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The elytra are gradually widening towards apex, the surface is scarcely de- 

 pressed : the punctuation is similar to leucophcea and the basal area is simi- 

 larly colored but the median fascia is yellowish-white with a few black dots 

 on disk and sides ; the subapical fascia is very pale luteus, bordered above 

 and below by a narrow undulated, black fascia, the apex is yellowish-white 

 like the median fascia. Length 1 1 mm. 



Santa Rosa, Lower California (G. Beyer). 



This distinct species is at once separated from Icucophcca and 

 granulosa by the two narrow, strongly undulated black fasciae, border- 

 ing the pale luteous subapical fascia and the yellowish white apex 

 of elytra. 



Chariessa floridana new species. 



Head, antennre, palpi, underside and legs black ; prothorax orange yellow 

 with a subarcuate, longitudinal, black line on each side of middle, extending 

 from apex to base ; elytra dark blue, suture narrowly brownish and epipleurse 

 orange yellow. Head coarsely, densely and subconfluently punctate ; hairs 

 black, at middle more or less orange. Prothorax as long as wide in its widest 

 part; sides from a little below middle rather feebly narrowing to apex but 

 more rapidly towards basal angles which are broadly rounded ; surface with 

 very dense, moderately large punctures, vestiture golden yellow but black on 

 the two black submedian lines. Elytra about two and one half times as long 

 as the prothorax ; sides slightly widening to about apical third and then 

 arcuately narrowing to apex, apices rather conjointly rounded ; surface very 

 coarsely and closely punctate, punctures gradually smaller and denser 

 towards apex ; vestiture rather short and black, brown on suture and golden 

 yellow on pale epipleurje. Legs clothed with moderately long and shorter 

 black and pale hairs. Length lo mm. 



Key Largo, Florida. 



The type specimen, a female, was collected and given me by Mr. 

 G. Beyer. It differs from pilosa var. onusta in having the sides of 

 prothorax more rounded, the first two joints of antennal club shorter 

 and at apex relatively wider, the suture rather indistinctly paler, the 

 prothorax and pubescence of the latter orange yellow and the two 

 black longitudinal lines narrower. 



Ababa Casey. 



Ababa Casey, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sciences, IX, 653 (1897). 

 fPrionodera Wolcott, Field Mus. Natu Hist. Z06I., VH, 396 (1910). 



The above synonymy is given with some doubt. Ababa crinita 

 was placed by its describer in the family Othniidae on account of its 



