REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1904 513 



Reported for Mosholu, July 26, 1902 [Bueno], Keene Valley, 

 Hamburg, Hope [N. Y. State Mus.]. 



A widely distributed and extremely variable species. Some 

 of the forms seem fairly constant and have been named as dis- 

 tinct species with what propriety is still a matter of dispute. 

 Salem, Hamburg, Jamaica, Kamer. 



Gypona bipunctulata Woodw. 



Gypona bipunctulata Woodworth. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist. 



Bui. 3. 1887. p. 3o(?) 

 Gypona nigra Woodworth. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist. Bui. 3. 1887. 

 P- 31 (O 

 Reported for Mosholu, Staten Island [Bueno]. 



Gypona melanota Spang. 



Gypona melanota Spang. Spec. Gyponae. 1878. p. 23 



Reported for Staten Island [Bueno]. 



This may be a melanotic form of bipunctulata Woodw. in 

 which case this name has priority. 



Gypona scarlatina Fitch. 



Gypona scarlatina Fitch. Homop. N. Y. State Cab. 1851. p. 57 ; 



reprinted in Litner. 9th Rept. 1893. P- 397! Van Duzee, Buf. Soc. 



Nat. Sci. Bui. 5, p. 197 

 This has been a rare species in recent years judging by the 

 small number of specimens that have passed through my hands. 

 Van Duzee mentions it for Buffalo as "Occasional on hickory 

 trees through July and August." 



Gypona rugosa Spangb. 



Gypona rugosa Spangb. Spec. Gyponae, p. 6 



One specimen swept from whortleberry bushes in pine barrens 

 near Oyster Bay, Aug. 18, 1904, is referred to this species on the 

 strongly rugose character of the elytral veins. The species was 

 originally described from Mexico and the female measurements 

 given as 9 mm for body, 12 mm with elytra. This specimen is 

 smaller, 8 mm for body and 10 mm to tip of elytra. 



Gypona geminata n. sp. 



Similar to octolineata but without distinct stripes. Head 

 shorter, color deep green, length of female 8.5-9 ^^t^, male 8 mm. 



Vertex twice as wide as length at middle, front nearly round 

 or very faintly parabaloid, the ocelli situated at middle and as 

 far from each other as from eye. Front depressed, clypeus scarcely 

 longer than wide; pronotum nearly twice as long as vertex, hind 

 border concave, surface whitish transversely striate except on 

 anterior border; anterior femora beneath and outer portions 

 of tibiae with series of strong setae. Scutellum of deep curved 

 line; elytra opaque, clavus not reticulate but with series of punc- 

 tures parallel to the veins, corium reticulate beyond apex of clavus. 

 Costal border whitish. 



