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Notes on CALLIGRAPHA aucl its Allies with 

 Descriptions of a few New Species. 



BY FRED. C. BOWDITCH. 



A study of the Chrysomelids in my collection shows some 

 interesting new forms. 



Calligrapha wicklianii nov. sp. 



Head rufous with two flavous spots near the eyes, antenna rufous, 

 the chib dark, thorax rufous, with the lateral and anterior edges flav- 

 ous, the former with one dilation inward, the latter with three, the 

 middle one attaining the centre of the thorax which has also two flav- 

 ous spots on the disk, elytra flavous, the suture very narrowly, a short 

 fork about the scutellum, a subsutural vitta interrupted near the scutel, 

 a vitta on about the third space, also interrupted in front and developed 

 into a hook on the convexity, a humeral and subhumeral stripe and 

 several small spots at the side and behind all dark rufous and all 

 limited by punctures, beneath and legs rufous. 



One example Alpine, Texas, 4400-6000 feet. Wickham. 



A striking species superficially resembling Zygogramma 

 exclamationis Fabr. The thorax is moderately punctured on 

 the disk, coarsely and thickly on the rufous parts of the side, 

 scutel rufous ; the flavous part of the elytra is almost devoid 

 of punctures except at the sides and behind where they are 

 few, fine and piceous ; the punctured edges of the rufous 

 vittae, none of which attain the base, have a tendency to be 

 darkened, the fork about the scutel unites with the sutural 

 edge at about the anterior fourth, the subsutural joins it 

 about one-fourth from the apex and is abruptly truncated 

 near the apex, the vitta of the third space is broken at the 

 anterior quarter, and the short end clubbed ; just after pass- 

 ing the convexity it is hooked outward, the humeral stripe 

 nearly touches the end of the hook, the subhumeral is short 

 and touches the humeral, there is a small spot between the 

 subhumeral and the edge, a larger one directly behind the 

 subhumeral, four more arranged around the hook, and two 

 small ones in the rear, the epipleuras are flavous with rufous 

 edges, the edges of the body parts below are more or less 

 picked out with dark. 



' TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. , XXXVII. 



