1158 FAMILY IJIT. CHRYSOMELID.^. 



described by Knal) are undoubtedly distinct from scalaris, it is very 

 probable that a large serit's -will show them to be varieties of one 

 species, rliocla. 



2145 M)S09). Calligrapha piiti^delphica Linn.. Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 175S, 

 372. 



Kesembles rlioda closoly in form ;uid general color. 

 The pale area of elytra is much greater, the suture be- 

 ing pale with a narrow snhsutural black line each side 

 on basal half and with two or three elongate dark spots 

 which represent the s])urs or branches of scalar is. The 

 humeral lunule is much more narrow and less curved 

 than in rlioda and encloses both a shorter lunule and a 

 ^Atto'^Knobpl^) small spot, while the other discal spots are smaller and 

 more numerous. Length 8-9 mm. (Fig. 502.) 



Lake, Marshall, Starke, Kosciusko and Steiil;cn counties; scarce. 

 May 25-July 11. Occurs ^vith the preceding. 



214G (6810). Calligrapha multipunctata Say. Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., III. 1824. 450; ibid. II, 210. 

 Resembles iihiJadelphlca very closely. Thorax yellow with several 

 small reddish-brown spots arranged in an irregular curved line near the 

 middle and often a darker, narrow, transverse basal spot. Elytra with nar- 

 row, dark sutural and subsutural stripe separated by a yellow line and 

 with numerous blackish or greenish spots. Thorax more sparsely and finely 

 punctate than in scalaris and without the depression each side. Length G.5- 

 8.5 mm. 



Vigo, Martin and Posey counties; fre((iient. April 25-October 1. 

 Beaten from foliage of thorn and red haw {Crata'c/us). 



214Ga (6810a). Calligrapha .multipunctata bigsbyana Kirby. Faun. Bor. 

 Amer., IV, 1837, 212. 

 Oval, convex. Reddish-brown or greenish, feebly bronzed; thorax witli 

 a large brown or greenish spot on basal half, the apical and side margins 

 pale; elytra pale with narrow sutural and subsutural dark stripes some- 

 times confluent, and numerous small spots greenish or reddisli-brown. Length 

 0.5-8.5 mm. 



Northern half of Statc^; fre(iueut. IMay '21-0ctol)er 1. Beaten 

 from vegetation of various kinds. Feeds on willow and poplar. 



f. nuiltiguttata Stal, is a western form which has been recorded 

 from (Cincinnati. 



.X.X.WIii. ( "iiK\ s()MKi.\ I, inn. M'^^^. ((tC, ''golden I fruit.") 



'I'liis genus, ;is now limited, eonlaius o\;d eoiivcx species of me- 

 dium size having the elytra of one color and, in our species, the 

 margin of the thoi-ax distinctly and abruptly thickened. 



