108 Journal New York Entomological Suciety. [Voi. vu. 



nairowly becoming luibilously extinct twci-fifths from the base ; under surface and 

 legs as in the preceding. Length 3.15-3.3 mm.; width 2.4-2.6 mm. Nevada. 



desertorum, sp nov. 



4 — Body broadly rounded, polished, minutely, very obsoletely punctulate ; head and 

 pronotum black throughout ; elytra pale orange, the sutural, basal and external 

 margins extremely finely black, with a commoj". transverse spot across the suture 

 at the apex ; each also with two very small rounded black .spots, the anterior on 

 the callus, the posterior slightly larger and near apical third nearly on the median 

 line ; under surface and legs bhick, the epipleuraj pale, edged externally and 

 finely with black. Length 3.3-4.0 mm.; width 2. S-3. 4 mm. I'exas (El Pa.so). 



hogei Cork. 



5 — Elytra very finely but evidentl)- punctulate, entireh- pale, each with a transversely 

 oval black spot near the apex, approaching the suture rather nearer than the ex- 

 ternal margin ; head and pronotum pale in the male, the latter with a median 

 dark cloud toward base, black in the female with the pronotum broadly and 

 nubilously pale at the sides ; legs pale or so in great part. Length 2.6-2.9 mm.; 

 width 2.0-2.4 "Til- Texas (Austin); \_gnL\xi Lee. ] children! Muh. 



Elytra ])ale, with two broad transverse fasci;v of black , 6 



Elytra black on the di.^k ; body in general more Ijroadly rounded ; punctures very 

 minute and sparse 9 



6 — Anterior fascia not attaining the base and always separated from the posterior ; 

 elytral punctures extremely minute and subobsolete 7 



Anterior fascia broadly attaining the base and broadly united with the posterior fascia 

 at the median line of each elytron ; punctures sparse and fine but very distinct... 8 



7 — r)ody Ijroadly oval, almost rounded and larger, the sides of the pronotum broadly 

 and nubilously pale in both sexes, the head blackish in the female ; thoracic mar- 

 gins very strongly convergent. Length 2.8-3.3 mm. ; '^^'i^lth 2. 5-2. 9mm. Texas 

 (Brownsville ) — Mr. Wickham latiusculus, sp. nov. 



Body more narrowly oval, the head and pronotum black, apparently in both sexes, 

 the apical angles only nubilously and not very markedly pale, the thoracic sides 

 nuich less convergent from base to apex. Length 2.4-2.9 mm.; width 1. 8-2. 1 

 nun. Southern California (Pasadena, Los Angeles and San Diego). 



fasciatus, .sp. nov. 



8 — Body not very broadly oval ; head and pronotum black, the apical angles of the 

 latter distinctly pale in color; elytra black, with a rounded or oval pale spot at 

 each side of the scutellum and a common, transversely rhombiform spot on the 

 suture at three-fifths, extending laterally as if to narrowly unite with the median 

 projection of the pale margin, which extends from the base very nearly to tl e 

 apex and broadly bisinuate within, not tending to spread along the basal margin. 

 Length 2.5-2.8 nnn.; width 1.9-2.2 nun. Tennessee and Flori<la \_ptrefextatiis 

 Muls.] marglnipennis Zt'(. 



9— Head and pronotum black, the apical angles of the latter nubilously paler; elytra 

 black, with a broad pale margin extending, with its inner margin parallel, to 

 nearly three-fifths, there obliquely and abruptly narrowed and continued narrowly 

 almost to the apical angles ; body smaller and much more broadly rounded than 

 in iiiari^inipennis, with less obvious punctuation. Length 2.2 mm.; width 1.8 

 mm. Texas (El Pa.so) , subrotutldus, sp. nov. 



