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and obsoletely punctulate, testaceous in the male, black with 

 yellow mouth in the female. Thorax obsoletely punctulate, 

 rounded and finely margined at the base ; in the male yellow 

 with a large basal black spot, anteriorly lobed and extending 

 beyond the middle ; in the female black with narrow yellow 

 sides. Elytra finely punctulate and wrinkled ; whitish with a 

 broad black vitta commencing near the base, and extending nearly 

 to the apex, where it curves inwards and joins the suture, which 

 is also black ; margin behind the middle and apex black. Beneath 

 piceous, margin of the abdomen and feet obscure testaceous. 

 Missouri. 



Hyperaspis arcuata. 



//. arcuata, Lee. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1852, p. 133. 3. 



Ovalis, modice convexa, nigra, capite thoraceque lateribus 

 maculaque apicali 3-dentata albis, elytris subtiliter punctatis, basi 

 margineque usque ad medium tenuiter albis, pedibus testaceis. 

 L. -07. 



Oval, slightly oblong, moderately convex. Head obsoletely 

 punctured, base rounded, scarcely margined, black ; sides yellowish- 

 white ; apex with a transverse yellow spot posteriorly 3-dentate, 

 at the sides almost reaching the yellow margin. Elytra distinctly 

 punctured, black with a narrow arcuated white line extending 

 from near the scutellum, along the base of the outer margin as 

 far as the middle. Beneath piceous, feet dark testaceous. One 

 male found at the mouth of the Gila, California. 



Hyperaspis annexa. 



H. annexa, Lee. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1852, p. 133. 4. 



Rotundata ovalis, convexa, nigra, thorace lateribus albis, 

 elytris obsolete punctulatis, vitta suturali lata, alteraque postice 

 abbreviata, ad basin extensa, margineque tenui nigris. L. -10. 



Rounded oval, less convex than //. militaris. Head scarcely 

 punctulate, in the male yellow, in the female black. Thorax scarcely 

 punctulate, black, lateral margin yellow. Elytra very indistinctly 

 punctulate, yellow, with a sutural vitta broader in front, and 

 another very broad vitta commencing at the base and extending 

 to one-seventh of the apex deep black ; outer margin and apex 

 deep black ; outer margin and apex with a very narrow black 

 line. Beneath blackish piceous, tarsi paler. Anterior legs, tibiae 

 and tarsi of the male testaceous. In the female the black vittse 

 are much broader, so that the elytra appear black, with a narrow 

 marginal vitta and another sub-oblique diseoidal one united pos- 

 teriorly to the marginal vitta. One pair. San Francisco. 



