44 Journal New V^okk Entomological Society. [Voi.xi. 



and a specimen from Vancouver in Professor Wickham's collection 

 has the markings so reduced as to be placed here. 



It seems to me as if all these forms constituted one species which 

 may have originally had the four spots ; with a tendency to establish 

 the varieties sinuata, trivittata and spuria Lee, in each of which, 

 however, there is a tendency to revert to the ancestral type. 



3050. H. 13=punctata Linn., 1735. Europe, Siberia and the United States. 



No division of this species has been proposed. 



3051. li. parenthesis Say, 1824. British America and the northern part of the 

 United States, extending to Colorado in the mountains and from New England to 

 California. 



There is a great variation in the elytral markings, as will be noted 

 by the figures. The quadrate white spot at the base of the thorax 

 seems to be constant. Major Casey has proposed the name apicalis 

 for that form in which the subapical spot attains the suture and apical 

 angles, but I doubt very much if this indicates an established race. 

 If so, it should be cited as 



3051a. Var. apicalis Casey, 1899. Nevada and California. 



3052. H. falcigera Crotch, 1873. Slave Lake, Hudson's Bay. 



" Black, clearly and finely punctulate ; head with a small frontal spot, yellow ; 

 thorax with a narrow uniform border yellow, no discal spots ; elytra yellow with the 

 suture black (narrowing out before the apex) and each with a black equally broad 

 vitta suddenly incurved before the apex ; meta-epimera black. L. .22 inch." 



This I have not seen, but as stated above, I believe it to be the 

 variety of sinitata called trivittata by Major Casey. The above is a 

 copy of the original description. 



3053. H. americana Crotch, 1873. Kansas, Hudson's Bay. 



Under this name Crotch described sinuata with the apical spot de- 

 tached and I do not think that the name can be anything but a syn- 

 onym unless it be regarded as the first description of a departure from 

 the true sinuata form and hence including all other departures in the 

 same direction. In this view the name could be used for the fourth 

 variety of sinuata, called spuria by Major Casey. 



3054. H. variegata Goeze, iTTJ. 



Should be dropped. See under Adonia constellata above. 



H. dispar Casey, 1899. Colorado. 



Oval, black ; antenna;, epimera, frontal spot, anterior and lateral margins of 

 thorax and elytra pale ; elytra with subbasal band equally broad throughout and a 

 broad post-median si^ot, black ;. surface of elytra strongly alulaceous and rugulose ; 



