vitta, twice ramified posteriorly, an oblique humeral vitta, con- 

 nected with the sutural band at middle, an oval spot between humerus 

 and scutellum, four or five discal spots on posterior half and the lateral 

 margin behind the middle, aeneous. (Mex., Ariz. Collection Ulke.) 



Z. slgnatipennis StaL 



Genus Calligrapha Erichson. 

 Elytra vittate. 



Thorax uniformly brown. Epipleura dark. 



Oval, ferruginous. Last joint of palpi strongly dilated. Sides of thorax 

 coarsely punctate. Elytra yellow with broad sutural and discoidal 

 ferruginous bands ; the latter longitudinally more or less divided by 



yellow. (East of Rocky Mts.) C. lunata Fabricius. 



Oval, convex, brown, slightly bronzed. Elytra pale with a broad sutural 

 and dorsal vitta bronzed, the latter angularly incised at middle ex- 

 teriorly. (East of Rocky Mts.) C. similis Rogers. 



Like the preceding but globosely oval, with the sutural vitta truncate at base 

 and dilated at apical third and the discal vitta abbreviated posteriorly. 



(Kans., Neb.) C. incisa Rogers. 



Regularly oval, convex, brown. Elytra pale ; an entire sutural and two 

 discal vittae of subequal width and parallel, brown; the inner discal 

 vitta somewhat shorter. (Capron, Fla.). .C. cephalanthi Schwarz. 

 Thorax brown with apical and lateral margin pale. Epipleura pale. 



Oval, convex, dark brown. Elytra pale with sutural and one discal vitta 

 brown, the latter abbreviated behind. (Kans , Neb.) 



C. priecelsis Rogers. 

 Thorax pale with dark discal mark. Epipleura pale. Elongate oval, less con- 

 vex, seneous black. 

 Elytra pale with sutural and one discal vitta black; the latter more or less 

 sinuate exteriorly. (Atl. to Pac States.) ....C. elegans Olivier. 

 As the preceding, but the discal vitta of elytra obliquely divided behind 

 middle. (Los Angeles Co., Cal.) . . , . var. californica, subsp. nov. 

 Elytra irregularly maculate. 



Epipleura of prothorax not impressed. 

 Legs red, epipleura of elytra pale.* 



*I have seen only a single specimen of C. scalaris (from Bethlehem, Pa.), with 

 seneous epipleura. 



