118 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi, vii. 



7 — -Form elliptical, the spots, excepting the humeral, subequal in width and isolated 

 at about their own diameters or a little less ; head and subquadrate side spot of 

 the pronotum pale in the female, the surface finely, rather closely punctate 

 and fully three-fourths longer along the median line than at the sides ; elytra 

 finely, sparsely punctate, piceous-black ; legs pale. Length 2.7 mm.; width 

 2.0 mm. Texas (Brownsville) — Mr. Wickham testudo, sp. no\i 



Form very broadly rounded, the basal spot of the elytra broader than the discal and 

 with a tendency to join the latter ; spots all very large and relatively narrowly 

 separated ; pronotum in the male one-half longer at the middle than at the sides, 

 broadly pale anteriorly, the two median lobes of the black area not nmch ad- 

 vanced and broadly rounded ; punctures fine and sparse ; under surface black, 

 the abdomen piceous ; legs pale throughout. Length 2.5 mm. ; width 2.1 mm. 

 Texas (Dallas) bolli Cr. 



8 — Oblong-oval, black, the head and oblique sides of the pronotum angularly lobed 

 within at the middle, pale in the female, the apical margin also verj' narrowly 

 pale, the prothorax two-thirds longer at the middle than at the sides, finely, 

 sparsely punctate ; elytra with a narrow rufo-flavate margin from the scutellum to 

 the sides, narrowest at outer two-fifths, the lateral margin obliquely pale at the 

 humeri, the pale side margin extremely narrow at basal fourth, then dilated to 

 outer fourth at the middle opposite the discal pale spot, then narrowed at apical 

 fourth, thence gradually expanded and extending transversely to within two- 

 thirds of its apical width of the suture, receding somewhat from the side margin 

 as in Xhe. fimbriolata group of Hyperaspis ; punctures fine but strong, moderately 

 sparse, closer near the base; under surface black throughout, the femora blackish, 

 paler at apex. Length 4. 1 mm. ; width 3.0 mm. Colorado (Beaver Brook — 

 6000 feet elevation ) illustris, sp. nov. 



9 — Elytra with the median marginal spot ; basal, marginal and subapical very nearly 

 equal in size, rufo-flavate, the humeral spot wanting at least in the female ; head 

 and pronotal sides broadly pale in that sex, the apical margin very narrowly ; 

 upper surface black, polished, finely, sparsely punctate. Length 2.8 mm. ; 

 width 2.0 mm. Georgia f lavif rons JMuls. 



Elytra without either of the median spots 10 



10 — Broadly rounded, polished, finely, rather sparsely punctate ; male with the head 

 yellow, the prothorax pale with a basal black area extending to lateral eighth or 

 ninth of the base, approximately bilobed in the middle, extending to apical 

 fourth or fifth ; basal spot of the elytra more than semi-circular, the subapical 

 slightly larger, the humeral spot oblique ; female with. the head black, the front 

 nubilously paler in V-shaped design, the pronotum black throughout, except a 

 very narrow margin about the apical angles ; elytra similarly maculate, except that 

 the humeral spct is wanting. Length 3.2-3.6 mm.; width 2.5-2.75 mm. 

 Massachusetts and Indiana ; {^coiifusa Muls. $ , qiiadripunctata Melsh. 9 and 

 diversa Muls. J ] basalis Melsh. 



Less broadly rounded and much smaller ; head and tips of the apical pronotal angles 

 piceous in the female, the remainder black, finely not closely punctate ; elytra 

 with a rufo-flavate pale area at base, extending rather beyond basal third from the 

 lateral margin nearly to the scutellum, truncate behind, rounded and receding 



