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scutel with prostrate white hair : elytra naked, with blue and 

 coppery reflections, confluently punctured, lateral edge deeply 

 arcuated: beneath covered with white prostrate hair: feet 

 piceous. 



Length over one-fourth of an inch. 



Much larger than C. dominkana Fabr., much more hairy 

 above, and the lateral edge of the elytra more profoundly ex- 

 tavated. 



CHRYSOMELA Linn. 



3. C. BARDA. — Green ; elytra with rounded whitish spots. 



Inhabits Mexico. [198] 



Body dark green, somewhat metallic, punctured : head with an 

 impressed angular hue between the antennae : antennae honey- 

 yellow, at tip fuscous : labrum and palpi honey -yellow : thorax 

 irregularly, and in parts confluently punctured, particularly on 

 the sides; on the disk the punctures are sparse: elytra with a 

 cupreous tinge, and more or less arcuated and abbreviated series 

 of punctures, including the whitish spots ; spots unequal, more 

 or less rounded, between twenty and thirty in number, yellowish- 

 white, the largest one on the humeral margin and bilobate, two 

 geminate»ones at base, none on the sutural margin : wings carne- 

 ous : beneath tinged with cupreous, on the venter : feet honey- 

 yellow. 



Length three-tenths of an inch. 



A common species, easily distinguishable from others. 



GALLEPtUCA Fabr. 



1. G. LEPIDA. — Sanguineous; elytra blackish, bifasciate with 

 white. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Head sanguineous : antennae white : thorax narrow, sanguine- 

 ous, with a transverse, slightly indented line, impunctured : ely- 

 tra blue-black, obsoletely and irregularly punctured; a transverse, 

 bilobate, abbreviated band before the middle, and a transverse, 

 oval spot near the tip, yellowish-white : feet yellowi.sh-white. 



Length less than one-fourth of an inch. 



Habit of G. 4:-macuIata Fabr., but not so much elongated. 



1835.] 



