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there is a short but well developed line, which fails to attain the 

 bounding curve by a long distance. The body is rounded or oval, 

 very convex, minutely and obsoletely punctulate, with the side margins 

 of the elytra quite broadly reflexed, the gutter extending around the 

 outer and anterior parts of the humeral callus as in Neoharmonia, and 

 the edge strongly and abruptly thickened ; the gutter is always more 

 strongly, closely and subrugosely punctured toward base. The species 

 before me may be outlined as follows : — 



Pronotum black, with a narrow pale side margin extending with equal width pos- 

 teriorly and internally along the base, terminating abruptly at about lateral sixth 

 and sometimes extending more narrowly along the median parts of the apex, also 

 with an isolated small pale spot at the middle of the length and lateral fourth. .2 



Pronotum as in the preceding section, except that the apical margin is always broadly 

 pale, with a posterior medial spur in both sexes, and the sublateral pale spot is 

 always united to the pale apex and sometimes also to the basal pale border, 

 isolating a large black spot ; body smaller 6 



Pronotum completely black 7 



2 — Body broadly oval but distinctly longer than wide, the marginal bead of the elytra 

 not or only slightly darker 3 



Body extremely dilated, very nearly as wide as long, the marginal bead distinctly 

 black 5 



3 — Metacoxal plates with a distinct but short disconnected oblique line ; body rather 

 more convex ; female without a white apical pronotal margin at the middle. 

 Length 5.6 mm.; width 4.6 mm. Honduras , . hondura&ica, sp. now 



Metacoxal plates devoid of any trace of an oblique line 4 



4 — Elytra generally luteo-flavate, without distinct paler spaces at the sides of the 

 scutellum ; pronotum of the female generally with the apical margin narrowly 

 pale, usually subinterrupted at the middle and not posteriorly spurred. Length 

 5.7-6.0 mm.; width 4.7-5.0 mm. Florida immaculata Fabr. 



Elytra deep and bright scarlet, with a short transverse basal paler spot at each side 

 of the scutellum which is black as usual ; pronotum relatively narrower than in 

 immaculata and rather more strongly rounded at the base, the median length 

 relatively greater when compared with the sides, having a narrow apical margin 

 with narrow parallel posterior prolongation pale in the male, the female inter- 

 ruptedly margined with paler and without a medial spur. Length 4.4-5.8 mm.; 

 width 3.7-4.8 mm. Texas (Brownsville), and California (San Diego and Los 

 Angeles) . . rubripennis, sp. nov. 



5 — Body nearly as in the preceding but with the isolated pale spots of the prono- 

 tum smaller, the apical margin rather broadly pale in the male, with a parallel 

 medial spur extending rather beyond the middle ; in the female the apical edge 

 is wholly devoid of a pale margin, the pale border ending abruptly at the eyes. 

 Length 4 5—5 5 mm.; width 4.2-4.9 mm. Bahama Islands (Egg Island) — Mr. 

 Wickham limbirer, sp. nov. 



6 — Sublateral spur from the pale apical margin never joining the basal pale area, 

 the medial spur of the pale apex short and triangular and not parallel as in the 



