VITTATE CHRYSOMELID BEETLES DISONYCHA — BLAKE 23 



Other localities: Mexico: Cerro Azul, Estadode, Vera Cruz; 

 Cerro de Plumas, Hoge; Chapala, Jalisco, Lattimore; Volcdn de 

 Colima, Jalisco, L. Conrad; Chihuahua, Wickham; Chilpancingo, 

 Guerrero, 4,400 ft., H. H. Smith; Guerrero, R. Miller; Xantipa, 

 Guerrero, H. H. Smith; XucumanatMn, Guerrero, 7,000 ft., H. H. 

 Smith; Rio Balsas, Guerrero, Wickham; Cuernavaca, Morelos, Wick- 

 ham, also collected there by N. L. H. Krauss on Eupatorium adeno- 

 phorum Sprengel; Joyutla, Puente de Ixtla, Morelos, Wickham; Gua- 

 dalajara, Buller; Jalapa, William Schaus; San Angel, D. F. Wickham; 

 Teapa, Tabasco, H. H. Smith; Tepetlapa, Oaxaca, 3,000 ft., H. H. 

 Smith; Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, J. Camelot; Oaxaca, Hoge and L. O. How- 

 ard; Ventanas, 2,000 ft., Forrer; Monclova, Coahuila, E. Palmer, 

 Guatemala: Antigua, E. G. Smith, Yepocapa, H. T. Dalmat. Hon- 

 duras: Minas de Oro, Comayagua, 4,000 ft., J. R. Edwards; San Luis, 

 Comayagua, 2,500 ft., J. R. Edwards. Costa Rica: Alajuelita, on 

 Croialaria mucronata Desvaux, C. H. Ballou. United States: Arizona: 

 Mount Washington, near Nogales. 



Disonycha fumata (LeContc) 



Figures 10, 11 



Haltica fumata LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 4, p. 86, 1858. 

 Disonycha alternata var. fumata, Gemminger and Harold, Catalogus Coleop- 



terorum, p. 3496, 1876. 

 Disonycha crenicollis Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 16, p. 204, 1889. — Jacoby, 



Biologia Centrali-Americana, Coleoptera, vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 316, 1884 (in part; 



not Allica crenicollis Say). 

 Disonycha alternata Jacoby, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Coleoptera, vol. 6, pt. 



1, p. 311, 1884 (in part). 

 Disonycha horni Jacoby, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Coleoptera, vol. 6, supple., 



p. 275, 1891 (in part; tj'pe, in BM, from Puebla, Mexico). 

 Disonycha fumata Schaeffer, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 27, p. 334, 1919. 



Blake, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 82, Art. 28, pp. 36-42, 1933. 

 Disonycha labiata Jacoby, Entomologist, vol. 34, p. 148, 1901. (type, in BM, from 



Mexico). 



Between 5.5 and 8 mm. in length, oblong oval, faintly shining, 

 finely alutaceous; pale yellow; dark antennae, a narrow dark occipital 

 band; thorax from 2- to 5-spotted, sometimes immaculate; elytra 

 with a narrow sutural vitta uniting narrowly at apex with submarginal 

 vitta, the median vitta not very wide; body beneath with breast and 

 apex of femora and tibiae and tarsi usually dark; antennae long. 



Head with interocular space about half width of head, smooth, 

 shining, with a circle of punctures about fovea near eye, sometimes 

 with light pubescence, the frontal tubercles marked by a median 

 depression, area between antennal sockets rather wide, not produced, 



