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4. Gypona (Ponana) sanguinolenta Spgb. 



Gypona grisea Spgb. 



Resembling dohrni in general appearance, but with a slightly 

 longer flatter vertex and lacking the marginal punctures to the 

 nervures. There are two median punctures on the claval 

 veins, fuscous. The posterior half of pronotum thickly and 

 the areoles sparsely irrorated with brownish points. 



Spangberg described this species from Texas and Georgia. 

 It has since been taken as far north along the coast as Penn- 

 sylvania and Massachusetts. Spangberg based the difference 

 between grisea and sanguinolenta upon the latter having the 

 scarlet flaking, a character in which all variations occur in 

 several species. 



5. Gypona (Ponana) irrorella Spgb. 



Gypona scarlatina Gib. (not Fitch); Gypona grisea Gib. (not Spgb.) 



This species resembles sanguinolenta in form and structure 

 but lacks the dark markings of that species. In place of other 

 markings the entire dorsal surface is irregularly flaked with 

 scarlet. 



This is a southern species occurring from Texas north and 

 east on the Atlantic coast to Massachusetts but in the interior 

 apparently south of the Ohio River line to Kansas. 



Gibson identifies northern examples of this species as 

 scarlatina Fitch and refers to a "Fitch type." This type was 

 undoubtedly one of the many "Fitch types" in the National 

 Museum that are not true to type at all in either characters or 

 labels. The writer recently examined the Fitch types at Albany 

 and found that practically all the material of his catalogue was 

 still intact and except for some fading answered perfectly to 

 description and label. Gibson apparently overlooked the fact 

 that Fitch's description calls for black dots on the elytra for he 

 says "but elytra lack the black dots as in sajtguinolenta.'' 

 Fitch's material came from Salem, New York, at the base of 

 the Adirondacks which is probably out of the range of this 

 species but in a district where true scarlatina and its varieties 

 are common. 



G. grisea of Spangberg is described as having heavy black 

 spotting and no red flaking. Gibson on the contrary, sets off 

 two large specimens of irrorella without dark markings but 

 with heavy scarlet flaking as representatives of this species. 



