52 EDWARD P. VAN DUZEE. 



€o!!>iuopepla decorata Halm. 



Distant records this species from Texas and Arizona. My speci- 

 mens from Lower California were kindly given to me by Dr. Uhler. 

 The deep blue-green ground color with orange and white markings 

 make this our most showy species of Cosmopepln. 



Kysarcin'is iiitergressiis Uhler. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., ii, p. 368, 1893. 

 Described from Kansas, Utah and California. I have specimens 

 from Colorado, Idaho (Aldrich), Montana (Cooley), and Vancouver 

 Island (Taylor). It seems to have about the same range as Cosmo- 

 pepla conspiciUaris. I have seen this in collections labeled Eysar- 

 coris melanocephalus, a European s[)ecies that probably does not 

 occur in this country, and Dr. Uiiler figures it under this name in 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv., Vol. ii. No. 5, pi. 19, fig. 7, 1876. 



Menecles incertiis Say. 



Widely distributed in the United States, but apparently nowhere 

 abundant. Dr. Uhler records it from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, 

 Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and California, Stal from 

 Arkansas, and Prc^f. Osborn reports it as rare in Iowa. I have 

 seen specimens taken in Ohio by the late Dr. Kellicott, and near 

 Ottawa, Canada, by W. H. Harrington. It was once taken in 

 numbers from small hickory trees growing near Lewiston, N. Y. 



Fi'ionusoina podopioide.oi Uhler. 



This western species has been reported from Vancouver Island, 

 Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California and southward thi-ough Arizona 

 and New Mexico to Lower California. Lethierry and Severin 

 in their Catalogue include villosa Prov. as a distinct species, but I 

 can see no possible justification for this as his description answers in 

 every respect to the ordinary form of podopioides. 



Genus THYASfTA Stal. 

 Size medium or large (for this genus) ; second joint of the antennae little or not 



at all longer than the third 1. 



Size small ; second joint of the antennae considerably longer than tlie third • • -3. 



1. Size medium (8-9 mm.) ; punctuation coarser, less dense; the intervening sur- 



face rugosely uneven ; edge of the abdomen with black points. casta. 



Size larger (9-12 mm.); punctuation close and regular; intervening surface 



even or with a few raised points 2. 



2. Humeri acutely spinose; edge of the abdomen fulvous with black ]ioints. 



perdi tor. 



